Unleashed by the Defender (Brides of the Kindred #25) - Evangeline Anderson Page 0,89

buried inside her. But J’are still didn’t look happy.

“I can’t believe I let my feral side out after so many nights of keeping it back,” he growled morosely. “Can’t believe I let it get to you again!”

“Hey, look at me.” She reached down and tilted his chin so that their eyes met. “Don’t talk about ‘it’ like that. Your feral side is part of you,” she told him. “A part that I love just as much as I love your thinking mind. And I promise you, once and for all, you did not hurt me.”

“Honestly?” J’are had begun to look more hopeful.

“Honestly.” Imani wiggled against him. “In fact, I might be up for round two…if you’re interested.” She gave him a naughty smile.

His eyes went half-lidded as he took in her expression.

“I could definitely be interested in that. But this time I want to take things slowly—want to stay in my thinking mind.” Reaching up, he cupped her cheek gently in one big hand. “I don’t want to just fuck you or breed you, Imani—I want to make love to you.”

Imani felt her heart swell.

“Oh, baby—I want to make love to you, too. That sounds wonderful.”

“Ride me then.” J’are’s voice was hoarse and his eyes were half-lidded. “Let me watch you taking me the way I took you. Let me feel you all around me, my Defender.”

“I’m more than your Defender now,” Imani reminded him breathlessly as she began to raise and lower herself on this thick shaft. “I’m your wife—your mate. And soon I’ll be the mother of your child.”

“You’re the one the Goddess chose to Claim me,” he growled softly. “The female who was sent to set me free. I love you so much, Imani.”

Imani felt her heart swell.

“I love you too, J’are,” she murmured as he began to thrust up into her again, picking up her rhythm. “And we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.”

“And all because you trusted me and came for me,” he murmured.

“Yes,” Imani agreed, moaning as she rubbed herself against him, taking him deeper. “God, yes, J’are!”

In that moment she knew that somehow the two of them would find a place to live—a place to raise their child and make a new life for themselves and they would never be parted again.

All because the Goddess had put them together and she had come to set him free—because J’are had been… Unleashed by the Defender.

Epilogue

“So are you ready to find out if it’s a boy or a girl?” Kat squeezed her hand excitedly as they waited for the little machine Liv had put Imani’s blood test into to finish its business.

“I am but I’m so nervous.” Imani put a hand to her heart. “Of course I know it’s probably going to be a boy, which means we’ll either have to go live on J’are’s home planet or go back to Yonnie Six.”

“Yonnie Six?” Liv looked shocked. “Why in the world would the two of you go there?”

“Well, because we got a message from Judge Thoughtgood—the judge who was trying J’are’s case,” Imani said. “She let us know that since Lady Bittlebum, was dead, the property and money she had stolen had all reverted to J’are, as his adopted mother originally intended.”

Kat snorted. “About time! So I guess you two could go live in the lap of luxury?”

“Yes.” Imani nodded. “I could pretend to be his Mistress and he could pretend to be my bodyslave.” She sighed. “It’s not really how I want to live but neither of us knows anybody on his home world and I really don’t want to be exiled to a planet that’s mostly wild and covered in jungle.”

“You could just go back to Florida and live in the Everglades if that was what you wanted,” Liv pointed out.

“We thought about that,” Imani said seriously. “About going back to Earth—maybe buying a place near the wilderness so J’are could run through the woods when he goes feral at night.”

“Why don’t you, then?” Kat asked. “That sounds like the perfect solution.”

“Because the Kindred High Council won’t allow it.” Imani sighed unhappily again. “Not because of J’are—Commander Sylvan has spoken to them and made them see that he’s safe now that he’s bonded to me. But when I have the baby, if it’s a boy, well…”

“You’re going to need someplace an unbonded Nightwalker Kindred male can grow up safely,” Liv said softly, finishing her thought.

“Exactly.” Imani nodded. “Which is one reason we were thinking of moving back to J’are’s old