10
Complete Integration
Zola
Thesilenceofopenspace is deafening.
Finally, we burst through the final gap, emerging into the calm of the void, and I immediately slap the autopilot engagement. The Precision stabilizes, humming contentedly as if we didn’t just thread a needle through hell.
But the calm outside the ship does nothing to settle the storm inside.
My throat is still throbbing where Crash’s fangs just pierced me. The bond is wide open, flooding me with his savage satisfaction and the metallic taste of my own blood on his tongue. We are alive. We are safe. And we are unfinished.
“Autopilot engaged,” KiKi announces, her voice blissfully unaware of the pheromone-thick atmosphere in the cockpit. “Pursuit vessel has lost visual. We are clear.”
Crash doesn’t wait for another the update.
“Turn around,” he commands, his voice rough with barely leashed need. “I want to see your face when I claim you properly.”
The words unlock something primal in him. His restraint finally snaps.
His arms tighten around me like steel cables, pulling me back against his chest with enough force to make me gasp. The civilized mask he’s worn for days crumbles away, revealing the predator underneath—the gladiator who fought for crowds, who killed with his bare hands, who’s spent three days fighting every instinct that screams at him to claim me.
“Mine,” he snarls against my throat, the word vibrating through his chest and into my bones. His fangs scrape over my pulse point with deliberate threat, and the sensation sends liquid fire straight to my core. “You have no idea what you’ve just unleashed.”
I feel his civilized veneer dissolving like sugar in acid through our entwined senses. This is the Golden Viper, the fighter who dominated the Nexus circuits, the warrior who survived by beingfaster, stronger, and more ruthless than anything else in the arena. And he’s chosen me as his mate.
The knowledge should terrify me. Instead, it makes me arch against him with desperate need.
His hands move with predatory efficiency, stripping away what remains of my uniform with movements so swift they blur. The fabric doesn’t just fall away—it’s destroyed, seams parting under his enhanced strength like tissue paper.
“Perfect,” he breathes, but his voice has gone rough with barely leashed hunger. “Absolutely perfect. Made for me.”
The cool recycled air hits my heated skin, making my nipples tighten to painful peaks. But I barely notice the temperature over the way his golden eyes blaze as they devour every inch of exposed skin. I sense his overwhelming need to touch, to taste, to possess every part of me through what bound us together.
His hands cup my breasts with possessive ownership, thumbs circling my nipples until I’m gasping and arching back against him. The scales along his fingers create textures that no human touch could match—rough and smooth in patterns that send sparks of sensation straight to my core.
“You want to see what I really am? What you’ve bound yourself to forever?” His fingers find me wet and ready, slick with arousal that’s been building for the past three days. When he slides one inside me with deliberate slowness, we both make sounds of desperate relief. But where before he was careful, reverent, now he’s demanding. His finger is joined by another, then a third, stretching me with methodical precision while his thumb circles my clit with maddening skill.
“So tight,” he groans against my ear, his breath hot and ragged. “So perfect. And you’re going to take all of me, aren’t you? Every inch of what I give you.”
He positions me over his lap so I’m straddling him, his hands gripping my hips with bruising force. The head of his cockpresses against my entrance, and even through my arousal-hazed mind, I register that he’s larger than I expected—not just long but thick enough to stretch me to my limits.
The bond makes me feel his desperate need to be gentle warring with his instinct to take, to claim, to possess without reservation. The Golden Viper doesn’t know how to be gentle—he only knows how to dominate, to conquer, to win at any cost.
“Don’t hold back,” I whisper, meeting his burning gaze. “I want all of you. Everything you are.”
His pupils dilate until they’re black pools rimmed with molten gold, and I feel his control shatter through our connection like glass hitting stone.
He pulls me down onto him with ruthless force, sheathing himself inside me in one brutal thrust that makes us both cry out. The stretch is intense, borderline overwhelming—he’s thick, but there’s a swelling at the base, a biological lock designed to keep us connected. When that ridge pushes past my entrance, I realize he isn’t just filling me; he’s anchoring himself inside. My body struggles to accommodate his size, but the fullness is exactly what I need, what some primitive part of me has been craving since the moment I first saw him.
The ridges along his shaft aren’t just for show. On the withdrawal, they drag against my internal walls, stimulating nerves I didn’t know I had. On the thrust, they flatten to glide deep. It’s an anatomy designed for absolute pleasure and inescapable capture.
Through the heat of our bond I experience what it feels like to be inside me from his perspective—the tight heat gripping him like a silk glove lined with velvet, the way my body yields and stretches to accommodate him, the incredible sensation of being completely buried in his mate’s welcoming warmth.
“Zola,” he groans, his voice breaking on my name. “You feel... incredible. Like you were made for me. Only for me.”
He doesn’t wait for me to adjust. His enhanced strength allows him to lift and lower me on his length with complete control, setting a rhythm that’s demanding, possessive, claiming. Each downward thrust drives him deeper than should be possible, hitting spots inside me that make stars explode behind my eyelids.
