Page 45 of A Delicate Conquest

She found a hint of pre-cum at his tip and covered her fingers in it, using it to ease her strokes as she closed her hand around him and moved back and forth, encouraged by the low sounds of pleasure coming from his throat.

“I want to see you now, Mavrel,” she whispered, peering up into the darkness.

He uttered a command in Kordolian, his voice barely audible.

A soft glow appeared, just enough to illuminate his strained features.

Eyes like molten drops of amber.

Face etched from silver, a Renaissance sculpture animated by barely held-back restraint.

Tendrils of pure moonlight, the strands of his hair cascading over his shoulders. He could almost be a fairytale prince.

But he was limned by darkness and all too real.

Fangs emerged between slightly parted lips. Pale eyelashes fluttered as his eyes rolled upwards, and he groaned with pleasure.

A sense of awe overcame her as the sudden realization struck her.Shewas his first.

First human.

First ever.

She’d caught a glimpse of his soul beyond the barriers of what set them apart, across the chasm of different worlds.

Through the hyperbole and the history, the rumors, the propaganda, the misunderstandings…

The burden of being Kordolian.

The fragility of being human.

The biological imperative.

Maybe she could understand these things, just a little…

She was just an ordinary human from Earth, but right now, she was his first, and deep down, she knew she would also be his last.

So when he leaned in and brought his temple against her lips and gently whispered that she was to kiss him there, she did so, and the sound of his ragged, desperate whimper nearly broke her again.

It seemed he liked that, so she did it again, kissing him just below his hairline, the tip of her tongue dancing across the subtle protrusion where his horn used to be.

“Ahh…” A deep groan reverberated from him, right into her very bones. “I need younow.”

“Please.” She was wanting again, differently this time. “I want you deep. As you like it. Don’t hold back.”

Finally, his restraint broke. He wrapped her in his arms and entered her, holding her tightly, making it clear thathewas in control now.

And there was nothing to do but let him engulf her.

FIFTEEN

Afterward,they sat together on the sofa, naked, basking in the afterglow of sex, limbs entwined, bodies melded together.

Bea had never felt anything as serene before.

She mused on how strange it was thathere,of all places, was where she’d discovered this feeling.

On a massive alien space station, thousands of kilometers from Earth.

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