“Yes. Please. Aalis said it’s fine. Keep going.”
His mouth found her throat. The sharp edges of his teeth grazed her pulse point, and she arched into the dual sensation of the wet heat of his tongue, the cool glide of his tail between her legs. A purr rose in his chest, thrumming against her nipples.
“Tell me if you’re too tender.” The tail’s tip pressed at her entrance, waiting for her to move. She canted her hips, and the first inch slipped inside.
Hanna’s head fell back at the new sensation. Everything felt so different now that the mate bond was a source of pleasure rather than fear. She could feel Rikard’s excitement, the way he exulted every time she made a noise or her inner muscles squeezed him.
His tail undulated in a way nothing else could replicate. It curled slightly inside her, finding the spot high on her front wall that made her gasp.
Pleasure burst across his features.
“You can feel it this way,” she breathed wonderingly, propping up on her elbows to look him in the eye. “Through the bond. You can feel both sides, too, just like I can.”
“Yes.”
“So if I come, you will, too?”
His purr deepened. He’d just realized, too. His tail withdrew, then pressed deeper, teasing out a moan before plunging in and out. The slick sound of it filled the quiet room. Hanna’s fingers fisted in the sheets. Each thrust of his tail curled the tip against that aching place inside her, and the bond between them felt like a door thrown wide.
Her pleasure rushed into him and his into her. Not his body’s pleasure, but his mind’s. Like a hall of mirrors, their pleasure reflected and refracted, creating more and more.
She saw it on his face. The trembling in his jaw. The way his eyes had gone half-lidded, eyes burning like embers through his lashes.
“You’re close,” she whispered. “Let go.”
“No,you’reclose,” he growled. “I can’t—I need you to—”
His tail thrust deeper, faster now, the rhythm matched to the desperate pitch of his breathing. He reached between them to find her clit, tracing dizzying circles around it. The dual pressure, inside and outside, built in layers she couldn’t separate anymore.
His wing tightened around them both, his forehead pressed to hers. His hips ground against the mattress in a helpless instinct.
Hanna’s world narrowed to a single point of heat where their bodies connected. She focused on it, and it finally spilled over, her inner muscles rippling around his thick tail. A rush of milk from her breasts soaked the sheets beneath her, and she didn’t have time to worry about the bed linens before she felt him come apart, too.
She felt him seize and burst.
Not his cock. It was still soft and dry and tucked away. Buthim. The core of him. The part that had been locked away for years behind frustration and shame. The orgasm hit him through the mate bond, her pleasure translated into his, and his whole body convulsed.
A ragged purr tore out of his chest that was almost a sob. His tail kept moving inside her, wringing every last pulse from her body until she sank into the pillows, spent and shaking, and he collapsed on top of her.
“Are you all right?” she whispered when she’d caught her breath. He didn’t answer at first, so she smoothed back his hair where it’d looped around his horns.
He didn’t answer with words at first. He pressed his mouth to her forehead and breathed her in, his shoulders still trembling with the aftershocks. Then he kissed his way across her face, covering her with affection. Down her throat and across her collarbones and chest, then lower, licking up the milk that still leaked from her breasts.
“Everything is right.”
Chapter 34
Rikard
Hanna panted against his chest, her body warm and loose from the climax they’d shared. His tail was still inside her, and everything about the moment was contentment. The borrowed pleasure still hummed in his veins, an afterglow he never thought he’d experience again.
“Perhaps I should resign my position as Nadir,” he mused.
“Why is that?”
“Because now that I know what we can share, I don’t think I’ll ever leave this room again.”
Her laugh shook her whole body, her body clenching around his tail. A thrill ran between them through the bond, and it made him wish he had time to take her again like that before daysleep.
