Chapter 10
TEN
LYRIEN
I was done for.
The way she chose to move against me, to allow me to corner her like this.
It wasn't a trap. All it would take was a few words on her part, and I would let her go, but she didn't say them.
Instead, she opened to me, giving way to my seduction.
I could feel the tremble of her inner thigh as I stroked it, see the way her eyes fluttered as the pleasure of my touch caused her legs to inch apart on their own.
I kept my facsimile of a hand where it was, stroking her thigh, letting my fingers drift up a little, but not too much.
"I need..." she said, the words breathless and trailing off in a hitch as my makeshift fingers made another circle against her skin.
"You need me inside of you?" I asked.
I leaned forward, bringing my facsimile of a face down to her neck. I nudged her head to the side, creating an opening as I kissed the side of her neck. She let out a soft moan, and her legs parted a little bit more. I kissed my way up to her ear, tracing the edge of her earlobe.
"You need me to fuck you?" I whispered in her ear.
"Lyrien," she gasped out, her hands reaching up to touch my chest, as if she was about to push me away.
But she didn't.
Instead, her hands moved up, reaching up behind my neck. Then she twisted her face and buried it against me, like she was hiding against me.
"You said breed," she said, her voice muffled against me. "Can you actually..."
My fingers, trailing a little bit upward, disrupted her thoughts with another gasp.
I stilled them. This was an important conversation.
I shifted myself, moving my arm that was behind her on the chair down so that I was hugging her against me.
Her thighs squeezed together against my fingers briefly as I stilled them against her soft flesh.
She pressed her thighs fully together, encasing my fingers in the seductive warmth of her flesh, but I kept them still so that we could talk.
She was breathing hard and fast, and her eyes had a little bit of a glaze to them.
"Not with my neurofilaments," I said. "The part of me that is able to breed you is at my center.
As for the viability of that, it appears that your species is cross-compatible with a significant number of others, which is why you were being studied.
My species can also crossbreed with a large number of other smaller species we have discovered so far, but our primary traits dominate in the offspring.
The fact that I am so attracted to you and interested in doing just that is also a strong indicator of our compatibility.
The taste of you, what is between your legs... "
I shuddered with the need of it, and the entirety of me rumbled.
"You set me on fire," I said. "Every part of me is eager to touch you, to explore your body.
Tell me you want me to, and I will take you, fuck you, give you a taste of what it will be like when I breed you.
Say nothing, and I will seduce you until there is no part of you left that wants to resist me. "
"Oh," she said, lifting her head to look up at me with wide eyes. Her next words came out as a whisper. "What if I say no?"
"Then I will stop," I said.
I held still and waited. She said nothing, just looked at me, her hands forming fists against my chest.
"Are you saying no?" I asked the question in the painful silence.
She didn't respond. She was just breathing hard and looking at me with wide eyes that flicked between the location of my simulated eyes and lips.
I could take her now.
That was clear.
She would give way to my aggression, parting her legs and letting me in; all I had to do was push.
But that wasn't the only thing I wanted. I didn't want this to be just about overpowering her senses and overcoming her hesitations. I wanted it to be about her choosing me, and she couldn't choose me while I remained in the position of absolute power over her.
"Dinner?" I asked, leaning back away from her and removing my hand from her thigh.
We would be hiding in this asteroid field for some time, quiet and hidden, until the hunter gave up searching for us and moved on.
The resources I had on board were easily enough to sustain me for quite some time while hosting a single, small alien.
I was confident in my hiding spot, and the contaminant wouldn't spread farther now that I was able to bunker down.
She didn't need to work herself to exhaustion to keep us safe.
Clearing the contamination so that we could come out of hiding would take a long time; it was a marathon, not a sprint, and it was important that she maintain a good work-and-rest balance so that she could keep going the distance it would take.
I could take my time with her.
To show her that I could be her home.
To do that, I couldn't abuse her, even if her body begged me for it.