Tempted by Celestial Bodies

Epilogue

epilogue

zyndor

Carrying in a basket overflowing with sweet yelves for our cupboard, I breathed out a contented sigh at the hills covered with wildflowers. Verdalla was our promised land, mine and Roxy’s.

I pushed the door open to her shop. “Roxy, look at this bounty!” I set the basket onto a worktable and a couple of ripe yelves bounced out. My chest puffed with pride to provide such a harvest for my mate.

Roxy’s beautiful smile lit my heart. She set down her tools and jumped up from her workbench to sit on the table beside the basket. I picked up a yelve and started peeling it, picking off a supple piece of the fruit and offering it to my lover’s mouth.

She giggled as she took a bite, the purple juice slipping down her chin. Her long, dark hair was pulled back in a high horsetail of braids, similar to mine, and a smudge of grease darkened her smiling brow. “Mmmm, Zyn, I swear. You’re going to spoil me rotten,” she said around her chewing. “This crop is even more delicious than last year’s.”

She tipped her face up to me and I kissed her, slipping my tongue into her mouth to share the juice of the yelve. My mate’s arms stole around my neck, and her spread legs welcomed me against her core.

I’d not known such bliss existed in the universe as these two years with Roxy. Sha and his crafty tentacles had indeed snagged a surprise for us, one of Daddy Skirkild’s prized diamonds, which they sold for five hundred thousand credits. It was enough to buy us this farm, build our dream residence, and even build a factory for Roxy’s anti-weapons designs on Hupfrair, for which Sha was the face and primary salesperson.

“What have you been working on, my love?” I asked her.

Her face lit up and she pulled a gadget from her workbench. “I call it the harmony-synching serotonin flooder—HARSSAF for short.” She waved her hand. “I’ll work on the name. It emits a barrage of tones that floods the systems of most beings with serotonin. It de-escalates most situations, and fosters empathy between combatants, hopefully inspiring them to lay down their arms.”

I took it gently from her and studied the little valves and gears. “That’s so cool, Rox. I love the peaceful things your beautiful brain creates.”

“It’s no recipe for limitless energy,” she said with a smile, “but it’s a pretty good contribution.”

“It’s more than pretty good,” I gently chastised, carefully replacing her device on the workbench. “I only created one thing to share with the universe, but you keep creating new things.” With my blessing, Sha had blasted my formulas for limitless energy first to all the poorest planets, those on the verge of extinction and in need of clean water, food, and shelter. And finally to the richer planets, but only so they wouldn’t use force to take it from others.

Roxy nudged her core against my erections. “But your energy is powering the factory, so really, my little devices wouldn’t leave my workshop, if it wasn’t for you.”

“I think what you mean to say is that if wasn’t for Sha’s sticky tentacles, nothing in our paradise would be possible.”

Roxy laughed. “That’s probably true. But no matter what, you’d still be my love and my mate.” She pressed her mouth to mine and kissed me, her hands slipping across the surface of my skin and pulling at the fastenings of my shirt and pants. “I’m glad there’s no one else around for miles.” She grinned. “Because I plan to wreck this Llurren—repeatedly.”

“Whatever my mate wants.” I dropped my clothing to the floor to stand naked before her. Another mating frenzy was upon us. My erections began to vibrate, and my mouths awaited only the bliss of her skin to activate.

“But first,” she said, leaning back on her hands on the workbench with a mischievous smile, “I want you to dance for me.”

I threw my head back and laughed. “Dance for you?”

“That’s right,” she said, slipping her clothes off and spreading her legs to give me the most blessed view. “Rock out with your cocks out, and then I’ll take them both inside.”

So I danced for my mate, only for her. I stomped and thrust my hips in the dance, her eyes never stopping their roving over me, my gaze tracing the curves of her beloved body and watching her hand slip between her legs to pleasure herself as she watched me. And when neither of us could stand the teasing any longer, I joined with my mate here in our promised land, and brought her to heightening pleasures again, and again, and again.