Chapter 4
CHAPTER
FOUR
Kai rolled onto his side and opened his eyes to see the long line of Aled’s naked back.
He still hurt all over, but compared to how he’d felt three days ago, it was nothing.
When the four of them had refused to be separated, the staff had moved his and Aled’s bed to one side of the room and Anna and Rehz’s to the other, giving them a modicum of privacy but the ability to see the others were safe.
Sure, he could hear Rehz and Anna fucking every now and then, but that was a good sound—one he’d thought he’d never experience again.
The sun was rising, and the lake beneath their window was bright silver blue. Idly he traced his finger down Aled’s spine, admiring the pale white of his skin. Kai’s cock stirred and pressed against his lover’s ass.
“You’re feeling better then?” Aled murmured.
Kai rolled his hips. “What makes you say that?”
“I have no idea.”
He put his hand on Aled’s shoulder and rolled him onto his back, catching the last hint of his smile. Aled touched his cheek.
“I thought you were fucking dead.”
“Like I was going to let them kill me?” He held Aled’s intense blue gaze. “You know I like my sex hard and dirty.”
“And the Ungrich gave it to you, right?”
“I’m sure you can do it better.” He rubbed the crown of his dick, gathering the wetness, and brought his fingers to Aled’s sweet, fuckable mouth. “I’ll do anything you want. You know that.”
Aled licked his stabbing fingers with the tip of his tongue. “I just want you to fuck me right now, so I know you’re real and we’re free of that nightmare.”
Kai wrapped his fingers around Aled’s long cock.
“I can do that.” He held still, his gaze never wavering.
“I’m going to make you beg, though, and scream so that Anna and Rehz can hear you.
And I’m not going to stop if the medical team or the fucking president turns up.
I’m going to fill you with my come and make you ask for more. ”
Aled’s pupils dilated and he swallowed hard. “Yes.”
“To what?”
“All of it. Make me scream.” He licked his lips. “I thought you’d left me for good. I thought I’d lost you.”
Kai bent his head and kissed Aled’s mouth. “I was going to come and find you anyway. Life just wasn’t the same without you around.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, really. Now shut up and let me fuck your brains out.”
As he moved over Aled, Kai thought about how their training had conditioned all four of them to respond to stress by having sex and then more sex. Not that he regretted it. Fucking Aled was the only thing that made him forget the horrors, and made sense of his world.
Anna stirred against Rehz as Aled moaned something unintelligible and the bed on the other side of the room rocked against the wall.
“Kai must be feeling better,” Anna murmured.
“You think?” Rehz bent and kissed her nipple. “And now he’s making me horny. I love those sounds Aled makes when he’s being fucked.”
“I’m sure Kai would be quite happy to share him with you.”
“Not today. But maybe one day Aled and I can get Kai on his knees between us and keep his mouth and ass stuffed full for a long while so he can’t do anything but do what he’s told.”
Anna squirmed against him, and he slid his thigh between her legs. “You’d like to see that, wouldn’t you? You’re fucking wet.”
“Kai being mastered? Gods, yes.”
“And then maybe we could help you out.”
“Mmm . . .” She tilted her head, seeming to picture it. “Yeah.”
He moved his fingers down to her cunt and slid inward through her welcoming warmth. “You’d take all of us, wouldn’t you?” His voice roughened. “But you’d end up with me. You know that, right?”
“Who else?” He pressed his thumb hard on her clit and she came for him.
She should probably tell him to back off when he started getting all possessive, but he was glad she never did.
She seemed to accept it was his weird way of expressing his love for her.
The Ungrich experience had stripped them both of any desire to be romantic.
She was a strong woman. He didn’t need to hide or sugarcoat anything for her, and he never would.
“My fucking come in you, my marks on you, all mine.” He bit her shoulder as he shoved four fingers in and out of her. “All for my pleasure.”
She bucked against him, and with a soft curse he rolled on top of her and pressed his cock deep. She came again and he held still, watching her writhe around his stiff length.
“You are everything to me, Anna Lee. I fucking adore you.”
She reached up to touch his face and just nodded.
“That’s it?” he growled. “I basically declare my undying love to you and you pat me on the head?”
Gods, now she looked like she was going to cry. What the hell?
“Anna . . .”
“I’m scared, Rehz,” she blurted out. “I just don’t think this is the end of it.”
No wonder she was upset. “Neither do I.” He lowered his voice. “There is no way in hell that Palk could’ve gotten away with this plan all by himself. He has to have some allies higher up the chain of command.”
“What can we do about that?”
He smiled but it wasn’t pleasant. “At the moment? Fuck all. We’re too emotionally and physically drained by our Ungrich experience to do much more than lie here, sleep, and eat.”
“And fuck.”
“Yeah. That’s a given.” He eased out of her, kissing the scar the Ungrich had left on her throat. “We’ll work this out. I promise you. We’re not as ill-prepared as they think because we don’t trust anyone.”
The door opened and one of the nursing staff came in, followed by Bron, the security chief, who glanced briefly at Anna’s naked body and then away. He was a big guy with a broad frame and the wary face of a man who knew how to take care of himself.
“Sorry to disturb you, but the president would like to meet with you all for dinner tonight.”
Rehz stood in front of Anna and nodded easily. “Sure. Will he come here or are we finally getting to leave this room?”
“We are still on high alert for you four and determined to keep you safe,” Bron said. “I believe he will come here.”
“Did someone say come ?”
Kai strolled over to them with languid grace, his naked skin gleaming with sweat. He smelled of sex and looked like he was ready for round two. This time Bron failed to look away as Kai palmed himself and grinned right at the security chief.
Rehz nodded. “We’ll be ready.” Bron managed to look at him as the medical officer checked the banks of screens recording everything about the four of them. “Clothes would be good.”
Bron finally smiled. “Not on my account, but the president might prefer it.” He inclined his head. “I’ll see you all later.”
He left with the medic, and the door locked behind them. Kai turned back to Rehz.
“I think he wants me.”
“I think you’re right.” He went toward the bathroom, aware of an ache in his shoulder where the Ungrich had ripped itself free and torn half his muscle off. “Flirt away. We need every ally we can get.”
He turned on the water and stood under it until Kai joined him. As soon as they’d gotten mobile, they’d realized the place was probably bugged and kept most of their important conversations beneath the roar of the shower.
“How’s Aled doing?”
“Okay. Still having nightmares. How about Anna?”
He sluiced water away from his face. “Not too good. She’s worked out things aren’t quite as finished as they should be.”
“I’d rather we all knew where we stood.” Kai soaped his chest, his breath hissing out as he encountered the multiple cuts the Ungrich had left on his skin. “Did you hide the weapons?”
“Where? They can see everything. I left them in plain sight. No one’s tried to take them away from me.”
“True,” Kai acknowledged. “I suppose all we can do is hear what the president has to say and take it from there. Do you think they’re going to take us out?”
“Yeah.” He gazed bleakly into his friend’s green eyes. “Don’t you?”
Kai nodded. “Aled thinks so too. He made me promise to kill him myself if there’s any suggestion that he or Anna have to go back into Ungrich space for the good of our planet.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll kill him if you can’t, and you’ve got to do the same for me and Anna.”
“Agreed.” Kai held up his hand and Rehz slapped his palm against it, then turned to find Aled and Anna coming into the bathroom, talking intensely. He immediately straightened his spine.
Anna took Aled’s hand and moved under the shower with him. “Aled and I have something to say.”
He stroked her jaw. “It’s okay. I know what you want. We won’t let them take you. We’ll kill you first.” The words almost choked him, but he got them out.
She stood on tiptoe and carefully kissed Kai, and then him. “Thank you.” Her blue eyes were clear. He wanted to fall to his knees and kiss her feet and protect her from every damn fucking thing in the universe. Instead he nodded and stepped out of the shower.
“Better get dressed. I’ve almost forgotten what it feels like to wear clothes.”
Kai kissed Aled and then joined Rehz in the main room, a towel wrapped around his lean hips and a ferocious expression on his face. He slammed his palm into the wall.
“Fuck it, Rehz. Fuck all of it.”
“Yeah.” He went over to his bed and saw a set of black clothing laid out for him. A trainer’s uniform. He hated the thought of putting it on. “Let’s just see what the man has to say, okay?”
Aled allowed his gaze to slide around the circular table as he sipped cautiously at the pale liquid the president had said was wine from Earth.
He much preferred Mitan kvas , but he wasn’t going to make a scene.
It was far more interesting to listen to what was being said and what wasn’t being said.