24. Nevarn

Chapter 24

Nevarn

H ad Kerry just offered to bathe with me?

Standing, I studied her features. I must've misheard her. "I'll start the water for you. I'm not sure if you're familiar with our facilities, so I can explain how to use them if you'd like."

"I'm sorry." She stared down at her hands clasped on her lap. "I won't push you again. I know we're still trying to figure this out."

Wait. She had suggested we bathe together. Did she mean just washing or . . .

My cock stirred behind my loincloth.

"You want to bathe with me?" I croaked.

She glanced up at me before directing her eyes to the floor. "I shouldn't have suggested it. If you don't want more with me than just friendship and—"

I stooped down in front of her and lifted her face, making her eyes meet mine. "There is nothing I want more than to be with you, Kerry. When a male meets his fated mate, he falls fast. That's what's happened with you." I showed her the mark on my wrist. "This appeared when I met you, and I don't need any other proof than that. We're meant to be together. All my thoughts are consumed by you. I'm falling in love with you, and while it's probably a mistake to say it, I want you to know."

She sucked in a breath and her eyes shimmered with tears. "Really?"

My throat was so tight, I could only nod.

She slid off the bed. "Then what are we waiting for?" Taking my hand, she tugged me into the bathing area.

Inside the smaller room, I held her back, turning her to face me. "You're sure? I'm not sure I can hold myself back. I crave you, Kerry, and I always will. If you're saying you want me now, that means everything. My heart. My body. My very future."

She stood on tiptoes and stroked my face. "All my life, I've been searching for a home, for someone who could make me feel complete, someone who'd understand me when no one else ever could. That's you, Nevarn. You. I had to cross I don't know how many galaxies to find you, but now that I have, I'm not letting you go."

"Mate," I growled, tugging her into my arms and holding her. "I never thought my life could include you. I'm going to prove to you that you're not wrong in trusting your future to me."

She smiled up at me. "And I'll prove that you weren't wrong in trusting me."

"I want to love you completely, but I understand if you're not ready for something like that."

Was I ready to be with him completely? If I didn't take a chance, I might never know.

"Let's get into the tub," she said. "And see what happens after that, okay?"

"Oh-kay."

Moving around her, I started the water, and it soon filled the tub to the brim, steam coasting across the surface. My hands shook, but I was nervous about what she might say.

"Where does your water come from?" she asked, leaning close to study the faucet.

"From deep within the island, but we also collect rainwater. It's heated by sunlight in a central location and brought to each bathing area."

"Much like back on Earth, though we don't necessarily heat our water with the sun. Some people have solar panels, and solar farms are being built all the time, but most of our water is heated with electricity. I guess generated by the solar fields, though from other sources too. Someone even found a way to harness lightning." She frowned. "That's not right, but they somehow discovered how to generate something similar. We buy the energy, and it's fed into our homes through wires."

I couldn't imagine anything like that.

And I forgot all about it when she started to remove her clothing, her tunic first.

She was tiny compared to me, and her lush frame held curves that made it impossible to look away.

"You have two breasts," I said, my voice deep and husky. "They jiggle when you walk."

She looked down at them. "You have four nipples, so I assume your women have four breasts?"

"Yes. A tube projects from beneath them to nurse our younglings." I hadn't seen the tubes, of course, but that was what I was told.

"We use these." She lightly pinched the circular buds in the middle of her breasts, and they tightened, puckering.

"Do adult males suck on them?" I ached to do so myself.

Her smile rose, and I adored how her happiness shone on her face. "Sometimes. Women find it pleasurable as well."

I nodded, unable to drag my gaze away.

"Since you didn't comment on the difference," she said. "I assume humans are about the same below the waist compared to a Zuldruxian."

"I believe so. Yes." I nodded again, my jaw dropping as she slid her pants down and kicked them aside. I only vaguely noticed that they were absorbed into the floor. If she wanted them back, she only needed to ask, and they'd be returned, clean and folded. But she appeared to like the clothing we'd picked out at the shop. I couldn't wait to see her wearing a Zuldruxian dress made to fit her tiny frame. "Our females have passages and clits like you."

"That's a good thing. You seem to know your way around them quite well." Humor bubbled in her voice, but it was shared, not anything mocking.

I nodded again. "Yes. I've thought about clits and passages a lot, mostly when I was younger."

Completely naked, she sauntered closer to me, her gaze drawn to my cock lifting the front of my loincloth. "One day, you'll have to share your thoughts about passages and clits. I'd love to hear them." She traced her fingertip along my length through the material, and my cock thrust higher, smacking against my abs, leaving the loincloth behind. Her eyes widened. "You're big, but that's to be expected."

"I'm small. You see this already." Heat poured into my face, and I wanted to turn away. But this was Kerry. If I couldn't reveal myself to her with trust, I couldn't with anyone. "I apologize."

"Why apologize?"

"For my small size."

Her head tilted. "You don't look small to me."

"Weela . . ."

Her sigh bled out. "Are you saying she criticized you for something beyond your control?"

"I couldn't blame her. My cocks are small compared to other males." Seeing sadness in her eyes, I hurried to do all I could to dispel it. "I'll make up for my lack."

She braced my arms. "Nevarn."

"Yes?"

"You're bigger than any human guy I've been with." That was good, though, as she'd pointed out, this was something beyond my control. "What matters is what you can do with it, not its size."

"Yes." My face kept overheating, and it was all I could do not to squirm. I hated talking about this. "I'm sorry."

"You're perfect. Different from a human, but size isn't important." She stared down, seemingly mesmerized by my cock pressing against my loincloth. "I know I'm going to enjoy being with you."

That heartened me.

"I don't like to speak bad about the dead, especially a young woman who was murdered, but if she was here now, I'd kick her," she added.

"Why?"

"Because she hurt you." She wrapped her arms around me, pressing my cocks against my abdomen. "You're perfect. You'll see."

I hoped so.

"Did you say you have two cocks? I've never heard of such a thing."

"Yes, this is . . . extra?" Maybe this would work out well. I'd do all I could to make sure her passage enjoyed what I had to offer, and I'd make sure my second cock pleased her clit. It meant so much to me that she finds pleasure. "One is bigger than the other."

"Humans only have one."

"I feel bad for them."

Her laugh spurted out. "So do I. What does the smaller one do?"

"All the things I dreamed of about clits. Its sole focus is your orgasm."

"I assume that's the focus of them both."

If she kept stroking my main cock, I was going to come, and it would shoot across the room. I'd rather shoot it inside her.

"I'm curious about your cocks." Turning away from me, she climbed into the tub and settled on one of the seats. "Would you be willing to give me a demonstration?"