“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 godeep.

And then I didn’t stop.

Icouldn’tstop.

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 meharder. Her own hips rocked back, seeking and learning my rhythm, and when we got itjustright, I sawvraxingstars.

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 neededdeeper. 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 Islammedhome.

“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?Mychild?”

“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. “Ohvrax.Vrax, vrax, vrax!”

My whole body—my wholevraxingsoul—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.

Therightnessof 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 theravraxia. 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 suchcontentment. 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?”