Damaged (Planet Alpha) (8 page)

Reiyn sucked in a breath, and Kyuk felt his blood-kin’s cock press into his hip.

“You are not resting,” Kyuk said, stating the obvious. Arousal scrambled his wits. He opened his mouth instinctively, scenting his mates with his tongue. He hadn’t done that earlier, likely because the cryo-sleep had still been wearing off.

“I couldn’t sleep,” she said, stopping just shy of them. The uncertainty on her face as she looked at them cut him to the quick.

“Come closer,” he said, reaching a hand out to her. “Surely you must know we would not harm you. We have been trapped in this ship for hours upon hours—time enough for you to learn who we are.”

She hesitated, looking at Reiyn.

Kyuk’s blood-kin spoke. “You are part of us, now, undeniably.” He touched his neck, a suggestion of where they’d bitten her. “Come here.”

Hesitantly, she walked forward, the last step brushing her breasts against his arm.

Kyuk’s control finally snapped. He grabbed her and yanked her up against his body. “Say yes,” he hissed, bending to kiss her.

She trembled in his arms. “You frighten me.”

He froze, lips against her mouth. “I will never hurt you.”

She sucked in a breath and glanced at Reiyn.

His earrings glinted in the low light as he nodded solemnly. “He does not lie. There can be only truth among us.”

She ran a hand up Kyuk’s arm, then cupped his jaw. “Yes,” she whispered against his cheek.

Chapter Eight

The moment she said
yes,
Kyuk kissed her like a man starving.
No, not a man,
she thought brokenly.
A Xyran. And I’ve waited long enough to let him touch me. I don’t want to wait anymore.

“I want to taste you,” he growled, nipping down her jaw. “I want to see all of you.”

She shuddered, arousal flaring through her so fast she felt dizzy. “Yes. A thousand times, yes,” she murmured, drunk with recklessness. She didn’t normally talk like that, but these males overwhelmed her. Their energy swirled through her like warm taffy, strong and reassuring. When Kyuk kissed her again, his fangs nipped her lip. Blood welled up. The warmth of his energy flared into a blazing heat, and she cried out, knees going weak.

Reiyn swept her up into his arms. “The bridge is no place for sex.”

“Is that what we’re going to do? Have sex?” she asked, a little put out. What she was feeling was so much more than lust it wasn’t even funny.

“No,” Kyuk said, trailing a hand through her hair. “Not just sex.” He started taking off his clothes and dropping them as they walked: leather shirt, boots, pants. By the time they reached the sleeping quarters, he was nude.

Cori stared at Kyuk as Reiyn lowered her to the mattress. Kyuk’s body looked like something out of a vid. His muscles flexed as he went to his knees, and her mouth went dry. Reiyn stepped back and began undressing, completely unselfconscious in front of her. Both of them were a lot bigger than she was, and much stronger.

They could break me in half, if they wanted to,
she thought, fear sparking through her, but then Kyuk touched her ankle and the energy of the bond seeped further into her bones. His cock bobbed as he maneuvered next to her. Suddenly, more than anything, she wanted to touch him. She reached out a hand and wrapped her fingers around his thick length.

Kyuk moaned. “Cori, blood-kin—” He broke off when she began to explore. He rested his forehead on her shoulder, then gently drew her arm away. “Wait.”

She wrinkled her nose at him, but then Reiyn was back, as naked as Kyuk. She reached out and trailed her fingertips over the diamonds embedded into their skin. “I know this must have been painful.”

“Yes, but you like them anyway, do you
not?” Reiyn asked, smiling.

Cori flushed. “Yeah. They’re sexy.”

He laughed, and she stared. She’d never seen a Xyran laugh with joy before. Always, during her captivity, they’d barked orders. Sometimes they laughed, but usually with cruelty.

“I would go through the pain all over again to put that look on your face, Cori,” he said.

She shook her head. “I don’t want your pain. Never that.”

He cupped her face. “You can have whatever you want from me.”

“I want you to make love to me,” she whispered, not sure if he’d understand what she was asking.

She needn’t have worried. He kissed her, pressing her into the mattress. His weight felt good against her skin. When Kyuk moved in, nibbling down her throat, she writhed. It was almost too much.
But only almost,
she thought, grabbing their hair. Thick, black strands slid through her fingers like silk.

Reiyn chuckled, pinning her arms down. “Stop that.”

She pouted, testing his strength. No way was she moving if he didn’t want her to. She liked that, too.

“Will you stay still, or must we tie you up?” Kyuk said, licking over her collarbone.

“No ties,” she said, not entirely steadily. She didn’t want to be restrained. It reminded her too much of her captivity.

“Then remain still. You will not regret it,” Kyuk murmured, sliding down lower.

Cori gasped as he took her nipple into his mouth, teasing at her jewelry with his forked tongue. The twin tips played with the silver piercings in a way no human male could. Never in a million years had she ever thought she’d be grateful to have a Xyran in her bed, but here she was. She twisted her hands into the bedding above her head and just let herself feel. As Kyuk moved from one breast to the other, the muscles in his back rippled.

“You like that. I can see it on your face,” Reiyn murmured, moving lower.

His back rippled with just as much muscle, but where Kyuk’s skin was smooth, Reiyn’s was silvered with scars. She nodded. “Yeah.” When Kyuk bit her, hard, she groaned, spine arching into a tight bow.

“You will like this more,” Reiyn said, sliding between her legs.

He didn’t tease. Before she knew what was happening, he was suckling at her clit. The silver balls on his tongue tormented her, but he didn’t relent, not even for a moment. Kyuk bit her again, drawing a little blood this time, and she realized that both males’ fangs had descended.
I thought that would scare me to death, but instead I just want them more,
she thought, struggling to keep her hands above her head.

“Do not move, Cori,” Reiyn murmured against her pussy, and then he moved lower. He swung her legs up over his shoulders while Kyuk shoved a roll of bedding under her hips. Then Reiyn began to tongue at her anus.

Cori gasped as he played, pleasure rolling through her until she saw stars. Kyuk had left off nipping her breasts and moved down to her pussy. When his mouth closed over her clit, an orgasm crashed over her out of nowhere. She screamed, but he didn’t stop. He licked at her until the pressure began to build again, and when she thought she might go mad, Reiyn slid a wet finger into her ass.

“Oh my God, what are you doing?” she gasped, hands sore from clenching them into the bedding.

“You will take us both inside,” he murmured, adding another.

She panted, and Kyuk flicked at her clit. “I don’t know if that’s possible.”

Kyuk slid a finger into her pussy. “It is.”

“Oh God,” she moaned, shivering. The twin sensations felt like fire on her nerves
, and she knew she was going to come again. She couldn’t keep her hands above her head anymore, but neither male seemed to notice.

“She is ready,” Reiyn said thickly. He scooted up and kissed the back of her neck. “Relax, Cori.”
He leaned over and rummaged through the backpack she’d stored near the head of the pallet.

“I don’t know if I can do this,” she said, her voice breaking.

“You can,” he murmured, turning back to her with her small tube of lotion in his hands. He put some on his fingers, then began to tease her ass, setting her nerves on fire. When he put his cock at her anus, she tensed. “Relax, sweet Cori.”

“I can’t,” she cried, not sure what she wanted anymore. Her body said yes, but the thought of two big Xyrans taking her that way…

Before she got herself too worked up, Kyuk bit down on her clit with his fangs. To her shock, the sharp sting rushed through her whole body, relaxing her, and suddenly, Reiyn slid inside. It hurt a little, but her nerves seemed to turn the pain into a searing pleasure that derailed all her fear. Reiyn slid a little further in, and then he growled and bit down on her shoulder. She shuddered, tipping her head back. Reiyn grabbed her hair and held her steady.

“She is ready,” he said harshly. His body vibrated behind her like a starship under stress, and Cori had a moment’s worry, but then he smoothed a hand down her flank. “Trust us,” he murmured.

Cori had to give him her faith. She’d come this far, and she knew that he held onto control with his last bit of will.

Kyuk lunged up, taking her face in his. His cock slid between her labia
, and she bucked as the crown slid past her bud, but he didn’t move. His black eyes glittered with some emotion Cori couldn’t name.

“This will only be the first time we join, my mate,” he murmured, face taut. “We will have many future moments together.”

She nodded, licking suddenly dry lips. She’d agree to anything right now, if he’d just move.

“Hold on to me,” he said.

She did, sliding her fingers over his shoulders. The muscles under his skin tantalized her palms. When he began to move, working his cock inside, she bit her lip, trying to breathe, but she was stuffed full of too much: too much male, too much emotion.

“Relax,” Reiyn said again, biting down over the marks he’d already put in her skin.

She tried, she really did, but they were so large. “I don’t think this is going to work.”

“It will,” Kyuk said, the smallest hint of strain in his voice.

She swallowed and twisted her fingers into his hair. “Promise me.”

“Anything,” he said, hips jerking.

Each little movement pushed him a tiny bit further inside where he bumped against Reiyn through the thin membrane of her body. The swelling pleasure was so thick she felt choked with it. “Promise me this is real,” she managed to say, just as he sheathed himself completely.

He dropped his head down onto her shoulder. “It is the most real I have ever felt in my life,” he muttered.

Cori couldn’t reply. She felt consumed by energy, by pleasure, by the two Xyran males dominating her between them. Reiyn’s hips moved in tiny circles, pressing his cock into her in counterpoint to Kyuk’s more violent thrusts. It didn’t matter. Heat spread through her as she climaxed. Both males pushed closer, and then they bit her on either side of her neck simultaneously.

Cori shuddered and orgasmed again, completely at their mercy. She cried out, too far gone for words, but they understood and pressed harder, marking her. When Kyuk groaned and jerked his hips forward one last time, Reiyn’s prick swelled
, too, and she felt him climax. Wet heat spread through her body. Kyuk followed Reiyn over the edge, mouth still on her neck, and then she crested one last time, soundlessly. Sparks flecked against her eyelids as she abruptly went limp, completely wrung out. She unclenched her fingers, patting Kyuk’s head as he slumped down over her. Reiyn held them both in his arms: forever strong and solid.

I am quite certain there is no going back from that,
she thought, drunk on endorphins and totally exhausted. Her thoughts slowed, and she slipped into sleep. Kyuk and Reiyn surrounded her with their warmth.

****

The blare of alarms woke her. She struggled out of the covers, falling onto the cold metal of the floor. Kyuk was already up, one of her blades in his hand. He hadn’t bothered with clothes.

“Xyrans?” she asked, forcing her eyes away from his considerable assets as she shoved her legs into her pants.

“Yes.” He waited until she was dressed, and then he handed her the knife. “Reiyn is already at the helm.”

The ship lurched
, and she tumbled into his arms. He held her up, but she pushed away. “I have to get to the bridge. He’s never flown this ship before. He doesn’t know all the—”

A sudden explosion threw them both into the ceiling. Air rushed past her in a huge wave. Cori frantically grabbed for the rails along the walls, but her fingers missed them by millimeters. Her knife tumbled past her, heading into the horrible dark of space. She saw Kyuk’s outstretched arm, and he lunged for her, swimming through the debris rushing out of the hull breach, but she was too far away. Everything happened so fast.

This is how I’m going to die?
she wondered, angry as hell, and then a hard claw clamped down on her arm, nearly ripping it from the socket. She tried to scream, but there was no air left, just the jagged side of her ship and the vast dark of space slowly spinning beyond her field of view. She turned her head and met the hostile black eyes of a Xyran raider. His hand descended to her face, breather mask at the ready. It was too late. Stars exploded across her vision. Everything went quiet.

****

“Cori!” Kyuk screamed with the last of the air in his lungs, but she was already gone, dragged into space by the raiders. If he was going to have any hope of saving her, first he had to survive the next few minutes. He rolled towards the hatch to see if he could open it, but before he could try, it swung wide and Reiyn hauled him in, away from the shorn hull of the ship. He wore an old, worn EV suit.

Kyuk fought instinctively as his lungs burned for lack of air, but his bondmate shoved a breather at him. Kyuk let him fit the plastic around his face. Cori was gone.
Reiyn must surely know it, too, or he would not look like that,
he thought, sucking in oxygen with harsh spasms.

“I have sealed the breach, but we cannot stay here. It will only hold for a short time,” Reiyn said, pressing his plastic helmet up against Kyuk’s ear.

Kyuk looked at the hole in the ship. A shimmering temporary force field stretched across the jagged tear. He nodded and let Reiyn tow him into the corridor. The door to the bridge was shut. He helped Reiyn close the hatch to the sleeping quarters. As soon as it sealed, air hissed into the small space. The door to the bridge slid open, and Kyuk let the breather fall to the floor. “We need to go after them.”

“We cannot. We are dead in the darkness.” Reiyn slammed his fist against the wall. “They took her.”

Kyuk pushed past him and headed to the bridge. Once there, he began to tap commands into the astrogator’s display.

“What are you doing?” Reiyn asked, anger still threading through his voice. He stripped off his gloves and pulled his helmet free of the seals.