And now we’re here together and safe. No matter what happens today or tomorrow, that’s all that matters now.”
I place a tender kiss on his vibrating ridges to seal in my words.
D’Rek’s ridges instantly stop their anxious vibration, but not because of my soft words. I find that out when a new presence suddenly joins our conversation. Tall and thick and tenting the sheet.
“Oh wow…” I say.
“K’vani, please forgive me,” D’Rek answers with an embarrassed grimace.
As it turns out, those forehead ridges of his are an erogenous zone.
“You learn something new every day,” I say with a laugh, after D’Rek explains.
But D’Rek still looks stricken. “I am aware you have been through a horrific ordeal, and that we have much on our agenda for today. Give me a moment in the facilities and I will make it comply.”
D’Rek is right. We’ve got a lot to deal with this day. The sentencing of N’Maryah, along with figuring out how to handle a possible war with the Kaidorians after we thwarted the emperor’s kidnapping plot.
There’s also our wedding and the Kel’s first diplomatic trip to New Terrhan to plan. Not to mention deciding what to do with all the Xalthurian prisoners of war we found aboard that Kaidorian ship.
Xalthuria doesn’t have anything approaching a mental health care system or protocol. But most of those formerly proud warriors have been reduced to near comatose zombies, save for sudden and unpredictable bursts of violence and mad ramblings spoken in the Kaidorian’s bark and growl language.
They cannot be released back to their families in their current condition, and we’ll basically have to build a mental health care system from scratch to help them.
There’re also the many female rights items I want to get on the agenda for both humans and the Xalthurians. Messed up as N’Maryah’s actions were, I can easily see why she might fear Xalthurian females being completely shunted out of their own society just because they can no longer bear children.
So yeah, our to-do list has just gotten crazy long.
In many ways our lives were way simpler when he was just my alien overlord and I was just his to breed. In fact, it’s doubtful our being together will ever be that simple again.
I might as well accept that, I think, as I raise to my knees and take my Kel’s face in my hands. This time I don’t just kiss his ridges, I lick them…then look down.
My pussy clenches, when I see the sheet is now pulsating with a light blue circle of pre-cum saturating the spot right above his cock.
Yes, this love of ours has made our lives very, very complicated.
Smiling wickedly at my alien overlord, I decide to climb on and enjoy the ride.
Epilogue
Kira
As much time as I’ve spent defending our technological lack to the Xalthurian council over the past few months, I can’t help but feel frustrated about us not having even so much as a comm screen when we land on New Terrhans’s surface about six months later.
I can tell as soon as we step out of the ship that we’ve disrupted my people unnecessarily. Many of the villagers abandon the community fields to gape. At our ship, and at me holding hands with the Kel as we make our descent down the landing platform.
But not everyone is curious about my return. With my enhanced eyesight, I can see quite a few women with large bellies, running to hide. Probably fearing that they, too, will get snatched as I was.
I can only imagine how they felt when N’Ure’s ship set down without warning a few months ago. No wonder “none of them could be observed working” by his team. Not for the first time, I wish that slimy green asshole hadn’t somehow managed to escape all the wreckage he left behind.
A chill goes down my back just thinking of him. The Xalthurian forces still haven’t managed to find N’Ure, and despite the fact that we killed all but a small number of the Kaidorian warriors sent to extract a bunch of women from New Terrhan, the Kaidorians haven’t been in contact.
So while Xalthuria continues to prosper under their new Kel’s rule, the Kaidorian’s lack of communication has D’Rek too deeply unsettled to enjoy it.
But enough of that. Remembering how D’Rek had told me a royal must never look worried, lest they wish to transfer that worry onto their people, I paste a smile onto my face.
And I keep it there, even as I note the mostly empty