“What are you saying?” He refused to indulge in speculation on the possibilities of what she may be offering.
“I want to touch you,” she whispered as her hands dragged across his hips. Her fingertips brought shivers wherever they traced his skin, traveling down his spine to his steely cock. “I want to ease your suffering as you have mine, so we can finally sleep peacefully.”
“You can’t,” he gritted out as his hands clenched into fists. “I don’t know if I can—”
“I trust you, Kaede.”
Her unwavering eyes told him more than he needed to know.
Wrapping soft fingers around his hardness, she gripped his cock as her tongue slowly lapped the beads of liquid from its head. She closed her eyes, a soft moan breaking from her lips as her hands tightened around him and pumped.
This moment was the most exquisite torture he’d ever experienced. All he wanted to do was to throw Selena on her back and make those lips call out his name—but he couldn’t.
Not now.
They had only just left the base where he had rescued her.
“Selena… I don’t know if I can.”
Selena’s eyes snapped open as her lips curled into a smile that could only mean trouble. It always had.
“Let me do this,” she said, her voice laced with such determination that his arousal grew even more. “Lie down on our bed and let me take care of you for once.”
“I can go—”
“Kaede, if you are afraid of us going any further, don’t be.” She released her hold on him. He instantly missed her skin as she scooted toward the bed’s center. “Instead of forcing yourself to take care of that”—her eyes traced over his hard and erect length—”let me. Bite a pillow if you must. I promise I won’t go any further.”
Her offer was tempting. Kaede knew that he would need to relieve this pressure, and soon. It was the only way to temporarily sate the lust burning within him. But when her lips wrapped around his manhood, how could he resist?
This was a test from the Stars themselves, who had placed him in such a situation. Was he willing to trust himself to keep Selena out of harm’s way?
“If you will it, I can prevent you from hurting her.”
“How so?”
“Do what she says. Let her please you as she wants, and I will make sure you don’t lunge for her neck.”
“You will control my body?”
He knew REI could intervene if necessary, though until now, he had never needed her help in this way. Before Zirene had rescued him and his siblings, he would have resisted such an offer.
But now?
He needed all the help he could get.
“I’ve dampened your hormones, preventing you from lapsing into your mating lust at this time—but I can only do so much,” REI explained. ”You’ve been relieving the pressure daily and draining your sacs whenever they fill. Allowing her to aid you wouldn’t be any different.”
“It would,” he corrected as Selena stared at him in confusion. ”Feeling her hands and lips on me… will be the ultimate test of my control.”
“If you don’t do it tonight, how many nights will you be able to keep your mating heat suppressed until you give in?” REI asked, her voice full of concern. ”Will you be able to continue this routine now that she’s here? I can already tell how her mere scent has affected you. I’m losing my grip on your hormones already. However, in the end, the choice is yours and yours alone.”
For once in his life, he was willing to give in to temptations and allow himself to feel.
Growling, Kaede threw himself onto the bed and climbed onto the woman who had captured his very soul. An excited squeal escaped Selena as he pinned her hands on either side of her, trapping her body beneath his. Locking his gaze with hers, he lowered his head to reclaim the lips he had only sampled in the past.
Selena willingly relinquished control, opening her mouth to welcome his tongue to dance with hers. Moaning, she latched onto him, digging her nails into his back. Her legs wrapped around his as if trying to direct his hardness between her folds.
Her taste. Her touch. Her scent. Her noises.
His senses exploded, overwhelmed by her.
Selena ran her tongue along the roof of his mouth and pressed hard against his Bahzyl sac. Closing his eyes, Kaede groaned against her lips at the sensation. He couldn’t believe how completely she trusted him not to go further or accidentally injure her on instinct. His body shivered at the relief of his drained sacs, his uncontrollable need to bury himself deep inside her soothed.
Once he felt his sacs were empty, he pulled away.
“Why?” he whispered, in awe of what she’d done.
Licking her lips, she stared at him with ravenous eyes and smiled.
“All you do is give, Kaede. Sometimes, you need to allow people to give back to you.”
Stunned at her words, he didn’t resist when she released her grip on him and guided him onto his back.
Before he could comprehend what was happening, her warm hands wrapped around his cock, and she lowered her lips onto its head. His body jerked, demanding more of the pleasure she offered. Gripping the comforter hard, he stared down at her in wonder as she bobbed her head.
His internal display glitched, flickering as his eyes rolled to the back of his head at the intense sensations coursing through his body.
All he could do was to lie prone, twitching and chanting her name like a mantra—a prayer to the Stars themselves. The combination of her hands and mouth bobbing up and down his cock was enough to make his head spin.
It didn’t take long until her name became guttural moans as his bucking hips tensed. His fists tightened until the sound of shredding filled the air. His face tightened as a strangled yell escaped him.
He felt like he was forever falling into an abyss of pleasure as Selena did everything in her might to lengthen its distance. His body
