His brow bone furrowed.He did not understand his human.But regardless, he was happy to feel connected to her.So, he did as she asked and leaned down to capture her soft lips, tangling his tongue with her own.
Kat clung to him, her fingernails digging into his shoulders, but she lay sweetly next to him, accepting his kiss even as tears continued to fall between them.
And when the mating call began anew, neither resisted.
EIGHTEEN
Kate lay on her back, limbs stretched out, her chest heaving from exertion.It was sometime in the middle of night and Vaxa had woken her from sleep to give her another thorough fucking.She watched, half-lidded, as the muscles of his back flexed as he stroked up the fire in the middle of the tent.He’d made it sometime after she’d passed out from pure sexual and emotional exhaustion.
Her body felt changed.Her pussy was still pulsing from the after effects of the cataclysmic series of orgasms Vaxa had given her over the course of the night.She felt sore, but it was the good kind.Mostly, she felt vulnerable.Whatever this blood bond had begun…it was breaking her down, bit by bit.It was a combination of the pleasure—of the most intense, incredible, toe-curling sex of her entire life—and fear that she was developing deep feelings for her alien captor.Combined together and she was an orgasming, crying mess, who’d already had one mini-breakdown earlier in the night.
If they were going to be doing this for a few days…there would be nothing left of her by the time they left.
Stockholm Syndrome?She understood it now.
Kate reached down between her legs and lightly traced her swollen lips, trying to ignore the tension that was once again building within her.How long would this crazed madness continue?Her fingers came away with some of Vaxa’s opalescent seed and then her eyes strayed to the band around her wrist, wondering, surprisingly calmly, whether it would hold up against such an onslaught.Somehow, she didn’t think so.
She felt Vaxa’s eyes on her and once he seemed satisfied with the fire, he returned to her.He was completely comfortable in his nudity and truthfully, he had every reason to be.He was a magnificent male, broad and strong with a potent sexuality that prickled her skin with awareness.
And he’s all mine, the greedy, wanton part of her whispered.
Kate bit her lip as he dropped his weight over her.He leaned down to nip lightly at her throat and she sighed out a breath, stretching her neck to give him better access.Her head swam.Why did he have to make her feel so damnedgoodall the time?He was making it a hell of a lot harder than it needed to be.
When she felt him dip his hips, dragging that amazing cock across her soft belly, she groaned and pushed at his chest.
“Vaxa,” she started, leaning up to kiss his lips.“If I’m going to survive the next few days, I need to rest.”
He made that purring/growling sound in his chest and his cock briefly vibrated on her stomach.Her pussy clenched.
“If you wish, mate,” he said, rolling to the side, sprawling out next to her.He pulled her so that she was half-lying on top of him and she sighed, letting herself relax against him.It was like he couldn’t bear to not touch her.And if she was honest with herself…she loved it.
“Tell me about this place,” she whispered, feeling sleepy but alert, listening to the soft crackling of the fire.“Tell me about the Fates.”
He huffed out a breath.“The story I was told, that all young are told, is that the Fates created us from thefacev.The mountains.They crafted us to be unyielding and strong, like all warriors, and breathed life into us so that we may defend and protect our people and other races that seek our aide.Our ancestors were born in this place, from thefacevthat is directly behind us.This is sacred land.”
“And as warriors…Luxirians fight a lot?”
“Tev.”
Kate frowned.“Against who?Yourselves?Or other species?”
“Both.If it is necessary.”
“You fight other Luxirians?But I thought you were the leader.”
“I am,” he said, his gaze finding hers, trailing his fingertips over her cheek.The glow from the fire turned his skin golden, just like when she’d first seen him.Her golden alien warrior, fierce but gentle.“But like in all civilizations there is unrest from time to time.In my sire’s time, a group of warriors broke away from the whole.They took their females and started a tribe near the caves of thePevrallix.They prospered, if rumor is to be believed.But their exit was a bloody one.Even now, no one speaks of them.”He stopped talking briefly and then said, his voice gruff, “After my sire and mother passed into the next life, my blood brother dissented as well.”
Kate’s lips parted.“You have a brother?”
His gaze hardened.“Tev.But I have not seen him since after the Jetutian attack, since after my sire and mother’s fire burial.He sought out the tribe and I can only hope that he found them, or else he has been long dead.”
Kate’s heart softened.She realized that perhaps Vaxa was more like her than she’d realized.They both had no family.Not anymore.
“I’m sorry,” she murmured.
“Why?”
“Because…you were abandoned.By your brother, just shortly after your parents died.It must have been sad and lonely.”
