Free Invasion of Her Heart by Trinity Blacio, Ana Lee Kennedy Page A

Volund’s sapin.
    The contractions grew more intense. He shouted his release as he came in her. She screamed out her pleasure, her face pressed into the moss, hips rigid and in the air as he pumped into her again and again, his essence coursing out of him, filling her recesses.
    “Oh, my…!” she squealed. She lowered her ass and then bucked again. “Ungh!” A smaller climax hit Volund. He grunted and coaxed the last of his
    seed into Venus.
    Panting, she relaxed against the ground, and Volund collapsed on top of her. “You and your brother,” she gasped, “are going to wear me out.”
    “I’ve never had a lover like you.” He withdrew from her and rolled to one side. She raised her head to look at him. “Really?”
    Laughing, he flicked a piece of lichen off her cheek and then her chin. “Yes, my sweet. Even in lovemaking you are a little warrior.”
    “You must warn Jaxxon not to lord over me. I was brought up to believe a man and woman were equal partners in a relationship.”
    He nodded. “I like that idea.”
    She stretched out and giggled at the remains of her hunting perch. “Are we safe here?” Volund asked.
    “For a while.” She looked around and nodded to Tonto and the two pets in the shade of an evergreen. “Like you said earlier, they’ll warn us if anything comes around.”
    Venus grew quiet, her worried gaze wandering over the landscape. A sigh escaped her, one full of trepidation. He frowned. Something bothered his new mate.
    “What is wrong, little warrior?”
    “I don’t expect you to understand.”
    “Try telling me,” he said. “You might be surprised.”
    Her gaze moved from the field to the limbs overhead and finally settled on Volund. “It bothers me that Dr. Zeon is dead. He was a good man as well as a good friend, so I suspect he had to have been returning this way to warn me of something.”
    “What do you think it was?” “I have no idea.”
    They lay quietly together, her hand stroking his upper arm, his hand palming the curve of her hip. Although hot, the wind served to dry the perspiration from their bodies, and Volund enjoyed the notion that he once more had someone to love. Since Zi-Ahda’s death, it had been a long road of misery for him, but somehow he sensed Zi-Ahda would approve of Venus.
    “How will you find others to help re-populate the Earth?” Venus asked suddenly as she wiggled backward and pressed her bare ass into Volund’s tilk.
    He closed his eyes as his sapin twitched, but it had been sated for the time being. “We are time travelers. We’ll go back in time to bring good stock or extractees back to this period.”
    She twisted so she could look up at him. “Isn’t that cruel?”
    He raised both eyebrows. What an odd question! “Cruel? How so?”
    “I think it’s wrong to bring someone from say 1700 to here, where it’s all desolation, hardship, and littered with dangers such as the Bone Eaters.”
    “Ah,” he replied. “We won’t bring anyone back against their will.”
    “But should you tell them the truth. No one will want to come here to my time.” “You’d be surprised what hells are worse than this place,” he said.
    Venus sucked in a breath, sat up suddenly, and then scooted around to face him. “Can you bring my parents back?” A huge grin spread across her face. “You can, can’t you!” She stood and snatched her frayed garments out from under a broken support beam and quickly donned them. “We can go back and get my parents, then I can be with them again, and they can work on fixing the problems caused by the virus!” Venus tied the remains of her T-shirt between her breasts. “Come on, Volund. What are we waiting for? Let’s go tell Jaxxon.”
    “Venus, time travel doesn’t work the way you think it does,” Volund began. He sensed where this discussion was going and it pained him that she would undoubtedly be hurt and extremely angry with him. “We can’t go back to get your parents.”
    She retrieved the