“I’m yours, Kaede.”
He kneeled between my legs and I waited for him to take me roughly again—to finally make me climax—but instead, he placed his lips on my ankle, alternating between kisses and nips as his hands ran up and down the outside of my legs. He moved back and forth, kissing and stroking as if memorizing my body while he took me to great heights of anticipation.
I felt like he was truly savoring and exploring me, completely ignoring his raging hardness dripping on our bed. He slowly moved higher, his shoulders spreading me open when he began to slowly lick my clit.
A hiss escaped my lips as my body shook. He paused, and I leaned forward to see why. His dilated eyes met mine as his tongue stroked my raised bud again. His strong hands gripped my hips, preventing me from escaping, while his forked tongue rapidly flicked against my clit. He watched how each pass drove me crazy with lust, and I couldn’t help but moan and whimper.
Suddenly, Kaede leaned over to kiss me, his lips moving against mine with a great hunger I hadn’t known he possessed until tonight.
Spreading my legs farther, I accepted him—I needed his body pressing against mine. My body was a living inferno waiting to explode as I waited for him to make the next move.
Something about this position made me feel cherished, loved, and vulnerable all at the same time. I was giving myself to this male, knowing how much he feared he would hurt me, and he was trying so hard to be gentle after he had aggressively marked me.
He slipped a hand between my legs, his soft hands rubbing my folds gently, and his thumb grazed my clit.
I wrapped my hand around his hot, textured cock. I’d had enough of this tenderness and wanted to see him come apart once again, so I pulled his thick head toward my slippery folds. His skin was hotter than mine even as his venom flared in my veins. His cock felt amazing when I rubbed it against my clit, replacing his thumb.
“What are you doing, Selena?” he hissed, his body shivering above me. “I’m trying to—”
“I’ve had enough of you going slow, Kaede,” I growled. “Fuck me now!”
Replacing my hand with his, he directed his cock to my slit and pushed, slowly slipping inside. Wrapping my legs around him, I wiggled my hips slightly, pulling him deeper. I adored the way his cock felt inside me—the way he felt inside me.
Kaede stared into my eyes for a moment, then kissed me deeply, beginning a frantic rhythm of thrusts. My hands found his horns and gripped them. Kaede roared against my lips as his pace picked up.
“Oh, yes,” I moaned, feeling the base of his thickness grinding against my clit with every thrust. This moment felt almost perfect, but there was one improvement I needed to make. Releasing one of my hands from his horn, I turned his face to the side and bit down on his neck. He moaned as I locked my jaw, refusing to let my prey go.
He was mine—no one else could have him.
Kaede pulled almost all the way out of me, then thrust back in with the same speed as if trying to shake me off, but I held on.
We were two predators tangled together in bed. At this very moment, he would learn that he was mine—and so was the universe.
My hands found his back and I dug my hands into his skin, clawing at him.
As if my claim had triggered something within him, he relented and rocked his hips in a deep rhythm. He wrapped his arms around me, pulling me closer as his long, deep strokes ground into me perfectly. In the blink of an eye, my body started shaking and convulsing against his hard rod. I came in deep waves, clenching around him.
“That’s it, Selena,” he growled into my ear. “Make me yours as you are mine.”
His words seemed to trigger his climax. He slammed into me and shook violently. Closing my eyes, I released his neck and fell onto the comforter.
It was done.
“You are mine, Kaede. My savior. My protector. No one can take you from me.”
“I will never leave your side.”
Chapter Thirty-Eight Kaede
It had taken Kaede all night to burn through his mating lust, and he knew he would need to do the same tonight. If he stayed in their master suite, he would be tempted to take her again before then, though he shouldn’t.
He needed to afford her some rest in case his heat cycle lasted for a long time. The last thing he wanted was to deliver her to Destima exhausted and malnourished from ceaseless mating. Next time he felt his cycle dawning, he would make sure to book a vacation for them so they could work it out in peace, far from the stresses of the universe.
Not caring who saw him, Kaede entered the galley dressed in nothing but a pair of exercise shorts to allow his neck wound to breathe. REI had expressed concern when he had requested she keep his nanobots from healing the mark. He didn’t want the wound to heal too quickly because he hoped to develop a big, ugly scar on his neck for the universe to see. If Selena decided to mark his shoulders too, even better. Everyone should know he had been claimed.
As soon as Luwyn’s eyes moved from his conversation to Kaede’s body, he dropped his pastry. “What the Stars happened to you?”
Auro glanced over his shoulder and spat out his drink, spraying liquid everywhere. “Did we get attacked while we slept? Why didn’t you wake us?”
“You could say that,” he muttered, grabbing a drink from the dispenser before sitting down to join them.
“Why didn’t you ask for help?” Ryzen asked from the other side of the table, staring at his neck in
