much.”
“It’s not my home, Yana…”
Yana then smiled at her and she found that maybe she could find a friend here. But she recoiled hard at the thought.
“It can be, if you let it.”
Her frustrations exploded one day, two weeks into her stay, when Tessa did attack him.
“I HATE YOU!” She shrieked, her hands digging into the tunic of Ceff’s clothes while his cheek burned bright with the mark of her strike. Ceff’s expression was flat, as if nothing had happened.
Even then, while she was covered in anger and rage, she could still feel her body react in anticipation—wish for him to make a move and make her feel more than anger and rage.
“YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!”
To her surprise, Ceff did not command his subjects to enter the bed chamber and pull her away. He simply grabbed her around her wrists and pushed at her until her back was on the mattress and he was digging his gaze into hers.
“Do you want me to die, Tessa?” He asked, and his voice was so soft.
“After all you’ve done to me…!” She attempted to begin but couldn’t.
“You would rather I treated you like you would expect a man from your kind to treat you, don’t you?”
She froze, eyes wide and tear stained.
Ceff was unsurprised. “You wish that I would be worse than the men that so casually destroy and take from a woman. Tell me, is that what you want? You want me to prove to you that I am a monster?”
She almost wanted him to. Tessa found herself suddenly willing to do whatever it took to expose his true nature, to assert to herself that this creature that took her millions of years away deserved her hatred.
Instead, his touch was soft over her skin as it drew out soft gasps from her lips.
“You threatened to destroy my planet…” Tessa said finally, trembling.
Ceff smiled, “I lied.”
“How would I have possibly known that?!” She snapped, but her legs spread slightly to accommodate his hips against hers.
“How could I have known that you were lying then? What about the others? Were you lying about them too?”
“Do you want the truth?”
No. “Yes!” Tessa exclaimed.
“I returned them to their planet,” Ceff answered, and he was shifting against her. The friction between her legs was almost powerful enough to wipe the answer from her mind but she held strong.
“You—what?”
“Those women… I took them only to search out for a mate. However, I would never intend to harm them. After I found you, I told my men to wipe their memories and return them to Earth.”
Tessa didn’t accept it, “You sent them back? Four hundred years after you took them? My kind doesn’t live that long, Alpha the Greatest.” She hissed.
“We die after eighty, maybe one hundred years. A mere blink of an eye for you!”
Ceff looked somewhat repentant but his expression was still soft, “I am aware of that. I wouldn’t be so cruel to send them to a place where they wouldn’t survive… I made the proper arrangements. New memories, new hope. My kind can do that.”
His hips rubbed against hers, dragging up and down between Tessa’s thighs. Each touch drew out heated gasps through her lips and she found herself giving in once more.
“I’m not a monster, Tessa.”
A hard groan burned through her throat and Tessa was rubbing back with equal vigor. His mouth pressed to hers again and his hands dragged down to play figures against her breasts.
Each touch was electric fire that made her writhe and mewl and whimper. His fingers took in the pert pebbles of her nipples, humming as she arched her back when he rubbed in just the right way.
“Fascinating,” he groaned against her neck and Tessa found she couldn’t hold back. “I’ll have you know, Tessa.” Tessa whimpered.
“After researching, we have come to find that your species can match well to mine, you want to know why?”
His fingers dragged down toward her sex. Tessa groaned hard.
“Because your design is so tuned to the joys of pleasure… yet you