Page 18 of Relyn (Warriors of Etlon #6)

Relyn

R elyn headed to the one place he thought Nora might go, and that was back to her ship. He got to the hangar just in time to see her shoot Ketle and then calmly walk away as if she hadn’t a care in the universe.

He froze, torn between finishing off Ketle, who was struggling to get up, and scooping up his mate and hiding her away from any source of danger. Nora spotted him and changed direction toward him.

“I got some proper clothes,” she said.

Relyn picked her up and strode quickly back to his quarters.

“Hey, I can walk, you know.”

And had she not had a laser pistol, Ketle would have killed her. Relyn wasn’t sure where she’d found one, but that was beside the matter. Nora had not stayed safe in his quarters and that was unacceptable.

Once locked away, he put her down and tried to stay calm.

“I told you to stay here,” he said.

“And I decided to go find some stuff.”

“Ketle is trying to kill you.”

“I dealt with that. He’s a bully. I can deal with bullies.” Nora put down the case she was carrying. There was some sort of animal in it.

“You will not! You will stay safe. Here. Until we depart,” Relyn demanded.

“I’m a grown ass woman of independent means and I will not be ordered around!” Nora poked her finger into his chest as she shouted.

“It is not my intention to order you to do anything. I only want to keep you safe.” Relyn was not above pleading with his new mate.

“I’m not made out of glass. I’m from Philly for goodness sake.”

“I thought you were from Terra.”

“Philly is a city on Terra. It’s in the U.S. The United States,” she explained.

“So it is like your clan,” he tried to reason.

Nora opened her mouth, then closed it again, shaking her head.

“Never mind. Just… my people are tough. We got hit hard by the Suhlik and even before that, we have always been fighters. It’s the first capital of… never mind.”

“There are dangers here, and it is my duty to protect you.”

“That’s sweet, hun, but you’ve already made it clear that you intend to stay here, and I’ve gotta find my way home.”

“Our circumstances have changed,” Relyn said, nearly forgetting the good news that he had for her. “Rutra is letting us go. All of us.”

Her eyes narrowed and she crossed her hands over her chest.

“What’s the catch?”

“Catch?” There was nothing to catch.

“When someone offers a deal that is too good to be true, it means there is a downside. What does Rutra get out of the deal?”

“He believes we will capture Alana for him, and bring her back here, or at least alert him to her hiding place.”

“This sounds like it was a very bad break up,” Nora said.

“It was before my time on the ship, but it means that we will be heading back to the ship shortly.”

Nora huffed and then went over to the crate. “You hear that buddy? It looks like you get to go back sooner than I thought. Doesn’t that make you happy?”

The creature in the crate let out a sound that Relyn inferred meant that it was not at all happy. Relyn had no interest in its happiness. He was only interested in his mate’s pleasure. And now that the immediate danger was over, his own arousal was beginning to mount.

“There will be some time before we may reboard,” Relyn said.

“I thought we were fighting,” Nora said.

“I have resolved it. I have won. You have won.”

“I have, have I?” She was not convinced.

“We are getting on the ship and heading towards Terra. This will make you happy and grateful.”

“Grateful, eh?”

Nora approached him, a half smile on her face. She reached out and ran a hand over the front of his trousers. His cock leaped up to greet her.

“So if this isn’t your real shape, how the heck are you hard?”

“I have no idea. It has never happened before, unless I willed it.”

“So you are unwilling?”

“No, I am very willing,” Relyn confessed.

“Yes, I can see that. I didn’t get a good look last night, considering it formed inside me. That was a neat trick, by the way.”

Relyn lost track of his thoughts when she pulled his pants down, and his cock sprung out, pointing at her.

Nora did not shy away. She wrapped her hands around him.

Relyn pulled her closer and claimed her mouth in a searing kiss that made him giddy with her scent and taste.

He wanted to taste all of her. She was wearing entirely too many layers.

Relyn stripped off his own clothes in record time, all while she had a hold on his cock.

“It is your turn,” Relyn hinted as she stood there and stroked him. “You have gotten your look.”

“But then I’ll have to let go,” she said.

“Then I shall help,” Relyn said. He hooked his fingers in her trousers and took both them and her panties down at the same time, but with her still holding his cock, he could only get them as far as the apex of her thighs.

He dipped a finger between them, sliding between the slick folds.

That did the trick. She grabbed onto his biceps for support and gasped. He let his finger explore a bit more.

“Take them off,” he hinted.

Nora shoved her trousers down and peeled off coat. A flail of arms later and he picked her up, as naked as he was. He laid her on the bed. Nora sat up, but he pushed her gently back down, his mouth going to his ultimate goal. The taste of her nearly made him delirious.

“Fuck! That’s oh! Fuck!”

Relyn took that to be a sign that the flicks of his tongue were appreciated. He found the nubbin and teased it. His mate grabbed his horns and rode out wave after wave of pleasure. Finally, his cock could not be ignored. He rolled over and positioned her over his length.

“Yes!”

He slowly lowered her, elating in the feel of pressing the head of his cock past her entrance and letting her weight carry her until she was fully seated on him.

“Has anyone ever told you that you have a very large cock?” Nora said as she rotated her hips.

“It may have been mentioned before, but I have actually reduced the size from the original.”

Nora’s eyes widened. “It gets bigger?”

Relyn focused, letting Balcore’s true form take shape, tattoos formed on his skin and they began to glow in the way that Mahdfel only do with their mate.

“Oh. My. God.” Nora ran her hands over the tattoos on his stomach before pushing herself off his length and letting herself drop. “I didn’t think this could get any better.”

Relyn put his hands on her hips and began to give her some more leverage.

She rode him until she threw back her head and screamed her pleasure.

He took this cue to search for his own release, an act that had been nearly that with any other females he had bedded.

But buried deep in Nora, it was a pleasure that he couldn’t put words to.

It overwhelmed him as a feral growl roared out of him and Relyn emptied himself into her.

He wasn’t even sure what he was filling her with, whether his seed was Balcore’s or of his own generation. He would be pleased if she carried Balcore’s son, but his own selfish desire would be more satisfied if it was his.

Nora collapsed on top of him. He stroked her head as her heartbeat slowed into a calmer pace. The creature in the crate let out a pitiful noise and Nora jumped up.

“What is that thing? You said it was a weapon?” Relyn asked as he sadly watched Nora put on her clothes.

She actually paused to laugh. “Only in the wrong hands. It’s a cat. A pet. It lives on the ship and I promised that I would take care of it.”

“So when you told Ketle that it was dangerous-”

“I was bluffing. To be sure, Data might scratch you up a bit, but most of the time he’s just a big ball of fluff. An unhappy one right now, because he wants to be back on the ship,” Nora said. “But he’s going to be happy now, because we’re going back to the ship, right?”

“I shall kill Ketle first,” Relyn decided. He was too dangerous to be left on the board. Nora would have to stay here, out of sight. Of course the last time he’d left her here, she left as soon as he turned the corner. That would not do.

“I have a better idea. How about we don’t kill anyone, and we leave as soon as possible? Why don’t you go get Wendy and Bright and I’ll meet you back at the ship?”

Relyn realized that she meant to leave now, while he was still laying naked in bed.

That was completely unacceptable. Relyn rolled out of bed and began putting on his clothes hurriedly.

Much to his consternation, he found them all too small, as they were replicated to fit Rel, not Balcore.

Relyn tried to calm himself enough to focus, but Nora was nearly out the door.

“I will not forgive you if Ketle kills you,” Relyn yelled. He closed his eyes and centered himself. With relief he managed to command his body to shrink to its previous size. The tattoos melted into his skin and he finished getting dressed.

He caught up with her quickly, as she was paused at a crossroads trying to decipher which way she needed to go.

“The ship is that way,” he pointed.

“Ah, yes. You know it would be easier to remember if someone would stop trying to carry me everywhere. This place is a bit of a maze. You could tell the captain to put up a few signs.”

“It’s a security measure designed to confuse intruders.”

“Oh. Then it works quite well,” Nora said before taking off in the direction he’d pointed. As her legs were not nearly as long as his, Relyn kept up with her easily. “You know, you don’t have to come with me,” Nora said.

“I do not trust Ketle, or one of his intermediaries not to take revenge if they see you.”

“Like I said before, I can take care of myself. I’d rather there was no killing involved.”

“Killing is a last alternative, but I believe we have reached that point with Ketle. His kind do not back down,” Relyn said.

“So you think that now we have both personally handed him his ass on a platter, he’s just gonna go for a quick bang bang?”

Relyn paused to decode that sentence. Sometimes the translator didn’t get the euphemisms quite right. But he got the point.

“Yes. And until then, we shall not separate.”