Chapter 29 Together in the Dark
TWENTY-NINE
TOGETHER IN THE DARK
Julia
I wake to Krellix wrapped around me and something hard poking me from behind.
When I open my eyes, a thick darkness meets me.
The shapes of the trees blend and blur, blocking the vast majority of the moonlight from reaching us.
As I wait for my sight to adjust to the small amount of light I have, a deep grayness becomes my world.
Slowly, little lights appear, and as I take a moment to figure them out, I realize they’re fireflies like the ones outside Zaku’s.
I shift my cheek, the abrasive material of my pack rough underneath it. Tilting back into Krellix’s embrace, I take stock of what I can, like his tail, coming up from around my feet and caging me in a half-oval. We’re still in the thicket. There’s tufts of grass rising up around us from all sides.
Knowing he’s probably awake even if he doesn’t seem like it, I ease into his warmth, finding comfort in his arms. He might not ask me to be his, even if I want him to, but I…
can almost understand why. He might be choosing to martyr himself for whatever nonsense reason, and bring me to the encampment as promised, but he thinks he has to.
I wish he knew he didn’t. As much as I want to go home, there really isn’t a home for me to go back to anymore.
I might hope the encampment will lead me to a ship that will take me back to space but I can’t plan on that happening, not anymore.
And I like him. I like him a lot.
I want him to bring me to the encampment… I need that to happen.
Right?
The problem? I’m not ready to say goodbye.
But he’s right. What would happen if I went with him?
Where would we go? We’d search for and find ourselves a new home, that’s what would happen.
We would have to do that, yes, and things could go very badly.
We could get split up, or attacked. One of us could get hurt, or I could get lost. Kidnapped.
Without a home base, we would just be wandering a world where a lot of others are wandering now too…
We won’t be the only ones looking for a home.
Swallowing thickly, I cringe from the pain still in my throat and settle back against him as I actually give thought to the idea of choosing him.
The Dreadnaut’s gone and so is my previous life. The soldiers ended up being the bad guys, if what Zaku told Krellix is correct, and that doesn’t sit well with me. Any friends I did have are now either dead or scattered…
But here… I have Krellix. I have Daisy.
And yet, after what happened with Sada, the possibility of being caught by another naga, taken away and mated against my will, is all too real.
Do I think they’re all bad? No? Am I as afraid of them as I probably should be?
Also no. But the chances are high that that could get me in trouble again, even I know that.
Krellix’s cock pokes my back again and I stiffen.
Stilling my breath, my skin warms as I realize how much thicker his scent is than it was several minutes ago.
Without shying away from him, I make my next breath a shallow one, shivering all over as I suck in and release it swiftly.
I bring my hands up to my mouth as my toes curl with my next inhale.
Spice and a wild type of musk floods me from head to toe, making my insides twist deliciously.
His arm tightens around me, and my whole body lights up with anticipation.
For a moment we just breathe, and as I feel his cock pressing against my backside a little harder, I can’t help but push back.
He rolls me toward him, onto my back, and covers me. As I gasp at the sudden shift, he positions his elbows on either side of my head, holding himself up. His eyes glint with the sparks of fireflies as they search mine.
Meanwhile… his cock lies on me, right above my crux, heavy and hard as hell. The pressure of it is like an obelisk in my mind. I spread my legs so he can slip even deeper between them.
“Female.” He rumbles the word, not sounding like Krellix at all, a haunting sadness to his voice that briefly makes me second-guess hearing it.
“Kiss me,” I demand, lifting my hands to his chest.
His mouth falls on mine and without hesitation, he devours me hungrily.
Swept up, I slide my hands up his body to wrap around the back of his neck and card my fingers through his hair.
The silky strands veil me on the right side, darkening the world even more as he pushes his forked tongue into my mouth, licking me, tasting me; I taste him back, slipping my own tongue between the groove in his.
My core clenches and I hike my hips to press against him.
Our tongues intertwine as I push upward, enjoying his rigid cock and burgeoning knot between my legs. I wrap my feet around his back and dig my heels in and moan when he drops heavier against me, pressing his chest to mine.
“The water,” I rasp, shuddering as his pheromones flood my sore lungs, somehow soothing the ache. “Take me to the water.” I want to be clean for this.
Again, he doesn’t hesitate, just folds his arms around me and picks me up effortlessly. I cling to him, straddling him from the front, while he carries us a short distance to the edge of the river. Hearing its soft hum, I unwind my legs and he releases me.
I stumble barefoot down a small, grassy inlet lit up by moonlight and fireflies and quickly kick my pants and underwear off as well, throwing them in a bundle on the dry ground behind me. I strip my jacket, shirts, and bra next, tossing them towards the rest of my clothes.
Completely naked, I slowly wade into the water, then sink into it, uncaring of the gooseflesh rising over my skin. All the while Krellix watches me from the shore. In my peripheral vision, I see him slinking towards me, prowling like a hunter.
I don’t even mind the cold, it’s so nice to be in the water.
Sada dipped me in the river once but there wasn’t near enough effort to get the stink off me.
I’ve been grimy with sweat and reeking of smoke and chemicals since yesterday, but now with the moving pulse of the current around me, the mess of the last twenty-four hours is flowing away.
Leaning back into the shallows, I push out my taut nipples while I let my hair get caught up by the river. Drifting my fingers through the water, I comb and rinse the strands out.
Soon towering over me, blocking out the small break in the canopy that’s giving me light, Krellix stares down at my chest, hissing lowly. Thick and rough, his hisses only deepen further when I rise and push into him, pressing the front of my body to his.
His arms swoop around me, plastering our forms together.
Wrapping my legs back around his hips, I hold on as he slips us closer to the bank and lays me down in the shallow water where it’s still grassy.
He coils his tail along the ground for me to lean upon, keeping my body only partially submerged.
Then, he spreads my knees with his hands and slides them down my thighs and around to my butt.
He lifts my hips into the air, exposing my most private parts to his view.
“I have been thinking about and regretting not doing this ssssooner.” His eyes glint with hunger as he dives between my legs, his lips pursing to taste.
I breathe him in just as his tongue probes deep inside and I tremble all over. No hesitation. Immediate penetration.
At first it’s just his tongue, sinuous and wet inside me, pushing into me as far as it can go.
The water lashes around us, intensifying the heat with its cold, igniting all of my nerve-endings.
My body jerks as his forked tongue flicks, tasting me everywhere on the inside, making me feel things I have never felt before.
His lips plaster to my skin, kissing my opening, softly rubbing the sensitive flesh on the outside.
I whimper, pressing my elbows under my body and canting back on his tail. He hooks my knees over his shoulders, planting his face directly between my thighs.
I grind my body into him, rocking against his face. His tongue retreats and pushes back in, shoves hard against my inner walls to rub at my sensitive spot, and in a swirling tempo of his own making, I cry out.
“Krellix!” I whimper, my body undulating against his, caught from every side, trapped in the coils of his tail.
Quick and frenetic, his movements go from languid to erratic like I might, suddenly, disappear. His tongue pulls out of me only to glide heavily over my slick flesh and labia, ending at my clit, where it swirls little circles that have me tingling to my toes.
“Female… So perfectly female,” he hums into me, vibrating my flesh. “My delicious Julia. So wet. So soft. Everything I have dreamed of. Everything I could ever want. On my tongue and in my mouth. If I could, you would always be coating my mouth.”
The hot, unexpected words send me over the edge: my core constricts from my clit to my sheath, clenching around nothing, and as my clitoris buzzes and pulsates, I arch, coming wildly. His tail pushes into me from every side, splashing the water up and over us.
“Krellix, please,” I huff out, my burned throat turning the words dry and harsh. I swallow back the ache and drive my hips into his face, demanding more. “I need you inside me. I feel so empty.”
He slips his tongue back to my opening, probing me deeply. Shaking from the chill of the water, the aftershocks of my orgasm, and the heat of his body, the helpless sounds I make are loud in the sleeping forest. Anything could be out there, anything could hear us…
That’s twice I’ve been willing to risk my life for sex.
But it’s sex… with him.
He rolls his tongue inside me, bringing me to a shattering brink again only to soften his touches at the last moment, not in the way of a skilled lover but in the way of a male showing sweet eagerness. I could become addicted to the way he touches me. I want more. I need more.