Even though all Vaxa’an wanted was to return to his mate—he knew she would be leaning against their terrace right now, gazing out over Luxiria as the twin suns set—he knew that Lihvan was right.The Trials would take place once the moon was full.He didn’t have much time.
Perhaps a round in the training pits could help ease some of the tension he felt building up.He needed to let off some steam before he went to greet hisluxiva.She already suspected that something was wrong and he didn’t want to worry her unnecessarily.
You must tell her about the Trials, he told himself, already dreading that conversation.She would become stressed once he told her.And stress was not good for their child growing strong in her belly.
“Come, my friend,” Vaxa’an said, pushing the thoughts away for now.“It has been much too long since I have bloodied your ugly hide in the pits.”
Lihvan snorted.
* * *
Kate paced the length of their living room—which Vaxa called ‘the central hub’—wondering where the hell her mate was.One thing about being pregnant was that she wasconstantlyaroused.That night was no different.
And her damn man should’ve been home over an hour ago.
Maybe the council meeting ran long, she thought, smoothing her hands over her growing belly.She was already beginning to show.A little over a month in and the baby seemed like it was growing exponentially every single day.If Luxirian women had a three month pregnancy, Kate wondered where on the spectrumherpregnancy would fall—closer to nine months perhaps?She hoped for a shorter term, considering the baby would most likely take after his seven-foot tall father.All Luxirian men weremassive.She hoped that her human bodywouldbe able to carry the baby.
Her belly fluttered when she heard the gentle hum of a hovercraft landing on the terrace outside.Vaxa appeared a moment later and immediately, she let out a little whimper because sheknewwhat was coming.He’d gone to the training pits.His muscles were expanded, making him seem twice as large.He was sweaty and bloodied.But what made her legs tremble in anticipation was his hot, possessive, scorching gaze.
Vaxa’s nostrils flared—the scent of her arousal had most likely saturated their home—and his chest did that rumbling purr she loved so much.
“Female,” he bit out, his voice harsh, undone.
And then they were rushing to meet each other.
Vaxa caught the back of her neck with his wide palm, pulling her into him for a fierce kiss that sent their teeth clashing together.Kate’s eyes rolled into the back of her head as his scent surrounded her.Shelovedwhen he came back from training because he smelled so damnamazing.
She fumbled with the fastenings on his torn leather-like pants and he hissed out a ragged breath when her hand made a fist around his erect, throbbing, ridged cock.Her fingers couldn’t wrap all the way around him—he was way too thick—but she tried her best.
They didn’t make it to their bedroom.Vaxa simply slid the shoulder clasps of her dress off, so that her breasts were exposed to him, and tossed her back on the cushions lining the fire pit.He dropped down, those deliciously corded muscles shifting, and crawled between her legs, bunching the material of her dress around her waist.
Kate let out a shuddering moan when he slid deep inside her.
“Yes, Vaxa,” she moaned, loving the feel of him, the ridged slide of his thick length against her sensitive walls.He was her drug and she felt a sense of peace returning as she got the beginnings of her next fix.
“Your cunt has been aching for me, female,” he growled, no doubt able to feel how wet she’d become waiting for him.
Mmmm, and she loved it when he talked dirty.Her alienloveddirty talk.
Kate bit her lip, trying not to be too loud.Luxirians didn’t believe in much privacy.Wide, open windows and doorways and domed ceilings that could open up to the sky were commonplace.And even though their home was on the very top of the mountain city, she knew that sounds and voices could carry very easily.
But whenever Vaxa was moving inside her with that perfect cock of his, it was like she forgot herself.She couldn’t help her screams and moans.And she knew that Vaxa liked their loud matings.Sometimes, it seemed like his mission was to make her scream as loudly as possible, so that all of Luxiria could hear her.
The ridges lining the top and bottom of his cock were like hard knobs.And when Vaxa bent his head to suckle her swollen breasts, he gave a teeth-chattering, angled thrust that made those knobs run over her G-spot.
Her sudden orgasm made her gasp, her back arching.She was suspended on a cliff in tingling anticipation, before the unbelievable pleasure crashed into her body and she fell, fell, fell.
Through the haze of her orgasm, she heard Vaxa groan, his cock vibrating briefly within her, before she felt his seed burst from him, coating her walls, hot lash after hot lash.
His lips found hers and they kissed as they both came down from their pleasure.Vaxa trailed his lips over her jaw and then to her neck, where he licked and bit her lightly.He liked leaving what he called ‘mating marks’ on her.He was just so…male.
Kate let out a contented sigh, her cheeks warm and flushed, as she stroked her hands over her mate’s skin.They would likely have sex a couple more times before they passed out into exhaustion, but for now, she was happy to hold him.
“I missed you today,” she whispered, brushing her lips across his skin.He’d gotten blood on her dress and skin but she didn’t mind.She was used to it after his training sessions.
“I am sorry we could not take our meals together,” he murmured, dragging the tip of his nose across the flesh behind her ear.Her spine tingled, goosebumps breaking out over her arms.“It was a long span.”
His words sobered her.She remembered what Bruxilia had told her, about how a few Luxirians in the outposts were rebelling.It wasn’t the right time to bring it up, however, no matter how much she wanted to.She trusted Vaxa to tell her if things got really bad.She could see how tired he was.The last thing she wanted to do was to stress him out further.
