Chapter 246: A Place For Everyone
I slowly came back to my senses, only to realize that I was no longer underwater.
With my eyes still closed, I raised my arms over top of my head, enjoying the gentle stretch. I was sore in all the right places, but the low, throbbing pain only served to remind me of exactly what caused it.
I smiled as I opened my eyes, only to find myself looking up into the worried gaze of Ye’tab.
"What do you need?" he asked, searching my face for something.
I smirked at his question and gripped the back of his head. Pulling him down toward my lips, I was surprised when he tensed up.
"Are you okay?" I asked, looking at him with a worried look on my face. I wouldn’t push him into doing something that he was not comfortable with. After all, it wasn’t like we had gone slowly with the physical aspect of our relationship.
We hadn’t even kissed, and I was already trying to figure out how to get him on top of me... and in me.
Fuck. I groaned as I released the male and flopped back into my nest of furs. It was that time of the month... my ovulation phase. My body wanted a baby, and it didn’t seem to care whether or not anyone else was willing.
I squirmed in the nest, trying to apply some pressure to my clit to make it stop throbbing. I had five mates. Hopefully, at least one of them would be willing to fuck me into oblivion again.
"Your scent changed yesterday," said Da’kea, and I turned my head to look at where he was lounging beside me.
"Probably," I grunted, not really wanting to get into it.
"Midnight satisfied you," continued GA. I looked at him, my eyebrows scrunching in confusion. Was that a question or a statement?
"He did," I assure them. I didn’t see Midnight around. Was there something going on that I didn’t know about?"
The four males in my next let out a collective sigh at that statement. "What do you need?" asked Ye’tab again. I could see his fingers hovering over this wrist unit, ready to record whatever I was supposed to say.
Unfortunately for all of us, I had no idea what answer they were looking for. I knew what I needed, but by the way Ye’tab tensed when I tried to bring him closer meant that at least one of the males would not be willing to satisfy me. Maybe even all four of them.
However, I refused to make things awkward by insisting.
If Midnight wasn’t interested in scratching this itch, I still had enough toys and batteries from Earth to be able to help.
Hopefully.
I looked over at Da’kea.
I had discovered that each male in my group had what seemed to be the perfect ability to give me exactly what I wanted without me even noticing.
Midnight was the funny one, able to relieve the tension in the room or in me without even thinking about it. He was like that best friend that you could always depend on. Even if you needed them to bring a shovel and a jug of bleach.
GA was the nurturer. He looked after each and every one of my physical needs before I even knew what it was that I needed. He made sure I was warm, fed, and went to sleep on time. I loved it. I never had someone care about me as much as he did.
Ye’tab was my nerd, the one that I could go to whenever I had a problem or didn’t know what my next move should be. He always gave me what I needed to make an informed decision.
Tha’juen and I were still learning about each other, but I already knew that he was my muscle. Don’t get me wrong, the other guys were hell in a fight, but he was my knife. I knew I would just have to point to who I wanted dead, and he would do it. No questions asked.
But Da’kea... he was like the dad of the group... in a completely non-creepy way. He protected every one of us, not just me. He took it personally when something didn’t go the way he expected it to, and he always had the answer. Even if it wasn’t one that I wanted. He was the ’official’ head of our family, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I might be a badass bitch, but even I had times when I didn’t want to think or worry about anything. And that was when Da’kea shone.
My eyes found him, and I raised an eyebrow in question. I didn’t know what answers Ye’tab wanted, and I didn’t want to fuck things up more. After all, I was unlike any other female that they had ever met. There was growing pain on both sides sometimes.
"A Saalistaja female that has reached her peak would not want any males around her for two years until the next time she entered her fertile cycle," explained Da’kea, a look of pain crossing his face. "She normally becomes more violent, many times biting any male that approaches her before she is receptive."
I blinked at that information, not sure how I should process it.
Wait...
"Does that mean you guys only get laid every two years?" I asked. I tried to keep the shock out of my voice. I really did. But if they really thought that I was willing to wait two years to experience that again, they had another thing coming. "And where’s Midnight?"
"Laid?" asked Ye’tab, cocking his head to the side at the unfamiliar word.
"No," answered Da’kea just as Tha’juen opened his mouth. "Because he is the one to have brought you to completion, it is customary that he does not go near you until your temper can handle seeing him. This can take up to a year, if not longer, depending on if you conceive an offspring or not."
Not seeing Midnight for over a year and not getting laid for two just because I got off?
Fuck that shit.
"Jun Li," I snarled, not at all impressed with what was going on. I would write it off as a difference in customs, but they had better learn to get on the same page. My page. "Tell Midnight to get his ass in here now."
