Calan hugged her tightly, resting his cheek against her dirty hair. She was filthy, barefoot and smelled of sweat. None of that mattered as he held her for the first time.
“Ajha, you are my mate---my psion mate, and I have loved you for a long time.”
He wants to fuck me! That’s his cock I feel against my stomach.
His body reacted as soon as they touched. She felt it and looked up at him, starting to pull away. Calan let her move just far enough so that his erection wasn’t pressing into her belly.
“It’s okay, Ajha. I can’t help wanting you, but I will never force you. I will know when you want me, and I will give you what you need when that time comes.”Calan framed her face in his hands and caressed her cheeks with his thumbs and gently touched her mind with tenderness and compassion.
He is so handsome, and his eyes are so green and intense. I feel like I belong with him that he is mine.
Calan smiled at her, admiring her beautiful blue eyes---blue like his mother’s. Underneath the dirt and the ragged clothes, she was just as beautiful in her own way.
“Come inside. I will get you something to eat, and you can have a shower, some clean clothes, and a place where you can rest.”
Again, Calan gently touched her mind with his tender feelings for her showing his desire for her was born of the love they shared ever since they touched souls.
He saw a vision of them fucking in her mind and sensed that she wanted him. The vision disconcerted her.
She needed time to know him and trust him before things got physical. He could help her understand and harness her psionic abilities as they fully dawned. It was enough that she was there.
He put his arm around her shoulders and drew her along with him toward the entrance to the enormous building. It was actually four buildings hooked together in a rectangle, with a huge courtyard in the center. In its early days, it was filled with gardens, and a huge water fountain with a walking and running track around the perimeter.
Inside the front section of the building, the six apartment modules Calan brought with him were set up, three on each side of the front part of the building. More had been ordered and would arrive in the coming weeks. The six had been all Jamerin’s ship would hold along with the rest of the supplies.
He steered Ajha into the first unit which was his. It contained two bedrooms a bathroom and an office. The kitchen, dining and lounge area were all contained in one section. So far, his and Rax’s residences were the only ones with running water. Rax was working on the others.
Walking her into the dining nook, Calan said, “Have a seat here, and I will get you some breakfast.” Knowing her diet consisted mostly of meat and greens, he asked the food processor to synthesize some scrambled eggs, toast, andjerntea. When the meal was dispensed, he took it to the table and set it in front of Ajha still steaming complete with plastic utensils to eat it.
“What is this?” she asked. “It smells great.”
“Eggs, you know like from a bird? We had them on Oltarin from chickens the horse clans brought. These are synthesized, but they taste the same,” he told her with a smile. “Try it.”
Ajha picked up the fork in her right hand and speared a piece of egg and lifted it to her mouth. She smiled as the flavor hit her tongue and nodded, spearing another piece.
“You have a shower?” she asked.
“Yes, and I have clothing as well. It’s like what I’m wearing, nothing fancy but it’s self-cleaning and smart fit---adjusts to your size once you put it on. We have smart fit shoes, too.”
Ajha laughed at that. “I haven’t had shoes in so long, I’m not sure I could stand having them on my feet.”
“They’re here if you want them.”
“Why are you doing this?”
He knew she meant the Refuge.
“Because people shouldn’t have to live the way you’ve been living---the way my mother lived when she was here,” he said.
“Your mother lived here?”
“Yes, she was born right here in Farringay. She and my father are psion mates like you, and I are,” he said. “They connected as children when he was a passenger on a starship that passed by. He came back and found her when he grew up.”
“Is that how I saw you in my dreams?”
“Similar---only I never passed by Earth before. I am a stronger psion than either of my parents. I can only guess that’s how your dreams reached me and mine reached you.”
“Is that why you want to fuck me?” she asked bluntly.
