Chapter 10
Moist.
Chilly.
Dirty.
Sour.
Dank.
Pebbles that were spine tingling.
Soft.
Mint.
Silky, tickling my chin and teasing my ears.
Warm.
Moist, wet upon my lips.
He was there, his emerald eyes hidden under those perfectly framed blue-black eyelashes. His loose curls draped my ears with warmth, above me was the canopy of the forest, playing peekaboo with the blue sky.
But what brought me to, was Gaelen's lips pressed against mine, kissing me. I could pretend I was still passed out. He wouldn't know the difference, his eyes were sweetly closed as if in the midst of an earnest wish. A wish that I was also an alien and that his soul would write my name on itself sealing us together. But that was my wish and it wouldn't happen. I was human, a smudge upon the new earth, the post-Eclipse earth. I was more than a defect. I was dreaming and I didn't want it to stop.
I pressed my lips forward to meet his kiss, he responded snaking his arm under my body pulling it closer to his own. My heart sighed, that was the warmth is awoken to, shielding it from the chilly breeze that pin-pricked goosebumps on my arms. Our mouths tango danced and tangled, tongues and lips drawing into each other, teasing and prompting returns of delirious lust.
"My mother told me the fairytale about Sleeping Beauty being awoken by a kiss from a Prince," I whispered and he growled with passion kissing me with more earnest.
"No more human archaeology, Kiowa, just be in the moment." He commanded in his princely way. The idea that he was a prince was hard to get used to.
My hands snuck behind his back and journeyed up his back, feeling his flesh, it felt human, everything about him was human yet inside he wielded the power that was foreign to this universe. Inside me, I also had a power created to adapt to this new invaded universe.
My mind felt like a starburst, from that thought more insights came to me. I had to stop this foray as much as I didn't want to but I couldn't lose this train of thought. I gently pushed Gaelen off of me.
"Are you okay now? Perhaps you should faint again and we can continue where you let your big brain stop us, or is it your innocence that bades you to freeze up?" He said it teasingly but it had too much hint of male dominated annoyance. I couldn't let it stop these ideas, thoughts moments of true clarity.
"Gaelen, what if..." I was careful how I phrased my next words. "You know how nature fights against a predator? It creates a solution. It adapts. I thought that-," I had to make this sound alien. "I was thinking that the defects could be caused by this planet's ecosystem." I really meant humans being able to have powers, but I hadn't meet anyone with my powers, so I quite possibly could be the only one. I only could assumed I wasnt the only baby in natal during Eclipse and turned out to be more than human. "What if your defects are really a part of the evolution of our kind on this planet." I really meant humans and I could see the gears behind his eyes churning, thinking that I meant becoming more human. "Not that you are becoming human. You are becoming a part of this planet. What better way to be a ruler. A ruler who is part of this planet."
He leaned back on his elbows, legs crossed at his ankles thinking. "I think we should stop thinking about the fate of Y'vroi and focus on us."
He then leaned back over me, cradling my neck. I went along with it just forgetting he was alien and a prince or that I was human.
His kisses were heavenly but then he pulled away.
"I want you on my arm at the Festivities."
He asked for me! I couldn't believe it. Someone asked for my hand like I was special, chosen, not the final pickings or unwanted leftovers. My heart somersaulted and if my soul could make a choice and write a name upon itself, it did at that moment.
"Gaelen," I nearly leap into his lap with excitement. He laughed and wrapped his strong arms around me. "I think I'm falling for you too."
I felt the brakes stop with me to a screeching halt. I admitted too much too soon. I ruined it all. I blanched from head to toe. He shook his head in his teasing amused way, raven locks floating in unison with his deep laughter.
"I'm falling for you too." He kissed my button nose.
I knew I was soaring now. I felt validated, I was a woman, I was interesting beyond platonic, I was appealing. I was able to be myself and admired as a woman for it.
"You know you have point about nature." He wrapped his arm around me and I felt immediately so warm I never wanted to leave his embrace. "I think we should practice nature...right now"
I squalled as he pulled my legs from under me bringing my hips to his, wrapping my legs about his waist. God he smelt wonderful. I wanted to never for get his smell, as he leaned into me, his lips teasing my chin, trailing hot to my neck. I could feel his hardness straining against his jeans that was dangerously close to the juncture of my thighs. He began to rock himself into me, his fingers teased the collar of my blouse, taking a peak at my flesh but not revealing anything but my nude clavicle and he relished in it. I would have never guessed Gaelen Borgias was a slow, deliberate lover relishing in the sight of my collarbone. This man savored passion.
"What if it is true? Defects are becoming more adaptable to this world. It means we are meant to stay here. To rule," I couldn't help but add. I was like a finicky horse, all nerves, yet mine were bundled in my tenacity to have to say something instead of relish passion..
"Yes, but even being on the top of the food chain. Nature has its way of controlling the top as well. Disease, weather, ailments or prey diseases and poisons," He said in between kisses lining my collar.
