"Soon," I breathe, rubbing the head up and down through her folds.
She reaches for her cunt and holds her folds open with two fingers, displaying herself for me. "Soon," she agrees. "I love you."
I come at that, at the yearning in her voice. Hot seed spills from my cock and I squeeze my shaft tight, gritting my teeth. The urge to pump, to add friction, is maddening, but I know Bee doesn't like it when I hurt myself. I spurt my release all over her inner thighs, fascinated as it drips over her supple skin and leaves thick trails. With a shiver, I shake the last of my load off the head of my cock, then use my fingers to rub it all over her cunt and into her body, just as I promised.
Soon.
23
VICTOR
Once we've both come, I drag Bee off the desk, sit on the floor, and curl up with her in my arms. I nip at her throat and tease her ear as we touch and kiss and talk. "I thought that if I confessed how I felt about you," Bee tells me, "how I'd spent every night in your bed for the last few weeks, that no one would trust that you'd really been 'reformed.' They'd think I'd been dickmatized by you and tricked, and then they'd put you in a cage again." Her hand trails down the front of my tunic, my chokingly tight collar loosened. She gazes up at my face, her expression thoughtful. "I couldn't do that to you. If it meant I had to lose you for you to be happy, I was willing to do it."
"You weren't upset when Lord va'Rin suggested my departure," I point out. "I didn't know what to think."
"Victor." She cups my cheek, tangling her fingers in my thick, shaggy mane there. Sideburns, she calls them. "I've spent years and years hiding how I really feel about things. I've spent every day on this planet wearing a cheerful smile and sweet-talking every alien I run into because that's the only power I have. I turn back to that when I have to. But if you think for one moment that the thought of you leaving didn't gut me…you're wrong."
Her eyes meet mine and they're shiny with unshed tears.
"Don't cry." I rub my thumb over her cheek. "I can't stand the thought of you sad, Bee."
"I'm not sad now," she manages, blinking rapidly. She wriggles on my lap, a mischievous smile curving her mouth. "I'm content and loose and my pussy is wet with your seed. I don't think I've ever been happier."
I groan, because hearing that makes me happy, too. I run my nose along her brow, drinking in her scent mingled with my seed. It's chokingly thick in the room and I love it. I didn't think it was possible for her to smell better, but I'm addicted. "I can get my barbs removed at the medical clinic," I tell her. "The medic said it was a routine procedure…but it won't matter if I can't have you. Lord va'Rin said that the other Crulden clone has a mate. That he's fine with us being together, but you have to tell him that you want to be mine." I hesitate, wondering if I'm pushing too hard. "But…only if you want that."
She steers my face with her hand until I am facing her, and her smile is brilliant. "Of course I want that. Are you…all right with getting your barbs removed? I know it's a sensitive area."
"I want nothing more than to be inside you," I admit. Just the thought is making my cock rise again.
"What about the job at the shore? The garden?" She bites her lip, worried on my behalf. "I don't want to keep you from doing important work."
"My job is being your mate. Staying at your side. Protecting you." I take her hand in mine and rub my tusks against her knuckles lightly. "You want to help these females that have no one else to help them. Yes? You need someone to enforce this help. I can be that enforcer."
Her eyes widen. "You'd do that for me?"
"Bee, I would spend the rest of my life in a cage for you."
She frowns at that. "No cages. Never again."
"No cages," I agree.
"And no barbs." She leans in and kisses me, our mouths fitting together poorly as always, but I still love it. "No boundaries between us."
"None."
Her expression grows determined. "Then let's make a few calls."
To no one's surprise, Lord va'Rin is just amused at Bee's new suggestion for me to be her assistant/enforcer. We're to keep the pump house cottage, and he promises a faster air-sled so we can drive into Port with ease. I'm astounded at the male's generosity time and time again, but Bee says he has a human wife that he loves dearly, so that must be the reason behind his largesse. I'll take it.