"I'm glad we were saved." Tara said quietly.
Hope worried how Tara was coping since she wasn't usually a quiet person. She usually thought through problems out loud.
"We will be fine Tara." Hope squeezed her in a bear hug.
"I think you are leaving out something about that big man." JP said. "Why aren't we all sleeping with the others, why the special privileges?"
Ugh, it was just like JP. He would needle her till he had every detail to his satisfaction.
"Because I fucked him." Hope said bluntly.
Tara gasped.
"You did what?!" JP demanded. "You got some alien strange?"
"Holy shit Hope!" Tara snorted.
Hope was happy she'd been able to shock Tara out of her funky mood.
"Apparently I triggered some crazy alien mating heat in Viper and now we're alien married!" Hope shook her head still in shock herself. It felt good to get it off her chest.
"We let you go on vacation and not just the clinic, but the whole damn world falls apart. You get freaky with some giant alien knight in shining armor and then marry him. You are grounded Hope!" JP ranted.
"I didn't marry him, apparently it just is because his hormones say I'm the one!" Hope told them throwing up her hands in exasperation at the whole affair.
"So did you know what you were doing?" Tara asked.
"No, Viper sort of went all wild and came at me." She admitted.
"I want all the dirty details, and I mean all of them!" JP demanded and Hope groaned.
"Well remember I said I tried to escape." They nodded. "It apparently threw his hunting and mating instinct into overdrive."
"Don't tell me that's what you meant about the cuffs!" Tara screeched.
"I should've known Tara would catch that." Hope muttered to herself. She hadn't planned on admitting that part.
"Yes." Hope replied hesitantly.
"Oh girl that's kinky."
"No its rape JP!" Tara said angrily. "Is that why you have that nasty bite on your neck?!"
Of course the doctor noticed that. Tara was pissed. Hope liked how she was mad on her behalf, but for some reason she didn't want them to think Viper was a monster. He'd rescued them and despite the wild interlude he'd been a gentleman.
"Look I know it sounds really awful but, Viper really wasn't himself and his crew was worried Viper would fatally injure me, since he wouldn't realize I was more delicate than their women if I tried to fight him off."
"Of course you'd fight!" Tara huffed.
"Yes but apparently when their men go into heat, their women do too, so they don't fight the men." Hope tried to explain. "You should have seen Viper. He was like an angry beast when he heard me cry. He almost broke down one of those metal doors."
Hope recalled how Viper was more enraged by her cries and only calmed when she did. It was sort of sweet that he fought to reach her, in an Animal Planet sort of way.
"One of those thick ass doors?" JP pointed and Hope nodded. "Shit he was pissed!"
"Yeah. Anyway I was super freaked out, but then well, it was mind blowing, although I'm completely ruined for other men now." Hope's cheeks heated as she admitted she'd enjoyed part of what had happened.
Just thinking about Viper curled over her back, caging her, his mouth latched onto her as he rutted, had Hope's blood boiling. His bite hurt but the chemical lust had added to her physical arousal creating a perfect storm.
"Did you not hear the part about ALL THE DETAILS!" JP demanded.
"I don't like that you were tied down." Tara ignored JP's dirty inquiry as she examined Hope's bite, probing it gently.
Hope agreed part of it had been terrifying, but she didn't want her friend to fly off the handle at Viper.
"I'm fine. Besides the bite he was rather gentle." Hope fibbed attempting to comfort her friend.
"DETAILS WOMAN!" JP demanded again.
"I am not describing his cock for you." Hope told the man.
"Look if I'm not getting any you can at least throw me a bone and tell me about it!" JP insisted.
"Fine its ribbed for her pleasure, and I came three times so hard my voice broke and I almost passed out. When he came he swelled up so big we were stuck together for hours."
"Shut up, you are fucking with me!" JP pushed Hope's good shoulder.
Thankfully the door chimed saving her from further embarrassment.
"Enter." Hope said.
Acris entered balancing several trays. Hope hopped up to help her.
"No my Uxorem. Please let me." Acris said shyly as she managed to set them down on the table without incident. "Do you require anything else?"
"No, but why don't you stay Acris." Hope asked the shy woman.