Dominated By Desire (5 page)

“That’s it. We’ll give the results to Storm when we’re finished.” Now the questions would begin. Again.

She sat at a small table in the hall near the kitchen sipping coffee. It didn’t take him long to find her. So what would his first question be?

“Your results are back and the doctors would like to speak to us.” So there will be a whole panel of people asking questions. Pretty normal. She could almost bank on what their first question would be. Heather followed Storm back to the main med lab. She found herself looking at the large scanner again. They had nothing so advanced on Earth. There were large devices like that. She had spent plenty of time inside them but they took a lot longer to the job.

“I don’t know.” She answered the unspoken question she got just about every time someone scanned her for the first time.

Storm looked at her. “You don’t know what?”

She stepped up to her image and manipulated it so that it showed the small of her back. Lodged at the base of her spine was a small metal cylinder. “I don’t know what it is or where it came from. It’s been there for as long as I can remember. The technology is more advanced than Earth’s so the doctors were afraid to remove it. It’s some sort of suppression device.” He looked at the doctors who nodded in agreement. “What about your parents? They had to know where it came from.”

“I’m an orphan. They found me in a patch of heather when I was about four, hence my name. Became a ward of the government. They raised me.

A lot of children were raised that way. Families who couldn’t feed their families offered their offspring to the government who would raise them and train them.” How many times through the years had she repeated this? Now everyone would start treating her strangely. Just like before. She brushed her short hair behind one ear.

“We’d like to study it a little more.” One of the doctors looked at Storm for permission. “If you wouldn’t mind a little surgery.”

“Surgery isn’t necessary.” She placed her hand on the small of her back and brought the cylinder forward. “It slides in and out of my skin pretty easily.”

“Have you ever been far from it?” Storm watched her. Probably looking for something strange to happen. That was what the doctors all did. Made her feel like a specimen in a Petri dish.

“Not really. Every once in a while a new doctor joins the medical staff and wants to study it themself, thinking they were smarter than the doctor before them, but once they realized they’d never figure out what it does they were afraid to go too far with it. It has a very loud alarm if it is moved too far from its home.”

“Will you step through our equipment again?” It took only seconds.

But she knew it would affect her for a lifetime.

They didn’t keep her cylinder long. Once they were through, she slipped it back where it belonged. She straightened her blouse. “Anything else?”

“No, thank you.”

“Good.” Time to go get her things together. This was about the time she normally found herself under a microscope and she hated the feeling.

****

“So, what is it?’ asked Storm. He stared at the image floating on the screen.

“Pretty much what she said it was. It suppresses her abnormalities.

Makes her read normal for human.” He pulled up her image before they removed the cylinder. “If you look at her readings here you’ll see she stays in the normal range. But when I bring up the image after she removed it most of those readings are off the scale.”

Storm looked at the readings. So she wasn’t human, but her readings weren’t quite Vespian either. It looked like a combination of the two. He studied it a little more. “This almost looks like ancient blood.”

“We were thinking the same thing but we need to run more tests.”

“I get the impression she has been through too many already. Can you keep them to a minimum?”

“We can try. We have plenty of samples to work with for now.”

“Good. No need to make her endure anything she doesn’t need to.” He turned to the doctor. “You really think she’s full blooded ancient?

“Since we’ve never met one alive before we’re not sure what to think.

We are sure of one thing. She is very precious.” He had already figured that out. The device shifted on the screen so he could see it from any angle. It didn’t seem to be anything harmful. She could remove it and do without it with ease. “So if you remove the device she’ll just be more enhanced? Is that a bad thing?”

“We’re not sure. This technology is a bit beyond ours as well. It does keep her readings where they should be and hides things like your mark. It keeps her protected from prying eyes.”

“What?” He looked where the doctor pointed to the screen. There on the side of her neck was a small image. When did he do that? Then he thought about it. He had focused on the side of her throat while they had been intimate. Without realizing it he marked her as his. That might cause some trouble later but what was done was done. “And there is no harm to her?”“It was designed to protect her. Keep her hidden from something.” He pressed a button and a small section flashed. “That is the alarm section she spoke of.”

“We just don’t know what it’s keeping her safe from.”

“No, sir, but as long as it stays within her she should be fine.” The doctor cleared the screen. “We’ll continue to monitor the device and study it.” “Thank you.” He headed back toward his room when he sensed her.

Anger boiled in her. He hesitated long enough to figure out where she was.

She was in her room which was now empty. Now he understood the anger.

Something whizzed by his head the moment he entered the vacant room.“Where’s my shit?”

“Where it belongs.” She was beautiful when she was angry. Her pale skin had a slight flush to it, just like it did right after they had been intimate.

That stopped her for a moment. “It belongs here.” He shook his head as he walked toward her. Her leery look warned him to be careful but she didn’t frighten him in the least. Wrapping his arms around her, he pinned them to her side before lifting her off the ground and carrying her down the hall. She continued to struggle so he flipped her again and threw her over his shoulder. “Stop struggling.”

“Not ‘til you put me down.”

He slapped her on her buttocks as he continued to his room. He wasn’t sure how many staff he passed, but he didn’t care. He was enjoying every minute. Her anger did nothing but fire him up. “I’ll put you down when I’m good and ready.”

He walked into his room and dropped her unceremoniously onto his bed.Her items were stacked neatly beside it. She seemed shocked to see them there. She was quiet for only a moment before she continued with her tirade. “How dare you move my things!” The anger she felt hid a hurt deep inside her.

“How dare I?” He crowded her up against the wall. Time to end this before she got out of hand. “You forget where you are? Who you belong to?” “I belong to no one.” There was that hurt look again.

“You are mine.” He dipped his head and nibbled on the spot where he had left his mark. She didn’t understand what it meant yet so he had to be lenient, but she needed to know there were times when she shouldn’t argue with him.

He grabbed her uniform top and tore it off her, then he did the same with her trousers. His clothing came next. In seconds he was inside her.

Proving she was his to take whenever he wanted.

He held her in place with his weight and height. Using one hand he lifted her chin so she would look him in the eyes. Such a myriad of emotions there. The hurt was still there but fading fast. It was being replaced by shock and a touch of desire. No man had ever possessed her like this before and he found a strange satisfaction at being the first.

He pressed against her, pushing himself deeper into her. Those wonderfully expressive eyes took on a hunger as the desire took over. Her legs locked around his waist to help keep him in place.

“You shall be with no one else but me.” He pounded into her, her slick sheath taking him in again and again. It felt so good.

“And you?” Her voice came out deep and seductive as her muscles tightened against him. Her head dropped to his shoulder as a ripple of pleasure raced through her. That ripple affected him too.

“I want no one but you.” He knew he was close. Then he felt her muscles lock onto him with a grip that forced him to shake to keep control.

With her it started as a tremble before she exploded all around him.

The power of her orgasm came close to taking him with her. That had never happened before. But he knew it was her.

Since he met her he found he always wanted her. He walked around with a constant hard on, fantasizing about when and where he would take her. No other woman had ever had this effect on him, and he was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

“And if I argue with you?” She lifted her head and looked into his eyes again. They glowed with satisfaction. Everything else had been burned away by her orgasm.

“I know how to win.” His lips captured hers and he started moving once again. Her body was like a fine instrument that he had a natural feel for. It took only a few strokes for her to grip him with all her might once again. He felt her orgasm grab her, causing her to shudder all around him.

That shudder sent him over the edge. He didn’t try to fight it.

He listened to their ragged breathing afterwards. “This is the only way to fight.”

“So why did you move my things?” Her voice low. The hurt was back.

“It made sense. You weren’t going to be using your room anymore. This is your room now. I want you here with me.” He kept her pinned against the wall. He liked having this kind of control. “Why were you so mad at me?”

“Because every time people learned about my little added addition they normally shunned me.” She could have hidden that from him but chose not to. He was proud of her bravery.

“After the sex we’ve had? Oh, honey, it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than that to scare me off.” He ground his hips against her, drawing a sharp intake of breath when he hit the right spot. “You are far too addicting for me to give up now.”

The intercom beeped.

He said something under his breath before releasing her. He crossed to the screen and activated it. “What?”

“The Vespian protocol instructor is here.”

“So fast?” Heather commented. She dashed to her things, trying to find something to wear.

“You can relax. The instructor has seen everything.”

“Well I sure don’t want me naked to be added to his list.” She held up her tattered uniform up and shook her head.

“It’s a her and she is very discrete.”

“Know her well?” She found a top and pulled it over her head. Now she rummaged through her things to find something for the bottom half. Just as she pulled a pair of pants on the door opened.

“Heather. I’d like you to meet my sister.”

Chapter 4

“Your sister?” She looked at the woman with interest. Something he didn’t want. Of all the protocol experts they had to send her. She’d be undermining his authority at every turn. “Younger or older?”

“Younger, unfortunately, by a minute and a half,” his sister answered.

“Mom said I did come out first but he would have none of that and pulled me back in so he could be born first.”

“Oh, that does sound like him.” Heather gave him a knowing smile.

He watched the interchange between them. Heather was delighted to have someone who knew him to talk to.

His sister, on the other hand, didn’t miss a thing. He watched as she took in their disheveled state. Heather’s items lay scattered about the floor in her mad dash to cover herself.

The fact that her things were in his room in the first place probably gave her a lot to think about but she must have been informed that they were to mate.He had thought about greeting his sister naked as he had in the past but not knowing how Heather would react made him dress.

He wondered what the council had told his sister before she arrived.

He wanted to know the real reason she was here. “Sister, you never come to just visit.”

“I am here to train your bride.” She smiled at him. Turning her attention to Heather. “We can start our lessons now if you wish.”

“Of course.” She glanced at Storm before turning her attention back to his sister. “Where do you wish to start? I have read all the security files your planet sent over.”

“How about what my brother has taught you.” She gestured for Heather to follow her. “We can walk in the gardens as we talk.”

“I’d rather you stay indoors.” Storm thought his sister would take his words as overprotective but he needed to think about Heather’s safety first.

She might not be aware of the attempts on Heather yet. Besides, if they went out into the garden he couldn’t hear what they said.

“There is a beautiful library that should work,” Heather recommended.

“That’s fine.” She linked arms with her, with one last look at her brother, she focused her attention back to Heather. “Lead the way.” That look dared him to follow. He knew he’d have to rely on the security cameras so see what sort of mischief his sister would be up to.

****

Heather had never been very good at small talk so she remained quiet as they walked.

“You seem to know your way well. How long you been here?” His sister had a nice voice. A bit like her brother’s, but higher pitched.

“Thirty-two hours. I memorized the blueprints before I got here.”

“My brother moves fast.” The comment hung between the two of them.

“You talking about the marriage?” Heather glanced at her before heading down the corridor that held the library. She had the same jet colored hair and golden eyes, but her ring was a green color. “Not his doing. Our governments brewed this one up.”

“Really?” She didn’t sound convinced but it didn’t matter. Heather wasn’t there to please the woman, just learn from her.

“Here we are.” She pulled the double doors toward her to open them.

“I’m sure you have a thousand questions so ask away.”

“All in good time, Heather.” She gave her a friendly smile. “My brother has been here several times so he knows a lot about your planet, but this is my first time here.”