“What’s this?”
“Vowels said I could fuse a mental connection like the one I share with my Circuli mates with you, but I will only do it if you agree,”I explained as I hoped he would accept my gift.“I don’t know if I can add you to the Circuli web, but you will have a similar connection to my thoughts and feelings as they do, and vice versa. Our Oetsae will share the same connection with us. If this is something you want, do you accept me?”
A teal-and-neon-green thread entangled with our golden one, twisting tightly until it fused at my mental shield, forming a neon-green thread door.
“You are forever mine.”
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Kaede
Time stilled as his awareness exploded beyond himself, morphing into something indescribable. He couldn’t compute the words needed to explain the phenomena.
Closing his eyes, he absorbed the foreign sensations that flowed freely between them, like the surging and breaking of waves upon a rocky shore. She was the unruly water demanding to make her presence known as she soothed his edged cliffside.
Wherever she began, he ended, as they became one, connected by the mental thread between them.
He was used to being connected to his sisters through their family network, overhearing their daily chatter and getting constant updates about missions. His host-symbiont relationship with REI was more like a coexisting business relationship than something personal. She overrode his body’s AI system and took over its identity, claiming REI as her own name while she managed everything about him.
Living with REI made taking care of his responsibilities as easy as breathing and allowed him to enjoy things that he wouldn’t ever have a chance to.
But this connection was different.
It was more intimate.
The gold and neon green twisted strand appeared almost tangible as it tied their mental shields together.
He was afraid that he would somehow break his connection to his mate if he tried to touch it.
“You are the very thing I have always wanted but could never fathom to have,” he confessed. The words felt thick on his lips as the weight of the moment fell upon him. “You accepted me for who I was and claimed me as yours… And now you are going to be the mother of my daughter.”
“We will get through this together, Kaede.”
The reverence in her voice radiated through him like a cleansing beam, burning all of his doubts and insecurities away.
Opening his eyes, Kaede glanced down at his female—all bound and blindfolded for him, proving how much she trusted him—and frowned. He couldn’t see her deep, ocean-colored eyes, whose depths he’d always feared he would drown in if he stared at them too long, and with her hands restricted, she couldn’t scratch his back to mark her claim on him for all to see.
“Every time I walk around shirtless, the universe can see how well I pleasure my star. Your marks are the only ones I am proud to wear and enjoy showing off.”
Waving his hand,REIdeactivated the three disks, not caring that they collapsed into themselves, and fell haphazardly onto the bed—all that mattered was her.
Locking eyes with hers, he slowly pressed his cock into her warm tight channel, shuddering as hefelther pleasure combat with his own.
His moan echoed hers as he leaned down to kiss her. Grabbing her ass, he pulled her closer, sheathing himself as they tentatively felt each other’s tongues. His need to consume her and to be consumed echoed within his mind as it burned through his veins.
She gasped as he tightened his grip. Pulling away, he started kissing down her neck, leaving a trail of nips to a bare nipple. She ran her hands along his back, tickling his strained muscles as she grabbed his long hair. He bit down on one of her hardened nipples as she yanked his hair. The pleasant sting added fuel to his burning desire.
Glancing up at her, their eyes locked as he pulled away, smirking as his chuckles radiated from him, shaking them both. He roughly pulled her hands out of his hair and held them together above her head with one of his, causing her breasts to thrust out as her back arched.
“You are mine, Selena,” he swore. “I may share you with others, but at this very moment, you belong to me.”
Kaede slowly pulled his cock out, resisting the temptation to lose himself to their shared pleasure. He couldfeelhow his textured shaft rubbed against her clamped walls until only his head remained. Selena moaned as Kaede worked the tip in and out, teasing her entrance.
“I’ll give you what you want, my star,” he growled as he forced himself to stay in control. “But first, tell me what you said is true—that this connection is permanent. That this is forever.”
“It is.”Breathing deeply, she closed her eyes and nodded.“You aren’t a member of the Circuli mental web or my clan’s core, but you are now attached to me until—”
“Don’t think about it. I forbid you.” Kaede hissed, jerking the hand clasped around her wrists. “You will live until you are old and gray with me by your side. The moment you accept the cosmic embrace, I will follow you shortly after, along with the rest of our clan. We are members of the same constellation and will always be together. Always.”
