Chapter Ten

CHAPTER TEN

LUCA

As we landed on the bed in a tangle of limbs, Erich released a startled sound that simultaneously ignited my predatory and protective instincts.

So many contradictory emotions.

The truth was, I would never harm my mate—and would certainly never take over his skinsuit in the way we were just discussing.

But I do want to live inside him in other ways…

“Such a trickster!” Erich laughed, having apparently recovered from his unexpected journey as he pushed me onto my back. “So many naughty secrets you’ve been hiding.”

He wasn’t wrong. Stellarians were chameleons—ambush predators. Hiding in plain sight was as natural to us as breathing.

But I don’t want to hide anymore.

“Yes,” I agreed, my breath catching as he straddled me. “And I’ll tell you every one of my secrets.”

I want you to know me .

Erich smiled softly for a moment, his gray eyes full of warmth, before his lips curled into a smirk. “A naughty boy who wants to be good, hmm?”

“Yes,” I repeated, far breathier than before. “For you.”

He hummed in approval before sliding off my lap, much to my chagrin. But then, he was slowly opening my robe, his gaze darting from my bare chest to my face, as if checking my reaction.

“You may touch me however you like,” I confirmed, feeling a thrill zip down my spine at the thought. “I need to feel your pretty skin on mine.”

My mate huffed, the pretty skin in question pinking as he blushed, but he didn’t hesitate to pull his sadly intact tee shirt over his head, revealing two of my favorite toys.

“You like my piercings, don’t you?” He chuckled as my tendrils immediately looped through the shiny rings and gently tugged.

“I do,” I replied as I sat up, gaze dropping to where he was untying the string of his sweatpants. “I especially liked?—”

The words died on my lips as Erich pulled down his pants.

By Stellaria…

His underwear was black mesh—a tiny scrap of fabric that cupped his cock and balls while offering me an obscene glimpse of the metal glinting beneath.

Taunting me.

“What’s the matter, Councilman?” he teased, hiding himself from view with his hand. “I thought it was only fair if you learned some of my secrets as well.”

My vision tunneled to the offending appendage in the way of my prize, and I uncontrollably growled, “Give me?— ”

“No,” Erich calmly replied, placing his hand on my chest and pushing me back down.

I expected my Stellarian nature to protest—to rise up and challenge anyone who would dare dominate me—but instead, I melted into the mattress, more than happy to submit for him.

“Good boy,” he praised, sliding his hand down my chest and stomach until he reached the waistband of my thermals. “Now, I would love to see more of your pretty skin as well…”

“Yes,” I immediately agreed— because why wouldn’t I? —grabbing my pants and nearly ripping them in my haste to assist him. “I might die if our skin doesn’t touch soon.”

“Are all of you so dramatic?” Erich laughed, watching my desperate undressing with clear amusement. “And are skin fetishes a thing among your kind?”

Apparently so.

“Stellarians,” I choked out, so delirious at this point, I would confess anything he wanted. “That’s what we’re called.”

I was extremely close to taking control—if only to get inside him faster—but luckily, my mate chose that moment to not only move his hand from his cock but touch mine instead.

“And you can feel this just as a human would?” he mused, running a finger down the throbbing vein of my extremely sensitive cock, his touch excruciatingly light.

“Yes!” I choked out, using every ounce of willpower not to wrap my hand around his and chase relief. “We take over all bodily systems… including the nervous system.”

Behave, behave, behave.

“Poor little hase,” Erich snickered before leaning down to drag his tongue up my shaft, making me groan. “A bit pent up after a few millennia, are we? ”

To say the least.

“Please…” I begged, barely recognizing myself. “Please, I need to be inside you.”

“Oh, you will be,” he soothed, backing off again to reach for a toiletry bag on the bedside table, revealing the underwear he wore was a thong. “But I need to be prepped for this very impressive skinsuit of yours?—”

“My tendrils are self-lubricating!” I shouted, unable to stop the tendrils in question from reaching for him. “I can stretch you, just… Please…”

Please, please, please!

“I knew I liked the idea of a man with extra hands in the bedroom,” he teased, turning to face me again and blessedly returning his attention to my cock.

“Better than hands,” I murmured as he lowered his head, using the hands in question to hold back his hair for both our benefits.

I need to watch him take me.

My mate hummed appreciatively as he wrapped his lips around my leaking crown and sucked, making me see stars.

“Fuck,” I gasped, gripping his hair tighter than I meant to, unsure where to look as he dropped down to his elbows to take more of me.

Erich’s mouth looked glorious on my cock, and the expanse of bare skin down his muscular back, interrupted only by the thin strip of black between two fleshy globes, was a vision.

“Patience,” he chuckled as he briefly lifted off to wiggle out of his thong—further proving that a bond was forming somehow. “Now be a good boy and get me ready for you. ”

Then, he stuck his perfect ass in the air before swallowing me down again.

I released a sound that was nowhere near human, but I staunchly focused on using two tendrils to spread him open so another could push into his hot hole to start loosening him up.

The lubrication my tendrils provided created a comfortable glide, but his sinfully tight ass still clenched at the intrusion—gripping me like a vise, making my beast claw beneath my skin.

I wish I could claim him just like this.

Pin him down and take him…

These thoughts were so out of character, I nearly star hopped away completely.

What is wrong with me?

Sex had always been far removed from my interests, just a means to an end, so this near-blinding compulsion to fuck my mate—violently and regardless of whether he was ready—was startling.

What if I hurt him?!

“You’re doing so well, Luca,” Erich crooned, snapping me out of my anxious spiral. “I’m nearly ready for you…”

“Glad to hear it,” I gritted out as he gave me another lick with his skillful tongue. “Because I’m struggling to behave…”

“I know, little hase.” He crawled up my body to sweetly kiss me on the lips. “But you’re being so good for me.”

My concerns instantly evaporated, because Erich—my mate—wasn’t concerned in the least. Calm was radiating from him like starlight traversing the galaxy, except I was glimpsing it in real-time instead of light years from now .

When I’ll still exist… but he’ll be returned to dust…

I banished the unpleasant thought and refocused on the present. On my mate.

On claiming my mate.

“That’s enough,” Erich blessedly said, gently tapping my tendrils and straddling my thighs to line himself up. “I actually think I want to be a bit tight for you.”

Oh, thank fuck.

I must have said this out loud because he laughed, but it turned into a groan as he began slowly inching his way down my shaft with practiced circles of his hips.

Oh, fuck.

If I’d thought he felt snug on my tendrils, nothing compared to this. I may have stopped breathing—not that I needed to breathe anyway—but the sensations were dangerously similar to when my Stellarian essence filled another vessel and took over completely.

In other words—perfection.

“Perfection,” he gasped, pausing with his ass flush against my pelvis. “Perhaps I won’t miss touching anyone else ever again…”

I growled and gripped his waist, my fingers digging into his flesh possessively. “You should not even be thinking of touching others?—”

Erich laughed again as he grabbed my wrists and pinned them above my head, leaning down to quiet my growls with a smirking kiss. “Behave, little beast. I’m in charge now, and I plan to ride you until you come.”

Well, that successfully quieted my “little beast,” and I dutifully allowed this much weaker creature to hold me down as he began rising and falling on my cock.

“I was just teasing you, you know,” he murmured against my lips, rolling his hips as I tilted mine to meet him. “It sounds terrible, but I get off on how feral you get over me… Such growly behavior from a buttoned-up councilman hiding an animal beneath his skin.”

You have no idea.

“What other secrets are you hiding?” he mused, pushing himself up to better smirk at me.

“I’ll show you!” I blurted out, ready to share the secrets of the universe if it meant making him mine. “I’ll show you everything if you’ll just let me… I need… I need to mark you—to fill you with my seed…”

I NEED!

“It’s all right, Luca,” Erich evenly replied, even if his voice was strained. “Whatever you need, I’ll give it to you.”

And then, because he was made for me, my mate increased his pace while lowering his neck to my mouth—like an offering to a dying god.

Give me everything.

I bit down hard enough to draw blood, moaning at the taste as my thrusts grew feral and erratic.

Bliss, bliss, bliss.

I snarled as my orgasm hit, unable to stop more tendrils erupting from my skin, circling us both while I claimed him inside and out.

Mine, mine, mine.

“Fuck, I… I don’t want to come yet…” Erich choked out, cont inuing to ride me through my aftershocks as his hole clenched and fluttered, prolonging my release.

It appeared my Earthling was just as feral as I was. With a snarl of his own, he slid off my pulsing cock and flipped me onto my stomach before drizzling lube over both of us.

His fingers dipped between my cheeks, circling the puckered skin, pressing in experimentally. “I-I don’t think I can wait to stretch you?—”

“Don’t wait,” I mumbled into the pillow, rising onto my knees, presenting myself to him. “Please, I need you inside me.”

I need you to claim me too.

Erich paused to hiss in a breath, but then he decisively grabbed my waist and notched his cock at my hole. “Your safe word is also Geneva,” he whispered, breath hot against my neck.

“Because it’s no longer where I belong,” I croaked, shuddering with anticipation—for the act and his next words.

“That’s correct.” He gently kissed the sweaty skin behind my ear. “You belong with me.”

Then, he slid home like he belonged there.

Because he does.

I braced my hands against the headboard to provide resistance but otherwise allowed my mate— my stellar collision— to take whatever he wanted.

While giving me everything I never knew I needed.

With every snap of his hips, Erich lit me up from the inside, claiming me just as thoroughly as I’d claimed him. He promised me another orgasm with every drag of his frenulum piercing over my prostate, and I could feel his impending climax buzzing through our miraculous bond.

“I hope you understand this goes both ways, little hase,” he growled in my ear before nipping my lobe, dragging me toward the edge. “That you’re mine.”

Until I return to the stars.

He soothed me the entire time he wrecked me—telling me how perfect I was, how good— and it wasn’t long before I was doing little more than answering his praise with broken sobs. When he sunk his teeth into my neck, euphorically bruising my sensitive skin, I could do nothing but beg my mate to tear me apart.

To breed me.

“Fuck, Luca,” he groaned as he shook and spilled, causing my Earthling form to go limp beneath him even as my tendrils continued to stroke his skin. “I can’t believe you’re mine…”

Yours.

I allowed him to lazily thrust for another minute—to bury his release deep inside me—before I flipped us again.

Must. Clean. My. Mate.

To his credit, Erich didn’t protest when I cleaned his softening cock with my tongue before spreading him wide and eating what was left of my cum from his ass. He also didn’t seem to mind when I wrapped dozens of tendrils around him—and slid one back inside his ass—before using my mind-sedation powers to send him to sleep.

Mine.

This contented silence was spoiled by my lingering thoughts of Geneva—of returning to my supe council responsibilities.

How can I after this ?

There was no way I could continue pining for my stellar collision from afar, even if I could star hop in seconds to be with him, because I needed him close to me more than I’d ever needed anything in all my existence.

Especially now that I know he feels the same.

It was painfully obvious what I needed to do, and as it involved a conversation I’d been dancing around anyway, there was simply no avoiding the inevitable.

But first, a bit more bliss with my mate…