Adin's Adventure: How to Ruin a Rescue (6 page)

Tell the truth. Why did you really co
me here?

She was breathing too hard to answer out loud.
Why do guys always want to talk after?

You would not risk your job for this.

She snorted. Of course he would be the persistent type.
Are you kidding? This was pretty damned spectacular. There are other jobs in the galaxy but I’ve never met anyone who could…
She sent him an image of what she wanted to try next and grinned when he sucked in a sharp breath.

That’s…inventive.
He raised his head and met her gaze. His eyes still swirled but with slower, deeper color.
And distracting. What are you trying to hide?
He tensed as if something had just occurred to him.
Is my brother here? My brother Ocen went missing…

She nodded an
d held up a hand to interrupt him.
Ocen was here but they released him. He’ll remember nothing. That’s how they get around that whole kidnapping thing. They wipe their memories.

He’s gone? But…
Abruptly he rolled off her and sat up, pressing a hand to his head.
If he doesn’t remember…I am missing now! He will look for me, be trapped again—
He whirled on his knees, grabbing her shoulders and giving her a little shake.
You have to let me go!

“Adin, it’s not me,” she whispered, clasping his face in her palms then traci
ng his features with her fingertips. “I don’t make those decisions.”

He pressed his forehead to hers and she could feel the wild spinning of his thoughts.
Then free me. Help me escape.

“I—I don’t—”

He kissed her, desperately, deeply.
Help me.

Wrapping her arms around his neck, she kissed him back and answered,
I don’t know how. But they let Ocen go. They’ll release you, too.

He pulled away from her, pushing to his feet and pacing the room with a desperation she could feel all the way to her bones. For some reason, her eyes stung. She rubbed at them impatiently.

Why did they let my brother go? What did he do to make them release him?

“He mated true,” she sighed then watched him gawk at her with a little smirk of wry humor.

He…he what? You had an Ophidian female—

“Uh, actually…
” she interrupted, rubbing the bridge of her nose to hide an anticipatory grin. “He mated with a human.”

He went completely still. She wasn’t even sure he was still breathing.
That’s not possible.

“Beg to differ, my
gorgeous love. He flat out refused to touch anyone else or be separated from her. From what I hear, even with their memories wiped they found each other again in about three seconds flat. Can’t get truer than that.”

Her humor faded to puzzlement when he continued to stare at her
. Then she felt a twinge of unease—something in his look went deeper than surprise at his brother’s choice.
I didn’t realize we could find our true mates outside our own species,
he said softly. Still looking at her. Unease morphed into alarm and she bounced to her feet.

“Well, that’s what the program
is for, I guess, interspecies relations,” she babbled, looking everywhere but at him. He was young. Probably just crushing for the first time. Puppy love and all that. But she had to dissuade him before he started thinking about following in his brother’s footsteps.

“
But they don’t have a lot of my own species in here, probably because they already know we’ll screw anybody. Not super picky, as long as it feels good, you know? True mating or monogamy or whatever doesn’t work for us,” she lied, doing her own pacing along the edges of his room.

Screw anybody?

She frowned at the ominous growl in his mental tone but didn’t look at him. “Uh-huh. My boss says I’m always in heat. Matter of fact, I was trying to get him to do me earlier, but he’s just an AI with no—”

Adin crashed into her, trapping her against the wall, hard body vibrating with violence.
At first she responded in kind, claws extending and reaching for his throat with a warning hiss. But when his mouth came down on hers and his hips ground enormous erections against her, furious surprise morphed into hot lust in an instant.
Mine,
he growled in her mind, hands hard on her hips, claws pressing goading points of pain in her skin.

Pulling herself up his long body, she wrapped arms and legs around him and
kissed him back with wild abandon. She didn’t worry about what kind of signal that sent in response to his sudden act of possessive dominance. She was going to leave this room and probably never see him again except on a holo display. If this was her only chance to have him, she’d make the most of it.

The angry ten
sion eased out of him, hands exploring her with a low hum of delight.
Neeri,
he groaned in her mind.
You are so soft, so supple.

She shivered under his touch, lifting
her head with a gasp when his thumbs found her nipples. “Adin,” she purred. “I want to try something new.” His hands went still and he tipped his head curiously, eyes full of bright color. “The bed,” she drawled, lifting an eyebrow.

With a hissing laugh, he cupped her ass and swung her around, activating the bed and l
owering her gently on it. He reclined next to her, hands stroking over her skin. For some reason, he was now touching her as if she was fragile, watching his hands on her with an almost reverent expression.

With an impatient growl, she flipped him to his back and straddled his torso
. Then she took a moment to do her own exploring and admiring. She stroked his chest, enjoying the cool resilience of his fine scales and the flexing muscles underneath.

“You remind me of a sapphire,” she murmured. “Gorgeous
deep blue colors, hard and smooth.” She extended her claws, testing the endurance of his scaled skin and sending him a sly glance through her lashes when he shuddered. “Hidden fire inside. Are you all this beautiful?”

He didn’t say anything right away, just watched her, hands lying still on her thighs.
We are not the same species. How can you want me?

She met his gaze curiously and shrugged. “
I just do. Does it matter?”

He waved a hand at the front wall.
They think so. If they release me, they will take my memory. They will make me forget you.

She broke eye contact, staring down at her fingers spread across his jewel-like scales. She hadn’t thought that far ahead. She usually planned only far enough in advance to keep herself out of trouble and enjoy the present to its fullest.
Thinking of Adin living out there without even the memory of her twisted something in her chest.

She shook her head sharply. “I’ll try to help you.
But right now, even if I smuggled you out of this room, I don’t know how to get you out of the building, let alone off this rock and back home. I need time to figure something out.”

Thank you,
he said humbly.

She made a face and tossed her head.
“I like it better when you slam me into walls and growl. Now stop distracting me. I have a lot to do in a short time.” She focused again on the absorbing feel of him under her touch.

He made an amused sound in his throat
and flexed his fingers on her thighs.
Don’t forget my claws. You like those as well,
he murmured with dark humor, claw tips teasing her skin with pricks of sensation.

She shivered and squirmed a little, narrowing her eyes on him. “Spying in my head, Adin? Well, while you’re in there, take a look at these…”

She sent him images of what she’d dreamt of doing with him, leaning forward to trace the dark patterns on his scales with lips and tongue and teeth. He gasped and tensed under her, claws digging a little harder into her thighs.

She chuckled and moved lower out of his reach, still following patterns with her mouth.
They led down to her new favorite place in the universe and she whimpered a little as she stared at the three scrumptious organs twitching and straining toward her. Grasping one of the large cocks at its base, she held it still and watched in fascination as a bead of fluid oozed from the tip and began to roll down the bulbous head.

Neeri caught it quickly with her tongue then hummed low
delight in her throat at his sweet, spicy flavor.

Stars, Neeri, don’t…

She ignored his strained protest and jerking hips, greedy for the taste of him. Sitting on his thighs to hold him still, she laved her tongue over the head of his cock, eyes half-closed as she savored the sweetness and cool, slick texture of him. Lowering her mouth over the bulbous head, she sucked slow and luxuriously, like he was the very best of tasty treats, enjoying the thick throb on her tongue and the guttural sounds he was making.

Do your females do this for you?
she asked him, thinking they’d be crazy not to. He tasted divine, absolute ambrosia.

But his mind was incoherent with need and the fire rushing through him burned its way into her as well, hitting her hard. She cried out, throwing her head back and arching under the force of it
. He sent her the image she’d shown him of what she wanted to try next and she nearly sobbed with need, tumbling off him in her haste to bring that picture to life.

He lunged up, rising to his knees, eyes blazing with fierce color.
His name ran through her mind like a river, a plea and a prayer both, as she braced on one elbow and knee, lifting the other leg to hook it around his torso. Presenting aching pussy and ass to those thick and beautiful twin cocks.

Neeri, I can’t…
His mental voice was fractured, savage lust warring with sweet anxiety. She felt his worry that he would hurt her, that he’d lose control before he could fully please her. But she wouldn’t be denied. Baring her teeth in fierce demand, she tugged on him and pressed closer.

Feeling his heads first tease then press against her holes,
Neeri groaned with a need so huge and hot she thought she’d die of it. He hooked a hand under her waist to hold her quaking body steady and slowly pushed those cool, heavy heads into her. The thick stretch and burn slammed her right over the edge and she shrieked her release, the world blowing away in a blinding explosion.

Adin stayed ridged
, grinding his teeth and holding on to her quivering body as she rode out her orgasm. He didn’t feel it with her, keeping out of her mind in an act of self-preservation. Just feeling her tight tissues convulse and squeeze his cock heads was almost enough to kill him. He’d never manage to bury himself inside her if he stayed in her mind and she’d showed him that’s exactly what she wanted—both cocks slamming into her all the way, filling her,
claiming
her.

And he wanted that with every particle of his being. She was his, his mate. His
true
mate. He’d known it from his first taste of her. He’d heard her conscious rejection of it, but she responded to him with such perfection it shook him down to his soul. She was made for him and him for her, regardless of their origins.

Adin held her in his hands
, taking her weight with one hand and stroking her quaking thigh with the other, waiting for her. When she moaned and opened her eyes, he rolled his hips slowly, hissing at the delirious hot kiss of her tissues around his aching heads. She jerked and let out another soft cry, and Adin knew he wasn’t going to last much longer.

Hitching her thigh higher against his chest, he leaned forward and pressed, trying to go slow an
d careful. She bucked and shrieked again but not in pain—he felt her come again, pussy rippling around his tunneling shaft as her ass clamped down on his other cock so tightly stars sparkled in his vision.

He shook and growled and pressed into her, so close to his own monstrous orgasm he could taste it.
When he was fully sheathed inside her sweet body, he paused again, sucking wind like a runner and trying desperately not to explode. Then he very carefully eased back into her mind.

She was a maelstrom of sensation, a seething sea of pleasure, his name
running through her like lifeblood. This was what she’d wanted, what she’d
needed
, this deep, complete possession, filling her, stretching her, satisfying some essential part of her in a way she’d never found until him, until
Adin
…

His orgasm rolled over him like a cataclysm, unstoppable and obliterating. It seemed like every part of him climaxed, every particle of his body and mind. He wasn’t aware of thrusting savagely into her, only that the sensations continued, swelling and sma
shing through him over and over for a blissful eternity.

When it finally receded, he found himself sprawled across the bed and her,
body aching and utterly spent, mind sluggish with languid joy.
Neeri…

She murmured a wordless, contented response and stretched against him. He dragged open his lids and met her gaze, feeling her smile all the way down to his soul.
He eased her closer and tasted that smile, kissing her slow and deep, exhaustion pulling him toward peaceful sleep.