Chapter 3
CHAPTER
THREE
Anna had almost become used to the smell of blood, now mingled with the scent of sweat and come.
How long had they been there? She was losing track of time.
Rehz, Kai, and Aled surrounded her as she slept, offering her a false sense of protection.
All of them knew the Ungrich could take and kill any one of them at will.
“You okay?” Rehz whispered.
She turned her head to look at him. There were dark shadows under his eyes and his stubble was growing in fast. He was the only one of the men who wasn’t injured. Kai was a mess and had barely regained consciousness after managing to crawl to Aled’s side.
“I’m with you,” she whispered back.
He swallowed hard. “I’m sorry. If I’d listened to you, we—”
She put her fingers to his lips. “You did your best. You came to find me, and when we get back, you’re going to give me Palk’s head on a platter, right?”
“Yeah.” He kissed her fingers. “And his balls. Not that he has any.”
“Come here.”
He rolled onto his side, aligning his body with hers, and she felt the press of his cock against her belly. She raised her right leg and inched closer until his shaft rubbed against the swollen wetness of her cunt.
“Please.”
“You’re sore.”
“But I need to feel you.” She flattened her hand on his ass, drawing him toward her until his cock slid home. “Just hold me like this.”
He flexed his buttocks until he was fully inside her. She wrapped her arms and legs around him and enjoyed the exquisite sensation of his cock throbbing hard and deep within her.
“Wish it was my come all over you. Hate that it’s fucking Aled’s.” He kissed her throat. “Always loved it when you were so full of me that it trickled down your thighs.”
“That’s because you are an overpossessive male with dominant tendencies.”
“Yeah. I liked other men seeing that I filled you up and that you took all that fucking.”
She tightened her internal muscles around him. “I was taught by a master.”
“Liked to know you were always wet and ready for me as well.”
“I was. I am.” She bit his ear. “Do you remember when we went out to dinner last week and you couldn’t keep your hands off me?”
He’d had his fingers in her panties, stroking her, and she’d wanted him so badly.
“I remember.”
“So you grabbed my hand, took me outside to the back of the restaurant, and fucked me up against the wall. Then we went and finished our dinner. I was so wet.” She moaned as his cock jerked inside her.
In the taxi going home, he’d gotten down on his knees and eaten her cunt with such slow enjoyment that she’d had to cover her mouth to stop herself from screaming her pleasure to the world.
Rehz murmured. “Do you know the taxi driver watched the whole thing in his mirror? He loved it. He should have paid me . He was hard when he opened the door to let us out.” He rolled his hips.
“I thought about asking him to come upstairs so he could watch some more, but I was too greedy to have you all to myself.”
She shuddered as a slow orgasm rolled through her, and Rehz shoved forward and came with her.
“I don’t care if we die,” she eventually managed to whisper. “As long as I’m with you at the end and we go down fighting.”
He stroked her damp hair. “I’ll die protecting you. You know that.”
“Right back at you.”
“That’s my girl.”
Beside Aled, Kai finally stirred. Rehz looked down at her, his smile rueful as he relinquished his hold on her.
“We need to talk to him.”
Kai groaned and opened his eyes. “Fuck .”
“You okay?” Rehz said.
“Yeah. Just perfect.”
Anna leaned over Rehz’s shoulder to study Kai’s pained expression. “Did you get anything?”
“Holy fuck, yes .” Kai shivered. Aled took his hand and held it tight. “They want to be on the surface.”
She tried hard not to hyperventilate. “And how do they think they are going to achieve that?”
“Guess.”
“Hybrids,” Aled said softly. “Human and Ungrich . Right, Kai?” He held his gaze as Kai nodded. “We give them children with the highest percentage of human DNA, which obviously works better than pure Mitan, and they create something nasty in their labs.”
“If they get on the surface, there won’t be any more Mitans,” Anna said.
Aled grimaced. “Which will suit them just fine.”
“They also lack understanding of emotion,” Kai added. “That’s why they’ve been studying our reactions—to find our weaknesses and exploit them.” He shivered. “They want to create something that can live on the surface but doesn’t have our limitations.”
“Fuck.” Rehz shook his head.
“That’s what Palk meant.” Kai looked over at Rehz. “He traded Anna and Aled for his security. He thinks that if they emerge from here, the Ungrich will save his ass.”
“Then we’ll have to find a way out of here alive.” Rehz’s gaze scanned them all. “Or at least one of us will. We have to warn our government. I was hoping we’d hear something from outside by now, but no such luck. I can’t believe the whole bloody council is in on this, can you?”
“No.” Everyone shook their heads.
He turned to Kai. “Are you able to move your ass if necessary?”
Kai’s smile was crooked. “If there’s an Ungrich after me. Sure.”
Aled wrapped his arms around Kai’s chest from behind. “I’ll help you.”
Rehz nodded. “Then let me do the talking when they come back, okay?”
The light changed and the forms outside the cube cells drifted closer and became identifiable.
Each Ungrich pair was slightly different in coloration and dimension.
Some of them were the size and height of a spaceship, while others were more like tall stalks of grain.
Rehz figured the older the creature, the darker the color and the more complex the shape.
“Rehz.”
Anna beckoned him closer. “There’s something going on. Aled and I both felt a new sense of agitation among our hosts. I wonder if our government has finally spoken up?”
Rehz looked at Aled. “Try and find out what’s going on. It could help us with our bargain.”
The Ungrich congregated around the floating cell.
It certainly made sense now why they had perfected an environment replicating the oxygenated surface.
Rehz didn’t understand why human DNA worked for the Ungrich ; he just knew he had to stop the experiments from happening or his people would be exterminated.
He tuned in his thoughts to the Ungrich wrapped around his throat. “Have you heard from our government?”
It didn’t answer, but Rehz had been around them long enough to pick up on that slight hint of unease.
“I bet they want us back, don’t they ? What are they threatening you with this time? Carpet bombing, or have they developed more strategic weapons than that? ”
“Be quiet, Rehz Akran.”
Rehz increased the strength of his thought. “You should let us all go before things get worse. Where are your leaders? Let me talk to them.”
A stab of pain right inside his skull had him falling to his knees and fighting to stay conscious.
“I’m right, aren’t I? Let us go.”
The largest and darkest red of the Ungrich blasted through the thin cell wall and caught hold of his throat.
“We have a solution.”
“Yeah you do. Let us go. You are breaking the treaty.”
“There will soon be a new treaty.”
He forced himself to stand, and the others joined him. “If you want our government to negotiate with you, you will have to release your hostages.”
“We have a solution.”
Before he could draw another breath, he, Kai, and Aled were swept up into the Ungrich ’s stranglehold.
“No! Fucking no!” Tentacles poured down his throat and wrapped around his body.
Even as he tried to shout, the three of them were surrounded and hurtled back through Ungrich space, leaving Anna behind. He started to struggle then—even knowing it was pointless, just wanting to inflict any damage he could on the beings surrounding him and taking him away from his mate.
His breath screamed out as he was dumped on the hard metal platform at the portal. The tentacle down his throat retracted, and he gulped in air.
“Kai? See that black thread on my arm? Get it out as fast as you can.”
He stood and grabbed hold of one of the thick red tentacles that was trying to ease away from his torso. Kai tugged at the stitches and then used his teeth to break open the healing skin. Rehz didn’t even feel the pain.
“Take me back to Anna, you fucking bastard.”
“You three will be returned to your government. Your female will remain. It is an excellent compromise. You will tell them she is dead.”
“No. It doesn’t work like that. We all leave right now.”
“If you persist, we will simply offer them your bodies.”
Blood dripped down his arm as Kai pulled and tugged at the stitches, cursing up a storm.
“No. If you try and kill me, I’ll blow this portal sky high and let all that filthy oxygen in here.”
“You have no weapons.”
“I fucking do. See that door? Have you ever heard of wireless technology?”
“You lie.”
“I fucking never lie. Get me Anna, or I’ll blow that door right off its hinges and destroy you all.”
He looked at Kai and Aled speaking the words out loud as he thought them. “If it kills me, one of you has to take over. The detonator button is just under my skin. Just press it and it will set the explosives off and disable the door.”
“NO.”
This time it was Rehz who was smiling. “Get Anna.”
“NO.”
“Then I’m setting this off.” He nodded at Kai. The probes in Aled’s and Kai’s throats had retracted leaving them free of the Ungrich . “As soon as those explosives go off, I want you to run.”
“I’m not leaving you,” Kai said. “And neither is Aled.”
“Then we’ll go with plan B.” Rehz reached up and slammed his hand down over the half-exposed button. “Get down and hang on to this Ungrich for dear life.”