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It made a strange sort of surreal sense that defied logic and yet made sense in terms of everything she’d been experiencing.

“It feels like you are within me, and even more so with every touch,” she observed in an awed voice, and Kull nodded.

“Touch naturally enhances and strengthens its pull, drawing our hearts and souls closer to each other within the weave it has created between us. And then when I’m truly inside you—”

Katie’s hand quickly covered his mouth, a hot blush climbing into her cheeks. He smiled behind her hand and pressed a kiss to her palm before wrapping his fingers around her wrist and slowly drawing her hand from his mouth. He pressed a kiss to her fingers and then pressed her hand in the furs beside her head, and he drew her other hand up on the other side before dipping his head and brushing her lips with his.

He kissed her leisurely, putting to the test every caress of mouth upon mouth that she had led him through in their previous encounter. He kissed her not with just his mouth but with his heart, demonstrating every bit of adoration through the thoughtful and careful touch of his lips. Her entire being responded to it as she returned his kiss, her body arching against his, undulating so that the hard strength of his muscles and the incredible softness of his fur stroke over her skin, awakening every nerve ending as he leisurely thrust into her.

Growling against her lips, he brushed a final kiss to the corner of her mouth and rocked his hips in a powerful thrust before withdrawing cock from the clutch of her cunt. Her scent seemed almost soaked into his fur and skin, and his phallus rose from between his thighs like a bar, and yet that didn’t seem to sway him from his purpose. Instead of thrusting home again, he released her hands and began a downward oral exploration, drawing heat into every contact point as traced an exquisite path down her throat, and along her shoulders and breasts.

Whispering a sigh of pleasure, she tangled her fingers in his mane as she clutched his horns and she shivered in reaction that culminated in a cry when pleasure ripped through her in a bright current when his mouth finally on her most intimate center between her thighs. She rocked her hips instinctively, riding the need roaring through at the touch of his tongue stroking over sensitive flesh and his lips capturing her clit and teasing her nerve endings as he sucked it sharply into his mouth. He did so with such intensity that she was shocked when her soul didn’t simply separate from her body as she shouted her release to the roof of the tent.

Her climax tore from her, and her hands fell away from his horns with the violence of it. Yet, rather than leaving her sated, it left a vacuum of unsatiated need in its place that roared ravenously at her. It shouldn’t be possible to feel so possessed after she orgasmed. Instead of feeling relaxed in a post-organismic glow, it prickled through her senses, stroking the flames higher within her so that she twisted needily on the furs.

Kull watched her through his lashes as he slowly lifted his head and crawled up her body with an unmistakable expression of satisfaction, his tail sliding over her in a long path. Katie’s skin was slick with sweat, but this didn’t seem to bother him as he ran his tongue up her belly to her breasts where he teased hernipples with the sides of fangs and the curl of his broad tongue, turning them into pinpoints of pleasure that slowly expanded and shot downward at the brush of his cock at the entrance of her sex once more.

Holding her gaze with his, his cock sank into her as his tail slowly stroked her inner thigh just behind his hips. Her hips lifted to meet him, a small puff of excitement escaping her as he began to slowly shuttle in and out, filling her to the brink and retreating. It stirred the flames of her pleasure and need higher within her, coiling tighter and tighter within her as their bodies moved together, his cock plunging into her harder and faster as their lovemaking grew more frantic in their rising need.

Kull growled deeply, and the bulbous base of his cock swelled, pressing on her most sensitive internal fleshing, catching and rubbing frantically against her G-spot as his cock jerked and began to release his seed with every vicious thrust against his knot. Heat filled her belly, triggering a powerful rising sensation from her depths, and Katie quaked against him before exploding with the sensation of a thousand hot strands unfurling simultaneously within her, bringing her over the crest into bliss.

He clutched her tightly within his arms, words of adoration filling her ears, letting her know that through all their trials they had finally come home to where they both belonged... and where they both wanted to be without demands or expectations trying to confine and manipulate their love. Even Ren had given his subtle blessing with his willingness to cease fire and his support in dealing with Zalla.

Finally... Katie had found exactly where in the universe she was meant to be.

“I love you,” she whispered as they clung to each other, their bodies locked together in an instinctive, and yet fruitless attempt for the time being, to breed the next generation.

Kull lifted his head and smiled, his eyes warm with love and the promise of a long future together. “My heart is yours, ulukska.” He brushed her hair back from her face gently with his claws. “I’m doubly blessed to have found a home once more in the heart of the ulukskinon—with you.”

He pressed his lips to her brow, and she smiled, feeling his adoration spill once more through her. They were truly one. There was nothing that they couldn’t achieve or succeed against now that they had each other.

And hours later, when the sharpness of their need faded, Katie brought out the flute and presented it to her mate. She knew that she had made the right choice when his eyes brimmed with tears and something subtle shifted in his expression as he ran his fingers reverently along its length. To her surprise, he brought it to his lips and began to play. Singing to the past and the future. To ulukskinon that made them one.

Pillowing her head on his lap, Katie smiled and dreamed of a future full of family and love. The nightmare was finally put to rest as Kull’s love song drifted over her.

Epilogue

Kull scowled at the pressing crowd that filled the Intergalactic Space Station. The argument with the Agraaks over their claim over the humans had not only demanded their presence on the space station far from their homes but had been singularly one of the most unpleasant experiences of his life. Not in the least because one of the males speaking on behalf of the Agraaks regarding their findings and intellectual properties and rights in addition to whatever mating rights they tried to contrive, had not ceased staring at Katie the entire time. It made Kull’s fur prickle with annoyance.

But at least it was over. The council had returned, ruling in favor of the VaDorok and striking down all claims of rights that the Agraak believed that they possessed over the human females. Currently, and in terms of any human females in the future. There were even those pushing for the return of any humans taken to their planet, but Kull knew that would be a difficult process. He could not see it being very successful. Agraak were wily enough that he was certain that they would hide away any of those females who were not cooperative.

He wished the council luck, but at least he had the comfort of knowing that his mate was not going anywhere. His innards had felt twisted and scalded with fire ever since the Edoka told them of their summons, and that tension had not loosened its grip on him until the verdict of the council finally came in. Now that it had, he was eager to get back to the ship and be on their way. After having too many strangers too close to his mate, he was eager for the inhospitable icy flats and sprawling snowy forests of his home world that discouraged others from visiting.

That included the humans.

The representatives from Earth had not inspired any great feelings of warmth within him the way they had fought against the mating between their females and VaDorok males. It disgusted him to such a degree that he decided that would not miss the lack of human visitors to their world.

“How much farther to the ship?” he grumbled to A’Jular as he adjusted his grip on his mate, drawing her tightly to her side as a large group of males came through.

The male glanced over his shoulder and gave him a commiserating look. “Sorry about the crush. There always seems to be a bit of a tangle around the docking bays during certain timetables run by the space station. The intergalactic mean they like to call it—it regulates all business here and is also a massive pain in the ass.”

Kull nodded, though he only understood about half of what the male said. He understood enough, however, to get that it was inconvenient but normal. Still, it was irritating to shuffle along like an alpak, and even more so when he was surrounded by unknown males. Then there was the Agraak to consider. He did not believe for even a minute that they would have docilely filed off the space station already, which meant that they were still out there... somewhere.

He glowered suspiciously, his eyes raking over the crowd.

“Kull, it’s alright. Just relax,” Katie murmured at his side. “I am not going anywhere. If your idiot cousin couldn’t steal me, I doubt a comparatively puny Agraak will be any more successful.”

“That doctor looked at you,” he growled in protest. “I do not like it. It was not a casual glance but possessive.”