Chapter 30

Bliss. That's what this is. The hot spring in the cave is absolutely perfect. There's a scented soap in the pack that's marked with a cursive ‘D', and I'm beside myself as I wash off the grime of the last few days.

It doesn't hurt that Hyadum's soaping up next to me, all glistening skin and hard muscles.

My mouth goes dry at the sight.

A slow grin curves his mouth as he notices my attention, flexing a little.

"Hi," I say.

"Hello," he purrs back. "Are you clean?"

I nod once, then twice. My hair's as clean as I can get it. I don't know how we got lucky, but neither of us have any deep wounds. Even the knife wound at my neck is already healing nicely.

I frown slightly as I finger the scabbed over flesh. Maybe a little too nicely.

Hyadum grabs my hand, scowling at the manacle. "I will not stand for these on you a moment more, coruscant."

Easily, as though they're made of butter and not metal, he breaks the hinge on one wrist, then the other. I squeal as he grabs my ankle, splashing in the waist deep water. He presses a kiss to the arch of my foot, and my laughter turns into a soft sigh.

The manacle falls off. He repeats the treatment on the other foot, kissing up my ankle.

All humor disappears, replaced by heat. By desire.

Everything I want is right in front of me, and suddenly, I'm more than ready.

"Hyadum," I moan his name, and his mouth captures mine at once.

Kissing him has ruined me for other men. He cups my cheeks gently, such tenderness in the way he holds me, that I press myself further into him. His hard cock juts against me, and the need only grows.

"Want you," I manage, pulling away just long enough to say it. "Need you."

He growls into my mouth, his hands going to my waist as he hauls me around him. I'm half-frantic, already so fucking wet for him. Our skin is slippery from soap and the minerals in the hot spring both, and he carries me from the pool, depositing me on the soft blanket he spread across the ground.

For a moment, I worry we'll get the blanket all wet and have to sleep in the damp, and then he spreads my legs, his mouth devouring.

All thoughts flee, and I am utterly lost. His tongue circles the bud of my clit, those small teasing strokes that drive me fucking wild.

"Needed this, coruscant. Needed you so much, Mina," he tells me, staring up at me. A finger enters me, and I shudder as he instantly adds another. "This cunt is so wet for me, isn't it?"

"Yes," I pant. "I love it when you talk to me like that." It's high-pitched and breathy and I hardly recognize my own voice.

"Tell me, Mina. Tell me how good it feels when I fuck you."

"It feels so good," I groan, and he rewards me by sucking harder on my clit, increasing the tempo of his fingers thrusting inside me.

It takes no time at all before I'm cresting an orgasm. "I love you, Hyadum, I love you so much."

"I love you, coruscant. My Mina. You are the most breathtaking thing I have ever seen. I do not know how I was lucky enough to find a mate like you."

He kisses his way up my stomach, and shivers wrack me, the aftermath of pleasure. The knowledge we're just getting started only intensifies my desire. He sucks a nipple into his mouth, and I arch into it, his fingers working the other. I hold his horns as he teases me, needing to anchor myself to him somehow.

"Need you, Mina." The words are sharp and short and his eyes are frantic.

It only serves to turn me on more.

"Then take me."

He doesn't wait, his hand gripping the hard length of his cock. We both watch, barely breathing, as he lines it up with the wet seam of my sex.

When he drives it in hard, my eyes roll to the back of my head, a second orgasm already building.

"So fucking wet. You are going to come around my cock so many times tonight, my love."

"Yes," I moan.

Hyadum presses a brutal kiss to my mouth as he slowly withdraws. When he slams into me again, I wrap my legs around his back and dig my heels into him, urging him on.

Before long, we've found our rhythm.

"I'm so close." I writhe against him. The slick sounds of sex echo around the cave, and it only turns me on more.

"Come for me, Mina. Fucking come around my cock." He bites my lip gently, and it sends me over the edge again. When I go limp, he grabs my legs, positioning my feet over his shoulders. One huge hand pins my hip, and I can't even move. Can't even think about it.

His rhythm picks up, and everything in me tenses again as the new position sends a fresh wave of sensation to my already over-stimulated nerves.

"So good," I grit out.

"I love you," Hyadum says, and when my eyes flutter open, his eyes are on me, so full of warmth and affection that my heart squeezes. "Do you feel it? The bond?"

"I feel you," I groan, incredibly close again.

"Oh, I feel you, too, coruscant." His eyes shut briefly, and then I'm basking in his smile.

My eyes widen.

"You feel it now?" he asks, slowing his pace and making me groan again.

"Yes," I say. It's a strange, shining thread between us, full of magic and love and hope. I can feel him at the other end of it, like it's tying us together. It's incredible, and through it, I feel his love, his awe of me… and his desire.

He picks up the pace again, and I throw my head back, rocking into him, out of control with lust, spurred by his feelings towards me.

"Mina," he says, and our mouths crash together.

His cock pulses inside me, and his desire burns even hotter down the thread, amping mine up in return. I shake all over, and he comes with an animalistic sound.

When we collapse into each other, a tangle of limbs and sweat, a dreamy smile slides across my face.

He pulls me onto his chest, and I sigh.

"What is the smile for, coruscant?"

"Oh." I press my cheek against his chest. "I was just thinking if sex is going to be like that with you, then forever seems like a really good idea."

His laugh rumbles through me, and I squeak as he slaps a hand across my bare ass.

"Coruscant, we're just getting started."