Knight in Shining Alien?: Athrian Warriors Book One (18 page)

“Yes, exactly jabir minka. I will strive to let you know I love you as often as possible.” Jarrek said and then pulled her up his body so that he could nibble her neck and kiss her lips. He was just about to deepen the kiss when his comm chimed.

“I am going to disconnect that stupid thing. It always goes off when I want to make love to you.” Jarrek complained.

She chuckled, but moved out of his hold and off the bed, saying, “Answer it. It may be that my momma is here. I sent Kirrek and Sid to get her. I can’t wait to see her.” She stood up to go to the cleanser. She didn’t want to see her momma after such a long absence smelling of sex. No matter how good it was, it was just rude.

“You still earned yourself a spanking for all the orders that you have been throwing around here lately. You should have spent all of your time with me.” Jarrek told her as he picked up the comm and shouted a “Speak” into the phone.

One minute later Jarrek walked into the cleanser as she was stepping out, pushing her back against the wall. “Well hello, handsome. Did you miss me?” Hailey said laughing and smiling up into Jarrek’s face.

“Hmm. I did, but want your lips as I am cleansed. That was indeed your momma and they are requesting that both of us come at once. There seems to be some kind of problem down at the landing bay. Kirrek apparently stole some woman from your planet saying that she is his mate and Sidhawk’s. Your Marti just found out that they kidnapped the other woman and is yelling at my brother, while hitting him with her big bag. Sidhawk, who is usually such a gentle soul, is holding this woman back from leaving and wandering the ship and they are both screaming your name.”

“Shit! Hurry Jarrek, I have to go save them!” she yelled and pushed against his chest while trying to wiggle out of the enclosure.

“Relax little bird. I am finished. Dress and we will go now.” Jarrek said to try keep his voice even, so that she would relax, but is was soon obvious that it was not working.

She rushed to her dress on the floor by the bed and pulled it up in a quick, impatient move. Another impatient motion and her sandals were on her feet. She turned to him ready to leave and he was still watching her, not even having put on his trousers.

“Hurry up, Jarrek. Don’t make me leave you behind!” she threatened.

Jarrek gave her a stern look and said, “Do not. You are begging for a spanking Hailey and regardless of who is waiting I am about to give it to you.”

“You are about to find yourself kicked in the balls, Jarrek. Do not condescend to me, right now. Dress quickly. It is rude to keep my momma waiting.” Fluffing her hair into submission. Less than five minutes later, they walked into a scream-fest.

Jarrek took one look around, then threw back his head, and roared, “Enough!”

Everyone froze and Hailey had to laugh at the picture they all made. The usual personnel all stood around them gaping and laughing at the play enacted for their entertainment, right in front of them. There was her momma, with her arm cocked back ready to give Kirrek another good hit with her purse. Kirrek was looking down at her with his angry face and his arms crossed, as though her little bag was not in any danger of hurting him. Sidhawk stood with his back to us holding a shrieking termagant in his arms. He had moved her body to the side so that her legs had quit kicking him in the shins, and now dangled out behind him. The woman shrieked, “Bloody hell! Put me down you big red lummox!” and Hailey drew in her breath at the familiar curse. That was her best friend’s ungodly shriek. “Grace! Momma!” Hailey cried out stepping further into the room. She was about to run to her momma and Grace, but Jarrek pulled her back against him.

“Wait one moment, little bird. Let us find out what is going on, first. Then we can welcome your family.” Jarrek said into her hair, in a low enough voice that said it was just for her and along the bond he sent, “as the future Queen of Athria, let us be united on this, my dear.”

Hailey paused for a moment and then stepped to Jarrek’s side, so that they could approach the group together. She smiled at both of her momma’s and Grace’s expression of her mate. She sent a wink to Grace that left her silent and wide-eyed.

“Now, I would like you all to act like civilized adults and explain to me just what is going on.” Jarrek said in his deep voice. I saw my momma’s eyes widen at how deep and lovely his accent was and then glance to me next to him. I straightened my shoulders even more, for her perusal as, I didn’t want to hear that a lady should stand straight and proud. I was proud to be standing next to Jarrek. I sent a big grin her way. She goggled at me as if she had never seen me smile in my life. I was going to harrumph at her, but that would earn another lecture on behavior that I didn’t want to hear.

Helene straightened her own posture and took a step closer to us. “My name is Helene Edmondson; my daughter is by your side. I was asked by these men to come live with my daughter at her request. I was happy to do so. I thought that my daughter had died.” She had to pause and clear her throat from the emotions even thinking about that had caused. I had to do the same hearing momma say those words, before she continued. “It took me a minute to get packed up and as they had a message that they were to deliver to Hailey’s best friend Grace, I left them to do that. Well, I may have given a little advice on how to tell people that they were in a play about Satan’s minions and were in costume if anyone stopped them. Then they left to go give her the message and I finished packing. I didn’t see them again for hours. I just figured that they got lost. I was about to go out and try to find them, when they came back and asked if I was ready to go. Of course, I was not. No one with sense can ask a lady to be ready to pick up and move at a moment’s notice. It is scandalous, sir. I held my temper though. I am a lady and advised them of that fact. When they offered to help me, it did go a mite faster. They are big strong men that you have Commander.”

She leaned forward and whispered to her, “That is his brother, momma. Prince Kirrek.”

“Really? Well I won’t bow to him, Hailey. He is rude and uncouth. His daddy should have taken a strap to him on occasion. I am sure it would have helped his constitution.”

Helene watched as her daughter held in her laughter and snuggled in to the huge red man beside her. She had never seen her look so happy. Why, she almost glowed with it. Focusing back on the issue at hand, she turned her gaze back to him and continued.

“They were both very solicitous on the way here, but it was always only one of them. When I first met them, that little one was always with Mr. Cranky. I could tell right away that they were a couple, in how they watched over one another. Then I only saw them one at a time on the way here. I minded my own business, but was curious why. Then when we get here, I see Kirrek with a woman slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. She is kicking and hollering fit to wake the dead. Of course, when she started cursing I knew exactly who she was and tried to go to her rescue. Kirrek put her down at my request, but when I tried to keep Grace with me, they both objected quite fiercely! They both screamed in my face. Rude! They both need a good strapping.”

“Brother,” Kirrek began, but stopped at Jarrek’s raised hand.

“I will hear from my new Marti, first brother. You may make your explanations to me next if you feel something needs to be clarified.” Jarrek told Kirrek with a stern expression on his face. Hailey wondered if that was his “I am ruler” face and sent that question along their bond. His lips twitched into an almost smile, before he got control of it. He sent back his hand spanking her ass in hard, punishing swats. She blew a kiss up at him in front of his men and her momma. Jarrek wanted to grab up his beloved and lock them in a room so that he could follow up on that spanking with some long, deep strokes of his cock in her pussy. “Tease.” He whispered down to her.

“Please continue, my new Marti.” Jarrek asked Helene.

Helene wiped a non-existent piece of lint from her trousers and straightened her already perfect hair, before telling him, “Well. That was pretty much everything. Grace tried to escape, they both went to grab for her and I hit Kirrek with my bag to keep him away. She should have been able to evade the smaller one, but he has some skills. Too bad, for Grace. I was demanding your presence Hailey and telling Mr. Cranky Kirrek that he could not have Grace. She wasn’t a pet of some sort that he could just kidnap and he and the other one both yelled out that she was their Cordisa, whatever that is.” Helene finished.

Hailey sucked in a deep breath at that. Grace was a Cordisa to her brother-in-law and Sidhawk? Wow! “Grace, you lucky bitch! How did you get two, huh?” She hollered at her girlfriend and watched as Sidhawk set her on her feet, but pulled her back against his chest and wrapped his arms around her.

“Uh, Hailey. I don’t even know what that means. I am not a lucky bitch, I am a kidnapped bitch!” Grace shrieked at her best friend. “They barely even packed my clothes. All of my favorite shoes and my coach purses were left behind! If that is not the most unlucky thing you have ever heard, I will kiss your but!” Grace wailed in her British accent. It really was amazing that they were best friends when they were complete opposites. She was from Sussex originally, while Hailey was a dyed in the wool country girl. Her mom was even strange as she reminded Grace of an old-time southern’ belle of the cotton mansion. She just wanted to turn back the clock and go home.

“You will go nowhere woman. You are my and Sidhawk’s Cordisa. It will be our privilege to care for you and protect you and our young.” Kirrek started lecturing Grace. Hailey actually winced when he started. Sidhawk was about to lose the hearing on that side if he wasn’t careful with what he said to her. She could see Grace suck in her breath for an academy winning shriek, but thank Goddess she was interrupted by Loku on the intercom.

“My Prince, I am sorry to bother you at such an entertaining moment, but I thought you may like to know that you and your Cordisa are about to be Colti.”

“Oh Jarrek, let’s hurry. I want to be right there.” Hailey was about to jump out of her skin she was so happy right then, and it was the perfect way to kill an argument. Turning to her Momma and her best friend in the whole universe, she asked them, “Would you like to meet my daughter? She is going to be born right now.” Then smiled as their mouths dropped open in shock.

              Hailey held her daughter close to her heart and smiled down at her perfect face. “Look at you. You are just the prettiest little angel that was ever born. You are so perfect and momma loves you, yes she does.” She spoke down to her sleeping daughter. She had not opened her eyes yet, which according to Second Senior Medical Doctor Krases B’el Whalekin – in charge of her beautiful daughter’s care was normal for a child born of an artificial womb. He tried to explain the science to her, but her eyes literally started to cross and glaze over, so he skipped the explanation on it and just told her what she really wanted to know. That her daughter was healthy and the Krakill had done nothing to harm her in any way.

              She had pale red skin. A pale shade of pastel red. She had her daddy’s black hair, but it was thick and curly like hers. She had a little rosebud of a mouth and the cutest button nose. She knew that her daughter would continue to grow and her facial features would grow and change, but she was the perfect mix of her and Jarrek.

              She was currently surrounded by Jarrek, her momma, Grace, Sidhawk and Kirrek. Jarrek stood behind her and helped surround her and the baby in the protection of his love. While smiling down upon his personal little miracle as he kept calling her. “We need to consider names, my love.” She told Jarrek.

              “Do you have any that you have thought you might like to name her?” Sidhawk asked her.

“No. I have thought of many names, but was waiting for momma to get here to talk to her, and ask her opinion. I just couldn’t make up my mind. I thought of Destiny, Hope, Zyana and Laria after Jarrek and Kirrek’s momma. I am hoping that Jarrek will have some suggestions, like other girl names from his planet. Then I could kind of see what she reacted to and let her choose on her own.” She answered, still not taking her eyes off the little bundle of love in her arms.

              “Zyana is a word in our language little bird. It means wonder, a miracle or other cause of intense admiration or awe. I think that name is a perfect fit to our own little wonder,” Jarrek said.

              Helene leaned down and kissed her first grandbaby on the head. She was so happy she could barely contain it. That her daughter was so happy and had now given her this perfect little angel, she felt as if this was the reward. Kirrek and Sidhawk had explained that she would want for nothing and would no longer have to scrape to get by. Her daughter was to be the Queen of their planet, to rule at his side. Her biggest worry would be what to play with the newest Princess of Athria and trying to learn her new language. Although with their translators, they would understand her just fine and would soon learn her language, so the entire planet would be able to speak English as well.

              She desperately wanted to hear the story of what had happened to her daughter and the adventure that she had been on, but for now was content with the fact that her daughter was alive, happy and a new mother. She did not care that her new son was a giant red man with a Mohawk, or that he was from another galaxy entirely. The glow to Hailey’s cheeks was a remarkable improvement. Stepping back, she looked to Jarrek and said, “I realize the new parents will wish to spend time with their daughter so if someone can show me to my quarters and steer me to someplace to get something to eat, I will check back in with you tomorrow. I want to get settled in and then I will want to hear all about this adventure Hailey has been on.”

Jarrek looked up from the perfect face of Zyana and answered his Marti. “Let me call one of my warriors who will be your guard while we are on this ship. They will be temporary quarters as we will be moving ships soon, so that I can take Hailey and Zyana to Athria. Space is no place to raise a family.” Running a finger down Zyana’s cheek, he kissed Hailey’s head and went to the comm unit, and gave his orders. Stepping back to his family, he went back to watching Zyana sleep against Hailey’s breast. Only when a warrior stepped to his side and cleared his throat did he raise his head again.

“Titus, I want you to meet Helene. She is my new Marti through Hailey. Please show her to her quarters, I have put her three down from my own. You are to be her personal guard while we are aboard ship. Show her how the prep stations work. Her luggage should already be in the room, so show her how to operate the closets and anything else she needs to know.” Jarrek told him.

Hailey looked up and smiled at Titus saying, “Don’t forget the cleanser unit. I had a hard time figuring out the waste disposer, as well, as how to operate the hand and body cleansers you have.  If it were not for Sidhawk, I would have embarrassed myself.” She laughed and shook her head at the memory of trying to figure it out on her own and how she had scared herself thinking she was going to push a button and be sucked into space. “Good night, momma. I am so glad you are here. I promise that I will tell you everything tomorrow.” She promised and then leaned over to kiss her momma’s cheek.

Hailey watched her momma leave before turning serious eyes to Kirrek, Sidhawk and Grace, who would not let either man touch her. “Sidhawk I am so disappointed in you. Kirrek does stupid all the time from what you told me, but I explained my life to you on Earth and you still let him abduct Grace?” she told him. “If I did not have my hands full of this baby, I would have to hit you over the head with something very heavy.”

“Hailey, I do not think you realize the seriousness of what happens to us when we find our Cordisa. We are physically incapable of allowing her to disappear or escape us. We must hold her, touch her, and take her somewhere safe so that we can bond her. That my mate and Kirrek’s is the same person is a little bit of a surprise, as that only happens in cases of twins like Heathrick and Shemrick. They must share a mate. It has something to do with the parasite that inhabits them as embryos. There is scientific explanations, but I do not really know what they are as I am not a twin so had no need to be informed. Kirrek and I share a love bond and have for a thousand years, but” Sidhawk tried to explain, but was cut off by his Cordisa’s high shriek of, “how long?” He was going to turn to her and explain to her the same as he had explained to Hailey, but she held him off. She resettled Zyana, who had fussed, disturbed by Grace’s high pitch.

“Hush, Grace. The baby doesn’t like your tone,” and to Sidhawk, “I got this one Sid. I will talk to her about symbiot’s and the age of your people and the history of the planet, a little later.  Right now, I need to know, what is supposed to happen now?” Hailey asked and looked up to Jarrek.

“Hailey love, have you lost your damn mind looking to a man for an answer? What the hell happened to you?” Grace protested. Looking to a man for answers never helped a woman get anywhere in life. Make your own way and take shit from no one. This way if things go skitters, you had no one to blame, but yourself. Both she and Hailey had subscribed to this philosophy for quite some time.

“I think you are soon to find out, my friend. For now, can we both agree that we are all tired and need a nap before conquering the next problem?” she asked Grace and leaned a little more heavily against Jarrek.

“Yeah, sure luv. I know that being a new mum will exhaust you, but I want my own room.” Grace demanded.

“For tonight I will agree to that. I will not return you to Earth. I know that you do not understand what has happened to you, I will let you sit down with Hailey tomorrow, she can share her story, and you can share yours. Accept that you are now Athrian, as that is what you became the moment my brother took you.” Jarrek told her and then told Kirrek and Sidhawk to escort her to a room for the night and they would revisit everything the next day.

Hailey was a little apprehensive about Jarrek’s decree to Grace, as she knew that Grace was not going to take something like that lying down. She would see it as a challenge to do her best to get back to Earth. “Jarrek are you sure you should let them take her to a room?” she began before Jarrek stopped her.

“Hailey I can feel your anxiety over this. I will put a guard on her door so that they cannot bother her for tonight, and then you can talk to her tomorrow. For now, let us retire to our room and put Zyana to bed before her next feeding. How is that shot working?” He asked Hailey as he began steering her to their rooms. Hailey had been given a shot that would have her milk come in, as she was worried that the baby would need her milk to survive. They had had no children for thousands of years and so she was accurate that they did not have the necessary ingredients to feed a baby. They would have been able to manufacture something approximating a mother’s milk, but from the source was always preferred.

“I think it is working. My breasts are very tender and full right now. I actually want to get to our room to remove this gown. It is starting to restrict my movements and is becoming a little painful.” she told him.

“You should have told me right away, little bird. I would have thrown them all out right away. Nothing is more important than you and Zyana. If you need a moment to get comfortable, then they can wait for you.” Jarrek told her seriously, giving her a small reprimand with a low voice so as not to disturb his daughter.

Tomorrow would bring a new set of problems, but for now, Jarrek and Hailey were happy together, and enjoying the miracle that was Zyana. The rest of the world could pause for a moment while he enjoyed his Goddess given gifts, and if they did not want to wait, he would kill them and then go back to enjoying this time. He was going to have Hailey put Zyana down for a little nap while he showed her just how much he loved her and how happy he was that she had accepted him. His people were looking at an answered prayer when they looked at Hailey. She was everything he had ever desired and more that he did not realize he had needed in his life. After fourteen hundred and fifty years, he let the peace of this moment wash over him. It left him feeling humbled and so in love. He sent his desire for her pulsing through the link and felt her answering desire shoot back into him. He would spend a lifetime worshipping her, giving her his passion and Goddess willing more Cordisa’s for his people.

Annikatalamenaria, Goddess of All Life, or Annika to Hailey watched from her plane of existence, while some of her devoted followers fed her little snacks and brushed her hair. She watched as Jarrek and Hailey made love and heard Jarrek’s final thought, before he slipped into slumber. It was a prayer sent out by many of those onboard the ships just outside of Pluto in Hailey’s galaxy. She could only laugh as she replied, “Careful what you wish for, you may just get it, and it will sock you in the nose!” She had plans for the Athrians. They would thrive as a people once again. Well, only if they are able to convince their Cordisa’s to have them. She was a Goddess, but even that was beyond her purview…