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I drop her lush body to the floor and avoid her angry eyes. “Yes, I knew,” I sigh.

“You were going to let me go,” she whispers. I can hear the despair in her voice as it breaks on the last words.

I back away from her and raise my hands, palms up. “I didn’t want you to suffer through losing another young one if we were lucky enough to have them.”

“So losing you is so much better,” she growls sarcastically, rolling her pretty eyes. Her brown eyes widen and her cheeks pale, making the tiny brown dots stand out on her dainty nose.

“Wait. Do you not want me, Koehn?”

Tears pour out of her shimmering, pain-laced eyes and my heart drops to my feet. I hurt her again. The one thing I swore I’d never do. I’m a granthing fool.

22

LACEY

“Vreck no! I want you so much it hurts.” Koehn moans and pulls me into his chest, , his arms locking around me like steel bands. His warmth surrounds me and I melt at the first touch of his hands.

He sighs and kisses the top of my head. “I had already changed my mind. I was going to come find you! Wherever they sent you. I can’t breathe without you, little one.”

I snuggle closer to his rock-hard chest, the gorgeous blue color glistening in the lights. “Don’t ever leave me Koehn. I can bear anything that happens. Just never that.”

He lifts my chin and has the sweetest smile on his face. His amethyst eyes glow with a certainty that steals my breath.

“I will never leave you, little one.” His full lips touch my own as he growls against them. “But you have to promise that you will never leave me either. If I hurt you, you talk to me. I don’t want to see you walk away from me again.”

“As if I’d try.” I throw myself into his arms and kiss him, biting his lips lightly and sliding my tongue between his lips to slide along his tongue. The kiss hardens and he plunders my mouth as if he owns me.

I don’t care at all. He lifts me like I weigh nothing at all and his big hands cup my ass. I wrap my legs around his waist and moan. He strides across the shuttle bay and palms the reader, slipping through when the doors slide open.

“Where are we doing?” I ask as I nibble at his throat, breathing in the spicy-sweet scent that is uniquely him.

“My room,” he whispers in my ear. “I want to fuck you until you can’t stop screaming my name,” he growls.

A shudder rolls through my body and I can feel moisture dripping down my thighs, wetting my lightweight pants.

“That sounds nice,” I moan and grind against his hips and waist, feeling his heavy, thick erection pushing against my core.

“It will be more than nice,” he growls. He sets me down to palm read his door then picks me up and throws me over his shoulder. I laugh breathlessly and bounce as he tosses me easily on his bed. Before I can catch my breath, he leans over, caging me between his muscular arms, so alien and yet so familiar. His blue skin gleaming in the light as he flicks the switch. His lavender eyes full of light and love. The mating marks are fully dark now on his arms and I run my hands over them, loving the way they prove to everyone that he’s mine.

“I love you, Koehn.” His smile breaks free, his white teeth shining, his gorgeous blue skin glistening with a shimmering fire like a supernova about to explode around us. I can see the sharp edges of his incisors and I shiver, unable to wait until his body takes possession of mine.

“I never thought I’d feel the way I feel about you, Lacey, my kora, my mate. I thank whatever gods out there that brought you to me.” He leans down and lightly grazes my lips then groans, his amazing control snapping in the fire that always consumes us when we come together. His tongue delves between my lips in a brutal possession that quickens my breathing, my body melting into him.

He yanks off my shirt and tears the wide band that I wear across my breasts off, smiling when he bares my breasts to his wondering gaze. His head comes down and his lips close over the diamond tip of my nipple. He laps at it lightly then his sharp fangs scrape along the sensitive skin. My body jerks and another wave of wetness hits my lower body. I moan and he grins playfully before sliding down my body. He rips the loose pants off of me in two quick yanks that almost pull me right off the bed.

“Koehn…god I need you,” I moan, my hips shifting restlessly, needing him inside me.

“And you shall have me, my mate. But first I want to taste you.”

He pushes my thighs wide, his hands holding me open as his long tongue slowly, heavily licks from my ass to my clit. I moan and push my hips up into his face. He puts his arm across my hip and holds me down as his rough tongue scrubs at my clit and then pushes inside my body.

“Oh my god, Koehn!” It feels like I can’t breathe, can’t see. Nothing exists but Koehn and what he’s doing to my body.

One long, thick finger slides inside me and I suck in a sharp breath, feeling my body expand to welcome his intrusion. And then like he knows my body, my whole being, his finger curls and grazes that spot that immediately ratchets up the tight, winding feeling growing inside me like a flickering light the closer you get to it.

I close my eyes and gasp as the throbbing feeling goes nuclear and then explodes inside me, my body shuddering wildly under his loving assault. His tongue licks and scours out my release like a hungry bear, growling and snapping. Another golden wave of heat and light washes over me and I scream his name, my release washing over me, taking me under and throwing me into a maelstrom of stars and galaxies flashing behind my eyes.

I fall to the bed, limp and exhausted.

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