My alien mate (Alien planet , #1)

Da'r POV - The kake fruit

I mate with H'na five times during the darkness but I still hunger for her, for her touch, her lips, and for her delicate flower. But I must let her rest and I know she is sore because of the rough way I loved her.

The Fire Globe is raising from being the mountains chasing away the darkness and bringing with it the lightning. The room we are in starts to light up and I can see H'na sleeping peacefully in the little nest we made with some old furs. Her lips are still red and puffy from my possessive kissing and I can see on her neck a little mark where I have bitten her when I claimed her. It is in a shape of a little kake fruit. Now everyone will know she is mated and that she belongs to me.

I rise from the nest to gather my thoughts because I know that if I stay too long near her I will take her again. Already I am hard and ache with desire to bury myself deep into her welcoming flower. I put on only my pants and I look at her to make sure she is still sleeping when I exit the room.

I have roamed this place many times when I was a young kit, with Ka'r. We would escape from the tribe and come here to explore and look for old things. Our parents were never happy we did that.

I walk down the hallway trying to remember all the fun me and Ka'r had here. He was always a curious one. He was only twelve planet rotations when he got his scar on his face. A raptor attacked us here. D'like never wanted to come with us I insisted for us to come with us. I promised that I will protect her. I was too distracted showing D'like what a great mate I will be to her one day because I was sure she will be my mate. I was sparing with Ka'r when the raptor came and I just stood there looking at it, too scared to do anything. It was Ka'r that killed the raptor but he got hurt in the process, his face bears a scar from that day on. But not only he saved us he also took the full blame upon himself. When his father beat him in front of all the tribe he never said a word about who actually said to come here that day. That day I made a promise to never let anyone take the blame for something I did.

Think of D'like makes me sad. She was not my mate, but she has been my first and only lover. Her death hurt me more than I will ever admit. But ever since H'na came into my life I haven't had any nightmare. And what I feel for H'na is different from what I ever felt from D'like.

And H'na is everything to me now, my reason to live, to breath. Without her, I am nothing, just an empty shell.

I look outside through one of the windows and see that the sylexs are in front of the Palace of the Elders. Now more than ever I am glad that all the down-floor windows had bars to keep possible threats out. The pack leader looks like he won't give up, at least not for the moment.

I decide to go see if the water fountain from the great entrance in the Palace of the Elders still works. It did the last time I was here, but I had to be sure. To my relief it still did. The fountain was big, in the form of a nadda flower in the honor of the flower of the female. At the bottom of the fountain stood a pool, filled with fresh water. At least we won't die of thirst.

When I go back to the room I stay with H'na in I see that the fruit trees grew even taller than I remembered and branches with fruits were next to the windows. Between all the trees stood proud a kake tree and its beaches full of the sweet kake fruit brushed one of the windows. I take one and eat it, and it is as sweet as I remember it but not as sweet as the nectar of my H'na. I gather some for her and go to the room and before I enter I listen at the door, to be sure she is still asleep.

I prepare for her a little breakfast made out of smoked meat, some dried fruits, and the kakes I have picked up especially for her. Once I am done I go to the nest and lay next to H'na. I watch her sleep, look at her chest rising and falling. Then my gaze travels to her stomach and I imagine her round with my kit. How would she look like? How would a kit of ours even look like? I know she's been in the fertile season, I can smell it on her. What if she is already pregnant, carrying my kit, our kit?

When she wakes up I still stare at her flat stomach.

-Good morning, she whispers. Did I sleep too much?

I look at her and shake my head.

-Is something wrong? she asks. You look troubled.

All of a sudden, she stands fast and looks me into the eyes.

-Is it the sylexs? Are they in here?

-No, nothing like that. I was just thinking about how you would look like when you will be round with our kit.

She relaxes and then gathers the furs around her.

-Thank the Goddess, I thought the sylex... You what?

She then looks at me with big, round eyes. I chuckle and cup her cheek, tenderly.

-Our kit, H'na, I say and I touch her stomach too. You may already carry a kit, you are in your fertile season. I can smell it.

Her cheeks go red and she is absolutely adorable.

- You can smell that? Oh, Goddess, she groans.

-I hope you carry my kit, I say. I don't want to wait for five planet rotations to have another chance for you to carry my kit.

She frowns, she opens her mouth to say something then she closes it again. Finally, she asks.

-The x'lems females can have a pup, kit every five years?

-Yes. I am to assume this does not happen to your kind? I ask.

-No, I can get pregnant every four New Moons.

My eyes go wide. Mystical females are this fertile?

-I hope that now that you know that I can have a pup, a kit so fast you won't knock me up every chance you got, she says with a grin on her face.

-I would never knock you up, I tell her confused that she is saying something like this.

She looks at me I can tell she is trying not to laugh. Did I say something funny?