“Your cunt rides me so sweetly, female,” he rasped.
“It makes you feel good, doesn’t it?” she whispered, eyes dazed.“Ilovemaking you feel good.”
“Tev,” he hissed when she ground her hips down sharply.“Tev,luxiva.”
She leaned down to nibble and lick the metal that pierced through his nipples.The tendons in his neck strained as she flicked that wicked tongue against them.
He angled his next thrust to hit her ‘G-spot’ and her whole body jolted upwards, a shudder making her cunt quiver around him.
“Do it again,” she ordered and Vaxa’an grinned, happy to oblige his demanding mate, even as he held onto the thinnest thread of control imaginable.
Another orgasm hit her and triggered his own release.He saw black before stars burst into his vision and he groaned out his female’s name, chanting it over and over again like a prayer to the Fates.
They fell back onto the sleeping platform, panting and spent, but Vaxa’an was reluctant to withdraw from his mate’s body, and she seemed happy to keep him there.
They lay side-by-side, hisluxiva’sleg tossed over his outer thigh.Cheeks flushed pink, she wore a soft, dazed smile as she traced her fingertips over his lips and smoothed back his hair.
Vaxa’an’s chest rumbled, content.Peace calmed his pulse and he felt more at ease in that moment than he had in the past week.He’d needed this.They’dbothneeded this.
“Did I hurt you?” he asked quietly.
“No,” she murmured.Then she teased, “Although it was a tight fit since you’ve been denying me this past week.I almost forgot how big you were.”
He huffed out a breath.“You understand why I did, mate.”
“Yes,” she said, her eyes softening.“I’m honestly more than impressed that you held out as long as you did.”
“It was the most difficult exercise of my discipline that I have ever encountered,” he murmured, almost somberly.
Kat’s giggle filled his ears and he nuzzled her cheek, grunting when her laugh made her cunt clench around him.
They grew quiet.Their eyes connected and held as silent words were spoken.Through their blood bond, he sensed a small thread of her joy, her affection for him.Delving more deeply, he also sensed her worry, her fear.
The Trials were an ancient custom, but one that he stood by, one that he believed in.His mate gave him her trust.She trusted that he would emerge the victor, but their blood bond highlighted that she’d been struggling against it.
Kat felt him prying into her innermost thoughts, but she allowed it, opening up to him.
“I promise that as long as I have strength and blood left in my body,luxiva,” he murmured to her, “I will never be taken from you.Trust this, if nothing else.”
She blew out a shuddering sigh and nodded against the furred pillow her cheek rested on.
“I know,” she whispered back.
TEN
The drums woke her the morning that the Trials were to take place.
Harsh and ominous, the steady beating of the drums made Kate’s stomach roll, but given that she hadn’t eaten a single thing last night, due to her nerves, she had nothing to vomit.
Vaxa was already up.Kate sat up in their bed, cradling her belly, which was getting large enough to brush the tops of her thighs.He was looking out the window of their bedroom, at the rising suns that spread golden light over his skin.He was fastening on his gold metal that banded around his arms, just below his biceps.The last time she’d seen him wear them, he’d been fighting for her at the Pit.
He must’ve heard her awaken because he turned to study her.The night before, he’d made love to her like it would be their last time and just thinking about it brought tears to her eyes.She knew that there was some part of him that worried.Vaxa may be an excellent warrior, he may be a great leader, but mistakes could happen.One wrong move and he could be taken from her.Her mate knew the risks better than anyone.
“Hi,” she whispered, wishing those damn drums would stop.Every beat of them grated against her chest and her heart thrummed in time with them, perfectly synchronized.
He gave her a small smirk and for some reason, it relieved her to see it.“Good morning,luxiva.”
“When do you have to…go?” she asked.His gaze dropped to her rounded belly before he met her eyes again.
