Chapter 16

Chapter

Sixteen

DROXAN

T he desire was too punishing.

The need, too high.

It was tangled with the high of relief , twined together so tightly. I wanted to bellow out my happiness. I felt like I could burst.

Lyra was staying .

On Ullima.

She chose me.

She chose us .

The knowledge alone was humbling. I didn't think I deserved a female like her. Yet, I was pushing her down onto our bed and she was arching into my touch like she was starved for it.

Her tunic was laying somewhere on the terrace, where I'd ripped it off before we made it inside. Now, I nearly sliced off my trews in my desperate need to free my cock, to feel our naked flesh pressed together.

"Like this?" she asked, her voice husky. There was a note of playful wickedness in her tone as she looked at me over her shoulder. Looking tantalizing and seductive on her hands and knees. She arched her back, pushing her ass up higher into the air.

" Vrax, tev ," I groaned, running a hand down my face in disbelief at seeing her like this. Fuck, yes . "I cannot wait, luxiva . I need you too much."

"Then don't wait," she told me, wiggling her ass like I needed any more incentive. Just the image of her like this would forever be burned into my brain. I'd fantasized about fucking her from behind. It would satisfy this deep-rooted need in me, satisfying the ferocity and wildness of my Instinct. "I'm all yours."

She eyed my dripping cock, pre-come sliding down my shaft, biting her lip.

"You want this, vellixa ?" I asked her, my voice going darker as the Instinct began to rise to the surface.

" Yes ," she breathed. Then she met my eyes. "What does vellixa mean? I need to learn more Luxirian, you know."

" Beautiful ," I told her, dragging her down to the edge of the bed.

Her cheeks flushed in pleasure even as her breath hitched. "Such a charmer. Gods , I never stood a chance against you, did I?"

Despite what I'd told her about not waiting, I couldn't resist going to my knees. Her inner thighs were completely wet with her arousal and I pressed my nose there, inhaling her deep.

A grumbling purr rose from me, my pupils dilating until I thought my eyes would look completely black.

" Fates , your scent, female," I groaned. "I think it's me who never stood a chance against you ."

She was panting in anticipation.

Then she cried out, a moan tumbling from her parted lips when I buried my face against her cunt. When I began to feast there.

"Oh," she choked out, rocking her hips back into me.

I tongued her like a male possessed. Lapping at her clit. Suckling it between my lips. Delving my ridged tongue into her entrance, licking at her walls, tasting the fresh arousal that coated my lips.

I would never get enough of her.

But right then, I had another need. The Instinct's pull was strong and it demanded that I mate her. That I breed her. That I shoot my seed into her womb and lay my claim.

Rising, I loomed over her just as the sunset's golden light glimmered off her skin, pouring through the window of our sleeping quarters. Beautiful. She gazed back at me over her shoulder and the light let me see every strand of her eyes, every color, every emotion there.

" Vellixa ," I growled again, wrapping my hands around her hips, tugging her back. " Need you, mate . Need you so much."

"Then take me," she told me. "Because I need you too."

I couldn't wait. Even though we'd had sex earlier that morning, this felt different. Because now, there were no barriers between us. No secrets.

We both knew what we wanted. We wanted the same things. That was freeing. It was everything .

With a rough groan, I pushed into her slick vaxix , hearing her moans and breathy gasps as I seated myself inside her.

For a moment, I savored the feel of her. I savored her heat, the way she pulsed around me, trying to draw me in even deeper.

" Vrax ," I said, drawing out the word. "You feel so amazing, luxiva . So good!"

"You feel good too," she huffed, still holding my eyes. There was awe there. " Perfect ."

Because I was made for her. And she was made for me.

" Tev ," I growled, pulling back, letting her feel the drag of my ridges and knobs against her walls, watching goosebumps pebble her skin, watching the way her eyes rolled in pleasure.

" Yes ," she exclaimed, her voice pitched high.

I grinned but it was almost feral. My grip on her hips tightened and I curved myself over her back, lowering my front so I could feel us pressed together. She turned her head and I caught her lips, taking her kiss before licking at her tongue.

She moaned as I thrust inside her, the position allowing me to go deep .

And then I didn't stop.

I couldn't stop.

Her pleasured cries filled our sleeping quarters as I pulled out before sliding in hard, my hips settling into a merciless pace. The tops of my thighs hit the backs of hers, an erotic sound that made me harder . Her own hips rocked back, seeking and learning my rhythm, and when we got it just right, I saw vraxing stars.

They burst in my vision as she squeezed around me. Our kiss grew sloppy and she gasped as I continued to rut against her, wild in my need, my ferocity.

But it wasn't enough. I needed deeper . I needed to look into my female's eyes. I needed to see her spread out before me like an offering.

She cried out in protest when I retreated from her body. Then I flipped her over, quicker than she could blink.

Her eyes were half-lidded as she stared up at me. I slung her legs over my shoulders, pushing us further up the bed, before bracing myself. My hands came down on either side of her head and I slammed home.

" Oh gods ," came her keening cry. " Droxan! "

I kissed her again, nothing but a rumbling, vibrating purr threading up my chest. Then I moved down, tonguing her peaked nipples, sucking hard at her breasts as I felt her begin to ripple around my cock.

She was close. My mate was about to come. And I would join her.

"You want me to come inside you, luxiva ?" I growled at her, lifting my lips from her breasts, meeting her eyes as I said the words that I knew would light her on fire. "You want me to breed this cunt, to plant a child deep in your womb? My child?"

"Yes," she cried, her back arching, and I chuckled, humorless and low and deep, as I reached between us to thumb her clit. "Oh, I'm coming, Droxan! Ahhh !"

"I'm going to fill you up, luxiva ," I growled, watching her mouth slacken, feeling her clamp down and begin to spasm on my cock. "Oh vrax . Vrax, vrax, vrax !"

My whole body—my whole vraxing soul—jerked with the orgasm that she wrung from me. I must've bellowed out my pleasure because my voice went hoarse from it. All I saw were her starry eyes as they peered up at me in disbelief, in pleasure, in awe. Everything I was feeling, I saw reflected in her gaze.

The pleasure was unfathomable, climbing so high. Too high.

Then I crashed, breaking into a billion pieces…until I felt her piecing me back together, bit by bit.

My seed shot from me violently, pouring into her. Filling her up, just as I promised. And I would have more for her. So much more.

On and on it went. My Instinct practically roared with satisfaction as I claimed her, as I marked her as my own, and unleashed myself inside her.

The rightness of it made me grin.

Complete , I thought, staring into her eyes. We are complete .

"I know," she breathed, as if she could hear me in her thoughts, as if she could feel what I was feeling. "I know."

"There is a ceremony," I informed her, "on Luxiria. It is called the ravraxia . The joining ceremony."

It was in the dead of night and we were only catching our breath. Though I knew that my human female was reaching her end. She felt the same tight desire as I did but her stamina was not that of a Luxirian's. I needed to remember that so I didn't push her too far.

"Only on Luxiria?" she asked me. We were on our sides, facing one another. My cock was still seated deep inside her and I wrapped her in my arms, holding her close. Never before had I felt such contentment . Not ever.

"It is a sacred ceremony. Your race might even call it magic," I told her. "It is only performed on Luxiria because there are sacred places scattered throughout the planet that are touched by the Fates. Fated mates go to receive their blessing and in return, the Fates bond them even deeper to one another. A connection of the mind."

Her eyes went wide. "Like…like mind reading?"

I chuckled, tracing the slope of her nose with my thumb. "Not quite. I've always heard it's more like an awareness ."

Her gaze went a little shy…even after all that we'd done that night. Even though I was fairly certain that, if it was the right time of her cycle, we'd conceived a child that night.

"Are you…are you asking me to do this ravraxia with you?"

I chuffed out a breath. "There is no rush. But tev , I want to be bonded to you in every way I possibly can be. I want the whole universe to know that you are my mate. My beautiful, wonderful mate."

She smiled and I was glad to see the flash of her little, dull, white teeth. Then her smile died. "Would you be okay returning to Luxiria?" she asked me.

"For you? Absolutely," I told her honestly. I hadn't thought I'd ever return to my home planet, but there was a part of me that wanted to show it to Lyra. To show her my roots. Our future childrens' ancestral home. "If you'll have me."

"Of course I will," she told me softly, her expression serious. The connection was thrumming between us. Strong like a heartbeat.

My own heartbeat skipped and stuttered at her answer.

I leaned down, capturing her lips. I breathed her in, feeling my cock swell and thicken once more inside her.

" Insatiable ," she teased, her breath hitching when she felt it too.

"Only for you," I growled, nipping at her bottom lip playfully.

Then she took my face in her hands.

"What is it?" I asked her.

She smiled at me. "I just can't believe that I found you."

My insides practically melted at the words. And I'd never thought myself the melting kind of male.

"Thank goodness for shitty life pods," she breathed. Her grin widened. "And Starlight United cruises."

I groaned but it mixed with my chuckle. I gave a fake shudder, even as my hands gripped her tighter. "Never joke about Starlight United cruises."

She laughed, loud and bright.

And my heart felt so full that I thought it would burst.