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“You possess a great gift.” I closed the distance between us. “It is dormant. I feel like the energy inside you. Crencik is telepathic and he could not see your truth because it is so deeply buried now that so much time has passed without exercise. But I am empathic. Do you know what that means?”

“You feel emotions. Then you should feel how angry I am that you would claim me just to bear your an heir.”

“That is not all, Aurora. That is not all you’re here for. I feel emotions, yes, but I can also perceive them through touch, like now.” I pressed my thumb against her temples. “Has no one ever told you what you possess inside? An aura that not many humans have.”

Her eyes widened, like a deer in the headlights. Then, she shook her head and pushed me away.

“Stop touching me, you gray alien man! Touch me again and I will kill you. With your own dagger.” The lick of her words sparked between us. She didn’t wait for me to answer. She took off and disappeared thought he crowd of bodies in the busy market.

My inner animal reared up and I raced after her.

The little she-devil was fast and she did not want to be caught. She had no fear as she raced through the market and on the outskirts of some neighborhoods. The silk she wore tangled up around her ankles as she ran. When next I saw her, she had the ends of the garment gathered up by her thighs, holding them in her palm. I guess this made it easier for her to run, but this one wouldn’t get away from me. One thing the instructions had no obviously told her is that Zunatorian warriors enjoyed a good hunt. Only a few were appalled and alarm as she ran through villages like the devil was after her.

Finally I cornered her while she had her back pressed up against the trunk of a jackfruit tree. She tried to lunge passed me and I scooped her up and hauled her over my left shoulder. Her ass and feet were in the air. I gave her ass a healthy smack and held her there.

“Ow!”

“You must never run off from me like that, she-devil. You are not free to do so. You must earn that. You will regret defying me. I didn’t think I’d have to punish you so soon.”

“Punish me? Let me down. Please,” she cried, banging my back with her small fists.

As I marched through the village back to my home, she fought me every step of the way.

In my pod-house, I threw her on the bed and watched as her eyes roamed my home in amazement. Her voluptuous breasts still rose and fell with each belated breath she took.

She grabs healing stone from the small handy table beside my bed and chucked it at me. It smacked me in the chest right below the collarbone. I grimaced. The she-devil knew how to conflict pain.

I leveled my gaze with hers and growled.

She gasped and picked up the next object she could get her hand on. A knife. She held it out in front of her.

I grinned and crawled onto the bed where she was.

“I will gut you,” she screamed.

I wanted to laugh at her empty threats, but this was no laughing matter. I didn’t want my she-devil and future mate to fear me. I needed her to know that.

“You stay back,” she warned. “I pledged an oath. I shall never bear children or they will kill me.”

I froze. “The oaths you made on your Earth are null and void.”

“None of this is real. This is an illusion. You just want to have sex with me. Use me as a sex slave. You’ll send me back to Earth when you’re done with me. My child will be fatherless. They will kill me for this.”

“No one will lay a hand on you,” I told her. “You will never go back to Earth. You don’t understand. When I claim you, I claim you for life.”

Her chest rose and fell as she examined my words. I took the knife from her hand and tossed it back on the table. As she thrashed between me, my cock hardened between her warm legs. My veins pulsed with arousal and my aura of my gift.

I had always been able to mirror fear, sadness, anger, rage, but no one had ever been able to cause my body to fill with arousal. Her scent was intoxicating. Sweet and potent with a hint of jasmine-scented water.

“Please…” She shivered beneath me, but it wasn’t in fear. No fear at all. My gifts had never betrayed me. This little devil was aroused. This, I knew.

I leaned down and whispered in her ear,” I have never taken a human.”

My erection rubbed against her inner thigh. She gasped and grabbed my forearms with her hands. “Please. I am a virgin. Please don’t do this.”

“You think I want to hurt you. I don’t. Am I hurting you now?”

She bit her bottom lip and panted. My aching kuvak, thick with need, pulsed through my loin cloth. I reached between us and undid the ropes tying the cloth to my waist.