They were both quiet for several seconds.
“You weren’t sad?”
“No. I promise. I loved feeling you in my mouth.”
“My life is about giving you pleasure.”
She sighed. “Believe me. I do love it when you give me pleasure. It’s amazing.” She moved her hands onto his chest. “But I also love it when I give you pleasure. It means a lot to me. I’m not a selfish person, Dhiro. I don’t want you constantly serving me. I … men on my planet can be very selfish, but I do believe with the right man and the right relationship, it can be very rewarding for both people. There can be love and lots of sex, many different ways.” She ran her hands down his body, going toward his cock. “Did you like what I did?”
Dhiro released a little growl. The sound made her body ache, her pussy growing wet within seconds, wanting him inside her. “Very much. When I look at your lips, they make me instantly hard.”
She felt his response.
“I loved how you sucked me, and holding your head in place as I came was one of my favorite experiences. I want to do it again.”
“Good, because I want to give it to you again.”
“I cannot waste my seed,” he said.
Ella knew she should tell him what she suspected, but what if he did change toward her? What if he no longer wanted her? She didn’t want the fantasy to end.
She hated her insecurity, but the moment she started, there was no stopping it.
“Dhiro, it’s not wasted if it brings us closer together, right?” She sank to her knees. “What if I told you I could please you at the same time you could please me?”
“I’m listening.”
Chapter Seven
“They know about your female.”
Dhiro paced in the control center. “And how far have they moved?”
“There have been some sightings just on the outskirts of your village,” said his senior commander. “It’s unsafe.”
“Let me take a team to wipe them out.”
“Do you not think they’ll expect that?”
“I don’t care what they expect. We will wipe them off the face of Trenu Zel,” Dhiro said.
They should have dealt with those lawbreakers years ago. Now they were becoming dangerous and threatening their way of life—threatening his mate.
“It’s more than that.”
He didn’t like the tone in his commander’s voice. “Go on…”
“You were told this mission, this voyage across space of yours, was based on the Earthling getting pregnant. She was the last hope for our planet.”
“Yes, I am aware. What are you saying?”
No, Dhiro wasn’t happy they had not yet achieved a successful mating, but it was out of his hands.
“Things don’t appear to be going according to plan.”
“I didn’t realize we had a time limit. We are trying our best. For all we know, anyone landing on this planet will become infertile.”
“She has one more moon cycle, then my hands are tied. Permitting an alien on our planet has only been allowed due to our unique plight. According to the elders, she’s an experiment gone wrong.”
Dhiro shook his head, a rage he rarely felt growing inside him. He wouldn’t give up his mate.
“I’ve bonded with her. She’s not an experiment!”
“But she was. Until you changed the parameters. Maybe the Earthing is making you weak, like the human males she’s accustomed to.”
He had to hold back from striking his superior. Instead, he stormed out of the office, allowing the slamming door to punctuate his sentiment.
After driving off in a flurry of dust, he knew he couldn’t go straight home. Ella would sense his emotions. Instead, he drove in the direction of his brother’s house. He was only two years younger and had helped him prepare for his voyage to Earth. Dhiro needed a listening ear right now so he could vent his frustrations at the unfairness of his arrangement.
Bronn was working on one of his projects outside. When he noticed Dhiro approaching, he stood up and wiped his brow with a towel.
“Your place looks like a junkyard.”
His brother shrugged, tossing a tool into his case. “I’m not here to impress anyone.”
He began to pace. Where would he start? Dhiro would have been the first person to agree in returning Ella back to Earth if their plan failed. He’d never anticipated bonding with a human, but it happened, and there was no changing that fact.
“I already know,” Bronn said.
Dhiro stopped in his tracks. “What are you talking about?”
“It’s been spreading. Word of the human experiment failing. Morale is at an all-time low. There was so much hope, and now we have nothing.”
“They’ll send her back,” he said.
His brother frowned.
“What? If you know something, say it.”
“I doubt they’ll send her back.”
Dhiro exhaled a breath, feeling a sense of relief. “You think so?”
“Dhiro, that’s not what I mean. They’re not going to approve another trip to Earth just to return one human being. I’m still surprised they allowed you to go in the first place. The costs, the risks, it’s unprecedented. Now, they have no reason to go above and beyond.”