His hand stilled on his blade, but his fist tightened on the handle.“Five,” he repeated.
“None of them lasted very long,” she murmured.“Why?How many females have you had?”
“If you are speaking of partnerships, then just Nitav.If you are speaking of matings…” He trailed off, blowing out a breath.“I do not know.”
Taylor’s mouth parted.“You don’t know how many sexual partners you’ve had?”
Why did she feel a hot streak of jealousy run through her veins at that?She was picturing hundreds of females in her mind who had known him intimately.
And she’d never even kissed him.
Well, not in real-life, at least.
“Luxirians are liberal with matings,” he told her.“We are one of the more free species in that regard.”
“But…but,” she sputtered.
“I have not had a female since Nitav,” he confessed, searing her with a gaze.“But before her, I was a young warrior.Does this bother you?”
“I’ve had sex with four of those five boyfriends,” she told him, eliciting a growl from him.“You can’t be mad about that, considering you just told me you have no idea how many females you’ve had sex with.”
He was still growling low in his throat and suddenly, he caught her around the nape of her neck, drawing her close.He pressed his forehead against hers and Taylor gasped, inhaling the scent of his skin, fresh from the sea.
“You feel that jealousy, do you not?” he rasped.“That burning sensation at the thought others have touched me and you have not.”
“Vikan,” she said softly, eyes wide on his.
“You can touch me whenever you wish, female,” he rasped and she felt those words pool in her stomach like lava.
“I’m afraid to,” she admitted, her head spinning, wondering what the hell was happening.
“Why?”
“Because…because I’m afraid I won’t want to stop,” she confessed, her brow furrowing.“I admit that there’s something between us.I feel itconstantly, even before you took me a couple nights ago.And I’m afraid of what would happen if I gave into it.I’m afraid what it would do to me.”
Vikan’s eyes slid shut and he took a deep breath in before exhaling.Then he released her, his heat gone in the blink of an eye.Taylor swayed a bit before steadying herself.
Vikan picked up his blade like nothing happened and resumed his preparations.
“It is inevitable,” he said softly.“I cannot think of a fated pairing that resisted the Instinct’s call.”
In a flash, the memory of his naked body from earlier that afternoon flashed into her mind.She remembered his cock, impossibly large and thick, with hard knobs lining both the top and bottom.The head had been shimmering with pre-cum.
She bit her lip, her skin buzzing so much that she wrapped her arms around her body, despite not being cold.
She had a feeling he was right.
“I…I don’t know if you’d fit,” she confessed.
“Tev, I will,” he murmured almost immediately, as if this was the most natural thing to discuss.“Your body was made to receive me.”
Taylor sucked in a breath as arousal flooded her.His hand slipped on the blade but then he caught himself and resumed.
He continued, “You know we are compatible in that way.You have seen it, how good it will be.”
Will be.Notmight be.
As if it was a sure thing they’d eventually have sex.
