Page 14 of Golden Darkness

He chuckled. “I liked it.”

“You didn’t cum?”

He tilted his head. “It isn’t necessary. Is that a problem?”

“It feels one-sided.”

He chuckled. “You could spur me to a response if you liked.”

Janessa got nervous. “How?”

“Say my name and scratch my back.” He grinned.

She laughed. “Kethen.” She tried to lean up but huffed. “You are going to have to come down to me. I am pinned.”

“A kiss, my name, and the scratching. Yes, that should do it.”

He lowered down so she could reach him, and she tucked her arms under his wings. She lifted her chin to him, and they shared a sweet kiss. She whispered, “Kethen.” And then she kissed him again while she drew her nails down his back. His body shivered, and he groaned. Heat flooded inside her, and she hung on.

She may have gotten exactly what she asked for, but she now realized that it was too much. She gasped into his mouth in short whining pants, and then it was over.

Kethen rolled to his side and remained inside her as he tucked her close and wrapped her in his wing. It was like a suede leather blanket, but it smelled like the musk of sex.

She swallowed. “You were satisfied, Kethen?”

He chuckled and hugged her close. “Very.”

She sighed and cuddled close. She felt stretched and sticky, and he was still randomly throbbing inside her. It wasn’t the worst date she had ever had. She was smiling as she fell asleep. At least she had clothes now.

Kethen cleaned her in the shower. His hands moved over her slowly, and he smiled as he lingered on her breasts. “You are recovering.”

She looked down at her breasts and his hands covering them. “So, this is the unit of measure for how well I am doing?”

He chuckled. “It is one. This is the other.” He reached around and gripped her ass.

She widened her eyes in surprise. “Oh. Okay. Good to know which areas are being watched.”

He grinned and slid a hand around her hip and down her belly to investigate between her thighs. His expression grew concerned. “Sore?”

“A little. Achy maybe. Nothing too bad.”

“Good. You have taken it all as well, so that is more material to build muscle and fat again.”

“I am just waiting for my brain to completely come back online.” She sighed and then thought. “Are there any places where I can gain language skills? Or job skills or something?”

He paused. “I don’t know. I will have to check the archive.”

She nodded, resigned to the fact that this ship had never intended to have Terrans in it. She was it, which meant there was no support system for her.

She leaned forward, and Kethen finished the shower before guiding her into a spot where air jets dried her off. While she tried to get her hair to obey the brush he had given her, he walked into the open spray, and it hit him on all sides at once. He flexed his wings slightly, and with a wave of his hand, the water stopped.

He winked at her, then shook violently before he stood for the air jets.

She joined him in the jets because she had gotten soaked when he shook. “Asshole.”

He chuckled. “One day, I will learn Terran, and I will ask you to repeat all the things that you have said, and I will be able to say your name.”

She chuckled and slid her hand along his jaw. “That might be more difficult than you think. I don’t know if this hard jaw can make the right sounds, plus your teeth might give you a lisp. There are a lot of sibilants.”