Uri takes my hand and we climb into his speeder. It's a sleek, red vehicle, designed for speed and power. Unlike Plume’s speeder, a model designed for quickness and agility.

We lift off into the airways of Arcadia. He still hasn't told me where we’re going so I let my mind wonder to my work. Could human genetics be synthesized with our own to create a vaccine?

We travel down the coast and the planet Umbria glows brightly in the night sky.

Uri directs his vehicle toward the forest and up into the highest elevations of Arcadia. The peak of Mount Tuthanan lies in the distance. Uri settles on a plateau that overlooks the orchards of Galan, where the winter lemons grow in thick groves.

We exit the speeder and sit on the hood, breathing in the thick lemon blossom scent blowing up from the orchards. Uri stands in front of me, obscuring my view and forcing me to look up into his burning ember eyes.

He is fire and I am ice. As much as his elemental fury repels me, it draws me to him. Uri has been the least patient of my mates, always insisting on spending time with me. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing, honestly. This whole mating ritual confuses me and has left my mind a muddled fog.

“What did you want from me, Uri?” I ask him softly. He presses between my legs and wraps his hands around my slender waist.

“Isn't it obvious, little female?” he says.

“Aren’t I your Queen?” I tease.

“You are the White Queen. Indeed. But you are also my own little female.”

He gathers me tight, pressing his hot lips to mine. I pressed my palms to his shoulders, almost pushing him back. He does not relent. He only holds me tighter. I groan as his tongue presses between my lips. I'm still in the thin dress I wore on my date with Plume. Uri's body heat radiates into my chest and my inner thighs, thawing my heart to him. He runs his kisses over my face and down my neck, grazing his sharp teeth over the sensitive skin.

I groan and hold him around his thin waist. I feel his cock hard against the wet place between my legs. We are both still dressed before Uri slips his fingers under the thin straps of my dress and the bodice falls over my breasts.

My nipples are so tight they almost hurt when he plucks one into his mouth. He sucks hard as his tongue lathes my taut flesh. I gasp and groan at the exhilarating and painfully erotic sensation.

Uri sucks one breast as he grips and fondles the other. He moves back and forth between them until I am gushing with desire. His palms run up my outer thighs and push my dress up my hips. Before I know what is happening, Uri is on his knees before me as I sit on the hood of his speeder.

He forces my legs wide and opens the folds of my sex. He licks around the swollen buds that circle my sex, making me groan and bite my lip. He’s more aggressive than Donte, and pushes me faster to the brink.

I lean back, looking up into the night sky. Uri grips my thighs as he growls and groans, enjoying my sex like a delicious, savory meal. His breath is hot and fierce, and his fierce tongue throttles my pleasure buttons. The moment extends into infinity.

I'm swelling and tightening, the pressure becoming unbearable. I run my fingers through his dark hair and grind against his hungry mouth. The desire detonates inside me, blasting my soul into a thousand pieces. As my sex throbs and clenches, Uri looks up at me with his shining black eyes.

“By the Bones of the Gods,” I growl.

He stands and cups my cheek in his hand.

“I need more than that from you, my little female,” he says as he flicks his nanotech clothing away from his body.

He’s naked and massive. His cock is a tower between us. He grips it, looking me straight in the eye. I bite my lip, not ready to take him.

“Lick it,” he says.

“Lick?”

I want to do what he asks. I lean forward, lapping at the hard head of his cock.

“Yes,” he growls. “Like that.”

Uri threads his fingers through my hair, encouraging me to open my mouth wider, to take his hot, thick shaft deeper into my mouth. I let it inch inside me, my saliva coating the hood. He pushes down on me as he grips and pumps it from below. I’m ravenous with desire, demanding to be filled.

Uri meets my need by pushing two fingers into my pussy. He slides them back and forth, teasing my inner pleasure buttons. I lean back, gasping as the pleasure builds inside me again. Uri strokes himself. The sound of flesh thwacking against flesh fills my ears as he pumps his thick rod up and down.

His fingers pump my sex. Uri seems to want to touch every part of me, pleasure and push me to the brink a dozen times. I come hard, my cunt clenching and throbbing around his fingers. Uri grunts as his cock swells.

“Take my seed in your mouth, female,” he growls.

I don’t stop to think and suck his cock into my mouth. He shoots hot semen deep into my throat, and I swallow. I’m groaning and throbbing as I suck down the last drop of his cum.

Uri helps me up and looks into my eyes. His gaze melts my soul. He meets me with a hard kiss to my mouth, and I wrap my arms around him.

“That was amazing, Uri. I didn’t expect it.”

“You should expect it. I have much more in store for you, little female. I will have you and I will claim you,” he growls into my ear.

I know he is right. I want him. I want all of them.

“We’ll see,” I tease.

In my heart, I know my decision is already made.