her eyes. Determined to enjoy
every last drop of her, he parted her folds with his sticky
fingers and rubbed the juice on the already glistening flesh of
her clit.
She gasped as the mildly acidic juice puckered her
intimate skin. Her clit, now rosy and erect, quivered,
demanding to be tasted. Caleb obeyed, sucking the hot nub
into his mouth.
Zara keened. Her fingers clawed the alor down, and she
lifted her hips, thrusting her fruit-sweetened sex farther into
his mouth.
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"The Icarians do this," he confessed between lapping at
her clit and thrusting the tip of his tongue into her opening.
"I've been dying to try it on you."
"W-why..." She panted and tensed her muscles as he
delved wickedly into her depths. "Why didn't you?"
"Would you have said yes?" He didn't wait for an answer,
but pushed his tongue deeply into her, tasting her arousal
mixed with the succulent tang of the juice. God, this was
perfect, more amazing than he ever could have imagined.
"Yes ... yes!"
"More?" He laughed and parted her pussy lips farther. He
reached within her, searching with two fingers and delving for
the spot deep inside that he knew would set off her orgasm.
"Yes more ... and yes, I would have said ye-yesss!"
She came then, her body convulsing with tremors of
pleasure. She stiffened, eyes closed, sweetly biting her lower
lip while her cream gushed over his fingers and her sheath
spasmed hard and fast.
He licked her again, taking a moment to savor her unique
taste, to tease her clit with his tongue until she shuddered in
the throes of a second orgasm.
If only he'd dared to break the rules sooner, but propriety
had kept him from acting on his desires. He'd regret that
inaction for the rest of his life, as long as he had left, but this,
now, he would never regret.
Before the last tremors of her climax faded, Caleb lifted
himself off of Zara and resettled between her thighs. His
erection slipped inside her ready entrance, filling her even as
her pussy contracted once more around the intrusion. She
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shivered and clung to him tightly while he took her, giving
free reign to his symbion to claim her over and over again.
"Oh, I wish we didn't have to go back," she whispered as
she kissed him. "I don't want this to end."
"Don't say that. It would be too easy to never go back.
This is a big planet. We could hide forever."
"I know. I know." Zara wrapped her arms around him and
stared into his eyes. "I don't know if I can handle losing you
again."
"You won't. Not yet. We'll be together every minute we
can. I promise you."
"I love you, Caleb." The words slipped from her lips so
quickly, so quietly, he wasn't sure he heard them. She
seemed as surprised by the revelation as he was, but the look
on her face told him it was not the intimacy of the moment
talking. She meant it.
He would have responded, wanted to, but his symbion
hadn't finished with her. He gathered her to him and let the
alien take them both to the heights of a shared orgasm. Her
body bucked as he spilled his seed within her and when he
finished, he smoothed the hair from her face and kissed her
with everything he had.
"I love you too, Zara. I think I always have, I won't let
anyone keep us apart."
"I found these on the rocks at the base of this island, here
to the northwest." Arilani pointed to a miniscule dot on the
map Dr. Danson had displayed on the research station's
conference table. Next to her, on a chair, lay Dr. Abbott's
shorts, wet and torn.
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The speck she indicated, among hundreds of similar specks
that made up a long-abandoned island chain, lay at the far
perimeter of Jidar's extensive search pattern. Its location
attested to the fact that Arilani had flown farther than any of
her tribe mates while looking for the missing scientists.
"I searched the aerie on that island and several to
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