Zes took a seat in the mess hall at a table for four. He set his food tray on the table and took out his tablet to check his messages. His leave was scheduled in two months when he would go to Earth to meet Harlee. Trista had been able to find a home address for Harlee Wyatt, so he knew where to find her even if she did not consent to meet him. He was hoping that would not be the case. With his request, he had sent a picture of himself disguised as a human. Brak's mate had assured him that he looked very handsome with black hair and hazel eyes. As a feline, he had dark blue hair with black highlights and deep amber eyes. He had a strong angular jawline and full masculine lips that would make a woman think about kissing them.
Trista's encouragement left him feeling hopeful. As he perused his messages, he felt a frisson of excitement as he found a new one from the Narova Genetic Matchmaking Service. But when he read it, he let out a roar of anger and outrage that brought silence to the mess hall. Zes jumped up from his seat, swept his food tray to the floor, and roared again.
Brak who was just coming in to join him set his tray on the nearest table and hurried to find out why Zes was so upset. “Zes, what's wrong?!?”
“They took Harlee. Pirates took Harlee and are holding her for ransom---five hundred thousand tarnets!” Zes raged. He didn't have to add that he didn't have that kind of money. Very few who worked for a living made that much in a year. Alliance Law Enforcement didn't.
“Okay, Zes. Pull yourself together. This is what we do. Let's go talk to the captain. I'm betting Harlee is not the only match they took.”
“Brak is right, Zes. We've gotten several complaints so far along with the report from the matchmaking lab,” Captain Marrek said. “These bastards are no better than the Tenzari slavers. Intelligence points to Frazon Mezra. Informants have tied him to Tenzari slavers as well.
“The coordinates for your rendezvous are well within our jurisdiction, so we are going after him. He's running a well-armed frigate, unlike the Tenzaris. We'll go in cloaked---hopefully, take them by surprise. We'll take out most of their weapons and hit their star drive. Then I'll send in the boarding team to rescue the hostages.”
“Sir, can I be on that team?” Zes requested immediately.
“Not on the team, but you may go in when they do to find your meomee.”
“Thank you, sir.” They both knew he was too emotionally invested to perform his duties efficiently. But Captain Merrick knew well what meomee meant to a man especially since he had only found his so recently.
Captain Mezra's frigate was waiting at the coordinates to rendezvous with Thanek Zes to exchange Harlee Wyatt for the ransom. Now Zes was glad that he hadn't revealed that he was an Enforcer when he made his application to the matchmaking lab.
Mezra's frigate was armed to the fins, but Alliance Law Enforcement Interceptor Raptor One was bigger and had better shields. It took a few hits and some minor damage before they captured the frigate. Twenty men and women in the boarding team waited near the hatch as the boarding tube was clamped on to the frigate hatch and pressurized. They were in full battle armor and heavily armed. Zes followed them without battle regalia but fully armed.
Those who didn't surrender immediately were caught on their way to the shuttle bay trying to escape. Captain Mezra was among them. Zes wanted to tear Mezra apart with his bare hands, but his priority was to find Harlee.
Harlee and the other women shuddered in their bunks as the ship shook with hit after hit. She was sure the ship would be blown apart, and they would be jettisoned into space. Despite her fear, she felt strangely calm. Whatever was going to happen, there was nothing she could do but wait for it.
Not finding her in the first cabin, in that corridor, he ran to the next and palmed the button to open the door. The door opened, and he saw five women huddled in five separate bunks. Instinct told him she was in that room, but he didn’t know which woman was Harlee. “Harlee---Harlee Wyatt?”
“I am Harlee. Who wants to know?” she asked as she sat up on the bunk.
Zes looked at her with a wondrous expression, strode across the room, and squatted down in front of her. “Thanek Zes. I am just called Zes. Are you all right?” He took her hand in both of his. “We got here as soon as we could.”
Harlee stared at him. He was the same species as Mezra, but better looking. There was kindness in his eyes, and he looked so concerned. She didn’t understand what it was about him, but she wanted to throw herself into his arms. “I’m okay, just a little shaken up,” then she stared into his amber feline eyes. “I feel like I should know you, but I don’t. You are obviously not from Earth, but what is the uniform you are wearing?”
Zes stood and drew her to her feet. “United Alliance of Worlds Law Enforcement,” he stated. “Are you okay to walk? The life support system is failing on this ship. We need to get to Raptor.” Then almost as an afterthought, he added, “All of you come with us. You will be safe with us and free to return to your homes if you wish at our earliest convenience.”
“I’m fine. I can walk,” Harlee said. Even so, Zes put a protective arm around her as they headed toward the boarding tube back to Raptor. Harlee realized she liked the feel of his nearness and he smelled so good. His nearness was starting to turn her on---, but this guy was an alien. Oh, but he was so handsome and smelled so good!
By the time, they reached the boarding tube; Harlee realized she was starting to feel sexually aroused by this alien stranger. “What are you doing to me?” she whispered. “I—I need you—I feel like I will go out of my mind if you don’t take me---I want you…”
“Yes, I know meomee. I will take you to my cabin and explain everything.”
“Wait a minute! Are you saying I am your mate?” Harlee stopped to face him while he still held her hand. “I don’t even know you. What if I don’t want to be your mate?”
“You will,” he assured her.
Meg Casey met them at the Raptor’s hatchway and took the other four women to the medical bay. Zes led Harlee toward his cabin. “You’re saying that like I have no choice.”
“Our bodies choose for us,” he murmured and stopped suddenly. He pulled her into his arms before she could protest and claimed her mouth with his, thoroughly kissing and caressing her lips with his own. “You are meomee. We can’t change that.”
Once they were alone inside his cabin, Harlee turned to face him. “You did this, didn’t you? I feel so hot for you I can’t stand it.”
“In a way, yes. You are my true mate. My body released pheromones that have caused you to desire to mate with me. It’s kind of like when a pet cat goes into heat,” he told her. “I knew you were my true mate. I have been searching for a mate for about three years. I could have spared you this, but I couldn’t give you up. I hope you will forgive me.”
Harlee pressed herself against him, put her hands on the back of his neck, and pulled his head down for him to kiss her. He enfolded her in his arms and kissed her hungrily. Her mouth opened readily to his tongue, and she moaned softly, pressing her belly against the hardness of his erection. He wanted her desperately, but he would let their first time be her decision.
When their lips parted, she said, “I will forgive you anything if you take off your clothes and fuck me right now.”
He sighed in relief.
“As you wish, meomee,” he released her and pulled off his uniform shirt. Harlee followed suit by pulling off her sports bra over her head then wiggled out of her exercise shorts and toed off her sneakers. When they were both naked, they stood looking at each other for a moment. Zes was big, over six feet with hard, well-developed muscles, and a long, thick cock. He was one gorgeous alien man, and she wanted him, more than she’d ever wanted a man before.
She came close and looked up into his eyes. He framed her face in his hands and smiled tenderly at her. “Meomee, you are as beautiful as I imagined. I think I would have killed them with my bare hands if they had harmed you.”
“I was afraid they would, but they didn’t,” she said softly, “Please, I need you…”
“And I need you,” he scooped her up in his arms and carried her into his small bedroom dominated by a large bed. He laid her toward the middle, climbed on, and lay beside her. He leaned over her and kissed her deeply as he cupped her breast, gently teasing her nipple. Harlee reached down to caress his hard cock. Zes groaned and reached down between her thighs and found her wet and ready. He knew from what others had told him that it was no use to try to take it slow.
Harlee opened her legs in invitation as she felt his fingers slip inside her then out. Zes moved between her legs and held his weight above her on his forearms. She reached down and guided his shaft into her opening with her hand. She sighed joyfully as he lowered himself to fill her and put her arms around his broad shoulders.
“You feel so good. I think I’m in love,” she said half seriously.
Zes grinned down at her and dropped a light kiss on her parted lips. Then he pulled back and thrust into her, gently at first to give her inner walls time to adjust to his size, as it was a delightfully tight fit. He paused to give her a long, deep, tongue-tangling kiss that caused her to push up against him and rub her swollen clit against the flesh above his cock. He took that as a demand to get serious and fuck her hard and fast.
Harlee cried out in pleasure each time he rammed his cock hard and deep. She marveled that he was hitting both her G-spot and rubbing her clit with every thrust. She kept her feet planted firmly on the bed, not wanting to hinder his movement. She loved the feel of him in her arms and clung to him passionately as she felt her climax building as though they were soaring together. Nothing had ever felt so good, and then she came like a high tide rushing in.
“Oh, oh, Zes, aaaah,” she cried and dug her nails into his back as she climaxed. Her womb and her channel walls contracted so hard that she lifted him up the first few waves.
Within seconds, Zes came too, his cock pulsing and shooting hot semen inside her. Each time he pulsed inside her, she contracted around his shaft as if to milk his seed from him. They rode the waves of pleasure for a long time before they stilled, clinging together, and kissing blissfully, still joined.
She was all that Zes hoped and dreamed. Now he understood Brak’s claim that there was no sex like meomee sex. He’d never felt anything like it in any previous sexual encounters. “My beautiful meomee,” he murmured tenderly, “You are mine, and I am yours---only yours.”
“Yes,” she whispered staring straight into his eyes. “You are mine, and I am yours.”
“That is meomee. We are true mates. I have loved you ever since the matchmaker sent me your picture,” he added.
“How can you love me, from a picture? We just met. That do you mean matchmaker? How?” she frowned.
“You submitted that DNA for testing. While they performed the genetic testing for your ancestry and predisposition for diseases, they also entered it into our interstellar database for true mate searches.” He told her. “I submitted my DNA for them to find my meomee. I was going to Earth to find you, and then those pirates stole you for ransom. I wanted to find them and kill them.”
Her eyes widened, and she sucked in her breath at the vehemence in his eyes.
“Ah, meomee,” he said and softly kissed her lips. “You have nothing to fear from me. I will never harm you,” he caressed her face with his fingers and smoothed her hair back from her forehead. “I want to know you---everything about you as I will know every inch of your lovely body by the time our bonding time is finished.”
“This means I’m not going home, doesn’t it?” she asked uncertainly.
“For now, at least. I really don’t want to give up my commission… and we must be together. That is what I ask your forgiveness for, meomee,” he punctuated that with another tender kiss. “But you will still be able to contact your people until I can get you there for a visit.”
It was hard to be angry with him still deep inside her and looking at her with such obvious affection. “I forgive you, Zes. I still want you like I have never wanted a man before,” then she smiled at him. She was completely attracted to him. Why not fall in love with him? He was sexy and handsome, and sweet. It was better than just existing in the dreary, mundane routine of work-eat-sleep her life had become.
Zes smiled down at her and partially withdrew from her and thrust firmly into her again. Harlee caught her breath in a gasp of approval. “More…”
“As you wish, meomee. This time long and slow,” he thrust into her again, she mewed in ascent.
Just then, she didn’t care about anything but the feel of him on her and in her. He plundered her mouth with his, slipping his tongue into the inner recesses. Each time he thrust into her, he elicited soft whimpers of pleasure low in her throat. He slowly teased her toward orgasm but stopped his movements completely every time she seemed close to climax. Then she groaned in protest and squirmed against him trying to reach that ultimate point of pleasure.
“Shhhh, meomee. We will get there together, trust me.”
She nodded, panting and moaning. It seemed like hours that he teased her on the brink of orgasm.
“Zes, please!” her eyes pleaded for completion, and he couldn’t deny her any longer. He kissed her deeply and thrust into her harder and faster until they climaxed together in a very short time. It was such intense pleasure it seemed, as close to the bliss of nirvana she would ever come.
Harlee sobbed her relief digging her nails into his back as she came even harder than the last time. Then tears streamed from her eyes as she was sobbing in earnest, even while she was clinging to him and murmuring his name between sobs.
Zes rolled them to their sides and withdrew his cock as his erection waned. “Oh, gods! Don't cry meomee. I only wanted to give you pleasure, my precious meomee.”
“No. No, Zes. It was wonderful,” she sniffed and hugged him fiercely. “Just too many emotions.” she hiccupped. “I was so damned scared for days, and when the ship started shaking, I thought I was going to die. Then you came for me---and made me feel things I never felt before,” she stopped talking and planted little kisses all over his face.
“I am going to miss home, but I don't think I can live without you,” she murmured.
Zes kissed her fiercely almost holding her too tightly. “I know I can't live without you, my darling Harlee.”
She groaned, and he loosened his grip, as he kissed the tears from her face. Caressing her face and her hair, he kissed her lips softly. “Let's get a shower then get some rest, sweet one.”
They took turns using the lavatory and then stepped into the shower together. Zes reached for soap from the dispenser and started lathering Harlee's hair as the water sprayed over them. Then he squeezed out the suds as it rinsed. Next, he got the sponge out of the dispenser on the wall in the shower and held it under the dispenser for more soap to lather the sponge. He proceeded to wash her from head to toe lingering only slightly on her mound and her breasts.
His painfully hard erection gave evidence to his powerful desire for her, but his regret for what he knowingly took from her kept him from seducing her again. It should have been her choice to mate him. Once he took her hand in his, he had taken that away from her. What he had done was not illegal, but he felt it was morally wrong, yet he did it anyway.
She wouldn't hate him because they were already bonded. Right then, he hated himself enough for both of them. Tears filled his eyes and spilled down his cheeks. Harlee did see because her back was to him. As he continued to wash her, he willed his emotions into check. Now was not the time to assuage his guilt by confessing to her. She needed time to adjust to her new life. His remorse could only upset her more.
When he finished washing her, Harlee turned and hugged him. Despite his best intentions, his cock sprang to life again. She pulled back as she felt it, looked down at it, and back up at him with a shy smile. She reached up to the dispenser and filled her hand with soap rubbed her hands together and knelt before him. She rubbed her soapy hands up and down his shaft and over his balls. He groaned.
She waited while the water rinsed way the soap then kissed the head then licked and kissed his shaft from head to base and back to the head again. Then she took the head into her mouth and used her hand to work his length while she sucked and tongued the head.
Involuntarily, he thrust into her mouth, but he was too big to go any further into it. He made himself pull out of her mouth as he came. Harlee let him and milked his cock with her hand and let his semen squirt over her breasts.
“Gods, meomee, gods!” he muttered. What she had done was so sexy and so humbling---to him. He gripped her arms and pulled her to her feet. He brushed at the cum on her breasts while the water washed it away. Then he hugged her to him. She was the most precious thing in his universe.
Although he hadn't thoroughly bathed himself, Zes decided he had had enough water. He would shower alone after they had rested and likely fucked a couple more times. They got out of the shower and dried each other, then went to bed and slept spooned together for several hours.
When Zes woke, he started brooding again about taking away Harlee's choice by orchestrating their bonding. She had shrugged it off when he confessed, but he couldn't forget how she had sobbed in his arms like her heart was breaking. What if there was someone else she was hoping to return to?
That could never happen now that they were bonded. It was for life and couldn't be broken.
It might have been seconds or minutes later, that he felt her lips on his back. He turned over to face her and took her into his arms. She smiled and then frowned at his expression.
“Zes, what's wrong? Are you upset with me?”
“No meomee. My conscience bothers me,” he sighed. “I never gave you the chance to decide about our mating. I never even considered that you might have someone to go back to. I should have given you the chance to choose.”
“There is no one else, Zes,” she smoothed back his dark blue hair. “Why didn't you give me a choice?”
'Because I wanted you so much---I wanted the chance to fall in love with the real Harlee Wyatt---not just your picture... and I wanted you to fall in love with me. I knew you couldn't resist the biological urge to bond once you were exposed to my pheromones.”
“Honestly, I probably wouldn't have agreed to be mated to an alien. I would have thought they were joking. I would have missed the chance to be with you. I'm glad that didn't happen,” she smiled at him. “Don't trouble yourself with that anymore. I want to be with you.”
“But I made you cry,” he said.
“You also made me cum like never before. It started because you made me feel so good and then I couldn't stop. It wasn't your fault, meomee,” she assured him and kissed his mouth.
Harlee parted her lips and ran the tip of her tongue over his lips as an invitation. He responded, kissing her deeply. He started working his way down her neck, kissing and tasting her skin. Gently pushing her on her back, he took her nipple into his mouth, sucked it making Harlee moan, and comb her fingers through his thick hair.
While he pleasured her breasts, he dragged his hand down over her belly slowly. Her core throbbed, and her vaginal walls contracted in anticipation. He purposefully slid a finger down over her clit and through the slick center into her opening. She raised her hips, pressing her core against his hand, but then he withdrew it. Harlee sighed in protest though she was sure he was just getting started.
Zes crawled over her and urged her legs apart and knelt between them looking down at her all spread open for him. He leaned over her and went back to kissing and sucking her nipples to stiff hard peaks. Then he kissed, nipped, and tasted his way down her ribs and belly until he reached her mound. He used his fingers to part the outer lips then dragged his warm wet tongue over her clit. By the third time he did it, she was digging her fingers into the sheet on the bed as her orgasm blossomed.
She mewed and moaned her satisfaction as his tongue slid into her opening as if he was fucking her with his tongue. Then he went back to laving and gently sucking her clit. Soon she was writhing and bucking her hips against him, but he held her still until she screamed as her powerful orgasm crashed through her body. Each time it subsided, Zes tongued her clit again to bring on another wave until she begged him to stop.
Then he came back to her side and hugged her to him. “That pleased you?”
“Oh, yes, that pleased me,” she assured him. “And you can fuck me anytime you're ready,” she added sounding deliciously naughty.
He chuckled and kissed her, rubbing his hands up and down her back her back, pausing to squeeze her buttocks. “Long and slow or hard and fast?”
“Both,” she grinned at him. “Start long and slow, end hard and fast?'
“If that would please you meomee,” he said graciously. She giggled with a sexy twinkle in her eyes.
In the next moment, she was on her back with his cock filling her to the hilt and pressing sweetly against her G-spot. This was not just sex; he was loving her with his body. She could see in his eyes as he thrust in and out of her intermittently that this bonding was emotional for him as much as physical. She also realized that she was feeling it too. She was falling in love with him---they were falling in love with each other.
He teased her on the brink of climax for what seemed like an incredibly long time then he gradually started thrusting harder and faster until he felt her coming. That was all he needed to take him the rest of the way.
Harlee was sobbing and panting in ecstasy, “Zes, oh Zes. I am so glad you are mine, and I am yours. Don't ever doubt it.”