CHAPTER FOURTEEN
COMMANDER CERIK HADE
The next day, I was busy with my commander responsibilities and was glad for the distraction. I had to restrain myself from going to see Maria at every break that I had. But I knew that she was spending the day with Amelia, the wife of Ravinn, and that gave me some comfort. It was necessary for me to give her her space. It was what she needed; she needed time. But when I saw her with Hekan, the jealousy raged inside of me again. I was on the village ground walking by when I happened to look up and see Maria and Hekan walking into the healer hut once again. What the hell was going on?
“Commander, I need you to sign off on these,” a warrior interrupted me. I was about to shift into Dragon form and fly up to confront Maria and Hekan.
“Can it wait?”
“No, sorry, sir. The captain is requesting these right now. It is important for the new structure being implemented around the water tanks. It is of utmost importance,” he said.
“Very well, quickly,” I said. I quickly looked over the projections and approved the twenty guards that would be standing watch at all times at the water tanks.
“Thank you, Commander,” he said as I handed them back to him. I quickly moved away and shifted into Dragon form. I flew straight up the tree and onto the platform. I quietly walked in when I overheard the conversation and saw Maria in Hekan’s arms. I wanted to tear his face off.
“Cleared of what? What the hell is going on here?” I growled.
“Cerik?” Maria said as she pulled away from Hekan.
“What are you doing here? This is a private meeting,” she said.
“Then what is he doing here?”
“I think it is time that you told him, Maria,” Hekan said. “I will be leaving you now.” Hekan gave me an angry look and then stepped out.
“What is it? What have you been doing with Hekan? What is all this secrecy for? And why the hell are you here with Jrarka?”
She sighed and looked at the healer.
“I think it is alright for you to tell him now. But I have a lot of work to do; you must excuse me,” he said.
“Fine,” I said in anger. I scooped her up into my arms.
“What? Cerik, what are you doing?” she said. But I ignored her. I moved out onto the platform and took a running start. I jumped off the edge and spread my wings wide, flying into the trees.
“What do you think you are doing? Where are we going?”
“To my hut. It is where you rightfully belong anyway,” I said in a moment of my heated rage. Then she was quiet. She pressed her cheek against my chest. I could feel her body relax in my arms. I wanted to kiss her lips. I had missed those lips. Just feeling her luscious body in my arms was enough to make me forget that I was angry. I just wanted to lay her on my bed and push my fat cock inside of her. I wanted to claim her. She was mine, damn it.
Moments later, I flew into my home. I set her down on her feet. I looked into her beautiful big eyes.
“Now tell me what all this secrecy is about. I won't take more of your lies,” I said. “What did Jrarka mean you are cleared?”
“I thought I had the virus.”
“What?”
“Yes, I thought that when I was on the ship and Ephane experimented on me, I thought that's what he was doing. I didn't know about it until you mentioned the virus when we were on the moon. I have worried since then that perhaps they injected me with the virus when I was asleep. I thought that was what they were experimenting with. But I had no way of knowing for sure.”
I gasped. I could not believe it. She had been hiding this from me ever since the moon. No wonder she had shut down. She was worrying about it for very long. With no one to confide in. It hurt my heart to know that she was in such distress and all alone. “Why did you not tell me? We could have worked on it together. You did not have to do it alone? Why did you confide in Hekan and not me? Do you love him?”
“What? Hekan? No. It is not like that. I confided in him because I did not want you to know that I might have it. If you knew, then that would mean that you would not want me ever again.”
“What? What makes you say that?” I said as I put my hands on her delicate shoulders and forced her to look at me.
“You told me that the entire reason you took me from Earth was so that I could be your mate. So that I could provide you with offspring to keep your race going. If I had the virus, I would be barren and not able to do that for you. You would dump me in an instant and find another human female,” she said as she cried.
I pulled her into my arms and rubbed her back up and down. “No, I would never do that. We would get through it together. If you have the virus, it will make no difference. I would still want to be with you, Maria. There would be hope eventually with a vaccine, and even if it was never ever cured, I would just do without offspring. We would make it work no matter what.”
“You only say that now because I do not have it. Or at least Jrarka says it is too early to tell, but that he does not see any signs of it. I am still not completely sure yet.”
“It does not matter. It does not matter at all. I want you, Maria. I don't want anyone else. Seeing you with Hekan set off such a rage inside of me that I know now that it is because I love you. I am in love with you. I cannot see you with anyone else. My mind will not allow it. I have wanted you ever since I saw you. These last few days of you rejecting my advances has been torture. I need you.”
“I need you too Cerik,” she said.
“Then, let me in. Do not deny me any longer, Maria. I have apologized so many times about the mission and taking you along. I have so much guilt about it. But can we not move past it? I need to be with you. It is torture being apart.”
“Yes, I feel tortured to not being able to touch you,” she said laying her small hands flat on my chest. She looked up at me and said, “I do not hate you. Now that I have seen Amelia with her child, I see how important the mission was to everyone here. In fact, now that I am all right, I am glad that I was part of it. If I had been living here before the mission began, I would have volunteered for it. I would have volunteered to be the bait and the distraction that you needed in order for Ephane to believe you were on a mission to fetch a female from Earth. I see why it was such an important mission. The entire planet here relies on that one mission. I do not hate you for it. In fact, I think you are very brave and full of courage for being the one to do it, all by yourself. You are a Draqua hero, Commander Cerik Hade,” she said. Then she got up on her toes and reached for me.
I leaned down and pressed my lips against hers. I'm moaned in relief from feeling her again. But I was also extremely aroused that she had called me a hero. My ego loved hearing that from the woman that I desired and loved. I allowed my hands to move down her small back over the sheer fabric until they were scooping her plump bottom. She let out a soft whimper as I kissed her and fondled her. I pulled the sheer dress up higher and higher. She stepped away from me and put her hands over her head. I pulled the dress off of her.
“You have taken to dressing in the Draqua way very well. You look damn good in it; good enough to eat.”
“I am glad that you think so,” she playfully said. I threw the sheer dress on the ground and scooped her up into my arms. I walked her over to my bed and laid her down on the soft mattress. Then I stepped away from her for a few steps.
“What are you doing? Where are you going?” she said sitting up.
“I am going to shift out of dragon form,” I said.
“No, don't. I want you to stay that way, please,” she said looking very embarrassed that she was requesting such a thing. I liked it.
“If that is what you want, Maria, then you shall have the Dragon,” I said as I pulled off the belt that secured my loincloth. It dropped to the ground. I was already as hard as I could be. She gasped at the sight of me. I extended my wings out, stretching them, getting ready for this long round of pleasuring her, and myself. I pulled off my boots and walked to her.