Marauder Cygnus: A Scifi Alien Shifter Romance (Mating Wars Book 1) (9 page)

S
he gasps
as I penetrate her, and I reach up and press my finger into her clit. I press her less gently than before, and she cries out.

B
ut stimulating
her clit has made her drip thick white juices down across my cock, and her body sinks down lower atop me. I watch myself disappear into her wet hole, and I grip her delicate waist firmly.

S
he moves
her body up and down as she bounces atop me, and each time she sinks down onto me, I plunge deeper into her. When she rises back up, I see my penis soaked in her creamy fluids, which are hot and wet against my skin.

A
ura lowers
herself all the way down onto me, until the wonderful fullness of her perfect butt presses against my thighs. She’s sweating now, and with that her fragrance intensifies.

I
vibrate deep inside her
, and she rests on top of me, my cock fully embedded to the hilt inside her.

“
I
will protect you
, Aura,” I say. “Always.”

“
I
know
,” she says running her hand across my face, looking down at me. There’s moisture in her eyes, though I cannot understand why she would cry now.

“
I
’m
sorry I punched you in the ribs,” she says. She’s difficult to understand, as her voice is heavy and breathy. My cock is having a strong effect on her.

“
Y
ou were trying
to hurt me?” I ask. “I thought you just wanted to get my attention.”

“
I
was mad
!” she says, and she bucks her hips against me.

I
feel
her soaking wet and warm insides slide against my skin. My cock throbs and buzzes deep inside her. I flex my manhood, and it swells larger within her. She grips me tight with her hot pussy, and I watch as our combined juices flow down and pool on my groin.

T
he sight
and feel of everything sets off a fire inside me, and I grip her hips and thrust madly from beneath her. I watch as my teal cock pounds and drills into the soft white of her skin. I’m so big that when I pull out, I can see part of her inner wall stretch out and cover my throbbing shaft.

S
he bucks
her hips against me as I thrust, and the glorious feeling of power intensifies. I watch her breasts bounce and jiggle above me. I grab ahold of them as I thrust into her.

I
t feels
as if we are locked in battle, and though she is pinning me down—though her thighs are squeezing my waist and she is on top of me—I am the one in control.

I
rub
my fingers against her soaking and swollen clit to assert true dominance, and she squeals and moans in response. I have full control of her. She bounces harder and faster, but the frenzied movement and animalistic longing has been brought about by my cock inside of her. It’s all because I’ve protected her and made her mine. It’s because I’ve filled her with my seed and impregnated her. I’ve made her my lifemate, and her pleasure is my duty and my privilege.

S
he falls down
on me and slides back and forth wildly. I’m balls-deep inside of her, and vibrating with full intensity. Aura bucks her hips back and forth, grinding herself furiously against me.

H
er insides
constrict and pulse along my cock. She’s trying to milk me, but I’ll not come until she does.

A
nd then her breathing intensifies
, and she starts to wail and heave. She is coming now, and since I’ve already proven to her that I can dominate her from below, I jump up—and with my cock still deep inside her—throw her over onto her back.

H
er legs wrap
around me and squeeze, and still her pussy pulses and throbs, smothering me.

I
thrust
my hips as fast as I can, and my jackhammer of a cock slides hot and wet in and out of her. Cum is dripping down my balls and staining the bed, and as I fuck her faster, more creamy come spills out of her. I can feel my balls slapping into her thick cream with each powerful thrust.

“
C
ygnus
! Cygnus! I’m coming so fucking hard! Aghh—”

A
nd as she
squeezes me with renewed intensity, I give myself permission to join her as she goes over the edge.

T
he icy vein
blasts up my body from my balls, and then it burns hot inside me. My heart throbs, and my adrenal glands let loose.

I
grunt
, but am drowned out by Aura’s shrieking moans and gasping breaths.

M
y balls seize up
, and they release my seed into my thick and sticky fluid. I feel the thick teal cum begin to surge through my long and engorged shaft, and the cum blasts deep into her womb.

W
ith the release
, I feel a burning longing for her. I swear to myself that I will protect her above all else, that I will never allow harm to come to her. I will die protecting her.

T
hick streams
of cum pump into her, over and over. I’m sure she’s already pregnant, but it feels too good to stop coming.

I
continue thrusting
, though she’s now filled with a thick and creamy pool of teal cum, and each time I penetrate her, cum blasts out of her wet hole, and it drips thick all over the bed and trails down her legs.

I
thrust and thrust
, and I come and come, until finally she hits my back forcefully with her fist. “Cygnus, I can’t...take any more…it’s too much!”

I
will
the flow of cum to stop, and my cock’s vibrations begin to die down as my hard shaft softens.

I
pull out of her
, teal cum and clumps of her white juices coating me. I stare down in astonishment. It’s a holy sight.

S
he’s breathing heavy
, and I fall down to lay beside her.

“
Y
ou turned
the bed into a pool of cum...my God, Cygnus.”

“
Y
es
,” I say. “There’s truly a religious glow to what we just did.”

S
he laughs
and wraps her arms around me, nuzzling her cheek up against me.

H
er warmth joins
the inner well-being that engulfs me. I will keep this woman—my lifemate—safe against anything and everything. We will have many more nights like this, and our offspring will embody the Seraphim. I realize how lucky I am: born a warrior able to protect and provide for my mate, but the first of my kind with a reason to settle down and raise a family. My children will be the first of our kind who do not need to prepare to invade a new star system. They will bring in a new age.

C
ygnus is beholding
me as if I was some kind of miracle. His lips are parted, and his ears are pulled back. His green eyes gently probe me up and down. His fingers run across my body, and the lightest touch sends warm shockwaves through me as I bask together with him in the afterglow.

I’m about to ask him what he’s thinking, when there’s a loud knock at the door.

“Who is it?” I shout.

“There’s not much time,” a man’s voice replies. “Let me in.”

Cygnus rolls off the bed and grabs a pistol from the cargo container. He cocks the gun and raises it to the door.

“Cygnus,” the voice says. “Aegus sent me.”

I see his eyes widen, but still I worry it could be a trap.

“He knows my brother’s name,” Cygnus says. “They may have captured him.”

I grab my clothes and dress quickly, then grab another pistol. I hastily throw the blanket over all the teal cum.

The person at the door knocks again, then says, “I’m unarmed, but Scorpio has put a bounty on you. The woman you’re with...her picture is posted all over the city.”

That statement sets Cygnus in motion. He opens the door, and before I can even see who it is, Cygnus grabs him by his scarf and drags him inside.

He slams the door closed behind him, then throws the man up against the wall. Cygnus pushes his face up against the man and growls. “Who. Are. You?”

“My name is Jin!” he shouts out all in one rushed syllable. “Jin! I follow your brother! The Prophet!”

Cygnus pulls him back and then slams him hard into the wall. “My brother isn’t a prophet!”

“Okay,” Jin says. “He doesn’t like the word, no, but we call him that.... We obey him.”

“And what did he tell you to do?”

“He told me to get you out of the city before someone kills you….”

Jin looks over at me, tilts his head toward me, and adds, “And her.”

“This is my lifemate!’ Cygnus shouts. “I protect her!’

“Cygnus,” I say, putting a hand on his shoulder. “Let him go so he can talk. He knows where your brother is.”

Cygnus loosens his grip, but does not let go. “So he claims. If they found my brother’s pod and captured him, they could use the exact same story.”

“There’s nothing I can say to convince you,” Jin says. “Any code word could be interrogated or brought out through deep scan.”

“So why should I trust you?” Cygnus asks.

“Because….” Jin says, “If we captured your brother and broke him, then I wouldn’t know him as I do. He’s strong...and his convictions are fierce. But he never gets angry at a friend, and when everyone else has lost hope...he still can laugh.”

Cygnus lets go of Jin. His nostrils flare, and his ears twitch. He begins to pace the room.

“Tell me about the bounty,” I say.

Jin faces me. He has dark black hair and expressive, deep brown eyes. “This pirate you two ran across. He tried to get Mars-Venus to make a good deal to bring you in alive. They didn’t believe him, thought he was pulling their chain.”

“So if they don’t believe him,” I say, “then why would he waste so many resources to pursue us?”

“Earth believes him,” Jin says. “They want this war with the Marauders to happen. They want to kill the two of you, to silence the truth.”

“What about my brother?” Cygnus asks, clutching the pistol to his side. “Why is nobody after him?”

“He keeps hidden,” Jin says. “A few of us found him a couple of years ago. He told us everything, and we realized what would happen if anyone knew. He’s been slowly recruiting surface dwellers...people know of him here, but only as ‘the Prophet.’ Few people know he’s an alien.”

“Shit,” I say. “I’ve heard people talking about him when I came here on scrapping runs. I thought it was just some religious mumbo jumbo.... I had no idea it was Cygnus’s brother all along!”

“That’s how we want to keep it,” Jin says. “But Cygnus here is throwing a big fat teal wrench into things.”

He winks at me, and I blush.

“My brother is recruiting warriors?” Cygnus asks.

“Yes,” Jin says. “We have a few years left to grow. We need to convince enough people of the truth...that we can peacefully exist and breed the Seraphim.”

Cygnus grabs Jin and presses him into the wall once again. “How do you know about the Seraphim?”

“Aegus’s found a mate,” Jin says, grinning. “The first Seraphim, your niece, has already been born.”

Cygnus lets go of Jin and puts his hand over his mouth.

“I guess we won’t be the first,” I say. “No shame in being second.”

Cygnus grabs hold of me and hugs me tight. “You see! It’s true! We can save my brother and your sister, we can stop the war! There’s still time!”

“All right,” Jin says. “Sorry to break this up, but if I found you, the pirates and bounty hunters can, too. We need to get out of Rust Bucket as fast as possible.

Jin points to the black bulge on Cygnus’ shoulder. “Is your bio-suit fed?”

Cygnus bites his lip. “It was fully drained, almost dead. It’s not quite ready...but we have this.”

Cygnus pulls open the cargo container and reveals the weapons.

Jin whistles. “Good. Take all you can carry in your coats, but we need to ditch the box.”

“We have a buggy,” Aura says.

“That’s how I tracked you in the first place. It’s hot, and we can’t use it. I’ve got my own buggy hidden on the lip outside, but we need to get through the gate to reach it.”

Cygnus grins. “I know the guards.”

I
cram
as much food down my throat as I can, and I pack the rest into my jacket and pants pockets. We shove as many weapons and water canteens as possible into Aura’s backpack, and I shoulder the weight. It would be too heavy for Aura or Jin to carry, but it’s a mere inconvenience for me.

We sneak out a back entrance. We all move fully hooded and masked, which I realize as I see the bare faces of most of the people in the city, looks quite suspicious.

Jin tells us the bounty has only now hit the networks. It’s one of the biggest bounties in recent memory, so word of mouth will travel fast. Bounty hunters will pay simply for information, and so everyone, from street vendor to street urchin, is dangerous.

Everyone is looking for a tall man with a small woman, but since Jin has joined us, we’re moderately less conspicuous as a group of three.

I keep my hand on my gun as I move through the city. I make sure Aura stays within arms’ reach of me. They don’t want her alive. They want to kill her. If I hear even a hint of danger, I need to be ready to take a bullet for her.

Without the buggy, it takes a long time to pass through the city.

We avoid the main road as long as we can, but when we’re a few blocks away from the tunnel which leads to the gate, Jin leads us through a crowded alley packed with food stalls.

There’s fresh food cooking in stalls located up and down the street, and I’ve eaten nothing but dried and cured meat for days. I feel my mouth water as the smell of dozens of exotic and alien dishes hits my nose at once.

“Perhaps we can buy some fresh food,” I whisper to Aura.

She looks up at me and shakes her head. I can’t see through the tinted faceplate, but I’m certain she’s rolling her eyes at me.

The alley becomes so crowded that Jin has to shove his way through. I move in front of him and shove harder, as my size and strength allow me to clear a path more effectively.

“Cygnus,” Jin says. “Stay back, you’re drawing too much attention.”

I shove a man hard before Jin finishes speaking, and I see him whispering and pointing at us as we continue on.

“Ah,” I say. “I owe you shame.”

“Forget it,” Jin says. “Just move faster, this is bad.”

We make it to the main road, and a man on a buggy does a double take. I prepare to draw my gun.

The man jumps off the buggy and pops open the cargo hold. Jin joins him—he seems to know him—and together they remove some rusty engine parts, tossing them on the side of the street.

“Aura,” Jin says. “Get in.”

“No,” I say, putting myself between them. “I protect her.”

“She’ll be safer inside,” Jin says. “At least until we clear the gate….”

I consider it briefly. “You know this man?” I ask Jin.

“This is Trang, he follows the prophet,” Jin says. “I told him we’d need help getting through the gate….”

I grab Aura and lift her into the cargo hold, and then slam it shut. Her voice is calling out in protest, but when the door shuts, her voice is silenced.

Jin and I hop onto the buggy with Trang driving.

I’m worried Aura will be foolish and try to break out of the cargo hold, but she remains hidden.

“We’d have shoved you in there,” Trang says to me, accelerating toward the tunnel, “but you wouldn’t fit. Can you like...slouch down? Try to look smaller?”

I’ve never
slouched down
once in my life, and I tilt my head at him to show my confusion.

He lets his shoulders sag and drops his head. He looks suddenly like an old, weak man. It will be shameful for me to take on such a pose, but to protect Aura, I must.

I imitate Trang, and he shakes his head.

“You still look huge, but it’s better than nothing, I guess.”

We’re now three men rather than a man and a woman. I hope this will serve as sufficient deception.

I feel some shame debt toward Aura. I shoved her into the cargo hold without explaining myself. It’s something I’d have done to her before she was my lifemate. I will explain myself to her later, after she is safe.

We enter the tunnel, and the guards approach us, raising their guns.

“Hold up, hold up,” they say. “I need to know what you were doing in the city. I don’t remember seeing you guys come in together.”

Jin speaks before I am able.

“Remember me? I came in to hire a bodyguard.”

It’s Yannick. He gets closer. “Didn’t you say you were getting your sister, too? Where is she?”

“She eloped,” Jin says. “I was too late.” He frowns in an attempt to look sad.

“Tough luck,” Yannick says.

He steps up closer to me, and I try to slouch down even more. I avoid his gaze.

Tobias taps Yannick on the shoulder, who holds a screen out to him. They both look at it together, then glance up at me.

“Hey!” Yannick says. “Jerky man!”

I try to slouch more, but I grip tight to my gun, as I know the likelihood of getting through without the gun is decreasing by the second.

“Take off your mask, big guy,” Yannick says, staring at me more closely.

I rise to my full height and leap off the buggy. My feet crash to the ground just in front of Yannick. Tobias takes a step back.

I press my faceplate up against Yannick’s, and I speak in a low growl. “If you call it in now, I’ll shoot you dead right through my coat. Understand?”

Yannick nods, but Tobias reaches into his jacket.

“Tell him,” I say, tapping my faceplate against Yannick’s.

“Tobias,” Yannick says. “Wait, he’ll kill us.”

Tobias stops moving, but his hand remains in his coat.

“You’re not just walking away,” Yannick says. “The bounty is too juicy.”

“Give me twenty minutes,” I say. “Then call it in. You’ll still get paid the same.”

“Five minutes,” Yannick says.

“Twenty!” I shout back. “And a pack of jerky.”

“Take the deal!” Tobias shouts to Yannick. “Just let him through!”

I tap my faceplate against Yannick’s, harder this time. “If you call it in even a minute earlier than agreed upon, I will find out. I will come back here, and I
will
kill you. I will make it slow, and you will die a painful death as you watch me pull out each of your entrails—one by one—through your soft stomach. If you doubt I am capable of this, ask yourself why the bounty is so high. Am I clear?”

“Yes, fucking go!” Yannick says.

I jump back on the buggy, and Tobias pulls open the gate.

As soon as we clear the gate, Trang swerves off the main road and starts racing along the lip of the crater.

“That was fucking crazy!” Trang says. “Holy shit! Now I know why they call you guys Marauders!”

I pop open the cargo hold and retrieve my lifemate.

She seems angry, however, and punches me with both hands.

I laugh. “Aura, the guards knew I drove a hard bargain, and they respected and feared me. I was right. It’s just as I told you.”

“Okay,” Aura says. “But you still owe me great shame debt for stuffing me into the trunk like a sack of potatoes!”

“We will relieve this tension, lifemate,” I say. “When we again find a private moment.”

She makes a frustrated grunting sound, and hits me one last time. I smile.