“Oh,” said Thorvid, taking one look at our faces when we walked into my room, “Josiah, would you like to go on a tour of Station 21?”
“Yes, please!” Josiah exclaimed, jumping up. “Can Mama and Commander Eldron go with us?”
“Not this time,” Thorvid said placidly. “We’ll bring them back something to eat from the common area in a little while though.” It turned to me. “I’ll com you before we return.”
“Thanks,” Mia said with a small laugh. “I’ll see you soon, okay, baby?”
Josiah put his tiny fists on his hips. “I’m not a baby anymore, Mama. You need to call me something else.”
She gave a salute. “Will do, ba—buddy.”
He nodded seriously. “Buddy is much better.” Then he turned and gave me the same salute his mother had given him. “Take care of my Mama, Commander Eldron. We will return soon.”
I gave him a Khanavai heart salute. “Yes, sir.”
And then they were gone, and I was free to make Mia my own.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Mia
We tore at each other’s clothes as if their very presence offended us, our mouths frantic against each other’s skin.
When we were fully naked, Eldron tried to slow things down, placing me on the bed and moving his mouth to my breast. I writhed against him. “No,” I said. “I don’t want to wait a second longer. Please, Eldron, please make me yours.”
With a groan, he slid up to cover me, his enormous cock pressing against my opening. I bucked against him, needing to feel him filling me, and he accepted my body’s invitation, pushing into me steadily.
“Oh, gods and goddesses, you’re so tight,” he said.
His words made my muscles clench, and as if the tightness itself drove him on, he withdrew just a little, then flipped us over so I was on top and pulled me down hard onto his cock.
When he’d driven all the way into me, burying his cock to the hilt, he paused, holding me tight against him.
I could feel his cock filling me up, swelling, growing, and I ached with it. He paused, apparently having to stop himself from coming inside me. “You feel just right,” he whispered, his voice rasping.
Eldron’s enormous hands, those hands I had started counting on to save me, wrapped around my waist and slid down as he stroked my ass.
The sparks of arousal roared into an overwhelming flame, the heat of Eldron’s body against mine and the feeling of his hand stroking from the hollow of my waist to the curves of my ass cheeks making my back arch as I rocked against him.
Eldron groaned, his fingers playing my skin as my nipples tightened. We found a rhythm together without words, just as we had during our first kiss.
I shouldn’t be doing this.
Not until I was truly free from Frank.
But Eldron had promised the paperwork he’d filed had freed me from any obligation to Frank in the eyes of the Khanavai law.
That would have to be enough.
“Thank you,” I murmured as I bent down to kiss him.
“I will always give you anything you need,” Eldron replied in between kisses. “You are free—and I am yours.”
And he knows what I need to hear, without me even having to say it.
My response to him built in my deepest core as he slid into me, filling me up, stretching me out, making me want more of him. I found myself throwing my head back and whimpering with the need to come and the desire to draw this out forever.
In the end, the need won.
I began rocking my hips, meeting Eldron stroke for stroke, barely forcing myself not to beg for him to go deeper and harder, to give me more.
But as if he heard me, he began slamming his cock deep into me, reaching between us, his big fingers rubbing my clit, making me slicker and wetter, while the pressure built up in my abdomen, coiling tighter.
The wetter I got, the harder he fucked me. And the harder he fucked me, the more I met him thrust for thrust.
The head of his cock slammed into something deep inside me, prompting me to cry out with ecstasy.
The sensation spiraled up inside me, sending me higher and higher. I wanted to stop it, to draw this out forever, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t quit moving to the rhythm Eldron set, couldn’t quit feeling the sensations washing over me. And then, as the feelings broke over me like waves, I came harder than I ever had before.
I screamed with the pleasure of it, and all the muscles in my lower body clenched as the hot wetness of my orgasm sluiced through me.
As my muscles tightened around Eldron’s cock, he gave one enormous final thrust, crying out my name as he came inside me, holding me tightly against him.
We stayed like that for a long moment, and then I collapsed against his chest.
“I love you, Mia,” he said.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Eldron
As we lay together, still entwined, I felt my mating cock emerge from the softening skin of my primary cock—a new experience for me, but unmistakable.
Startled, Mia raised her head to meet my gaze. “Again?” she asked, surprise threading through her voice.
We’d known each other only a few days. It was far too early to start tossing around words like love or mate, but I knew that’s what this was.
“This…will be different,” I tried to explain. “If we continue, we’ll be mated. It’s not like human marriage. This will truly be forever.”
She swallowed, fear flashing through her eyes.
“Our life together will be different from your time with Frank. I will never hurt you.” I kept my voice soft, even as my cock, still inside her, grew harder and harder.
“Promise?” Her tiny question, so full of worry, brought out every protective instinct within me.
“With everything I am and everything I have, I will protect you—and Josiah. I will make sure you are loved and cared for. Forever.” My words spilled out directly from my heart.
“Then…make me
