Jackie was breathing heavily underneath him.

Skin on skin, Kol-Eresh could feel her gorgeous body shuddering against his. The rage in her light green eyes explained some of it, but not all.

"I don't know," she admitted, trying to get free from his grip.

Kol-Eresh chose not to tell her how little effort it took from him to keep her firmly in place, pressed against his body the way he wanted her.

"I had to do something," Jackie protested, struggling. "Let me go!"

"I don't think I will," Kol-Eresh said, grinding their bodies together, making Jackie's eyes fly wide open in surprise. "Given that you just tried to kill me. You are the first that still draws breath a minute after that."

"I didn't try to kill you," Jackie argued wildly, trying to maintain her composure and failing hopelessly. "And don't threaten me, I know I couldn't –"

"That wasn't a threat," Kol-Eresh cut in. "You should know better by now. I would never hurt you or let you come to harm. I want you to understand how hopeless it is for you to try and escape me. The sooner you accept this, the better."

Jackie's eyes were flashing, reflecting her inner turmoil.

"You are hurting me," she stated firmly. "By taking me against my will, by dragging me off to your horrible home world. By telling me that I should somehow make peace with that and just learn to be happy!"

"There's nothing else to it," the harbinger replied. "Luminos is your home now and your place is by my side. If you won't be happy, what's the alternative?"

Jackie tried her hardest to break free from his grip, but all she managed to do was rub her hips against his. Kol-Eresh groaned deeply, his cock stirring against her soft flesh. Jackie stopped moving at once.

"You don't understand," she tried. "Everything you imagine we might have, it's not going to happen. So if there is nothing in our future waiting for us, why not just let me go?"

"What don't I understand?" Kol-Eresh asked, frowning now.

The weird look was back in Jackie's eyes, the same one that he'd seen on her before. In quiet moments when she thought he wasn't looking or when she'd seen the diadon or back in that chasm on Terra. There was something weighing heavily on the mind of his fated and the harbinger would have given everything to know what it was.

Jackie didn't reply.

"Let go of me," she dared him.

"Let go of the dagger," Kol-Eresh replied.

Jackie only seemed to realize then that she was still gripping the blade in her hand. She released it, letting it drop to the bed. Her green eyes turned back to him, questioning. She tensed up when he didn't move away from her.

"You promised," she said, hurt.

"I said no such thing," the harbinger answered. "Before you get any more ideas in your pretty little head, let me tell you a few things about me.

"I'm a forgiving man, for a Nayanor. I will allow this trick of yours, once. A Nayanor warrior sleeps very lightly, in case you didn't notice. Even the rocking of my ship couldn't have given you enough of a leverage. If you force me to sleep with my eyes open every night that you spend in my bed, things will not be so nice for you anymore.

"I won't hurt you, but I can make your life much more miserable than it needs to be. You don't want to spend your nights locked up like a prisoner. Nod if you agree."

Jackie's head moved in a way that was probably a very slight nod.

"Good," Kol-Eresh said. "Now look me in the eye and tell me if you really want me to let you go."

Jackie couldn't keep the smile from her lips.

"Your arrogance is unbelievable," she said.

"Is it?" Kol-Eresh asked, leaning lower and hearing the soft gasp he earned with that from his fated's pretty pink lips. "I don't have the hearing of Brions. Is it true that those bastards can hear how fast the pulses of their enemies beat? But even if I don't have superhuman skills like that, I can tell that you are not so excited to get away from me."

His words were bold, but the truth was that it was hard for the harbinger to control himself around his fated mate. Every little movement of Jackie's body turned him on. He couldn't tear his eyes from her soft breasts, the way her tongue darted out of her mouth to lick her lips. The heat between them was immense and Kol-Eresh wanted to make it much, much worse.

"I am," Jackie said. "So very excited. You have no idea how excited I am to be released from this vise-lock grip you have on me."

"That's a lie," Kol-Eresh said.

"Prove it," Jackie dared him.

She realized a second too late that it wasn't the smartest idea to challenge a Nayanor warlord. Before she could open her mouth and take her rash words back, Kol-Eresh kissed her deeply, letting go of her hands at last in the favor of running them all over her amazing body. Jackie's hands touched his chest. It was clear her intention had been to push him away, but when the moment came, she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Her mouth was warm and wet, her lips responding to his after a long moment of hesitation. The body beneath his moved, arching off the bed to meet him better. When Kol-Eresh gave his fated free reign to let her touch him where she pleased, she proved him right.

Jackie's flashing eyes flew open just for a second and he saw the desire there, mixed with a terrible ache to just slap him. The harbinger could see that clear as day.

It didn't stop her from running her hands all over his chiseled body. Kol-Eresh pulled away from the kiss, propping himself up, still on top of her. Jackie's fingers were groping his biceps, a look of utter disbelief on her face.

"Gods," she breathed. "I didn't think anyone could be this ripped. What are they feeding you guys on Luminos? I've seen what steroids do to a body and this is not it."

Kol-Eresh regarded his fated with interest. Her flushed cheeks and heavy breathing were proof enough for him that she wasn't nearly as excited to be left alone as she would have liked him to believe.

He didn't press her on it, though. Slowly, teasingly, he ran his hands over Jackie's chest, pausing to grope her breasts. Her only response was a soft, muffled moan.

The harbinger laid down on top of her, ignoring the ache in his cock that urged him on to bury himself deep into her wet pussy. Pulling her bra out of the way, he sucked one of her nipples into his mouth, all the while touching her everywhere he could reach.

Jackie gasped when he teased her nipple with his tongue, pressing his face against her soft breasts, licking and kissing them before returning his attention to her nipples again. Kol-Eresh could feel her body writhe against his.

"Ah!" Jackie cried out when he pushed his hand into her panties, brushing his fingers against her clit.

The tension was back in her, but Kol-Eresh was unrelenting. The female was a mystery to him. There were locks that kept her away from him even when they were inches apart and he had to break them. Like taming a wild animal, he didn't stop what he was doing, looking up at her.

"Tell me no," he ordered her, "because I can't wait to have you scream for me. I want to feel your tight pussy, make you cum so hard you can't remember your name."

Jackie whimpered. She wasn't saying a word, but she was no longer pushing him away either. Her legs were trembling. Kol-Eresh pulled her up onto his lap with one quick move. His fated was left sitting on him as the harbinger knelt on the bed, keeping her in his firm embrace.

His face was pressed against her soft, large breasts. The harbinger licked at her left nipple, loving the way Jackie moaned at that. The hand that wasn't holding her upright in his arms pushed deeper into her panties. He slipped first one, then two fingers inside her.

Jackie's hands closed around his neck, holding on as he began to mercilessly finger her.

"Fuck," she gasped, "yes! Yes!"

Kol-Eresh could feel her pleasure. The tight pussy around his fingers was clamping down on his digits, trying to pull him deeper into herself. Her body was shuddering, her hips grinding down on his hand as she sought to push herself over the edge quickly.

"Not so fast," the harbinger growled, slowing down a little, but keeping up the delicious torture.

Jackie moaned, trying to ride him faster, but he held her firmly against him.

"You told me before that you wanted nothing to do with me," Kol-Eresh said, brushing against her spot of pleasure, bringing a quiet scream to Jackie's lips. "Do you want to explain why you lied to me, female?"

Jackie was panting, her green eyes searching his.

"I –" she began. "I didn't lie. I don't want... this is just so good, I can't –"

"So good you can't resist?" Kol-Eresh asked, scissoring his fingers inside her, making Jackie shiver and arch again.

"Yes, yes!"

"I want more than that," the harbinger said. "I can make a female cum screaming my name, but you are my fated. Tell me the truth. I want you to ache for me, not come to me because you ache."

The dark fire of lust burned in Jackie's eyes when she met his gaze, but there was more. Deeper, much deeper inside her, there was another flame that he could see.

"Answer," Kol-Eresh ordered. "What do you want? Is it me or is it just to cum?"

Jackie screamed when he thrust his fingers in and out of her at a pace that sent her squirming in his grip. The harbinger loved the way she rubbed herself against him in mindless pleasure, her nails digging into his wide, muscled shoulders.

"Answer. I'll let you cum no matter what you say, but I will know if you lie and I won't like it. Tell me what you need."

"You!" Jackie cried, her breath coming in quick, broken gasps. "You, you bastard! I want you!"

Kol-Eresh had exercised all of his self-control not to grin victoriously, wanting to give his fated that small mercy at least while she rutted against her captor. Instead, he kissed her breasts, sucking her hard nipples deep into his mouth and running his tongue in circles around them. He fingered her pussy with a brutal, purposeful ruthlessness, making her entire body shake and quiver.

Her orgasm was so close he could almost feel it. The heat between them providing slick heat for their writhing against each other as drops of sweat beaded on their skin.

"Moan for me," the harbinger growled, his gaze nailed to Jackie's gorgeous face.

The look of utter ecstasy on his fated's gorgeous features was incredible to behold. Her lips were parted, her green eyes narrowed as she did as she was told, letting him hear every sound that escaped those kissable pink lips.

"You already got my submission," Jackie whispered breathlessly, her voice shaking as she neared her climax. "Don't push your luck."

Kol-Eresh groaned, his cock straining painfully against his boxers, harder than he could ever remember being just from pleasuring his fated.

"There is no luck," he growled in response. "There is only me and you are mine. And I think it's you who shouldn't push it. Not when I can feel your tight pussy contracting around me, aching for me. You would do anything I asked for right now."

The desire burning in Jackie's eyes confirmed that he was right and showed how afraid she was of that truth all in one glance.

"If I told you to bend over my bed right now and spread your legs for my cock, you would," Kol-Eresh said, aware that his own voice was straining to stay steady as well.

Jackie moaned.

"You are too close now," the harbinger continued, "too close to tell me no and I know that. I feel that. If I wanted to fuck you right now, if I wanted to claim your body as mine at this moment, all you could do was beg me for more."

"You – are – horrible," Jackie whimpered. "That is not consent."

"I know," Kol-Eresh replied with a grin, pushing his desire to the backdrop in his mind. "Notice how I'm not doing that, but it doesn't make me wrong now, does it?"

Jackie arched her back, almost twisting herself out of his hands when his fingers hit the spot in her pussy again and again, bringing her to the edge of her pleasure so fast it left her reeling.

"Does it?"

"Yes, gods damn you, yes!" Jackie cried out. "I want you, I need you. Don't stop, don't stop, just let me cum..."

"Beg."

The look in Jackie's eyes nearly made him cum. The flashing greens held his gaze as his fated's mouth opened in a desperate, hopeless cry. Knowing perfectly well what he was doing, Kol-Eresh kept up the merciless rhythm he'd set, pushing her so close to coming as it was possible to be while still keeping his movements purposefully shallow.

"Please," Jackie breathed, "please!"

Uncharacteristically, Kol-Eresh showed her mercy. He fingered her tight, wet pussy until Jackie cummed screaming in his arms, her body thrashing wildly in his grip as the orgasm took her. Her voice was hoarse and broken by the time the shudders ended. When the harbinger lowered her to the sheets, Jackie was left lying there, not moving a muscle.

She looked absolutely divine like that, her hair messed up, her chest heaving and the dark fire still simmering in her eyes.

Kol-Eresh pushed his boxers down, kneeling above her, pulling his cock out. Jackie let out a startled gasp.

"Don't move," he ordered roughly, wrapping his fingers around his shaft and starting to work on himself.

The pace he set was fast and harsh, almost hurting, but he was far beyond caring. Every single second of being with Jackie had pushed him closer to that moment and it had become impossible to resist. He groaned, seeing the way his fated couldn't look away from him even as she backed away a little.

"I have never seen a female as fucking gorgeous as you are," the harbinger said, the bright rush of his orgasm approaching so fast it made him lose all rhythm, tugging on his rock-hard cock. "The little sounds you make when you think I don't hear them, the way your body feels against me, the look in your eyes when you cummed..."

Grunting, low and deep, Kol-Eresh let the orgasm wash over him. His hot seed spilled on Jackie's belly, the hottest thing he'd ever seen. It nearly made him cum again to see his seed sprayed on his fated's body. It could only be better if it was in her, but for now, this would do.

He'd expected a glare from Jackie, more of her righteous anger as he'd pushed her straight into his arms, but instead there was a soft, mischievous smile on her lips.

"This is one way to settle an argument, I suppose," she said.

Kol-Eresh laughed.

"If all our fights could end like this, I would be more than happy with that," he replied.

"I imagine," Jackie said, resting her head on the pillow.

The smile fell from her lips as she stared at the ceiling, but it returned, shy and a little sad.

"So no going home for me?" she asked. "Ever?"

"No," Kol-Eresh said, regretting that he had to hurt her like that, but it was better that she accepted the reality of her new life sooner rather than later.

Jackie nodded, a pensive look on her face.

"Alright," she said, almost emotionless before the soft smile returned. "Can I at least take a bath, then?"