“If the Instinct has chosen you for him, then of course, humans and Luxirians are biologically compatible,” the doctor said, something she’d already heard before.
“Yes, and if that is the case…” she said, taking a deep breath.She looked at Vaxa but he certainly didn’t look like he would help her with what she really wanted to know.“Seeing as how Vaxa and I will be…intimate, I would like some form of birth control.”
“Birth control?” Privanax repeated slowly.When he realized what she was asking for, his gaze swung once more to Vaxa.“Prime Leader?”
“Give her what she wishes for,” was all Vaxa said in reply although Kate could hear the tension in his voice.Did Luxirians not believe in birth control?Had she committed some other Luxirian faux-pas?
“I will need to take a blood sample from you,lavrix’an,” the doctor said.“To ensure that our medicines will not harm you.It will just take a few moments.”
Kate swallowed, but nodded.She hated needles, but this was way more important.Privanax drew out a small contraption, steel in color, no needle in sight.When he disinfected a spot on her forearm, she drew in a breath when the contraption poked her sharply before withdrawing.It hardly hurt; it had just surprised her and the hole in her arm was so tiny that she could hardly see it.
Vaxa reached out a hand to stroke her shoulder as Privanax went over to a lab set-up on the opposite wall.He poured the drop of her blood into a rounded tube of green liquid and then clicked it into a huge metal contraption on the bench.
Vaxa was quiet next to her and she peeked up at him.She could sense that he didn’t want her on birth control.He’d as good as told her last night that he wanted to get her pregnant, but until she could sort things out in her head, this was the way it had to be.
Privanax returned to them a moment later with a firm nod.In his hands was a gold cuff and she looked down at it in confusion.
“I will keep your blood sample for future research,lavrix’an.I hope you do not mind.”
“No, of course not,” she said.
“This is our ‘birth control,’” he said to her, fastening the golden cuff around her wrist.“The chemicals under the band seep into your skin at a constant, carefully timed rate to prevent the seed from catching in the womb.Keep it on if you wish to deter pregnancy.”
The gold gleamed harshly against her light skin and she stared down at it, nodding.“Alright.”
“I must caution you,lavrix’an,” Privanax said, glancing at Vaxa.“If the Fates will it so, not even this will prevent you from getting pregnant.The Fates sometimes know what is best for us, even though we do not see it for ourselves at the time.”
Kate swallowed and looked up from the band, placing her hand at her side.She wasn’t one for religion, but she could respect that these Fates were important to Luxirians and their culture.“Thank you.I’ll keep that in mind.”
Privanax nodded and then glanced at Vaxa, his pupils flickering between the two of them.“Once you return from theRavrax’tor, I will have done more research into the human race.If you would not mind,lavrix’an, one span, if you can spare it, can you come to me?I will have many questions, I am sure.It is very rare that we encounter a new species.It is very…exciting.Perhaps in studying your reproductive biology, it can help our own females.”
“Yes, of course,” Kate said.Even though that would make for one interesting conversation, if she could help them, she would.She remembered Keriva, remembered the flash of loss across her face when she’d admitted that Luxirian females could no longer conceive.
“Thank you,lavrix’an.”
“We must go,” Vaxa said, placing a hand at the base of her spine.“We still have much to prepare for.”
“The Fates watch over you,” Privanax said, inclining his head.
Kate glanced once more at the golden cuff around her wrist and then they departed.
* * *
Vaxa was right.There was much to prepare for.By the time, they finally boarded the hovercraft as the suns slowly began their descent in the sky, Kate had been washed, preened, put in a dress that was on the verge of beingtransparent, her hair styled in an intricate braid/knot at the base of her neck, all by a small team of Luxirian women, all of them older, except for Keriva.
By the time Vaxa had finally returned from who knows where, she was ready to escape the clutches of those women.Except for the way his eyes lingered on her body, which he could clearly see through the dress, Vaxa simply held out his hand to her and growled, “Come, female.”
He led her to the hovercraft parked on the terrace outside.Kate breathed a sigh of relief that the heat had subsided at least a little bit, but she was self-conscious about her body.Not that Vaxa could see it—hell, he’d seen it on a daily basis for the past week—but that the Luxirians would be able to from below as they passed through the city.
“Which direction are we going?” she asked him, trying to calm her nerves.It turned out that she didn’t need to be self-conscious after all because Vaxa brought her around in front of him, her hips pressed into the console, much like yesterday after they’d landed on the planet.He drew his arm across her breasts, covering her while simultaneously pressing her more into his body, where she could feel just how hard he was.
Tonight, he’d finally inch that cock inside of her and not for the first time, she wondered whether they would even fit, if she’d be able to accommodate the sheer size of him.Because she wanted to.Shesowanted to.
With his other hand, he gestured towards the expanse of Luxiria, where she could see mountainous regions rising out of flat lands, where the twin suns were sinking into the sky.“Ravrax’tor.Where our people first settled and where the Fates first unleashed us onto this land.That is where all mating ceremonies take place.”
“And where we will be sleeping?” she questioned, a little unnerved about sleeping out in the open.While she would love to see the night sky from a different planet, she didn’t want to when there were possibly dangerous animals lurking around.She was pretty sure that this rah-vrax-tour was where they hunted big game.
He dragged his lips across the top of her exposed ear.She shivered, a wave of sharp arousal resonating through her.She clenched her thighs together, amazed by how much she desired him.
