The skin of her hands and face was a few shades lighter than my own base color, and I had to remind myself once again that it would appear the same across her entire body, her clothingnotconcealing the expected stripes.Her hair was straight, like a Varool’s, but an odd brown color instead of the appropriate black.When her eyes met mine, a jolt of shock rushed through me.They were not green, but they were the warm, coppery-brown of varoolian stripes.It felt disconcerting to see such a familiar color in such a strange place.
I shook off the strange combination of familiarity and alienness.Humanity had proved to be no friends to the Varool, and this one’s actions only solidified their perfidy.
The hot flush of anger fueled my muscles as I leapt forward.Her eyes went even wider than before as I slammed into her, knocking the holoprojector from her gasp.My hands clamped onto her shoulders, and I spun a quarter turn, slamming her back into the wall.
She gaped up at me.
My body strained forward, holding her to the wall.Those full breasts pressed into my chest, like nothing I had ever felt before.
“Why are you here?”I asked, the translator chip allowing the English to fall smoothly from my tongue.“Why have you violated the agreement to skulk and sneak about my base?”
Her mouth opened and closed, but no sound emerged.
I gave her shoulders a little shake, yet her body hardly moved, pinned as it was by mine.
It proved enough, however, to loosen her tongue.A flicker of fire filled her copper eyes.“It’s not yours!This planet is ours!We found it first!”
My lips peeled back in a sneer.“Foolish human, by breaching the agreement, you have lost the planet for your people.”
She blanched, a look of horror dawning across her face.Her head shook, slowly at first, and then with vigor as she chanted, “No.No-no-no-no-no!”
The braid of her hair swung, almost slapping my cheek.
Her smell filled my nostrils, musky and teasingly sweet.As I breathed it in, the strangest feeling fluttered in my chest.
No.It cannot be!
Yet it was.My zural heart woke, beating for the first time in my life as it was destined to when I found my fated mate.I had searched for years among the women of my planet, to no avail.
How dare it spark to life for an alien, a human?
The secondary heart ignored my complaint and kept thumping.My cock swelled within my body, aching and demanding release.It was the hurvon, the mating erection, double in size and sensitivity.
I dropped my hands and stepped backward, needing to put space between this human and my unruly body.
Her eyes darted toward the door, and she bolted away, her boots clattering over stone as she crossed the ground outside.
I remained frozen, able to do little more than watch her form recede until the dip of the mountain hid her from sight.
A human, my fated mate.
Divine Mother!What is this trial you have set for me?
The lingering scent of the woman teased my nostrils, and my zural heart beat on.
The human had disappeared around the curve of the mountain by the time I leapt after her.My zural heart raced, providing extra oxygen to my muscles as my body went into overdrive.Pure instinct drove me forward.
I could not let my fated mate go.
Wind speed doubled almost instantaneously, and thunder rolled through the air in a deafening crash.The storm had arrived.Rain attempted to obscure the view, yet nothing could keep me from spotting her once I rounded the corner.She ran ahead of me, farther down the slope, and the sight sparked a most primal instinct.I dashed forward, the thrill of the chase making the blood sing in my veins.
My boots struck the ground, every impact jarring my body.A sound seemed to vibrate through my bones with each strike, a repeated chant of “Mine.”
She drew ever closer as I closed the distance between us.My lips pulled back from my teeth as my arms stretched forward.