Coriolis by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade [Jade, Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction romance
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2019-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The furious thunder of his heartbeat against her knuckles where she gripped the central strap of his wetsuit reverberated into a secret pulse of desire that arrowed between her legs. She held back a moan. He hadn’t even speared her yet, and already she ached deep inside. His wetsuit left little enough to the imagination that she had no doubt she could take her pleasure there.

And give it too, if the rise going on between his legs was any indication of how badly he wanted it. But he was a virgin, if she understood his personal history and Tritonan relationship issues correctly. With all their women contained to the deep-sea trenches and all of their men at war, there would’ve been little opportunity for him. Plus, according to their rituals, not every Tritonyri was permitted to attempt their mating season dives into the trenches. Between war and tradition and his own sense of duty, Coriolis was not the sort to notch his belt with one-night stands.

A twinge of guilt almost stopped her. As far as she could tell, he was the equivalent of a prince among his people, sacrificed for their planetary survival. But his impassioned if not actually poetical request for this encounter tempted her more than any other consideration could dissuade her. He knew enough to know what he’d been missing, and now he wanted it, just as she did.

She could thank the Cretarni at least for crafting a convincing enough IDA contract to ensure that Coriolis had arrived on Earth not just with extra universal translators but with the basic inoculations given to all galactic citizens to deal with common infections and unintended fertility. Of her various affairs, some of them even international, strangely—considering she was on a different planet, with an alien—this one seemed the most thoughtful.

With another tug on his strap, less gentle this time, she brought him onto the bed with her. When she’d tested the thin mattress earlier with a little bounce, she’d wandered how well she would sleep on it.

Now that she knew she wouldn’t be sleeping, she didn’t care at all.

Knee to knee with him, she gazed up into his turbulent gray eyes. “Would you like to kiss me? Not to serve, but to share.”

His throat rippled as he swallowed hard against some curtailed emotion. “I’ve thought of little else since you put your mouth on mine.”

A flutter of nerves made her hesitate. “I wasn’t even sure that Tritonans kiss,” she admitted. “I didn’t do all the reading. I know I should have—Lana even highlighted the good parts—but…”

He reached up to brush one fingertip across her lips, wiping away her urge to keep babbling. “Tritonans kiss. Sharing air is an act of faith with us. It’s an instinctive reflex between mother and spawnling, a gesture of fealty between a Tritonesse-ra and her tribe, a life-saving measure between a Tritonyri and an injured fighter.”

“But you can breathe underwater.”

“We still need the air—the oxygenated gas—within the water. Our word for water is

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