Jessica's Mates
Date: 2021-04-15 04:00:00+00:00
Keywords: Science Fiction
Description: ’m Jessica. I applied to a job ad that turned out to be the total opposite of what I was expecting. It was bad. Aliens existed, and I was on a one way flight to be married to one. Being sent to an Alien Planet to marry an Alien guy sounded like the start of a nightmare. I was the only one to feel cheated in this, the other women were happy. I didn’t want this, but I would rather live with these aliens than not live at all. Who knew that I would actually meet my soul mate… only he was the wrong alien species and he was leaving me here. This book is Reverse Harem. Sexy Aliens with four-arms and

Jessica’s Mates

Brides of the Aashi Book Four

Belle Harper

Contents

Blurb

1. Jessica

2. Jessica

3. K’Tem

4. Jessica

5. Jessica

6. K’Tem

7. Jessica

8. Koh

9. Jessica

10. K’Tem

11. Jessica

12. Tomlee

13. Jessica

14. K’Tem

15. Jessica

16. Tomlee

17. Jessica

18. K’Tem

19. Jessica

20. Koh

21. Jessica

22. Tomlee

23. Jessica

24. Koh

25. Jessica

26. K’Tem

27. Jessica

28. Koh

29. Jessica

30. Tomlee

31. Jessica

Afterword

Other Books by Belle Harper
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Belle’s Books

About the Author

Blurb

I’m Jessica.

I applied to a job ad that turned out to be the total opposite of what I was expecting.

It was bad.

Aliens existed, and I was on a one-way flight to be married to one. Being sent to an Alien Planet to marry an Alien guy sounded like the start of a nightmare.

I was the only one to feel cheated in this, the other women were happy. I didn’t want this, but I would rather live with these aliens than not live at all.

Who knew that I would actually meet my soul mate… only he was the wrong alien species, and he was leaving me here?

Chapter One

Jessica

You know when something was too good to be true, but you still fall for it hoping it wasn’t? But instead of signing up to something and having an inbox full of spam emails, or losing fifty dollars because you thought you were helping out a prince in Nigeria… your life has been scammed away.

Okay, I might sound dramatic, but I was not given much of a choice. I applied to this amazing job ad, it sounded great to me. Travel: that was something I couldn’t afford with my current job. I only made enough to barely cover rent, bills, and food. What I wasn’t expecting was travel outside of Earth. Oh, and that I was to marry some alien guy so the people back home could have spaceships powered by a rock they mine on this planet.

That’s right, I was just a pawn in their scam. Swapping human females for rocks.

When I walked up to the agent and said I wanted out of this crazy ride, well… Agent Booker said, “Let me show you how to leave. And I will only ask you once if you’ve changed your mind.”

Yeah, like I would change my mind. None of the other girls who were in the same group interview came back. My only thought was, why didn’t I leave earlier? I guess I was curious about aliens and if this was for real. Aliens were real, and he wanted to ship me off to be married to one. Change my mind? I don’t think so. He took me to a room with other women. I looked around the room, there were eleven women… wait. This was where the other girls ended up? They hadn’t gone home already.

“Jessica, you have a choice: go to marry these aliens, or…” he pulled his gun out of the holster, my eyes following it as he held it up. I watched his face change expression for the first time, to an evil grin. Sadistic asshole.

“I signed the NDA, I won’t talk.” Was he being for real right now? He waved the gun around the room and I watched as the women ducked and sobbed. These other girls were crying… this wasn’t happening. They had wanted out; days ago they left the interviews. They were still here, and I was starting to see what the choice was.

I closed my eyes and pinched myself. This had to be a dream, but when I opened them, he was still here, his head cocked to the side waiting for my answer. I looked over to the women now huddled tightly.

“Go,” some of them mouthed to me. Wait… my heart started to race. Was he for real? Would he kill me? He couldn’t do that. People would know. Wouldn’t they? No… no, they wouldn’t. It was one of the reasons I got through this far in the interviews. It was part of the whole process. Do you have living relatives? Someone who would miss you?

No.

I had no one; I was alone in this world. I grew up with my grandmother before she passed away. My mom died at the end of a needle, and I didn’t know who my father was. No one would know I was gone. Maybe someone I used to work with or an old school friend, but not someone who would look for me. Fuck. I was alone more than I ever felt.

“I’ll go back.” I exhaled a deep breath, my hands shaking. I didn’t want to die, I wanted to live. I watched as his smile twisted and he nodded. He led me back out of the room, grabbing my upper arm with such a force it would leave bruises.

“Don’t you tell those other girls what you saw. They are happy to be going and saving the world. You are weak. You don’t have what it takes, but they need six willing girls. With you we have five; we just need one more. And I don’t care if you’re happy or not. If all goes well, there will be more after you. So suck it up, princess, and smile. You’re about to get some alien cock. And you will pretend to love it.”

That fucking asshole. I wanted him to get some alien cock. I hope it fucking killed him. I walked back into the room and four pairs of eyes watched me.

“She just needed to see medical, she is all cleared now,” Booker lied. I guess it was so I didn’t have questions about where I went and why I was back so soon. I was angry at the agents, at myself, the whole situation. I took it out on those around me and I couldn’t stop. How could they be happy? How could they not see I was miserable and not here by choice?

When we were on the spaceship, things weren’t so bad. The M’Mori were not the nicest, but one soldier was; he was our guard in our section of the ship. We had a couple of guards but K’Tem was my favorite. He would talk to me and I felt safe with him; I didn’t know why, I just did. He would tell me about planets he had been to. He was only a young soldier, and had only been with the M’Mori army for a year, but told me how big they were in the universe. That M’Mori were everywhere, mining many planets, but Aarzyn had the best supply of aket so far.

He also told me that M’Mori were listening all the time. To everyone. That his quarters’ tech had been modified by his older brother—he wasn’t a soldier but in tech. He overrode the system so the high up M’Mori couldn’t see or hear us when we were in or around his quarters. I promised to never tell the others—well, not until I was off this ship. Then, I would tell them everything about the girls and the many secrets K’Tem shouldn’t have told me.

Like how he had come to find that his people used slaves and prisoners to mine the rock, aket, on the planet I was going to. He couldn’t believe his people were like that. There were rules and laws in space and the M’Mori were breaking many of them. The swapping of human brides as payment to mine on Aarzyn was something a space government had arranged between the Aashi and M’Mori, but it wasn’t a fair payment for what they were doing to their planet.

Aarzyn was a planet that was not to be occupied or changed, the people lived as they always had. They were not advanced, and the space laws made by the Universal Federation—which was the governing power in the universe here—made sure that didn’t happen. The Aashi were a dying race, and they needed to save their species, so the arrangement had been made. Humans, we were a match with them. We could bear their children and continue their species. Even if it would be a half-human, half-Aashi race. I hoped they looked human. Not like the M’Mori… Not that K’Tem was ugly.

He had iridescent scales all over his body, a flat nose, and sharp teeth like a piranha. Oh, and he was bald… everywhere. They didn’t grow hair. He did have smaller ears than a human. His lips were blue and soft… so soft. His tongue was reptile-like, forked and blue.

It didn’t take long before our friendship turned into more. You would think kissing a guy with all those teeth would scare me, but it didn’t. There was something about him. I was drawn to him in a way I didn’t understand myself… He was honest and cared for me.

We spent a lot of time together. The girls started to notice but I tried to shut them down at any talk or teasing. I didn’t think it mattered much for me, I was on this ship for one reason only, but K’Tem would have gotten into trouble, and I think the girls got the hint and stopped.

He was such a nice guy, and I didn’t want anything to happen to him, but I was drawn to him. I wanted him around me all the time. I loved to hold his hand… His palm was smooth and warm. And he was mine; he told me so. He told me he would come for me. Only, he wasn’t mine… I belonged to someone else.

K’Tem was just the delivery boy.

Chapter Two

Jessica

Aarzyn was a humid, purple planet, and the guys here… well, they were huge. And purple too. They wanted to be mine. They said that they were my Chosen mates, like, as in more than one. Yeah, there were five of them. M’Mori and the agents didn’t mention that little surprise, but then they were full of surprises. And none of them good.

But these Aashi guys, they weren’t mine. I had already chosen a mate, one who I wanted, who I fell in love with, but I said my tearful goodbyes to him two months ago. He said he loved me, and he would come for me. He took my heart with him when he left and now I was waiting for him. I didn’t know how he would find me when he didn’t know where I was. There was no way for him to track me, and I was sure the Aashi would kill him if he got close.

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

I looked 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 aket which 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.

The slaves that were mining there, though the M’Mori didn’t care, they were shipped in and no one said a word. More often than not, they were then shipped off to a terraformed planet called Theros Six. It was known for slave trading and its gladiator rings. It was not located within the Federation’s reach. That was also where they were getting the slaves. The Federation had no say over what went down outside their reach, only what went on inside.

And slaves, good fighting ones, were worth money. So, after they worked the mines here… growing stronger, they sold them off before the aket could affect them. This had been going on for a long time. Long before I was even born.

“I’m locating her for you now, brother. From what I can see, the females have started to all locate close to mine eighty-three. Now that I’m in the system, I have set your commands to report for duty at mine eighty-seven. They were the closest to where she will be and they are leaving this day, brother. They will be swapping shifts with the other soldiers and some prisoners. This is your best chance at finding her sooner. Hopefully, before she has taken on all her Aashi mates.”

I knew that was a possibility, that she had been given five males to mate with. This was something not told to the females of Earth. We were told never to tell them, and after so many conversations with her, telling her of all the bad things our people have done, I didn’t want to frighten her more with the Aashi people’s ways of life. They were good to their females, so I hoped she was safe and being taken care of. But I also hoped she wasn’t mated to them.

“You need to be prepared to share her. I know that is not the M’Mori way. But what is right and wrong now? Look what our own government can do to other peoples, other worlds.”

He was right, and if my Jessica had taken on other males to survive, I wouldn’t be upset with her choice. She needed to do what she needed to survive. I just hoped that she would still accept me. After all this time.

“Thank you, R’Nam. I will take everything I need with me. But if you do not hear from me, don’t come for me. I know this is crazy but I must find my mate, and if she chooses to stay, I shall stay with her, and any mates she may have I will accept. Please tell Mother and Father of my decision once I have left. And tell P’Tam, our baby sister, to stay safe.”

I felt sad that I would no longer see my family, but I could feel my hearts. They beat for my mate and without her I would surely die from broken hearts.

“Goodbye, my brother, and may the gods bless you with many children.”

I quickly packed everything I had brought with me, including the datapad. I hoped I would still be able to communicate with my brother, but I would do so sparingly. Not wanting to be found by any M’Mori while I was on Aarzyn. I made my way out of my quarters and down to the port hub. Our ships were all connected to one large main hub. It sent soldiers off to where they were needed and picked up humans from Earth. It was where we could rest while off duty.

It took me almost one hour to find where I needed to be to get to Aarzyn. I scanned my way into the restricted area. I had seen this place before, wondered what it was for. And now I knew it was for the mines. As I entered, a soldier looked up at me, and I could see the question in his eyes.

“Who are you?” he asked informally. Standing up from where he sat, he put his datapad down and looked me over.

“I’m K’Tem, I have been selected for mine eighty-seven.” My fingers twitched with nerves as he reached over to check his datapad. I watched as he saw my name, confusion in the sound he made. He looked up at me and nodded.

“I didn’t see any new soldiers added to the roster earlier. You’re late, they are all ready to take off. Get in there now, before they leave you behind.” I nodded and ran down to the porthole. I pressed my hand to the datapad at the entrance, the doors opened and all eyes were on me.

I could see them looking around at each other, noticing that I was an added extra. I wasn’t supposed to be here and they knew it.

“Are you training to be a mine guard? I didn’t have you on my list today.” An older M’Mori looked down at his datapad. I nodded.

“Yes, sir. I am to be trained.” I watched as he slowly nodded. He tapped his finger a few times on the datapad. Unsure what he was doing, I felt my chest start to flare up. I hoped my uniform would hide the glow; fated males were not soldiers. And if they found out now, I wouldn’t ever see my fated. My Jessica.

“Grab a seat, boy. We take off in five. I want to have a meal before I start back on shift.”

I took a spare seat to the back. My luggage placed in a hold beside me. As soon as I felt us disconnect from the Mori Mori fleet, I felt I could finally breathe.

I am coming, my Jessica.

Chapter Four

Jessica

Okay, officially, Bezen was the biggest dick. He was demanding the females of this clan come out and tell me to mate bond him. Like, what the fuck? No way would they do that. That wasn’t why I was here; I was here to get away from all of that shit.

There was a lot of yelling, and there was an Aashi without tails and long black hair who kept telling the guys to free me at once. That they were being disrespectful of a female and undeserving as males to be my mates. I liked him, an Aashi like him would have been nice from the start. Maybe he would understand my need to find the girls. And then in turn find K’Tem. That was if he would come here. He probably already forgot about me.

Finally, Bezen had said I could go and speak with the girls, but that I had to be returned. As if they owned me. I rolled my eyes at him. I knew the girls wouldn’t allow that. The Chosen assholes moved to the side and let me free. As soon as I saw Quinn, I made my way on shaky legs. I was so tired, mentally and physically. I hadn’t stopped walking for so many days; I was dehydrated, and to top it off, I was just so relieved to see them.

“Jessica,” Quinn called out, but there was now two of her. My eyes playing tricks on me. I dropped down and sobbed in relief. I sensed Luna now, she was talking to me as she stroked my hair. I could hear the other girls being greeted by Brooklyn—I liked her. She had her head in the clouds most of the trip to Aarzyn, but she was sweet… maybe a little annoying.

“We are all here,” I heard, and I cried more. I cried for the life I lost, the friendships I wasn’t able to form with them because I couldn’t tell them what Agent Booker was going to do, what the M’Mori were up to… In doing so I missed this. Friendships.

I just hoped they would all forgive me in time.

We were sitting around a table. Quinn was talking about making this area bigger, and all the improvements they would make in the clan. Once I had some water in me, the headache started to feel less like a stabbing pain and now was a dull throb.

The table was located in the middle of huts and a big watering hole. It was really lovely here. I almost crawled down into the water to drink it all, but that was before Luna mentioned it was only for bathing. I was handed cup after cup of water, and so much food. I felt sick after not eating for a few days. It was hard to get food on your own when it grew up the big trees. I lived off the mushrooms I could see at the base of trees. The Chosen were no help with food or water for me. They refused to help until I mate bonded them.

“Just take it slow; small bites until you're used to it. If you drink too fast you might make yourself sick,” Elle reminded me. I nodded, but it was hard. I felt empty, but one bite and I felt full and sick. It was going to be a while before I was feeling myself.

I didn’t know how to bring up what had happened, all the bad shit I wanted to tell them. All I could think about was how terrible everything had been, and K’Tem. I was worried about him. If he was going to come here, he would probably meet me where we were dropped off. That big open space. I needed to go there to find him.

“I need us to go to the Goddess Arena. We need to go back there and wait for the M’Mori.” There was silence at the table now. They all stared at me like I grew two heads, and from the way my head was feeling, it wouldn't surprise me that I had.

“No way, I'm not going back there. If anything, I'm going to avoid anywhere the M’Mori are. They might take me away from my mates.” Luna cradled her stomach with her hands. Oh my god.

“You're pregnant?” We hadn't even been here that long. Two months and she was already knocked up. The rest of the table all looked at each other with smiles and placed their hands on their bellies. Was I the only one not expecting?

“Aren't you pregnant too?” Brooklyn asked when she saw I wasn’t cradling my belly. I shook my head and looked up at her.

“No, usually you have to have sex to get pregnant and I haven't done any of that. Hell, I haven’t had sex in about a year.”

They all looked at me again, their eyebrows raised. “Dang girl, you didn't even experiment at all with one of them?” Hadley asked as she leaned closer to me. I shook my head no. Why would I bother experimenting with them? They’re not the one I wanted. I wanted K’Tem.

“Don't worry, Jessica. We have only nice males here, most of them are single. But we can tell you which ones they are. I don’t think any would turn you down for a date. So, you have your pick,” Quinn suggested, her arms opening wide to all the Aashi males around. They were staring at us, and now we were staring at them, they all pretended to be working.

“Yeah, Jessica, I went on dates to get my mates. I know a few single guys that would make good mates to you.”

My mouth dropped open. “How many mates do you all have?”

Brooklyn, with her huge grin, held up her hand, all four fingers and her thumb wiggling at me. She had five mates. Holy shit, she actually took five. I didn't think anyone else would actually pick all of their chosen males.

“Oh, I didn't realize you were going to take all of the Chosen. Did you get nice ones at least?” Was I the only one to get chosen males that were complete assholes?

“Oh no, I didn’t pick all my chosen. Just one. I totally didn't know about the whole touching thing either. And I really like hugs so… I kind of, accidentally, hugged a lot of them to get here.” My eyes widened at that. How did she not know about the touching thing? That was pretty clear the first time I touched one of mine. To push past him, that was.

“Brooklyn’s translator broke on the first day, so she couldn't actually talk to any of them,” Quinn answered for her.

“Oh hell, that would really suck,” Elle exclaimed as she held Brooklyn's hand tightly in hers. Brooklyn just nodded. But when she caught me looking at her, she smiled.

“Tomlee would make a great mate.” I stared at Brooklyn. I just got here and she was already trying to set me up. But she must have read my face. She quickly added, “Like, when you're ready, they know how to all date. So, if you wanted to go on dates and meet nice potential mates—” She didn't finish as Luna quickly stopped her.

“Let's not talk about that right now. I bet you're all really tired and you want to sleep. We will get some beds made up for you all. Elle and Hadley, I know this might sound strange, but do you guys think you could shack up together just for tonight? We don't have a lot of room, we are working on that and building more huts.”

They both smiled. “Yeah, that’s not an issue. We've been together for about three weeks now. We kinda got lost on our way here, but our mates, well, they're used to us all sleeping together a huddled group. So, I don't think one more night will upset them.” Hadley looked over to the guys she had brought with her and Elle. They both told us they chose males that were rejected once they left their clans and chosen males. Their mates were watching them both from a distance.

I didn't know if I would like that. I noticed that all of the girls had someone watching. I didn’t know if I could handle someone staring at me, watching my every move.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I would sleep now, and tomorrow I would ask them to go back to the Goddess Arena with me. Where I knew my mate would be waiting for me. He had to be.

Chapter Five

Jessica

It had been two days, two long, tiring days, begging them all and sobbing at their rejections. They didn't want to go to the Goddess Arena. They were all happily pregnant; their mates not as creepy as I thought. They watched them and predicted things they needed, like food or water. They were loving and caring. I watched as Luna’s mate Axoh braided her hair after bathing.

“Just so you know, there is no fucking allowed in the bathing pool,” Luna told us all and then pointed at Quinn. All the girls laughed but me. I agreed with Luna; I did not want to be washing myself in their sex juices. Gross, Aashi cum.

“Wait up… Quinn, who did you fuck in here to make this a rule?” Elle teased Quinn, splashing water at her. But Quinn just gave a funny smile and gave a pointed look to Luna who had turned red in the face and held her hands up.

“It was me, okay. And, well, I wasn’t thinking. It was an “in the moment” thing. But it was one time that won’t happen again. Plus, Daku doesn’t come to the bathing pool anymore. Only Axoh.” Luna laughed and shook her head.

That was something I did have to get used to. The girls all bathed together, naked… in front of each others’ mates. The Aashi all sat around and watched their females. They didn’t look at the other females, though. Both of Elle and Hadley’s guys came to watch them. So that was four eyes from one side and three on the other. I didn’t think I would ever get used to it, but I guess I had to try if I wanted to bathe in the morning when the fog was around to hide me from all the other watching males. And there were a lot of them.

I was slowly starting to remember some of the mates’ names, the ones who followed the girls the most. These guys were mostly healers called takxe. There was one with me when the Chosen met me at the ship. But I left him behind at Clan Ariaan. He didn’t follow me.

Luna had Axoh. He was really cute the way they moved around each other, like they were in sync. Quinn had Tyee, he was also small but he was different. Not as relaxed but you could see how much he cared for her.

Brooklyn’s guy had to be the sweetest thing ever. Makee was mute and spoke through sign language that Brooklyn had taught him. She had shown us new girls how to say hello and different signs. He could understand us, but he couldn’t speak. Elle had really started to talk to him a lot. And just watching Brooklyn’s face light up every time she saw one of us going out of our way to talk to him made me cry. Hell, I was emotional and moody. Maybe I was getting my period. That had been fun already. I got it the first week I was here. It was kind of the way I had worked out days here.

“I need to talk to all of you,” I told them. The talking stopped, and they all watched me now. “It’s important and I think now… I’m ready.” I had to be.

“Let’s get dried up and meet at the table for some food. Is that okay, Jessica?” Quinn asked and I nodded. That gave me time to work out how to start this.

This was hard, I knew they didn’t really like me. Hell, they didn’t even know the real me. I did this, I caused this rift between us all and I couldn’t live another day with it here. I cleared my throat.

“I know I have been rude and unkind to you all at times, especially on our way here. That’s not who I am, and it's not who I want to be. I'm sorry I've been so emotional, but the truth is, I did it for everyone's safety. At first, it was to save myself and you all, and then to save K’Tem.”

They were all quiet, nodding, waiting for me to continue. I didn't think this would be hard, but I really had treated them badly and I wanted to make sure they knew how ashamed I felt.

“When we were at the government facility on Earth, I wanted out. I didn't want to be here. I asked Agent Booker to let me leave.” I watched as their mouths dropped open. “He took me to a room where I assumed was the next step to being off the crazy ride, but what I didn't expect to see was eleven other women. The women that had left before me.” I choked back a sob. I didn't want to know what had happened to them after I left. Did they leave?

“What do you mean they were there, even Grace?” Luna asked. Grace was the woman who was last to leave, before I tried. Then they brought in Quinn to take her spot. I nodded and the other girls gasped.

“Do you think… No! I don’t even want to think about it, they’re okay. They're fine, right?” Hadley asked. I could see the tears in her eyes as she looked around to all of us. I didn't know the answer to that. I wanted to believe they were all alive, but if I had to be realistic, I didn’t think they were happy and back living their own lives.

“How come you didn't tell us until now?” Quinn seemed shocked, just like everyone else, but I could hear the anger in her tone directed at me.

“Agent Booker threatened me if I told you. I saw the women in there and they were begging me to go back with you all, to get on that ship and get married. I was scared, he showed me his gun, it didn't matter if we signed an NDA. We weren't getting out of this, it was either marry an alien or…” I started sobbing and I felt someone's hand stroking my back.

“It's okay, Jessica, you did what you were told to do. I don't know what I would have done in your position. And you have carried that for all this time, and here we are thinking everyone left and went home. But you knew all along that wasn't the case.”

I nodded and sniffled. “I wanted to tell you, but any time I felt like I could, I would remember the girls in the room. If I told you, would something happen to them because I didn't keep my mouth shut? Would Booker kill them because I spoke up? Or kill me? I pushed you all away. I wanted you to hate me, avoid me, so that I wouldn't slip up and tell you. Pushing you all away to keep the others safe. But we are safe now…”

There wasn't a dry eye at the table; all of us were crying now. The mates had no idea what to do with all their females crying. They fussed and brought us food and water. But no matter what they did, we cried it out. Sometimes it’s the only way to get past something.

For me, it was healing.

Chapter Six

K’Tem

It only took eight hours in the smaller craft to get to mine eighty-seven. As I stepped out and into the humid air that was Aaryzn, it was when reality really hit me. I was here. My feet were on the same soil as my fated. I felt a huge sense of relief; I was so close. My hearts beating in overtime at the thought of having her soon in my arms. I just had to track to where she was and that was now the difficult part.

I turned to see some prisoners unloading food and drinking water from the cargo bay. I questioned why we had drinking water transported here when there was an abundance of water on Aarzyn.

“The water is for the M’Mori only. Where the mines are, the water has been contaminated. Sometimes the prisoners run off in search of fresh water, but we always find them and bring them back. They all have trackers, so we don’t lose any. Sometimes I let them go close to the natives… just for fun. To see what they would do.” He chuckled, but I didn’t laugh with him. What the hell was he saying? He let prisoners close to the Aashi to see what they would do? Did he mean the Aashi or the prisoners?

He tilted his head, waiting for my response. I nodded at his words, although I didn’t agree with them. I saw then they were unloading cages full of slaves.

I felt a hand on my shoulder as I watched the males from a planet I only knew from my books during my schooling years… Zalli. The males were similar to the human males on earth, they had the protruding nose, two arms and legs. Yet, they were colored differently to humans. I knew from my books that the color came from the different tribes and places they lived on Zalli—like the Aashi—except these were much easier to tell.

I saw blue and green males in chains moving out of the small cage, being forced to walk as a soldier used a holo-wand on them. The holo-wand was charged with an energy that would burn and scar the skin. My feet moved towards them, I wanted to stop the guard for his treatment towards them.

“Ah, these warrior males are strong. You watch them out there working. You will see. They are better than any of the shit they send us from Xurdo.” The soldier was referring to the planet that housed hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Xurdo Prison Planet. It would be where I ended up if I were caught leaving my post.

I just hoped that R’Nam could make it look like I traveled back, and no one would ask questions or come looking for me. Which meant I would be leaving all my weapons here. They would be tracked. I didn’t have a tracker on me other than my M’Mori government issued datawatch. All M’Mori carried one, which was also a translator for those who chose not to get the implant later on—if you could afford one. Having a brother who was good with tech meant my whole family had the implants. So, I would leave my datawatch behind because I would understand the Aashi language, but I wasn’t able to speak it fluently. I would take only my datapad with me for the trip I had ahead. I had the human language of English programmed in there, also the Aashi language, in case I needed to speak with them and I needed a better translation.

I heard a guttural call and looked up as one of the blue males was on his knees, the soldier was now holding the holo-wand to his neck. Everything in me screamed to go to him, stop this brutality, this taking of warriors from their planet and enslaving them here, to live their lives in the mines. Then, if they survived that, sent to Theros Six to fight in the gladiator rings for the remainder of their lives.

I just hoped that with all the information I had supplied R’Nam, he would be able to somehow stop this from continuing. I couldn’t take this anymore. I turned and followed soldiers to where my sleeping quarters were. I would rest this night and begin my journey in the early hours of dawn.

I had packed my bag. I included eight days worth of food. As M’Mori, we were meat eaters and I knew the Aashi were mostly vegetarian. So, this was something I would need to get used to. I knew what was edible here on Aarzyn, so once I ran out, I would be able to eat the same foods my fated does.

My gun was with me for now. I didn’t want to leave that behind in my quarters. It would hint to something being wrong and I didn’t want that. I wanted time on my side. I ate a quick meal with two other soldiers who were bragging about how much damage the holo-wand had done to the Zalli warrior’s throat last night. It made me sick that these were the types of people that the M’Mori could become. That anyone could want to inflict that kind of pain on anyone.

“You’re in Section A, do you have the mine downloaded on your datawatch?” I nodded to the supervisor. I did have the map downloaded so I could make my way out of here. I would get to Section A, but once there I would leave my watch and gun.

I followed some of the soldiers out and into the mine. It was huge, the dust and dirt was purple and white. It was deep in many sections where they had dug down low to get the aket. I was finally alone, walking to my post in Section A. The others broke away to man their sections, chatting to each other like this was a normal day on Mori Mori. Except they abused and took advantage of unarmed slaves.

Section A came into view. There was a post high above the mine here, it was to watch the prisoners and make sure they were doing their duty. I had a list of numbers that referred to each prisoner and slave that worked and lived in this section.

“K’Tem, I assume. You’re younger than I expected.” I stopped and stood tall in front of the M’Mori who greeted me. His uniform was unwashed and he had an odor about him that wasn’t pleasant. He was my superior, so I had to show him respect. Not that I had any for him. Or any of the soldiers here.

“Yes, first time here. Working my way up,” I replied, hoping he could hear the fake enthusiasm in my voice and not the shame I had for being M’Mori in this moment. He looked me up and down, then spat over the side of the post. I couldn’t see much below, the fog covered most of the mine this morning.

“Ah, one of them achievers. Well, you will take watch on the ground, make sure these fuckers don’t get out of line.” He nodded for me to follow him inside. “Put your shit in there and move down into the mine. Don’t worry, aket takes months to cause damage… Maybe not the best place to be if you ever wanna have kids in the long run, kid. Might want to pick somewhere else to work up the ranks.”

I froze at his statement. I had never heard of aket causing fertility damage. I felt a hot wave wash over me as I realized what we had done. And how a vicious cycle was starting to be made. The Aashi were struggling to give birth to females. They needed females, we gave them humans in payment to mine aket. This was the reason they needed the humans in the first place. We had upset the balance here. Nature. We were slowly killing out the Aashi race and they didn’t seem to care.

I knew then I had to call my brother. I couldn’t leave today. I would have to leave tomorrow. He needed to know, he had to warn the Universal Federation on what was going on here. How did they not know this?

First, I would do what I could to help the Aashi, then I would find my Jessica.

Chapter Seven

Jessica

I had been staying in a hut that was very small compared to the other girls’. The stupid chosen guys had been locked away in a primitive jail cell. They would call out randomly and threaten the males here. They didn’t know what to do with them. I was asked what I wanted, and well, I didn’t want them dead, that was for sure. Because, yeah, that was an option. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so they were set on their way back to Clan Ariaan. They left without any issues. I was glad to have that behind me.

I had spoken to a few of the single guys here. I had no intention of doing more than that. I wasn’t going to just pick one because I had to. We were here now, and everything was good. Well, as good as it could be. One that I enjoyed talking to was Koh. He was a builder here, and apparently had been here from the start. He was working on a special hut just for me. He had been the one to organize all the building around here. Quinn had him constructing a large covered hut for the main eating area.

“Do you like Koh?” Brooklyn asked as she pointed to where I just left him. I shrugged. I was kinda getting annoyed with her trying to set me up with single guys.

“Yeah, he is nice, but that’s it. I told you to stop trying to set me up. We’re just friends and I like that he doesn’t follow me around like a dog, so it makes it easy to talk to him.”

Plus, he was nice and made me happy when I was around him. He was always asking what I would like in my hut, which I thought was wonderful. He was making sure it had everything I needed. I wanted a smaller room in there where I could put the “pot” used for peeing. I didn’t shit in it. I would just have to deal with digging a hole and squatting behind a tree like everyone else did for that.

But the thing I liked best about him was he didn’t follow me around with puppy dog eyes and leave me gifts like so many others did. I saw them watching me and I had no interest in this; I wasn’t here for them. I was here because I thought the girls would understand me needing to go to the Goddess Arena to find K’Tem.

“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to.” Brooklyn’s face fell and I knew I had been a little snappy.

“I’m sorry, I have my period and have really bad cramps.” It was the truth, but still, I shouldn’t have been rude. I had just started to really form close friendships with all the girls, and I didn’t want to set myself backwards because I was feeling crabby, but my period had come just like clockwork. Which was why I didn’t bathe like the others did this morning. I took some water with me and washed to the side. I just told them I wasn’t feeling like a bath. The fog in the morning hid everyone, but it wasn’t the warmest time to be in the water. It was barely warm. I needed something hot to help with the cramps.

“Oh wow, yeah. That’s gotta suck, and there is no Advil here to help out with the cramps. Did you want anything? Shit… What are you using to… you know? I could ask one of my mates or maybe they wouldn’t understand… No, I think that would be new for them because their females go into heat and this is not the same…” I smiled and shook my head at her. Brooklyn was one of a kind, that was for sure.

“I have it all under control. Don’t worry, I don’t need you to tell anyone. I don’t want more males chasing after me.”

She nodded in understanding. I was worried if they knew I was in “heat,” as their females were, they might up their game. And I didn’t need any more than what I was dealing with already.

“No, you’re right. I wouldn’t want to think about mates and stuff while I was cramping. Which, sometimes I feel cramps and I worry that I’m losing the baby. But it’s a strong little baby. I hope childbirth isn’t too hard.”

I looked down to where she held her belly again. And for someone eight weeks along, she sure was showing big. I worked with a woman who you couldn’t tell she was pregnant until she was six months along. Brooklyn was two months, and for her tiny frame, she really had this little round belly.

“You mean babies?” I questioned. She had to know she might be baking more than one. She laughed and nodded.

“Yes, we have all been talking about how there must be more than one in there. Or one really big baby.” My eyes widened at that thought. I wouldn’t want to have a baby here on Aarzyn, well, without medical help. I wanted to be a mother, that was something I had dreamed of since I was a little girl.

But I sure as hell knew I didn’t want a big baby coming out of me. Maybe it was one but it had all those extra arms and tails taking up space? It was going to be interesting to see what the babies looked like when they all arrived. I was excited for that part. I wanted to be here and support all the girls. Even if I didn’t have a mate.

“Let’s go help out Makee and Tomlee. They are stripping some leaves for us to make baby blankets. It will give us something to do. Pass the time.” I nodded. Sounded better than working myself up on a guy that didn’t seem to be coming. I knew it wouldn’t be by choice. He did say it would be hard. I just hoped he wasn’t in trouble.

Brooklyn wrapped her arms around me. I sighed as I wrapped mine around her. I needed that. My chest already felt lighter. “Thanks,” I whispered into her hair.

She pulled away and gave me her beautiful smile. “I love hugs and it looked like you needed one. Anytime you want a hug, I’m here for you.”

I followed her over to where Makee and Tomlee, his brother, were stripping the leaves. I had seen how they made them into blankets last week but I hadn’t joined in. Until now.

“Hello Jee-seka,” Tomlee greeted me. He had been one of the guys hanging around me a lot. And yes, he had brought me a gift of a blanket, but when I told him no, he was understanding and took it away. He hadn’t done it since, but I knew he was still interested.

“Hi, Tomlee.” It was quiet and awkward for a few moments as Makee and Brooklyn started making out. Seriously? Right here?

“We will be right back, I gotta pee so bad. I need to pee like a million times a day.” I nodded, but when Brooklyn and Makee got up and started to walk away, they both looked back at me and I could see the sly grin on Brooklyn’s face. I realized this was just a set up, and I wanted to scream at her for tricking me. She had a big thing about me choosing Tomlee as a mate. I just felt bad that he thought he had a chance.

“Just so you know, Brooklyn is a meddler. I have no intentions of taking a mate. I’m waiting for the mate I chose. The M’Mori mate I have told everyone about. You understand that, right?”

Tomlee listened to only half the translator words; he knew a lot of English. Way more than most.

“Of course, Jee-seka. I know of this. I will be your friend. I hope your mate comes. He is very lucky to have such a wonderful mate.”

I looked up and saw him smiling, ugh… He was too nice. And sweet. But his sweet charms wouldn’t work. They wouldn’t… Nope, no way. Wasn’t happening. I wasn’t having more than one mate. That’s all I wanted.

But why was I always getting that little bit worked up around him… Why did my body sing to be touched by him?

Ugh, was there something in the water? Was that why the girls had so many mates? If so, I was staying away from the water hole.

“I’m going for a walk.” I needed to be away from him. Maybe it was my period. It was different to my usual ones so maybe the water was doing something to my hormones. I walked away as fast as I could, turning to see all the different males watching me. One of them smiled and waved. I rolled my eyes.

As soon as I got out into the woods, I knew how far I could go before one of them would be by my side. What I didn’t expect was to see Quinn… naked.

I gasped and covered my mouth. Was that? I squinted my eyes and realized that was her mate. The one that was missing an eye. She was sucking his cock while he hung in the tree upside down and he had his face buried in her pussy.

“Suck it,” I heard him growl out to her. I quickly spun on my heel and ran back towards the hut I was staying in. It was like everywhere I turned, there were happy and very satisfied women, pregnant bellies, and loud fucking, day and night.

Just didn’t expect to see it today… At least it wasn’t in the water hole.

Chapter Eight

Koh

I had been very careful with the way I acted in front of the beautiful Jee-seka. She was setting my mating hormones crazy and she had spoken so many times of waiting for her mate. I didn’t mean to overhear her, I just wanted to know if she was happy or sad. She was mostly sad; she cried many times in the first few days. Begging to be taken to the Goddess Arena where her mate would come for her.

I was building her a hut; I wanted her to have something special for her mate when he came. I wanted to also talk with her every day. And letting her decide what she wanted for her hut made it easy for me to have to speak with her.

When she ran past me and back to her hut, I started after her. What happened to cause this reaction? Did she run into more males trying to show how good they would be as mates? I knew she had many males wishing to be chosen by her, but the other two women who came with her did also. Yet, they had yet to take on more mates, but Zigur—Luna’s mate—had told us all that they were willing. But they would do it like Brooklyn did with her dates.

“Where are you going, Koh? There is more work to be done. This hut is more than we have ever built, with many rooms inside. This is not like regular huts. And it is taking longer than we expected.” I turned to see my longtime friend, Apak, pointing to where the hut was being built.

He was right, it was more than we had ever done, but I was also hoping to one day live in it also. I loved that I could build something different, that I could use my skills, ones I had to hide in my past clan. And being a part of Clan Wolf, it was as if I started living for the first time when I was accepted here by Luna and her mates.

“I was going to see Jee-seka. To see if she was feeling okay. She rushed back to her hut and I was concerned.” Apak chuckled and shook his dark hair at me.

“Ah, you are affected by this one, yes?” I didn’t answer him; I didn’t want it to be known, didn’t want her to avoid me if she found out, but yes. She made my cock hard, and I stroked it more than Daku did when he was around Luna for the first time.

“She is fine, Koh. I think she saw mating in the woods. That female Quinn doesn’t keep to her hut always. Especially with my brother.”

I looked back to where she had come from, it was closer to Quinn’s hut. Maybe he was right. Ryven—Apak’s brother—was new here. He was blind in one eye, but he somehow was chosen by Quinn.

Most males here in Clan Wolf were ones who would never have been considered for a female. So, it made me wonder what these human females looked for in a mate.

Makee wasn’t able to talk, yet Brooklyn had chosen him as a mate. She also had the scarred Tiji.

Luna chose her takxe, that had never been heard of. And she chose the smaller warrior as her first mate; he would never have been selected for a female in his clan.

Quinn had also taken her takxe. She had one chosen with her, but she chose the male who would tap his rock on the tree above her hut and wake her. The male with a missing eye: Ryven.

I could talk a lot of the human words; was a good builder and warrior. I was low born in my clan but would have been considered for a female if I wasn’t a rejected male who was outcast.

I had all the qualities an Aashi female would want in a mate. But for a human… I worried that I wasn’t what they would want. That I would never be chosen by them. I was fine and accepted that until Jee-seka came. She set my mating hormones into overdrive with her lovely scent. I loved to be close to her, it made my cock leak with seed whenever she was close, but it made the releasing of seed all that much more powerful.

I could see now why Daku kept his distance for so long from his mate, Luna, if he felt like this all the time, especially when she was close by. I didn’t know how he lasted so long without accepting her when she told him she wished to be his mate. My cock was sore from the many hours I had already abused it.

I made my way to Jee-seka’s hut. I could hear her breathing. She didn’t seem to be crying. I carefully knocked on the hut’s door to alert her to my presence.

“Who is it?” she asked. I smiled at her soft voice.

“It is I, Koh,” I replied and waited to see if she would like to speak with me. I heard some movement and the door opened to her beautiful face. Her scent surrounded me like a beautiful perfume.

“Hey, Koh. Is there something wrong with the hut?” she questioned. I didn’t think to make up an excuse as to why I was at her hut. My words were not rehearsed as I had before.

“I, ah… No, the hut is almost complete. I wanted to see you. You ran away fast to your hut and I was worried something had happened.” I saw her eyes dart back to where she had come from and her cheeks grew a shade of pink I had never seen before on her.

Ah, this was the color I had seen on the females’ faces before, when around their mates. Apak must have been telling the truth. She must have seen Quinn with Ryven.

“No, I just saw something I wasn’t expecting while walking. I just wanted to take a walk… No, that is a lie. I just didn’t want to lead anyone on. You know? Tomlee says he understands I’m not looking for a mate, but I don’t think he really does, and I didn’t want to stay there longer with him in case he got the wrong idea.”

I nodded. I didn’t understand some of what she was saying but I understood enough to know she didn’t want Tomlee to think she wanted to choose him.

“I can take you for a walk, I know of many places here that you have not been to. I would protect you.” I held my breath. That was not something she wanted to do with Tomlee, and maybe she didn’t want to do that with me also.

When she didn’t speak, I quickly added, “We can take Apak, he knows many places too.”

Her eyes lit up. “Oh, no, I was just worried if I was taking you from your duties. Apak looks busy, but if you’re not, that would be nice. I feel like I’m getting cabin fever here.”

I didn’t want her to get this cabin fever. Was it a human illness? I would take her on walks every day so she would not be unwell. My cock was tight in my cloth, but I had wrapped it tightly. Like Nvaa had around Quinn before everyone knew he had the mating hormones. It was a clever idea. I didn’t wish for her to be scared of me and how my body was reacting to her.

“We shall go then. Jee-seka and Koh will walk together.”

Chapter Nine

Jessica

I was happy to be with Koh, he made me feel so at ease. So much so, I started to tell him all I knew about the M’Mori and the slaves they were using to mine. I even told him how I didn’t want to be here. That us girls didn’t have much of a choice, and I tried to go home but my people in charge wouldn’t allow that.

“I am so sorry, Jee-seka. That must have been how I felt when I was sent from my clan as a rejected male. Outcast into the free lands. But I met Apak, and we traveled together for many years. I found myself happier in the free lands than I ever did in my clan.” I could understand that, I had been in a clan here for hardly any time and I wanted out so fast.

“I am grateful for Clan Wolf. As much as I loved being free of all the clan rules of my former clan, they are not the same here. This clan gives me freedom and a family. And that is very important, to have others around you who care for you, and I now have someone to care for.”

I stopped, and he walked a few feet in front of me before he turned to see I wasn’t following him anymore. He stopped. I didn’t think about that. Being alone was something I had been so used to that I didn’t know anything else. But now, just in this past week, I had five new female friends. I woke up and wanted to see them and was excited they wanted to see me too. They would all ask how I slept, which wasn’t something I thought would make me smile every morning, but it did.

And I had Koh. He came to see if I was okay. But it was true. It was what family did. We were one big family here at Clan Wolf.

“I never thought of it that way, Koh. And even though I miss my old life, I have more here with Clan Wolf and the girls. This is stuff I never had on Earth, no one to ask me if I was okay.” I smiled at him and he returned the smile.

He was really a good looking Aashi. No idea why he was still single. How could any of the girls look past him?

The cramping feeling I was getting wasn’t right for my period. I was lucky that it seemed to be very light, but it was always like a hollow feeling inside when I was near him. It seemed to be when I was around Koh. Or Tomlee. I felt all worked up, like I wanted to jump him now and have him fill my empty belly.

The thought had me panicking. I was waiting for K’Tem. It had only been a week; I shouldn’t have these types of feelings towards others. It was just my body reacting to them. It had to be something in the water, nothing else made sense.

As we entered a clearing, I saw a small creature. It looked like a mini horse. It was purple and white and the size of a Great Dane. It was beautiful

I gasped at the sight of it but it saw me and dashed away. I hadn’t seen any other animals but birds here.

“That is an ahnn, they are skittish animals. They are good for meat on feast day, but now we prepare fish more than take meat from the ahnn. I don’t like fish as much, but it is what Luna prefers. Would you like something to eat? Drink?”

My eyes widened.

“You mean like pixxe or netah, right?” I hoped he wasn’t thinking about killing the ahnn for meat. I liked meat but I wasn’t about to see a beautiful creature die so I could eat. I would be happy with even the mushrooms over the ahnn any day.

“Of course,” Koh replied. I was starting to think he would have chased after the ahnn and killed it if I said so.

He led me over to a stunning water hole. The grass was short around here, and it was soft under my feet. I sat down and ran my hand over the small purple blades of grass. I scooped some water up with my other hand and drank from it. I was hot after the long walk, but out here it was so quiet.

I was used to the quiet, and I think I needed the break from all the loud sounds back at camp.

“I shall go get the food, I won’t be far. Stay here and I will return very soon.”

I looked up and watched him as he ran, then climbed a tree, his twin tails were in sync with each other. Both waving until he got higher and one wrapped around a branch, and he swung himself like a monkey with four arms, grabbing and grasping as he climbed higher and higher, until I couldn’t see him anymore.

I closed my eyes and listened. Some birds made small sounds, and the leaves rustled a little in the breeze, but other than that, pure silence. Calming and relaxing.

I took a deep breath and lie down, my tee riding up on my belly. I took my runners off and put my toes in the grass. I sighed at the feeling.

I would just close my eyes. Only for a moment.

It was nice out here. Turns out, when I closed my eyes I must have slept for awhile. Koh didn't wake me, but I woke to a mountain of food beside me. Koh was lying beside me. He was still as his chest slowly rose and fell, his upper hands behind his head. He had his eyes closed also.

It gave me a chance to really see him. His long hair, which always seemed to be tied up, was now free and loose behind him. It was beautiful. Black and purple strands running through it. His eyelashes were a darker purple also, but I think what I noticed about Koh was he wasn’t exactly purple. He had more of a blue hue to him. It was pretty and so was he.

His lips were plump and so kissable… Wait, no they weren’t. They weren’t kissable. I couldn’t believe I thought of that. His chest was wide and muscular. God, you could tell he worked with his hands. And that six pack… more like eight. His cloth… oh, that looked a little tented. I quickly averted my eyes and looked at his thighs, so large and strong.

I had the urge to touch him. Just to see how he felt. Does his skin feel soft? Was it rough? His hair looked like silk. Was it?

He was sleeping, and he already had the mating hormones so it wasn’t like I would be triggering something. But then, it was kind of rude for me to touch him without asking. I wouldn’t like it if he touched me while I was sleeping.

“Koh?” I whispered. I didn’t want to startle him.

“Mmm… Jee-seka,” he mumbled back. I bet the poor guy really needed the rest. He had been working nonstop since I got here to Clan Wolf. So, I slowly moved over to the food and picked up the baseball looking one. I knew it was netah. I loved it, I didn’t even know how to describe the taste. But if I had to eat only one of the foods here on Aarzyn, I would pick netah.

I drank more water, and then decided to explore the area, but keeping close to Koh. It was beautiful, this area he took me to. I looked up into the trees, they were so tall. So far up. I couldn’t even climb one if I tried. The branches were too high for me.

I heard a sound and my heart started to race. I turned back to where I heard it. Koh was stretching his hands above his head and yawned before rolling over. He didn’t open his eyes. I smiled. He was so cute just lying there sleeping. If you didn’t know better, you would think he was a rock or something. He blended into the area so well.

I saw a white flower ahead of me. I cocked my head in confusion. I was told the flowers here were green. Not white. Huh… Up ahead there was a tree that was whiter than others. And if I listened closely, I swear I could hear machines? Holy shit. Were we close to the mines?

I took a few tentative steps and looked around. Where was it coming from? Left? Up ahead?

A blinding pain rocked through my head and all I could see was black spots… my body growing weak beneath me. I opened my mouth to call out for Koh but nothing happened. I didn’t know what was happening to me.

Then, everything went black.

Chapter Ten

K’Tem

Three days ago, I spoke to my brother. He was sending messages to two different types of care groups on Mori Mori. Trying to get support for what I had seen here and all the information I had sent back to him. Ones that would be able to help the Zalli.

He had promised me he would come and help save them all. I couldn't just leave them here; I felt guilty that I couldn't do anything more.

“I'm just going on break,” I told one of the other soldiers. He just grunted at me as I walked away. I left my gun and my datawatch behind. This was it; I was going to go find my fated. I quickly made my way past all the slaves and prisoners and into the woods. I knew the direction that I needed to head. She was close to mine eighty-three, I just had to head north and I would be there in a day or two.

I had only been going a few hours when I heard a sound up ahead. I froze. Was it an Aashi male? I wasn't too sure how they would react to seeing me, a M’Mori male, in their territory. I had no weapons to protect myself; I was unarmed. When I heard it getting closer to me, I decided the best course of action would be to greet them.

“Hello, who goes there?” I called out in the Aashi language, hoping to hear someone's voice in return and not spears or any of the weapons Aashi might have.

But whoever was out there had stopped. This left me in a hard position. Were they waiting for me to come out of where I was hiding behind a tree? Or was it an animal who had made the sounds and not someone else? I couldn’t stand here waiting all day, so I took a few steps forward, making sure to keep quiet. I crouched low, my clothing not helping to camouflage myself to the trees.

I heard something coming closer. They were running. I darted out to surprise them. Having that element, they might not be ready to attack me. But what I didn’t expect was to see a large, blue male in front of me. He came to a halt.

“Wow, hey.” I held my hands up. He was much larger than me, and stronger. But what was he doing out here? This wasn’t good for me if they were tracking him, he could tell them where I was. Crap.

“Do you want to be free?” I asked. I watched as his eyes darted around. Oh shit, this was the male from my first day. The one they held the holo-wand to his throat. I could see the scars it had left behind.

I slowly dropped my bag to the ground and held my hand up.

“Stay, please, don’t go. I can help you.” I wish I knew some Zalli words but I didn’t think I needed to learn any. I didn’t need to where I was going. Well, I didn’t think I did. He watched me; it was as if he was frozen, waiting to pounce on me. My datapad was at the top and I slowly pulled it out. He cocked his head and grunted something at me.

I pulled up my language app and set it for Zalli.

“I can help you escape.” When the words repeated back to him, I could see he was surprised at this. His brows furrowed, and he looked around as if there was an ambush he was waiting for,

“Why would you help me? Your people took me from my world, my family. All I had known. They treat us like nothing but dirt beneath their feet. There is nothing here for me but death and you will help me? Why?”

I felt so terrible to be connected to the M’Mori. If I could shed my scales, I would at once. I didn’t want to look like them. The way he watched me, as if I would kill him, was making me sick. This was not my people. I would never be like them.

“I am also escaping them. My fated mate is here. She is living with the Aashi. I am coming for her, but if I was to be found out, they would kill me.”

He seemed surprised at my words, and he shifted his weight around as if trying to trust me or what to make of me.

“You have a tracking device on your ankle.” I pointed to the silver device that seemed damaged, like he had spent some time already trying to remove it.

“I can help remove it.” He stepped up a few feet from me. What did I say?

“I have tried to remove it; they haven’t come looking for me. I have been here two days now. I do not need your help. I do not trust you to come closer to me.”

I was surprised. Two days. But also, he was much larger than me. And I had no weapons. He must not realize this, and I wasn’t about to tell him otherwise.

“The tracker is still on. They have told me they toy with you all. Letting you think you have escaped, only to come chasing after you. They might be on their way here now. I don’t want you to have to go back to them. Come with me. My mate, Jessica, is waiting for me, and I don’t want you to go back to the mines. They will hurt you again.

“My brother is trying to stop all of this as I speak. He is rounding up others to come free all the Zalli, but I don’t know how long that will take. So please, let me do this for you.” He looked down again at the tracker. The little light flashed blue. I could see the defeat in his eyes. He must have spent a long time trying to destroy it; his ankle was covered in dried, red blood.

Reluctantly, he took a few steps to me, eyeing my hands as if I were going to attack him.

I placed the datapad down on my bag and held my hands up.

“I don’t have weapons with me. M’Mori weapons all have trackers. I don’t have anything to defend myself. Me telling you this, is in trust. I can trust you will not injure me, and I will not injure you.”

He sat down and stretched his leg out towards me. I looked down to the tracker, it was in bad shape but I would be able to remove it. I knew how they went on after I watched a few yesterday. I reached into my bag and saw him stiffen. I made my movements slow and showed him as I pulled out a screwdriver. It was an old tool that many M’Mori didn’t use anymore. I had packed it because it was something I had brought with me when I became a soldier. My grandfather had given it to me when I was a child.

It wasn’t something I thought I would need. It was in case my datapad was damaged. But now it was proving useful in more ways than one.

“Now, I will unscrew the lid. I will turn off the tracker before I remove it, because if I remove it before then, it will send out a loud warning sound, making it easier for them to find us.” Because now it was an us, not just him. I was in just as much danger being near this tracker as he was.

He grunted again and I got to work. It was hard to remove the face as he had damaged it a lot.

“Did you hit this with a rock?” I asked, as I finally popped the lid to the internal components.

“I used the same rock they made us mine. It is hard, but not hard enough.” I nodded. Aket was a hard rock but the metals they used to make the trackers, or any of the tech equipment, was made by a stronger metal. One that was practically indestructible.

“Almost done,” I let him know. Then the tracker dropped free from his ankle. He rubbed it before jumping up on his feet.

“What is your name?” he asked. I smiled up at him as I placed everything back in my bag.

“I am K’Tem. And you are?” I asked in return. He smiled at me, as he touched his injured neck and rubbed his chest.

“I am Sanza. I thank you, K’Tem. I owe you a debt.” And with that, he ran away. I called after him to come with me, but he called out behind him.

“We are not safe together.” And it was true, but I didn’t want him to be alone out here. His world was much different than that of Aarzyn.

I threw the tracker towards the mines and ran towards Clan Wolf.

Jessica, I am coming, my love.

Chapter Eleven

Jessica

I woke up, my head throbbing and my eyes unfocused. I couldn’t see much around me. Was I in a hut? I reached for the back of my head and I felt it was sticky. Did I hit my head on something?

“Koh?” I croaked out, my throat dry and scratchy from not drinking enough water. A shadow moved closer to my face; I tried to focus on it by rubbing my eyes. It was large and purple, but I could tell it wasn't Koh. My body didn't react the same way; if anything, this Aashi male in front of me had my body screaming to run.

“Koh is not here, my mate. We will mate bond now. You will be ours, and you will return to Clan Ariaan.” My heart started racing. I knew who that was, he hadn't returned to his clan lands. He had kidnapped me. I started to panic. Were they going to rape me? I thought all the males here were supposed to be sweet and caring towards females. Well, all of them seemed to be except for the males that came from Clan Ariaan.

“I will not mate bond you, Bezen. I do not want you as a mate, so let me go now. All of Clan Wolf will kill you, all of you.” He just laughed, as if my words meant nothing but empty threats. He grabbed my wrist and pinned it above my head.

“They will not come for you. You are ours, as promised by the M’Mori. You do not get to leave.”

I looked around the small hut, trying to find any of the males that would take pity on me, but they all just looked at me with hungry eyes. This wasn't good.

“Help,” I screamed at the top of my lungs. Maybe we were still close to that clearing and Koh would hear me.

“Shut up now, female.” I felt the sting on my cheek before I realized what had just happened. He had slapped me.

“Mother fucker, you will pay for that. I had done the nice thing of letting you go free. You promised to return to Clan Ariaan. They wanted to kill you. I thought that was a little bit harsh, but now I've changed my mind. I'm really fucking over this shit. If any more males tell me what the fuck I'm going to do, you’re all dead. I will kill you. When you're least expecting it, I will be there. I am tired of feeling sorry for myself for the position I’m now in. This is not my fault, it is all of yours. This time, I am in charge, and you're all dead to me.”

They all laughed. They may be empty threats right now, but as soon as I had some means of hurting them… breaking free, I would do it. The thing about breaking free was they always seemed to be able to track me. I wonder if they were like bloodhounds back on Earth and could track my scent.

“You will not get far from us, you are small and weak, female. You will mate bond with all of us now. You have the duty to have our kits.”

I started laughing. I didn't know why. It wasn't funny. Just that, here I was, once again, in a situation I didn't want to be in. I had only just started feeling happy speaking to Koh, glad that I had the girls and their friendships. Things I was lacking back at home. And these guys seem to think I was a breeding machine and going to pop out their babies. Yet, I was laughing. Had I gone insane?

Probably.

They all removed their little loin cloths, their raging, hard cocks in their hands. Fuck this shit. I wasn’t going to be raped here on some alien planet. I kicked out and hit one right in the dick; he let out a loud wail as he fell backwards and the hut came apart.

These guys had no idea how to make a good hut. Not like Koh, and I was glad for it. I just needed to destroy this hut; it would help me get some more space. Maybe a branch I could use as a spear? Fuck, where were their spears? I needed to get ahold of one.

“You will stop, now. Mate bond us.” Bezen held his hands wide and stared at me… as if he were waiting for me to touch him. Back up. Wait up. Did he even have a clue how to mate? The girls had said most of their guys didn’t have a clue at all. He cocked his head to me, then to his cock.

“I just mated that one.” I couldn’t remember his name and I didn’t give a shit. Kicking him in the cock was the best feeling. The others made strangled sounds.

“Why did you choose him to be your first and favorite mate?” He looked confused now, and I realized he really had no clue.

“Because he isn’t mean. Would you like me to mate bond you now?” I asked, trying to hide the wicked grin on my face. His brows furrowed, but he nodded.

“Yes. I was to be first and favorite, but I wish to be second now. Mate bond me, mate.”

He didn’t have to ask twice. I pulled my leg back as far as I could and slammed the heel of my foot into his junk. He cupped it and listed to the side.

“That was harder than you did to Exoa.” He looked over to the other male who looked like he got kicked in the balls and had no idea why he wanted this mate bond if this was what it felt like.

“You wanted to be first, and you have to be very hard to make sure you get the first mate marks. That is what you wanted, yes? I could do it to someone else if you don’t want it anymore.”

Bezen shook his head. “No, I wished to be first. I didn’t know that was how. I’m grateful you have chosen me in this way, Jee-see-ka. I will be a good mate to you. Once you mate bond the others, we can be on our way to Clan Ariaan.”

I shook my head.

“I will feel too tired to leave after I mate bond. I will need a day’s rest, food, and water before I am to move. I am in heat now. And I don’t want to do anything that would hurt our kits.”

They all nodded, agreeing that I was to stay here, the other three coming forward so I could kick them in the nuts… What dickheads.

I smiled in what they thought was happiness for them to be mate bonded.

I smiled because there was nothing better than your kidnappers thinking they were fucking while I kicked them in the dicks.

Please find me, Koh. Please come find me, I prayed.

Chapter Twelve

Tomlee

When Koh came screaming back into camp, I stood from where I was still stripping leaves. I was hoping that Jee-seka would return to make blankets with me, but she was too smart, this female. She knew what Brooklyn had done in leaving her with me to make blankets together.

I tried to say the words that would make her happiest, but they must not have sounded the way I hoped. I used many English words and I seemed to upset her as she had left. Then she left with Koh. What did he say to her? I wished to spend time with her as he did, but I didn’t have the same skills.

This was my rest day. I protected the clan most other days, this was why Brooklyn had arranged this for the day. I had brought many foods with me so I could offer her food and water, but she left.

I stood up and ran closer to Koh, as did most males. He was holding the foot coverings of Jee-seka in his lower hands, and he was breathing heavily.

“I was sleeping, I didn’t mean to fall asleep, and Jee-seka is gone. She left her coverings and I found some blood nearby. I tried to track her but I couldn’t find her scent. It was as if she just disappeared.”

The clan was alive with males rushing for their spears. We would go out and find her. She wouldn’t have walked away. Many were yelling; Brooklyn was crying loudly.

“It’s my fault. I was being pushy and she left because of me,” she cried out as Evzyn and Makee wrapped her in a hug. She sobbed between them.

“It’s not your fault, Brooklyn. We will find her.” Rion stood tall with his spear. Daku came and had the chaos of the males stop. Many respected him, he was a great leader in times of need.

“Every warrior, form a group of five. I need one group to stay here in case this is a diversion to take the other females.” One of the newer females, Hadley, gasped.

“I believe the males were the Chosen from Clan Ariaan, the ones we let go at Jee-seka’s order. The females have great hearts and are very forgiving, but not all males are respectful. And I believe these are who we will be tracking. I will lead with Koh, and when we arrive at the last place she was seen, we will all spread out. We will find her and return her to her home, here in Clan Wolf.”

All the males cheered and everyone started moving at once. I ran to Koh; I wanted to be with him. I believed he reacted to Jee-seka’s scent the same as me and I wanted to ask him now.

“Tomlee,” Koh greeted me. You could see the worry and stress on his face.

“I do not blame you, friend. This was not of your doing. You feel strongly for Jee-seka, yes?” I asked. He nodded.

“Her scent calls to me. I had heard the other mated males speak of this and I never thought it was true, that only they wished for it, but it is true. My cock leaks seed whenever I smell her. I am glad my body chose such a strong female to be drawn to, but my heart is sad that she doesn’t wish to take another mate.”

I understood his feelings as they were the same as mine.

“I, too, am affected by her scent. I find myself wanting to be near her at all times, but she doesn’t want me. I have offered to be her friend and I don’t think she wishes for that also. I am unsure on what to do next. But now is not the time for this; now we must go and save her.” I grasped Koh’s shoulder and he led us to where he was last with Jee-seka.

Once we were in the clearing, Daku sent us all out in different directions. Koh stayed with me. Vallyn and Apak were with us too, as Daku stayed behind in the clearing.

“Do you think we could smell her if she touched a tree? Or the grass?” I asked Koh, but I was curious on Vallyn’s answer too. He made a sound.

“You are affected by her scent, like I am of my Luna?” We both looked to Vallyn and he smiled when Koh and I answered yes together.

“That is very good. You could smell her. I find even if I am far from Luna, I can still tell where she is. This will be a good advantage, one the chosen males from Ariaan didn’t expect.”

We climbed the trees and travelled through them faster than I ever had before, looking for any signs of where she might have gone. Koh travelled closer to the ground in case she wasn’t taken through the trees. They were from Clan Ariaan where most clan warriors traveled on foot. They didn’t realize we were built for the trees.

I heard the call from Koh and we froze. What had he found? I looked around me. Where was she? I couldn’t sense her… but I could sense someone else. Someone not Aashi by the way they moved on the ground. They were loud and didn’t know where to place their feet to be quiet.

“Jee-seka?” I called out. I didn’t want to waste any time if it was her. But as I descended the tree in my haste, I heard Koh call out, “Intruder alert,” in the English words we were taught. This was not my Jee-seka. It was a M’Mori.

“Hello, I am K’Tem. Jessica is my fated mate.” He held his hands up to show he was unarmed, but I didn’t care. I held my spear out to him. Apak watched him warily from the lower branch beside me.

“Jessica, you call. Where she? You, Jessica, mates?” he asked in Aashi, though his words were not all correct, he did use our words. He thought we were her mates?

Vallyn stepped forward. “Are you the male she has been crying for? The one who she is mated to before she came here to Aarzyn?”

I heard something from his backpack, like the translators the females wore, talking to him. It must be his translator. Ah, he might not know all our words, only some. This was good for us.

“Yes, Jessica is my fated mate.” He nodded. I pointed to his bag.

“Turn off, we must not be heard.” The M’Mori male nodded and quickly turned off his translation device.

“Why did you ask him to do that?” Apak asked as he dropped from the tree. I was surprised he had made it this far, he was very old male with a head of black hair. He mostly stayed around in the main camp and cooked food for the clan.

“I wished for him to not understand all our words. I want to make sure we can trust him, that this is who Jee-seka was looking for. Koh and I wish to also be her mate and this male, he’s the one she has been waiting for. Now he is here, I want to give him to her. She will be very happy, but also, I worry that now he is here she won’t have time to choose more mates. I believe I’m her mate, fated, just like he is.”

“Me too, but maybe he has tools in his backpack that will help us find her and get her back from the chosen males who took her against her will,” Koh added.

The M’Mori, K’Tem, made a strangled sound. He spoke many words in a language I didn’t know. He reached into his backpack and pulled out a strange looking device.

When he spoke into it again, I realized that he understood our words better than I thought.

“Where is Jessica? Who has taken her? Oh no, I will call my brother. He can find her, he was tracking her to Clan Wolf. But did she leave today? Do you think she has gone far?”

“She was taken by the Chosen from Clan Ariaan. She didn’t choose them as mates and she came to Clan Wolf in the hopes we could help her find you at the Goddess Arena. But now you have found us. And you say you can find her?”

He nodded as he started to do things on his device. It was making sounds and then I heard a strange voice on the other end.

“My brother is tracking her now. He says to go north and closer to the mines. They have her very close there. I do not like this at all. There are bad males in the mines.”

I didn’t like the sound of this either. I ran after K’Tem. He was already proving to be a better mate than I ever would. But as long as Jee-seka was safe, that was all that mattered.

Chapter Thirteen

Jessica

God, these guys were dumbasses. Now I just needed to figure out how to make them lead me back to Clan Wolf.

“Oh, first mate?” I called out in a sweet voice. It was so strange how he thought I went from wanting to kill them to mate bonding them. Bezen appeared at the hut’s door.

“Yes, my bonded female?” The smile on his face made me chuckle. I tried to hide it, but it was hard.

“I need to go pee, but this is a special one. After bonding, males are not to see this, it is how I get with kits,” I lied my ass off. I needed him not to look at me while I went, then snuck off. I was thinking being naked might help, but I wasn’t about to start running naked through here when I wasn’t sure how they were tracking me.

“Oh, I am not sure of this. I have never heard of this urinate for kits before.” Fuck… ah.

“It’s a human custom. I must go and pee. The heat is getting stronger. It is how our females get with kit. I can mate bond you again if you want before I pee. After, I am not to touch a male at all or I will lose the kits.” I could see the worry now on his face, buying it. Come on, dickhead, you think me kicking you in the balls was mating? Let’s believe I need a secret time to pee.

“Mate bonding again isn’t needed, mate. Our females only mate bond when in heat once, and I am very happy to have been your first male.” I was disappointed at that. I wanted to kick him in the nuts one more time for fun. “But I do not wish to harm our kits. We will not touch you or come to where you do your special urination.”

I nodded and stood up. Moving outside the hut, I realized there were more white trees here. And the flowers were white.

“You must all look that way while I go find the right spot. It may take a while, but I will tell you when it is over. Then we all will have kits.” The guys were really happy and fell for it.

I walked away. When I got too far, Bezen called out that I needed to stop. I didn’t want to push him so I started to dig a hole, singing some Dolly Parton while doing it so they knew I was still here. Hoping to lull them into thinking I was still here long after I was gone.

I slowed down my singing, then made sounds that made me seem like I was still there. I paused for a while and I heard Bezen call out my name. I made a sound again and he seemed content with that. I slowly backed up. I picked up a small rock and threw it towards the hole. Backed up more… and almost screamed when I saw a blue looking dude just staring at me. I froze.

Fuck, what the hell? He had two arms, two legs, and no tails. This guy wasn’t Aashi, that was for sure. His blue eyes were piercing and we both locked on to each other. God, what was worse? Being kidnapped by him or Bezen?

Bezen chose that time to call out. The male’s eyes darted towards them, then back to me. I was shaking and I felt like I was going to throw up. What the hell was I doing? I should run back to Bezen. There were five of them and only one of him. He picked up a rock and threw it to where I just had. I didn’t know what to think.

His eyes scrunched up as if he was really studying me. “Jee-seka,” Bezen called out loudly and my stupid translator chose then to pick it up. Alerting him that I was not as close to where I said I was.

The blue male seemed stunned, and I took that moment to run. Fuck this shit. Fuck them all. I ran as fast as I could, my bare feet stepping on some sharp rocks and I didn’t care. I was getting away from all of this. I was going to run back and tell Koh that I never wanted to go into the woods again. That I would be happy to stay with him back at my hut. I wanted to get to know him, maybe one day take him as a mate if K’Tem didn’t arrive.

And if he did, he told me he would understand if I had more mates. I just didn’t think I would want them… oh god. Tears were streaming down my face as I heard them after me. And Tomlee. I would give him a chance; he had my body singing to him. I wanted to get to know him also. Make blankets and babies together.

Ugh… Was this the end, where I work out all the things I should have done but now it was too late? That was when you figured out it was the end, right? I could understand why the others had more than one mate. How could you choose just one when there were so many different males, all unique and special? All wanting the same thing: companionship, love. Someone to come home to at night and say, “Hey, honey, how was your day?”

I wanted that. I wanted it all and if I got back to Clan Wolf, I was telling them all this.

“Jessica,” I heard from close behind me. I shrieked and lost my footing. I tumbled to the ground, my ankle twisting. Pain shot up and I grabbed it.

“Fuck, get away from me. I don’t know what you want. Leave me alone.”

The blue male looked down at me. His huge body was covered in blood. Did they hurt him? Why was he following me?

“K’Tem, Jessica.” He nodded at me. His short, blue hair falling in his eyes as he looked down. I glanced behind them to see if Bezen and the others were coming for me, but no one seemed to be there.

“K’Tem? Did you just say K’Tem?” Oh my god. I sagged. He knew K’Tem.

“Where is he? Is he coming here? Is he with you?” I could see he didn’t understand my words. I didn’t know who or what he was, but he said the right words. He said “K’Tem” and that was enough for me to choose to go with him.

I pulled myself up, holding onto the tree beside me, but my ankle gave out and I bit my lip trying to hold in the cry of pain.

“Jessica.” I looked up and he held his hands out to me. I heard Bezen calling out. It was either I jumped in this guy’s arms—even though he was covered in blood—or I’d never get away from Bezen again.

I chose blue guy. I reached up and he took me very carefully into his arms, cradling me to his chest. I felt the air breezing past as he started to run. Towards K’Tem, I assumed, but after a while the pain in my ankle turned to a throb and the adrenaline from the chase had worn off. I found my eyes closing.

I just hoped he was a good guy.

Chapter Fourteen

K’Tem

I couldn’t believe I had gotten this far only for my Jessica to be kidnapped by the males from Clan Ariaan. I shouldn’t have left here. I should have spoken up to my commander about my fated mate. My chest burned with the pain of losing her to these males. They would die for this. I wouldn’t allow them to be free once I got my hands on them.

The same was for the two males here with me. Koh and Tomlee believed they were her fated mates. It made me wonder if there was something special about human females to make so many males drawn to them. Maybe humans were not that much different to Aashi, taking many mates.

I looked down to my datapad, following the directions my brother was sending me. I pointed in a new direction and changed course. It was as if she was moving faster now.

“Are you sure this is the way?” the older male, Apak, asked me. I stopped and let them see my screen where my brother tracked her. She was moving much faster than I thought she would be. I quickly typed in a message asking if he was tracking her and not an animal. He replied that it was Jessica, but she wasn’t alone. And she wasn’t with an Aashi either.

“What does that mean?” My hearts started to race. She wasn’t alone?

“What does what mean?” Koh asked with a curious tone to his voice. I turned to see him looking at me, then glancing back to my datapad, confused at my words.

“She is not alone, my brother has stated, and she is not with an Aashi. I do not understand this. We will need to be prepared for when we get close. We might need to fight.”

All the males gripped their spears and waited for me. I felt like I was slowing them down, but I ran with everything I had. I was coming for her.

When we came to a clearing, to where it said she was, I saw her golden hair. She was lying down, away from us. I worried she was dead, that we were too late. Koh called out and I watched as she rolled over and opened her eyes.

“Koh?” she called over to him, the smile on her face making me believe she was unharmed. And very happy to see him.

“Koh, oh god, you’re okay?” He nodded and he bent down beside her. She held her hand up to his face, the tender moment between them had me conflicted. I wanted to push him aside and show her I was now here, but I wouldn’t do this to her either. She had something special with this Aashi male. I promised I would understand if she had taken on Aashi mates, and if what Koh and Tomlee said was true, she would want them as mates. They were good males from what I had seen.

“K’Tem?” I heard her gasp. I moved in close to her, her eyes streaming with tears. I wiped one away and she sniffled as she wrapped her arms around my neck.

“Oh god, you’re really here. Thank you, thank you for coming back for me. I have been waiting so long for you. I love you, K’Tem.”

Her words all pouring out and making my hearts break for her that she missed me so much. I wanted to make this better. I wanted to give her nothing but good times, I never wanted to see her cry again.

“I am here. Koh and Tomlee also. But who is with you?” I asked, looking around as best I could. Apak and Vallyn were staring off to the side.

“Oh, a blue guy,” she responded, as if she only realized he was no longer here.

“Blue guy?” Tomlee asked. She reached her hand out to him and I could see the grin on his face as he took hers in his. She smiled and nodded.

“K’Tem,” I heard called out. I stood, helping Jessica to her feet. She winced when she placed weight on her left ankle. Tomlee fussed over it and she held his hand to support herself.

“Sanza?” Was it really? The male I had helped only hours before?

He came forward and the Aashi males took a step back, their spears held out in front of them, not sure if he was friend or foe yet.

“You saved my life, and I saved the life of your mate. My debt is paid.”

The others were confused until the translator on Jessica’s wrist repeated the words, then my translator repeated them into Aashi. It was very confusing.

“He saved me, he helped me get away, but he is injured. We need to take him back to get him some help. One of the healers? Axoh? Tyee?” Jessica called out.

“You must come to Clan Wolf. We can heal you. Thank you for saving Jee-seka,” Vallyn replied. It was interesting the way everything was being translated. I hoped to learn English and Aashi and never have to use it again. Which reminded me to reply to my brother that I had found her, and the Zalli male I had freed was who had saved her.

I turned to look down at my fated mate, and she smiled up at me.

“Can’t believe it’s really you. You came for me. I knew you would.”

She touched my face, and her fingers danced along my lower lip. I snaked my tongue out and licked her finger. She giggled.

“Kiss me.” I pushed the hair that had broken loose from her tie behind her ear and kissed her deeply.

This was it, I was with my fated mate and I had never been happier.

“Let’s return and let them all know we have found Jee-seka.”

I reached down and lifted her into my arms.

“I love you,” I told her in English. She sighed and held onto me tight.

“I love you too. I still can’t believe you’re really here.”

Chapter Fifteen

Jessica

It was strange when I returned to camp, K’Tem never letting go of my hand even though most of the guys stared at him like he was an alien. I chuckled at the thought. I guess they were used to humans now but M’Mori were really different with all the scales… and the teeth.

It would take a long time for the Aashi to fully trust him, but he was kind and patient with them all as they asked him many questions. Koh helped answer what I knew and had told him, but I didn’t know how bad it was. My ankle still throbbed, and I was trying not to bear weight on it, but it was hard. I didn’t want K’Tem to carry me anymore, so I told him I could walk for a while. It was so dark now; the day had gone so fast and yet it felt like forever.

“Who’s the blue guy?” Elle asked, eyeing up our new member. I smiled and wiggled my brows at her. She slapped me playfully.

“Oh, shut it, you. We don’t need another matchmaker here, I was just wondering because he doesn’t look like an Aashi is all.”

Brooklyn wrapped her arms around me. I had to let go of K’Tem to hug her back. I could feel her crying.

“I’m okay, don’t worry. I’m fine.” I stroked her dark brown hair. She pulled back enough to show me her puffy eyes in the moonlight.

“I didn’t mean it, for you to leave. I’m so sorry. I won’t ever try and interfere again. Tomlee is like… Well, guess he is my brother-in-law or whatever they call it here. He is the kindest guy ever and he told me how much he was drawn to you. How your scent drew him in the same as Makee did with mine. So, I knew you were meant to be mates. In my head, that is. I didn’t listen to you, and I made it worse.” I patted her back as I shook my head.

“No, no you didn’t. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Do I smell different?” The other girls all smiled. “What? What did I miss?”

“We will tell you in the morning. Come lay down, have some rest, and in the morning we can all chat about this because I’m starting to see a pattern with how we have our mates… Also, is K’Tem’s chest glowing?” Luna looked beside me to where his chest was slightly exposed from his soldier outfit.

“Well, yeah.” They had seen him before, but I guess not with his shirt off. I had seen it glow, I just assumed it was normal for M’Mori.

K’Tem answered her. “Ah, these are my fated mate marks. Jessica doesn’t have them as she is a human female, but these are only for when you found your fated. I have found mine with Jessica. I didn’t know it could happen with another species, but it has.”

Say what? I knew he had mentioned fated mates but not that his chest glowed because of me. I reached out and touched one of the swirls and it brightened.

“Oh, wow, that’s cool,” I heard one of the girls say. Yeah, it was really cool but what the hell? He never told me. I wish I knew. I should have known this, but I guess I didn’t fully know K’Tem. And tomorrow, after I slept, I would ask him everything. About him, his family, being a M’Mori. Everything.

“Let’s go to bed.” I smiled up at him. I could see his eyes widened and shit, did his eyes glow too? I was excited to be sharing the same bed as him. I wasn’t going to do anything but sleep, but it didn’t stop Quinn from saying “bow chicka, woo woo.” I rolled my eyes and smiled.

“Well, at least I will be keeping it in my hut… unlike some people.” Everyone laughed as Quinn tried to play off it wasn’t her… it was her. Like way too much. I can never unsee what she was doing with Ryven that morning.

“K’Tem?” I reached over and I couldn’t find him. Was I dreaming? Was that whole thing a dream? I sat up, and my ankle screamed at me. No, it was real. But where was he? I was in my half-made hut. It was almost complete, but there was no door.

“He has gone for the moment to speak with Sanza.” I turned to the doorway and saw Tomlee sitting out there. It was foggy so I guessed it was morning still. I felt like I had slept so deeply that I missed half the day.

“Thanks, Tomlee, what are you doing out there?” I asked. It was odd because Tomlee and his friends all had a cabin close to Brooklyn and her mates.

“I kept watch last night from here. Koh took first watch, and now I am on morning watch.” Huh… That made me feel better that they were keeping watch. I didn’t want a repeat of yesterday. Well, kicking them in the nuts, I could do a repeat of that.

“Do you wish to urinate or have water?” he asked me. My eyes snapped up to him. Oh wow, I forgot how direct they were at times. I laughed.

“Yes, I think I might use the pot.” It was in the room I had requested and I couldn’t be happier. When I hopped over to it and pulled my shorts down, I forgot I had my period, but on closer inspection it was gone… Like, I never really had it to begin with, but this was weird. I wasn’t pregnant, I hadn’t been with anyone, not even K’Tem still. I had no idea what his junk looked like. I would ask the girls about the whole disappearing period, but they were all having sex pretty much straight up, so they didn’t even have a chance to have their periods.

In some ways, I was happy it was gone. I could make love with K’Tem tonight. I really wanted to; I wanted to be close to him. To feel his body against mine. But at the same time, I was scared. Would he like my body? It was different than his people. I didn’t have scales and I had body hair. Everywhere. Something I was still coming to terms with after shaving for most of my life.

“Are you okay, Jee-seka?” I heard Tomlee call out from the doorway. I smiled. This was what I wanted and now I had it. My heart wanted to burst. So much caring and love in a clan.

“I’m fine,” I replied as I came out. I found my bag and pulled out some fresh clothes. I felt gross and really wanted a bath.

“You wish to bathe with the females today?”

“Yes, I need to clean.” I grabbed my clothes in my hand and walked out of the door, my ankle wasn’t as bad now that I was using it. I looked over towards the watering hole and the fog really did cover them all. I could hear some of the girls chatting away. I walked over to them and realized I had a shadow.

“Oh, um… I guess you can come, but don’t look at me naked.” All the others had a male, so today I would be the same. Yet, Tomlee wasn’t a mate, so I wasn’t sure how that worked. Or the fact he wasn’t a takxe… but then Elle and Hadley had been bringing both their mates so this shouldn’t be a problem. I didn’t think it would.

“Oh my god, you’re up. And ooohhh, you brought a mate?” Brooklyn squealed when she saw me. I nodded.

“Ah… Yep, I needed a bath and a girls’ chat.” I didn’t know how to answer her. If I said no, he wasn’t my mate, the girls wouldn’t be impressed. And I didn’t want to say it and hurt him either.

I looked over to Tomlee. He stood tall and looked up to the sky. Not that you could see anything, but he kept his word. He stayed but didn’t look. I kinda wanted him to, but he was a man of his word, and I couldn’t fault him for that.

Chapter Sixteen

Tomlee

Brooklyn had said to Jee-seka that she brought her mate. She was referring to me as the mate. I stood tall and looked above when Jee-seka didn’t correct her. Was this her way of saying she wanted me as a mate? Or that she was going to allow me to ask her later? I needed to tell Koh, especially after I heard the girls talk about how their mates were all attracted strongly to them and that was how they chose them.

When she finished and made her way back to the hut, K’Tem was waiting for her. She jumped into his arms and wrapped her legs around his waist. He was a lucky male to have such affection from the most amazing female on Aarzyn.

“I am to find Koh; I will return later,” I told them both.

“Oh, okay. Thank you, Tomlee. I will see you later. Have a lovely day.” Her words gave me a bounce in my step as I ran to find Koh. My tails were waving with such force I thought I would bump into others on my way. I had never been happier.

I wasn’t going to find Koh straight away because as her scent hit me while she bathed, my cock throbbed in my cloth. My cock strained to be touched. Needed to be stroked. So, I rushed away, climbing the nearest tree away from her. With her scent still on my nose, I stroked myself until release. But it wasn’t enough. I released seed again and again. By the time I was done, it was no longer morning and the fog had lifted.

“Koh, where are you? Wake up, my friend.” When I entered his hut, I found him in the same way I was. It was like us being with her so much had made our hormones stronger.

“I am sorry, Tomlee. I have been with cock in hand all morning and neglected my duties. I do not understand why it is so much stronger today.” I smiled at him and bounced on the balls of my feet. My tails going wild.

“I believe she may choose us as mates today. I think we should present ourselves to her, like the males did to Quinn. Let her know we wish to be her Chosen and hope she picks us. I know many males are wanting a mate, but they are not affected like we are. I believe she will be more willing to choose us after the other females told her how their mates were also chosen from the same thing.”

That had Koh sitting up straighter, replacing his cloth over his large cock. It was a struggle, but he did so even though I saw the wince on his face.

“Do you think if she chooses us, she will mate bond and this will stop?” He pointed to his cock. I did hope it stopped a little. It was not comfortable to climb trees, and just the thought of her mating me had my cloth sticky with seed again.

“Maybe we should ask a mated male, like your brother? He was affected, yes?” Koh asked. It was true. Makee did follow after Brooklyn because of her scent. Maybe he had some better ideas on how to present ourselves. I did the date with Brooklyn, but only to offer my brother in my place, not to be her mate. So, it wasn’t the same thing, and Jee-seka didn’t like the blanket I made for her.

“Let’s go, and then we will be back to see Jee-seka. We will do this today; she is expecting us.”

Today, if the Goddess was right in giving me this gift of scent, I would have my own female and family to take care of.

Goddess above, please grant me this wish.

Chapter Seventeen

Jessica

I couldn’t wait. As soon as we entered the hut, all words left my mouth. I ran both my hands down his chest, over the glowing swirls.

“My fated,” he growled into my ear. I loved the feel of his abs, even with scales, they were defined as fuck… They were hard and making me wet. Okay, I think everything about him was making me wet. I hadn’t even had a chance to take care of myself here… so I had been denied an orgasm for too long.

I pushed his shirt all the way off, and he looked over to me. “May I?” he asked as he tugged on the hem of my tee. I nodded, smiling as I was kissing him again. I liked how formal he was being. It was sweet.

I ran my hand down to his pants. I undid the top and he gasped as I slid my hand down. Please be normal, I chanted to myself. So when I grasped a huge, smooth, round cock, I knew I had hit the jackpot. I wrapped my fist around his hard length and started to stroke him. I could hear his breath hitch as I stroked his cock faster. He was so thick. Big was better in my books and I was just lucky that I met him and he was my fated. He groaned and started thrusting his cock in my hand. I squeezed and chuckled.

“Bit impatient?” I asked. He grabbed my breast and pulled down the cup of my bra, exposing my nipple. He bent and licked it, swirling his tongue as I fucked him with my hand.

“I had wanted to lick your nipples, to lick your cunt and taste you on my tongue.” My eyes widened; he wasn’t sweet now. He was dirty as all hell. I looked down to where his other hand now made its way into my shorts.

“Fuck yeah, you are wild, K’Tem.” I really didn’t think he would talk dirty to me. And we didn’t have a door.

Fuck it. If they didn’t clue in from the sounds coming from in here, then they deserved to get an eye full of my naked ass. Which was naked as my shorts and underwear hung down around my knees now.

“I’m so glad your cock is normal,” I told him. He looked up at me. I could see the hunger to taste me on his face—I felt the same. My hormones now running the show.

“I checked your human mating before I came, to make sure we were compatible. There are only slight differences, but we go together, my Jessica. My hearts.”

Huh? “Heart,” I corrected him. He was good with English but at times he mixed things up. “And should I be worried about the slight differences?”

He took my face in his hands and pulled my lips to his in a tender kiss.

“My hearts, I have two. And only the flare is different. You don’t have that on your human males.” The flare? That sounded scary, but at the same time my body didn’t care—it wanted him inside, now. And he was nothing like the Aashi. K’Tem knew what he was doing, and rubbing my clit now… oh, shit… “Oh fuck, oh oh…” An orgasm ripped through me so fast I didn’t have time to think. I almost buckled under him. He chuckled.

“I watched your human pornography to see how best to please you.” He didn’t! But when I looked up, he wasn’t laughing. He was telling the truth.

“Well, I’m glad you did. Now I can sit back and relax while you take care of me… taste me?” Please go down on me.

I needed this so bad… One orgasm just wasn’t enough.

Chapter Eighteen

K’Tem

I laid her down, her golden hair flared out around her as if she were the sun, and I was pulled to her heat. If I got too close, I would burn, but I wanted to burn in her light. I burned all over for my mate. I licked my way down as I had seen in many of the movies I watched on human mating, making sure to pay attention to her nipples and her clit. M’Mori females didn’t have that on the outside. It was inside the cunt.

As soon as my tongue swiped over it, she bucked up to my mouth. I was careful with my teeth, but just the taste had me near orgasm already. I needed to make sure I lasted long. She was a greedy lover, needing many orgasms, but I would never deny my mate of such needs. It gave me pleasure to please my fated with my tongue.

“Oh god, yes, right there.” She held onto the top of my head. It gave me encouragement to continue. I added a finger to her hot, wet cunt… It sucked it in deep, milking me.

“You need my cock inside you,” I told her. She panted now, trying to speak, but she just pressed my face closer to her clit. I smiled. I would give her another orgasm, but I needed to draw this one out, make her satisfied so I could mate her before I made a fool of myself and spilled my cum.

I could hear some males close by as she called out again. I wanted to tell her that others could hear us, worried she wouldn’t like that. There was no door on the hut—she knew this but still initiated the mating, so I didn’t think she minded the others hearing.

As long as they knew how much I pleasured her, that was all they needed to know.

I shifted up between her legs, taking her nipple into my mouth and sucking. She moaned my name. Her legs opened wide to let me in closer. I pressed my body against her, letting her feel my hard cock between her thighs.

With my arms holding myself up so as not to crush her, I bent down and kissed her as I rubbed my cock against her cunt. She surprised me when her legs wrapped around my waist, pulling me closer than ever.

“Fuck me, now,” she demanded. I would have smiled at her words if I weren’t so worked up. I slowly entered her cunt; it was hot and tight. With her body stretching around me, I was so close. How could this feel so amazing? This wasn’t possible to feel like I was in total bliss just to have my cock seated within her. This must be a fated mate thing.

I kissed her, stroking her face with my fingers, and feeling this moment with her, as one.

“I love you, Jessica. You are mine to the end of time. I will cherish you forever.” Her hands came up and pulled me down for a kiss.

“I love you, K’Tem. Always and forever. I never thought I could feel this way about someone, and then I met you and came here. I knew everything had changed, but one thing was for certain: I knew you were my mate. I will love you always and forever.”

I started to move, her hands on my ass encouraging me to move faster, harder. The thrusts got deeper. I couldn’t hold on long, but I wanted her to orgasm again. I had seen the movies where they would have an orgasm, then the male did, same as the M’Mori. I couldn’t let her down.

“Fuck, oh shit.” I felt her walls tighten around my cock as she peaked. Only, I peaked too, my cock head flared as the walls of her cunt milked the cum from me. I watched her eyes widen. I didn’t think it would be too much different, but maybe the flare was more than she could handle.

“Fuck, your cock is huge.” I stopped thrusting and my cock pulsated within her.

“It is the flare. My cock flares when I orgasm,” I tried to explain, but she smiled and nodded lazily.

“Well, it feels amazing, just so full.” She ran her fingers up my back, my scales pricking at the touch. I slowly pulled my cock from her cunt. The sound it made was not sexy in the least and Jessica giggled. I joined in, it was too funny not to.

She pushed me to the side and I lie down. She looked down at my angry, blue cock, her eyes looking over its length. The head still flared.

“Wow, that’s really cool. I liked how it felt. Like, you really filled me up.” I laughed as she did. I was glad she liked it, and that it didn’t hurt her. I would have been upset if I had hurt her in any way.

“Let’s have a nap.” She laid her head on my chest. I felt a sense of happiness as I wrapped my arm around her.

“You sleep now, Jessica, and we will wake up and start the day.”

Even if we started it with the last meal of the day.

Chapter Nineteen

Jessica

When I went out for dinner, I could see everyone watching me and K’Tem. Oh, wow. I must have been louder than I thought. Oops… I didn’t care, I felt like I was floating on cloud nine.

“We have a spot for you both here,” Koh pointed beside him. I smiled and looked up and over to Elle who was in deep conversation with Sanza. The big guy looked very out of place. He was at least seven foot five—maybe even eight feet tall—and built like a body builder… only no tans and oils. He was all blue.

“Thanks for saving us a seat, Koh.” He nodded, and Tomlee waved at me from beside him. I remembered then he was supposed to come back and visit me today. He probably overheard K’Tem and I. But if he did, Tomlee wasn’t saying or acting any different.

“May I speak to you after the meal? At your hut, Jee-seka?” Tomlee asked. I nodded. Yes, I wanted to speak with him. With both of them.

“Koh, would you come too?” His eyes lit up as he nodded.

“It would be my pleasure, Jee-seka.” I smiled. I loved how the Aashi said my name. Some of the girls’ names they seemed to have no issue with pronouncing. Luna always sounded more like Loon-nah, like they stretched out that n.

I watched as K’Tem pulled out his own meal to eat. It didn’t look as nice as what we had on the table.

I didn’t have to ask for anyone to pass me some of the food. Koh placed a netah and pixxe on my leaf plate. I reached for the water in the cup placed in front of me and took a large sip.

Then I joined in with all the fun and chatting around the table. Turns out I wasn’t the only one to catch Quinn and Ryven, but in a different position today. I didn’t want to think of all the positions they could do… hanging out of trees. They were terrible at sneaking around outside.

After the meal, I was at the hut waiting… for what felt like half the night. Just as I was suspecting they weren’t coming, Koh and Tomlee arrived at my hut and knocked on the door—while I was sleeping with K’Tem earlier, he built the missing door. I straightened my hair down beside my shoulder. I was nervous all of a sudden.

“Come in,” I called out. They opened the door and I waved for them to enter. K’Tem was here. He told me he knew why they were to come here, and if I was going to turn them down as mates for him, he wouldn’t be happy, and neither would I. That after only knowing them such a short time, he understood why sharing a mate was something so easy with the Aashi. That there was nothing wrong with having more than one mate. That he respected them both and even if I didn’t choose them, he wished to continue his friendship with them.

That made me nervous. What if this was a huge mistake and they all started fighting, wanting attention that I couldn’t give them? With K’Tem in the mix, there was a strong chance any babies I had would be half M’Mori, and would that upset them?

There were so many what-ifs that needed answers too, but I guess the only way for this to work was with talking. I had been trying to work out what to say to them both. I was worried I was making a mistake choosing them, or a mistake if I was to reject their claims on me.

I took a deep breath.

“Thank you for coming. I have been wanting to speak to you after everything that happened. I have had time to think about everything. About how your bodies are drawn to mine… and how mine is drawn to yours.” Because it had to be why my body was acting the way it had been the last week. I watched as their eyes flared at that admission. I chuckled.

“Yeah, that’s right. I have been avoiding it for the past week, but when I am near you… either of you, I get wet, and I want to touch you… I want to mate you.” They both had huge grins, but I was getting ahead of myself.

“I wish to present myself to be considered a chosen male.” Koh bowed to me. Tomlee said the same two seconds after.

“I would like to take it slow, get to know you more—what you like, dislike—before we go any further. But I would like it if you wanted to sleep in the other room. Koh made two rooms. This means that we will be acting as if mated, but not be mated. Is that okay with you both?”

Koh cleared his throat. “Does this mean you will kiss me?” He seemed a little bashful after he asked. I nodded. What was wrong with a little kissing?

“Kissing and holding hands. No mating.” They both grinned and agreed. Tomlee moved quickly to my side.

“Will you kiss me now?” he asked, his dark eyes now watching my lips. Oh boy… This was moving fast and he was so cute. How could I say no to him?

“Sure. Have you kissed before?” I asked, then realized they didn’t have any experience with girls at all. He shook his head. I smiled; I was excited to be his first.

I took his chin in my hand and it was smooth. Aashi didn’t have beards or facial hair at all, but I reckoned Tomlee would have looked hot with a beard. If he could have grown one. His hair was shorter than Koh’s and I ran my fingers through it. His head titled to follow my hand, like he couldn’t get enough of my touch.

“I love how you touch me, Jee-seka. It feels like nothing I have experienced before.” Aww… the guy was breaking me. He never had anyone run their fingers through his hair… It was such a nice feeling. I was glad I could do that for him. I slowly inched my way to his face. He watched my lips and I closed my eyes as I got closer. I licked my lips before I pressed them to him. His lips were soft, so soft, and he moaned as I pulled him closer and licked the seam of his mouth.

He did the same in return, he was a very keen learner. I quickly swiped my tongue over his, and before I knew it, Tomlee had perfected the art of kissing after a small lesson. His hand snaked into my hair and pulled me so close the kiss was almost bruising. When I came up for air, Tomlee looked down to his cock.

“Oh, it was a really good kiss, Tomlee.” I felt bad for him. I could see where he had cum in his loin cloth. That must be uncomfortable. I wasn’t expecting that to happen from just a kiss.

“Me next?” Koh asked, looking just as eager. I giggled and looked to where K’Tem was watching me. He smiled and nodded, as if to tell me this was the right step for me. That he agreed with my choice.

“You’re next, Koh.”

Chapter Twenty

Koh

It had been five days that Tomlee and I had been staying in the hut with Jessica and K’Tem. We had hugged many times. She let me stroke her hair and I kissed her as much as she allowed. I loved to hear her giggle when I asked for kisses. So, I asked more than I should.

Because of this, my mate marks were strong and dark now, just as Tomlee’s had changed. I wasn’t sure of the dynamic of first mate. I knew that K’Tem was first, but he didn’t know all the Aashi ways, so I was always referred to as first mate when it was an Aashi question or need. So, I had acted as first mate many times. I wondered if when I mate bonded with Jee-seka if I was to get first mate marks.

Things were different to how I thought they would be with a mate. Just sometimes harder to know what each other wanted or expected, but that was because we were all learning each other’s ways.

I knew it wouldn’t be easy; M’Mori didn’t share mates. But K’Tem was very open to it. He spoke with us many times about how he wished to live like the Aashi. This made me happy, but there were times he would look at me and Jee-seka and I knew he was upset of how much time I was taking with her. So, I would back away and let them hug. He would tell us that he was sorry, he didn’t mean it. Just, sometimes it was hard because she was his fated and he became jealous. I understood this, that was the way of his people, so I didn’t hold that against him. His instincts were telling him to keep her away from us.

K'Tem only ate once a day, and he only ate meat. That was something he was trying to change, but when he had some pixxe he threw up. He had tried fish and he had a belly ache for many days and required many trips to dig holes. Aarzyn food did not agree with his belly.

Today, he said he would try netah, but Jee-seka told him no. Tomlee and I told him we would hunt for him, but he was very insistent on trying the netah today. Jee-seka cried at this, so I told him I would hunt for an ahnn with a few other males. We had a feast day so often now it didn’t matter which days we had it on. And meat was always a welcome food at the table by males. I still worried K’Tem was going to try netah without us knowing, that I told all around to watch out for him in case he had a reaction to it.

Humans also had many needs different from our own. And our beautiful mate—because that was what she was to be, my mate—she loved to bathe. Tomlee took on the role to be with her at all times. He was the one to go watch her down at the water hole. Well, not watch, he spoke with his brother. He made sure she was safe and had what she needed. He had taken on that role as she didn’t have a takxe—a healer—like so many of the other girls did as mates. I worried she would need one for when she had her kits, but she told us not to worry. The girls would act as a midwife, a term I didn’t understand, but she knew her people’s needs best.

“I need to talk to the whole clan about what the M’Mori are doing to your planet, and how it is affecting your people.” K’Tem stood beside me, watching Jessica smile and laugh with some other females. It made my heart so happy to see her this way.

“Yes, of course. We will go see Vallyn. He will help you to speak to the clan.” I was very impressed with his knowledge of our words. He told me he had an implanted translator, like the girls had but it was inside him. He couldn’t speak another language, only hear it. That he learned our words so he wouldn’t need his datapad, which was fascinating. But, he told us that it wasn’t for using all the time, in case he was tracked. I didn’t want that to happen. I liked K’Tem very much and I wouldn’t want the M’Mori to come and take him away.

Jee-seka met me while I was building another hut, one to house more males that had come into the clan. It was just a large hut for them to sleep. One of the males froze when she approached with Tomlee. He waved to me as he left.

“Hey, cutie, how long you gonna be here?” she asked me… I loved her human words she had for me. She came right up and grabbed one of my tails before pulling a little. My cock was leaking seed just at the touch. I smiled at her; I could see the playful glint in her eyes.

“I am sure these males will be able to finish now.” I leaned down and kissed her. I heard the males around me gasp at the sight. It made me feel very special to have Jee-seka.

“Enoh, let’s go for a walk.” I held her hand in mine and waved to the males. I could hear them talking amongst themselves at how I was so blessed to have a mate, and how her hair was colored so much like the twin suns. One said they wished to be her mate. That did not make me happy. I turned and looked for the male who said this. Then I realized I was turning into K’Tem. If she chose another male, I would be happy for them, but I also liked it the way it was. I had more time to spend with her with only sharing her with K’Tem and Tomlee.

“Enoh? Oh my gosh, Koh.” She stopped me and I realized I had spoken mostly in English around her and I had never told her that. But it was true.

“You have my heart; you are my love.” I was a little worried on what she would say. She had told us many times that we were only allowed to kiss and hold hands, until she was ready. I would do that till the day I died if it meant I got to touch her. Like this now.

“I love you, Koh.” I saw tears in her eyes and I used my upper left hand to wipe one that escaped.

“Why do you cry?” I thought her loving me would make her happy. But she cries. Like the first days she was here and sad to not be with her mate K’Tem.

“I’m just so happy. I didn’t think this would ever happen, not in a million years. But coming here, meeting you, meeting Tomlee and K’Tem… Never in my wildest dreams would this cute, purple alien be telling me he loved me while stroking me with his tails…” My eyes widened and my tails stiffened.

“I am so sorry.” I truly didn’t know I was doing that. She shook her head and laughed.

“Don’t be sorry, I have never told you to stop before.”

My eyes widened more. “Before?”

“Yeah, when we kiss or walk—wait… Do your tails have a mind of their own?” I didn’t think so, but now I was suspecting they did. I didn’t answer her question. I just kissed her instead.

We walked close to camp. I wasn’t risking her out there again, and she wouldn’t go far since the kidnapping. I heard a strange sound up ahead and pulled her to a stop.

“What is—” A loud moan interrupted her. I could see her jaw tensing. Quinn was never quiet with her matings and we had walked in on her once again.

“Let’s go.” I turned us back towards camp but I could see she was frustrated at Quinn. I didn’t know why she didn’t use her hut. We built a large hut for her to use. But Jee-seka was not happy with her friend at all. We walked all the way to Luna’s hut. I didn’t know why she was leading me here, but I needed to speak with Vallyn regarding K’Tem and his need to speak with the clan.

Axoh was sitting outside, and he greeted us warmly. Then he knocked on the hut door alerting Luna to our visit. The hut door opened and Luna came out with a huge smile.

“I want to talk to you about something,” Jee-seka ground out. She was really not happy.

“Oh no, what is it?” a voice behind Luna asked. Quinn was standing there. She looked between the two females with a puzzled look on her face.

“I… If you’re here…” Jee-seka looked at me. I shrugged and held my upper hands up. I have no idea who that was we just heard. It was a female and a male, but I didn’t know which ones. It obviously was not Quinn or Luna.

Chapter Twenty-One

Jessica

I had never realized how many males were part of Clan Wolf until the meeting that K’Tem had called for was arranged. I was sitting with the girls and our “minder mates,” which was what I had dubbed our mates that followed us everywhere. Not that I would ever complain. After the kidnapping, I didn’t want to be left alone. I hadn’t talked to the girls about what had happened, and they hadn’t asked, which I appreciated. But they had been here for me and been so supportive and caring.

“So, who had a good day today in the woods?” I asked the girls… knowing very well it wasn’t three of us, which only left Brooklyn, Elle, and Hadley. Which, the latter two would make sense. I didn’t see Brooklyn as an outdoors kinda gal.

“Huh?” Brooklyn replied. “Oh, no, I didn’t go in the woods today. I was… ah, I was at my hut most of the day. Pregnancy sickness… and other things.” She blushed. I couldn’t help the grin on my face as I nudged her shoulder and she giggled.

“Well, that leaves two…” Luna chimed in. I had told her what I had heard. Now I was not a prude, I just preferred not to be walking into live-action porn. Both Hadley and Elle looked at each other and shook their heads.

“Oh, it’s like that is it?” Quinn laughed. I just shook my head and chuckled.

“I’m all for getting it on in the heat of the moment, I just keep finding myself as a third wheel to an uninvited threesome. How about we move the outdoor show a little further away?”

They all nodded and agreed with me but didn’t admit who it was. I didn’t want to upset them or make them feel ashamed. I was all for wild stuff… just further away from camp.

Vallyn—Luna’s first mate—asked us all to be quiet while K’Tem did his news speech. It was very important.

“Clan Wolf, as you all know I am K’Tem, mate to Jessica.” He nodded and watched all the faces behind me. He shifted his weight on his heels… oh boy. I think he was really nervous. I waved at him and caught his eye. I could see him watching me now. I smiled and nodded. He cleared his throat.

“I might be M’Mori, but most of our people are not like the ones you have met. These government ones are corrupt; they are taking advantage of the Aashi. I joined the service to help the different planets, but I didn’t expect to be transporting human females across to Aarzyn.

“My brother, he is in tech. Most of you won’t know what that means, but he can do things many others can’t. He can hack into M’Mori ships and other governments to spy on them.”

A few of the Aashi gasped.

“He couldn’t hack into the ship carrying the humans, so I helped him once I was stationed on board. That is when he found out many things that were illegal in the Universal Federation. That is like, ah… your Queens in your clans. But many Queens, whose job is only looking over all the clans and their queens. Making sure everyone is treated equal and none are taken advantage of.”

I guess this was going to be harder than K’Tem thought. It was new for most of us, but more so for the Aashi people as they were so behind in terms of technology.

“I understand. Does any Aashi not understand these words?” Vallyn asked. A few called out they didn’t, but most understood his terms.

“Ah, good.” I could see he was nervous again. K’Tem wasn’t much for public speaking, I could tell. I wasn’t either, but he was doing really well. He pointed behind him.

“Out there, that’s where M’Mori mine aket. It is a rock, and you have much of it here on Aarzyn. And for many years, too many years, they have taken your free lands. At first, they took just a little, and slowly, your free lands have shrunk to very small levels.

“Even now, we stand here on top of the aket. It is hidden beneath layers of earth. This makes this area very much wanted by the M’Mori. But they bribe the clans. They have bribed you all with females to help continue your people. But only six. That is not many for what they have taken from you all.”

He sighed and rubbed his face. Oh man, this was going to be bad news… He told me he would explain it to all. That he didn’t want to worry me until he had confirmed it all. I was nervous about what he was going to say.

“The mines have poisoned your water. The aket has seeped into the underground water supplies. This causes anyone who drinks to become infertile over time.”

Us girls all gasped. “What the fuck,” Luna muttered. I watched as all the girls held their baby bellies. I instinctively placed my hand on mine. I knew it was too early to be pregnant but I didn’t want the chance to be taken away from me.

When none of the Aashi responded to that, K’Tem added, “Infertile… not be able to have kits. No more kits to be had.”

That had them all up in arms. They were loud, they were mad, and they had every right to be.

“But wait, wouldn’t the Federation people stop this?” Elle asked. It was a very good question. Why weren’t they stopping this?

“I do not understand what is happening between both peoples. M’Mori supply most aket in the Universal Federation. There are many planets under its care. But they also agreed that in return for the land M’Mori had taken, they would supply females that could bear kits to continue the Aashi race, as it is slowly dying out. More rapidly now than ever.”

This was not good. This was bad… very bad.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Tomlee

I sat behind Jee-seka, as K’Tem did his speech. I didn’t know all the words he spoke, but I understood his tech. He had shown me his datapad earlier today. He was speaking with his brother on there.

But when he said the words that the M’Mori were poisoning our people, that it was why we no longer had so many kits, that made me angry. How could they do such a thing? This was not the way; they were killing our people. Many males were yelling and screaming about wanting to kill the M’Mori while Vallyn tried to get order within the clan.

A loud, high-pitched sound rang through my ears and I looked to see Luna now standing up beside her mate. Everyone went quiet and watched as she held Vallyn’s lower hand.

“Alright, stop, now. This is important for us, because this means we are not safe here. Is that right, K’Tem? That’s why you’re telling us this now?”

K’Tem nodded. “Yes, I had been waiting on my brother to do scans and assess the area. He says we are not safe here. That we need to head south, below the mountains—there is no aket there—at least until he can find a way to stop the aket contamination in the water supply. Stop the mining altogether on Aarzyn… It is best to move.

“I wanted to warn you all. I want to warn all the clans. I’m unsure how without us being attacked, but they need to know that this is happening, and to stop it we must leave. Head south where it’s cooler weather. There are many foods down there that don’t grow here. So, it will be different in some ways, but it is for the best. For the health of the females.”

I wrapped my arms and tails around Jee-seka and the other mates did the same to their females. They were all in shock as I was. This was not the way I thought today would go. I didn’t wish for my Jee-seka not to have kits; I wished to give her many… when she chose me as a mate, that was.

“Tomlee.” She laid her head back on my chest. “This is bad… so bad.” I agreed but I didn’t wish to upset her further. So, I kissed her neck and I watched as she smiled up at me.

“I don’t want to leave our hut, I love it there. But tonight… I think after all of this… Tonight, I want to choose you, I choose you, Tomlee, as my mate.” My tails couldn’t stop vibrating and my cock hardened at the words. She chose me as her mate.

“Mate bond tonight?” I asked. I wanted to hear that from her own mouth as that was important for me—to hear the words. Her smile made her eyes light up.

“Mate bond me, Tomlee.”

The mood in the clan had changed, but I wasn’t going to let it change the way I felt for my Jee-seka. She had my heart. And now she wished to mate bond me this night.

“Do you think she wants to mate bond because of what K’Tem said? Like, she is rushing because of us now moving?” Koh asked. I didn’t know. I hoped it was because she was ready, but Koh’s words had put doubt in my mind. It had only been five days since she accepted us, wanting to wait until she was ready.

“Shall we ask her? I don’t want to rush her if she is not ready. I will wait forever if that is what she needs.” It was the truth. I never would want to rush her. K’Tem chose that moment to open the hut door.

“Jessica is ready. She knows this sped up everything and she doesn’t want you to feel like you have to. She has been doubting herself since she overheard you two speaking about it outside now.”

“K’Tem, stop it. Oh my god. This is so embarrassing. All of you come inside and talk.” She looked around to see if anyone was listening to us. I knew many would have heard us. This was not good. I didn’t wish to embarrass her.

Koh looked at me and I felt it too. We had made her doubt herself with our words. Well, I didn’t think this until Koh mentioned it. Now I was doubting everything, and my cock was actually not hard for once.

“Okay, I wasn’t just saying those things, I meant it. I do want you both as mates. I just wanted to wait a little as this is all new to me. I didn’t want to make any of you feel left out if I took you all at once. I just started all of this with K’Tem… I was going to slowly ease us all in together. Yes, I might seem like I’m rushing, but if we are leaving soon, I want to mate bond you here. Not out there.” She pointed to the outside.

I knew she didn’t like the outside matings that Quinn and Elle did. I accidentally caught Elle today as I was following Koh and Jee-seka. I may have lingered more than I should have. Only to know, when it was my time to mate, I knew how to make Jee-seka scream like Elle did.

I nodded at her words, my tails vibrating at the thought of her touching me, touching my cock and mate bonding me.

“K’Tem, it is your choice to stay. I want everyone to feel included, but I understand if you are uncomfortable.” My heart, she was always so caring of other’s feelings. K’Tem nodded.

“I will stay, my love. This is our life now. Tomlee and Koh are part of our family and I accept them as you accepted me. I won’t interrupt, but I wish to be present.”

They kissed, and then she kissed Koh, then me. I was so excited that my seed erupted in my cloth. Everyone’s eyes were on me now.

“Tomlee, did you want to take your cloth off? Maybe you have another so we can wash this one?” I nodded. I did have many cloths; I had made more for myself because of this reason.

I took my cloth off and showed her my cock, what her scent did to my cock. Even when seed had been released, it still stood hard for her, wanting to mate bond with her. Her eyes widened and she smiled while nodding.

“Oh wow, still hard. You have a beautiful body, Tomlee.”

I stood a little taller, proud at her words. Koh took his cloth off and presented himself to Jee-seka. She smiled, but I could see she was going to laugh but stopped herself. Not at his cock, she would never do such a thing. But at his swiftness in not waiting for her to ask him to remove the cloth.

“Let’s all get comfy in the nest.”

Chapter Twenty-Three

Jessica

Koh watched me with such heat in his eyes that I felt myself flush with warmth. I was wet… but with them both around, I was forever horny. It was like whatever scent I gave off that affected them was really affecting me now, and more so since they had moved in.

“Come here, Koh.” I waved for him to come into the nest. K’Tem had moved away and watched us from the corner of the hut. When I caught his eye, he smiled and rubbed his crotch. He had changed into the little loin cloth the Aashi wore. He looked hot as hell like that, and I loved to watch his chest swirl.

Tomlee came over and sat beside me. I touched his thigh and his hand hovered over mine, unsure what to do next.

“You can touch me, take my clothes off,” I suggested. I had to remember they were both inexperienced at this and I had to show them both the way. But in some ways, I also think they may have watched me and K’Tem a few times. So, they weren’t totally clueless virgins.

Koh pulled up the hem of my tee, and Tomlee got to work on my shorts. They were easy, just elastic holding them up. My underwear slipped down with them.

I pulled my hair behind me. It wasn’t the best today, full of knots that I needed to brush out, but I would do that tomorrow. Tonight, I would make love to my mates.

Warm lips kissed my shoulder, then more lips met mine. Hands… so many hands, working me as if they were one. My legs parted and I had completely misread them. They knew what they were doing. When a finger brushed over my clit, I gasped.

A hand wrapped itself around my throat gently, and a mouth swallowed my moans. Holy shit, I was going to come so hard. My legs were wide and I felt a warm mouth replaced the finger on my clit. My body shook as an orgasm ripped through me, so powerful I thought I was going to stop breathing.

They didn’t give me a chance to come down from that, they kept sucking, licking, touching, and then I felt fingers entering me, but it wasn’t enough. I needed their cocks…

“I want to mate you,” I begged. I didn’t care which one, but I wanted a cock inside me so bad.

I opened my eyes and saw it was Koh between my legs. He pulled away, his lips glistening with my juices. He licked his lips and it turned me on more. I didn’t think it would but now I did.

I didn’t know if they had spoken about who was first, but in my heart, I knew Koh was to be first. He acted as first mate, like Luna’s Vallyn. It made sense that if one of them was to get those first mate marks, it would be Koh.

I pulled him up towards me and he came willingly as Tomlee moved aside. I looked over to see if he was okay with this, and found him stroking his cock, his eyes hooded, and he looked close to coming again. He could probably go all night.

With Koh’s weight lowered down on me, we locked eyes. He kissed me as he hovered above me, our bodies not touching, so I pulled his ass closer. I ran my fingers down to the base of his tails and I watched as his eyes almost rolled into the back of his head.

“Is that, like, really sensitive?” I didn’t know too much of what turned on the Aashi males. I just realized I was as much a virgin with them as they were with me.

“If you hold the underside, it is like my hand is on my cock stroking.” His voice was strained as if he was trying really hard to stop himself from coming right then.

“Okay, that’s good to know. I won’t do that tonight.” I moved my hand away and pulled him so his cock was now pressed against my pussy. I moved his arms so he was pressing his weight down onto me. I loved the feeling as he stroked my face. One of his hands cupped my breast, rolling a nipple between his thumb and forefinger. His lower arms holding himself up so as not to crush me. He smiled and grinded his cock into me. I moaned as my sensitive clit responded. I got why the girls had so many mates if one can do this. Imagine when I had three… God, I didn’t think I would be able to walk right again with so much dick.

“This feels so amazing, enoh. I wish to enter you, to mate bond you,” he said. At least he knew how this worked. Not that I wanted to start thinking of those bastards who kidnapped me right now in this intimate moment, but I was glad I could have this now. This was real. I loved them. I truly did. I didn’t think I could ever feel this way about anyone and now my chest swelled with the love I had for all of them.

I reached between us and gripped his cock in my hand and gave it a stroke. I could feel the pre-cum sticking to my fingers, and the moan that left his mouth made me feel so good. That I could bring this sound out of such a large guy, please him just with my hand. His eyes heavy-lidded with need.

I glanced at Tomlee. He was watching now… where my hand was, what Koh was doing to me. I watched as his hand sped up.

“Don’t overdo it. That cock is for me. You can’t come again until you are in me,” I warned him in a playful way. His eyes widened as he let go of his cock like it was on fire and just burned him. I snorted, fuck… this was hot. Was this a dream? It had to be a dream.

“Yes, enoh.” Tomlee nodded and turned to where K’Tem was. I glanced over and saw he was now naked and stroking himself. He cocked a sly grin, and I chuckled. He could touch himself as much as he wanted; I wouldn’t be able to take him after these two huge, purple cocks, because the guys here were made huge, in every way.

“I wish to mate bond you, Jee-seka.” Koh pressed his lips to mine in a sweet kiss. I wanted the same thing.

“I wish to mate bond you too, Koh,” I replied. “I love you.”

I slipped his cock between my folds, and when he entered me, we both moaned at the pleasure.

I was going to be having so many orgasms tonight…

Chapter Twenty-Four

Koh

I was mate bonding to Jee-seka. My cock seated within her heat was nothing like I expected it to feel. My seed wanted to spill now, but I knew that wasn’t how this worked. I was supposed to move within her. But when I pulled back, I shuddered. Would she be upset that I did not bring her to orgasm while we mate bonded? I didn’t know I was so close to seed until I was seated within her.

Her pussy was like a warm hand sucking the seed from me. She looked from beneath me and nodded as she reached for the base of my tails. I stiffened at the feeling. She ran a finger under and my hips bucked into her. She moaned my name. My seed threatened to spill at that moment.

“Again, Koh. Make love to me.” Love. My mate loved me. She had my heart. I would give her everything she wished for. I was now a mate to the lovely and kind Jee-seka, with hair like the twin suns. And she wished me to mate her, and so I should.

I tried to make this last for my beautiful mate, but after the fourth thrust, I couldn’t hold on anymore. I felt pleasure unlike I had ever experienced with my hand, it rushed through me like a wave.

My cock released seed deep within her. My words, muffled and so foreign in my mouth. I didn’t have words for the feeling; it was indescribable.

My arms were shaking, and I used all four to stop myself from falling onto her and crushing her in the most powerful release I ever had. Nothing would ever compare to the feeling of mating. I now understood why so many mated Aashi males were walking around with such a smile on their face after being with their human mates.

“I am sorry, Jee-seka. I tried so hard to not spill, but I will never forget this moment in which you gave me the privilege to be your mate.” Her smile made the light feeling in my chest bloom like a flower on a klaven tree.

“Thank you, Koh. I am just so grateful that you wished to be my mate. I am one of the luckiest females to have all amazing mates.”

I leaned down and kissed her pink lips, her cheeks also pink. Her tongue swept against mine, and although I felt my cock harden within her, I knew it was time for Tomlee to take his position. To be mate bonded by our beautiful mate.

I pulled my still hard cock from her pussy. She looked down and I watched her eyes as she saw how I was still hard.

“This is what you do to me, always when I am with you or think of you. My cock is always hard.” Her brow furrowed a little.

“I don’t want you to be in pain.” I then realized she was worried for me. I shook my head and played with one of her nipples.

“I am not in pain, this will soon stop being hard all the time. I spoke to other males who are now mated. But now it is time for Tomlee to mate bond. So, I shall move now, my heart, and stroke my cock to you.”

She pulled me down for a quick kiss before releasing me.

“I love you,” she whispered.

Chapter Twenty-Five

Jessica

I woke up to feeling very hot. I was wrapped in the arms of my mates. Tomlee was wrapped around my legs, with Koh pressed behind me, and K’Tem in front of me. When our eyes caught, he smiled and stroked some hair from my face.

“Good morning,” I whispered, not wanting to wake the other two. But when all three replied good morning back at the same time, I laughed.

“I love you all, but I’m cooking here… I’m too hot.” I wiggled away from them a little and sat up. My body felt like I had been to the gym for the first time. I guess I kinda had been after last night. Koh was gentle, but his cock was huge, but not as big as K’Tem and his flare.

But Tomlee… I had a feeling his name was very fitting. He was a peeping Tom for sure. He knew things that I didn’t even know. I knew Quinn was a wild one, she was into all that kinky type stuff. But I wasn’t complaining; some kinky was hot. I never knew I was into a little spanking and him just being in control. He actually came twice, he didn’t stop after the first one, which I thought was funny. It was almost like he wanted a do-over, the way he pretended like it didn’t happen.

I looked over to Koh. He was looking at his shoulders.

“Oh my god, Koh.” He looked up to me and smiled. He did get the first mate marks… I had no idea how this worked with the Aashi but he was considered my first mate in their world. They all would be treated as my first.

“Congratulations. It made sense for you to be the first mate.” K’Tem was smiling at Koh. Tomlee agreed.

“You will make the best first mate.”

There was another round of hugs and kisses, but I needed to get up.

When I sat up, I felt sticky between my thighs. That was a lot of cum.

“I need a bath, then breakfast, and maybe if I’m walking okay, we can go on a little picnic for lunch?” I wasn’t sure when we were going to move the clan. But Koh told me that there was no more building of huts, and the males were going to start packing some of the smaller ones down so that we could travel with them for the females.

I wasn’t a princess; I could sleep under the stars. As long as I was beside my mates, I could sleep anywhere.

When we all stepped outside the hut, I saw nothing but white fog. Awesome, I was going to do a naked run to the water hole. I didn’t care anymore if the girls saw me naked. It was something I had to get used to here, and to be honest, I didn’t care if I saw anyone else. They weren’t judging my body, just as I didn’t judge them.

“I will come with you today; I shall help you bathe.” K’Tem held my hand and Tomlee kissed me.

“I shall clean up inside the hut,” Tomlee offered. That was a good idea. If we had to pack stuff soon, may as well get ready. I didn’t have a lot to pack anyway.

“When do you think we will be leaving?” I asked Koh and K’Tem. They shrugged.

“I will go find out. I will speak to Vallyn and Daku, they will have more knowledge on this now it is a new day.” Koh kissed me and ran off.

“Looks like it’s just us… and everyone else,” I added when I approached the water. All the girls froze and watched as I entered the water, K’Tem standing only two feet in and removing his little loin cloth.

“Wow.” I used my hands to block anyone’s view, but as much as I loved the girls, I knew they wanted to take a look at his junk. Especially after I told them about how his cock head flared.

“Oh, I am sorry, I thought I would bathe you, Jessica. Is this not what Tomlee does?” He moved and grabbed the cloth, holding it to the front of him. I could hear someone giggle.

“Ah, yeah, no. I just wash myself and he used to stare at the sky and talk to his brother. Mostly the males just watch their mate and chat.”

He moved out of the water and looked around before walking over to Axoh. He hesitated before he sat down beside him. I smiled to myself as Axoh started to speak with him. I kept forgetting that K’Tem was also an alien here, and one the Aashi didn’t like. So, it must be difficult for him to make friends here.

“So… tell us. How was the mate bonding last night? I could hear that from my hut,” Hadley said, her eyebrows wagging at me. I just laughed.

“Well, if you could hear it, then why are you asking? You know it was good.” The others all started laughing.

“Man, she got you.” Luna splashed Hadley. Everything was perfect… well, almost. We had to move, but what was a little move? I just moved to a whole other planet. It couldn’t be any worse than this.

I washed and chatted,. The water wasn’t as bad today. But then I remembered I was floating in poison water. There was a weird whirring sound and I stood up and looked over to K’Tem who was animatedly chatting with Axoh. Most were chatting… but when I spotted Makee—Brooklyn’s mute mate—and he was looking over his shoulder and up into the tree canopy, I knew I wasn’t hearing things.

“Can you hear that, Makee?” I called over to him. He stood up and looked over to me. My calling over to him had everyone now quiet, and just as I heard Brooklyn make a strange sound, I saw the dark cloud over the top of the tree canopy. It wasn’t a cloud though.

“M’Mori fleet ship,” K’Tem called out. I looked up and froze. Oh my god, what were they doing here? I felt his hands wrapping around me and grabbing me out of the water as he hauled me over his shoulder and started running.

Loud screaming came from the girls behind me as I saw their mates do the same. Males were jumping out of trees, some lower down calling out for us to run… Run where?

“Intruder alert,” was called out so many times as we made our way back to the hut. Tomlee was there. He looked at us, puzzled, then pointed to K’Tem’s bag.

“Your datapad makes the sound of brother.” I heard the beep, and K’Tem rushed over, placing me beside him as he reached in and took his datapad out.

“R’Nam.” His voice was panicked as the face of a M’Mori appeared on the screen.

“Brother, I have been trying to contact you… I have bad news.”

Chapter Twenty-Six

K’Tem

The M’Mori were here. Why had they come? For me? I had been so careful. This channel was locked, they couldn’t find me. They couldn’t, right?

“What is the bad news? Because brother, I have a whole M’Mori fleet above us.” I could see by the look on my brother’s face that he was too late to warn me.

“I have been found out; they found the link that I used to hack into their system and they have cut me off. They know you are there with the Aashi, they also know you have a Zalli warrior there too. They were not caring about that, until I tried to get the Federation to stop this. All of what was happening with the Zalli, with the Aashi. But, turns out, they are just as corrupt. I am sorry, brother. But where the mountains are, there is a force field that makes it impossible for any ship to land there, they can’t even come close. You will be safe there.”

I worried this might happen. I knew my brother would be caught one day for his hacking ways and they would come for him. Just not now. I wanted to help him. I was his brother; that was my job.

“Where are you?” I asked, worried for his safety. I saw the screen move and focused now on red dust surrounding the open spaces around him.

“I’m actually on Theros Six. I’m on the outskirts, not near the gladiator rings and slave trading. I’m alone. Mother and Father took P’Tam with them and have dropped off the radar somewhere. They know I’m here and will contact me in a few days.” That made my chest tight.

My whole family was in danger now. I wanted to tell him to come here but I knew that wasn’t possible, and with the fleet above us, would be stupid too. The M’Mori wouldn’t just let my parents and sister walk in here. They would kill them. They needed to go somewhere safe, and anywhere the Federation touched wouldn’t be safe for them anymore.

I could hear the screaming and chaos of what was happening to the clan from inside the hut. Koh had returned, and when he saw me talking with R’Nam, he asked me if it was bad, if the M’Mori intended to attack. I nodded that it was bad, but unsure if they would attack. I explained to him the situation and he left to get Vallyn and Daku.

They would need to hear this, to control everyone so we didn’t get trampled on our way out of here.

With our bags packed and the fog lifting, the entire clan was gathered together to listen to the news. I didn’t wish to be the one to bear this news with them. I was the reason the M’Mori fleet was here.

“Clan Wolf. My brother has informed me that he has tried to speak with the Federation. They are not good people, like the M’Mori who have come here. I don’t know why. If it is to kill me and Sanza, or if it is to attack the clan, or any other reason.” There were many gasps, and I was waiting for them to offer me up to them, back to my people so they wouldn’t have to deal with the M’Mori coming down here and attacking us.

“So, we need to go now.” Vallyn stepped up beside me, his hand on my shoulder. I sighed in relief. “Clan Wolf, you all know your roles. This will make things easier for us as we travel. We must protect the whole clan.”

Daku now stood beside me. “I am sending out parties of three to speak to Yaayi, Zaali, and Taanin Clans. They are most at risk of the M’Mori at this time as we leave, and we will wait for their news at the Goddess Arena.”

That gave me hope for the Aashi people. If they would follow us, they could once again be safe and prosper as a people on another part of their planet.

Vallyn announced to follow the ground warriors, as we had so much to take with us. But the sounds now coming from the M’Mori fleet above us had the females screaming and trying to run.

“Leave the damn huts, we need to go fast. I want to be in the trees. Can M’Mori climb trees?” Quinn asked me. I shook my head. We were not limbed like the Aashi, and I couldn’t climb the trees.

“No, the M’Mori cannot pass through the trees. You will all be safe up there if they come on foot. Sanza and I shall run the ground beneath you. I will use my datapad to track our location,” I explained to her and the others.

“No, no… you can’t.” Jessica was crying now, screaming and holding onto me. Koh and Tomlee tried to comfort her as I told her it would be fine.

“They only want us, and all that matters is that you are safe. I need you to be safe. You now carry my child, Jessica. I didn’t wish to tell you now, but… my datapad. I used it to scan you this morning without asking, while I was speaking with my brother. You are carrying life inside you.” I placed my hand on her belly where our child rested.

She shook her head. “No, no. They can’t take you away. I need you, K’Tem. You have to try to hide if they come. You have to. Promise me.” I was grateful to hear her words, that she would travel through the trees with the Aashi.

“I promise, my love.”

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Jessica

I was carrying life inside me… I was going to have a baby.

Koh and Tomlee took turns carrying me through the trees with the others. My body hurt from the way I held on, and I wasn’t one to be scared of heights, but when they jumped through the trees and swung off the branches… I was scared. I held on so tightly that Koh asked me to loosen my hold as it was causing him some pain.

I felt terrible. I didn’t want to hurt him as he was doing heavy lifting… aka me, while trying to jump through the trees. I didn’t want him to miss a branch and have us fall to our death.

“We will camp here for the night,” Vallyn called out. The M’Mori ships had disappeared and moved on some time ago, but it didn’t mean they weren’t waiting somewhere for us. K’Tem couldn’t get ahold of his brother so he wasn’t able to find their location. I just hoped they weren’t where we were headed.

“I want to go down, to be with K’Tem. We can’t leave him down there alone.”

I could see the look in Koh’s eyes. He didn’t want me to be down there, but he wasn’t going to argue with me either.

“My mate, it’s not safe down there,” he muttered as he descended the tree. I kissed his cheek and I saw the edge of his lips turn up in a smile.

“You try to distract me, my love.” He chuckled. I grabbed on tighter. Hell no, I didn’t want him distracted as we were dropping out of a huge tree.

“No more distractions. Get us down safely.” Tomlee chuckled beside us on another tree.

“I am very skilled at climbing trees. I wouldn’t let you drop, Jee-seka.” I laughed, and before I knew it we were on the ground. My muscles too sore to stand, I collapsed in a heap.

“My hearts, why are you down here?” K’Tem swooped me up into his arms. I pulled him in for a kiss.

“I wanted to see you. I wanted to sleep with my mates.” I was glad the moonlight made it easy to see. We would see the M’Mori coming… right? But K’Tem was just like Koh, only he had the guts to stand up to me.

“You go up there, sleep where it is safe. Sanza and I will sleep below. This way, if anything happens, you will hear it and be able to move on swiftly.”

I didn’t want this; I wanted my new family to be together as one. My heart was breaking for K’Tem. He fell in love with someone he shouldn’t and followed his heart. And now he might be killed by his own people. Because he betrayed them to save a whole world and the Aashi people.

I choked out a sob. This was important now. I carried his child. I hadn’t stopped thinking about those words. I didn’t know his datapad could do that—look for life inside me. I wanted to scan Brooklyn and see how many she was really having. This could be such a useful tool to have. We could check the health of the babies.

“I will protect your mate, Jessica.” Sanza came to stand beside K’Tem. He was so tall. And blue. It was interesting seeing the differences between the two of them, where Sanza could hide in the night, K’Tem’s whole chest glowed as bright as the night sky.

“Cover your chest, please. I don’t want them finding you with fated marks.”

K’Tem looked down and the look he gave me was cute, like he forgot they were there as he ran his fingers over the swirls absentmindedly.

“I didn’t think of that, thank you, Jessica.” He kissed me again, and when he let go, Koh jumped up the tree with me, scaring the crap out of me as he rushed back up. I watched K’Tem put on a shirt to cover his glowing fated marks.

“Do you wish to sleep beside Elle?” Tomlee asked. I looked over and saw she was lying against her mate, Marin. But it was like she was on a platform that had been built there.

“We have room,” she offered and I agreed. If she was fine with my guys, I was with hers. It was Tomlee who sat with me. I was wrapped in his arms just as Elle was wrapped in Marin’s arms.

“I’m exhausted and I haven’t even done anything but be carried. I kinda wish I could have slept while I was being carried, but too much jostling,” she told me as she yawned. I followed the yawn.

“I’m feeling the same, but I don’t know how I will sleep knowing K’Tem is down there… I can’t lose him.”

Elle reached her open palm over to me. I moved in Tomlee’s arms so I could reach out and hold her hand. She was supportive and caring, and knew I just needed her reassurance.

After a long time and I still couldn’t sleep, I reached up and stroked Tomlee’s face. His face was so relaxed as I traced his brow line and down to his lips. I could feel his cock growing beneath me. I stopped and I could see the hint of his smile.

“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

I worried as much as Jee-seka did 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-seka screamed, “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 around Jee-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 protect Jee-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 to pee. 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 helped Jee-seka sleep once she heard his voice.

As we all collapsed on the ground together, wrapped up in our happy family, Jee-seka started to sing. This was not one of our songs. She didn’t know our songs, and we rarely sang. But her voice was soft and sweet on this warming day.

Then other females joined in and they all sang. It was a song of love. It was beautiful and the whole clan sat silent as they listened. When it was all done, there were many words of praise. I didn’t know the females could do that. In all their time here, I had never heard them sing.

“I need to go speak with Elle, she isn’t doing well. I think Sanza leaving has upset her.” We all let her go, knowing it was important for Jee-seka to comfort her friends.

“Was Sanza her mate?” I didn’t understand why she would be more upset over his leaving than the rest of us.

K’Tem shook his head. “I don’t know, only that he was very angry with the M’Mori and wanted to avenge the death of his family. I begged him to stay, that it would only result in his death also. But he wouldn’t listen. He was full of rage. I only hope he didn’t make it there before they left, that he will return to us soon.”

I didn’t know Sanza well, not like K’Tem did, but I didn’t wish harm on him. He was part of Clan Wolf now.

“We should go find him, return him,” Tomlee announced.

Daku or Vallyn needed to send out a search party. I would gladly volunteer to find and return our blue clan member.

That was, if he was still here.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Jessica

Elle was crying with her mates. They held her tightly, stroking her hair and trying to comfort her, but she was inconsolable. When they saw Luna and I approach, they nodded for us to come. They knew she needed females to help her in that moment. Maybe she needed some girl talk. I guessed it would be hard to tell your mates you had a crush on someone who just left and could possibly not come back. They stood and moved away as we came to her.

“Girl talk time,” Luna said as she sat beside Elle and wrapped her arm around her shoulder. Elle sniffled a few more times and wiped her eyes as I sat down on the opposite side and reached for her hand. Her eyes red and puffy from all the crying. I wiggled my toes in the soft, purple grass and hoped being on the ground would make everyone feel better.

Elle had sang along with me and the others. Ed Sheeran always made me feel better in the past, and I didn’t know why I randomly started singing “Perfect,” and was surprised when the others knew it also. When we all started singing, I almost cried. It was just so seamless. Like something I had been missing for so long and I had just found it. It made me feel lighter, happier.

Quinn almost bowled me over in a bear hug. I laughed. “You’re an amazing singer. We need to do concerts… Can I request songs?” I chuckled into her shoulder and pulled back to see her face. Her huge grin made me chuckle once again.

“I’m not that good, and I don’t know much… I mostly listened to Ed. But we can all sing and have fun anytime. I would love that.” I really just wanted to cheer up Elle. I think she really liked Sanza, but by the way she was acting, maybe she liked him more than I suspected, like maybe he was her mate?

“Do you want to talk about it?” Luna asked Elle, but when she shook her head, I looked around. We were all here, together. The six of us girls. And out there, another six girls were on their way to their clans… unprepared for the life they had come here for. I wanted to reach out and let them know we were here. Maybe they would come to us… God, I hoped they would.

“Maybe… we can sing and the new girls will hear us? They might come to us?” It was probably a bad idea. I wasn’t the best at ideas. Quinn had so many and I just went with it all because they were always so good. She was smart. I wasn’t a leader, that was for sure. Hell, my last job was cleaning people’s offices. I had nothing to bring here other than how to throw out trash and vacuum.

Everyone didn’t think it was a bad idea, and I was surprised. They actually thought it was genius after Daku shot us down at calling out to the new girls. They didn’t say anything about singing and let us do it before. Well, not let. They didn’t stop us was what I meant.

“Well, I would like to have an all-out concert, but we need to jazz it up a bit. Can we have a more harmonized type of song? Like The Supremes do? Or do you all know ‘Please Mr. Postman’?” Hadley smiled at us, nodding. That was a great idea.

“Oh… I know some of that one. Can you start singing it and maybe we can really blow these Aashi out of the water with it?” Brooklyn bounced beside me.

“We can clap and take the different parts.” I laughed. I didn’t fully know this song but I couldn’t mess it up in front of the Aashi because they didn’t have a clue how it was supposed to go. It would be the “Wolf Girls” version.

We practiced for about ten minutes while more males started getting closer to us, hearing us randomly here and there. But we didn’t sing the whole thing in front of them. We all wanted to surprise them.

I actually knew more of the song than I thought. My grandmother used to listen to a lot of old songs, and when Hadley started singing, I knew enough to sing back up to her.

The males knew something was going to happen soon as they started to sit down in front of us. Elle seemed distracted and she was even laughing. This was good, good for her and me. And everyone else. We had been traveling so long. We needed something good, and singing was something that had been missing from my everyday life and I never realized it until today.

Luna had us all stand up in a row. I was between Elle and Brooklyn.

“We should do a little dance move like this.” Elle placed her hands out in front and did a cute little shimmy and then swung her hips. I liked it and copied until we all started and the males in front all clapped when we stopped. Like that was the show.

“We totally need to recreate the Pitch Perfect movies. That would be so much fun.” Quinn had this huge grin, and I watched her as she bounced around on her spot.

“I haven’t seen those ones,” Luna said with a frown.

“I will teach you it all. I have watched them a million times.” Quinn hugged her tightly.

“Are you all ready for the Clan Wolf singers?” Luna called out. I could see Daku getting agitated at how loud she was. But he just stood frozen there, like he didn’t know how to say no to her. Hell, I didn’t think I could ever say no to Luna. She was a born leader.

I saw my mates all in the front row now. They had all organized themselves like when we had the clan meeting days ago.

“Alright, so far we have one number only. So be prepared for more in the future. We have a whole musical we will put on when we have practiced,” Quinn called out now.

I shook my head but I couldn’t help the grin spreading across my face. I watched the others. They all had huge smiles. Why didn’t we think of this before? Maybe because I wasn’t into public speaking?

But before I could think further on it, Hadley started and we were on. And all my nerves drifted away.

Chapter Thirty

Tomlee

My mate had the voice of the Goddess. She could sing, and when all the females stood up, we all waited to hear them once again. Her huge grin made my stomach feel like a bird was trapped in there and tickling me from the inside. My heart was full and happy.

They sang all together, but not the same as before. This time it was different. All the girls sang a different part, and together it made this amazing sound. We all sat in awe as they moved their bodies to the words and tune. It was amazing.

This must be a human custom again, one that I would love to see many more times. I knew their females liked to mate a lot, more than Aashi females did. But that was because our females only mated when in heat.

I wondered if Jee-seka would want to continue mating now she had a kit within her. I had been so excited to hear I was to be a father. Something I never thought would happen. I had resigned myself to thinking I would be an uncle to Brooklyn’s kits. But I knew it wouldn’t be the same. Her kits would have five fathers as it was, all wanting to spend time with the kits, so I knew I wouldn’t get much time with them.

I looked over to Makee and he signed to me that he was happy. I signed back to him, telling him how amazing our mates were. We were truly the most blessed males on all of Aarzyn.

After they finished, they all bent their bodies in half by leaning forward. When they stood up, we all cheered. I couldn’t hold myself back. I jumped up and ran to her. I grabbed her and swung her around in my arms. Then, I realized what I had done and I placed her on the ground gently and held my hand to her belly, where she grew our kit.

“I am so sorry, my love. I don’t know what came over me.” She laughed and kissed me.

“You can’t hurt the kit from spinning me, but maybe don’t do it on an empty stomach. I need some food. Water too.” How could I forget the needs of my mate? She clearly hadn’t eaten in a long time.

But I didn’t have to move. Males started bringing food for all the females until there was more than enough for each of them. “Let’s go eat, and we can talk.” She held my lower hand and my tails went wild. Was she to talk about our kit? I wanted to talk about it so much, but she hadn’t brought it up before now. I was waiting until she was ready.

We found a quiet spot away from others. Although I knew we were protected as long as we were here, I could sense the warriors in the trees, watching for danger. Other outcast males were lingering nearby, we were so close to the Goddess Arena now.

“I cannot wait any longer. I want to kiss you all over and thank you for this gift you carry within you, my heart.” I held my lower hand on her belly as I stroked her long hair with my upper left. My tails had wrapped themselves around her ankle to keep her near.

“Then kiss me all over…” She winked at me. Oh, my mate, she knew how to get my cock to leak seed.

“You cannot mean for us to do it here, in the outside?” Koh asked from behind her. He kissed her neck and she tipped her head back on his shoulder. I found her fingers running up my thigh, my cock now very hard and wanting her touch.

“Yeah, why not? If we are quiet we can. I just need you… all of you.” She reached out and pulled K’Tem closer.

Her hand on my thigh now moved to my cloth and she tugged it loose. I helped her by taking it off and throwing it away. She laughed and slapped my chest playfully.

“Silly, don’t throw it away. Someone might steal it.” I laughed, as did Koh and K’Tem.

“What? What’s funny?” She looked between us, her forehead now lined with worry.

“If someone wished to steal Tomlee’s cloth and wear it, then they deserve to for stealing it in the first place. He has leaked seed in that one for many days. It is more seed than cloth now,” Koh answered her. Her brows rose high… so high they almost touched her hair.

“Ugh… that’s so gross. Tomlee, you need to change more. You have the backpack full of my stuff, but you have fresh cloths in there too. That’s so gross.” But she laughed, so we did also. Then her eyes locked onto mine. “It is important to change or you could… Well, I don’t think you could get sick but I won’t want to touch your cock again if you don’t.”

I nodded. I would change my cloth many times a day as I was always leaking seed when she was near. I wanted her to touch my cock but now she looked down to it. I realized she might wish me to wash.

“I will go wash. I will return very fast.” I ran and I heard them all laugh at my swift departure.

I found the water hole that we had been drinking from. Males were standing around and drinking from there and they looked at me as I approached, my cock hard and erect.

“Did your mate not wish to touch your cock again?” one of the newer males teased. But the way he spoke, it seemed more like he was being rude against my mate and me. He wasn’t to know what my mate and I did. That was ours to know only.

I quickly scooped water in my hand and stood away to not contaminate the water hole with my dirt. I washed myself down. The humid air made the water on my skin feel sticky as I returned. Koh was now seated against the tree. Jee-seka was naked, her large breasts bounced as I watched her pussy swallow Koh’s purple cock, over and over. She stroked K’Tem’s cock in her hand in rhythm to her bounce. When she spotted me, she called for me to come to her.

“Tomlee, you will have my mouth. I want to taste your cum.” I didn’t know what she meant, but when she grasped my cock and brought it to her lips, I knew this was the “blow job” I heard many mated males speak of. I didn’t know if I would like such a thing, but when she stroked me with her hand, and her pink lips sucked the end of my cock into her warm mouth, my knees almost gave way.

The feeling was almost like being inside her pussy, which I loved. But this was different. This would bring me just as much pleasure, but did my seed bring her pleasure?

When her hand moved from my cock and found the base of my tails, she ran her fingers under there. I bucked my hips as seed poured from my cock into her mouth. I looked down at her, worried she would be mad, but she kept sucking until all my seed was gone and my cock was, for the first time, no longer hard. It was spent.

She smiled up at me just as K’Tem called out his release. I watched in fascination as his cock head flared to a large size. It almost doubled.

“Wow, can I touch it?” I was fascinated by it. Was it hard? How did it do that? K’Tem let out a strange sound as my fingers neared his cock.

“I am so sorry, I was just… I have never seen such a thing.” I didn’t mean to touch him without asking. That was not my intention. I never wished to touch another male in that way, it was just so different to my own cock.

Koh called out as Jee-seka did. They were both flushed with sweat and breathing heavily.

“It’s okay, I know what you meant. I just was a little surprised is all. You can touch it.” K’Tem nodded to me. I didn’t hesitate, I was truly curious. I placed my finger there. It was firm, but soft like my own cock head. K’Tem hissed slightly and I pulled away.

“Sorry, it’s very sensitive now.”

Jee-seka smiled as she reached for us both. “I thought it was hot.”

Chapter Thirty-One

Jessica

No new females came in the night, and I was worried just as the rest of the girls were. Daku had sent males out to find the other females, but I wasn’t sure if that was the right thing to do either. At least these males knew some English. I just hoped the girls who were brought here were English speaking. You never knew, they could be from anywhere in the world.

“Can we use your datapad to scan Brooklyn?” I called over to K’Tem. The girls all turned to me, our bellies now full from eating so much.

“What for?” they questioned. I laughed and shook my head. Didn’t they all hear it four days ago? I held my hand to my belly and Hadley gasped.

“No way… really? That’s like, super-fast. Do M’Mori have, like, super powerful sperm?” I shook my head and laughed. I had no idea. I think the pheromones my Aashi mates were pumping at me had my body in, like, some type of crazy ovulation or something, because it made no sense to me either.

“Yeah, really. I’m just as surprised. But his datapad told him there was one kit growing in me. So… I was thinking.” I watched as all eyes turned to Brooklyn’s big belly. Her mouth dropped open as her eyes widened.

“Oh, wow, yes. I think I need to know… Wait, maybe it’s better if I don’t.” Then she jumped up and called out, “K’Tem, bring me the datapad.”

We all laughed, but everyone wanted to know as well, plus check on the health of the babies. K’Tem came over and I noticed now all the mates came around. They were excited to know about their kits also.

“Actually, can someone else go first? I think I’m going to throw up. I’m so freaking out right now.” Brooklyn looked pale as her mates came and held her. Her mate Evzyn stood out anywhere. He was so… pink.

“Oh, Brooklyn, you don’t have to. It was just a thought. I didn’t mean to upset you.” I felt terrible. I thought she would be more excited. But I didn’t think about how scary it would be to find out you’re having multiple babies.

“I will go first.” Quinn stood up. She made her way over to K’Tem. Elle, Hadley, Luna, and I all crammed in before him as he held the datapad up. I didn’t know what I was seeing at first, the M’Mori language was completely alien to me. But when three circles surrounded a pulsating blue, I was confused. Was that the heart? Or hearts?

“Is that three babies?” Luna asked, confused by the three circles of blue.

Quinn gasped. “No fucking way.” Her mates all smiled, but then, seeing her in distress, held onto her.

K’Tem quickly corrected us.

“No, this is her heartbeat.” He pointed to the larger circle at the top. “This here is the heartbeat of her kit. And this here is the heartbeat of her other kit. She has two kits.”

I watched as Quinn relaxed, a grin on her face. “Twins…” Then, as if she remembered Brooklyn’s small panic attack, she added, “Not that triplets wouldn’t be cool. I would love any babies I had. Just didn’t seem like three. I am way too small.”

Luna asked for her turn and Quinn took her spot with us. She whispered low, “Let’s tell her three also.” We tried to hide our smiles, but when the datapad showed four circles, I didn’t know what to say, and Quinn just laughed. “Well, I guess the joke’s on us.”

Luna looked impatient as we all watched her.

“You better not mess with me.” She pointed to Quinn, already knowing she would. I watched as Quinn flipped her off and Luna laughed.

“Congrats, momma. You’re having triplets,” Quinn announced, her arms up in the air and a huge smile on her face. Luna shook her head.

“Nice try. K’Tem, Elle… anyone else wanna tell me? I’m excited to know.”

We all held up three fingers and Quinn laughed. “I was telling you the truth.”

“What the fuck, are you for real? Oh, wow… oh.” Axoh held her tight.

I turned to see Brooklyn moving into Luna’s spot.

“Are you sure? This isn’t going how I planned. I seem to have scared more than excited you all.” I didn’t think they would both be having multiples, so this changed a lot. If Luna was carrying triplets… fuck. It was scary enough having one baby on a very primitive planet, let alone having more than one. That was a higher medical risk.

Hadley had backed away from us. “You know what, since you have one on board, and K’Tem is your mate, maybe can you just scan me and let me know if I have a healthy baby? And that’s all you say. Not babies. Okay?” I nodded.

“I was okay with having a surprise number, but now… I think I like not knowing. But I want to make sure all is well,” she added. K’Tem turned the scanner to her and nodded that all was well. But I didn’t look… I didn’t know if I could hold the surprise on my face.

“I think I will wait, ” Elle added. I reached over to her and hugged her. I felt bad. I thought this was going to go over well. Elle had been a little down today, she wouldn’t talk about Sanza, but I knew she was worried about him.

“I don’t think I want a surprise. I need to know. Tell me, I’m ready and have been expecting more than one.” Brooklyn held her hands on her waist and pointed her belly towards us.

I was nervous and hoping it wasn’t going to freak her out… oh god. Please, please, however many there are, let them be delivered safely.

When the circles appeared on the screen, I was taken aback. I tilted my head. Was that right? That couldn’t be.

“Is that right?” I pointed to the screen. Maybe the datapad was playing up?

“That is right.” I looked over to Brooklyn and all the girls were looking at me, waiting for me to say something. All eyes were now on me and K’Tem.

“Congrats girl, you’re having…”

To be continued in Elle’s story…

Afterword

Hi everyone, thank you so much for still being with me on this journey with the Aashi Brides.

This is a real passion project for me, and I love very moment of writing about the girls and their mates as they all grow together in Clan Wolf.

Well, I left you on a cliffhanger… haha. You know me, I love them cliffhangers. But you won’t have to wait long.

Only 30 days until Elle had her book and we will all learn so much more about what is happening with Sanza.

And how many babies is Brooklyn carrying?

Thank you all so much, I don’t want the series to end, so if you would like to see more of the Aashi brides please let me know… leave a review, message me. Email me...

I just don’t think six books would be enough… Because I don’t think I’m ready to leave their world just yet.

Belle xx

Other Books by Belle Harper
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Elle Embraced

I’m Elle.

I applied to a job ad and ended up on an alien planet.

It was exciting.

Aliens existed, and I was now mated to two of them. But a big blue guy came and rescued my friend Jessica. Sanza seemed lost and alone… I wanted to make him smile.

Only he was harder to crack than I thought, he wanted to go home. To his home world. I wanted that for him so bad. But I also wanted to be his family, just like I had lost mine. I wanted to wrap my arms around him and tell him everything would be okay.

But would it? When a M’Mori ship flew over us, fear spread through the camp.

I expected Sanza to run. To get away from the M’Mori who enslaved him here on Aarzyn. What I didn’t expect was him to run towards them…

Belle’s Books

Seeking Eden Series

Dystopian/ Post Apocalyptic RH

Finding Nova

Protecting Nova

Rescuing Harlow

Claiming Harlow

Brides of the Aashi Series

Luna Touched

Brooklyn’s Baggage

Quinn Inspired

Jessica’s Mates

Elle Embraced ~ May 2021

Hadley’s Heroes ~ June 2021

MoonLit Worlds

New Moon Series

Twice Bitten

Blood Moon

Rising Sun

Full Moon Series

Fallen Wolf~ April 2021

Torn Mate ~ July 2021

#3 TBA~ October 2021

Pack Kiba Novels/Novellas

Shadow Wolf

Midnight Prince

Standalones

Naughty and Nice ~Christmas Novella

Alien Embrace ~Anthology

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