Page 11 of Kailirex (Brides of the Mylos #6)

CHAPTER 11

KAILIREX

I kissed her hard and deep, unable to resist the draw to her anymore. My mate wanted to protect me and it was a heady feeling. I enfolded her tiny body against mine, the warmth and pressure of her against me igniting my nerve endings. The itching ratcheted up to a near unbearable level immediately, almost as if someone had turned a dial to increase the level of discomfort. She whimpered softly as I broke the kiss, her eyes glazed and half lidded.

I released her, taking a half step back, needing to get myself under control as I fought equal urges to ravish her silly right here as well as scratch myself raw.

“Note to self,” drawled Piloris wryly. “Do not kiss or touch my sexy mate until we are home. Brother, your skin is now pretty angry looking and I see the outlines of scales already.” he scratched along the side of his jaw. “Makes me itch just looking at you.”

“I can see a scale pattern along your face and jaw,” Eric informed him.

“Well, that explains it, then. I should have guessed.”

“I think the rush of emotion I felt when Stella showed that protective streak and from our kiss accelerated matters,” I admitted.

“Yep. No kissing until we get back to the ship,” Piloris said, his tone firm.

“We’ll both have onion breath from the hotdogs,” Eric pointed out.

“If we both do, it cancels it out.”

“True.”

Stella was looking at my blotchy skin now, looking alarmed.

“Kissing me caused an allergic reaction?”

“No, sis, his mating display got kicked into high gear.” Eric winked at her suggestively, and if he had not been her sibling, I would have punched him for the temerity. As it was, my inner beast rumbled a warning. ”Oh, did you hear that? He’s all growly now. You totally pushed all his buttons, sis.”

She turned a deep red. “Oh! Um, is it okay to leave you like this? Is there a cream or something we should put on you to relieve the discomfort?”

I shook my head. “Only the full appearance of my plumage, as well as claiming you fully, can do that.”

I hadn’t thought she could possibly get any redder, but I’d been wrong.

“Right! Um,” she stammered, looking away in embarrassment. “I knew that. I don’t know how I forgot that.”

“We have time for everyone to get the hotdogs and return to the ship,” I told her, keeping my voice gentle.”As for you and I, we can wait in the shuttle for their return.”

“Yeah, sis, you can go parking with your mate, where no one can see inside and you’ll be all alone for a couple of hours,” Eric teased.

Her mouth fell open. “Eric!” she screeched. “You make it sound so dirty!”

“Honey, it totally could be. He needs his itch scratched, quite literally. And as for you, you’ve been eye fucking him since the moment he came through that door, and don’t you even deny it.”

She licked her lips, “That may well be, but you didn’t have to say it out loud!”

My cock, which had been hard from the moment I’d seen her image on my kunnarskyn, twitched within the confines of my entirely now too tight pants.

“Perhaps you should take this discussion to the parking garage?” Loris suggested. “I hate to sound as if I’m rushing you out the door, but I need to clear the pheromones from the air in here. I have another appointment arriving in the next half hour and if they match, it would not be a good thing if their mate arrived scenting your joint arousals.”

“Apologies,” Piloris said, speaking for all of us. “You are quite correct. Protocol is to arrive and leave immediately.”

He beckoned towards his mate with his fingers, who followed him immediately. Stella moved to follow her brother, and I snagged her hand with mine before she made it all the way past me. I couldn’t bear the thought of us no longer touching. Maybe her sibling’s crude suggestion had merit, after all. Not that Ii’d fully claim her in the shuttle. Never that, as she deserved a bed to be worshipped in. But we could kiss and touch and give each other an orgasm or three to help things along, surely.

We exited through the back, entering a multi story parking garage that was attached to the building. Three vehicles were parked in spaces closest to the door, stenciled lettering on the wall indicating they belonged to the Center. A camera blinked steadily keeping watch and I knew that Xeranos had a security protocol running that made certain the vehicles, the camera, and the door to the center weren’t tampered with in any way. Still, Piloris and I took a moment to check the undercarriage of the one whose lights flashed when he pressed the button on the key fob, just in case. There was nothing there that shouldn’t be, so he and Eric got in.

“Tillin must still be at the shuttle,” I said. “I’ll send him down.”

Stella and I walked to the middle of the garage where an elevator was and took it to the top, where a helicopter pad currently hosted our shuttle. True enough, Tillin was there, chatting away with a couple of construction workers.

“Hey!” Tillin said. “Sorry, I got a little distracted. These guys saw us coming in for a landing and hurried over to take a look.”

“Yeah, we better get going. We’re supposed to be on our lunch break and we ain’t even made it to the deli yet,” one of the workers laughed.

“Thanks for the heads up on Katz’s Delicatessen,” he called after his two new friends.

One of them simply raised his hand in the air in acknowledgment.

“My mate and I will be waiting for you here in the shuttle. You’re just getting the food and coming back. She’s nervous about reactions to me being green.”

He nodded. “Understood. Just let me grab one of my insulated food totes from inside.” he ducked in and quickly returned, carrying a handled bag large enough to pack an entire picnic in. “We’ll bring you back yours, but first,” he grinned, “There’s a deli along the way I need to stop at.”

Stella smiled at him. “Thanks. Eric knows how I like mine. Could you make sure he gets me a bag of chips and a Coke, too?”

“You got it.” Tillin strode away quickly.

“I like matzoh ball soup in case you’re wondering,” she hollered after him.

“Sure thing!” he called back, waving jauntily as he entered the elevator and turned around to face us before punching the buttons on the control panel..

“I wonder if he knows they sell hot dogs there too,” she mused.

“I’m sure Eric will stop him from skipping Billy’s,” I replied, leading her inside before activating the ramp to close.

She giggled. “He did seem pretty keen to get us to make out.”

“It would be a shame to disappoint him,” I murmured, pulling her towards me as I made my way to the closest passenger seat. She giggled again, a snorting sound that was far from musical but absolutely adorable coming from her. I sank down into the seat and she came down with me, settling into my lap.

“Oh, no,” she giggled. “Whatever shall we do now?”

“Mm, I have a few ideas.” I cupped the back of her head with one hand, my other one slipping down her ass, pressing her fabric covered sex against my own. We kissed again, messily, but that didn’t matter. I had the taste of her on my tongue, and her hips were grinding against mine. It was almost enough.