Page 27 of Jessica's Mates
“Don’t stop, it feels so good,” he almost purred to me. Dang… sleepy, horny Tomlee was hot.
“Can you not fuck on this tree? I already have the fear we will all fall to our deaths,” Elle joked from beside me. I stifled my laugh.
“The Aashi are like cats, they have nine lives and always land on their feet.” I had no idea if they were, but I wanted to play along with her joke of falling.
“I’m really freaked out and I haven’t slept at all. Tell me a story… something funny so I can stop thinking about falling.”
“Don’t worry, my love, we have you,” her mates both said in unison. But she still worried. I tried to think of a joke. Something to make her laugh.
“Well… when the assholes kidnapped me, they wanted me to mate bond them.” Elle made a small sound of worry, but I shook it off. “Well, I kicked the closest one in the nuts. And that dumbass, Bezen, thought I had chosen that dude first to mate bond. He practically begged me to kick him in the dick and nuts.”
She made a snorting and choking sound.
“Wait… wait up. You kicked him in the nuts, and they thought that was mate bonding?” she asked, amused. I nodded, then realized she couldn’t see me.
“I’m not joking. They actually lined up to be kicked in the nuts.” Now all the males around me started to laugh.
“My mate, she is a sly one,” Tomlee said as he laughed more. I was crying so much from laughing. It helped with the distraction. I now wasn’t thinking too much about falling.
The next thing I knew, it was sunny, and I was in Koh’s arms as he traveled with me through the trees.
“You wake, my heart. Would you like something to eat?”
I nodded, but first… I really needed to pee.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Koh
Iworried as much asJee-sekadid about K’Tem. He was my bond family now. I cared very much for him. We had been traveling a long time. It had been three days. We were closer now to the Goddess Arena.
“Halt,” was called out through the trees, and I stopped, wavering on my tired legs. I was tired and hungry, as most of the clan was. I closed my eyes for a moment and I felt myself tilt a little. I corrected myself and stood as tall as I could, just resting for a moment.
Jee-sekascreamed, “Koh!” My eyes flashed down and I saw her wide eyes on my face. “Oh, Koh. You need to sit down. Do you need water?” I shook my head. I needed to keep my mate safe, and I could push through, even though my body wanted to stop and collapse for many days.
Everyone felt the same, but we were so close to the Goddess Arena. I could feel it in my bones and the tension in the air. Tension…
I looked up and saw what had made Vallyn call for us to all halt. The M’Mori ship was up ahead. More than one again. I listened to the males around me. So many whispered words, until one called out.
“They have dropped more females. The clans are picking up more females in the Goddess Arena.” The chatter increased around us. How close were those males to see the M’Mori bring in more females… We needed to warn them about what the M’Mori were doing. Were the clans coming here to collect them? Would they travel with us, away from the lands we knew? Or would they stay?
It hadn’t been a question for us. We would leave our clan lands because they were just the place we put our huts. The clans had been around for as long as time. They were lands that the Aashi of those clans were all raised in. But Clan Wolf, with the people that made our clan, that was home. We could live anywhere and it would feel like home with my clan around me.
“I will take her.” Tomlee had wrapped his arms aroundJee-seka. I nodded and let go of her, watching as he cradled her to his chest. Her legs had hurt too much after the first day in the same position. She couldn’t stand on her legs. We changed the way we carried after that, making sure to change her position throughout the day.
We had to be careful now she was carrying our kit. We hadn’t spoken about it because I was waiting for a time when all of us would be together and we could celebrate our kit. K’Tem had said kit, and I knew most humans have only one kit. So, I knew there was one. One little kit for us to love and take care of. It made me more determined than ever to get my mate to the mountains, to safe lands.
There was a loud roar and I heard a female screaming out. The males around us came to our side, their spears ready to protectJee-seka.My body now awake and aware of what was around us.
“Elle,” my mate called out to the screaming female. Then other females called out to her. Was she hurt? Injured? What was that sound?
News broke through the trees that Sanza, the blue alien male, had charged through the woods, screaming to attack the M’Mori for killing and taking his people. K’Tem couldn’t get him to stop. He was unstoppable, and now we had been waiting. For what, I wasn’t sure. The M’Mori ships had left, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t return.
“We will camp below and wait for the males that were sent out to warn the clans. They shall return in a day,” Vallyn announced.
I knew my Jee-seka was grateful to be able to urinate on the ground. She did not like that she was in the tree topee. She wished to do more than urinate and told me she would wait for us to be on the ground to dig a hole. I understood that she preferred to be on foot, but we were not going to take a chance. Even if it was to relieve oneself.
K’Tem greeted us when we found him. He pulled us all in for a hug, something that Aashi males didn’t do, but I liked it. I was happy to see him again. After all I had was him calling out to us, letting us know he was safe, and it helpedJee-sekasleep once she heard his voice.
