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He drew in a long breath. “If I do not return, could you tell Ariana that I tried to save them? That I had to? She will understand.”

My own throat tightened. “I give you my vow.” Then I told him what my people believed. “Your sacrifice will be written in the stars and etched on the fabric of the sky.”

Volten managed a small smile. “That doesn’t sound so bad.” Then he locked his gaze with mine. “But I’d rather not die, so please try to get us all out.”

I took my own steadying breath as my fingers flew across the control panel. “I vow on the memory of my ancestors and the lives of the Ten Thousand.” I stopped and turned to meet his gaze. “I will bring you home.”

Chapter

Thirty-Five

Britta

The intensity of his kiss took my breath away, and I surrendered easily to him when he parted my lips with a sweep of his tongue. His mouth devoured mine, his tongue both exploring and caressing as he rolled me over on the bed and braced himself over me.

I moaned into his mouth, curling my arms around his back and yanking to pull his shirt out of his pants. Now that the holographic world was shattering around us, now that he’d confessed his true feelings and I’d confessed mine, now that there was nothing left to lose and no time to waste, I wanted more. I wanted to touch every inch of him and breathe in the warm, male scent of his skin and surrender to all the emotions storming through me.

Kann broke our kiss, pulling back and breathing heavily as he peered down at me. “Are you sure?”

As much as I’d been sure before that it was impossible, now I was sure that being with Kann was the only thing that madesense. I wanted him more than I’d ever wanted anything. “I’m sure.” I slid one hand to press it to his chest. “But it’s been a while for me, and I’ve never been with a Drexian.”

A growl rumbled from his lips matching the rumbling of the floor beneath us. “Good.”

Suddenly, my stomach clenched. He was known for his conquests, and the stories about Inferno Force and alien pleasure houses were legendary. It wasn’t something he’d ever denied, but how could I ever measure up to what he’d experienced?

He buried his head in my neck, sending tremors of pleasure down my spine as his words buzzed at my earlobe. “Don’t worry. I’ll go slow.”

I wasn’t sure if we had time for slow, as a crack appeared in the stone wall behind the bed, but he ignored everything that was happening around us as he sat back and pulled off the shirt I’d been tugging at. My mouth went dry at the sight of his sculpted chest muscles and his rippled stomach, and I couldn’t resist running my fingers down the rigid muscle. Then I lifted one hand to his face and scraped my fingernails down the stubble on his cheeks.

He hissed out a breath and then his mouth was on me again, and I was lost in his kisses. Wrapping my arms around his back, I brushed my fingertips across the bumps the Drexians called nodes. As much as I’d heard about the Drexian males’ extra erogenous zone, I’d never seen them up close or touched them.

Kann moaned as I stroked his nodes, savoring the hardness of the bumps that ran the length of his spine and the heat beneath his skin. The faster I circled them, the harder and hotter they became, until my skin actually burned from the contact.

Kann jerked back, his gold eyes molten. He was panting as he gazed at me, then he flipped onto his back and tugged me on top of him so that my legs were straddling his waist.

“Did you think you were the only one who got to touch?”

I let out a small gasp as he yanked my shirt up and over my head. His gaze scoured my chest, and my first instinct was to cross my arms over my bra. He caught my hands before I could cover myself. “I’ve been waiting too long for this.”

My cheeks burned as he sat up with me still in his lap, wrapping his arms around my back and expertly unfastening my bra. He slid the thin straps down my arms, pulling the garment free, and then bent me back so that I was arching up, my nipples tight peaks.

“Gorgeous,” he murmured, before he traced the tip of his tongue over the pebbled flesh.

I let my eyes flutter shut and sank back so that his arms braced my back, as he swirled his tongue around first one and then the other hard nipple. Desire barreled through me as he lavished attention on my breasts, and I was gasping when he finally ripped his mouth from me.

Was this really happening? Was Kann, the hot Blade instructor who had always been off-limits, actually sucking on my bare breasts? The thought made my skin prickle with heat and my pulse jackknife.

“You taste just as delicious as I always imagined.” He lifted his head to give me a sultry wink. “Now I need to taste the rest of you.”

Kann stood, taking me with him and turned around to lower me onto the bed again on my back. He yanked my pants off so quickly I didn’t have time to make a sound, as my panties came off in the same swift motion. Then he sank down between my legs, parting them and hooking my knees over his shoulders.

I wanted to object, to tell him he didn’t have to, to stop him somehow, but all the protests died on my lips, because I did want him right where he was. I was done with playing it safe and being afraid. As the spartan room flickered in and out, I closed my eyesand forgot about everything but how Kann’s touch felt in that moment.

“I’ve dreamed of you spread open for me like this,” he said. “You’re even more perfect than I imagined.” He ran his tongue along my seam. “And even more delicious.”

My breath caught in my chest, and I opened my eyes, not wanting to miss what he was doing to me. I’d had secret fantasies about Kann, but I’d never envisioned his head between my legs. But his dark hair between my thighs might have been the hottest thing I’d ever seen.

He peered up at me, his eyes flashing heat. “So beautiful and perfect. I can’t wait to fill it with my cock.”

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