Deep Penetration; Alien Breeders I by Stacey St. James Page A

no
misunderstandings,” he murmured, “she’s off-limits until I’ve bred
her.”
    Shock rolled over Emerald. She gaped
at him, wondering a little wildly if she’d misheard him.
    “ Gods damn it, Tariq!
She’s barely two days out of the pod! You know damned well she’s
still too fragile and weak for breeding! You’ll end up killing her
and your babe with her!” Koryn growled,
switching abruptly to their own language.
    Tariq’s face
hardened. “Have I ever given you reason to
believe I’m deficient in understanding?”
    Koryn blushed. “I’m not questioning your intelligence or your
judgment—in any other matter! Don’t talk to me as if I’m mentally deficient!
Do you think I didn’t notice you could barely contain yourself
until she was fully developed and ready to be released from the
growth pod?”
    Tariq flushed. “How the fuck did you manage to notice anything
when you’ve been hovering over her pod yourself?”
    “ I was doing my
job !” Koryn responded tightly.
    “ Tell that to someone who
doesn’t know you as well as I do!” Tariq
said derisively.
    Koryn stared at him
angrily for several moments . “I won’t deny
I desire her.”
    “ Good! Because you’d be
wasting your fucking breath!” Tariq
snarled, striding to the beverage dispenser. He hesitated over
selecting nizsum and finally settled on a mild wine, annoyed that he’d even
considered the nizsum . Then again, Koryn was right. From the moment he’d first
seen Emerald, he’d thought of little else besides possessing her.
Abstinence was hellish enough without having a desirable woman
close enough to smell her scent and not being able to do anything
about it.
    “ She isn’t ready,
Tariq.”
    Tariq turned to study him
for a long moment before he focused on Emerald. “I know that,” he said almost
mildly. “I just wanted to make sure that
you understood our friendship won’t save you if you touch her
before I’ve bred her .” He met Koryn’s gaze
for a long moment.
    “ And after you’ve bred
her? Will you give her to me?”
    Tariq’s face hardened. He
looked away, struggling to get his temper under control. Reminding
himself that a pretense of indifference was the only way he was
likely to pull off what he wanted didn’t help. He didn’t feel fucking
indifferent! He wanted to choke the life out of Koryn for touching
her at all. “I’ll let you fuck
her.”
    “ You mean to keep her?
She’s human. You know, regardless of the circumstances—or your
position—the council would never allow you to take her as a
concubine.”
    Tariq sent him a startled
look since it hadn’t occurred to him even to consider taking her as
a concubine and then glanced at Emerald. She might be a pureblood and a desirable woman, but she was
human, not Anunnaki. Granted, some of the
old ones had, but that was long, long ago
and the main reason it was frowned upon now. They were simple
creatures, however desirable, and hadn’t acclimated well to their
world or their customs and beyond that, their own women had been
outraged and made such a fuss that the council had reversed their
stance on taking Earth women as concubines. They hadn’t outlawed
it, but they’d made it damned difficult on those who had, and no
one had even tried it for years.
    The only possible
explanation for Koryn’s assumption as far as he could see was that
it had occurred
to him, which didn’t improve his mood and deepened his suspicion
that Koryn’s guilty start when he’d come in arose from what he’d
been thinking about doing, even if he hadn’t acted on it. “That and the fact that you’re my best friend is
the only reason I’ll allow you to fuck her at all,” Tariq growled.
    “ When you tire of her,
then?”
    Tariq flicked a hard
glance at him and finally shrugged. “I’ve
no heirs,” he said dryly, studying the
wine in his glass. “I’ll want to breed
more than one on her.”
    “ So what you’re saying is
that you intend to use our friendship to