Crystal’s fingers trembled as she reached up to touch his lips.
She breathed, her tone one of disbelief and awe, “Why did we wait so long to have sex? That was…I’ve never felt anything like that before.”
Cruxan huffed out a sound that was partly a laugh and partly a pained groan. “Female, you will be the death of me.”
“So you’ve said before,” she teased softly. Then she smiled, her cheeks flushed, her eyes bright. She licked her lips and Cruxan felt his body tighten, watching her pink little tongue. She stilled when she felt him. “Oh. Already?”
He thrust into her body, feeling himself harden quickly, ready for another mating.
Her voice was breathless when she asked, “It’s going to be a long day, isn’t it?”
“Tev,” he growled. “We have a lot of time to make up for. And female?”
“Y-yes?”
“I warn you now. I amravenousfor you.”
Her eyes went half-lidded, a small, sensual smile appearing on her lips that made him half-crazed already.
“Good,” she whispered, pulling him forward for a kiss. “The feeling’s mutual.”
Bliss was notan emotion Crystal was particularly familiar with.
But right then, half out of her mind with exhaustion and pleasure and happiness, that was what she felt.
Bliss.
Pure bliss as she laid in her mate’s arms, as a steady purr rose from his chest, as he allowed her a brief reprieve after the marathon he’d put her through.
It was dark outside. She didn’t know what time it was. She didn’t care. She was high out of her mind on Cruxan and sex, though that word didn’t seem like it wasenoughto describe what they’d been doing.
That day felt like a dream. They’d spent it between the furs, only breaking to eat and bathe, though their washing session had led to another round of mating in the bathing pool. And then another…
Crystal smiled and stroked over Cruxan’s skin. Her sex tingled between her legs and she felt the remnants of his seed there, which he hadn’t allowed her to wash away. Not yet.
They hadn’t really spoken since last night, which was why she found herself whispering, “This means you’ll take me back right?”
She’d meant it half as a joke, but the other half of it was serious.
Cruxan looked down at her, his arm tightening around her back. His grumbling purring stopped. His voice was deep, steeped from sex, as he rasped, “Luxiva, how can you ask that?”
She bit her lip, tracing a scar that ran across his side. She wanted to know how he’d received it. She wanted to knoweverything.
There will be time for that, she knew.
“I know we still have a lot to talk about,” she whispered, rolling so that she laid on her stomach, leaning up on her elbows so she could look down at his face. A moment later, she felt his hand glide down her bare back, resting on the swell of her buttocks. Her breath hitched. “I just…I really can’t tell you how sorry I am for it all.”
To go from one of her lowest points tothishigh…it still boggled her mind. Her facestillfelt a little puffy from all the crying she’d done the last week.
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” he rasped, frowning.
And he was such a good male, such an honorable, honest one that she knew he meant it.
“It is an impossible decision,” he said. Then he hesitated before asking. “You are certain this is what you want,luxiva? You know it is unlikely you will ever see your sister again.”
Her mood dampened slightly at the prospect, but she whispered, “I know.”
She blew out a small breath, but when she looked into his eyes, somehow she justknewit would be alright.
