Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 67092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 335(@200wpm)___ 268(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 67092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 335(@200wpm)___ 268(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
“The fangs, I guess.” She looked up at him, her lovely pale blue eyes swimming with tears. “You’re right, Raak—we have to go back. We have to ask Qi to make my fangs grow out again. I know you’re willing to help me as much as you can, but I’m exhausted. And you must be getting lockjaw by now from, uh, licking me so much.”
She blushed pink as she spoke, which made his heart twist again.
“Well, I will admit you’re testing my endurance.” Raak massaged the sides of his jaw with one hand ruefully. “But I’ll keep going as long as you need me to—I love tasting your pussy, Kara. You know that.”
“I know.” Her blush deepened. “But you’re right—we can’t live like this. These attacks are happening more and more frequently and we can’t spend the rest of our lives in bed.”
“Well if we had to, you’re the one I’d want to spend mine with,” Raak told her, grinning tiredly. “But I think I’d better set us a course for Xephron Five. We need to get back to Qi as soon as possible.”
“Yes.” Kara sighed and then gave a sharp little moan.
Raak’s senses were on high alert—by now he knew all the signs of an impending essence attack, so he knew exactly what that little cry of pain meant.
“Is it coming on again?” he asked her anxiously. “You need me to lick you some more, sweetheart?”
Kara winced and nodded.
“Yes, but I can…can wait while you set a course for Xephron Five,” she told him. “Go on, Raak—I’ll be okay.” She winced again. “For a little while, anyway.”
“I’ll hurry,” Raak promised her. He jumped off the sleeping platform and ran to the front of the ship to lay in a course to the “disco ball planet.”
He only hoped they could get there before Kara was in so much pain he couldn’t help her anymore.
Twenty-Nine
“Because you are in my Palace of the Unseen and have eaten of my xanthos, you can, of course, cause your fangs to return to their normal configuration,” Qi said, from his invisible perch somewhere ten feet or so above them.
“Oh, thank you!” Kara had never thought she’d be so glad to hear that her fangs would be long and sharp—exactly the way they’d been before she messed with them.
She’d been reluctant when Raak first suggested coming back to Xephron Five to get the process reversed. But the constant shooting pains in her most sensitive areas had convinced her that she would much rather have prominent fangs than the feeling she was being electrocuted all the time.
She had eagerly taken off her clothes to enter the invisible palace and had willingly swallowed the biggest, squishiest xanthos ball she could find the minute the invisible plant alien produced them. Anything to be rid of this awful agony!
“I want my fangs back,” she said, closing her eyes and concentrating hard. “Make them grow back just like they were.”
At once she felt the familiar itching-tingling sensation in her upper jaw right where her canine teeth should be. To her relief, when she explored the area with the tip of her tongue, she felt the long, sharp tips of her fangs just where they should be.
“It worked!” she told Raak, who was sitting, quiet and invisible beside her. “They’re back—now we can go back to normal!”
“I am afraid not,” Qi said with a rustling of its invisible leaves.
“What?” Kara looked up into the empty air, wishing she could see the invisible alien to get some idea of what it was talking about. “What do you mean? My fangs are back—everything should go back to normal, right?”
The invisible leaves rustled again.
“Regrettably, reversing the process may not solve your problem,” Qi murmured in its soft voice. “Only time will tell, but such a drastic physical change is not without consequences, even when you seek to correct it.”
“Are you telling me I got my fangs back for nothing?” Kara demanded, her heart sinking.
“Not for nothing,” Qi assured her. “For at least now you have the means to fix that which was broken.”
“What? I don’t understand. Oh!” Kara gasped. To her horror, she felt the now-familiar sensation of electrical shocks running through her nipples and pussy.
“What is it, baby girl?” Raak asked anxiously. Though he was invisible, Kara could almost see the concern in his dark, silver-ringed eyes. “Is it happening again? Another attack?”
“Yes.” Kara didn’t trust herself to say any more than that. She felt like crying. Why had she gone to the trouble to grow her hated fangs back out if it wasn’t going to solve her problem? And what was she going to do?
“It’s okay, Kara. We’re going to get through this somehow,” Raak rumbled. He squeezed her hand, offering her strength. “And I’ll be by your side, every step of the way—I promise.”