Riss (11 page)

He tore through the room
, tossing emptied drawers to the floor, knocking over his dresser and desk, to find anything that had been theirs. Finally, when he’d dropped to the floor, he saw a small sticky that had been missed and held it to his nose. It still smelled of her. His Kala.

The
smiley face was smudged, but he could still make it out. She’d given it to him when he’d been off. He’d told everyone that he’d been sick, but he hadn’t. There had been a marathon of his favorite show, and he wanted to watch them all over before the new season premiered. Kala had told him he shouldn’t do things like that, but had given him the sticky already and hadn’t asked for it back. Dan thought that that’s when she finally fell in love with him…the moment she’d tried to help him to be a much better man.

Dan
lay down on his ruined bed, holding the note to his heart. He would have to find her now instead of waiting for her to come to him. The house was a mess, and he needed to watch his shows. They always calmed him. Dan decided as he closed his eyes that he was going to have to go to the police and find out what had happened to his wife and mother. Kala should have been home by now, and he had no idea where his mother had gotten herself off to. Dan needed to find his family, and soon.

Chapter
10

“I guess we’re married.” Riss nodded, but didn’t move from the chair he’d sat in when they came home. They’d been brought back to the safe-house apartment a few minutes ago, and now she seemed to be nervous with him there. “Does this happen often? Where someone―I guess a human―is transported to wherever we were from here?”

“
Not often, but it happens sometimes. I guess he thought that since you were no longer human it would be all right.” Riss wanted to go to her and hold her, but she seemed so fragile right now. “Would you like to talk about what Boss said?”

“
Not yet.” She moved through the room touching things or picking them up, only to set them back down with a small adjustment to it. When she finally sat down across from him, he could tell that she was going to say something, but he was pretty sure he didn’t want to hear it. So he decided to tell her something about himself.

“
I’ve been a protector since I was created. That was when things were a little less busy and there were not nearly the amount of people there are now. It’s been a long and sometimes scary thing to protect present-day humans compared to the ones when we first began. I’ve been to several wars on the front line, too, most of which I never understood, but I had a job to do. And not all of the things I’ve been sent to protect have been humans.” She nodded and leaned back, and he felt himself relax a bit. “I’ve watched over several other creatures. A few worms, too.”

Riss shivered
, and she laughed. “I take it that wasn’t one of your more favorite jobs? And how long does a worm live anyway?”

“
Six long and very boring years.” He smiled when she laughed again. “They are very productive in a sort of odd way. They poop a great deal and burrow. And when they do that, they help turn the earth for water and other nutrients to get into the soil. Even when they poop, they leave behind fertilizer and other things.”

Riss was quite proud of his knowledge of his charge.
He’d had a great deal of time to think while watching over them. When Kala stood up and walked behind him, he put his hands on hers when she touched his shoulders.

“
I’m afraid of messing up.” Before he could tell her that she was going to be fine, she kissed him. The position, with her standing behind him like this, was oddly erotic. Her hands moved down his chest to his waist as she leaned over him until her breasts were at his mouth. Riss felt his cock harden. He wanted her to touch him, but he knew that she was in charge at the moment. Her fingers sliding into the top of his pants caught his breath.

“
You are very good at making me aroused.” She kissed his throat, and Riss lost all train of thought. She was going to kill him in ways no one else had been able to. Kala brushed her fingers over the tip of his cock, and he rocked upward. “Kala, love, I need you.”

“
I’m going to take you in my mouth this way.” He moaned when she opened his pants, but her next words had him reaching for her. “You can eat me this way, too. We can pleasure each other at the same time. I know we need to talk, but right now I need this. More than just sex, I need to connect with you physically. All right?”

Moving his hands up her waist to her hips
, he found the drawstring on her pants, undid it, and pulled them down as far as he could. When his hands were filled with her hot flesh, he adjusted her so that her womanhood was near his mouth. Kala spread her thighs for him, and he pulled her over his mouth and suckled at her femininity.

Her moans only made him want more.
Every time she made a small noise, he tried something different. He wanted her pleasure as much as his own. And then suddenly he couldn’t breathe. She had not just taken him into her mouth, but was fisting him at the same time. Riss knew that if he didn’t release soon, it would be a small miracle. Going back to her, he bit down on her gently and was rewarded with a flood of her cream as she reached her peak.

Cupping her bottom
, he pulled her tighter to him. He wanted more, wanted to give her more. Her body was his now, forever and ever, and he was going to enjoy it as much as he could. As soon as he felt his own release coming over him, Riss slid his tongue deep within her and slid his fingers along her hard nubbin. When she came again, bowing up off him, Riss reached for his cock.

He was wet with her saliva so much so that he was able to slide his hand up and down quickly. His cum jettisoned from him
, and he cried out with each stream of it. Kala took him into her mouth again, and Riss saw stars as he released again, his body aching with it. They would never live long if they kept this up, but he thought it was a perfect way to end one’s life…cradled between the thighs of the woman he loved.

Her body was lax over his when they both settled.
Moving her around, he pulled her into his arms and held her, cocooned her into his arms. She had long since shed the rest of her clothes, and Riss found he wasn’t embarrassed, as he thought he would be, but was comforted in the thought of having her so close to him.

“
I’ve never done that before.” He started to tell her he hadn’t either when she continued. “Someday I’d like to tie you to my bed and go over every inch of you with my mouth.”

Riss felt his cock stir
, and his mind started racing. “I could tie you to a bed? You’d enjoy that?”

“
Oh yes.” She turned in his arms so that she was straddled over his lap now. His cock was thickening now, and he cupped her breast to bring the tip to his mouth. Her rocking forward motion brought him to his full length, and he wanted her again. Her voice was thick with something, and he thought it was her need again. “You can use scarves or ties. You have a lot of ties, don’t you?”

“
I do. I had been trained to dress well when we started out. What kind of bed would you need to do this?” His mind was going over each possibility of how to get this accomplished. To have her at his mercy sounded enjoyable for them both. “Would you have to have a special one?”

“
No, just an ordinary bed.” She shifted again and he rolled his hips upward. “You should know that if you keep this up, I’m going to ride you like a bull and come all over you again.”

“
I love it when you do that.” This was getting more and more intriguing, and he wanted to explore each adventure with her now and decided to tell her. “Do you have any idea how much I want to do all kinds of things with you? And to you?”

When Kala sat up on her knees and asked him to hold his cock
, he did so without hesitation. Her body lowering over his took him deep, and he had to hold her hips still when she was sitting on him again. But now he was deep within her, and he could touch her in ways he’d not been able to before.

“
Oh my, this is wonderful.” He took her breast into his mouth and suckled it, then did the same for the other. “Oh yes, I love this riding thing.”

When her hips began to rotate over his, Riss nearly passed out. Nothing had prepared him for this.
Her body was a fluid motion of water, moving to her own music that only she could hear. Putting his hands on her hips, he held her to him tightly when she rocked forward and helped her roll back to start over. Riss pulled her mouth to his and kissed her as his own release built again.

“
I will come in you this way. Deeper than I’ve ever been.” He moaned when she started moving faster. “Yes, that’s it. Ride me, Kala. Take your pleasure from me.”

Her movement became quick jabs, her breath hot puffs of air that seemed to scorch his face.
Every time she moved back and forward again, Riss watched her face. She wasn’t pretty, not even lovely, but simply beautiful. Cupping her ass to bring her femininity hard against his groin, Riss watched her as she came, her body becoming hard as it bowed back, her scream of release music to his ears. And when his own release took him, he was amazed at the strength of it, the way it seemed to come from his entire body to fill her. And when she dropped her head on his shoulder, Riss rolled her to her back on the couch and pounded into her again and again until he had a second, then a third release. Body spent, he fell atop her.

“
You have broken me.” Her giggle had him lifting his head to stare down at her. “I love you, Kala Marrow. So very much. I don’t know what I would have done had I not found you when I did.”

“
I love you, too. I know it seems really fast, at least it does to me, but it also feels perfect. Like we were meant to be together from the beginning of time.” He nodded, knowing just how she felt. “What’s your last name anyway?”

“
I have none.” He kissed her cheek and was making his way to her mouth when she pulled his head up. “We have no need for them where I come from. I suppose we could make one up…you could. I’m not sure what I would call myself.”

“
What do others of your kind do when they come here?” He wasn’t sure if he could tell her she knew of a few others like himself, but felt Michael touch his mind.

“
You will have to tell her sooner or later. The man will be a large part of both your lives.”
Michael laughed.
“If I were you, however, I would introduce him to her with a little more clothing on. Oh, and I have taken the liberty of sending your things as well as hers to your home. Everything there has been taken care of as you wished.”

Riss sat up, suddenly embarrassed
. “Please refrain from looking down on us when we are together as such.”
Michael laughed and promised he would get a bell for any future conversations.

Riss sat up
, pulling Kala with him. He tried to think how to tell her, but thought that Michael may be right. Getting dressed might make his desire to have her again lessen. When she stood up, he decided there was not enough clothing in the world to do that, and followed her to the bedroom. They really did need to talk.

“
Love? I would like to tell you what we are and what our child will be.” She nodded and sat down on the edge of the bed. “But first, I’d like to introduce you to a good friend of mine and her husband. You know him, but not her. Her name is Lilith, and she was a protector like me.”

Riss dressed as he did every
day as he spoke. Wishing himself dressed in the right things had become second nature to him, and he never thought to tell her she could do the same until she was dressed herself. It was long into the night before he finished, and he was reasonably sure she was overwhelmed to the point of shutting down. When she finally spoke, he smiled. She was going to be just fine.

“
I think we should see this house you bought first. Then I’d like to see how to use these wings. Okay?” Nodding, he pulled her into his arms. Yes, they were going to be just fine.

~~~

Dan was slowly running out of food. Well, not really slowly, he thought with a frown, just running out of things he knew how to cook. There were all sorts of things in the cabinets, but nothing he knew a thing about. Like, why were there four bags of flour? And three of sugar? Not to mention there were cans of things like peas and asparagus that he didn’t even like when his mother cooked them. This was completely unfair.

Picking up the phone again
, he slammed it down in the cradle. The phone wasn’t working again. Twice now he’d tried to use it and there was nothing there. Finally, he had to go and get his phone off the charger. It, too, was dead.

“
Why is this happening to me?” Sitting down at the table, he could feel the tears threaten. He had only needed a little electricity to charge his phone. Surely there was that much still in the lines. Dan knew that once they shut off the water, there was still water in the pipes. Why wasn’t there some in the electrical lines as well?

He had to find a way to get in touch with Kala.
Things were going from bad to worse, and his head was hurting again. Smacking himself several times to try to knock the pain free, he laid his head on the hard surface and closed his eyes to think.

“
She has to come home.” Kala was going to have so much to catch up on when she finally came to him. “The laundry is piling up. I need my room cleaned up, too. And I want to watch my shows. She’ll need to go to the store and pay the bills. It’s a good thing she has money saved. I think she’s going to need it when she finally gets here.”

Dan had tried to clean up his room a little when he
’d woken up that morning. But it was simply too much. There were broken pieces of his dresser all over the place, his pillows were torn to shreds, and even his clothes were all torn up and messy. His mother would have a fit if she could see this place. He raised his head when he heard someone knock on the front door.

Earlier someone had come to the door
, and he nearly opened it hoping to find Kala, but at the last second he looked out the small peep hole and saw the cop standing there. Dan knew that he’d wanted to talk to one of them before, but at that moment he couldn’t for the life of him remember what it had been about. So he’d stood frozen in fear of what the officer might want from him until he left. That had been over two hours ago. Dan moved to the door as quietly as he could to see if anyone stood there now.