ONE
“Vaxa, I need to get to work,” Kate moaned, trying to fend off the advances of her very amorous alien mate.If he didn’t wake her up sometime in the night for a round or two of sex, he wasinsatiablecome morning.And right now?He was insatiable.
“Luxiva,” Vaxa rasped between her thighs, in between soft licks with that glorious ridged tongue.“I regret the span I showed you the archives.”
Kate bit back a smile.He always grumbled about her work in the morning, but she knew better.If she was happy, he was happy.He’d told her so himself.And her work at the archives made her happy and filled her with purpose on this strange, wonderful alien planet that was beginning to feel more and more like home with every passing day.
A month and a half ago she’d been living her perfectly ordinary life back on Earth.She hadn’t known that an alien species, called the Krevorags, were capturing human women from Earth.Hell, she’d only found out when she’d been one of them.Thrown onto a planet called the Pit, the Krevorags hosted an alien fight club and the prize for winning was women.
She’d been lucky.Vaxa had fought for her and killed for her.He was the most honorable man—human or otherwise—she’d ever known and she knew that she would have a very different, very empty life had he not been at the Pit that day.
She was his mate, hisluxiva.Hisfatedmate.Kate was thelavrix’anto his people, something she still couldn’t wrap her head around.She’d landed alien royalty apparently, seeing as how Vaxa was the Prime Leader of Luxiria.Some days, she didn’t know what the hell she was doing, but she was learning, adapting.
Vaxa gave her clit a soft suckle and Kate’s back arched off the bed, her hands squeezing tighter around the dark, black horns on her mate’s head, horns that were currently stiffened with his arousal.
That’s not all that’s stiff, she thought, watching her sexy-as-hell mate rotate his hips against their bed, fucking the furs, trying to relieve some of the pressure she knew had to be building.
She took pity on him and tugged on his horns, making him groan and purr all at once.“Enough, Vaxa,” she moaned, as he swiped his tongue deep inside her.Kate gave another greedy tug and then he was crawling up their bed, his erect cock bobbing between them.And then hethere.With one swift, claiming thrust, he sheathed himself fully inside her.
Kate would never get enough of this.She clung to his strong, wide shoulders, mewing her pleasure, as he drove between her legs.Luxirians loved sex.Vaxa once told her that they needed it three times a day, atminimum.He’d been right.And somehow, Kate had managed to keep up with him, satisfying all of his adamant desires.She was half-convinced it was the blood bond they shared during their mating ceremony.His blood changed a part of her, not only helping her body adjust to the intense heat of Luxiria, but perhaps also changingmore.
It didn’t take her long to orgasm and it was only after her second that Vaxa finally released his seed inside her.Her male had stamina, there was no doubt about it.
Sweating and sated, they both fell back onto the furs and Vaxa purred in contentment, pulling her close.His hands immediately went to her belly and her stomach fluttered in response.Every time he touched her there, she went weak with affection.
It had only been a couple weeks since Privanax, the Luxirian doctor, had confirmed her pregnancy.And already, she could feel how quickly the baby was growing inside her.Privanax had warned her that Luxirian women had only carried for three months—before an airborne virus had rendered them infertile—not nine months like humans.She had a check-up in a few days and they would reassess the baby’s growth.Since a human and alien child was as new to the Luxirians as it was to Kate, no one really knew what to expect or even how long she’d be pregnant.
“As the young grows,” Vaxa started suddenly, “you will need to decrease your work at the archives.”
“What?” Kate said, her soft smile being replaced by a frown.“No.”
“Yes, female,” he grunted, in that gruff authoritative tone of his.They were closely matched in stubbornness and had to compromise on many things.Kate knew that her work would now be one of them or else she’d never hear the end of it.
“Why?It’s not like I’m on my feet all day anyways,” she said, turning her head to look at him.
“I do not want you overexerting yourself,” he said, his hands stroking the bare skin of her stomach.“The pregnancy will already be difficult for your body.You must rest often.”
“Oh?Then if I need to rest so much, that means no more sex,” she challenged.
Vaxa’s lips pressed together.“Tev,” he said.Yes.“I have already discussed this with Privanax.Once the young grows to a certain size, he has advised that we cease our matings.”
Well, shit.
Now she was in a bad mood.
“That’s…impossible,” she said, eyeing him.There was no way either of them would get through a period of time longer than a day without having sex.Since their mating ceremony, they hardly wenthalfa day without sex.
“Necessary,” he corrected.“Humans are weaker, physically.Matings may be too strenuous.I will not take any chances when it comes to your health and that of our child.”
Despite everything, her heart fluttered and she leaned forward, pressing a small kiss to his full lips.She’d gone from falling in love with him to head over heels in love with him and she wasn’t even exactly sure when that had happened.She simply knew.
And while he had never voiced his feelings for her, she felt them every single moment she was with him.Literally.The bond bond had created a connection between them that defied all logic.Vaxa was present in her mind, a constant touch.And while they couldn’t read each other’s thoughts, they could feel strong emotions if the other allowed it.
And Vaxa felt very, very strongly about her.But was it love?She didn’t know.
He’d once told her that Luxirians didn’t speak of emotions.His warrior species valued strength and honor.They believed that they said everything they needed to say either during fights or during sex, no words needed.And while he’d tried to be more emotionally open with her, it didn’t come naturally to him and she understood that.
Already, she felt his cock thickening against her belly and she hopped out of bed before he could get any ideas.His gaze was heated as he watched her and Kate let herself admire him—this glorious, glorious male with his dark horns, skin that caught the morning light streaming in through the window, and a warrior’s strong, totally ripped, massive body—before scuttling into the bathroom.
