Page 35 of Joven's Bride
Chapter Nineteen
For the next few days, Joven stayed close to Carly, maybe a little too close, hovering like he was afraid to let her out of his sight. He could do that because of his ability to monitor his teams with his onboard computer tapped into the base com system. Her injury had been healed by the next day just as Joven told her it would.
They spent most of the morning in bed making love, which Carly didn’t mind at all. But afterward, she was ready to get back to her teaching projects and educating herself about the changes in her perspective of the universe. She was still compiling material for her courses, and everything she was learning fascinated her.
Joven did actually help her with answers to questions she couldn’t find. But she finally realized that Joven was afraid to let her out of his sight. The incident with the raptor had left him deeply shaken. It could have caused catastrophic injuries with its sharp hooked bill and talons.
On the fifth rotation, after it happened, he still wasn’t going back to his job. Carly adored the long lovemaking sessions every morning. He was the best lover she could ever have imagined. As much as she loved him, his hovering was getting on her nerves.
When it became clear that Joven couldn’t put the raptor scare behind him, Carly knew they needed to talk. She wanted to get it settled before the dinner party in four rotations. That was one thing Skye had told her. Cyborgs knew all too well how easily an unenhanced humanoid could be killed before their shared nanocybots fully colonized their bodies. They would rather face death themselves than the loss of their females.
“What do you plan for this rotation?” Joven asked as they got up from the breakfast nook.
“I thought I would go outside for a walk to get some fresh air. Then I thought I would ask the AI to show me some ornamental plants for landscaping around our house. And I always wanted to have a kitchen garden,” she said.
“You were going outside, by yourself?” He gave her a worried look.
Carly sighed. She couldn’t be angry with him. Instead, she put her arms around his waist and hugged him, pressing her cheek to the hollow of his throat. “Joven, what happened was my mistake, because I didn’t understand. The only way a baby dragon that small could land in our yard was by a predator or a poacher dropping it here.” She rubbed his back over his jumpsuit, and he put his arms about her and hugged her back.
“I know,meomee, but my mind keeps looping back on the utter terror I felt when I saw that huge raptor diving down at you,” he admitted. “And I almost lost you because of that pirate Crazell even before I ever had the chance to hold you in my arms. But now if I lost you, it would end me.”
Carly shifted her arms and ran her hands up his chest to rest one hand at the back of his neck and caress his cheek with the other. “Joven, I know better now. The raptor came after me because I took its food. I looked them up on the AI system. Raptors don’t usually attack humanoids unless they are provoked.”
“That’s what my processor tells me, but my emotions tell me you could have been killed after everything you went through to be with me. Every time I think of how Crazell tortured you, I wish I had made him suffer more.”
As Joven stared down at her, Carly could see the anguish in his crystal blue cat’s eyes. “Meomee, it’s over now. Crazell is dead, and you scared the raptor away. Loving someone as much as we love each other makes us vulnerable to the prospect of loss,” she said. “I promise I will be more careful outside. I will take my pocket com with me so I can call someone if anything happens that I need help.”
“I love you so much, I feel bad that this has upset you so much that you are afraid to let me out of your sight.”
“I can’t help what I feel,” Joven countered.
“I know, sweetheart. But I want you to try to turn your thoughts to the fact you prevented the bird from attacking me. Think about how quickly I healed because of your nanite technology… Think about how we made love for hours the next morning, and I screamed your name so loud when you made me come long and hard.”
Carly smiled up at him and raised her self on her toes to kiss his mouth tenderly. She was pretty sure she knew where this was going as she felt the hardness of his erection pressing against her belly. That tender kiss became deeply passionate, and Joven lifted her in his arms, urging her to wrap her legs around his hips.
He kept kissing her and started walking to their bedroom. As soon as Joven deepened the kiss, Carly began to feel the wetness gathering between her thighs. She thought they might just have a quickie, but it soon became apparent that Joven had other ideas.
He stripped off her clothes and arranged her on the bed and paused to admire her naked body before he signaled his jumpsuit to withdraw from his body. He approached from the foot of the bed, starting at her feet, kissing and nibbling his way up her leg.
When he reached her mons, he parted her nether lips and covered her clit with his mouth for a long, slow kiss. He flicked his tongue over her clit until he felt her muscles tensing as her arousal built. Carly moaned plaintively when he stopped and journeyed down her other leg using his lips and tongue and teeth.
Carly panted as her clit and her nipples throbbed for attention. She rubbed her nipples with her palms and plucked at them aching for release. She knew that Joven would make her wait for it. Driving her mad with desire was his revenge for scaring the hell out of him.
Oh, but it would be sweet!
After sucking her toes, something new and incredibly arousing, he moved back to her sex to feast on her juices and tease her to the verge of orgasm again. She wanted to come, but she also wanted to hold out until he was inside her, so she was hugging his cock with each contraction of her orgasm.
“Joven, wait, I can’t…” she tried to warn him as her orgasm was getting close. She wanted him to share the pleasure, and she wanted his sweet torture to go on a little longer because he seemed to need that.
He left her pussy and continued moving up her body, dragging his lips and tongue over her soft, smooth skin. Carly reached to caress him everywhere she could and voiced her pleasure humming and cooing to him.
She wanted him utterly and completely and loved him all of that and more. He was hers, and she was his. She regretted her part in causing him so much reluctance to leave her side because she knew she would feel the same.
By the time he finished his trail up her body to her breasts to suck on her nipples, Carly was quivering and panting with wanting him. Had he even touched her clit while suckling her breasts, she would have come. Yet he always seemed to know when to hold back.
Finally, he poised himself to lower his cock to her opening and settle into the cradle of her thighs. Carly stroked his back and shoulders as she looked up at him expectantly and smiled.
“Fuck me hard,” she whispered.
