SCARLET
The next morning, Pyrr was on duty, so I went back to the conference room to visit the others. I specifically wanted to see Harper. I needed to apologize, and I needed to get information. She was already there when I arrived, talking with Nora and Zoe.
“Hey, Scarlet,” Harper called to me, “and where have you been?” She quirked an eyebrow and smirked at me.
“All right, Harper, you know damn well I was with Pyrr Avantu---and I’m sorry for picking on you the other day. I get it,” I said and sighed. “Whatever there is about solmatu, it makes these guys irresistible. Man, all I can think about is jumping his boner when he gets off duty.”
“You mean---- jump his bones?” Harper laughed.
“That, too.” I shook my head and felt my face heating up. “We shared sex most of the day and evening, and he wants me to commit to mating him for life. That’s like marriage, right?”
“That’s exactly right,” Harper told me.
“How can they expect that kind of commitment just like that?” I snapped my fingers just for effect. Then I lowered my voice to a whisper so only she could hear. “I hadn't had sex in two years, since before Jake died. So, when this big, gorgeous alien says we’re soul mates and looks at me like I’m Miss Universe, tells me I’m his soul mate---I’m going to get some of that. But, hell, I don’t know if I want to marry him. How the hell did you know?”
“Honestly, Zared is so damn hot and so earnest when he asked to be my mate, I decided it was the best offer I ever had,” she said. “I don’t know if I am in love yet, but the thing people don’t get is you can love who you want to love. The guy turns me on like no man ever has, so why not love him?”
“Do you think the guy saving us has something to do with it?”
“Oh probably, but that didn’t turn my bones to jelly when he kissed me,” she said. “That was all him.”
“Believe me, I get that,” I told her.
“That irresistible attraction you feel for Pyrr is solmatu. You’re getting some of those pheromones through the skin to skin contact even with protected sex,” Harper explained. “Look, we’re millions of miles from home, and nobody knows how to get us back to Earth. We could have been sex slaves, but these guys saved us. Having a hot alien commander for a husband seemed like a good deal to me, so I took him up on it. He is a kind and caring man.” She paused for effect then said, “and I really like fucking him. Mm, mm, mm.”
We both giggled like school girls. I knew exactly what she meant because I felt the same way. Then I thought about it. If I were really going to reject his “proposal,” I should never have shared sex with him. Now it would be really awkward to reject him as a mate when he had declared we were soulmates from the beginning.
Anyway, how could I just go back to Earth and live my old life like none of this ever happened? Then I thought of Billy, and that brought a lump to my throat. I hoped someone rescued him and found him a home. He was the only being I missed. I would never have abandoned him if I’d had a choice. He was too good a dog, too good a friend. Who else would love you unconditionally like a dog would?
Someone who thinks you are their soulmate.
That’s when I finally got it. My unique scent told Pyrr I am his soulmate. That was all he needed to turn him into my devoted lover. I still wasn’t quite ready to make that commitment though, I felt like I probably would. I couldn’t deny the connection I felt with Pyrr. It was more than just a physical attraction, which was powerful because I really liked him. My talk with Harper made me believe I could love him. He already acted like he loved me. I could work with that.
With that settled in my mind, I could content myself to enjoy the company of my friends. Some of the alien women joined us including Kyanna Guryon and her companion Sowia. They told us enough about life on Halor to convince the four of us from Earth; it was a place we wouldn’t want to live. It sounded like high society to me, and we were small town ‘girls.' What would we do in a place like that?
The houses were automated, and they had robots for servants. They lived on old money, then those that did work did so from home on their computers, only they were called artificial intelligence modules.
Even though the men and women on the Dreadnaught called themselves mercenaries, they weren’t your typical mercenaries, just looking to fight for money. They were trying to save their people. They declared their independence from the Consortium for that purpose. They are the kind of people I understood. They came in all assorted colors with weird colored hair, but they were basically human with DNA that made them compatible with us. We wanted to help them free their people from a life of slavery the way they helped us.
At least I had it straight in my mind after talking with Harper. I realized I had made my decision. I would accept my alien warrior man’s proposal and be his mate. Maybe I didn’t love him yet, but I sure lusted for him. It would do for a start.
With little else to do, I had settled in with the other women in the conference room to watch a story as they called a movie on their holovid. Pyrr came to the conference room a little early for third meal. People came and went the whole time we were
watching it, but I didn’t notice any one person until he came striding in. I looked up immediately, and my body responded to his presence almost as quickly.
I got up as quietly as I could and padded over to him. He smiled at me, a lover’s smile that reached his eyes. A rush of happiness rippled through me as I basked in his obvious regard. He brushed his hand down my arm in a caress as I came to a stop facing him and returned his smile. He was definitely a keeper.
“Do you want to stay here and finish the story, or go to third meal?” he asked. The look in his eyes told me he wanted what I wanted. We went to eat. I wanted to tell him my decision, but I knew we would never eat if I told him first. I needed a little more time to get used to the idea. I was about to make one huge leap of faith based on Pyrr’s conviction that we were soul mates and my incredible physical attraction to him.
Even now as I remember it, it sounds almost as unlikely as getting kidnapped by alien slavers. Two days after meeting him, I was consenting to become his mate for life. But I was looking into his eyes when he called me solmatu and asked me to be his mate. I believed it was real for him, and I wanted him. Because of that, I knew he would be a solid ally. After being ripped from my world with no way to get home, I needed that.
I was pretty antsy sitting across from Pyrr eating in the mess hall. I was so hungry in the conference room waiting for third meal. The mercenaries’ food supply was adequate to get us to Halor, but there weren’t a lot of extras for snacks and such. We got three meals, and that was it. I think Pyrr thought something was up. He gave me a quizzical look, but just kept eating and didn’t say anything.
When we finished eating, I said, “Pyrr, I accept. I will be your mate.”
He simply smiled and reached across the table to take my hand and give it a gentle squeeze. The smoldering looks he gave me created a riot of sensation coursing through my body clamoring for his touch and making me yearn to feel him inside me. I got up suddenly and shoved my empty containers into the recycling chute, walking quickly toward the exit. Pyrr jumped up and followed me.
We barely made it inside his quarters before we were wrapped in each other’s arms kissing passionately. In the back of my mind, had I told Pyrr before we dined of my decision, we would never make it to third meal. We hardly stopped kissing as we made our way to his bed where I help him off with his clothes and we fell into bed naked.
Pyrr didn’t waste any time pressing me against him his engorged cock pressed against my thigh. I had been craving him all day. He slid his hand over my mound and fingered my opening. “You’re wet for me already,” he murmured into my ear.
“And I need you inside me now,” I pleaded. My nipples had peaked, and my slit went slick almost the moment I sensed his presence back in the conference room. That was all the encouragement he needed. I rolled onto my back parted my legs for him to position himself between them. He leaned over me, and I rested my hands on his sides while he lowered himself to slide into me.
I moaned in pure pleasure as he filled me. He gave me a pleased smile pressed his mouth to mine in a deep tongue waltzing kiss. The pressure of his hard, muscular chest against my sensitive nipples shot a surge of exquisite sensations to my clit as he pumped in and out of me. We started slow and sensual, picking up speed as our arousal increased until he was pounding into me. I was right there with him all the way. Sex had never felt so good or right.
My orgasm started first and his followed almost immediately. I just reveled in him on me and in me. An incredible sensation of euphoria spread through me as his hot semen squirted against my cervix. Our lips clung together in a sweet passionate kiss.
Mine! This man is mine!