His nipple was cute, so I licked it again. I scooted up his body, doing it carefully so as not to wake him, and sucked it into my mouth.

Was this coercion? Dubcon? Probably. I’d ask him about it later. I was too busy having a party with his nipple, sucking on it and running my tongue across it while his cock slammed against my thigh in tune with my tongue.

And I was getting wet. Maybe his cock would fit. My body suggested it would like to try.

With a growl, he rolled me onto my back and braced himself above me, his muscular forearms pinning my shoulders and his legs straddling my thighs. “You, lovely one, are dangerous.”

“That’s what I call you in my mind.”

“We’re a danger to each other.”

“What should we do about it? I was enjoying your nipple, and you took it away.”

Staring down at me, I caught a hint of vulnerability in his eyes. “I want to suck on your clit.”

There was nothing better than a male who stated things plainly.

“Just suck on my clit?” I quipped, my smile stretching my face so much it pinched.

“I won’t ask for much more. Just to drive my tongue inside you as well.”

“Umm.”

“And suck on your nipples. Nothing else, I swear. If you’ll permit this.”

So polite.

“I permit it.” A sense of urgency filled me. If Digaray returned and said I had to be with Tribon, there might not be anything Xax could do.

The thought of not being with him, even in this simple way, made my chest ache.

“Amanda,” he groaned. His mouth tentatively claimed mine with a kiss that scorched through my veins. His fingers were everywhere, stroking my sides before his palm cupped my breast. In no time, my plant fiber nightie went flying. Since Alexa had refused to generate underwear last night, I lay deliciously naked on the bed while Xax took in every bit of me with his smoldering teal eyes. “You’re beautiful. Truly. I don’t say this just to arouse you.” His head nestled between my breasts, and he closed his eyes and sniffed. “You smell amazing. And your taste.” His long, scratchy tongue swiped across my nipple, and his groan ripped out. “So sweet. So wonderful.”

A girl could get used to this. I stroked his shoulders, loving the play of muscles beneath his surprisingly soft skin.

He sucked my nipple into his mouth and when he hummed, I nearly exploded. He’d barely touched me, and I was on fire for him already. I could only imagine what it would be like when we finally had sex.

Equally explosive.

His gaze meeting mine, his lips curled up. His tongue continued to graze my nipple, and I couldn’t hold back. I was pumping my hips toward him, and he hadn’t even placed his fingers or mouth down there yet.

My heartrate surged, a heavy thrum in my throat, and I groped at his shoulders, holding him tight against my breast.

He moved to my other nipple, mumbling something against my overheated flesh. Lightning jolted through me when he gave the second breast equal attention.

Shooting me a tusky smile, he kissed his way down my belly.

“How do you know how to do this?” I moaned. “There are no women here.”

“I’ve spent a lifetime imagining what I’d do with a mate.” Pausing at my belly button, he looked up at me. “I haven’t been with anyone. I was saving myself for you.”

A virgin alien with a wickedly unvirginlike tongue. Maybe I’d died and gone to heaven.

Since I didn’t know what to say to him after a declaration like that, I just matched his smile with one of my own.

He continued kissing down over my lower belly. After spreading my legs wide, he crawled between them, hitching each of my thighs onto his shoulders. “I’ve dreamed of licking a mate here. Of stabbing my tongue inside her passage. Of finding her clit and pleasing it while pleasuring her in every way possible.”

“How do you know what a clit is, let alone how to find it?”