“Now you’re just teasing me.”
“Nix,” he purred.“Flirting.”
Sessela tried to hide the smile that started to spread over her lush lips, but she began to laugh and couldn’t.She shook her head.“You’re impossible, has anyone ever told you that?”
“Many in my life span,tev.Now unclothe yourself, female.”
“Only after you turn around,” she insisted, crossing her arms under her breasts.Rixavox eyed her hardened nipples beneath her borrowed tunic and his mouth watered.When he got his tongue on those breasts, he might never leave them.
He liked her stubbornness.It only served to turn him on even more.
“As you wish, female,” he purred, slightly disappointed and yet exhilarated.Perhaps by the end of her cleansing sessions at theRillirax, he would win their newfound game.He could try to convince her every span.The odds were in his favor.
He showed her his back, staring straight in front of him, his gaze tracing the silvery lines of thepevillagrowing across the wall.He couldn’t help but think that the plant would be soft enough on his female’s back if he ever mated her against the cavern wall.His fists clenched at his sides, picturing her limbs twined around his hips, her fingers clawing at thepevilla, as he thrust into her aching cunt.
A rough growl tore from his throat and he squeezed his eyes shut.
“Rixavox?” Sessela murmured behind him quietly.“Are you okay?”
He wanted to laugh bitterly at her question.Nix, he wanted to say.Madness was beginning to descend.He wondered how long it would be before his Instinct took control.It had been known to happen and it was something he feared.If his Instinct was in control, he wouldn’t be gentle with her.Luxirians enjoyed rough, primal matings, but did humans?Hisluxivaseemed so small, so delicate.He worried his darker lusts might hurt her if he allowed his Instinct free reign.
“Tev,” he said instead, not recognizing his voice.“You may unclothe now.”
“You promise you won’t look?” she questioned.
“I promise,luxiva,” he murmured softly.“On my honor as a Luxirian warrior, I will not look upon your nudity until you wish it.”
“Until?Notif?” she repeated slowly, voice slightly breathless.“You think it’s a sure thing?”
Even now she teased him with her words, when he was hovering between sanity and madness.
“Tev,” he growled out.“I know it is a ‘sure thing.’”
He listened intently once he said the words.He’d just as well as stated his intentions.What she didn’t know was that he could not act on those intentions until she was healed, but he might as well be honest about it regardless.
His female was quiet, but when he drew in a small, rationed breath, he sensed her arousal.Fates, he pleaded silently,have mercy.Finally, he heard the slight whisper of her tunic as she began to unclothe.It didn’t take her long, considering the thin material was all she wore.He would purchase more coverings for her, he told himself, so she would be warm in his lands.As soon as the twin suns rose, he would journey to the bazaar.
But there, in that sacred place, when it was only the two of them…he wanted her as naked as nature intended.
The tunic fell to the floor of the cavern with a small hush and Rixavox sucked in a breath, gritting his teeth together.It was physically painful to know his mate was nude and only a few strides away…and he was looking at afacevwall.
He released a short breath when he heard the faint, glass-like sound of the water as she stepped inside.Rixavox never thought he’d be jealous ofwater, but he envied the way it touched her body, how it wrapped around every inch of her soft skin.He heard a gasp and knew she began to feel the effects of theRillirax.
After a few moments more, he heard her voice.
“You can turn around now.”
Rixavox didn’t need anymore convincing.He spun, his gaze immediately seeking her out.Lust sizzled deep in his belly and he felt his muscles begin to expand, his shoulders bunching until he thought they might snap.
He’d never known lust until that moment.Every female that had come before hisluxiva, every meaningless mating geared to drive him to distraction, to a restless kind of fulfillment, fled his mind, erased into nothingness.For in that moment, he knew true desire, true need.
Sessela was watching him from inside the pool, her gray eyes luminous with the silver light of the moon.The water lapped at her bare shoulders, leaving behind a delicate sheen when it retreated, only to return.The ends of her dark hair floated around her, moving in time with the soft ripples that broke the surface.
His eyes almost mistook her for aRissatorax, an ancient, beautiful creature that could lure him to the edge of madness with a single look, who could pull him down into the blackworld and feast on his soul.He would go with her willingly, he realized.He felt her.He felt the Fates’ power between them, tying them together in a way that very few could understand.
It was…humbling.It was beautiful.Shewas the only thing in all the universe that he wanted to see.The only thing.
Sessela’s lips were parted.And Rixavox swore that they were a deeper pink than they’d been just a few moments ago.TheRilliraxwas working.The Fates would help her.
