Voyages of the Solar Wind 1: A Fire in Heaven (8 page)

"Don't move." I stopped, and Rilar froze in my arms.

"Very good. Set her down and turn around slowly. You're a wanted man, Dex Relway." The Bounty Hunter said. His cold voice spoke of years of experience. I set Ri down and she winked at me. I smiled as I turned around slowly with my hands raised.

His helmet told me who he was. I'd met him before. "Sup, Bili?" I asked conversationally.

Bili the Bullet was one of the few people left in the galaxy that still used projectile percussion firearms and ammo. We'd had a long conversation about the benefits of Rails vs. Percussion. He was a good guy, but sometimes took the bounties without double checking.

"Not much, Dex. Jen sent me, in case you were wondering." He shrugged and answered.

"Man, she sent YOU after me? She must really want me dead." I brought my hand to my forehead. "At least let Rilar go? She has nothing to do with this, except she got shot when Jen boarded me illegally."

Bili's helmet cocked to the side. "Rilar's clear, Dex. The bounty's just for you alive. Did you and Ri finally...?"

"Oh, Lord! YOU figured it out before I did?" I started laughing, as did Rilar and Bili. He holstered his pistol.

"Dex, how dense can you be? Ri's been in love with you for as long as I've known you!" Bili was having way too much fun.

"Bili, man. Can you walk away, just this once? Jen is going to answer for what she did to us yesterday. You don't want to get caught up in that when the Confederacy brings the hammer down on her." I wouldn't call Bili a friend, but he's a decent guy.

"Dex, I'll give you a week to get it all straightened out. If she's still operating and the bounty is still open then, I'm coming for you." Bili nodded.

"Bili, you're cool. I don't care what Humanity Prime says about you!" I nodded to him. Bili's wife is a Chali Blade, which got her ostracized from her society, and got him a death warrant in Chal itself. He hates Humanity Prime as much as I do.

"You should hear the stuff they say about you and Rick with Rilar and Jeka!" Bili shrugged. "I hear Harrana's already left dock to go after something Humanity Prime related."

"Bili, you're a good guy. Thanks for the week's grace period." I thanked him. He always completes a job. That's his rep. Unlike other Bounty Hunters, however, he doesn't kill his quarry if the bounty expires before he can deliver. He lets them go in a civilized area.

"No problem, Dex. You're a good man, and if she hadn't offered so much for you, I wouldn't have taken the job." Bili turned to go.

"Wait! How much did she offer?" I asked. I had the stirrings of an idea.

"Seventy-five K," he answered. Rilar and I looked at each other. That was a fuckin' FORTUNE!

"Wait. She can blow seventy-five THOUSAND credits on ME? How the fuck, man? Shit, my ship only cost seventeen K when ALL my modding was done!" I'd saved a ton of credits by doing the installs myself with Rilar helping.

Bili shrugged. "I don't know. I don't get paid to ask questions. I'd always had you as pretty much off limits unless it's enough to retire on."

"Bili, my man. I have an idea. Would you be willing to split it with us?" I grinned.

"I like you, Dex. But I don't like you that much." He chuckled.

"Hear me out. You call up Jen and tell her you took a shot, but Rilar rescued me. It's plausible, since Ri here is the best damn shot in the galaxy, and Jen knows it. Anyhow, ask her to up the ante for Ri too, and see what she says. If not, then no harm, no foul. If she says yes, we get Ri's bounty after you collect on us. We escape, and everybody wins, except for the Wicked Witch of WesternStar." I finally took a deep breath.

Bili thought for a minute. "Give me a sec." He tapped on the comlink on the side of his helmet and talked quietly for a moment. He listened, then nodded once and tapped off.

"She's offering twenty five K for Rilar now. Do you two have holdouts?" He asked, meaning our holdout Rails onboard.

"Yeah. Bili, can you give us about an hour? Jeka has us grounded, so we're not going anywhere. But we need to... you know. In private for a bit." I grinned, and he got my meaning.

"Sure, guys. No problem. I'll go have a few at the Roger and be back in an hour or so." He nodded and turned to go.

Ri and I sprinted up the ramp and into our quarters. We stripped naked so fast, we were on par to break the land speed record.

She dropped to her knees in front of me and grabbed my hardening cock. She looked up at me as her pupils dilated and she opened her mouth and licked the underside. I moaned at the feel of her tongue. "Lord, that feels good kitten!"

She slowly took me in her mouth, her tongue playing along the underside of my shaft as she took me in inch by inch. Her eyes went even wider in lust as she got half of me in her mouth. I was moaning "Oooohhhhhhh bbbaaaabyyy!" with my head thrown back and my eyes closed. I put my hands on her shaved head and pushed gently on the back as I thrust forward.

"Mmmppphhh," she gulped around me and I could feel the back of her throat. She started bobbing her head back and forth while stroking me. As much stuff is on the meganet these days, it's no wonder she knows how to please a man.

I felt it building in a hurry, and knew I wouldn't be able to hold out much longer.

"Ri, kitten, I'm about to come!" I said. She took me out for a moment.

"Do it, baby! Give me your cum. Let me taste you!" She inhaled me down to the root then, and that put me over the top.

"FUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!" I shouted as I erupted, filling her mouth and throat with hot molten cum.

She swallowed shot after shot as I looked down. She was playing with her pussy, and I could smell the cherries of her arousal. She was purring around me as I came, looking up at me with such love in her eyes. She milked the last drop, then stood up and swallowed. She grinned, and I realized I hadn't even felt her fangs once.

I was weak in the knees, though and collapsed onto our bunk.

"Oh Lord, sweetheart!" I was shaking slightly from coming that hard. I'd never come that hard from a blowjob before!

Ri crawled up next to me and snuggled up. "I take it you liked that, sek'natha?" She grinned.

"Liked it? Honey, you have a knack for understatement! But now it's time for me to eat." I grinned as she giggled and I pushed her onto her back.

I kissed her passionately, reaching up and rubbing her breasts as I kissed her neck and ears slowly. She began moaning and mewing as I licked her sensitive ears and down her neck. Her nipples were hard as bullets by the time I licked around her dark purple areolas. I took her right nipple between my lips, and felt her fingers in my hair.

"Oooooooohhhhhhhh Deeexxxxx!" She moaned as I sucked her sweet nips. I could smell her arousal and it spurred me downward. She was purring now as I licked down her flat toned belly, and her hands in my hair urged me lower still. I kissed my way down over her hairless pubic mound and could taste her wetness when she spread her thighs wide.

When my tongue touched her sweet wetness, her flavor exploded in my mouth. Hers is the sweetest pussy I have ever eaten. Her scent acted as an aphrodisiac on me even more as I licked her and sucked her little nub. She was squirming as I slipped my tongue inside her pussy, swirling and twisting it inside her. Her hands tightened in my hair, and she bucked her hips up as she came.

"GGGGGGOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSS!!! She screamed like the wildcat she is as her sweet cum filled my mouth. I swallowed over and over as she gushed. She was in nirvana as she came down, and so was I.

Her body shuddered with aftershocks as she mewed and purred her contentment. I moved up and held her, and she kissed me ravenously, licking my face clean of her juices. Her breathing was ragged, and all she could do was purr loudly for a bit before finally regaining her ability to speak.

"D..De...Dex. Oh Gods of Gurshinka!" She exclaimed as she laughed out her adrenaline and the endorphins kicked in.

"I take it you liked that, sweetheart?" I asked with a grin.

She answered with a kiss that made my toes curl halfway back to my heels. Dear LORD, she can kiss!

I was hard again and her hand found that out. Her eyes were still dilated with Heat, and she mounted me in a flash. She sank down on me, impaling herself on my hard throbber. She leaned down and kissed me passionately as she moved back and forth on me. She was grinding her pussy into my pelvis, and squeezing me inside her. My arms went around her back to hold her to me as we moved together. I started moving with her, and our breathing quickly became heavier. She broke the kiss and just looked into my eyes with hers as we made love with her on top. We didn't blink for minutes at a time. I felt her sweet hot breath on my face as she felt mine on hers. She started to quiver and I felt her pussy muscles massaging me inside her. Her mouth dropped open and her eyebrows rose in the middle above her nose as her eyes pleaded with me.

"Come with me, love. Come with me!" She whispered to me. She was on the brink, and so was I. She felt me swelling inside her, filling her completely, and she moaned and ground out on me, shuddering her orgasm. I shouted as I exploded. My cum shot into her like a missile salvo. Having just been blown to perfection, I didn't think I had much left, but I was wrong. She screamed as her climax increased with the feel of my cum blasting into her. Her head went back and her eyes slammed shut as she screamed in feral passion. As she screamed, she slammed her mouth down on my upper left chest, sinking her fangs in.

Strangely, it didn't hurt like I thought it would. It only intensified our climaxes. We stayed like that as we came down, and she was whimpering softly as she removed her teeth from my chest. Her eyes got wide as her pupils started to contract. She reached over to the dresser and grabbed the first aid kit. She pulled a regen bandage out and slapped it in place. She then jumped off and turned on the water in the sink to wash my blood out of her mouth. She was silent during this, in shock at what she'd done.

"Sweetheart, it's ok. Really." I said, still shaking and not trusting my legs to hold me as I sat up on the bed to watch her.

"Dex, baby! Please don't look at me!" She was cringing from me like I was about to strike her.

"Rilar," I said softly. "Sweetheart, come here. I'm not angry." I smiled, and the fear in her eyes turned to relief. She threw herself into my arms, crying.

"I'm sorry, Dex. I'm so so sorry. Oh Gods I'm sorry, baby!" She sobbed into my right shoulder as she straddled my legs.

I stroked her back as I held her. "Ri, honey. It's ok. I love you."

"I love you too, Dex." She finally stopped crying and moved back to look at me. Her pupils were slitted now.

"Kitten, what's wrong?" I asked. She had reacted badly to what had happened.

"I have become a shor'vennak, Dex." The look on her face was one of horror.

"Baby, what does that mean?" I really needed to learn her native language.

"What I did to you hasn't been done in a thousand generations, Dex. If you never want to see me again, or throw me out the airlock, I'll be more than happy to do that." She was scaring me now.

"Ri, calm down. This is me, here. What did you do besides give me a love nip?" I smiled.

"I have claimed you as my own." She said it with a disgusted look on her face.

"And that's a bad thing.... how?" I still didn't get it.

"Physically marking a mate was outlawed thousands of years ago, Dex. What I did is anathema to my people now!" She had real fear in her eyes.

I pulled her to me. "Shhh, baby. Shhh. Don't worry. I love you, Rilar. You do know that, right?" I smiled and she finally chuckled nervously.

"I love you too, Dex." She muffled into my shoulder.

"Good. Now that that's established, what exactly does shor'vennak mean, honey?" I had to know.

She thought for a second. "The closest translation I can think of would be a succubus."

I nodded. "A female demon of lust that devours the souls or drinks the blood of her victims. Honey, that ain't you! Clearcut?"

"As diamond, Dex." She smiled and kissed me lovingly.

Our one hour was just about up, so we got showered and toweled off. We taped our holdouts to our inner thighs, and dressed. Rilar put on one of her flightsuits with 'Solar Wind' stitched across the back, and I put on a tanker, jacket, pants, and boots. I made sure my pants were baggy enough to conceal the holdout. I sent a text to Bili to tell him we were ready, and we walked out with a couple old PuNCH pistols for him to 'confiscate' as he took us into custody. I also called Jeka before we went down the ramp.

"Hey, Dex. What's up?" She asked with that just been fucked and satisfied tone in her voice.

"Hey, Jeka. You sound happy! Anyway, we might not be able to make it tomorrow morning. If not, go ahead and contact CFC with the evidence against Jen. Bili's here, and we've got a plan to take her for every credit she has." I was grinning.

"Tell Bili I said Hi, and if he hurts either of you, I will bleed him of every drop he has!" Jeka was laughing now, and I could hear Rick laughing close by.

"Will do, Jeka. We're diamond here. It's all good. See ya when we see ya." I hung up and we went down the ramp to where Bili was waiting.

"We good?" He asked.

Rilar and I handed him the old trophies from past battles. "Good to go, Bili." I said, and he slapped the cuffs on us. He marched us to the next bay over and we boarded his modified patrol cutter, the SS Bloodhound.

We sat in the cockpit with him as we undocked from the bay and headed out to where he would meet the Grant. We entered slipstream as he turned to us. "Ok, it'll be about fifteen minutes until we reach the Grant. Once there, I will turn you over and get paid. Once I have the creds, it will be up to you to escape. You'll have thirty minutes while I weasel a drink out of her for a bonus, and then I'll leave. I'm leaving the hatch unlocked so you can get back aboard. Clearcut?"

"Diamond, Bili. Pure diamond." I replied with a grin. It was a solid plan. I was still wondering where the fuck she got a hundred K to blow on us, though.

We dropped out of the slipstream and saw the CSS Ulysses S. Grant looming large in front of us. Its 500mm Rail turrets were fuckin' huge, but Bili asked for, and received clearance to dock. He slipped us a couple of speed picks for the cuffs, and then he popped the hatch and lowered the ramp down to the shuttle bay. We walked down with sullen expressions, and there she was.