Alien Conquest (Fated Mates of Xaensskar #2) - Jude Gray Page 0,47

answered, winding her arms around my neck. “I want you. I want you inside me.”

I nudged her thighs open a little farther and probed her opening with my cock, too aroused to tease her. I pushed myself into her and she tightened immediately around me, and she kept her stare on mine as I began to fuck her.

There was no better feeling in all the worlds than bonding with Kreia. It wasn’t just fucking. It was everything together. I’d never been closer to another person, or felt my entire body react during sex. Never had my heart been so full, my mind so tortured, my emotions so raw, my body so affected.

She whispered my name and tightened around my thrusting cock, and I slid my arms beneath her body and held her as we came together. It was perfection, and it would be perfection for the rest of our lives.

EPILOGUE

KREIA

I sat beside Vihn in his hospital room, holding his hand, attempting to find a way to broach the subject of his mother.

“I’m not even sick, Kreia,” he complained. “I want to go home.”

My stomach tightened. I wanted to tell him that he had no home to go to, not really. His time with Ilen was done. I wasn’t about to let him go back to the streets. Despite his assurances that he wasn’t sick, the doctors had just told Dexx and me that the boy had a whole host of things wrong with his too-skinny body.

He’d been severely neglected since Avanya had birthed him and then thrust him into the unkind streets. A boy didn’t just get over something like that. In time, he’d be okay. But he still had a long way to go.

“You look good,” I told him, and that was true. “Listen, Vihn. I need to tell you something.”

He watched me, silent.

“Your mo came into our camp and along with one of Dexx’s guards, she tried to kill me. So—"

“So you’re going to live with Dexx Tavin at Eastmeadow?” he interrupted. He wasn’t ready to hear about Avanya, and he didn’t look at me when he spoke, as though I’d see something in his eyes he didn’t want me to see. “It’ll be weird at Stone Haven without you.”

“You won’t be going back to Stone Haven,” Dexx said, walking into the room.

Both Vihn and I turned to stare at him. “Then where will I go?” Vihn asked, sudden fear lighting his eyes. “You can’t make me stay here.”

“You’ll spend a couple more weeks here,” Dexx told him, folding his arms, his gaze softening when it lit on me. “And then you will come live with us.”

Vihn and I gaped at Dexx, then turned to look at each other, and I knew his surprise was mirrored in my own face. When it sank in, I squealed, then leaped to my feet and flew to Dexx. “Truly?” I cried. “Dexx!”

I hadn’t even had to ask, though I would have. I would have insisted.

He grinned and opened his arms. “Of course the kid will live with us, Kreia.”

“Thank you,” I whispered.

“But what will I do to earn my keep?” Vihn asked doubtfully. “You won’t need me to steal for you.”

Dexx’s lips tightened. He’d threatened to shut Stone Haven down until I’d told him Ilen was worlds better than having to live in an alley. I’d asked him to leave Ilen and Stone Haven alone, but I was nearly certain he was going to see to it that Stone Haven received an overhaul—and a quick interference from people who would see to it that circumstances would be changed for the kids who found their way there.

Likely that meant that Ilen would find another city where the officials left him alone, but I wouldn’t be too unhappy about that. He gave those kids a home—kids who were ignored or imprisoned—or worse—by officials. It was a harsh world for street kids.

“You won’t need to earn your keep,” Dexx said. “You will be educated and taught a trade, and when you reach the age of consent, you will be prepared to go out into the world on your own. While you’re a child under my roof, you will be taken care of.”

Vihn narrowed his eyes, suspicious. “You chained me and Kreia out back of your house. Now you care about us?”

Dexx didn’t try to explain or excuse his behavior. “Yes,” he said. That was all, and he didn’t look away from Vihn’s angry, confused stare.

“Fine,” Vihn said finally, “but if you start bringing in