“Am I?”
“Yes.”
Just then, a large wave crashed into Vikan’s body, drenching them both.Taylor sputtered, blinking the salty water from her eyes as Vikan trudged on, taking them out to calmer water.When he reached the space where the waves were nothing more than mere ripples and he could no longer touch the bottom of the sea floor, he stopped.
He was reluctant to let his female go, but he was perilously close to losing control, to breaking the words he’d told her, that they wouldn’t mate that night.That had been before he’d felt her naked flesh against him.
“Is the water too cold for you?” he wondered, slowly letting her drift away from the circle of his arms.
Her hair hung in wet tendrils around her face, but her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were bright.
“No,” she answered, surprising him by drifting back towards him.“I’ll get used to it soon.”
Vikan gripped her bare hips, growling, when she came to him.His Instinct purred in satisfaction as she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing their bodies together.
“Luxiva,” he rasped when he felt her hard nipples brush against his chest.
“We’re pretending, aren’t we?” she murmured.“We’re pretending that we belong to each other.”
Vikan’s chest heaved from her words, from the slick feel of her.When she wrapped her legs around his waist, he hissed out a breath, his cock head brushing the bottom of her thighs.
Pretending.
In a sense they were, but in so many other ways, they weren’t.
“Wedobelong to each other,” he corrected.
“Do you?” she whispered, her breath drifting over his cheek, she was so close.“Do you only belong to me?”
Vikan’s jaw ticked at her words, understanding the unspoken question.
Before he could reply, she shook her head, saying, “Never mind.Tonight is only us, right?”
Vikan let his shoulders loosen.“Tev, female.Only us.”
“In that case,” she murmured, her voice carrying softly over the sea water, “I really want to kiss you, Vikan.”
He stilled.“Tev?”
Taylor’s gaze flicked down to his lips.“Would that be okay?”
Vikan swallowed, fearing that if she kissed him in the way he’d seen the other human females kiss their mates, he wouldn’t be able to keep control.
But how could he deny her?
Besides, he didn’twantto deny her this.
And even though she clearly believed they were still ‘pretending,’ Vikan’s only goal was to show her something beyond that, something that would make her rethink her decision to leave.At least for a little while.
“Tev,” he purred.
Her hands slid up the back of his neck, to the sensitive flesh there, and he groaned low in his throat.It had been so long since he’d been touched in this way, with soft hands, a gentle caress.
He could perceive her heat against his lower abdomen.He was maddeningly aware that if she slid a little lower, he would be poised at the entrance of her cunt.
“You do not know what you do to me, female,” he said, his voice nothing more than a dark rumble.
Taylor didn’t waste another moment.Her fingers fluttered on his neck briefly and then she pulled him forward.
