The cool air against my naked skin felt delicious and sinful.
“Now, for that taste.” His smile turned predatory and he licked his forked tongue along his lips, and then dived between my thighs.
The soft, warm tips of his tongue continued the trek of his fingers, and within a few minutes, I was lost in the sensation of pleasure washing over my body like supernovas bursting apart.
Chapter 9
Though I sat in a seat farther back from the viewscreen, I pushed against the restraint on my chest, eager to watch our descent to a planet I’d always heard about, but never imagined I’d see with my own eyes, much less set foot on its surface.
“Will there be fire against the hull?” I had no choice but to remember the space programs and movies I’d seen as a kid where the ships entering other planets were always at risk of burning up on re-entry.
“Fire?” Drayven tapped two circles on his holographic screen, then gave me a quick stare before turning back to the console.
My God he’s a beautiful man.I’d been afraid of awkwardness between us after he’d gotten me off, but Volderens didn’t seem to view sex the way some humans did. He’d explained the pleasurable act of procreation as a part of their nature, no different from sleeping or eating.
“Fire from entering the air. Isn’t there a lot of friction or something?”
“Ah. We Volderens have advanced our ships to receive very little friction when entering atmospheres. We use antigravity generators along with the design of the craft and other…modified techniques that humans will probably not discover for another three hundred years.”
“Oh. Well, that’s kind of a letdown. Are you saying Volderens are three centuries farther along than Earth?”
“At the risk of sounding pretentious, my people are severalmillenniaahead of humans. Perhaps you will see the wonders of my planet one day.”
As he moved his arms to tap and drag his fingers across the projector, I sat back in my seat. “One planet at a time for now, big guy.”
We glided through the air, the blackness of space giving way to the curved red line of Mars. I hadn’t felt the speed as we left Earth and traveled, but arrowing toward the red planet, I felt a tiny pull. The viewscreen filled with the planet, a mixture of black mountains, dark craters, and crimson soil between the valleys.
Draven steered the Sparrow down toward a cone-shaped mountain. Smoke or mist poured from its top.
“Uh, is that a volcano?”
“Yes. That is what your people call Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in this solar system.”
The mountain loomed larger on the viewscreen.
“Why are we heading right for it?” My fingers clenched tightly to the seat strap against my chest, and a thin sheen of sweat popped on my upper lip.
“Because that is where I live.”
“Oh, Jesus. Christ.”
“We are not the only alien species in this part of the galaxy; therefore it is best to keep ourselves hidden as much as possible.”
“There aremoreof you?” I felt a bit faint.I mean, I’m still trying to wrap my head around finding out my species is not the only sentient beings on the space block. Now he tells me there are even more aliens out there?
“These aliens are not like us, and they are not as peaceful, either. What we call them translates to Quantorians in your language. Pray to your God they never take an interest in Earth.”
“Why?”
“Because they are hybrid artificial life forms who do not share the sanctity of nature. If they see no purpose for a race or determine they are a threat to Quantorian survival, they will destroy it.”
“That’s…that’s horrible.” My shock turned to uneasiness.Would these Quantorians see humans as little bugs to squish?
“Yes, itishorrible. My kind have lived alongside humanity for the past four thousand years. Humans have evolved at an alarming rate over the past few centuries. Let us hope the Quantorians have not taken notice.”
“How have Volderens lived with us for so long and yet we didn’t know it?”
He lifted his hand, showing the lifecord I’d given back.
