But she wasn’t finished.“I’ve only known you for a short period of time but I can’t imagine saying goodbye to you.I’ve tried to imagine it, of leaving and knowing that I’d never see you again, and I just physicallycan’t.It hurts too much to even consider.”She shook her head, reaching up to stroke her fingertips down his cheek.“And you say that Luxirians have their Instincts when choosing a mate, but I’ve often wondered if humans have them too.Because when I first saw you, I felt mine.I mean, you made me faint in that hallway, after all.”
“I did not,” he huffed, but his soft, rare smile betrayed him and it completelymeltedher.
“You were shirtless.Of course you were responsible,” she teased, laughing.
He growled low in his throat and she felt her spine tingle at the sound.“Are you flirting with me, female?”
Her cheeks began to hurt from how big her smile was, remembering their conversation in the hovercraft when he’d asked her what a ‘big flirt’ was.
“Yes,” she said, “I am.And I want to flirt with you and be with you and love you for the rest of my life.”
“For the rest ofourlife,luxiva,” Rixavox murmured, his soft purr filling her ears like music.“And I vow to do the same, to love you, respect you, protect you, and honor you until the end of our spans together,tev?”
“Deal,” she whispered.
And then they sealed it with a kiss.
EPILOGUE
Two lunar cycles later…
Rixavox was convinced that there was no better sight in the entire universe than the sight of his lush, aroused female riding his cock.
He was flat on his back, sprawled on the coldfacevstone floor of their dwelling, while his female straddled his hips.The cold season had descended uponVelraxaswiftly and mercilessly, but hisluxivafound erotic and addicting ways to keep his blood pumping hot, just as he found ways to keep his human warm and sated in their furs at night.
“Tev,” he growled, his palms grasping the flesh of her generous backside and driving her down harder.Ever since Privanax had confirmed that both the poisonandthehellixaxavahad been cured by the blood bond, Sessela’s body had replenished the weight she’d lost due to her illness, giving her curves that he couldn’t get enough of.“Brixav ta, luxiva.”
Take me, in Luxirian, but she knew what he said.Another gift from the Fates, one that neither Vaxa’an nor Lihvan had encountered with their human females during the blood bond…the gift of language.She understood Luxirian, like there was a language implant in her head, even though her human tongue had trouble speaking it.She liked to hear him talk in his language, she’d told him once.So he did it often, especially during their matings.
Sessela was looking down at him, her mesmerizing gray eyes half-lidded, her pink lips parted.She’d been nude when he walked into their dwelling and waiting for him.He hadn’t made it past the central hub before she’d pinned him down and stripped him of his coverings and furs, his wanton little human.
Rixavox smirked.He loved it when she was demanding.Sometimes, during their play, she wanted to be in control, usually by being on top.Other times, he was the aggressor, taking her in primal, animalistic positions that his Instinct craved.
She snapped her hips down, moaning softly, steadying herself with her hands on his chest.She was nearing her orgasm, Rixavox knew.He was an expert in the subtle signs of hisluxiva’spleasure, had studied her tells with the intensity and focus he’d often utilized as a war general.And she was getting very, very close.
So, he purred deep within his chest so that it radiated throughout his entire body.A choked cry sounded from above him and he held her steady as he pumped his hips up, quickening his pace, as his cock vibrated inside her tight, hot cunt.Her mouth opened in a silent scream, her abdomen clenching, and then Rixavox was growling, gritting his jaw as he felt her inner walls begin to squeeze around him, signaling her pleasure.
The sounds of their mating filled the dwelling and their flesh slapped together as Rixavox mated her body harder, jerking and pumping his hips, using the power from his thighs to stroke as deep as possible inside her.
She felt too good.She felt divine, so Rixavox knew from past experience that he wouldn’t be able to control his own orgasm much longer.
And he was right.
A roar built in his chest when he felt hisvarxdraw up tightly against his body and then the force of his seed sizzled down his thick shaft.His cum burst from his tip, jetting into his female’s warm cunt, marking her, claiming her,remindingher of his need and love and desire for her.
“Yes,honey,” she breathed, jerking on his cock, no doubt feeling the seed coating her insides.“Yes.”
The pleasure was unbelievable.With his Sessela, even though—regrettably— many females had come before her, which they’d discussed at length one span, never had he felt pleasure like what he felt with her.Once, he’d told Vaxa’an, shortly after the Prime Leader had found his Kat, that he couldn’t imagine his life with just one female.And now…now he understood why Vaxa’an had been so smug that night, how amusing his comment must’ve seemed to his close friend, who had found his fated mate, a connection more powerful than anything else on their planet.
He didn’t deserve his Sessela, but every span she told him how much she loved him.And even though he didn’t deserve her, her made sure to show her just how much he lovedherin any way he possibly could.
She collapsed onto his chest, panting hard, her heart thundering against him.Rixavox stroked his hand down the smooth expanse of her back before clutching her backside possessively.
“Mmm,” she mumbled, lifting her head to rest her chin on his chest.Her eyes caught his gaze and she gave him a wicked smile that made his heart stutter, “Welcome home.”
He huffed out a laugh.“What a good welcome that was, female.”
“I missed you,” she murmured, pressing a kiss to his chest.
