Kaitlyn O'Connor by Enslaved III: The Gladiators Page A

her mind made its way back around to the bizarre conversation they ‟ d had about pregnancy. Uneasiness flitted through her as it occurred to her to wonder if he knew something she didn ‟ t. They ‟ d made it clear they ‟ d never encountered another human, though. They couldn ‟ t possibly know whether or not their biology was close enough to cross breed!
    She would ‟ ve felt a hell of a lot better, though, if she hadn ‟ t abruptly remembered that her damned birth control pills were in her damned suitcase and she didn ‟ t know where in the hell that was!
    Spawning was a damned strange way of referring to it, now that she thought about it. Fish spawned—on Earth—and she was as sure as she could be that they were mammals just like she was—except it was unnerving to recall that they had webbed fingers and growths that looked suspiciously like fins. She shook the thought off. They were mammals. She was positive of it.
    They just looked too human not to be close—but close didn ‟ t always get „it ‟ done.
    Anyway, why would they talk about spawning when they ‟ d very bluntly discussed her being a lover?
    They were aliens, she reminded herself. Maybe they had times when they could fuck and not worry about it? And other times when they were actually fertile?
    It seemed to her that that must be what he was talking about.
    It was a damned shame that that immediately made her begin to wonder exactly where she was in her cycle. Not that she believed for a moment that having sex with them could create that kind of nightmarish disaster! But it was worrisome, if for no other reason than the fact that she had no pads for the occasion.
    That realization upset her so much that it completely diverted her from everything else.
    What in the hell was she going to do when she had her period?

     
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    Balen was so pleased with himself when he got to the cell he shared with Dakaar and Kael that he damned near started a riot. More accurately, he supposed wryly, it was because they could smell her scent on him. Both of them turned to look at him as he came in, did a double take and sat up on their bunks abruptly, clearly furious.
    It made him angry. “I am not stupid! I do not want to lose the fight on the morrow. I did not spill my seed! I only pleasured her.”
    Kael surged off of his bunk angrily. Dakaar was not far behind him.
    “If you did no more than pleasure her, why do you smell like sex?” Kael growled.
    “Because I pleasured her with mouth.”
    Kael and Dakaar both went slack faced.
    “Her pleasure center is not inside as it is with our women!” he said somewhat complacently.
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    “She showed me where it was and when I took into my mouth, she came.”
    “Where?” Dakaar demanded.
    “It is a little nub of flesh just at the base of her woman ‟ s mound, between the love petals.”
    Kael frowned. “You are making that up! Why would it be there?”
    Balen shrugged. “I do not know and she did not say. She offered to give me pleasure the same way, but I was near to losing my seed when she came. I did not think I could hold it if she put her mouth on me.”
    Kael and Dakaar exchanged a speaking look and returned to their bunks. “I have her scent,”
    Balen said somewhat irritably. “I pleasured her first.”
    “You will have my fist down your throat if you do not shut the fuck up,” Kael snarled.
    “Then I suppose I will not tell you what else I asked her.”
    Dakaar did not have Kael ‟ s patience. “What?”
    “I asked when her spawning season was and she assured me that we could not get her with child.”
    “Was that before or after she punched you in the face for being so rude as to ask such a thing?” Kael asked dryly.
    “She was on the other side of the bars,” Balen said pointedly. “She could not reach if she had tried for I was prepared to duck or leap back, but she did not try. She is not like our women.
    She did look horrified, but I think that is because she is as