Rock Star Romance: Dan (Contemporary New Adult Rockstar Bad Boy Romance) (Hard Rock Star Series Book 4) (64 page)

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Giselle tugged a
chair into place at the edge of the table occupied by the two strange men,
Bronn and Lenth. “Okay,” she said, smiling at both, “I’m officially off the
clock.”

Lenth favored her
with a toothy smile, raising his glass to her. “What would you like to know
about us?” he asked.

Giselle considered
the question. She had been drawn to the two men as soon as the second had sat
down; their strange coloring and the sounds of their language had appealed to
the researcher in her right away. A student of anthropology, Giselle was in the
process of finding a topic for her Ph.D., and the possibility of writing an
ethnography on a culture as rare as the one these two men must belong to lit
her mind with voracious curiosity.

“If you’ll forgive
me,” she said, glancing from Lenth to Bronn, “I noticed that the two of you
are…different.” She felt her cheeks warming with a blush. They had to know that
they looked different from any of the other patrons at the bar; she had never
seen a person with such strange coloring—let alone
two
. “Where are you
from?”

“We’re from a place
called Khatanar,” Bronn said. “It’s very remote.”

“How did you find
your way here?” Giselle asked.

“We’re researchers,”
Lenth told her. “Our people are scientists, interested in genetics.” Giselle
frowned. Two men from a remote, isolated culture; one that apparently studied
genetics. And yet the place that they had told her they came from was not one
that she’d ever heard of—not on the news, and not in any textbook she had read.

“Your whole culture
is scientists?” Giselle asked, frowning more deeply.

“Ah—no,” Bronn said.
“Those of us who are here are scientists.” Giselle nodded slowly, still trying
to understand, but slightly less confused.

“How many of you are
here?” she assumed that she meant the country; it would make sense that if they
were studying genetics, they would come to a first-world nation—and yet, if
they were scientists who were already studying genetics, wouldn’t their own
city or country have adequate facilities?

“There are…” Bronn’s
lips moved as he hesitated, and Giselle recognized the signs of someone
translating. “Twenty of us.”

“Twenty scientists
studying genetics here,” Giselle said, nodding slowly. “What do you hope to
discover?” she glanced at Lenth.

“Could we buy you a
drink?” Lenth asked her. Giselle smiled.

“Well, you could—but
they’ll give me a couple of drinks on the house, so it would be a waste of
money.”

“The bartender could
take the money as a tip,” Bronn pointed out. Giselle smiled again, looking from
one man to the other.

“That she could.
Okay. I’ll be right back.”

“We’ll come with
you,” Lenth suggested. “So we can continue talking.”

****

Time seemed to stand
still as Giselle found herself increasingly absorbed in the information that
Lenth and Bronn provided her about their culture. She found herself having a
drink—then two, then three—while the two men told her about the research they
were interested in, looking into female genetics and sexuality. She knew that
she was ovulating; when she’d approached the table, her reaction to the two men
had been as much due to some subtlety of their height, build, coloring, and
facial features, along with their unusual, brightly colored eyes, as their
potential as subjects for her possible ethnography.

Somehow, over the
course of the conversation, she’d found herself divulging more about her life
than she’d expected to. Bronn and Lenth asked her about her age, about her
studies—they were complimentary about her subject matter. “That is a wonderful
thing to study!” Bronn told her brightly when she explained the scope of
cultural anthropology. “Humans need to discover as much about themselves as
possible if they desire to advance.”

There was
something—Giselle’s increasingly fuzzy mind couldn’t identify it—about the way
that the two men referred to the human race. She caught the fact that Bronn and
Lenth occasionally said “you” when talking about people instead of “we,” but
dismissed it as the kind of error that people who spoke English as a second
language would make. But still something stirred in the back of her mind,
something that was unsettling and intriguing all at once.

“Would you like to
come home with us?” Bronn said at one point. Giselle startled at the question;
looking around, she realized it was much later than she thought.
Go home
with two guys?
Giselle worried at her bottom lip, trying to decide. She
couldn’t deny that she was attracted to the two men. But she’d never gone home
with two men at the same time; she’d never been interested in a threesome—and
yet she found herself wanting to say yes, even though the obvious strength and
height of the two men worried her.

“I promise you, we
won’t take advantage of you,” Lenth said quietly. “Our culture is strongly—
strongly
—against
taking women unwillingly. But we want to continue to speak with you, and it’s
becoming crowded here.” Giselle glanced around the busy bar once more and had
to agree.

“If you try and hurt
me,” she said, looking at each of the two men. “I’ll kill you both…or try my
best to, anyway.”

Bronn smiled. “I
would expect no less; have no fear, you won’t have to resort to that.”

Giselle gathered up
her purse and stood, unsteady on her feet. “Then lead the way,” she said.

****

“She’s waking up,”
Lenth heard Bronn say from the other side of the room. Their subject had come
with them willingly to what Bronn told her was his home; in fact, it was
laboratory space that Bronn had set up at the beginning of the mission. Bronn
had chosen a different tactic from many of their colleagues in his attempts to
make potential human subjects comfortable with agreeing to be experimented on:
his laboratory was a mock-up of a human dwelling, with the specialized
equipment recommended by their research overseers tucked away in what would be
considered a human’s bedroom.

When they had arrived
at Bronn’s space, Lenth had quietly prepared a concoction that the Khateen knew
would assist humans in metabolizing alcohol more quickly, without the lingering
harmful effects that humans called a hangover. The substances in the concoction
neutralized the alcohol in the stomach, so that there was less for the human
liver to process, converting the alcohol into simple glucose and water. Before
Giselle had fallen asleep on Bronn’s couch, Lenth had convinced her to drink
it—though he had not told her what it was.

It was nearly dawn
when their potential subject awakened, blinking blearily. Lenth could sense her
confusion and the brief flicker of alarm in her body language as she started to
remember what had happened. “I’m fully dressed,” Giselle said quietly.

“We told you,” Bronn
said, smiling slightly. “Our culture considers taking advantage of females to
be absolutely anathema. We would never harm you.”

“What did you give
me?” Giselle asked with a frown.

“It was a substance
that neutralizes alcohol. Are you feeling ill?” Giselle shook her head.

“I feel great… it’s
just weird to not have a hangover after drinking so much. How much did I
drink?” she shook her head, sitting up.

“You had several
alcohol drinks,” Bronn said with a grin. Giselle chuckled, stretching and
twisting, and Lenth couldn’t help but stare. The sight of their subject
sleeping on Bronn’s couch had been tempting—alluring. The movements of her
stretching revealed more of her pale skin, a slice of her stomach and the curve
of her hip showing.

“So,” Giselle said,
glancing from Lenth to Bronn, and Lenth saw that the alarm—muted, just a
flicker of the emotion as she had awakened—had come back, slightly stronger.
“What’s the plan now?” Bronn glanced at Lenth and Lenth considered. They had
not decided just how they were going to proposition this potential subject.

“You are curious
about our culture,” Lenth said. “There are some things that we wanted to share
with you in private about our culture.”

“Oh—oh, yes, that’s
right,” Giselle said, her dark eyes widening. Lenth felt the stirrings of lust
in his body once more, the flicker of heat. It was a sensation not unlike the
dance between potential mates. She scrubbed at her face. “Do you happen to have
coffee? It’s—really, really early.” Bronn chuckled and Lenth shrugged, not
knowing the answer to the question.

“I do have coffee,”
Bronn said. “But I am uncertain about how to make it. It is not a common drink
where we come from.” Giselle chuckled and Lenth smiled at the understatement.

“If you have coffee
and a coffee brewer, I can make it myself.” Lenth watched as the woman stood
quickly, looking around before she went into the kitchen area. He turned to his
colleague.

“We need to explain
things to her,” Lenth whispered to Bronn. “We got her here, we need to explain
and persuade her to participate.” Lenth watched his colleague closely as Bronn
considered the situation.

“We could propose
that we exchange information,” Bronn suggested. “We’ll tell her about our
culture if she lets us perform the experiments.” Bronn smiled.

“How much will we
tell her, though?” Lenth asked. He glanced in the direction of the kitchen,
where Giselle was singing softly as she made coffee. Lenth could smell the
sharp scent of the roasted beans.

“As much as she
wants, once she agrees to participate,” Bronn suggested.

“And then she’ll go
to the press, or the government.”

“With what?” Bronn
shrugged. “She can’t tell them that she’s being subjected to alien
experiments—have you seen the way that people are treated who make those
accusations?”

Lenth laughed,
“That’s an excellent point.”

Giselle came back
into the living room, looking from Lenth to Bronn. “What have you two been
discussing?” They had lapsed into their native language out of necessity.

“We want to make a…
proposition to you,” Bronn said, glancing at Lenth. “We understand your
interest in our culture. You know that we are scientists.”

“I know that you
told
me
you’re scientists,” Giselle pointed out. “That doesn’t mean that you
are.” Lenth laughed.

“What proof would you
need?” Lenth asked.

“A lab? Examples of
previous research…” Giselle shrugged. “I’ve never heard of the place you told
me you come from. It seems…strange to me that people from a remote country I’ve
never heard of are doing genetic research.” Lenth glanced at Bronn.

“Well, there’s
something we must tell you,” Bronn said. “But first we need your consent to the
experiments we’re interested in recruiting you for.”

“Okay, well, what is
it?” Giselle asked after a moment. “What’s the study?”

Lenth leaned forward
slightly, holding her gaze. “We’re interested in human sexuality. Specifically
sexuality in human women.”

Giselle gave him a
level look, holding his gaze for a long moment. “You keep saying ‘human,’” she
said slowly. “Why the emphasis on humans?”

Bronn looked at him,
and Lenth smiled slowly, meeting his colleague’s gaze. “Because,” Lenth said,
taking a deep breath and exhaling; the atmosphere of the planet was not as rich
in hydrogen as his own planet, but it helped. “We are not humans.”

For a long time,
Giselle just stared at him. She looked from Lenth to Bronn, and Lenth read the
emotions flickering across her face: disbelief, curiosity, interest,
apprehension—each one making a fleeting mark on her features.

“You’re not...human,”
she said slowly.

“We are not,” Bronn
said.

“You are scientists,
looking at human sexuality…” Giselle frowned. “What the hell kind of prank is
this?”

“No prank,” Lenth
told her. “We’re looking at genetics and sexuality in human women, because our
people—called the Khateen—are interested in potentially cross-breeding with
your species.”

“But in order to do
that,” Bronn said, “we must understand human sexuality and reproduction much
more than we do.”

“You…” Giselle stood.
“I really need that coffee.” She went into the kitchen and Lenth looked at his
colleague.

“You should’ve shown
her the lab first to prove that we’re researchers!” Bronn snapped.

“It’s
your
lab!” Lenth countered.

****

Giselle stood in the
kitchen for a long time, absorbing the shock of what the two men had said. She
started to laugh, shaking her head as she poured herself a cup of coffee.
They’re
fucking with me,
she thought, rummaging through the cupboards to try and
find sugar for her coffee.
A couple of foreign guys messing with a girl they
didn’t have the guts to take advantage of.
The fact that she had awakened
on their couch, fully clothed, without a hangover of any kind gave Giselle
pause; at least if the two men were messing with her mind, they had not messed
with her body. And she had to admit that there was something very strange about
their coloring, about their height, about their origin.

She managed to find
sugar but no milk; deciding that a black cup of coffee was the least of her
worries at the moment, Giselle went into the living room once more, sipping the
steaming beverage. “Okay,” she said, sitting down on the couch and looking at
the two men each in turn. “If you’re aliens, prove it. Also, you haven’t shown
me any proof you’re doing experiments of any kind.”

Bronn laughed—the
sound was odd, more like coughing. “If we can prove we’re aliens, why would you
doubt our interest in experimentation?”

Giselle opened her
mouth to retort—and then realized that if the two men could, in fact, prove
that they were aliens, it would be difficult to imagine them being on the same
planet as her for any other reason than research of some kind.

“Okay, so prove
you’re aliens,” she said, setting her coffee down and crossing her arms over
her chest.

Lenth stood, and Giselle
felt a frisson of apprehension. He picked up a large cloth and began wiping
away at his face and arms. At the same time, Bronn stood and began rubbing at
his eyes, doing something to them that Giselle couldn’t quite comprehend. As
Lenth scrubbed at his skin, the brown-gray coloring disappeared, revealing
purple-gray skin underneath, with no visible body hair—not even the eyebrows
she had seen.

Slowly, the
human-like facades that the two men had borne dissolved away, revealing what
were unmistakably non-human creatures. The two individuals in front of Giselle
had brilliant dark blue eyes flecked with slowly whirling specks of gold,
gray-purple skin, and lean muscles underneath their skin that looked subtly
different from human configurations. She took a deep breath and exhaled,
absorbing the new shock. “Okay,” she said slowly, more out of the need to say
something than out of certainty of what she was seeing. “Okay. So you’re
definitely not regular old humans.”

Bronn laughed. “I’m
sure you can understand,” he said, giving her what looked like a sympathetic
look with his unearthly eyes, “we have to remain as secretive as possible; few
humans know of what we are, what we’re doing—even the fact that we’re here.”

Lenth continued,
“This place is Bronn’s research facility; I have one also.”

“So…” Giselle looked
at her cup of coffee and picked it up, draining half of its contents. “So,
you’re aliens, and you’re trying to find out if you can use human women to
create some kind of… human-alien hybrid?”

Both alien men
nodded. “We’ve studied human sexuality extensively from afar to attempt to
understand; our colleagues have made many reports, and now Lenth and I are…”
Bronn frowned, groping for the words. “I think you say it as ‘in hot water?’ ”
Giselle nodded. “Because we have not found recruits for our own studies.”

“So you both want
to…study…me.”

“Yes,” Lenth said.
“We can promise that we will not do anything to attempt to hurt you. If you are
injured, we can make sure that you are repaired as quickly as possible.”

“Like a sex doll?”
Giselle asked, blushing bright red at the impersonal way the man had said
‘repaired.’

“Treated,” Bronn
corrected his friend. “We understand from previous reports that human women are
much…smaller inside than the females of our species.” His shoulders moved in a
gesture that approximated a shrug. “We know more than our colleagues—because
they have already made mistakes that we will be able to avoid.”

Giselle opened her
mouth, closed it again. “So how is this going to work?” she asked.

Bronn’s lips twisted
in what looked like a smile. “We understand from our research that some human
females enjoy reproduction with two males at once,” Bronn said cautiously.

“You’re seriously
propositioning me for a threesome.” Giselle made the question almost a
statement, staring at the two aliens.

“Yes,” Lenth said.
“Of course, it would also be good to experiment on you separately, if you are
comfortable with that.”

Giselle took a deep
breath and exhaled it sharply. “I’ve never actually been in a threesome,” she
said, licking her lips. She could remember—more vividly than she
liked—fantasizing about the two men while she had been drunk hours earlier;
fantasizing in particular about having them both at the same time. “Okay,” she
said quickly. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

“Would you like to
see the lab?” Bronn asked, amusement making the gold flecks in his eyes seem to
whirl faster. Giselle considered the question for a moment before nodding.

As Bronn led her
through the house, Lenth at her side, Giselle wondered if she was making a huge
mistake.
Aliens. They’re aliens. Experimenting on humans. I must still be
dreaming. There is no way this is real.
She watched as Bronn leaned forward
next to a door, pressing buttons on a keypad in a sequence. The door opened
with a whisper of sound.

Giselle stared into
the room for a moment before walking through the door; the room was unlike any
laboratory she had ever seen. There was a bed, for one—it looked to Giselle’s
eyes like a king-size bed, perfectly made with full linens. There were machines
that Giselle couldn’t identify, and along shelves and in open cabinets, there
were more sex toys than she could imagine any normal person owning. She looked
from Bronn to Lenth, thinking about the fact that she had agreed to be experimented
on by both men at the same time. “I need to see what you two look like,” she
said abruptly.

Lenth and Bronn both
frowned. “You can see us fine, can you not?” Giselle took a deep breath and
exhaled slowly.

“Naked. Unless you
were just planning on using those toys on me?” she pointed to the array of
vibrators, dildos, and other sex toys arrayed around the room.

“Ah—ah, yes. I
understand,” Lenth said.  He murmured something to Bronn before meeting her
gaze once more. “Please do not be frightened,” he said cautiously.

“Frightened? Oh God,
you’ve got some kind of—it’s—please, just tell me you don’t have tentacles or
something down there.”

Bronn laughed. “No—no
we do not have these…’tentacles,’ ” he told her. Giselle saw Lenth look at his
colleague in confusion; Bronn said something in their strange language to the
other alien.

“We are…very large,
by your standards,” Lenth explained. “And our sex organs are slightly different
from human sex organs.” Giselle closed her eyes and wondered if any amount of
coffee would be enough for what she was currently going through.

“Show me,” she said
quietly, opening her eyes once more. She watched as both men began to strip out
of their clothes, showing much more familiarity with the fastenings than she
would have thought a pair of aliens would have. As the clothing fell away, she
saw more and more of the gray-purple skin, more of the strange musculature. As
the two men stripped out of their underwear, Giselle’s eyes widened at the
sight as they revealed two large—
comically
large—members. The two men’s
erect members were ridged, almost bumpy looking. Giselle couldn’t decide
whether she was more shocked or—strangely—turned on by the sight.

“You’re not afraid,
are you?” Lenth asked. “I know that several human women who’ve worked with our
colleagues have been afraid.”

Giselle licked her
lips. “Not—afraid, exactly,” she said, looking from one thick, large erection
to the other. “Apprehensive, I guess? I’m not—I don’t know how one of those is
going to fit inside of me, much less two.”

Bronn laughed. “Very
carefully,” he suggested. “I understand that there are many women who use their
mouths in the act of mating.”

Giselle chuckled.
“That’s something we can try.” Lenth approached her cautiously, a smile forming
on his lips.

“You must be naked
too,” Bronn told her, joining his colleague in front of Giselle. Their thick,
large hands began to wander over her body, and Giselle found herself moving,
twisting and shifting to allow them to strip her clothing off, shivering with a
mixture of apprehension and delight as their skin brushed against hers.
Somehow, as her clothes fell away, she realized that the two men were caressing
her, teasing her, and exploring her body—and that she was surprisingly okay
with their actions.

One hand slid down
between her legs; Giselle thought it might have been Bronn’s, but she couldn’t
be sure as both pairs of hands trailed all over her body, teasing her nipples
into firm little nubs, tracing over her curves, cupping and massaging her
breasts. She moaned out, pushing her hips down as fingers slid along her
already slick folds, rubbing lightly, testing and stroking. “We know many
things already,” one of the two aliens told her in a low, almost purring voice.

“We know that human
females have this organ,” the other man said, and Giselle gasped as she felt a
finger swirling around her clit, sending jolts of pleasure through her body,
making her wetter and wetter. Giselle shivered as the friction against her
pleasure center increased, even while fingers twisted and rolled her nipples,
sending crackles of sensation coursing through her body. “We’re trying to
understand its purpose.” Giselle moaned out again as the fingers stroking and
rubbing her clit moved faster; she could feel another finger sliding down to the
well of her pussy.

“The—the purpose is
pleasure,” she said, panting as her body heated up.

“That’s—that’s as far
as—as our scientists have been able to determine.” One of the aliens, possibly
Lenth, chuckled.

“Pleasure seems to be
an important function of human sexuality,” he commented. Giselle nodded, her
lust-fogged brain barely capable of interpreting the words. She twisted and
writhed as the two aliens touched her everywhere, unable to identify who was
touching her where, trapped in a haze of sensations coursing through her body.

Giselle realized with
a start that the two men were leading her towards the bed, pressing her onto
the thick, soft blankets and pillows. She shook her head sharply, trying to
clear it, and watched as Lenth climbed onto the bed with her, sliding down
between her legs, while Bronn slithered onto the bed next to her, his hands
wandering over her breasts. She was surprised—almost shocked—as Bronn leaned
in, bringing his lips down onto hers.

Giselle moaned into
Bronn’s mouth as she felt Lenth bury his face against her already-soaking
pussy, his tongue sliding up and down along her slick labia, tasting her and
exploring her sex. She twisted and writhed between the two men as Bronn
deepened the kiss, his hands trailing over her body, while Lenth’s tongue
worked its way slowly up from her inner labia to her clit, teasing her
relentlessly. Giselle reached out blindly, exploring the two men’s bodies by
touch, trying to understand the lines and ridges of their non-human shapes, the
warm and slightly silken texture of their skin underneath her fingers.

Bronn’s lips left
hers, and Giselle heard herself making a sound somewhere between a groan and a
whimper—before his lips began to trail along her neck, past her collarbones.
His hands cupped her breasts, and Giselle shivered as she felt his mouth close
around one of her nipples, even as Lenth began to flicker his tongue against
her clit so rapidly she couldn’t follow the movements, only respond to the
pleasure coursing through her body.

Giselle’s hands
grabbed blindly, her body pitching and twisting, arching up off of the bed, as
wave after wave of pleasure crashed through her under the impetus of the two
aliens’ attentions, driving out any thought. She heard the two men’s sounds of
pleasure, her orgasm intensifying as Lenth began to suck and lick her even more
eagerly, as Bronn switched from one breast to the other, worshipping her
nipples with his lips and tongue. She felt a brief flicker of fear as sensation
overwhelmed her, so intense it might have been pain instead of pleasure, both
of the aliens continuing their attentions beyond what Giselle would have
thought possible for her to stand.

As the last of the
spasms worked through her body, she sagged against the bed, trembling from the
force of her orgasm. To her relief, both aliens began to slow down, pulling
back from her; though electrical impulses of sensation still danced through her
body in aftershocks, she didn’t have to beg them to stop—they somehow
understood that she could tolerate no more. She panted and gasped for breath,
curling in on herself slightly, trying to understand what was happening in her
own body. “You really…you’ve both obviously done your research,” she said, her
breath finally beginning to slow. She heard both men chuckle.

“It’s necessary for
human women to be sufficiently prepared in order to be able to take us,” Bronn
told her; Giselle shivered as she felt his fingertips brushing sweat-dampened
locks of hair away from her face, and opened her eyes to see the two aliens
looming over her, their unearthly eyes full of concern.

“One thing I will not
agree to,” Giselle said carefully, her gaze flicking down to the frankly almost
terrifying equipment the two males possessed. “I don’t know if you have done
any research on anal sex,” she told them, scrambling up onto her elbows to look
at each man levelly. “But neither of you is doing that to me any time soon.”