Voyages of the Solar Wind 1: A Fire in Heaven (12 page)

"You have five seconds." I said flatly.

He pulled a chit out of his pocket and tossed it to me. I hit the display button and there was five K on it.

"You're five thousand short, Mr. Davys. Here. We'll just report you and take our cut from the fines." I tossed it back and turned to walk back up the ramp.

"Captain, wait! It's very important that we negotiate here!" He was looking desperate as I turned back to look at him.

"Mr. Davys, I do not renegotiate with clients. If they reneg on me, I have a strict policy of reporting offenders. Half the agreed upon fee is still a reneg, so you may consider yourself reported. Not only will you lose the FTA's assistance, but NO independent Freighter Captain will ever haul for you or Mr. Nieman again." I kept my voice even and level. If the threat of getting him blacklisted didn't work, nothing would. That's the threat of drowning.

I continued. "However, if you tell me the reason why, I might be willing to overlook this." And there's the lifeline. If he didn't grab it, then I was going to get paid from his fines. If he didn't pay, the FTAA would hire a Bounty Hunter to make him pay.

"This crate was supposed to contain a very valuable material along with the artifacts." He sounded defeated, but still didn't give up the relevant intel.

"Hey, the deal was the artifacts for the cash. Are all the artifacts there?" I asked in a slightly more conciliatory tone.

"Y..yes." He stammered.

"Then what's missing?" I asked in an innocently uninterested tone. I noticed his bodygoons had lowered their weapons and had puzzled looks on their faces. Yeah, gotta love meathead muscle.

"It was spores." He said.

"Spores? What are you trying to pull, pal?" It was a calculated bluff.

"Roshol spores." He admitted finally.

"Roshol spores. Are you serious?" I laughed. "When I scanned it at Port Royal, there weren't any Roshol spores in it. Just the artifacts."

"I believe you, Captain. Very well, I'll pay your fee." He pulled a different credit chit out and tossed it to me. Ten K. Good deal.

"Good doing business with you, Mr. Davys. I'll recommend you to other FTA captains." I two finger saluted him and turned back with Rilar and entered the Solar Wind.

I raised the boarding ramp and secured the hatch. We made our way up to the cockpit and I pulled the blip out of my pocket. I hit replay and got him admitting everything. Sweet!

I got on the ship's com. "Solar Wind to any CFC vessel near Rigel VII. Come in, please."

"Solar Wind, this is the CSS Yamato. Captain Richter here. What seems to be the problem?" Captain Richter asked. I remembered the Yamato is a battlewagon.

"I can't discuss it on an open channel, Captain. I would prefer a rendezvous if possible." I didn't want to send this intel over unsecured channels.

"Copy that, Solar Wind. Sending coordinates now for rendezvous." They sent the coordinates.

"Good copy, Yamato. Coordinates received. Solar Wind, out." I cut the com and plotted a course as I fired up the engines.

We lifted off and grabbed sky quickly. I made two copies of the data for the FTAA and CFC. I really hate it when people try to take me for a ride.

It was an hour trip through slipstream to the Yamato's coordinates.

"We've got them, baby!" Rilar sat on my lap and kissed me lovingly.

I returned her kiss just as passionately. "Yes we did, sweetheart. We also got paid!" I grinned, and she did too. There is nothing bad about robbing bad guys blind, in case anyone is wondering about honor amongst thieves. I'm not a thief. I confiscate. I commandeer. I even borrow sometimes. I'm not a thief, though.

I kissed her tenderly, stroking her cheek. She purred into the kiss as she stroked mine in return.

"I've loved you for so long, Dex. I don't want to lose you so soon after you've found me." She whispered after we broke the kiss.

"I don't want to lose you either, kitten." I replied, kissing her again lovingly and passionately. She'd changed back into her usual flightsuit, and suddenly her eyes lit up with a naughty twinkle. She could feel my hard on under her shapely butt, and she had an idea.

She stood up and pulled her zipper down on the front of her suit, exposing her beautiful breasts. I love her B-cups. Then she winked as she extended one claw and spread her legs as she sliced open the crotch of her flightsuit.

I grinned as I watched. Wow, my kitten can be kinky sometimes!

She retracted her claw and reached down, unbuttoning my pants. She pulled my hard throbbing cock out and whispered "I need this. I hope you don't mind."

"Be my guest, sweetheart." I replied as I reached up and squeezed her breasts.

She purred as she slowly lowered herself onto me. I could smell the cherry scent of her arousal, and could feel the heat of her pussy engulf me an inch at a time. She moaned as she leaned forward. I licked and sucked her left nipple between my lips as she slowly rose and fell on my shaft.

I groaned in pleasure as she fucked me slowly. She moaned as she took all of me inside her tight hot wet pussy. I began to thrust up to meet her downthrusts. God, she's gorgeous! Her blue cat's eyes were completely dilated in love and lust as we made slow love with her riding me.

"Lords, kitten, you are so tight, and hot, and wet!" I said with feeling as I started to swell inside her.

"You're so big in my little pussy, my love!" She said as she tightened even more and got even wetter around me. Her pussy began to spasm, milking me with her tight muscles as I felt my balls tightening.

"I'm gonna come, kitten!" I exclaimed as I felt my seed rising.

"Yes, sek'natha! Give me your seed! Give me your cum! Please, MY LOVE!!!" She crashed around me as I exploded. My cum shot into her hot and hard, over and over. We convulsed in pure ecstasy together as she collapsed on my chest, holding each other tight.

"I love you, kitten." I whispered as our breathing returned to normal.

"I love you too, Dex." She whispered back lovingly.

"Sweetheart, I want to learn more about your culture, if that's ok?" I asked with a smile.

"I would love to teach you, honey." She replied with her radiant smile.

"First, you're very sexual for never having sex before me. Are all your people like that with their sek'natha?" I was interested. For a monogamous people, she was very adventurous.

She nodded. "We find our lovemates based on common interests, shared feelings, that sort of thing. When we find someone we feel is compatible on a physical and spiritual level, it awakens our sexual desires."

"Ok, I can appreciate that. It's better than how we humans do it. Our way is mostly trial and error." I shrugged.

"Errors like Jen, right?" She smirked.

"Exactly! And before her, there was Angie, and Sonya, and a few others that I thought were 'the one', you might say. With you, though, I have no doubts. You stuck with me through everything, Rilar." I kissed her sweetly.

She purred. "There was never any doubt for me, Dex. You've always been the one for me."

"So you never considered someone from your own species?" I asked.

"I tried to find someone suitable on Gurhin, but there was nobody there who could fulfill my needs. I knew the first moment we met that you and I would fulfill each other as nobody else could." She poured herself out for me, and I held her close, stroking her cheek.

"Sweetheart, the last time we saw your parents, we weren't lovers. Will they be... offended that we're together now?" I had to know. I like Keldor and Bidar. They're good people.

She thought for a moment. "Father won't, but mother might. She's a bit old fashioned." She shrugged.

"Well, after this, we'll head to Gurhin to talk with them, if that's ok with you, sweetheart? We could use a vacation." I smiled.

"Mmmm, that sounds great, honey!" She grinned and kissed me again as she purred. "By the way," she whispered, "I love how your cum feels shooting inside me when we climax together."

I realized that I was still buried inside her as my cock twitched at her seductive words. "Oh Lords, kitten!" I moaned as she squeezed around me.

"I need all your seed, my love." She squeezed again, and I was twitching even more as I grew rock hard again.

"Give it to me, Dex. Please. I need it. I need you. I need you filling me for the rest of our days." She whispered as she stroked my cheek and kissed my lips. My hands moved up and pushed her flightsuit top down her arms, then came back up to stroke her back. I could feel my cum rising again already as she talked low and seductively to me.

"Yes, baby. I can feel you swelling inside me. Give your kitten her cream, my love." She continued to whisper in my ear, and I gasped and moaned. Her pussy kept squeezing and massaging me inside her. Her breath got faster and faster as we didn't even move. She needed me as much as I needed her, and I was never going to deny her.

"Lords of Haven, Rilar... I'm gonna come again!" I exclaimed as I spasmed beneath her.

"That's it, Dex. That's it, baby. Give your kitten what she needs." Her voice was pleading as she clenched around me again and her own climax hit her.

"Yes, sek'natha!" I whispered back as I came again. She squeezed me as she gasped at the force of my shot. I fired off volley after volley into her, and I was surprised how much I'd come just that day.

As we came back down again, I asked her about that. "Sweetheart, when I was with other women, or even just masturbating, I NEVER came as much as with you. Is that normal?" I chuckled as I stroked her back.

"We're linked on a physical and emotional level, Dex. We adapt to each other's needs. It's part of being sek'natha. When you accepted me finally, we became attuned to each other after the first time we made love." She kissed me again and we heard the beep of the five minute warning.

We both laughed at the timing. "Perfect!" I said. "But seriously, sweetheart, I'm glad that we're attuned to each other. I love you."

"I love you too, Dex." She stroked my cheek as she finally got off my damp lap so we could both go shower and change.

It was a quick shower together and we were dressed again in no time. When we dropped out of slipstream, we saw the big battlewagon in front of us.

"Yamato to Solar Wind. You are clear to land in shuttle bay one." Captain Richter said. "Welcome aboard."

"Solar Wind copies. Thank you, Yamato. We're docked. Solar Wind, out." I replied as I piloted us into the docking bay and landed.

We went down the ramp to see Captain Richter himself meet us. I gave him a copy of the conversation we'd had with Mr. Davys on Rigel VII, and he thanked us.

"These guys have been doing this for quite a while, Captain. Judging by how smooth their operation is, anyhow." I informed him. I gave him their names, and let him know they have two goons with them as bodyguards.

"Thanks, Captain Relway. We'll bring Mr. Jayms Davys into custody immediately." We shook hands, and Rilar and I boarded our ship. We noticed a few of the guards ogling Rilar, and I smiled to myself. She's mine, boys. I'm all hers. and she's all mine! She'd thrown on a black miniskirt shorts, boots, and her favorite halter top, and that was it. Yeah, she was dressed to kill, and made a show of rubbing herself all over me when she noticed the Yamato crew members staring at her.

We lifted off and exited the Yamato. We entered slipstream to Port Royal to report in to Jeka. She would definitely want to know about this intel. Yeah, Nieman and Davys were about to get blacklisted, and it couldn't happen to two nicer drug dealers. A four hour trip. At least Yamato was on the way.

"Ok, so even though Humans have a monogamous religion and culture in most cases, you don't limit yourselves to one mate?" Rilar asked. We were getting into the finer points of Human culture when it comes to mating and marriage. On Gurhin, she told me, there's no such thing as divorce, so I had to explain it to her.

"Not in all cases, but some. My parents got divorced when I was a baby. Which is why I was still single when I met you. I hadn't found the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with yet." I shrugged.

"Dex, you thought about being with me before, right?" She asked.

"Yeah, for a little while. I somehow thought you wouldn't be interested in me." I blushed.

"Why, exactly?" Rilar kissed me as we lay in our bunk.

"I don't know. I guess it was because you're beautiful. Ri, you're more beautiful to me than any other woman I've ever seen. I've always thought you were beautiful. The first night together on the Lu Bu, I was hoping and praying that you would kiss me. When you didn't, I figured we'd just be snuggle buddies." I shrugged and smiled apologetically.

"Oh, Dex..." She stroked my cheek. "If I'd known..."

"I know, kitten. If I'd known, we would have been together that night." I said softly.

She kissed me, then. More passionately and with more love than I'd ever known before. I returned her kiss just as passionately, pouring my entire soul into it.

"I guess I was dense too, Dex." She blushed when we broke the kiss finally.

"It's ok, kitten. We're together now." I reminded her.

She purred lovingly as we snuggled close.

"Kitten?"

"Yes, Dex?"

"Do you think your parents know that you're in love with me?"

"Probably."

"Oh shit. Seriously? God, I was dense!"

"Yes you were, sek'natha." She giggled.

We chuckled like that for a while until we fell asleep in each other's arms.

BEEP!

Five minute warning. Great! "Ri, baby. Rise and shine. We're almost there." I kissed her neck as she moaned.

"Mmmmmmm I was having the most wonderful dream, honey!" She stretched like a cat, then kissed me lovingly.

"I was too, baby. Unfortunately, we have to get up to dock at Port Royal." I shrugged, and we got up reluctantly.

A quick shower and change of clothes, and we were all set.

Ri was back in her armored leggings and vest over her halter top. I love it when she shows off her midriff like that. She also noticed that even though I hadn't done many situps lately, my beer gut was damn near gone!