Tempted by Celestial Bodies

Chapter 4

chapter four

eacus

At my mate’s command, I reached back and undid the panel of my pants that held them in place over my tail. As they fell to a puddle at my ankles, my cock sprang free, so hard it slapped against my lower abdomen.

My mate’s presence shuddered in my mind, the movement a mix of excitement and apprehension. I glanced up from my aching member to see Natalie’s gaze raking up my length, eyes catching on each of the six silver piercings lining the underside.

I took myself in hand as she watched, stroking lazily up and down. I bit back a hiss at the sensation, as Natalie’s fascination with the glide of my piercings under my palm became apparent.

I cocked my head at her, prodding her with a mental question.

“I’ve never…the piercings will be a first for me.” Natalie’s tone was a mix of arousal and nerves.

“I promise, it will feel good,” I purred, continuing to stroke myself. “I got these for you, even though I didn’t know it at the time. Entari warriors get them for their mates. I went along with the tradition, even though I had doubts I’d ever find a mate. I’m glad I did now.”

Natalie’s throat bobbed as she swallowed, the motion causing another drop of blood to drip down and pool in her clavicle, just above where my name adorned her chest. My mouth watered, despite the taste of her still coating my tongue.

“It’s also…bigger than I’m accustomed to.” Natalie licked her lips.

A satisfied snarl rumbled in my chest. “And it’s going to fill you so well.”

Natalie whimpered, and her hand drifted in between her legs again. At that, I leaned in close, fully invading her space once more. This time, her pleasure was mine to give. It was an opportunity I didn’t intend to squander.

I let go of my cock in favor of touching her, as it was nearly painful to keep my hands off her for too long. I let my fingers trail up her sides before brushing my knuckles on the underside of her breasts. She arched her back with a shaky gasp at the touch, pushing her perfect chest toward me even further. I rewarded her by tweaking her nipples gently. Her mouth fell open and her head fell back against the star port with a dull thunk .

I wanted to keep teasing every last reaction from her, but the sight of her wet lips forming a perfect O as she moaned had my neglected member throbbing.

“Turn around, mate.” I gave the command both with my voice, and with my mind. “It’ll make it easier for you to take me.”

A visible shudder ran up Natalie’s spine, making her breasts quiver, in response to my instruction. I almost regretted her tight nipples being hidden from my sight as she hurried to comply, but that was quickly overshadowed by the pang of arousal at my new view.

With my right hand, I gripped the base of my shaft to keep myself from spending right there. Meanwhile, my left hand gripped one of Natalie’s ass-cheeks as she bent over the control panel. Her flesh gave way under my fingers as I squeezed my generous handful, spreading her open to my perusal.

She was pink and glistening and perfect. I suspected the taste between her legs would be just as intoxicating as her blood, but confirming that would have to wait. Right now, her pretty hole clenched around nothing, and I ached to fill it.

My xigia ’s power , already strong from drinking from my mate, surged within me, making my tattoos flash brightly and my tail swish insistently against the floor. It urged me to claim my mate and deepen the connection that had been forged by her blood on my lips.

I nudged forward, slipped the head of my cock between her folds, coating it in her wetness. She whimpered, falling forward onto her elbows, opening herself to me further.

Pulling back slightly, I slid my length into the cleft of her ass, rubbing it back and forth for a few strokes, letting the wetness I had gathered from her dripping cunt smooth the way.

“Please.” Natalie’s plea was echoed in my mind as she pushed back into me, grinding her hot sex onto my cock.

I wouldn’t make her wait any longer. Not when she begged so beautifully.

With one hand braced on her hip, I reached forward and laced the fingers of my other through her hair, the dusty purple of the ends contrasting perfectly with the deep gray of my skin. A gentle tug pulled Natalie’s head back, arching her back exquisitely. My tail wrapped around one ankle, nudging her legs even wider.

As the head of my cock notched at her entrance, I caught my mate’s gaze in her reflection on the glass viewport ahead of us. I worked forward inch by inch, feeding my cock into Natalie. I pressed in slowly, letting her soft flesh give way to me even as I itched to bury myself to the hilt immediately.

A sharp smack echoed through the cockpit as Natalie slapped a hand to the star port to brace herself. She bit her lip and her eyelids fluttered, but she held my gaze until I was seated fully inside her wet heat. Her one human eye was half-lidded and glazed with pleasure, and even the silver cybernetic orb, which seemed to constantly flit about, stayed still as she stared at my reflection.

I shuddered, completely overwhelmed by the feeling of oneness. The clenching of my mate’s cunt echoed in the back of my mind, enhanced by the feeling of fullness from Natalie. As she rippled around me, I felt the echoes of the pleasure caused by my piercings pressing against the sensitive points within her.

Then, I began to move. With short, slow thrusts, I somehow managed to work deeper, until Natalie was all I could see—feel— taste. The edges between us blurred, until my mind was lost in a transcendent ball of ecstasy.

“ Eacus .” Natalie’s voice was a whine for more, and I could deny her nothing. My grip in her hair tightened, arching her back into me even further. Her gaze held mine through our reflections in the viewport, her mouth hanging open and brows furrowed against the onslaught of sensations. I snapped my hips forward once more and snarled at the way her breasts swayed with the motion. I could just make out my name, smudged on her chest in her own blood, in the reflection. The sight spurred me on as my thrusts became relentless. Through her mind, I could feel the way her fingers dug into the unforgiving titanium of the control panel, and the building pleasure at the base of her spine.

My psyche fell into hers, wanting to be surrounded by Natalie in all ways. Her pleasure was mine, and my mouth watered with the craving for more. My hand at her hip snaked around to her core with the intent to stroke the bundle of nerves just above where we met, to stoke her pleasure higher.

Instead, my fingers drifted farther back to where I entered Natalie, tracing over the way her flesh stretched around me. The silver balls of my piercings popped in and out of her one by one. Each one sent a fission of pleasure up both our spines.

A growl ripped its way out of my throat. “I don’t think I’m ever going to get enough of the way this tight little cunt strangles my cock.”

Natalie’s only response was a choked noise between a sob and a moan, but I understood it perfectly. I picked up the pace, pounding into her hard enough to drive her hips into the unforgiving edge of the control panel. She didn’t seem to care, pushing back against me with equal force.

Finally, I dragged my fingers up to strum over her pleasure point. Earlier, she had touched herself with quick, vertical strokes and I mirrored them now, gritting my teeth against the thundering approach of my own release.

She shuddered around me, and I redoubled my efforts.

Supernovas exploded in my vision as Natalie’s pleasure snapped with a breathless cry.

“ Eacus.”

The warm, salty taste of blood filled my mouth before I realized I had bitten down on the side of my mate’s neck with the force of my release. I spent inside her with an almighty groan, my wings snapping fully open as our joined minds became nothing more than a burning ball of white-hot pleasure.

Mate.

She was my mate in every way now. Nothing in the charted galaxies and beyond would part us now. I would make it so.

The pressure and pain of the hard edge of the control panel against Natalie’s hipbones seeped into my mind, gradually, as our brains continued to bleed into each other with little distinction. I gently pulled my teeth from her neck as I slid my softening cock from her, helping her shift away from the panel to ease her discomfort.

I relaxed my grip in her hair in favor of gently rubbing circles into her scalp. Another breathy moan escaped her lips, this one more a sigh of contentment than the cries of pleasure that had come before.

As I took a step back, the sight of my spend dripping down Natalie’s thighs greeted me, almost more intoxicating than the blood trailing down her neck. Absently, I trailed my fingers through it before pushing it back inside my mate, her sex still pink and swollen with pleasure.

Natalie squirmed but didn’t pull away.

“You took me at my word when I asked you to make me yours,” she observed, teasing, but I sensed no regret. Only satisfaction.

“I do nothing by halves,” I responded, pulling my fingers from her with a debauched squelch. The sound nudged my hunger again, but for now, the need awoken by the new mating was satisfied. There were other needs that overrode those desires.

The need to make sure my mate was cared for.

“What now?” I asked, stroking the length of her spine gently.

“Well, for now I think we need to clean up and find some clothes,” Natalie sighed, finally standing up.

My arms came around her waist as I tucked her back to my front, unable to keep my distance for too long after all.

“I meant where are we headed?” I clarified, gesturing to the control panel before us as I rested my chin on the top of Natalie’s head.

The sensation of heat in her face drifted through my consciousness as she realized how thoroughly we had defiled the ship she apparently piloted alone. I sensed no other life forms, and while my psychic powers had not been fully activated until I fed from my mate, they had always been accurate on such broad observations.

“Oh.” Natalie let her head fall back onto my chest, looking up at me. “I was just bringing the ship back to the port after dropping off all the passengers at the new colonies.”

“And this port is on your home planet?” I asked, sensing a strange sadness creeping into Natalie’s psyche. My arms tightened around her, as if I could protect her from it, even though I did not know its source. “I will accompany you there,” I assured, not wanting her to be afraid I would be unwilling to follow her to her home.

Natalie shook her head, the purple tendrils of her hair tickling my chest. “Earth isn’t home. Not anymore at least. I’ll never go back there again if I can help it.”

Brief flashes of violence and war rattled through my brain: falling from the sky in a burning starfighter, losing her eye only to have to relearn how to see with a cybernetic one. I didn’t mention these images, as I got the sense that Natalie didn’t know she had shared these memories with me and had no desire to speak of them right now.

“Then where is your home?” I asked. I itched to know everything about my mate, and hear it from her own lips, even though we were already more intimately linked than I had ever been with another being.

“I don’t have one. Yet,” Natalie admitted, an aborted shrug an attempt at playing off her pain. “But these solo flights pay well, and soon I’ll be able to settle somewhere far from Earth. Build myself a life there.”

My heart panged in my chest, and my wings came around both of us in a protective shield once more, as if the black cocoon could protect my mate from the pain of her admission.

“I have a home with the Entari,” I pointed out. “I’m not there much, because I’ve always felt like it was much too big for one person.”

My mate shifted against me, and a bubble of hope grew between us, golden and bright and beautifully fragile. But I would protect it until it was solid and indestructible.

“It would feel more like a home with a mate there,” I said, hoping she might like the idea. “And our homeworld is so far from Earth that we have never heard of your planet.”

Natalie twisted in my arms, turning to face me. Her one organic eye was bright, light shining through like the lonely dark of space had been shattered to make way for a galaxy of stars within her. The heavy feeling in my mind, which I realized now had been my mate’s oppressive loneliness, skittered away into darkened corners in the wake of the newfound light of hope.

“If I were at your home, would you be there too?” she asked, only slightly hesitant.

My fingers drifted over the punctures from my fangs in her neck, down to the now smeared tracing of my name on her chest. The sight made my xigia purr, the glow of my tattoos flashing to briefly illuminate the enclosed space made by the curtain of my wings. Such markings were a sign that her kind didn’t appear to fully appreciate the significance of, but they were as binding of a promise as any I could make.

Perhaps I should be dismayed that it had happened so unplanned—although maybe it wasn’t as unplanned as I thought. Maybe the uncharted asteroid that had knocked my ship off course, throwing me into the deep abyss of space on an otherwise uneventful trip, had been sent with a purpose—to put me into the path of this remarkable mate, a woman so unexpectedly wonderful I had never even managed to dream of anything like her.

“My mate, I will go wherever you go,” I swore. “From here to the farthest star.”

Natalie smiled, and joy bloomed in my heart, amplified exponentially, for it belonged to both of us.

My mate chuckled wryly. “I’m glad I responded to your distress signal.”

I pressed my forehead to hers. “Perhaps you have saved us both.”