Alien Romance: Caged By The Alien: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Alien Romance, Alien Invasion Romance, BBW) (Celestial Mates Book 4) (9 page)

She could only press her face to the floor of the cage and tremble with ecstasy as she adjusted to his size, spreading around him. She could feel him inside her, and not just him, but the fluid he was pouring into her as well, cool and tingling, and realized another difference between their species. His was one of those that, like many on earth, came continuously throughout the act.

Even as he was just beginning to move his hips, he was already spilling his alien seed within her, filling up every nook and cranny within her and making her feel even more full than before. And then he began to move in earnest, pulling her back hard against the bars, driving deep into her and grinding against all the places within her that made her moan the loudest, pushing back against him and crying his name.

The cage shook every time his hips connected and she shook with it, overwhelmed with the sensation of being claimed by him. He was pouring so much into her that it flooded out around him every time he drove in, dripping out onto the floor of the cage. Penny could only cling to the bars of the opposite side of the cage to keep her steady, orgasm building like a wave inside her as he rode her hard.

He released her hips with one hand to reach under her and rub her clit, driving her over the edge of pleasure once again. She cried his name tightening around him, and a few rough thrusts later, she felt him throb within her, driving in as deeply as he could before releasing a final thick burst of cum. She groaned with satisfaction as she felt him filling her up, before slowly pulling out of her, trailing his seed.

Penny, dazed, rolled over onto her back, her arms still above her head, and lay there catching her breath. She heard Tau moving but, out of it as she was, didn't notice what he was doing until she felt something close around her wrists.

She looked up, blinking in confusion, and saw Tau securing a pair of wide, sleek black cuffs to her hands. Yellow lights blinked on the sides of either one, the cord between them looped around one of the bars of her cage.

"What?" Penny stared, confused, "Why are you?"

Tau was already moving around to the end of the cage.

"There are sensors in the cage," he explained, "I can't open it unless the restraints have been engaged."

As she watched, he touched the top of the cage and the door swung open at once, seamless and silent. He crawled inside towards her, the gleam of his eyes almost predatory. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized he was already hard again.

"During a nuptial flight," he said as he caught her by the knee and pressed a kiss to her thigh, "A male can mate as many as seven times."

Penny's eyes widened, a shiver of delighted anticipation running through her as he climbed over her. There were no bars between them now, no barrier to separate them. And with her hands cuffed above her head, she was helpless before him. She moaned as he pressed into her again, this time close enough that she could feel the full length of his body against her.

Close enough that she could kiss him as he buried himself within her and began to move again, slower this time, not fierce hard strokes but long, slow ones, taking his time to devour her, spreading kisses over her throat and breasts, keeping her on the edge of orgasm without but never quite letting her fall, not until he wanted her too.

He teased her mercilessly for hours, long past the chime and dimming lights that indicated it was time for rest. Only when she was completely exhausted did he finally relent. He lay beside her then, their limbs tangled, still pressing tired kisses to her throat every few moments.

"I'm so glad I met you," Penny said, her voice weak with happy exhaustion, her body warm with contentment, "I think... I think I love you, Aiten Tau."

Tau was silent for a moment, taking in the magnitude of those words, before he kissed her forehead and held her tight.

"I love you too, Penny Allyn."

The chime of morning came too early. Penny woke, her arms stiff from still being chained to the cage, her body pleasantly sore but decidedly in need of a shower. Tau woke more slowly than usual, holding on to her and to sleep, reluctant to meet this inauspicious day.

"Come on, Tau," Penny said after a little while, as reluctant as he was, "It's time."

He said nothing as he unfastened the restraints from the cage and led her to the bathroom. But as she shed her stained clothing and stepped into the shower, he followed her and pressed her to the damp, tiled wall to kiss her deeply.

She looped her shackled hands around his shoulders as he caught her by the thighs, lifting her up. She bit her lip as he rocked into her again for what might be the last time.

When he was done, they cleaned each other, slow and careful and thorough, the gentle movements of their hands somehow more intimate even than the sex.

Penny helped him with his armor; having watched him put it on so many times that she knew how it fit together by heart now. She wore her flight suit again, and for a moment as she looked down at herself felt the same fearful trepidation she had the day she'd left on this journey. Tau handed her a translator chip to tuck into her clothes.

"The data has all been transmitted to the regency," Tau explained, fixing her restraints as they stood outside the doors of the Cathedral, "I will present it to the Queen and argue for your innocence. Wait here for now, and you will be brought in for the verdict."

Penny nodded, trembling with nerves, and he put his hands on her shoulders to steady her. They were surrounded by a squadron of six drones, but Penny knew by now that they were mindless, more extensions of Tau's self than independent beings. She wasn't embarrassed when Tau kissed her, sweet and loving, trying to settle her nerves.

"I'll keep you safe, Penny Allyn." he promised.

"I'll wait for you, Aiten Tau." Penny answered.

He entered the Cathedral, leaving her behind, guarded by his drones. She couldn't hear anything past the huge doors. She could only wait in worried silence, growing more anxious by the moment. If Tau failed, if the regency rejected the evidence and chose to have Penny killed anyway...

She thought of her team, waiting for her, depending on her. Would they approve of her putting her faith in Tau, letting all their fates depend on him? Maybe she should have tried harder to escape.

She looked up in surprise as she heard footsteps, and saw two winged males with a contingent of drones approaching, their wings shimmering pearlescent behind them, twitching with agitation.

"There it is," one said, pointing at her, "Gag it, before it speaks."

Penny opened her mouth to do just that but the drones around her only stepped aside, deferring to the winged male's orders as its drones stepped forward to slap a strange, waxy substance over her mouth, sealing it completely.

She could still breathe through her nose, but she couldn't speak as the new drones grabbed her by the arms and pulled her towards the Cathedral doors.

"I don't know why they left it unfettered like that," the other male said with a scoff, "Don't they know its voice is dangerous?"

"What do you expect from a half drone mutant?" the first replied, rolling his huge, glittering eyes, "That thing should have been killed when it hatched."

They pushed Penny, bound and speechless, into the Cathedral and towards the dais where, even from this distance, Penny could suddenly see why the Cathedral was built so large.

The Queen, reborn and now in her third instar after only seven days, was massive. The size of a two story building on earth, she towered over her subjects, vast and terrifying. She was still growing, even now.

Penny could almost see her getting infinitesimally larger every few seconds as she molted continuously, her skin drying and sloughing away like sheets of silk from her bulbous, insectoid body.

The Cathedral's shining walls crawled with activity. More winged males than she'd ever seen in one place crowded around the base of the dais or flitted above, their shimmering wings catching the colored light of the stained glass windows.

She caught glimpses of workers, their golden shells glinting in the dark, darting through the shadows at the edges of the room at some secret work. Drones were everywhere, guarding the Queen and the males from danger. From Penny.

They forced Penny to her knees between two pillars of waxy comb and chained her there, Penny searched the crowd in front of the dais for Tau, but when he was in his full armor and surrounded by other drones it was difficult to tell him apart from the others.

She spotted one whose kintsukuroi pattern looked familiar and watched him for some sort of cue for what she should do, how she should act. But he wouldn't look at her. He barely moved.

"JUDGE MENT HAS BEEN REACH ED," the queen spoke, her voice impossibly low, reverberating in Penny's bones and almost painful, "THE INVA DER INVI OLATE UT TER UNTOUCH ABLE CAPTUR ED CONFESS ED DIRE DANG ER TO HIVE AND HEARTH VAN GUARD OF VI O LENCE BRINGS BAR BAR IANS TO OUR DOOR."

The chaple vibrated with the buzzing agreement of all those present. The males shook their glittering wings at her in disdain.

"SEN TANCE REN DERED," the queen went on, "A MESS AGE TO DELI VER SAN GUINE SCOUTS RE TURNED SANS SKULLS SHALL AS SURE NO FUR THER FOOL ISH FOR AYS INTO SOV ERIGN SPACE."

Penny's blood ran cold. She'd been prepared for this, but the wild injustice of it still burned in her chest. She stared at Tau, wishing he would at least look at her, be with her, give her some kind of reassurance.

The queen was leaning forward, shed skins rustling, her onyx mouthparts working hungrily as they descended towards her and Penny realized her execution was to be immediate. She closed her eyes, preparing for the end. She hoped her team could forgive her. She should have tried harder. If she had just done more...

Suddenly, something collided hard with Penny's side. She opened her eyes in shock as the shouts of winged males and the high buzzling alarm calls of drones filled the air, followed by the shouting of humans.

"Over there! Break those chains!"

Penny turned in confusion as she heard Rivera's voice and saw her team storming the cathedral, armed and armored, chitin plates strapped to them by improvised fastenings and stolen stingers on their arms.

A drone was shielding Penny, facing down the Queen with hissing defensive rage. The Queen's massive head turned between this disobedient drone and the insurgents in her cathedral in bestial bewilderment.

Other drones were slicing at the chains binding Penny, and a second later her team surrounded her, defending her as Salome dragged her to her feet and pulled the gag from her face. There was a strange conflict of drones, winged males shouting orders and her team shouting them right back, drones fighting each other and switching sides as whichever voice controlled them shifted them from instant to instant.

The queen could have taken control with a word, but she seemed stunned by confusion and indecision. She'd only been a grub a few days ago. This was likely her first action as a fully realized Queen. Penny couldn't blame her for confusion.

But more importantly, where was Tau?

"This way!" Rivera called, and the team fled the Cathedral surrounded by a legion of drones, increasingly more friend than foe the further they got from the melee before the dais.

"What's going on?" Penny asked as they rushed down a hall Penny had never seen before, "How did you all escape?"

"Tau freed us," Rivera explained, "He's been making plans with us for the last week, in case the verdict didn't fall in our favor. He's determined not to have war between our planets. You really must have got through to him."

"Where is he now?" Penny asked, stomach twisting with fear, "Where are we going?"

"Don't worry," Ian smiled at Penny knowingly, "He's coming with us. He just needed to take care of some other things first."

They burst suddenly out of the building altogether. It was the first time any of them had been outside the hive. They all paused for a moment, stunned, staring out at the softly waving lilac grass, the dark midday sky, the buildings of the city rising like strange papery obelisks from the plain. Like glaciers, she knew most of their structure lay underground, and wondered why the hive dwellers seemed to leave those tunnels so rarely.

They couldn't pause for long, rushing away towards another building. The drones were leading them, following a latent command from Tau as well as more current commands from Rivera, relayed through Salome in Pakistani.

"All of tried to figure out how to use our voices on the drones like you can," Cho explained as they hurried down another winding tunnel, "Rivera only managed it once or twice. I'm a little better but not enough to be useful. Salome is pretty good, as long as she's speaking her own language. They don't listen to Ian at all."

"Typical," Ian laughed it off with a shrug.

"Finally," Rivera said in relief as the drones turned off the hall, leading them down steps to what looks almost like a subway station. A small vehicle waited in the tunnel, just big enough for them to pack into, leaving the drones behind.

"Wait, what about Tau?" Penny asked, grabbing Rivera's arm as one of the drones began fiddling with the controls of the train, "We have to wait for him."

"He'll catch up," Rivera promised, "He has his own transportation."

The doors of the train closed abruptly and it rocketed off at unexpected speed, making them stumble against each other as it raced away at what felt like near the speed of sound.

"Will we be followed?" Penny asked, frowning behind them.

"With any luck, they have no idea where we're going," Rivera said, "Tau told us the people rarely leave the Hive cities. They have all the technology for space travel but don't use it. They don't see any value in exploration unless it's to expand. There are huge parts of their planet that are completely unexplored because they were deemed less than optimal for settling. This mag lev will take us to the edge of the city. From there, he's arranged a craft to take us into the mountains."

"What's in the mountains?"

"A way home."