Instead of fighting him further, I lay my head on his chest, just taking the moment in. My mind wonders if it was my kiss that pulled him back, but then I silently shake my head at such foolishness. It’s not long before I feel Falon relax, and his light snoring makes me smile, but anytime I try to wiggle out of his massive arms, he wakes slightly. So, after a while, I just decide to get comfortable. I must have dozed off myself as whispering wake me.
LeX and Rylie are both standing over us. LeX is going over something on the holopad, but Rylie is smiling with bright sparkles in her eyes. “OMG, Lex, is this not the cutest thing ever?” I hear her say before I raise my head.
When she realizes I’m awake, she puts her small hand on my arm. “I didn’t mean to wake you,” she whispers.
Keeping my voice low I sit up, “Help me slide out of here. I don’t want to hurt him.”
LeX turns and before I realize it, he has slid his hands between us and lifts me straight up by my belly and hips effortlessly, like I’m a rag doll, before setting me down. The moment my body leaves his, Falon’s eyes open, and a growl leaves his lips. Before I can reassure him, I’m still here, LeX is bending over him.
“Falon, do you know where you are?”
Things go to hell quickly. Falon swings his legs over the side of the bed and has LeX’s neck in a death grip. His eyes are a bright silver, and I swear I can see his body mass increasing. “How dare you touch what’s mine!” he roars.
Suddenly, I find my feet have somehow moved me between them. “Falon, get your hands off him right now! You owe LeX your life.” He looks at me, then at LeX, who is shockingly not fighting him, and abruptly lets him go, only to pull me up onto his lap.
LeX steps back, but not far enough in my mind, with a smirk on his face. “I see you are awake, Falon. Do you recall what happened?”
“Mostly, the ending is still a bit fuzzy; I did not expect to wake up, to be honest. I do apologize for attacking you. When I felt you lift Edie away from me, I just reacted.”
“No harm done, Falon. There for a bit, we were not sure you were going to come back to us, but I have a theory as to why you suddenly did.”
When LeX doesn’t instantly start talking, my snotty attitude makes an appearance.
“Well, will someone please enlighten me?”
“Edie, what were you doing right before Falon reawakened?”
“Ahh, shit, I feel like a kid being scolded by their parents. I kissed him.”
Rylie turns away, giggling, and it’s clear to see LeX is fighting a smile himself. “Were your lips wet?”
“Umm, probably.”
“Your essence called to him.”
“Are you saying Sleeping Beauty here just needed a kiss all along?”
“The proof is holding you on his lap, the bond that would not let you walk too far away, only needed to be fed and that kiss reassured his body that you were real and waiting for him.”
“You damn aliens are freaking amazing and slightly terrifying, but why the hell not? What girl doesn’t want to be the hero in her own fairy tale?” I turn in Falon’s lap and look up at him, as I’m still talking to everyone. “If you say it was my kiss, then damn straight it was … so if I have super kissing powers now, I’d better never catch your lips on another, you understand me, Ruk?!”
“Oh, little morsel, you have nothing to fear of that.”
CHAPTER 15
FALON
I am floating in the beyond, my spirit untethered and adrift until I taste her. Instantly, I feel my soul jerk as it returns to my body, and I find her in my arms. Even though my little morsel has fought our bond from the very start, she now lies willingly in my arms, and I can take a moment to assess the damage done to my body.
Strangely, I am calm and at peace until I feel the presence of another male in my territory, then, when she is removed from me, I simply react. My claws lengthen when I open my eyes and I find that a male is leaning over me. My mind says enemy, and I instantly have my hand around his throat. Oddly, he does not fight me, just stands there. My mate somehow gets between us, breaking my concentration, and I let the male go, gathering her into my arms. My body instantly relaxes as I breathe in her scent.
They are all talking back and forth, but I am having a hard time focusing with her little bottom wiggling on my lap, that is, until she says. “I’d better never catch your lips on another, you understand me, Ruk?”
I cannot help but smile at all that feistiness in such a small frame. “Oh, little morsel, you have nothing to fear of that.” She smiles up at me, and the world disappears around us as my lips connect with hers again.
The kiss spreads like fire through my battered soul. She tastes like nothing I have ever known or dreamed of. Her mouth opens beneath mine, inviting me in, and I sweep my tongue past her lips, drinking her essence down like a male starved. She makes a sound, a whimper or a moan, and that noise goes straight to my already hard cock.
I devour her as my mind calculates what it will take to make her scream, sob, and beg for more. I need to slow down. A distant part of my mind says,“We are not safe.”That I must be more aware of where we are, but I am too weak to pull my lips from hers. It takes everything I have to lighten my grip on her small body and soften my kiss instead of taking hungry gulps as I feel starved for her. But Edie has other ideas. She turns, straddling me, making me feel the heat of her core against my own as her hands splay across my mate’s collar and chest muscles.
