Terran Times 01 - Arena Station (4 page)

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“Do you plan to do the same to me?” Her voice challenged him to answer honestly.

He sighed and halted his advance for a moment, “I did not plan to do that to her, as odd as that must sound. Provided that you react according to your actual physical response there should be no problem.”

“What do you mean ‘react according’?” Her suspicions were aroused and she began to back away from him as he advanced once again.

“Her scent did not match her actions and I found that…offensive. As long as you are honest with your responses we should have no problem.”

He paused again. “My name is Tiergar by the way, seeing as how we are about to become intimately acquainted.”

“Kyra…” Anything else she would have said was lost in a yelp when he suddenly snapped forward and grasped her arms, lifting her off of her feet. He buried his face in the hollow of her neck breathing in her scent.

A peculiar vibration ran through Kyra’s body as she hung suspended. It took a few seconds before she realized that he was purring. Her nipples tingled where her breasts met his chest.

The bronze skin was coated with a fine layer of hair. He had the same hide as a lion she had once seen on earth and the texture was at once irritating yet soothing.

His scent enveloped her, leaving her dizzy.

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Tiergar’s tongue darted out and stroked down her neck. She could only hope he liked the way she tasted.

When she felt his teeth gnawing gently on her neck, her self-control shattered into glittering shards. Dangling in his grip, she had no leverage for her attack. She lashed out with her legs, connecting with his knee, and causing him to release her as he fell to the ground and his legs collapsed beneath him.

She landed hard on her butt and quickly scuttled away from him. Kyra backed up against the wall using it to help herself to her feet. When she was standing she prepared herself for an attack, astonished when Tiergar sat there grinning at her.

“So they did have to go into the Fighter Ranks after all. I was told that there were no other viable matches available in the companion area. You are not quite what I expected.” He slowly got to his feet and crossed over to the bed. Rubbing his knee ruefully, he leaned back on his elbows and observed her closely.

“Neither are you.” She remained on her feet with her back to the wall. “I was given to expect that you were a ravening beast, ruled by unrestricted hormones.”

“Oh, I am. They issued a sedative for me as well. It should wear off in a few minutes. I think you should take this opportunity to get 21

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comfortable with me. It’s going to be a long night.” He grinned at her again, exposing his extended canines.

“Can’t you let me go?” Her voice was plaintive even to her own ears, but she couldn’t stop herself from voicing the plea. He seemed nice enough, but going all the way on the first date had never been her style. Despite the fact that she was more aroused than she had ever been in her life, she was not sure that she was up for this.

“Unfortunately not. My species goes into rut about once every two years. If I were at home I would find a mate when that happens. Since my capture I have not seen one other member of my own species, let alone an unmated female.” His voice was flat.

“Unmated? What do you mean?” Her curiosity aroused, like the rest of her, she relaxed her stance and leaned back against the wall. The fact that she was nearly nude in the translucent shift did not bother her anymore.

“No Azon male would go anywhere near a mated female, it causes too many potentially fatal problems when her mate shows up. Blood feuds between males are something the Azon have tried to eliminate. We are a peaceful race famed for our scholars and researchers. In fact, I was on my way home from a seminar when I was abducted and brought here.”

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evident.

“A discussion of psi abilities in the new race up for consideration by the Alliance. It was held on Nodak one week before my capture.” His eyes gleamed under black brows. His chest began rising and falling in a slightly faster rhythm than a few minutes before.

“Uh, just a quick question. Are your sedatives wearing off?” She shifted forward bringing her weight onto the balls of her feet.

“A few more minutes, but I really think you should get comfortable with me before they do.”

He sat upright and leaned forward. Putting his weight on his crossed arms that were resting on his knees.

“Comfortable how?” Her wariness was back in full force.

He extended one hand, “Just come to me and touch me.” He exuded calm, patience, and lord, was he sexy. She trembled in place for a few moments then shifted her weight and began to approach him.

She took one step forward, then another. A few seconds later she put her trembling fingers in his and let him draw her closer. He tugged at her and she found herself seated across his thighs. The material of his trousers was hot and slick beneath her rounded bottom. She drew in a sharp breath at the contact as her shift rode up when she sat.

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inhalation, then rose to meet her wide blue eyes as his hand came up to caress the creamy mounds of her flesh through the gauze of the shift. The heat from his skin and the feel of his calloused fingers against her breast caused her to gasp once again. It pushed her flesh more firmly into his gentle grasp.

He made that low rumbling noise in his chest once again and stroked the shift off of her shoulder. It caught briefly on the peaks of her nipples then slithered down to pool at her hips.

Pleasure infused his gaze as his hand gently explored her flesh. When he gently tugged at her nipple and then scored the sensitive peak with his nails she dropped her eyes to focus on the bronze hand covering her breast. It was then that she noted the claws. Each of his fingers was tipped with a lethal looking barb that extended as he put pressure on it.

She started in surprise and then gasped in shock as she was flipped onto her back. Before she could react, her arms were extended over her head and a magnetic clamp held her by the expedience of locking the cuffs on her wrists in place.

His voice went from urbane and polite to a hoarse growl. “It is for your own safety that I do this. I don’t want to injure you. It will be easier if you don’t fight me Kyra.”

Whatever she would have said to that was lost as he took her mouth with his own. His tongue thrust into her mouth to stroke her own. A thumb 24

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on her jaw kept her from biting down. His fingers plunged into the golden fall of her hair as he held her for the kiss. She felt her own response soar out of control. Heat flooded her from her mouth downward, coiling at her breasts where they were pressed against the velvet-textured wall of his chest.

Arousal pooled in her belly and began pulsing between her thighs. She shifted her legs restlessly and moved one thigh out from under Tiergar’s belly to stroke his hip. A growing wetness was seeping out of her depths and her hips arched into his rock-hard abdomen. Her own scent of arousal reached her nostrils and she blushed scarlet at the obvious sign of her heat. Kyra moaned into his mouth as her hips began to roll against him, seeking firm contact on her clit.

How much of her response was chemical and how much was her physical response to someone who definitely knew what he was doing, she didn’t know and frankly, didn’t care.

He left her mouth and ran his lips and tongue down her throat biting gently where her neck met her shoulder. Then not so gently. Her neck tilted to the side to grant him complete access. She let out a moan and he began to purr in response once again. A bass rumble that she could feel everywhere their bodies contacted.

She felt his lips and teeth journeying across her collarbone and down to her breast. Jumping as 25

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they fastened around her nipple and moaning as the suction sent pounding heat coursing through her. She felt a tightening deep within. When he switched to suckle the other breast she shattered into a thousand pieces. Screaming as she twisted in the throes of her release, her body arching and rubbing against him.