Thank you The Read Celt for beta reading the story.
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He could hardly wait to get home that evening. As soon as he did, he sat down on the couch and started to search the extranet for information about humans, their culture, anatomy and mating practices. He studied pictures and charts of female body parts with particular interest. The concept of breasts was especially difficult to comprehend. Of course, he'd seen them on asari and human females, covered by cloth, but had never seen them in their natural form before. Since their main function was to feed their young, he didn't expect them to be something that would come into play during mating, but he was surprised to find that human males found them absolutely irresistible.
He clicked on a link, a video popped up on the screen of his omni-tool, and suddenly, loud music and the sound of lustful moans filled his apartment. A male and a female were writhing on a bed, both of them naked, kissing, while the man's hand traveled down the female's chest and started to squeeze and massage her breast. Judging from the sounds she made, she greatly enjoyed his ministrations, and when he bent down and took her nipple in his mouth, she arched her back and her groans got even louder.
Nalik tilted his head to the side, as if he could peek under his lips and see what exactly he was doing, but the next moment the man's mouth left the little pink nub and started to trail kisses down her belly, further and further down, until he came to the junction between her legs. He pushed her thighs open, settled down between them, and started to kiss and lick her seam. Apparently she liked this even better, because she let out a loud moan and bucked her hips into his mouth. The man seemed to enjoy all this a great deal, too, if the sounds he made were anything to go by.
Nalik found all this incredibly fascinating, and the more he watched, the more natural everything started to feel. Blood began to pool in his groin and by the time the couple got to the part where he was on top of her again, pressing into her opening, he unconsciously reached inside his pants and started to stroke his own shaft in rhythm with their movements. His moans joined with theirs, his heart beat faster than ever, and his breathing got ragged and shallow. He almost reached his peak when suddenly his omni-tool started to buzz and a notification flashed urgently over the video. He frantically began to search for the correct buttons to turn the vid off—ordinarily, he would have found all the interface options in a second even if blindfolded, but under these circumstances he had to fumble for a while before he calmed down enough to accomplish this simple task.
"Nalik!" A salarian female's face finally appeared on the screen, looking into his eyes with impatient scorn.
"M...mother!" he stuttered, still out of breath, desperately trying to look normal.
"What's wrong? Are you sick?"
"No, I'm fine."
"You don't look fine to me. Are you eating well? Do you have a fever? Did you work too late again?" Her gaze burnt through the screen as she examined the color and shine of his eyes, the flush of his skin, his rapid breathing—anything she could catch through the flickering display while she rattled off her questions.
"Everything is fine. No need to worry." He smoothed down his tunic and tried to look as nonchalant as he could under the circumstances. Why did she have to call right now?!
"All right," she sighed. Of course, she didn't believe him, but she knew better than to try to get any more information out of him. "Nalik, I have important news. Good news. Our dalatrass has been in negotiations with a very good family, and we are extremely close to reaching an agreement with them to sign a reproduction contract. This is a perfect match, Nalik. Of course, if you were willing to go back to school and finish your studies, we could find an even better mate." She couldn't resist nagging him about that point.
"Mother, I am not going back to school. And I am not interested in a reproduction contract."
She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You're surely not serious! You won't get a better chance than this, Nalik!"
"I don't care. I have somebody else." Whether or not it was a good idea to share this bit of information with his mother, it slipped out, and all he could do now was to square his shoulders and prepare for the admonishment.
"What did you say?!"
"I have a girlfriend."
"You have a what?"
"I have a girlfriend. She's human," he repeated. He sounded positively proud.
"Nalik!" She clutched her chest, looking absolutely horrified. "I can't believe...
"Sorry, can't hear you. Something wrong with the feed. Hello? Hello?" He pushed some buttons to scramble the vid and the sound, then cut them off altogether.
"All right. Where were we?" He grinned, satisfied, and started the extranet back up again.
His mother turned the feed off with a sigh, knowing all too well that once he'd made up his mind, there was no argument that would make him come around.
"Gartin," she called out to her assistant. "Put a call through to Eran Dutas. I am in need of his services."
"I hope you like wine," Nalik said, holding out the Chardonnay as he entered Alice's apartment. According to his research, it was customary to bring a bottle when you were invited to a dinner by a human host, and he had asked the turian chef at Zakera Café for recommendations. He was pleased to see Alice smile as she took the drink and put it on the table, already set with plates and silverware and glasses.
"Yes, thank you," she replied. "And I got some salarian food for you. I hope you'll like it."
"Mmm... Smells good," he said, sniffing the air.
"I'm glad." She beamed at him, then took a step closer, put her arms around his waist and buried her face in his chest. "I missed you so much while I was away."
He wondered what he was supposed to do in this situation (the extranet vids had not shown any scenarios like this), so he decided to copy a gesture he'd seen humans do when they tried to comfort each other: he patted her shoulder and murmured, "I missed you, too..."
She squeezed him tighter, then turned her face up and pressed her lips to his. Now this was familiar; she had kissed him once like this two nights ago. His reaction, however, was different this time: instead of shock, he felt excitement and warmth in his belly now. When her tongue darted out and began to trace his mouth, he parted his lips and her tongue slid in. This was nice. Really nice.
Her hands moved up, stroking his back through the fabric, and he mirrored her actions as he left her lips and kissed her neck, delighting in the way it made her gasp and pull him even closer. She smelled like flowers, and holding her in his arms was like embracing warmth and contentment and pure bliss. He never would have thought that attraction to a female would feel this good; a soft rumble erupted in his chest, reverberating through her body, and blood started to rush to his groin as he ran his fingers up and down her back.
Her stomach trembled when she noticed his growing erection through his pants, and she decided that dinner could wait. She stepped back, took his hand and led him to the bedroom.
He offered no resistance, no matter how hard his heart was beating, and when she began to undo the clasps of his clothes, he joined in the effort, getting undressed as quickly as he could. Once he was bare, he turned his attention to her clothing. She was wearing a dress that zipped up in the back, and a bra and panties underneath. He took great joy in removing them all and exposing her to his inquisitive fingers as he ghosted them along her smooth, warm skin. He slowly approached her breasts and squeezed them, just like he'd seen in the vids.
She puffed out a soft sigh and quivered at his touch, then she pulled him down on the bed with her, making him curve his body over hers. He put his weight on one arm while he explored her chest with the other hand. He loved the way she arched her back when he fondled her breast, and the way her flesh felt under his fingers. Soon, however, he decided that it was time to go onto the next step, so he bent down and took her nipple in his mouth to swirl his tongue around it. He couldn't have been happier with her reaction: she let out a ragged moan, clutched his horns and held onto them tight as he kissed and sucked the little nub. He started to understand why human males liked this part of a female's body so much— he couldn't get enough of massaging and licking the soft mound himself.
It felt absolutely wonderful to have him worship her like that, but she wanted more, so she took his hand and moved it down, over her stomach and pubic bone, then finally to the apex between her legs. She pushed his palm against her seam and parted her thighs for him. Her breathing hitched and her hips bucked into his hand as he started to explore her; pushing a finger inside her folds, he circled around the small bud that he found there. She felt hot and wet and the little noises she made as he stroked her made him feel like he could do this the whole night— just to make her happy, and to feel her trembling hands hold onto him with all her might.
Her other hand finally released his horn and moved down along his body, caressing his cool skin. She searched out his arousal, and when she found it, it was his turn to moan and rumble as her fingers wrapped around him and started to move up and down along his length.
"Nalik" she whispered, "I want you inside me."
She moved her hand to his waist to pull him over herself and he obliged, positioning his shaft at her entrance. His heart was beating faster than he'd thought possible as he pushed in with one smooth thrust. She sucked in a ragged breath as her tight inner walls clamped down around him, and she kissed him as he started to move in and out, slowly, with long and deep strokes. He soon picked up pace and pressure and she rocked her hips against his, meeting each thrust with her own as they developed a rhythm while her fingers traveled up and down his back and her moans mingled with his. Their movements became faster, harder, their breathing got more ragged as they raced towards their release, and when she finally came, crying out his name, her channel spasming around his shaft, he soon followed with a loud grunt, spilling his seed inside her in bursts. He buried his face in her shoulder and held her tight.
"I love you, Nalik," she whispered, stroking his back.
"I love you, too," he replied, and he meant it. He'd never imagined that one day he'd feel this way, but at that moment he realized that being with this human was all he needed to make him whole, and he knew without a doubt that he wanted to be with her for the rest of his life.
"Nalik," she said when he eventually pulled out and settled down beside her, "Maybe we should go and have that dinner now. Are you hungry?"
"I'm famished." He grinned at her and took her hand in his.
"Let's go eat, then. Afterwards, we could play some Alliance Corsair. And then... will you stay for the night?'
"Definitely. I could organize your kitchen cabinets while you sleep, if you want."
"Whatever makes you happy," she chuckled as she reached for her clothes.