Chapter 1
Chapter one
Mia
I saw the alien well before he saw me. His copper-orange skin tone stood out like a sore thumb in a sea of purple. He was on the arm of Prince An’On’nas, my husband’s cousin. I glanced towards T’ukka, warmth and love rushing through me. My husband.
Axel came up on the other side of me, his hand resting on my lower back as he kissed my forehead.
Aunga’ri law allowed me to be bound to both T’ukka and Axel, and I was planning to take full advantage of that tonight in our bedroom.
Our wedding suite was really just our normal suite.
We were exiled on the Aunga’ri mother ship out in Earth’s orbit, but we would have a more exciting honeymoon when all the drama settled down. I was sure of it.
A sharp pain in my upper arm made me gasp, turning in confusion.
Had someone pricked me? It took me a moment to realize that the copper-colored alien was standing much closer, and that he had hit me with something.
His tail? The room went a little blurry as Prince On’nas shouted something, and my knees buckled out from under me.
My husbands caught me on my way down, but I wouldn’t have minded falling.
After all, it all felt a bit like floating.
A strange, almost pleasant sensation washed over me, and I smiled, looking up at them. It was followed, though, by a wave of intense headache pain, worse than any migraine I’d ever had. Someone was screaming, and the lights were too bright.
And then I realized something else. “I can’t feel him,” I cried, looking wildly for T’ukka, fearing the worst. If I couldn’t feel him, would he be dead? But he was right there. Right in front of me, but no longer in my mind. “Why can’t I feel him?”
“The alien who struck you is a Vul,” T’ukka said, his eyes full of worry. “He used his tail dart on you. There’s a chemical in the dart, and we don’t know what it does to humans.”
T’ukka was shaking as he pulled me close, brushing his lips against my neck.
It was strange; him being right there, and yet I couldn’t hear his funny grumbling thoughts on everything.
I wrapped my arms around his waist and whimpered as the pain radiated outwards from the stinging spot in my arm, as if the injection was working through my system again and again.
T’ukka was gentle with me as he lifted me and carried me away from the chaos of the moment.
“Call the doctor,” Axel barked, following us. “Have the Vul placed in a holding cell.”
I glanced back over my shoulder at the strange alien who had lashed at me with his tail. Two big Aunga’ri scooped him up, and he blinked hard, shaking himself, and then his eyes widened as they met mine. He almost looked apologetic, but I was whisked away before he could say anything.
Once in our rooms, T’ukka settled me on the bed, leaning forward to kiss my forehead, and I tried to reach for him, but felt only pain and emptiness. I wanted to be alone, to curl up and cry, but I knew that Axel and T’ukka were as distraught as I was. Maybe I could curl up and cry with them.
Doctor Vralziks, the one who was treating my brother, rushed into the room and my men moved out of the way. “Hi Mia, how are you feeling?” Her tone was as brisk and cool as it had been the first time I’d met her, but this time, it made me shiver.
“Not so great. What happened?”
“The tail dart is a Vul defense mechanism of sorts, a reaction to fear. It has a chemical compound in it that forces a mate bond, allowing two Vul to fight together as one. But it is untested in humans, as far as I know. Can you describe your symptoms?”
I swallowed, glancing toward T’ukka, who grasped my hand and squeezed. “I can’t hear him anymore.”
The doctor blinked. “What do you mean?”
T’ukka cleared his throat, looking about as distraught as I felt. “It seems to have disrupted the Bhesai Ker’el bond. Our psychic link has been broken.”
“It hurts,” I whispered.
The doctor blinked. “I was told that you were imagining the bond.”
“Nope. It’s very much real.”
She nodded, frowning and taking some notes. “Fascinating.”
“I’m going to analyze the chemical compound that is in the Vul’s tail to see if we can work up an antidote. As of now, your vitals seem strong. Are you in any pain?”
We went through the usual doctor stuff, just with a bit of an Alien twist, and when she left, I wasn’t entirely sure she had any idea to help me.
After all, the bond that I’d formed with T’ukka was something her own people believed to be a myth until it happened to us.
When she left, T’ukka crawled into the bed next to me, kissing my forehead and running a hand over my hair.
I wrapped my arms tightly around him and he pulled me against him, and I shuddered, thinking about how I wouldn’t know what was inside him anymore.
On the outside, he was stern and severe, but on the inside, he was the sweetest man.
I nuzzled into his shoulder and let the tears fall.
“It hurts,” I whispered. “Like physically hurts.”
“For me, too. And I don’t even have the chemical in my system.” T’ukka pulled me closer and breathed a shaky breath. Maybe I didn’t need a psychic connection to understand how good he was.
The mattress shifted behind me, and Axel’s hands skimmed over my shoulders.
He gently began unbuttoning the rows of tiny buttons on my gown.
My wedding gown. I shuddered in T’ukka’s arms. Just an hour ago, I had been full of joy, looking up at both big men as they bound themselves to me.
Now Axel was gently stripping me bare. In another time, this would be sensual and lovely.
Instead, he was treating me with the utmost care as he tugged at the laces of the beautiful dress.
He walked off to hang it gently over a chair, then returned and tugged off his uniform and the t-shirt beneath, crawling into bed behind me in just his underwear.
He pressed close, and I moaned in pleasure at the skin-to-skin contact.
At least he still felt good. T’ukka studied us for a moment, then stepped back and yanked off his own clothing.
“Does it feel good when our skin touches?” he asked, sliding under the blankets and tucking me close.
“Yes, so good,” I whispered. My men, my husbands, surrounded me, and the pain of being forcibly separated from the mate bond started to fade, finally.
I closed my eyes and gave myself over to their touch, which started with stroking, comforting movements, and grew gradually more sensual. “You still want me?”
“You are our wife. We love you,” Axel murmured fiercely. “I want to kill that asshole.”
“But she’ll still enjoy our cocks even without the Bhesai Ker’el, right?” T’ukka asked. I remembered what I’d thought of him when we first met. His stiff coldness was difficult to relate to.
The comfort of the two men was still everything it had been, but I had grown accustomed to T’ukka’s grumblings in my mind, and I realized now that it was gone, that I had been able to sense echoes of Axel through T’ukka.
Now there was a weird emptiness. But when we were all touching, I could almost imagine I heard them again.
“Talk to her more,” Axel said gently, kissing me wildly. “She’s used to hearing your voice.”
And T’ukka talked, telling me how excited he was about the wedding, how he’d never had this kind of feeling, this kind of love before.
The things he had to say were beautiful, and I could almost believe it was happening inside my head.
He was more open than he had ever been with me, but the things he said still weren’t the same as the things he normally would’ve said inside his head.
Soon they turned to physical affection, and I was lost in the gentle kisses and soft touches of their love.
The pleasure as they each pushed inside me was intense enough that I forgot for a moment that I’d lost contact with them.
I loved how they moved together, thrusting in long strokes, T’ukka in my pussy and Axel in my ass, and brought me to an intense orgasm, my first as their wife.
Later, as they held me against them, our legs tangled together in a mess, I couldn’t help but wonder if T’ukka and Axel would grow closer with their bond still intact.
And I would be left on the sidelines, unable to communicate in such an intense way.
As they fell asleep, I slipped out of bed and walked to the windows, looking out at Earth from above.
I couldn’t control the sense that everything was about to change.
Our bond had been so quick and so intense and I worried about what things would be like without that.