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“Did you ever think this is what life was going to be like when the Hands made us all do that stupid vote on whether or not to send us here?” Olivia asks. She sits with her head resting on her hands, staring at where the portal will open.

“Fuck no,” Skylar throws her head back and laughs. “I was so scared when they told us we were going, and then you went and voted yes and made it so all of us had to vote yes, too.”

“Oh, I was so pissed at you for that,” Diane adds, turning her attention to Olivia. “You went and martyred yourself, and then Ihad to, too, or I’d look like I was being a baby about the whole thing.”

“Who was it that flipped the camera off?” Nia asks, looking around at all of us.

Skylar groans and tries to cover her smile with her hand. “I was mad, okay? It was not my finest moment.”

“I went back to my room and cried for hours,” Alice says. When none of us are surprised, she huffs. “You could at least pretend that’s out of the ordinary for me.”

“We could, but then we’d all be liars,” I say, giving her shoulder a soft shove. Alice and I were not friends when I first arrived. In fact, I was surprised when she didn’t hate me. I guess a part of my tough love rubbed off on her in a good way and she was able to finally tell her alien man that she wanted to be with him. I mean, she got kidnapped before she did, but still, I like to think I had a hand in getting them together.

“Oh, I think they’re coming!” Deja stands from her seat, her fingers wringing in front of her. We all jump to our feet and watch the air, hoping Deja is right because all of this waiting is exhausting.

As if on cue, the portal begins to glow a few feet away from where we’ve set up the closest table. We all move at once, going to our designated duties. Kendra and Diane are on tunic and short grabbing duty while Nia, Deja, Olivia, Skylar, Alice, and I are grabbing women as they come through the portal and getting them to a chair so they can sit while they wait for their eyesight to return.

I take a deep, shaky breath, my lips rolling between my teeth as I wait for the first new person to come through. One second, there’s no one, and then we have our newest member stumbling through and blindly reaching out for something to hold onto.

“I got you,” Olivia says as she takes the woman’s hand in hers. “You’re safe. Let me get you a chair. Just follow me.”

Kendra runs toward them with a tunic and shorts that should fit. She’s just setting them in the woman’s hands when a second woman comes through, and this time, Skylar is there to guide her to a chair.

Over and over we help new women get adjusted to being in their new home. I forget about Vex not being here. I forget about the demons on the other side of the partition. I forget about everything other than helping the new women find a home in this place. Because there’s so much happiness to be found here.

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Rallan's Epilogue

1 Year Later

“Ithink I am going to put a babe in you,” I say as I thrust into Simone.

She had barely woken from her slumber when I rolled her underneath me on her stomach and found a nice home for my cock inside of her. She lets out the most wonderful sounds in the mornings when she wakes right before a nice hard lovemaking session.

“Hm?” Simone groans as she tries to move her head to the side so she can look at me as I thrust into her with a bit more power. I always start slow because I do not want to injure my little mate, but she has grown accustomed to me at this point. It does nottake many soft, sweet thrusts before she opens for me, and I can take her in the way, we both love so much.

“A babe, in your womb,” I grunt as I feel her backside slap against my hips. I hiss at the feeling of her soft and compliant underneath me, my thrusts scooting her up the bed as I plow into her nice and hard. “I want to put one there.”

“A baby?” Simone asks, her words still groggy with sleep. I would find it insulting that I haven’t woken her fully with how hard I’m fucking her, but I also know this has been our routine for many, many days. Perhaps she is too used to it, and I will need to adjust how I make love to her in the mornings. Maybe I will have Vex come do the thing he does that exhausts our mate.

I sit up, my cock pulling out of Simone as I reach for her hips to lift her onto her knees. She arches her back to give me easier access, and I slide back inside of her. I love how she grips me as I pull out just to slide back in.

“Rallan,” Simone gasps my name as her pussy begins to flutter around my cock. I smile to myself, knowing my mate will wake up fully with a good morning orgasm. There is no better to wake up, surely. Her fingers twist in the blanket, her legs shaking as her muscles grow taut. She is tense with anticipation as I keep a steady rhythm. “Please, please, don’t stop.” She is sounding much more coherent now, and I reward that by doing as she asks.

“Fuck!” Simone cries out as I feel her spasming around my cock. I hump her harder, falling onto my hands so I am laid over her back as I thrust harder, deeper, wanting to make sure she remembers who her pussy belongs to. She moans and whimpers as her orgasm ends, and I still continue my lovemaking. “Rallan, please.”

“Please, what?” I ask, knowing I can get her to beg for almost anything right now. She is at her most complacent and kind right after she has shattered on my cock.

“Please put a babe in me,” she whines a high-pitched sound.

My whole body stills. Well, almost my whole body. My cock is following her command as it releases every last drop of my seed deep within her. The rest of me? Well, it is still trying to figure out how to breathe when our mate has stolen all of our breath.

“I think you broke him,” Vex laughs from the doorway.

I don’t turn to face him. I can barely even control my body right now. I am too stunned at the most beautiful words I have ever heard coming from my mate’s lips. Maybe she has broken me.

“Rallan?” Simone looks over her shoulder and sees nothing but my chest since I am still leaning over her. She shimmies my cock out of her and rolls onto her back. “Are you okay?” She grabs my neck in her arms and drags my attention down to her face.