Page 36 of No Strings Attached

“I was 15 when he died. After a really bad year for the three of us, I started to focus all of my energy on school and getting into a good college. I wanted to follow in my parents’ footsteps and become an academic, so they would be proud and happy. I think I did it for that reason more than anything else.”

“When I was 18, I left home and started college. A month after I started, my parents were killed in their home during a home invasion. And then I was alone in the world. I threw myself even deeper into school, because it felt like the only thing I had left of them, you know?”

Bahbi nodded. He didn’t truly understand, her life and society bore no resemblance to his, but he understood the emotions she must have been experiencing. Hadn’t he just been taken from the only home he had ever known and sent alone into the galaxy?

“And I’ve been doing that for the last seven years. Without really having any meaningful relationships or connections. My family used to go hiking and camping in the Olympic national forest every summer when I was growing up, so that’s a tradition I’ve maintained since losing all of them. And I’ve gone alone,because I never had anyone in my life that I felt I could share that with.”

She turned to look at him and said, “I’ve never told anyone any of this. Not even the few lovers I’ve had.”

Bahbi sat up and held her gaze, “I’m honored that you would choose to share this with me.”

She continued regarding him, seeming to wonder at the fact that she had shared with him. Then she visibly shook something off and said, “Anyway, that’s where I was when the fucking Ulus took me. All by myself in the middle of a fucking forest. Stereotypical alien abduction bait—I might as well have been wearing a t-shirt that said, ‘Probe Me’.” She shook her head, then smiled and looked off in the distance, “At least it wasn’t the goddamned bigfoot.”

Bahbi had let the companionable silence between them stretch out as long as he could stand while trying, and failing miserably, to keep his gaze from sliding up and down her naked body, continuously returning to those small, rosy-tipped breasts. He knew it would be a while before he was ready forNEXT TIME, but he longed to simply touch her and enjoy the feel of her wonderful body beneath his hands. And maybe his tongue. He also wanted to clear her mind of the sad subject matter they had been speaking of. He could tell that the double realization that Earth might be impossible to locate and that there wasn’t really anything pulling her back there if they did, weighed very heavily on her.

He reached an arm around her back, then slid the other under her knees and pulled her across his lap before she even realizedwhat had happened. She squeaked out an “Oh!” and then smiled up at him in amused shock. He pulled her close and smiled, then gave in and nuzzled into the side of her neck, running his tongue up and behind her ear. She repeated, “Oh” in a much different tone, drawing it out into a sound of understanding and pleasure.

“Vi,” he whispered, while running a short claw gently around the rosy, pink tip of one breast and watching it pucker into a hard point, “I feel an uncontrollable urge to lick you here. Is this allowed?”

She had become a little breathless and smiled when she said, “Not just allowed. Encouraged.”

Before she had even finished speaking, he had lifted her off his lap to bring the peak to his mouth, rolling it around with his tongue before pulling it in to rub against the row of short incisors between his long canine teeth. She moaned and squeezed her thighs together. He shifted the angle he was holding her to get at the other one, which was just as responsive, and Vi became even more breathy while her head dropped back in pleasure.

“And the rest of you?” he asked, a little more urgently. “Licking?”

“Yes,” she whispered, “Bon Appetit.”

He lay her gently back on the grass and spread her legs to place his knees between them.

She was panting and flushed. He bent down to the small, furry patch at the apex of her thighs, but she said, “Wait,” and reached for him. He crawled up and held himself above her, looking into her eyes.

She smiled and said, “Now rub your fur against my skin. This is exactly how our bodies were in my dream.”

Bahbi felt a sensation jolt through him, but he couldn’t identify what it was. He thought it might be…pride. He still couldn’t believe this incredible female had dreamt about himtouching her. Him! He lowered his body until only his fur made contact with her skin, then slid it up and down her several times, feeling hot trails created where her stiff nipples grazed him in lines. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she moaned with pleasure.

She said, “I don’t know why that feels so…oh…good to me, but damn, it…really does.”

It felt insanely good to him, too, but he had somewhere he desperately wanted to be. Bahbi slid slowly back down her body, stopping to lick and kiss each nipple before moving back down to her sweet sex, already glistening with her arousal. He ran his tongue once through her folds and she cried out, hips bucking toward him in response. Then he was lost to the taste of her and the sounds of her pleasure as she moaned and softly said his name. He hungrily slid his tongue between button and entrance, then dragging it around the insides of her folds, then back, occasionally flicking it lightly across her little button or probing inside her entrance. As the sounds of her pleasure were escalating, he moved to circle her little button with his tongue until she tensed and screamed out so loudly that it was a few seconds before the sounds stopped bouncing from the rock walls.

Her body melted back into the grass and the only sound was her rapid breathing. Bahbi let his body relax where it was, turning sideways to lay his head on her lower belly and running his hand along the inside of her right thigh.

After her breathing settled into a slow rhythm he recognized as sleep, he closed his eyes to rest while sending mental commands to his body to be ready forNEXT TIMEwhen she awoke.

He had started to drift towards sleep himself when he heard Acken’s voice boom through the space from the far side, “VI! BAHBI! ARE YOU IN HERE?”

Sixteen: Queen of Oz

Vi awoke to thesound of Acken’s shout with Bobby nestled between her legs. They both quickly sat up, blinking in surprise.

Bobby recovered from the shock first and yelled, “Yes, we’re in here!”

She looked out across the big pool at the cavern walls and could see a rectangular square of light with Acken’s silhouette framed in it, just above the water line.

“SWIM OVER TO ME.”

Bobby still had the lead and shouted, “Give us a minute!” He got up and started gathering up Vi’s clothes.

Vi grimaced as she shucked on the still-damp clothes, then strapped on her sandals while bracing herself against Bobby. They walked over to the water and into it.

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