Dark Wolf (Spirit Wild) - By Kate Douglas Page 0,92

on the astral plane and learned the history of her people. How the first Chanku had come to Earth as refugees from a dying planet millennia ago, how they’d found refuge on the world that would one day be host to humankind. A young world that offered shelter amid ancient forests ruled by prehistoric creatures—a world still shuddering in the cataclysm of creation.

There were so few of them left now. So very few, and she had promised. She’d been their hope, those ancient Chanku who had remained for millions of years, existing, yet not living, merely waiting for one to come along who could carry on their history.

Lily—six-year-old Lily Cheval—had been the one charged with remembering the past for a people verging on extinction. She’d held their history, their memories, and all their hopes for the future in her heart and mind.

Then she’d returned to her pack and shared those memories and hopes with all the known Chanku in existence.

And because of that, she knew it was not her lot to find happiness with any man not of her kind. She could have sex with a human male, but there would be no children from their joining. A woman with Chanku genes who had never had the nutrients could produce offspring with a human, but once she’d become fully Chanku, the egg and seed were no longer compatible. Lily had been fully Chanku from birth—she could mate only with another Chanku. The ancients had told her she would find true happiness only with a Chanku male.

Dear Goddess, she wanted Sebastian to be that male, because she already loved him. Loved him without any other reservation beyond that most important one.

What was he? Human or Chanku?

He had to be Chanku. She couldn’t bear to give him up.

But she would have to, eventually. Her life span was almost immortal. As a human, Sebastian would die in sixty or seventy years. She would remain forever young, while he grew old.

He thrust harder. Faster. He clutched her hips, and his fingers dug into her muscles, holding her in place. She knew she’d have bruises. Welcomed them as marks of his taking.

Chanku males were such physical, dominant creatures. She saw his power as one more hint he might be the one. He swore softly, a steady litany of whispered curses. The rhythm of his powerful strokes changed—deeper, harder, faster. Caught in the rhythm of his loving, Lily found her own pinnacle of pleasure.

But she wasn’t there alone.

He stood beside her, held her close, and their minds linked as Sebastian leapt from the edge with Lily in his arms. She cried out, overwhelmed by their shared orgasm. Not merely her own experience but Sebastian’s as well. Her vaginal muscles clutching his thick erection, the rush and the sweet burn of his ejaculate streaming from balls to cock to bathe her inner channel.

His surprise looped back on her when Lily’s sensations washed through him—the powerful throbbing pleasure in her womb, the sweet pain of taut nipples rubbing against the loose weave of her cotton top, the soft press of his balls against her sex.

Her legs trembled and she feared they’d collapse, but Sebastian had anchored both of them atop the granite counter. His forearms protected her from the hard surface while his chest covered her back like a warm, living blanket. The staccato thunder of his pounding heart and the warm exhalations against her ear matched her own racing heart, her own deep breaths. He planted soft kisses along the sensitive nape of her neck until all she wanted was to slide slowly to the floor and lie there until she felt strong enough to move again.

His cock still pulsed within her sheath, her vaginal muscles rippled around him with long, flowing contractions. The sound of their harsh breaths filled her ears. The pounding thunder of his heart soothed her. Enveloped in his heat and power, she could stay there forever.

Which was exactly why she should have known it was too good to last. Lily? I want you and Sebastian at the house as soon as you can get here. We have to work on his shields as well as yours. Aldo Xenakis is in town.

Well, damn. Give us a few minutes, Dad. She wondered if her father was aware what they’d been doing and almost laughed. Talk about rotten timing. Though she figured it could have been worse. Like before they’d shared such an amazing climax. She glanced over her shoulder and caught Sebastian’s questioning glance.