Did he just say let’s go get naked and have wild sex? Yes. Yes, I think he did. I rubbed my thumb over his bottom lip and answered in the language my beast seemed to know best.
“Mine, Kai. You’re mine.”
14
Larkspur
* * *
Kai carried me to our quarters like a man on a mission, completely ignoring every greeting or question thrown at us along the way.
I didn’t mind. After having that thing inside my head, I needed to feel something else, anything else. I needed my mate to make me feel alive. Safe. Not alone.
The curse of the Nexus unit’s mental touch was a feeling of complete and total isolation, of being locked inside my own mind, trapped behind a door I could not open while he controlled my body, my movements, and forced thoughts into my head I knew were not mine, but could not stop.
He transformed as he walked. By the time the door to our private quarters slid closed and locked behind us, I wasn’t facing Kai, the Atlan male. No, I was dealing with an enraged, volatile beast.
He settled me on my feet and stripped me immediately, not being gentle or shy about it. When I stood completely naked, I half expected him to pounce. Instead, his massive hands roamed every exposed inch of my skin. Was he looking for injuries? The Nexus unit was inside my head, not shooting me with a blaster.
“Kai, I’m not hurt. I’m fine.”
“Mate. Mine. Nexus.”
“Yes. He’s gone now. We’re okay. We’re both okay.” I had no idea what was going on in my mate’s head, but whatever it was couldn’t be good. He’d been captured by one of those things. Tortured. Now that I’d felt the strength of the Nexus’s mind, awe filled me that Kai had been able to survive at all. My big, strong beast. My Atlan mate. Not only had the Nexus unit tormented him mentally, but performed painful surgeries, integrated physical body to enhance the Hive’s control.
“Mine. Now.” The beast’s cock was long and hard, dripping with pre-cum. My body responded instantly, the wet heat between my legs made me squirm.
“Yes. I need you inside me.” I needed my mate to fill me up and replace the feeling of the Nexus unit’s invasion.
I reached for the beast’s shirt hem. He took the hint and removed all his clothes faster than I’d ever seen him move.
“Mine.” Kai’s beast lifted me, both hands under my ass as he carried me to the wall in our living room. The moment my back made contact with the cool material, his cock slid inside me in one slow, smooth thrust.
“Yes.” I wrapped my legs around his hips and arched my back, taking all of him, sending him deep, as deep inside me as I could get him.
Neither of us were in the mood for slow or gentle. “Arms up.”
I obeyed the command and lifted my hands above my head. As I knew he would, Kai’s huge hand wrapped around my wrist as he held me in place. My breasts bounced with every powerful thrust of his hips. All I could think was more. Harder. Faster.
The words tumbled over my lips. The beast groaned, driving into my body like he was possessed, out of control. His cock stretched me wide, the friction drove a wail from my throat as my pussy exploded into spasms around his hard length. He fucked me through my orgasm, drew it out, sent me into another before I’d recovered from the first.
The second time he followed me over, his cock rippled inside me as he filled me with his seed, his claim, his possession.
He owned me, body and soul and I was okay with that because he was mine.
“Mine, Kai. You’re mine. Forever.”
His beast shuddered and transformed, cock still inside me as the male I loved reappeared before my eyes. He groaned, his length sliding in and out of me, still hard and ready. “Gods, female, I love you. You saved me back there. You saved all of us.”
“No.” I didn’t want to talk about the Nexus unit or what we would have to do next. I didn’t want to think about the medical tests Helion said he wanted. I had no idea why the Nexus unit seemed obsessed with me. “Don’t talk about him. Tell me you love me again. Say it again.”
“I love you, mate. I vow to you the Nexus unit will never touch you. Never hurt you. I give you my word. We will figure this out. Helion’s an ass but he has the best minds in the galaxy working for him and I would die before I allow that fucker anywhere near you. Do you understand?”
“Yes.” Yes, I did. Completely. We were caught up in war with a terrifying, powerful enemy. But Kai was mine and I was his. Whatever came our way, we’d face it together. He would never abandon me or cheat on me. He would love me until the day he died. That was what I understood, and that was enough.
I used my inner muscles to squeeze his cock. Again, and again, until he groaned.
“Was the beast too rough?” Kai asked, but didn’t release my arms which were still locked over my head. “Did I hurt you? He was out of control. Seeing that thing?—"
