“If you knew this was going to happen, maybe you shouldn’t have parked your increasingly giant truck in my garage,” she hissed at me.
It took a moment for my English index to provide the necessary definitions, and I had to assume it wasn’t to be taken literally. “I did notknowit was going to happen!” I protested. Although the possibility had certainly existed?—
“What do you mean, you didn’t know? Even if you haven’t been with a woman, this can’t be the first time you’ve rocketed to thestars!”
Was she referring to having an orgasm? She sounded like some of the books I had read. She tightened, and sensation coursed through me. “Yes,” I rasped, “I mean, no.” I was struggling to hear her through the noise in my brain. “This does not happen every time.”
Another pulse, and she gasped. “Why not?”
“Because it only happens when wemate.”
Jaz went rigid. “Mate? Do you mean having sex?”
Had she not understood? “No. I meanmated. It is different.” Could this get any more shaftzing ruined? This was meant to be a beautiful moment… Something slammed against theStardrifter’sshields, and the alarm increased in its strident tone.
“We can have this discussion once we are safe,” I said desperately, my voice so hoarse the words were barely decipherable.
The vibration increased. I had never experienced this before, only heard about it. The exquisite sensitivity coursing through my cock was threatening to derail everything I was trying to do. Jaz’s left hand pushed down, and I dropped theStardrifter, but a fraction too slow. The rock bounced off the shields, and the alarm started wailing.
Meanwhile, the shaftzing battlecruiser kept blasting everything around us to pieces. We were dodging segments of pulverized asteroid as much as the beams themselves.
My body shook with a mixture of adrenaline and the sensations induced by the lock, and a sudden surge of protective instinct added impetus to getting us out of here. I pulled on the column and sent theStardrifteron a course out of the asteroid belt.
The lush green world of Ssanue beckoned to me—even though it was Nirzk occupied, we might be able to find somewhere to hide until I could figure out another escape plan.
Jaz’s hands pulled upward with trembling fingers. As I wrenched hard to rise, an energy bolt passed beneath us. I leaned my head over her shoulder and saw that her eyes were closed.
My cock was not to be denied. Its vibration increased, and Jaz moaned as she tightened around me. Her hips began, of their own accord, to ride me. Back and forth, up and down—she only hadfractions that she could move at all, I was so swollen inside her. But mycullionspulled up tight against my body and began to glow. I could not breathe…
Just as we shot free from the asteroids, it all let go with an explosion that had her crying out, and me roaring uncontrollably against her hair. My hips jerked and thrust as she milked every last drop from me.
Then Jaz yelped—and it took me a split second to determine it was due to her precog ability. She yelled, “LEFT, bank left!”
I banked, but the delay caused the bolt from the battlecruiser to hit theStardrifterwith a glancing blow. The energy effortlessly penetrated her dying shields, and plowed a furrow along her metal skin. The surge through the ship caused lightning bolts of destruction to dance over the dash.
Alarms indicated we were venting atmosphere from our starboard side…
“Xandros,” I yelled urgently.
There was a panic-inducing pause, then, “Here. Missed me by three feet. I am sealed off, though. Can we go home now?”
The power dipped as one of the engines died altogether. I flipped switches, diverting power to the other. We were not going to be outrunning any battlecruiser, that was for certain.
The navcube showed the bright dots of Nirzk ships converging on us, followed by the massive bulk of the battlecruiser.
Fate had decreed that Princess Jazmin was ours. Ourmate. All that stood between her and those viciousromputswas me and my brothers.
I swallowed, and drove hard for the planet.
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While I stared at the dots gaining far too rapidly on us, my mind spun.
Mate? What the fuck did that mean?
Had I really justmated a Drake?
