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I nodded as he indicated to my shoes and put them on before taking a long gulp from the water bag.It was time to go.We had important things to do, and although my clit throbbed and my pussy ached so fucking good, I had to remember why we were taking this journey.When I began to walk, I held my hand up, stopping him in his tracks as he followed.“Just give me a minute,” I said, stepping behind a bush for a moment of privacy, although my legs still shook, and I needed to lean against the tree.
When I came back, Vitri immediately pulled me against him, running his fingers through my short hair and pressing his tongue into my mouth.He tasted like me, and I moaned against him.
“Let’s get going, Tori.We have to make up time.”He growled as he pressed his lips to my neck, dragging his teeth along my collarbone.“If we make it halfway through these woodlands before sundown, I’ll reward you tonight.”
I hummed, my eyes fluttering closed for a moment before he took my hand, and we began to walk.
I’ll give him this—Vitri sure knew how to offer motivation.
Chapter Sixteen
VITRI
Tori continued to push herself past what I expected of her as we walked.I slowed my pace to allow her to keep up, but she still pushed harder even when the terrain became as uneven as her breathing.Tori only accepted taking a break when I insisted on it and claimed that I also needed to rest, although I think she knew I was lying.I sat on the ground cross-legged and pulled her onto my lap, her back pressed against my chest.Tori laughed and squirmed for a moment before settling against me as I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her closer still and breathing in her delicious scent.
She wanted to find her other friends, and I wanted to help her, but my mind had become foggy since we fucked, and the feel of her body against mine was all I could think about now.Ilk was always more levelheaded than me, and now that I was in the presence of a gorgeous female whose attraction to me was excelled only by my reaction to her, I was reverting to what I was created to be.The scent of my pheromones drifted from my skin, every pore saturated the air and tried to lure Tori to me again, my body acting on my subconscious desires, even as I attempted to remain strong.All I wanted to do was fuck her again and again and again until she couldn’t take any more pleasure and her belly was rounded with child.
Mychild.
Before we came to rest, every step as we walked was agony for me.Maybe it wasn’t a complete lie that I also needed a break.However, I didn’t need a break from the journey, I needed a break from the constant screaming of my mind to take Tori again.I had moved behind her as we walked so I could keep an eye on her and catch her if she tripped on the uneven ground.But it also meant I had spent hours watching the shape of her ass and legs moving in front of me, muscles twisting and flexing as she ambled over the ground as it shifted between rocky crevices around woody tree trunks and short, uncomfortable bushes that scraped her skin.But she never complained, and I bit back a moan when I thought I should’ve been smart enough to make her a pair of pants like Erica’s instead of a tunic.Selfishly, I had thought I could keep her with me in my home, and although I understood her desire to seek out her friends, I only wanted to keep her with me.
Keeping Tori safe from the Ghaal was my priority, and while a rebellious part of me felt my home was high and secluded enough to keep her safe, Ilk was right—we had to keep moving, at least for now.
“Vitri, we need to get something to eat,” Tori whined, squirming hard after a brief rest to get out of my grasp and off my lap.It only made me hold her tighter, pulling her body flush against mine as a small growl rumbled through my throat.
“There’s only one thing I want to eat,” I grumbled out and growled long and low at how she laughed and rolled her shoulder up to her neck when I nibbled at the sensitive skin under her ear.
“I’m serious.”She finally pushed herself from my grasp, standing abruptly and turning to face me with her hands on her hips.“Is there something around here we can eat?Then we can get going again.”The tilt of her hips had me mesmerized, and I was no longer watching her face, only the image of her delicate fingers on her hip, exactly where I had held her earlier as I fucked her sweet cunt.
“Vitri?”
I tried to shake the thoughts from my head because she wanted an answer.Tori was talking to me.
Think.Focus.
I needed to feed and look after her.How was she to bear my child when she had no strength?She needed to eat.
Tori bent over so we were face to face, her eyes widening as a snarl I couldn’t control escaped my lips.When she bent like that, I could see her breasts as the tunic fell forward.
“Are you okay?”she whispered and touched my face.
Please don’t touch me.I might just lose control.
My Tori was talking to me.I should respond, but my shoulders shook as I battled to keep myself under control.Did I need to repeat to myself that I am an intelligent being, like some sort of mantra to keep me in line?I’m smarter than this.I can control this.I can.I may have been created for breeding, but my intelligence outweighs that of my creators.
I adapt, I learn, I integrate.I am the best genetic engineering has to offer.
And above all, I am here to protect Tori.
Even if that includes protecting her from me.
Did I really lose myself so much during the time I was separated from my brothers?We split up in order to cover more of the island and protect those abducted from other planets.But were my brothers aware of something I was not?I knew we could change genders if required, so if left alone in a group, half of us would likely change, and we would pair up and breed with each other, especially now after time apart.What if we got together and our bodies and instincts took over, and it became nothing more than a mad mating frenzy?Not ideal when we were trying to keep our minds clear to stop innocents from falling victim to the Ghaal.
Ilk didn’t seem this crazy with Erica.How had he done it?Why hadn’t I thought to ask?
I clenched my teeth.But I was thinking clearly enough to know Ishould’veasked Ilk.That was something, and it was something I could cling to while I watched Tori in front of me, her expression unclear in the haze of my mind, although I’m sure it would be one of concern.
It was like my personality had come rushing back to me the day I began following Tori after she landed.Little pieces of me falling into place to create the whole and complete being that I am—the Synth I forgot I was—the instinct, the intelligence, and the personality.
