He closed his eyes and kissed my neck one more time. “You are what I have been searching the stars for,” he said. Yes, that beast of an alien actually said that, and, in so many ways, it set me free. I was going to survive this. I was going to get off of this ship and find myself again.
Talis was already snoring like a freight train. I bit my lip and could still taste him, could still feel the sensation of his throbbing cock inside of me, splitting me open. The sex was pure ecstasy, and the comedown was hard. Everything about this felt like heaven.
But, of course, we were in the midst of hell. I had blocked everything out of my mind, carelessly opting to let him bite the apple in my garden. I let him in because I needed the support, and what I saw was more than just an intruder. He was someone who had gone through hardship and loss.
We understood each other, and that’s why I was staying with him.
9
Mia
The cold air from the vents blew loudly above my head. I slept for a few hours, but far too much was on my mind. Breathing in, I ignored my responsibilities and scooped my ass back against his cock, admiring how quick his member thickened and grew against me.
“Mm,” he moaned. “Good morning.”
I turned around and held between his shoulder blades, kissing him as soon as he revealed a grin. “Last night,” I said, trying not to laugh with excitement.
He laughed and smacked my ass, ending with a firm grip. “What about it?”
A part of me wanted to question the memory; did it even happen? His cock latched onto me. It dug and delivered the seed in such a quick fashion.
Now that some time had passed, I had to wonder what it even meant to him. Was I just another open and ready vessel, a cunt to endlessly breed to keep his bloodline intact? Did any of that even matter when every planet’s ultimate trajectory seemed to end in total obliteration?
You can’t fight nature. If you try, it will find a way back to its solitude, back to a time when man, woman, or child didn’t exist. Back to a place of silence.
It will eradicate us all.
We were the invaders. And this journey was just another form of colonizing. It was all we knew. Death, devastation for personal gain, the ultimate greed. It always leads to isolation. Darkness. Space. That was our path, and no amount of evolution could ever change that.
“Something is wrong,” he said. “Tell me. What have I done to harm you?”
“It’s nothing,” I lied and turned away, but I didn’t want to shut him out. I just wanted to understand how this all came to be. How did he find our ship, and who was he back on his planet? These were questions I needed to ask.
He tickled down my back, swaying his palm around the soft curves of my ass. “Delicious, why must you be so silent?”
“There’s just so much I don’t know. And sometimes, I feel like I have no grounding anymore. It feels like I’m floating. I feel out of control,” I admitted.
He nodded and felt my stomach, tracing a line down to my belly button from behind. “What do you want to know?” he asked.
“The knotting,” I said, biting my lip awkwardly. “What exactly happened?”
Talis nudged his cock against the center of my cheeks. He felt so warm, and every bit of me just wanted to ride back on him. “You know what happened,” he said.
“It gave you power,” I said. “It turned you into a beast.”
He nodded and looked down at the mild scar from his injury. “If we don’t breed and find a mate, we eventually die. It is a part of our existence. I knotted you because it was time. I realize that now. Destiny brought me to you,” he said.
“But I’m human.”
I didn’t know a thing anymore. Everything I was taught felt like an ongoing story that just abruptly ended.
“It is strange,” he said. “You are thousands of years away from us, but your body allowed you to take me.”
“You mean, you didn’t know I would survive?” My face turned hot, and I demanded answers.
“I smelled your pheromones. There was nothing I could do. It is my nature. For us, it’s uncontrollable,” he said, trying to get me to understand, but all I was hearing was some fucked-up excuses. “Little Fawn, I was injured and probably well on my way toward death’s door. I had nothing to live for. I was going to leave and fly until my ship ran out of gas. And on the off chance it didn’t, I was going to forget about my soul’s regeneration.”
I could see the rage flood through him. His veins bulged in the side of his neck, and his eyes flashed red, twitching every so often. For a second, I thought he might hammer his fist against something nearby, but he managed to settle his nerves.