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We set up camp near the edge of the woodlands, and I think Tori was glad to see a change in terrain.From here, the trees would thin and give way to thick shrubbery and sandy soil.The shrubs were harsh and would cut into Tori’s delicate skin, and again, I cursed myself for not making her a pair of suitable pants.She would have to tread carefully because I’m certain she wouldn’t allow me to carry her.
I grinned at the idea—she wouldn’t allow it without a fight anyway.Maybe I’d have to throw her over my shoulder until we reached the cliffs.
Which we would by late afternoon tomorrow.Then we’d follow it along until we could find a safe way down to the beach.I hoped that the vantage point of the cliff might show us the location of the Moek unit before we descended.Otherwise, we would have to search the beach simply hoping we located it or signs of life.
Perhaps we would find my brother, Sahcor, first, who had taken up residence in the area.
My skin crawled.While we were far enough away from the Ghaal community to be safe, we were closer than I was comfortable with, and I don’t know how Ilk stood to be as close as he was at the base of the mountains.
Sitting Tori in my lap, which she protested only slightly by trying to squirm away and huffing out an amused breath when I wrapped my arms around her and held her still, I discussed my thoughts with her.If she were to stay with me and be my mate, we needed to work together as a team.
“I think we need to head straight for Sahcor rather than search for the unit.”
“What’s a Sahcor?”
“Sahcor is another of my brothers who lives on the beach on this side of the island.”
“Another brother?What does he look like?”
I shrugged, keeping my arms around Tori.“I don’t know.”
She turned slightly and looked at me over her shoulder.“How can you not know?”
“You forget, Tori.We are an adaptive species.Left long enough in an environment, we’ll change to survive and be part of it.Which is why Ilk looked like the mountains, and I look like the forest.”
“So Sahcor is going to be some sort of water nymph?”
“I don’t know what that is.”
She laughed.“Neither do I, really.”She gently played with the vines that wrapped around my arms, rolling them between her fingers and almost eliciting a purr from me.I tightened my hold on her, unable to help myself.I’d have to remind her that the vines are part of me, and I can feel them as though they were a limb.Her touching me like that was nothing short of foreplay, and while I had felt my instincts rising again during the day, I had mostly been able to maintain control.
After a pause, she added, “What about my friend?”
“We’ll find her,” I soothed, inhaling the scent of her hair at the nape of her neck and regretting it instantly when my arousal spiked.“Sahcor would have sought out the unit.Find Sahcor, find your friend.”
Tori relaxed into my hold, at least partially satiated with the news her friend would be safe with Sahcor.
My cock twitched under my loin cloth, and I almost groaned.
Was Tori safe with me?
I stood abruptly, and Tori dropped to the ground, crying out, “Hey!”As I took a few steps away, she scrambled to her feet and rounded on me.“What was that for?”
“You feel too good.I don’t want to lose control again.”
Her hands were on her hips, one tilted higher than the other as she pouted, and I almost smirked.“In case you hadn’t noticed, I got off when you lost control on me.I don’t understand why you’re fighting this so hard.You were so much better today than you were yesterday.Maybe all we need to do is let you unleash until you learn to control it.”
“It’s not enough, though!”
My shout startled her, and I was filled with shame and regret when she dropped her hands to her sides and leaned away from me.“What do you mean it’s not enough?Do you mean me?Am I not enough?”
“No, no.That’s not what I mean.”I ran a hand over my head.How to explain to her that the urges have been building from the moment we woke this morning?Tori was enough,morethan enough.But with the thoughts that infiltrated my mind every time I looked at her, I was beginning to fear these instincts wouldn’t be satiated until she was pregnant with my child.I was designed tobreed,not justfuck.But she was still coming to terms with being on this planet, let alone being with someone alien to her—someone like me.I could read her hesitations by how she went quiet and hugged her arms around herself, always after I asked her questions about her home planet or culture.She’d answer happily, then go quiet and remain so for a while after.Tori missed her home, but she couldn’t go back.It wasn’t fair of me to simply tell her to get over it and come to me as my mate.I needed to win her over but not only with sex.
I wanted her towantme, toneedme, and not just for survival.
It was too many emotions all at once—things I hadn’t felt or even thought about in years while living alone.I wasn’t lying when I told her no other species had brought this out in me, and it had been so long since I lived with the other Synths, I couldn’t even say for sure if I’d ever felt this way around them.We weren’t together long enough for some of us to change gender fully in order to allow breeding.My brothers and I developed a bond as a family, and we didn’t give that time to change and adapt before we left the Ghaal.We weren’t related, not really, created with a mixture of synthetic and a random selection of Ghaal DNA.Biologically, Synths were perfectly capable of mating with each other, which was the whole idea of our creation.
