It’s like I’m free-falling and waiting for him to catch me. Which he does easily. Horek fits perfectly, like he was formed only for me. It’s utterly sublime. Lips meet mine. He kisses the hell out of me, and although it feels like we’ve done everything backwards, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

He thrusts his tongue in my mouth and mimics the movement of his hips. The sounds Horek draws from me are unlike any I’ve ever made before. They make me feel sexy, slutty, and needy. What he’s doing to me isn’t enough.

“More.” I’m not above begging, apparently.

“Anything for my heart’s fire.” He hits a spot inside me so deep I didn’t know was possible. Then he does it again. And again.

There’s a sudden urge to pee and I nearly panic. That doesn’t stop him. Horek continues pounding into me. I want to tell him to wait. To give me a chance to try and make the urge go away, but he’s an animal with a single focus. He reaches between us and plays my clit like a finely tuned instrument. A flood of wetness gushes out of me against my will and my cheeks heat with mortification.

Oh my god, did I just pee myself or did I squirt?

Straight on its heels is a powerful orgasm and it no longer matters. It crashes over me like a tsunami. I’m battered, but not bruised. The couch beneath me is utterly soaked.Please don’t be pee. At last Horek releases a guttural sound that reverberates through me and sends another tremor down my spine. He throws his head back and roars. The muscles in his neck are drawn taut and his arms shake like he’s struggling to hold himself above me.

The seed erupts from his cock and coats my inner walls. Horek rolls his pelvis and I swear he settles even deeper, almost locking himself within my core. Like he doesn’t want any of his come to escape. Maybe he doesn’t. He near collapses on top of me—still half hard—and the weight of him warms my body.

“That was beautiful,” he rasps against my ear. “Youare beautiful.”

“You make me feel that way.” Horek raises himself up onto his elbows and stares down at me with a questioning look. “Has no one else?”

I shrug a little self-consciously. He withdraws his cock from me and tucks himself back into his pants. I move to get up and grab mine he tossed away, but his palm between my breasts halts me.

“Lie still. I’ll be right back.” He walks toward an open door off the living area and from here I see a bed.

Seconds later, there’s the sound of running water. It shuts off and Horek returns with a cloth in his hand. To my surprise, he cleans me. Or at least, he wipes my inner thighs. His heated gaze zeroes in on my center and the flames in his eyes, which I’d thought extinguished, flare to life. He blinks, and they die to only a flicker, but remain burning.

He lifts me off the couch, settles back onto it away from the giant wet spot we left, and sets me across his thighs still bare-assed. I squirm but his firm grip on my hip makes me freeze.

“Now, tell me why no one else has made my heart’s fire feel beautiful.”

Chapter22

Horek

I wish for nothing more than to revel in my mating with Quinn, but to see her so uncertain about her beauty makes me wish to travel to her Earth and destroy any male who ever made her feel unworthy.

“You don’t really want to hear about the men I’ve been with, do you?” She cocks her head in clear disbelief.

“Gods, no.”

Quinn snorts. “Didn’t think so.”

“But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know how it’s possible that I am the first to make you feel beautiful. What is wrong with the males of your planet?”

She laughs. “I don’t think we have enough time for that.”

“Whatever it is, they are the ones who have lost out. I will be sure to tell you for the rest of our days how beautiful I find you.” I will worship my heart’s fire so that she will never doubt my feelings.

Quinn glances away and nibbles on her bottom lip before returning her gaze to me. “We should probably talk.”

The tone of her words give me pause. “Are you regretting what happened between us?”

“What?” She draws her head back. “No, but there are still a lot of things we need to discuss.”

“Such as?”

“Such as this whole heart’s fire thing and what it means. Also—and maybe most importantly—what’s next?”

“It means you are my bride. My mate.” I thought she knew this. “It means that we will have a mating ceremony and bring forth the next generation.”