Could I really trust her? Could I trust this agent from a human agency known as E.I.A.? She had left me in that dungeon to rot. Did she know all along that she was carrying my offspring? The look of shock on her face when we were all told the news made me think that she did not know. But perhaps she was acting; she was a trained agent after all, trained in deceit and disguise. Perhaps she had already knew and was keeping it from me on purpose. Perhaps that is why she did not come to me in the dungeon; she did not want to tell me. She did not want me to find out. She had been hoping to just be rid of me and go on to have the offspring on her own. I did not want to think of her in this way, but I had to. I had to protect myself. I had to protect the offspring.
So when I offered to take her from the council, I knew that I had to save my offspring, and that meant saving Karissa's life. I would take her in as my mate. Before it was all that I had ever wanted, after the first time that I was with her. I wanted more and more of her after that first time. But after she left me in the dungeon, I began to see her differently; now I wasn't so sure. But I did not have a choice. She was not my responsibility. She was now my property. She was now the mother of my offspring. But I did not have to love her.
So I thought it was a clever plan to set her up in comfort in her own portion of my large house. She would be well fed. She would be treated well and taken care of so that she could grow strong and the offspring inside of her could grow strong as well. But I did not need to interact with her. In fact, I took every opportunity to avoid her. I knew that if she started a conversation with me, I would not be able to get out of it. I knew that whatever she had to say would cause me to cave in. But would she mean it? She had been pleading with me, as though she loved me. But had she only decided to change in that way after her circumstances became so problematic and this was her only choice? I was her only choice? I would never know.
I did everything that I could to avoid her. I had a lot of catching up to do on my responsibilities and work. I was the leader of the tribe after all, and I have been gone for almost a month or more. So the large amount of work kept me very busy. I made sure that Karissa's area of the house was stocked with food and comforts. But knowing that she was nearby was frustrating for me. I was in an internal conflict. A part of me wanted to go to her and be with her. But the other part of me would remember how she abandoned me in the dungeons of the lunar base.
A part of me remembered that she possibly knew about this pregnancy and had kept it secret from me on purpose. A part of me remembered who I was really dealing with: a trained agent of the E.I.A. It was then that I would get angry and remember not to fall for her at all.
I would find myself walking to her door and then talking myself out of going in. I would periodically check on her and I would stand out in the hall when food and supplies were delivered to her, but that was because I did not trust any Corillion warriors to be alone with her and because only I could open the door. She was way too tempting; I should know. Only I had the key to open her rooms, so I had to be there waiting in the hall. But I think she eventually caught onto the fact that I was waiting out in the hall, that I was the only one that could open the door. Perhaps it was one of the Corillion warriors that told her I was the only one that could open the door and she figured out that I must be nearby whenever deliveries came to her. She must have known in order to make a plan like the one that she came up with, one that was shocking, but also very effective.
"Make sure to empty any refuse in there when you deliver these foods. I do not need my mate living in filth,” I ordered the two Corillion warriors that were standing outside of her room hallway with me.
"Yes, Captain,” they said as I passed my hand on the wall and the door opened. Before they could enter, Karissa stepped out into the hallway completely naked.
We all stood there frozen, staring at her gorgeous, naked body. Her long black hair was down, and a part of it covered her ample breasts. But I could see her rosy, hard nipple sticking through the strands. My body groaned and ached for her. My eyes moved down her body to her firm belly and long thighs and the treasure between them. Then my eyes moved up to her face where her full red lips were smirking, and her eyebrow was arched. I was completely hard in an instant. Then I remembered that there were two other warriors standing there staring at her.
"Leave us,” I said to them angrily. They reluctantly turned, getting their eyeful before they left. I angrily scooped her up in my arms.
"Karissa, have you lost your mind?” I said as I carried her inside. She put her arms around my neck and pushed her fingers into my hair.
"I had to get your attention somehow,” she said as her hands moved from my neck over my shoulder and over my chest as she began to rub me up-and-down. I shut the door behind me and then I carried her over to the bed. I placed her on it.
"What is the meaning of this?” I said to her, trying to stop myself from jumping on top of her. I moved away from her and grabbed a sheet and placed it on top of her. She only pulled it off of her and lay there naked.
"I miss you inside of me. Do you not miss being inside of me?” she said to me sensually. It was not what I wanted to hear. I wanted her to fight and argue with me. I wanted to get my blood raging in such anger that I would leave her, walk out of there. But that's not what she was doing. Instead, her hand moved up and down the inside of her thigh. It was torture to watch.
"I must get back to work. Do not pull a stunt like that again," I said to her.
She narrowed her eyes at me and then stood up on top of the bed. Now she was just as tall as me. She grabbed my face and pulled it to her and planted a kiss on my lips. That's it. That's all it took. I was gone with just this one kiss.
My hands instinctively went to the small of her back, and her naked, soft skin felt amazing underneath my large hands. She was so damn soft and smooth. I kissed her deeply and her mouth opened, letting my tongue in. I rubbed my hands up and down her back. There was so much that I wanted to say to her, and so much that I'm sure she wanted to yell at me. But all of that was gone in this one moment. I picked her up into my arms and kissed her, ravishing her. I couldn't wait any longer.