And if she had to push past her nervousness to get what she wanted…she would.Absolutelyshe would, especially since she was determined to make the most of her time there, with him, before her cancer had the opportunity to progress more than it already had.
Tonight, she decided.Tonight in theRillirax, when it was just the two of them.
Cecelia didn’t think she could wait much longer.
SEVENTEEN
Sessela was quiet that night as they made their way to theRilliraxfor her soak.
But he was on edge.For the rest of the span into the night, he’d scented her need.That scent had wrapped around his mind, addled his thoughts, driven his Instinct into a frenzy.Even now, he could scent her arousal.
Every time he was on the verge of acting on his desires, he thought of Privanax, of his vow, and it kept him in line.But only barely.He still had four spans to spend with her onVelraxa, possibly longer if Privanax decided she needed more time in theRilliraxbased on her scans.He didn’t know if he could last much longer.
Rixavox took carefully measured breaths as they journeyed into the mountain.Yet, his hands clutched her tightly to him, wanting things he shouldn’t want, maddening his Instinct.
The steady trickle of theRilliraxhelped calm his frayed nerves.He unbundled Sessela from the furs, which made her arousal all the more obvious.
“Female…” he grunted, his jaw ticking.
“What?” she asked quietly, looking up at him.She seemed slightly jittery that night and she licked her lips to wet them.
He blew out a sharp breath and murmured, “It is nothing.”
Then he turned his back so that she could unclothe.The routine was familiar to him.As he stared at the silverpevrillagrowing on the walls, he struggled with his control, which was more than familiar to him as of late.His cock pulsed in his pants, his arousal even more intense at the scenting of her own.It was unbearable.He didn’t know how Vaxa’an had dealt with it, when he was courting his own human female.
TheRilliraxwas warm and humid.Underneath the scent of his female, he breathed in the air of the mountain and it smelled like the brook he’d played in as a youth.
Rixavox heard the whisper of hisluxiva’stunic hit the stone floor and he swallowed, his gut tightening with want, with need.He waited for the sound of her bare footsteps towards the water, for the sound of her dipping into the sacred pool, but he heard nothing.
His brow furrowed.“Sessela?” he questioned, his gaze firmly in front of him, fidgeting to turn and make sure she was well.
“I’m here,” she said softly behind him.
“Is something wrong?” he questioned, voice darkening.
He heard her footsteps then, but she wasn’t approaching the pool.She was approachinghim.
Rixavox stiffened, his breath going ragged before he held it entirely.
“You can turn around now,” she said, her voice soft, steady, low.
“Luxiva,” he murmured, his cock as hard as the mountain stone beneath him.
“I want you to.”
Rixavox closed his eyes, trying to remember his vow, to not know her body in the way he wished to.He felt it slip from his thoughts like water as he turned.
She was standing there, only a few paces away from him.She was completely nude…and so beautiful that he almost had to look away in fear that he wouldn’t be able to control himself.
But he didn’t look away.
He looked at her, his greedy gaze sweeping over her since it had been starved.
Her dark hair hung down and tickled over pink, pebbled nipples.Her breasts were small but full and his mouth watered as he eyed them, wanting to suck on her sensitive flesh, wanting to hear her pleasured cries ringing in his ears.Her waist was slim but she had wide, flared hips that tapered into soft thighs.And between those thighs…
He ran a hand over his horn, a purring growl building in his chest.
There was a light tuft of curls covering her cunt.But even from his distance, he could see her pink lips and how swollen with need they were.
