Bound to the Alien Engineer (Alien Brides Book 2), page 16
Min-dee wasn't his to keep, not yet, but she was willing to give him the chance to win her. And she'd given him permission to touch her in all the ways he'd been craving.
He stood and walked around the table while she watched him with wide eyes. When he held out his hand, she slipped hers into it and he pulled her to her feet. Her slight form leaned against his and he ran his hands through her hair, enjoying the feel of the soft strands running through his fingers.
"It's so soft," he said, staring at the light reflecting off the shiny black hair.
"I'm glad you think so," she said softly.
"Everything about you is soft and inviting," he told her.
"I've never been told that before," she said. "I'm usually-"
He stopped her words with a kiss. Gentle, soft lips parted beneath his and he drank in her sigh as she surrendered into his arms.
This was right. She fit him perfectly, her lips tasted sweet, her hands clutched at his shirt and pulled him towards her. Her arms wrapped around his neck and he lifted her against him, his hands sliding under her thighs as she lifted her legs around his waist.
He was thinking about laying her back across the table when she pulled back just long enough to murmur "Bed. Now."
Who was he to argue? Chuckling slightly as she resumed the kiss, he carried her to the next room and put a knee on the bed to lay her down while he kissed her. When her back hit the mattress, her fingers were busy with the fastenings on his shirt, struggling slightly with the unfamiliar pieces.
His hands slid under her top, pushing it up as he felt his way up her flesh. The unending waves of desire washed over him, encouraging him to move faster, to bury himself in her over and over until she screamed out in pleasure. Then do it again and again until they were both too exhausted to move.
Instead, he took his time, exploring the sleek curves of her body, the soft give of her flesh. Holding back was agony but it was worth every gasped 'yes' and sigh as his fingers moved over her. Her fingers touched his bare stomach and he hissed in a breath, his muscles flexing at the sudden assault of lightning that happened everywhere she touched.
"I need more of you," she said against his lips. "I need to feel you everywhere."
"Patience," he said, licking her bottom lip. "We only get one first time together. I want to savor you."
She moaned and he kissed his way across her cheek and down her jaw, licking the hollow just beneath her jaw while his hands worked their way to her chest. His thumbs ran over the soft underside of her breasts and she squirmed against him, her heels digging into his ass as she tried to pull him closer. He smiled against her neck and bit softly, licking gently to take away the sting, then sucking the delicate flesh into his mouth.
Min-dee was panting as he made his way to her collarbone, his tongue exploring the delicate flesh before he started kissing his way down her chest. His hands covered her breasts, his thumbs sliding lightly over her nipples, and she pressed against him. Her back arched against his touch, thrusting more of her body in his hands, and she pressed her core hard against his aching cock.
He groaned, and ground against her, smiling when she trembled with pleasure. Pushing her shirt further up, his mouth continued its journey down her chest, hampered only slightly when she moved to pull the shirt over her head and fling it across the room. He loved the soft skin beneath his lips, the delicate scent of her flesh, as he kissed every inch of her breasts, saving her nipples for last.
When he pulled the first into his mouth, licking and sucking at it to learn its shape and taste, she writhed against him. His thumb flicked gently back and forth across the other and her hands wrapped around his head, pulling him closer, until he took a bigger mouthful and bit gently. Her hands fisted in his hair and she threw her head back with a cry of pleasure so similar to the one she'd uttered earlier.
He drew back, licking his lips, and looked down at her panting face. She was flushed, the red that stained her cheeks working its way down her throat and to her chest.
"Did you like that?" he asked with a grin.
She growled at him and reached up to pull him back down. He grabbed her hands and kissed the palms, licking slowly between her fingers before he let them go.
"I asked a question," he reminded her, leaning down to kiss her collarbone. "Did you like that?"
"Yes," she said, breathless.
"Good," he said, licking the soft skin on the side of her neck. She tasted salty and a little sweet. Her breath was coming in hard pants and her arms had wrapped around his back to clutch at the fabric of his shirt.
"I need more," she said, her voice soft. "It's not enough."
"What do you need?" he asked, nipping at her earlobe just to feel her squirm against him.
"I need your skin," she said. "I need to feel your fingers on my body. I want your fingers to dig into my hips while you fill me with your cock. I can feel it against me and I need it inside. I've never-"
Alvola leaned back and looked down at her, the wild look in her eyes filling him with a satisfaction he'd never known before.
"You've never what?" he asked, stroking a finger down the side of her face.
"I've never needed anybody this much before. You're making me crazy."
"Do you hate it?"
She thought about it and he loved and hated the pause. When she shook her head, his heart beat so hard he thought it was going to break through his chest.
"I feel like I could drown in you, in the way you make me feel, but that I'd be safe. You wouldn't let me get lost."
"You're always safe with me, Min-dee," he told her. "I want nothing more than for you to be who you are so I can enjoy every inch of you."
He licked her bottom lip gently and she opened to him, her soft tongue darting out to meet his before they came crashing down together. She pushed his shirt back and off his shoulders and he slipped it the rest of the way down, throwing it across the room to land atop hers, and her fingers dug into the flesh of his back.
With a flex of his hips, he ground his cock against her center and she cried out, her legs wrapping hard around his waist. He pushed harder and she trembled in his arms, her nails biting into his skin. His hands found her breasts again and his thumbs rubbed against her nipples as he took the flesh of her neck between his teeth and bit and sucked.
She screamed, her body rocking against his while she came apart. Fire burned along his back where she'd scratched him and he loved the feel as it raced along his spine.
Her breath still coming hard, he kissed his way down her body, stopping to suck at the skin along her ribs and to run his tongue across the soft flesh of her belly. She shivered and he bit down lightly, holding her hips when she threatened to buck hard enough against him to hurt herself.
Sliding her pants down her legs, he stopped to admire the strong muscles on her calves and thighs, the perfect construction of her feet. He kissed her ankle, watched as she writhed, laid out before him like a perfect feast. A lick of the side of her calf had her other leg wrapping around his leg to pull him forward. With a grin, he bit gently and she threw her head back, her breath taking on the ragged gasps he was coming to recognize as a sign of pleasure.
He moved his attentions to the back of her knee and she shrieked and writhed, a shaky laugh joining it. "That tickles," she told him.
"Does it feel good?" he asked.
"Too good," she said. "I ache for you."
"Show me," he demanded. "Show me where you ache, touch yourself where you want me."
Her eyes lowered and she bit her lip. Was she shy? Nothing about her up to this point had surprised him but this reaction did.
With trembling hands, she touched herself, one hand rubbing gently at her glistening flesh while another dipped inside. "Here," she told him. "I need you here."
He leaned forward and took her wrist in his hand, raising her fingers to his lips. Watching her face, he licked her tips, the taste of her exploding across his tongue like ambrosia. He sucked her fingers into his mouth and watched her jaw drop, her eyes rolled back as her hips lifted. With a quick move of his fingers, he opened the fastenings on his own pants and freed his cock.
It ached for her, so hard it hurt, and it fit so perfectly against her opening he groaned at the feeling. Dropping her hand against her chest, he stroked a finger down her cheek, and kissed her, surging forward as he did.
He savored the gasp of pleasure she gave him, fighting to sink deeper into her against the tight grip of her inner muscles. When he was finally seated, he pulled back to watch her face. She was so beautiful, his chest ached.
Then, he started to move.
Chapter 25
When they emerged two days later, Mindy alternated between pride and embarrassment for how long they'd been locked in his rooms, oblivious to the rest of the ship. It had been an eye-opening experience, one she'd never thought possible, and the only thing she regretted about it was the speed with which the bruises he'd left on her skin had healed.
Places where his fingers had gripped her hips hard enough to leave a mark had ached pleasantly for a few hours and then they'd been gone. The love bites on her neck and breasts and hips had faded just as quickly and she found herself missing them when she looked in the mirror. It was a far cry from standing in front of a mirror and wondering unemotionally about how she was going to cover them up before she went to work.
She'd loved running her fingers and her lips along the scars on his chest and she wanted to ask him how he kept them. They were old, obviously decorative, and matched the ones on his horns. A flush spread up her neck as she remembered what had happened the first time she'd touched them while they were intimate.
His hand went to the small of her back and she shivered, putting her own around his waist and leaning against his chest as they walked to the medical bay. They both had to get back to work and she'd decided she was going to learn everything she was able to about how the alien technology was interacting with human biology. That she was showing up to work in snug fitting jeans and a t-shirt with a t-rex watching a meteor shower with the phrase "Reach for the Stars" was something she'd never thought would happen. He hadn't protested when she'd put her hair up with her hair sticks, though he had recognized it meant play time was over for the moment.
"You don't have to work while you're here," he told her, pulling her closer to him.
"I do, though," she said. "If I was just to stay in your rooms the entire time, I'd die of boredom. I need something to do and this is something I might be able to help with."
He kissed the top of her head and pleasure sang through her. "I understand," he said. "I would likely feel the same way and start doing things to make my own life more interesting."
"Which would be dangerous for you and everybody else around you," she said with a laugh.
"Not at first," he protested. "But eventually, yes."
"It would be the same for me," she told him. "I don't know how Molly manages to sit still for so long. She's told me and I still don't understand. So, I'm going to help Mintonar while you work with Aidan to find a way to announce that you're here without starting a conflict."
"We wouldn't start a conflict just to announce our presence," Alvola told her.
"No?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. "I thought some of your people sent a planet killer to take out all the life on the planet at one point."
"That was ages ago. A mere myth on our planet at this point."
"A strong enough myth that you managed to convince a ship full of people to go looking for it."
"It was a theory," he said. "I had the math to back it up but it was still all a theory. If things hadn't had gotten as bad as they did, it would have remained that way."
Mindy still didn't understand what he meant by that but it wasn't the time to ask just yet. She knew things had been bad on his planet, something about the politics, but he'd changed the subject every time she'd asked him. Not even on purpose, just as a reflex, which told her there were some deep hurts associated with it.
It would come with time, she was certain. And she might be able to get more information out of people who weren't preoccupied with tasting every inch of her skin. She flushed again, the ache between her legs was starting to become distracting. It started every time he touched her, whether or not there was a barrier between their skin, and she had the feeling it had more to do with her lust for him than any recognition.
"And now that you've proven your theory, you have to deal with the consequences. Which happens to be us."
"I am very happy to deal with the consequences," he said, turning to her and stepping into her until she'd backed up against the wall.
Her breath caught in her chest and she looked up at him. His hand came up to stroke her cheek and she found her arms around her neck, pulling herself up him while he lifted her up. He kissed her hard, grinding against her center until she gasped in pleasure and felt her body start to go up in flames.
"Oh, ew," Aidan said behind them. "Seriously? You have a room. Don't do that out here."
Alvola chuckled against her neck and she flushed in embarrassment. He didn't let her go, though, and she had trouble unwrapping herself from around him.
"Sorry, monkey," Mindy said.
"Ugh, whatever, I'll tell mom you're running late. She's been hanging out with Kaelin anyway to talk out the legal stuff."
Aidan continued down the hall and Mindy let her head drop back against the wall behind her.
"I very suddenly understand why Mintonar insisted on being able to lock his comm screen," Alvola told her. "Though he did have a point. We can continue this in our rooms."
Mindy licked her lips then shook her head. "We have work to do. This can wait."
He kissed her gently and disengaged, pulling her arms from around her neck when she had trouble letting go by herself. "It can. But not for too long. I find myself missing the feel of you."
She nodded. "I feel the same. How is that possible? We're still next to each other."
"I suspect-" he stopped. "It will be something you'll have to discuss with Mintonar. My people are skilled at animal husbandry and controlling wild populations in our territory but that doesn't necessarily translate to human biology."
"Did it translate well to the Orvax?" she asked.
"Better than you'd think it did," he said. "And gave rise to several of our traditions. I'll explain some of it later, if you'd like. Though there is a lot of ceremony around much of it, and maybe a more legalistic approach than you'd be comfortable with, there is a lot of it that's based in our biology and how our bodies work without the bio-nanos."
She bit her lip, tempted to ask him to explain right there, but a lot of his explanations tended to end up with her naked and screaming in pleasure.
"Tonight, then," she said. "Maybe over dinner?"
He grinned. "Well, I'll be eating something while we talk about it. Might as well start with food."
Mindy blushed. "You're terrible."
"If I was, you wouldn't enjoy it as much," he told her.
She was still blushing when he delivered her to the door of the Medical Bay. With a kiss that lingered only slightly too long, he pushed her inside and went off to his own day of work.
Molly and Kaelin looked up to see her walking purposefully into the room just before she smacked her right hip into one of the tables.
"That good, huh?" Molly asked with a grin.
"I'm mad at you," Mindy said with no preamble.
"What? Me? Why?" Molly's grin spread and her eyes crinkled with laughter.
"You knew all about this and held out on me for months. Months!"
"Okay, so, I wasn't holding out on you. I got you here as quickly as I could. And it wasn't exactly months. Weeks, maybe. How long have I been up here, anyway?"
"Officially, you went missing around the first week of March. It's now almost the end of June. Months, Molly."
Mindy wiped at the tears that gathered on her cheeks and felt her friend's arms go around her. She held her tightly and let go of some of the anxiety that had been riding her for weeks. Molly looked good; happy and healthy, with a glow around her that Mindy had never seen before. The alien clothes looked good on her but she'd obviously found her own underwear more comfortable since the shape of certain parts were different today than the last time she'd seen her. The hair sticks poking up over her head complimented the strange fabric and had tamed the mass of hair to something manageable.
"I wish you would have called," Mindy mumbled into her shoulder.
"If I'd known you would have been this upset about missing out on a couple weeks of good alien nookie, I would have," Molly said, squeezing her tighter. "As it was, though, good communication is even harder between disparate computer systems than between people."
"I know," Mindy said. She took a deep breath and let go, stepping back to smile at her friends. "Alvola was telling me about how much trouble it was to set everything up with questionable signals and his expert on another planet. I think he's rather fond of Aidan."
"Aidan is worth being fond of," Molly said with a smile. "And I'm really glad he's here now. Even if he does act as though he's irritated by everything."
"It's a new environment," Mindy said. "And a new situation. And he's been worrying about you for years and suddenly you have a protector and he's having to rethink all his plans and assumptions."
"Well, he can still disappear into Alaska or Montana after all this if he wants to," Molly said, her eyes sad. "He's promised to keep in touch with me when he does."
"Yeah, I don't think that's going to be happening. And I think that's part of what he's having to rethink. He refuses to hover but I know he was planning on watching out for you wherever he was. I also know he was planning on denying it if you ever asked and I was supposed to disavow any knowledge of his meddling."
Molly laughed then sighed.
"Occasionally, I think he forgets which one of us is the parent."
"That's normal," Kaelin said from behind them.
Mindy turned to look at her.
"Seriously," the other woman said. "Especially for kids with parents who have gone through abusive situations. He's not as bad about it as he could be and I think him having a new project will be good for him."
