Romance: JADEN: An MMA Fighter Romance (Bad Boy Tattoo Romance) (New Adult Pregnancy Short Stories) (52 page)

“So you’re like an eco-ranger?” Amanda asked.

Lee laughed. “You could put it that way. Anyway, two years is the general length of service. It can be dangerous, and it can be difficult, but it’s a one in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be reimbursed a lot of cash, also.”

“But I’d be leaving Earth?”

“For months at a time,” Lee confirmed soberly. “You might be home for up to a month at a time, but you’ll never be gone less than two weeks. This is a full-time job, but it very well may be the most important one you ever have.”

Amanda laughed at the grim statement. “What, are we going to save the universe from the brink of implosion?”

Lee blinked slowly. “Liz and Keith once saved an entire planet from being destroyed by its own radiation. They’ve rescued a few cornerstone species on a few different planet. If Liz hadn’t walked away at the end of her term, she could have been the head of her own Special Force team.”

Amanda’s mouth fell open. “My sister?” Then something Lee said clicked. “Wait, end of her term? You can serve more than two years?”

Lee looked surprised.  “Oh, yes; I’ve known several humans who never returned to Earth for various reasons. Some settled on other planets. I can sympathize. In any case, you can renew your term at any time if you feel it’s a good fit.”

Amanda’s mind was racing with the possibilities.  Unless she was really hallucinating, what Lee was saying was true: she was being given an opportunity to explore the galaxy, and even get paid for it. She could travel and find herself in a way that almost no other human would get to do in her age; who knew what sort of place she might find out she belonged?

“So we’re eco-explorers,” Amanda said. “And I get paid for this? Where do I stay?”

“We have bases around the universe,” Lee explained, and he gestured toward the part of the wall that was still a glossy whiteboard. The stars in his eyes stilled, and the board zoomed in on a grid and enhanced itself, showing a large green dome a chocolate-brown planet that appeared to be called Arzemiya. “This one has twenty luxury cabins on each of its six levels.” The picture on the whiteboard changed to show what looked suspiciously like an expensive hotel room on earth: low, flat beds in muted greens and blues with a spacious bathroom sporting a sunken tub and some sort of television screen in front of a very round toilet.

“All of our accommodations will be generally familiar to you,” Lee explained as Amanda watched the screen cycle through photos of the inside of the dome. “They resemble what are normally called resorts on Earth. Comfortable rooms, entertainment sectors, lounges, meals en suite, if you prefer. But you’ll see other humans, as well as species from other planets, like mine.”

Amanda tore her eyes away from the screen and was startled to find that lee was already looking at her expectantly. “What planet are you from?”

“Arzemiya,” Lee said. “But I’ve lived off-world most of my life. I’ll be introducing you to my council there. Please understand,” he begged when he saw the panicked look on her face, “your family was chosen fifty years ago, when this program was begun; your name has been on a list since birth. You were meant to have much more time to process this, and I’m very sorry you don’t have it. I’ve been studying human culture my whole life, so even though my species might find some of your tendencies to form attachments odd or worth dismissing, I don’t. I understand. Please believe that.” His exasperated tone of voice pierced Amanda’s heart, and she found his concern endearing and heartbreaking at the same time. She decided several things at once, and the anxiety in her stomach lightened.

“It’s okay, Lee,” she said calmly. “I’m still going to do it.”

His mouth dropped open, but Lee recovered himself quickly. “You are? I mean, that’s excellent! Thank you!” His relief was painfully apparent, and Amanda wanted to laugh. “Thank you so much. Liz said you’d be excited, and that you’d always been adaptable.”

“I have,” she admitted. “I was always the one to roll with the punches when we changed schools. I don’t know if you’re aware, but I’m pretty used to moving around every few years.”

Lee dipped his head bashfully. “I know a lot about you, Amanda. Your sister should have been the one to tell you this, but I know…quite a bit about you. I was given a huge dossier on your life, and…” he cleared his throat, and the embarrassment on his features was as clear as day. The stars in his incredible eyes were zooming around the blackness of his sockets, and Amanda thought they must respond to his heart rate. He took a deep breath and started to speak again.

“Like I said, I’ve lived off-world most of my life, but I still know my home planet. I go back every few years, I’ve taken years worth of video tours, read all the texts available, taken courses…what I mean to say is, I know very few other things as well as I know Arzemiya…but you’re definitely one of them.” He raised his head and met her gaze, and current of lust flooded her body so quickly that a soft gasp was torn from her lips.

That’s why he’s so comfortable with me, she realized. He knows me already. He’s been following along.

“I’m sorry if that makes you uncomfortable,” Lee said nervously. “But it’s true. My people don’t really respect privacy as such, and they handed it to me without thinking.  I admit that even after I found out about the concept of journals and diaries and spying on Earth, I still read it. I’m ashamed, but I wanted to know everything about you that I could, because I believed it would help foster a bond with you, and I could find the same happiness Keith found with Liz, but avoid his mistakes.”

“Mistakes?” Amanda asked, wrinkling her brow.

Lee looked startled, then nodded his head. “Right, you don’t know the truth about Keith. His mistake was trying to rush her into permanently staying off world. He said later he should have known about her fear of commitment. But it wasn’t until much later that I realized how much more you value your privacy over any bond I might try to make.”

Amanda stared at him, trying to formulate a response from the whirlwind of emotion in her head. “I…I’m not mad,” she said finally. “Really,” she added to the look of surprise on his handsome face. “I understand we have cultural differences. And my sister is right, I take things in stride better than most people I know. So I’m not mad. I just need to…take my mind off this right now. Maybe think about something else for a while.” She dropped her eyes after Lee nodded sympathetically.

A few moments later, she looked up to see that Lee was still meeting her gaze, and she didn’t know how, but she felt like this was the time to make clear her other decision. If he knew all about her, then he must already know what she was going to bring up.

“Lee,” she said cautiously. “Would you do me a favor?” She unzipped her hoodie, and noted with satisfaction that his eyes flickered down to the cleavage pressing against her royal blue tank top.

Lee smiled hesitantly as he watched her stand and pull the edges of her shirt up and over her head. “What’s…what can I do for you, Amanda?” He was trying and failing to keep his gaze level with hers as she unhooked her bra and let her enormous breasts spill free from her red bra.

“I’m sure you know, I’ve never had sex before,” she said conversationally. Lee’s mouth dropped open slightly as she pushed her jeans over her wide hips, then tugged her red panties down over the thickness of her thighs. “And since I’m probably not going to be around that many humans…” she bit her lip and shrugged, watching the slow smile on Lee’s face get wider by the second.

“You want me to…stamp your V-Card, I think I should say?” Lee asked, and as he rose, he pushed his silky black pants over his muscled hips. “I would be honored. I’m sure you noticed me noticing you, and I’m not going to pretend I haven’t developed a certain…fondness for you.”

Amanda’s eyes widened as his cock—long and thick and already dripping with a silvery precum—sprang from the waistband of his pants.

The smile on his face was satisfied and eager. Lee gripped the base of his thick cock with one hand and dragged his starlit gaze up and down Amanda’s curvy body, lingering on the black curls covering her vulva a little longer than the rest of her body. He licked his lips, and the stars in his eyes were swirling faster than she’d seen them move all night. “Do you want to get on the couch? We don’t have a lot of time. We can use a bed next time—if you want there to be a next time!” His voice was chock full of anxiety. “But there’s no bed in here. Like I said, we can use the couch. Then we can change, there’s a—“

Amanda moved forward and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him down to press her lips against the fullness of his. He moaned in surprise, then slipped his arms around her waist and pushed her on the couch, falling on top of her as he tangled his tongue with hers. He tasted curiously smoky, as though his blood were made of flame instead of liquid—and it might have been so, based on the urgency of his actions.

Amanda had hardly spread her thighs by the time he gripped her waist and pressed his slick, round head against the moist opening of her pussy. She shivered and closed her eyes as he pressed his hips forward, groaning in pleasure as her walls swallowed up his meaty shaft.

“God,” she breathed, arching her back and throwing her breasts forward as he began to plunge his member between her thick thighs. He planted a trail of hot, wet kisses from her neck to her breasts, stopping to suck her nipple into his mouth and roll his tongue around its point until it grew erect, and she cried out sharply in ecstasy. Amanda moaned deliriously as his long cock reached places only her fingers had gone before, stretching and filling her deliciously.

“Amanda,” Lee moaned, throwing his gorgeous head back as his stroke increased in speed. He was pulling on her black curls with one hand, and when he looked down at her, she could swear he wore a look of complete devotion. “You’re so fucking beautiful.”

He was thrusting harder, his breath becoming ragged and quick as waves of pleasure enveloped their writhing bodies. The sounds of his body slapping against hers was all she could hear under their ecstatic moans. The head of his cock was brushing against Amanda’s g-spot, and as he thrust his hips passionately to match her wild bucking, her pleasure started to build toward a peak.

“Lee, God, you’re amazing!” Amanda moaned. He kissed her passionately, massaging her tongue as he grunted into her mouth. She twisted his hair between her fingers as he beat her body against the soft couch, her hand sliding across the sweat beading on his glowing skin. His warm hands slipped under her body and gripped the flesh of her thick, soft ass, and Amanda screamed with pleasure as he pumped his hips against hers, holding her body in place while he drove his thick cock into her pussy again and again.

“I’m coming!” he moaned into her neck, and Amanda thought, already? But then he started to rocket between her legs, grinding his weight against her sensitive, fleshy clit as she slammed his cock deep inside her. He walls tightened around his shaft, and she dug her nails into his back, gripping his hips with her thighs as he pounded her pussy and neared his release.

When he came, Lee gripped her soft waist with both hands and buried his cock as far into Amanda’s thrashing body as he could go, shouting his pleasure to the stars as his essence exploded inside her. Amanda herself was screaming as her pussy twitched around his throbbing cock, rubbing her swollen clit with one finger to intensify her pleasure. They rocked their hips against one another a few more times, moaning weakly and kissing their sore lips gently as their lust receded.

“Wow,” Amanda said as he stilled inside her. “That was…”

“Wow,” Lee replied, and he smiled softly as he gazed down her, smoothing her curls away from her face. “You’re just…wow.”

They both laughed, and eventually they laughed so hard they rolled off the couch and onto the padded floor. Lee bent over her, concerned, until she assured him she was okay, and somehow he ended up laying on top of her again, sheathed inside her while he stroked lazily and watched her moan. It proved too soon to go again, however, so he stopped and kissed her before pulling out again.

“It was good for you, right?” he asked. “I didn’t hurt you?”

Amanda shook her head, and the smile on his face lit up his and face and warmed her heart.

After he pulled out of her, she lay on her back feeling the cool foamy material under her skin and watching the stars zoom across the transparent ceiling for a long time.  Space was so incredibly black and mind-bogglingly enormous; how had she been afraid that there wouldn't be something out there for her? She thought about what Lee had said, about renewing your term of service if you felt like it was a good fit. No one would make her leave if she didn’t want to; and by the sound of the program, she couldn’t imagine herself walking away from an opportunity like this. Lee’s eager passion was a definite bonus, and she blushed remembering how easy she had spread her legs for him, how slick with excited juices her thighs had become. Lee was beautiful and confident, but there was something else there, pulling her to him— something unique and deep and utterly intoxicating. He felt it too, judging by the way be looked at her and the way he said her name; coming from his lips, every Earth world sounded delicious and exotic.

Just then, Amanda felt a warm, gentle pressure on her stomach and looked up to find Lee grinning at her from his side with one hand on her waist, the twinkling pinpoints in his eyes swirling around at dizzying speeds.  He leaned over and kissed her, nibbling her lower lip before he pulled away and resumed his position on his side. His grin was breathtaking, transforming his entire face into a perfect expression of joy and admiration. Amanda could hardly believe it was for her. It felt like she was witnessing a natural wonder that had been gathering together and presented purely for her benefit. It was like the planetarium, but somehow more vibrant.