door, Getterus paused and
pointed to a number plate.
“In case
you get separated from us.”
I froze
and my gaze whipped to his chiseled features. He patted my hand and squeezed it
against his strong arm. “Never fear. I will not let you out of my sight.”
I relaxed
and tried to give him a smile.
Leaning
down, he took my lips in a tender kiss that eased through me and my breasts
tingled in response. Pulling back with a sigh, he smiled down at me. “I’d take
you back and spend all night buried in my two mates, but Vorreka was right. We
should put in the appearance. My diplomatic career could be harmed if I were to
show signs of being shut off from the rest of my kind.”
“Still,”
Nerrita added as she also squeezed my hand as she held it between us. “You are
allowed to decline an invitation to leave the assembly with anyone. Even us.”
“I can’t
imagine not coming home with you.”
Getterus
beamed down at me and then whirled me away from the door. “Everything is in
polygonal sections. This hallway will lead into the main assembly room of this
extension. Here, we are exclusively adults who are in breeding and looking for
mates. Concubines do come and go as they please, but once Nerrita and I move to
the family section, we will not come back unless you would like to attend assembly
and invite us.”
It sounded
complicated and I didn’t understand, but I did know that tonight, I would be
shared.
I trembled
when the hallway opened at the end and we stepped into a large room. It
resembled our bedroom except that it was fifty times larger and had at least a
dozen beds, countless sofas and plush sitting surfaces, and tables interspersed
here and there with drinks and platters of food. They ate food that had to be
harvested from Earth, but I didn’t recognize some of it. But it didn’t surprise
me that there were foods I’d never seen before. Fresh fruit costs a ransom’s
bounty in the slum.
People
were in all kinds of imaginable passionate embraces.
I’d walked
into an orgy.
Purple
skin abounded, but the creamy white skin of human women were in the midst of
most of the groupings. Neliousian men and women bent their heads to the breasts
of the concubines and suckled. Every single human woman present was in the
grasp of blissful sex mixed with continuous milking.
My breasts
went heavy in sympathy and my pussy went hot and swollen before I could take a
breath. When I did, I could taste the sweetness of milk and the freshness of
Neliousian semen in the air.
“There.
Vorreka waves us over.”
“I don’t
think we should join Vorr,” Getterus answered Nerrita with an undercurrent of
concern.
“You will
not weaken and go to him, love.”
“I do not
worry for that, love. But you know he has unnatural possessive traits. If he
gets his hands on Winna, he might hide her from us.”
I jolted
and the sexual hunger that had started to build halted in icy dread.
“He
learned his lesson with you.” Nerrita reached up and ran a hand down Getterus’s
cheek. He leaned into her caress and trapped her hand to his face. Then turned
his head and kissed her palm. “He cannot refuse to share a partner who wishes
to be with others, nor can he block a mating.”
This last
didn’t calm me as much as it should. Sure, even as we threaded through amorous
piles of bodies to near the forbidding male, I was reassured he couldn’t drag
me off and rape me, not under their social rules. But again, it was a reminder
that my body was to be shared.
I shook as
my bare feet crossed the curiously warm and soft floor.
Vorreka
lounged on a round bed and watched our progress.
Except for
a man who stood next to him, he was alone. The man nodded as he spoke, but he
didn’t appear to be in a tryst. One of the few unattended in that way, it
seemed. Why were the two males we walked toward not participating? I shook with
the force of all the emotions flowing thorough me. The shaking grew as we
passed by a concubine on her hands