“She is mine.”
As if that answered everything.
For me, it did.
Sebastion left and I was alone with my mate. Naked beneath the thin, green blanket.
Mikos turned to me. Instead of ravishing me, as I expected, he lifted me into his arms and carried me out of the room. “Where are we going?”
“Home.”
Home. I loved the sound of that.
He didn’t put me down until we were deep inside Astra territory. I discovered my new home was on the third floor of a large, heavily fortified building. “What is this place?”
“Astra Legion headquarters.”
“You live here?” It looked more like a fortress than an apartment building. Ion cannons mounted to the walls and rooftops, walls thick as my leg was long framed what I assumed was some kind of reinforced glass.
“We live here.”
He carried me past half a dozen guards at the building’s entrance, each one bowed their head in respect to my mate as we passed. The elevator ride was smooth, but short. The hallway between the elevator and our door was lined with brightly colored works of art. The carpeting looked thick and luxurious. Mikos’s boots didn’t make a single sound.
When he opened the door to our home and carried me inside, I gasped. The interior looked like we’d stepped into an advertisement for a luxury hotel. Plush sofas piled high with even softer looking pillows. The carpeting inside was as thick and luxurious as that in the hall. One side of the living room was covered with floor to ceiling windows that looked out over the moon base. From here, the base looked very similar to a human city—except there was no blue sky, no clouds. The domed ceiling that covered the base was beautiful in its own way, the soft pastel colors changing slowly as I watched. “It’s beautiful.”
“There were times I believed I would never be home again.”
I heard what he did not say, knew he’d suffered a kind of loneliness I could only imagine. I’d felt alone, but even in my worst moments, I’d had my ReCon team, Henry and Seth and Collins. I had Erica and Chloe on the ship when I needed girl time and counted them both my friends. I’d been surrounded by fighters and Prillon warriors. Atlan Warlords. Nearly five thousand souls, all part of Battlegroup Karter. I’d never reallybeen alone. He’d been drifting in space, the only living soul on his ship, for years. “You’re home now.”
He turned from the view and looked down at me. “You are my home, mate.”
My heart swelled, the pain sharp and relentless behind my sternum. The things this male said to me. “I want you, mate. Inside me. Bite me. I need you.”
Mikos growled as he pulled the blanket from my naked body and carried me to our bedroom. I didn’t get a good look around because the moment my back settled into the soft mattress, Mikos was on top of me. He shoved my thighs open with his leg and locked his lips on mine.
That fast my pussy was soaking wet, achy, ready for him. His hard cock pressed against my thigh. I shifted my hips, tried to get closer.
“Not yet, mate. You have something that is mine.”
Everything I had was his. Everything. “What?”
He licked and nibbled his way down my body until his mouth settled over my clit. “This.”
God, yes. That was his, too.
He worked me with his tongue as he pushed two fingers inside my throbbing core. He feasted, teased, used his tongue to rub my clit until my back arched up off the bed and I begged him to finish me, let me come.
“Mine.”
His fangs sank into my pussy, the sharp sting immediately replaced by a fire that raced along my sensitive nerves, pushed me over the edge, forced a sob from my lips that sounded like his name. “Mikos.”
My entire body felt like a sparkler on the fourth of July, fire and light exploding in every direction.
When my pussy stopped spasming, he kissed his way to my breasts. Sucked each nipple into his mouth in turn, worked them with his talented tongue until I was on the edge again.
“Mate, fuck me. I need you inside me.” Why was he taking so long? I ached for him, my body empty. I needed to feel him, connect our bodies. I needed to be closer. Part of him. Whole.
He slipped two fingers into my eager pussy but didn’t lift his mouth from my sensitive nipples. I moaned in frustration. “Pleeeease.”
