Page 2 of Jessica's Mates
When I heard of Clan Wolf, I knew the girls were there. Or at least one. I needed to go to them, to talk to them. They would understand.
Honestly, I didn’t know why these Aashi guys were complaining. I told them over and over I wasn’t interested in them, but they just acted like assholes and still followed me like lost puppies.
“Jee-see-ka, you mate bond me. You are my Chosen. I am your male.” I turned back to see the largest of the chosen guys standing closer than I would like.
“I told you, Bezen, I’m not interested. Leave me alone.” Ugh, I had been trekking through this strange forest for a week. Maybe I was lost but I wasn’t going to ask for help. Bezen and his chosen crew just kept telling me to return to Clan Ariaan.As if.
I could see some Aashi males in the trees following us at times, a lot of the time I didn’t see them at all. And if one of the Chosen saw them get too close, they would chase them off. Not that I cared, I was sure they were after the same thing. And I had no interest in a whole lot more following me. These five were enough for me.
When Bezen got closer, I screamed loudly and he froze. I knew the touching thing… I knew what it meant. After I already did it, of course. And I refused to touch them again. I made sure to learn everything after that, but the touching thing, that was a big thing to find out after. Like, come on, I touched this guy and now his cock works. I laughed when they first told me what I had done, I thought they were messing with me. Trying to get me to mate bond them. But it was all true. I needed to touch him so he would get the mating hormones. And Bezen was fifty-three. He had never been through puberty. Well, not until now.
I think that in itself was a tragedy, and not my refusing to be his mate. At least he could jack off or something. At least it worked… I knew it did because he liked to present it to me… They all did. Like it was a magic stick, they just didn’t get what to do with it. I didn’t want them, and if that was their version of a dick pic, well, that was never what a girl wanted.
“Mate bond with me,” Bezen pleaded, the translator always a moment delayed, but I knew what he was asking. I screamed longer and louder than before. When I stopped, my throat felt hoarse, sweat trickled down my forehead, and I felt dizzy. Come on, this was insane. This clan should be close. It had to be.
“Jessica?” I heard called out through the trees, and my heart started to race. I swung my head around but all the trees looked the same… Was I hearing things?
“Hello? Elle?” I swear it was Elle I could hear, or maybe my dehydrated mind was playing tricks on me. It had to be one of the girls; I needed it to be. Was I close to Clan Wolf? Was this it? My breathing sped up as I listened.
“Where are you?” I heard called again, yet this voice was different. They were really there; I'd made it. I did it
“I’m here, hello… Hello, can you see me?” I called out, hoping they could see me. By the looks on the chosen guys’ faces, I could tell they weren’t impressed by my new find, but me, I was happier than I’d felt in two months.
When the girls came into view, they had four Aashi males with them. They were shorter than my chosen ones. But they had dark mating stripes on their thighs. Ugh, I guess they got their alien husbands.
“Hadley, Elle, oh god, are you girls going to this Clan Wolf?” I rushed to them and hugged them. I wasn’t close to any of the girls, but that was because I kept my distance. I had to.
“It’s close. Zurcov, he knows the way.” Elle gestured to the Aashi male beside her. He nodded at me as I watched him stand taller. I could see his eyes were on my Chosen. He was shorter than them, and from the way he eyed them, I was sure he didn’t like that he was outnumbered, even with what looked to be Hadley’s two guys. The four of these males were no match for the Chosen males from Clan Ariaan.
“Let’s go then, I need to get there, now. I need to get away from these assholes.” Hadley watched them from the corner of her eye as she wrapped her arm around my shoulder. I needed this; I needed some human comfort. I was tired, emotional, and grumpy. But I held it in. I didn’t want to upset everyone when I got there. I know I had been a bitch on the ship, I just didn’t want anyone to get in trouble. If I spilled my secrets, we all could have been in danger. From the M’Mori, from the government agents… We weren’t safe. Even here, I wasn’t safe from these guys.
The girls were talking so fast that it was hard to keep up at first, but it was so nice to hear English. They both held onto my arms, it made me feel safe. We had made it to Clan Wolf… I sighed in relief. That was until my Chosen surrounded us girls and threatened any male who came close.
I felt terrible that Elle and Hadley were caught up in this macho bullshit, and the Chosen guys wouldn’t move to let them out to their mates who stood as close as they could. They wanted to free their mates. I could hear Elle telling them to hold on, not to do anything stupid.
As far as first impressions go, I had only made bad ones.
Chapter Three
K’Tem
Ilooked down at my chest for the hundredth time, and what I saw was still the same. The glowing swirls on my scales, it let others know I had found my mate. My fated mate. Many M’Mori searched for their mate for many years. I had been blessed by the gods to have found mine so young in life. I was only twenty-one years; most don’t find their mate until they were more mature. But I met her and she was everything I could ask for in a mate.
Beautiful, smart, kind, and generous with kisses. She had the most amazing hair color, like that on the sun back home on Mori Mori, and her nose was protruding and so unusual. But her smile and those blunt teeth… She wasn’t afraid of me. When I first saw her, I knew she was my fated mate. I also knew I was in a lot of trouble the moment my body reacted to her. I didn’t believe the M’Mori government knew that we, the M’Mori, could be fated to humans. I had never heard of it before to any species other than our own.
Jessica, the human, she was my fated mate.
“K’Tem, are you there, brother?” I quickly covered my chest as I grabbed the datapad my brother, R’Nam, was secretly contacting me on. He had given it to me when I was assigned the special mission. He had been convinced for many years that the government was up to something; he was right. But he didn’t know how corrupt they really were.
“Yes, I am here. Were you able to locate her?” I stared back as my brother pressed buttons on his screens; he was very skilled in tech. He enjoyed hacking into other species’ systems to see what they were up to. He never did so to cause harm. He did it because he could. But it had been almost impossible for him to hack the M’Mori ship I was on now.
Earth was a world in which no other species had contacted or been allowed access to. But now, M’Mori had a special license to make contact. There were many off-limit planets that you were not allowed to visit or touch—Aarzyn was one of them. But as soon as the M’Mori government saw what they wanted, they had the status changed so they could mine there. That was my brother’s first hint that something was going on.
It was not good. The aketwhich they mined was not good for any living creature. It had a mineral inside; it was the mineral that powered the ships. It would also make you sick if you were exposed to it for long periods of time. The thing was, the Aashi were living so close to where they mined, it worried my brother. And now it worried me more as my fated was there, living with the Aashi.
This was also why the M’Mori rotated the prisoners that mined the aket. It would be unethical to let them die, I had heard a supervisor telling another. The truth was, every death they had to let the Universal Federation know of. They were criminals, but they were not sent to Aarzyn to their death, it was part of their agreement to the federation that they were not injured or harmed.
The Federation’s prison planet was overpopulated, and it made sense for them to lease out the prisoners cheaply to planets they were needed. Freed up space there, and made them money in return. It was a win-win for both parties.
