Devotion (Chosen by the Karal #5)(35)
“I’m sorry, Elissa. This whole thing is my fault. It all started the day I entered your name into the lottery. I shouldn’t have done it, and now it looks as if I am going to be the downfall of the human race.”
“No, honey. Oh Tikki, please don’t think that. We have options.” Elissa pressed her hand against Tikki’s face. Letting her soothing touch chase away her pain. “We can find a way to make this work. Come on, we are skims, we always make it work.”
“How?” Tikki asked. “How do we turn this in our favour?”
“Let’s start from the beginning. Marin repaired my skin. I got Karal DNA, obviously,” she said, holding her hands up. “That somehow worked its way into my body and made it possible for me to conceive a girl. Right?”
“Yes.” Okil nodded and then said, “Darl never looked at gender, it never occurred to him. But now he has, he thinks he has isolated what he would need to do so that more girls are conceived.”
“But you still need boys too?” Elissa stated.
“Yes.”
“So human females still need to come here and the Karal have to persuade them to go through whatever it is that Darl needs to do. Not many of them will be willing to do that. I mean, alien experimentation. Not high on anyone’s list of things to do.” Elissa thought about it. “You will still need females. And you will still need the colony.”
Marin and Okil looked at each other and then Marin spoke very gently to Elissa. “The council will not ask. They will take.”
“You mean they will pin us down and make us?”
“Yes,” Tikki said. “Okil believes that too.”
“Then we don’t tell them. We don’t tell anyone until the mission to find a new Earth has left.”
“We thought about that. But even if we hang on long enough for the mission to leave, there is nothing to say that once your baby is born, they will actually support the movement of humans to a new colony. And your baby is due in three months’ time.”
“Damn it,” Elissa said. “There has to be a way.”
“Listen, I think you should sleep on it,” Okil said, and Tikki was glad he had decided to cut the visit short. She was so worried about Charlie alone in the cruiser. “I have to go to the tower first thing, so perhaps Elissa can call on you tomorrow morning and you can discuss your options. Mainly whether to tell the others.”
“Oh, I hadn’t thought about that. If we tell them, then the council may find out. I trust them but this is a huge secret. On the other hand, this is not just our decision, Tikki.”
“I don’t know the other women. But you do; if you trust them, so do I. I do agree, though, this has to be a joint decision.”
Tikki hated leaving so quickly but allowed Okil to hurry her out, because little Charlie was in the cruiser, and time was not their friend.
Chapter Twenty-Three – Okil
“Goodnight, Charlie,” Tikki said bending down to kiss the boy.
“I will go and get the bed tomorrow. I promise.” Okil had completely forgotten to go to the breeding house today; his mind had been too full of other things. Although, after telling Tikki about the mothers, he didn’t relish the thought of going to the breeding house alone and facing the ghosts of his past.
“He would sleep anywhere tonight, he is so tired,” Tikki said.
“And are you so tired?” Okil asked as he took her hand and led her to the bedroom.
“That would depend on what you had in mind.”
“I thought I would embark on a little bit of alien experimentation of my own,” he teased, pulling her to him and kissing her. His hand fisted her hair and he pushed his tongue into her mouth a sudden desire to claim her filling his body and awakening the man in him.
Tikki gasped as his hand cupped her breast, his thumb rubbing her nipple feeling the small, taut bud grow harder with each stroke. She pressed her body against his, and slipped her hand down to wrap around his cock and squeeze him just right. Damn, he wanted her. Wanted to be inside her and let the feel of her body chase all his doubts, all his fears, away.
They fell onto the bed. He tugged at her clothes, and she eagerly helped him to remove them. He stripped, dragging his clothes from his body, his eyes filled with a hunger for her as he threw them aside. Then he moved to cover her with his body, to press his finger inside her, feeling her warm and wet and ready for him.
He pressed deep inside her, bringing her arousal to a point where she was begging him to enter her. Knowing she was so desperate for him, he moved between her thighs and guided himself towards her. The head of his cock breached her outer lips and then he surged forward, the head of his cock stretching her inner walls. She cried out, her fingers digging into his back. At first he thought he had hurt her, but then he understood she was spurring him on; she wanted this as much as he did.
As he thrust into her, he recognised they were one, joined in so many ways. Physically they fit together perfectly, and now they had secrets to share that threatened them both. This was a test, they had to rely on each other, and that same reliance would carry forward to when they were parents and they had the shared responsibility of a child.
Tikki rose to meet him stroke for stroke, urging him on. The tumultuous day had left them both tense and now they had found the perfect way to release that tension. Okil pulled out of her, twisting his hips to spread her inner walls, hearing Tikki cry out as she came around him. As her sex pulsed around him, the head of his cock swelled, holding him in place as he came.