“Julia, my sweet, beautiful female…” Krellix groans with contentment, running his hands and sliding his tail all over and around me. “Taking my prick into her body so deliciously…” Hehisses roughly when I clench my muscles hard around his cock. A groan escapes me as well.
I forgot Krellix has a naughty streak.
I shiver all over at his words.
Reaching over his tail, cinched taut around me, I rest my hands on his chest and look into his hooded eyes. “I need you, Krellix,” I whimper. Using my bare feet braced against the ground, I lift partially off him and drop back down. I do it again, and then again, enveloping his knot anew each time.
Krellix’s hands tighten on me too, squeezing me everywhere. Overcome with sensation, I quickly pick up my pace, just needing to feel him everywhere inside me. His hisses fill my ears as his hips meet mine over and over. I lean over him, bracing my hands on his chest, and my hair falls out of its band to cascade around us. His body shudders underneath mine and I keen as his knot digs into my most sensitive flesh.
He grabs my hips, raises me, and thrusts up sharply into me, dragging his knot again along my g-spot. Crying out, I arch as an orgasm rips from my body. A wave of stress, fear, and rejection explodes out of me with it, so intense that I immediately deflate into his embrace. As his arms sneak up around me to hold me close, he thrusts deeply into me once more and spills his seed.
For the next few minutes, as I ease into a languid state against his chest, he lightly pumps up into me until all of his seed is spent. His cock, never leaving my constraining sheath, jolts inside me rapidly throughout, nearly bringing me to a second climax. Even without, it feels…amazing.
Finally, Krellix groans as he lifts his head up to press his lips to my slack mouth and we pant together.
For an indefinite amount of time we just lie there listening to the water trickling and falling, bird song and the chitters of small creatures. But as I drop into a doze as he coils his tail over me, I drift off to the best sound of all.
His beating heart in my ear.
FORTY-ONE
COMING TOGETHER
Julia
After I wakeand we wash at the brook, Krellix leads me higher up the mountain to a plateau. In the center of it is a partially-collapsed domed building with rocky, bushy terrain all around. Metal poles stick up from the crumbling ground, and as I meander toward the right side of the structure, I see a series of what looks like telescopes pointed up at the sky.
“What is this place? The Observatory?” I ask, eyeing what’s left of the building and the dirty-white dome. It’s large and takes time to walk around but there are no trees immediately in the vicinity. The ground is rocky beneath my boots, which makes me wonder if it was paved long ago.
“Yes. It’s a place where humans once went to gaze at the sky.”
My eyes slide to him. “Do you come here often?”
He slips forward, toward the building, and I start following. “Not anymore. It was once a favorite place of mine to get away from my brothers, but though I sometimes come up here for the view, I have not been back since…”
“Since?”
“Since your arrival.”
We wander around as he shows me the place, even taking me through a safe passage into the broken dome to a bundle of stagnant hides in the back. He shuffles through them with his tail then tosses them aside. “Was that a nest?” I ask, noticing his annoyed expression.
He shakes his head. “A temporary one.”
I squint up at him sharply, taking in his darting eyes which aren’t meeting mine. “Why show me this then? Are you thinking of making this place non-temporary?”
“No. I have no intention of making this place my home. I brought you here because this is it, Julia, all I have left. And though it means nothing, this place is special to me.”
I think I’m beginning to understand. I take his hand and turn him to me before he can slip away into the crumbling room. Squeezing his fingers, I tug until he finally meets my gaze. “You don’t need anything for me to want you, Krellix. You don’t need anything for me to choose you.” I step closer. “Don’t you see that? And damn, do you think I have anything to give you as well? I come with nothing except myself. No home, no family—at least in this galaxy—and almost no possessions. We are equal in this. And that’s a good thing.”
His brows furrow. “Why? Why is it a good thing?”
“Because that means we can rebuild together, and everything we accomplish, we won’t accomplish alone. We can share it. I don’t care about the rest, just you. It took me some time to realize that, but now that I have…”
His eyes search mine, glinting in the airy light. “What is it, Julia?”
“You, Krellix. You are my home. Yes, I know the rest is still important, but I’ve realized that no matter where I am, I just want to be with you. I feel my best with you. I feel safe withyou. You’re my home, Krellix, not some encampment, ship, or bunker,you.”
His gaze warms as he clasps my cheeks. “You are my home, too, sweet Julia and if you see me as yours, then I will not take that away from you again. But we must consider what is happening around us… and those we care about too. Though, if you tell me to take you away from here and to start a new life away from it all, I will.” He glances behind me at his old hides. “What do you suggest we do?”
