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My arms were tightly wound around her waist, and the mate bond wouldn’t let me relax my arms enough for us to line up where it counted for me to pleasure her. I didn’t mind just staying the way we were with my face between her breasts, but I did wish she wasn’t dressed.
“How about a nap first? I’m just happy you’re here.”
“Yes. I like naps.”
I didn’t care what we did, as long as she was in my arms. Because now that she was there again, I was never letting her go.
Epilogue: Kan’n
One year later…
I flew past the sign with a cartoon drawing of a small rodent with giant balls on it that saidYou are Now Entering New New Franklin, and headed for the mothership building they’d set up at the center of town.I landed Pip in the parking lot. Imagine that: a mothership with a parking lot! It looked exactly like one of our spacefaring vessels, except without the ability for space travel. They were still working on that part. The first time I visited, I’d tried to dock with it and had gotten an exasperated Jask’l asking what the krux I thought I was doing.
Sam and I still lived and fought with our group since it was home, but we visited Franklin every week or two so she could get some work done on the new mothership. She was inside it now, waiting for me.
Ror’k had stayed on the other craft, but Jask’l had elected to come here. He was now officially the Overseer of the Franklin mothership, but vehemently denied the reverent title since he thought it made him sound ancient. Overseers were often old hunters who could no longer fight. He didn’t think that reputation would help him find a mate.
I messaged Sam that I was here and waited for her impatiently. I had a surprise for her today.
After much too long, she walked out with another female who held a fully human baby in her arms. There were several human-Xarc’n mixed children in this settlement, and whenever I saw one, it made me anxious to grow our little family.
“Bye, Zara. Bye, Dane Junior.” She messed up the tiny human’s hair and then started toward my shuttle.
I pulled her to me the moment she stepped inside, happy to have her in my arms again. The feeling never got old.
“Can I show her yet?” Pip asked impatiently.
I grunted. Why did I ever think Pip could keep a secret for more than two minutes?
“Show me what?”
“This!” The report from my surreptitious visit to Ror’k’s mothership came up on the screen.
It had been strange to have a human work on me, but he seemed to know exactly what he was doing and had assured me he’d done the procedure numerous times. Sure enough, at the end of my visit, the report available in Xarc’n or any of the popular human languages confirmed that my fertility had indeed been turned back on.
I had received the Xarc’n version of the report, but Pip translated it for Sam so she could read it.
She gasped, her hand clapping over her mouth. “You did it.”
We’d talked about starting a family. I’d been worried about having to protect another life when the scourge were still rampant on most of the planet and had wanted to wait until thefight was over before we had offspring. But then I’d learned that human females had only a small window in which to conceive.
Thirty-five sounded so young, especially in Earth years. I was much older than that. But my research had assured me that it was best to have our first offspring before Sam reached this age. Sam still had a few years to go, but earlier was better, and she’d said she wanted to get a head start, claiming she might not have the energy to chase after a mini Kan’n when she was older.
She’d suggested I go into the medical bay at the Franklin ship a few weeks ago, but I’d been hesitant, and she said I could go whenever I was ready. But I’d had time to think about it and decided that I was ready now. I wanted to surprise her, so I’d gone to the other medical bay.
“Surprise. I decided I was ready after all.”
She threw herself on me, landing hundreds of tiny kisses on my face.
“Best surprise ever.” She looked up at me, her eyes shining. “Does that mean we get to start trying right away?” She waggled her eyebrows.
I chuckled. “You make it sound like it will take many, many attempts.”
“It might, but it’ll be fun.”
“We have been practicing a lot. We will succeed.”
She giggled. “Let’s get started right now.”
“We are still in the parking lot.”
“So what?” She pulled me over to the sleeping nook.
So what, indeed! I grinned.
Anyone who needed the shuttle spot would just have to wait. I had a mate to pleasure. And she always came first.
She was all I’d ever craved. And now, as we continued to forge our future together, I knew that she was all I’d ever need.
THE END
