Invasion of Her Heart (8 page)

Releasing her, he rolled away and drew her into a sitting position. At her questioning glance, he said, “Take your short garment off and get on your hands and knees.”

Venus complied, her hands trembling as she worked her shorts down over her creamy hips and legs. She turned, kneeling, and presented her round, glorious ass to him.

Gulping, Volund pressed a button on his armor. It vanished, and he quickly released his erection from its bindings, creating a mound beneath his tilk. He drew the garment back and then pressed against Venus’s ass. She sucked in a startled breath and pushed back slightly.

“Slowly, little hellion,” he wheezed. “I do not wish to hurt you.” “Please. I want you.” She bumped against him again.

He placed his hands on her shoulders and brushed her pale hair aside to expose all of her lithe, toned back. Working his fingers down the muscles that ran along either side of her spine, he smiled as she sighed in pleasure. Volund slid his hands back up and then out to her sides where he passed them over her rib cage before gliding back down to her waist. He gripped the muscles there, kneading gently and tugged her backward so his sapin nudged her wet, pink opening.

She gasped again, following it with an anxious whimper.

Volund closed his eyes and willed his sapin to mind him. He focused on the birds chirping in the tree limbs above, the dry, hot wind whispering through the sun-scorched leaves.

He kept his eyes tightly shut. “Deny me, Venus.”

“No!” She shoved hard backward, impaling her sex on him.

“Ungh!” Volund’s eyes shot open. Her sypu felt so hot, tight, silky. He gritted his teeth, the pulsing at his spine quickly permeating his balls to settle in the root of his sapin.

Other than females who cured the need for sex, it had been years since he’d made love to someone who intrigued him, who enticed him like no other had since his first mate died. He could fuck this female until she begged him for mercy.

“More,” Venus gasped.

“Oh, my sweet, you have no idea what you ask.” Volund continued to struggle with himself.

In response, Venus lowered herself on her forearms so her ass rose into the air. It allowed him better access to her, and his cock throbbed and jerked in response.

“Do it!” she demanded. “Make me yours.”

Volund steadied himself on his knees, the planks of the tree stand rough beneath them. He sank his member deep into Venus. Something warm, soft, and yet restricting butted the head of it. He’d never experienced anything like it.

He pumped into her, his hands firmly on either side of her hips. Each time his sapin slid into Venus, he thought he’d come before he was ready. The upward thrust of her hips each time didn’t help matters. The fire building at the base of his cock leapt into an inferno and steadily spread further along his shaft.

Venus tossed her head back, her long tresses fanning out across her back, draping down her sides. “More!” She let out a cry that grew in crescendo. “Harder, Volund!”

He thrust harder, faster. As he did so, he growled, struggling to keep from coming. He wanted Venus so badly, but to seal their mating, she had to climax first.

The squeal of splintering wood alerted him to trouble. Venus issued a sound that almost matched it. Volund pumped into her, the soft patting sounds of their bodies meeting repeatedly only fueling his desire more. The hunting perch shook with their lovemaking, and another sound of nails pulling free rent the air.

“Venus, we need to—”

The tree stand collapsed, dumping Volund forward. He jerked Venus up against his chest, and twisted his body with her in his arms as they plummeted to the ground. Volund landed on his backside with Venus on top of him. He let out a soft “Oomph!” and cradled her close.

“Damn,” she gasped. “Are you all right, Volund?” “I am fine, little warrior,” he said, chuckling.

“If I had built that tree stand any higher, we might’ve been hurt.” Before she could say anything else, he rolled her to the side, re-joining their bodies, and pinned her to the moss-covered earth surrounding the tree. Lying flat on top of her, he worked his hips so that his sapin moved gently back and forth.

“Oh,” she groaned. “Please, Volund, you’re driving me insane! I want to come….”

“As you wish,” he murmured. He straightened and straddled the backs of her thighs, his large cock still seated deeply within her. Massaging Venus’s back, he began thrusting again. With each thrust, she raised her hips just enough in her position that he felt the opening to her womb bumping against his member.

He wanted to fondle her ample breasts, but right now he had to make sure she reached the stars. He could investigate her body more another time. First, he had to finish claiming her.

She gripped the grass that grew between the patches of moss, her fingers curling and uncurling as she moaned and cried into the earth. At each sound she uttered, Volund’s lust flamed hotter. The way her warm, silky passage wrapped around his cock rendered him helpless. All he could think about was pushing her over the edge and immediately jumping off after her.

“Oh,” she cried. “I’m…I’m going to come!”

Volund pumped into her harder, but when he looked down at her round, firm ass, and saw how he sank into her pliant body, it was his undoing. Fire raced up his shaft.

“Yes!” Venus arched her hips and let him pummel her. “Yes! Yes!”

At her last shout, Venus’s inner walls began throbbing around Volund’s sapin.

The contractions grew more intense. He shouted his release as he came in her. She screamed out her pleasure, her face pressed into the moss, hips rigid and in the air as he pumped into her again and again, his essence coursing out of him, filling her recesses.

“Oh, my…!” she squealed. She lowered her ass and then bucked again. “Ungh!” A smaller climax hit Volund. He grunted and coaxed the last of his

seed into Venus.

Panting, she relaxed against the ground, and Volund collapsed on top of her. “You and your brother,” she gasped, “are going to wear me out.”

“I’ve never had a lover like you.” He withdrew from her and rolled to one side. She raised her head to look at him. “Really?”

Laughing, he flicked a piece of lichen off her cheek and then her chin. “Yes, my sweet. Even in lovemaking you are a little warrior.”

“You must warn Jaxxon not to lord over me. I was brought up to believe a man and woman were equal partners in a relationship.”

He nodded. “I like that idea.”

She stretched out and giggled at the remains of her hunting perch. “Are we safe here?” Volund asked.

“For a while.” She looked around and nodded to Tonto and the two pets in the shade of an evergreen. “Like you said earlier, they’ll warn us if anything comes around.”

Venus grew quiet, her worried gaze wandering over the landscape. A sigh escaped her, one full of trepidation. He frowned. Something bothered his new mate.

“What is wrong, little warrior?”

“I don’t expect you to understand.”

“Try telling me,” he said. “You might be surprised.”

Her gaze moved from the field to the limbs overhead and finally settled on Volund. “It bothers me that Dr. Zeon is dead. He was a good man as well as a good friend, so I suspect he had to have been returning this way to warn me of something.”

“What do you think it was?” “I have no idea.”

They lay quietly together, her hand stroking his upper arm, his hand palming the curve of her hip. Although hot, the wind served to dry the perspiration from their bodies, and Volund enjoyed the notion that he once more had someone to love. Since Zi-Ahda’s death, it had been a long road of misery for him, but somehow he sensed Zi-Ahda would approve of Venus.

“How will you find others to help re-populate the Earth?” Venus asked suddenly as she wiggled backward and pressed her bare ass into Volund’s tilk.

He closed his eyes as his sapin twitched, but it had been sated for the time being. “We are time travelers. We’ll go back in time to bring good stock or extractees back to this period.”

She twisted so she could look up at him. “Isn’t that cruel?”

He raised both eyebrows.
What an odd question!
“Cruel? How so?”

“I think it’s wrong to bring someone from say 1700 to here, where it’s all desolation, hardship, and littered with dangers such as the Bone Eaters.”

“Ah,” he replied. “We won’t bring anyone back against their will.”

“But should you tell them the truth. No one will want to come here to my time.” “You’d be surprised what hells are worse than this place,” he said.

Venus sucked in a breath, sat up suddenly, and then scooted around to face him. “Can you bring my parents back?” A huge grin spread across her face. “You can, can’t you!” She stood and snatched her frayed garments out from under a broken support beam and quickly donned them. “We can go back and get my parents, then I can be with them again, and they can work on fixing the problems caused by the virus!” Venus tied the remains of her T-shirt between her breasts. “Come on, Volund. What are we waiting for? Let’s go tell Jaxxon.”

“Venus, time travel doesn’t work the way you think it does,” Volund began. He sensed where this discussion was going and it pained him that she would undoubtedly be hurt and extremely angry with him. “We can’t go back to get your parents.”

She retrieved the M-16 and her pack, then faced him, a frown wrinkling her smooth brow. “What? Don’t be silly. You just said you can go back in time to bring people back to this era.”

He nodded. “That is correct, little warrior, but there is a time issue that applies to bringing someone here. We can’t retrieve your parents.”

A hot light appeared in Venus’s eyes. She planted a fist on each of her hips and looked hard at him. “What? Why?”

“It just won’t work. Three full generations have to pass to prevent paradoxes. It deals with….” He searched for the right English word, but he was so desperate to avoid her anger and resulting sadness that the word eluded him. “I can’t find the word, Venus, but it deals with people being reborn.”

“Reincarnation?” she said, her disbelief obvious.

He nodded. “Anyone brought to a future time period from a too soon past will start to age rapidly and then turn to dust.”

“I don’t believe you!” Venus yelled. She spun on her heel. “Let’s go, Tonto!” Without a backward glance, she marched across the open field.

“Venus, wait!” Volund called, dismay clenching his heart.

Chapter Eight

Venus ran toward the outer city. There was no way she could back right now. She needed time alone to think. Both Volund and Jaxxon stirred more than her blood. They were slowly creeping into her heart—which scared the hell out of her.

The city’s old storage shed came into view, its doors still secure, save for more rust that had made its way over the entire expanse instead of just one corner.

Venus checked her surroundings before she opened the shed in search of one of her hidden weapons stashes. Tonto lay down, giving her the signal the area was clear. Ino and Ka watched her back as she opened the big metal door, and waited for her eyesight to adjust to the dark interior.

She hadn’t been out of the city in ages, and if there was any chance of game beyond the corporation limit, Venus knew she couldn’t use her M-16. The sound alone would scare off anything in the area. Well, except for the Bone Eaters.

Nothing ever scared those monsters.

Once inside the building, she headed straight for her crossbow. The steel broad head bolts would go through any animal’s hide without destroying the meat, and the projectiles would also penetrate the Bone Eaters’ skulls if she needed it to kill one or more of them.

After she removed the weapon from its wall hanger, she slowly traced the delicate patterns carved into it. Tonto slipped up next her, his tail pounding the ground as he studied her.

“During Dad’s time away from the lab he loved to work with wood,” she told Tonto. The bow had been fashioned from a piece her father had carved before his death. “At least I have something of his to remember him by.” Venus slung the bow across her back, followed by a heavy polyester quiver containing the crossbow bolts. “Let’s go, boy.”

The dog ran ahead of Venus. Ino and Ka snorted as they galloped behind her. “You two should have stayed with Volund. I can take care of myself,” she said, her breath coming in short puffs. She paused, panting, and surveyed the area. Venus hadn’t been in this part of the outer city in over a year, she’d been staying within the corporation limit. She continued on at a slower pace, her upper body growing hot from the sun. “Damn him for ripping my shirt.” She tried to tie the two pieces together more firmly, not that it mattered now.

The city’s welcome sign came into view. It hung bent and rusted from the support poles. The highway leading into Elyria was deserted except for a few crumbling, broken-down cars. Ahead, she saw a field of green trees. The small, forested area was as long as a football stadium. Venus glanced down at Ino and Ka. “It looks like some sort of underground spring is feeding those trees. Maybe more game is in there, but we better be careful. The Bone Eaters could be hiding in those trees.”

She had to have traveled over a mile, but she realized she wouldn’t have much time to explore. Cautiously, Venus rubbed her hand over a large oak tree and grinned. “At one time these trees had been all over the city. It was so beautiful back then. Mom and I used to sit under one for our picnics, just the two of us.” Tears filled Venus’s eyes. “Why can’t Volund and Jaxxon bring my parents back? I miss them so much.”

Ino nudged her with his head, almost as if he sensed her pain, and then licked her hip.

Venus scanned the ground, looking for signs of a spring, when she heard the gurgling of water. Careful where she stepped, she traveled around trees, shrubs, and weedy patches, until she came to a stream at the east end. Where there was water, game should be plentiful too, but Bone Eaters were a constant danger. She lowered herself to the ground. On her belly, Venus made her way toward the bank of the stream. Ka and Ino crawled next to her. She smiled. Jaxxon and Volund had trained their pets well. Even Tonto inched slowly forward, not making a sound.