Caia stirs against me, struggling in her sleep. I wrap my arms around her protectively and kiss the back of her neck.

“Calm down,” I say. “I have you.”

She turns and opens her eyes. “Where are we?”

“We’re safe.”

It feels strange to say that, on this gigantic enemy vessel, but it does feel like that. For the moment, we are safe.

And I want this moment to last as long as possible.

An eternity.

She snuggles up against me, nuzzling my broad, naked chest.

“Can we stay here?” She asks. “Forever.”

“If it was possible, I’d do it,” I reply, my hands sliding down her lower back and pressing her soft, naked body closely against mine.

A soft knock on the door makes my blood pressure shoot through the rough. In an instant I’m up and awake, my fists in the traditional battle position, my heart beating in my throat.

“Who is it?!” I growl.

“I’m sorry, am I interrupting something?”

Kariza’s sing-song voice reaches me, and I lower my fists. “It’s you. You startled me.”

She opens the door and peeks through. “Oh, sorry!” She says.

I glance down.

Right.

I’m naked.

Caia pulls the covers up, her face turning red, while I quickly slip on some of my clothes.

“What is it?” I ask.

Kariza enters the room and sits down on the edge of the bed. “I’ve completed my calculations,” she says. “I’ve got good news, and bad news. The good news is that I can get you into this ship’s command center.”

“And the bad news?”

“I couldn’t disable the alarm systems without setting it off, which kind of defeats the whole point. So that means you have to get in... through the ventilation shafts.”

I look up at the ceiling.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I growl.

She shakes her head.

“Unfortunately, I never kid. It’s not part of my programming.”

Caia chortles. “Now that’s a joke. Okay, so we’ve got ourselves a goal. Do you think we can pull it off?”

I shake my head. “There’s no way I’ll fit into those vents...”

“What about Luan?”

A light bulb goes off. “That’s just crazy enough to work. However, I don’t control Luan directly, he has a mind of his own, and a tendency to wonder.”

“Then I’ll lead the way,” Caia says decisively.

“Are you sure?”

“One hundred percent.”

Our gazes lock, and I nod.

“Oh, look at you two,” Kariza says. “You two are so damn cute together!”

Caia rolls her eyes. “Did you have to ruin the moment like that?”

“Oh, don’t mind me,” Kariza says. “I’m a love bot, I’m programmed to find things cute!”

Kariza sends the plans for the ships interior to both our comms. “I’ll give you a moment to prepare — meet me upstairs in the situation room when you’re ready.”

“Situation room?”

“It has a better ring than broom-closet,” Kariza says as she closes the door behind her.

“This is it,” I say to my mate as much as to myself. “Our moment has come.”

“Not quite,” she says. “We still have to get ready.”

“What are you saying?”

She throws the covers away, exposing her exquisite naked form to me.

“As long as I don’t have clothes on, we’re not ready, and so we can’t go anywhere,” she says with a smirk. I watch her rise and saunter towards the bathroom. “Are you coming?”

I intend to.

I follow her and find her already showering, the hot water trickling down her curvy and perfect body.

“We don’t have time for this,” I say, fighting every instinct inside of me.

“Please, Leto,” she says. “We’ve come all this way. What is five more minutes? I just want to hold you, one more time.”

How can I say no to that?

I strip my clothes off and join my mate in the shower. She wraps her arms around me and rests her head on my chest. I hold her and gently stroke her hair.

The calm before the storm.

“Are you ready?” I ask after a minute has passed.

“Not quite,” she says as she moves her hand between my legs. My cock is already quite hard, and stiffens up considerably at her touch.

“What are you planning?” I say, barely suppressing a smirk.

She looks up at me with a coy smile on her lips. “You don’t seriously expect me to go on a suicide mission without first having tasted your cock, do you?”

That does the trick. My cock grows as hard as a fucking rock, resting against her stomach, and Caia laughs warmly.

“That’s what I thought,” she smiles as she sinks down to her knees in front of me.

She grabs my member with both hands, stroking it gently, as her eyes grow as big as saucers.

“You’re so freaking big, Leto,” she laughs. “I can never fit this in my mouth.”

I have won countless tournaments, I have ridden off into battle more times than I can count, but nothing has ever made me feel more alpha, more manly, more alive than the look of sheer adoration in Caia’s eyes.

She rests my throbbing, turquoise cock on her face, my unit covering half of it, as her lips kiss the base of my member.

“See, it’s humongous,” she says.

Her tongue drags up the length, all the way to the head, which she engulfs in her mouth — though only just barely. I love the contrast of my Zoran cock and her human skin, I love how her tongue swirls around and makes me weak at the knees… I love every damn thing about this.

“Use my mouth,” she whispers to me with a wicked grin. “I want to be completely yours one more time.”

I grab a fistful of her hair and thrust forward — careful not to choke her on my cock, but enough to make her struggle a little — as I use her for my pleasure. Her fingers dip between her legs, and I love seeing her struggle to frown and moan at the same time as my cock fills her mouth and throat.

Already my cock is growing bigger and bigger, the sight of her so subservient between my legs driving me absolutely wild.

I pull back and she gasps for air, saliva dangling down her chin. It’s the hottest damn sight I’ve ever seen, and it makes me growl with lust. I grab her hair and force her head back down, right onto my massive, cum-filled, Zoran balls. Her tongue goes to work, covering them with saliva as I stroke myself with the other hand, the overwhelming sensations driving me to the brink of madness.

I pull back once more, my knees quivering, my cock trembling, and Caia knows what’s up. She wraps her lips around the head of my cock and strokes me with two hands, her hands becoming a blur, her eyes begging for my cum.

I can’t say no to that.

My cock fires off load after load of my seed, and she tries to swallow it all. Several spurts drip out of her mouth and onto her chest. Her own fingers bring her to an orgasm at the exact same time as mine fills her mouth, and she moans my name, the pure pleasure making her body tremble.

I lean against the wall for support, my balls drained and my knees weak, and the sultry, wicked smile Caia gives me, her lips still dripping with my seed, is one I will never forget.

“Now I’m ready,” she says, licking her lips.

“You are wild,” I laugh.

“Only for you,” she says as I help her up to her feet.

I lean down and kiss her deeply, lifting her right off her feet and not caring about anything else in the moment. She is my mate, and I love her with my entire body and soul.

“Let’s go save the world,” she says, her hands resting around my neck.

“Let’s.”