Alien Conquest (Fated Mates of Xaensskar #2) - Jude Gray Page 0,33

as she came again.

This overwhelming, mad feeling was too much for me. I needed to be inside her, to feel her clenching tight and hot around my cock. It was time. Past time. I must fuck her. We could play later. I’d had good intentions, but I wasn’t strong enough to resist her.

“Fuck,” I bit out, then grasped her thighs, shoved them open, and fell on top of her. And finally, finally, I claimed my fated mate. I forced myself into her, hard, too hard, but I was taken by lust and there was no more control.

She thrashed beneath me, screaming my name, then bit my shoulder as she rose to meet my thrusts. Her passion and rough need inflamed me further, and for the first time in my life, I felt sex with my entire self.

My muscles clenched and contracted, my heart stopped beating, my mind went dark. Then in the midst of a roaring silence that was only in my head, my cock jerked inside her and I came.

There was nothing but pleasure—almost too much pleasure—as I paired with the Drimuti female. My fate, my mate.

We paired, bonded, and joined in ways no one could really comprehend, and we would never again be separated. Not really.

Not even in death.

Chapter Eighteen

KREIA

I was different. That long night, the night I was claimed, changed me. It changed him, too, I think, but because he was not quite so emotional, he didn’t show it the way I did.

I wept, laughed, tripped over my words in my rush to express my feelings, fell into brief and immediate stretches of slumber. All night long he fucked me, even after I was past the ability to fuck him back.

When morning came, he pulled on his pants and boots, wrapped me in a quilt, and carried me from the cabin. I could do no more than lie in his arms and stare owlishly at the quiet gray sky as he carried me to the river.

The camp was silent but his men were already up. The scent of greasy, cooking meat made my stomach tighten with hunger.

Had Bo told them I was not who I’d seemed? Did they know I was female and their boss’s lifemate? I didn’t know. Not then.

He said only, “Bo,” as he walked, and the guard fell in behind us, a small bundle in his hand.

I didn’t complain about the cold morning or how I felt like I might die if he dipped me into the icy water. We’d bonded, and I trusted him. He would take care of me, do what was best for me, and would never deliberately hurt me. He would die for me.

I knew this, because I was changed.

Bo busied himself opening the bundle as Dexx kicked off his boots, unfastened his pants, and then stepped out of them. He held me with one big arm, refusing to put me down even to remove his clothes.

And he didn’t dunk me in the water—he walked into the water with me. I shuddered and wrapped my arms around his neck, pressing my lips to his warm throat as he immersed us both. When the frigid water rushed greedily over my hot, aching flesh, at first I cried out with the pain and shock of it. But then, it slid over my bruises, lapped at the throbbing, injured flesh between my thighs, and other than Dexx’s touch, I was certain I’d never felt anything so good in my life.

It soothed every part of my body. “Oh,” I said, staring with wonder at Dexx. The water no longer felt cold. The air was cold, though, and I wiggled myself a little deeper into the warmth of the water as Dexx held me securely to him.

He smiled at me, a genuine smile that made his eyes twinkle. “I misused you last night. I couldn’t help myself.” Then his smile dropped. “I am sorry, Kreia, that I hurt you.”

And I knew he wasn’t only talking about last night. “Last night was the most perfect night of my life,” I said earnestly. “I don’t know exactly what it means to…to…”

“To have joined with me?” he asked.

I nodded.

“It means,” he told me, “that we are lifemated. You are my queen. All that I have is yours. I am yours. I will never seek another. I will protect you with my life, as will my men. You will never want for anything. From the moment we joined, you became my world.”

I burst into noisy, messy sobs, and he