Lacey's Warriors (Bondmates #6) - Ann Mayburn Page 0,46

closed and her cheeks flushed bright pink. As he watched, she gasped, then bit down on Chel’s shoulder, hard enough to make his blood brother start to orgasm. Vibrations filled Chel’s cock, the pleasure he was experiencing exploding through their bond, mixing with Gwarnon’s as the first burning pulse of his release surged out of his body. Gripping Lacey’s hips, both Gwarnon and Chel roared, her ragged scream mixing with theirs as the shuttled in and out of her, their swollen cocks making it hard to move in her tight, gripping passage.

Gwarnon managed to pull out before he collapsed. His still hard and glistening cock jerked in the air to the beat of his heart, while Lacey had one last orgasm, her breasts thrust out and back arched as she rode a gasping Chel to completion. When the last wave left her, she fell forward, her eyes rolling back into her head.

“Lord’s Balls,” Gwarnon said as he caught her, easing her off Chel as she smiled. “Is she all right?”

Lacey reached out, grabbing at Gwarnon, “Shhh, cuddle, sleep.”

The men shared a smile and Gwarnon cleaned both himself and his alyah before they did just that.

Tangled up in Chel’s arms, Gwarnon woke with a start, a burst of pain and fear coming through his bond like a strong mental slap.

Chel let out a shout in his sleep and woke up with a start, both men staring at each other in confusion.

Almost as one, their eyes widened as they both said, “Lacey.”

“Where is she?” Gwarnon asked as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

“I cannot reach her through her implant, or she is not responding.” Leaping from the bed, Chel tossed him a pair of pants as he said, “I have scanned the ship, but there is no sign of her.”

Gwarnon hurriedly got dressed, feeling as if he’d woken to a nightmare. “I can sense her faintly nearby, but her implant has been set to not receive any outside communication.”

“Her side of the bond is…bleary somehow? Like it is being masked,” Chel said as his gaze went distant. “Recordings show that Lacey left our room an hour ago and programmed a transport pod for the Baladium,” his lip lifted in a snarl, “and the recording ends.”

Disbelief roared through Gwarnon, loosening the cage of his soul around the beast bound to his heart. He let out a wordless roar, his rage all consuming, his soul screaming for his bondmate. Faintly, ever so faintly, he felt the answering ping of his alyah’s soul, but it was far away and growing further by the moment.

A deadly silence filled the room as Chel and Gwarnon mentally worked together, trying to locate Lacey, but to no avail. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a piece of paper that had been pinned to the door. His heart sank as he read the words, trying to understand what they were saying. The note was brief, and it simply said that Lacey was returning to Earth with the young Earth girl she’d ‘won’ from the Baladium.

Both Chel and Gwarnon let out pain-filled roars, their hearts shattering in unison at her rejection. Clinging to his blood brother, Gwarnon let loose the tears of absolute despair, his soul weakening, the beast within him stirring and testing the strength of the bonds holding it back. Chel’s love tried to help heal him, but it was a drop in an ocean of need.

“Why?” Gwarnon whispered against his blood brother’s damp neck. “Why would she leave us? I know she loves us. I know she intended to bond with us. Why would she abandon us now? Her note makes no sense.”

“Lady Roxy might know,” Chel said suddenly.

Together, they raced through their ship, passing their grim faced crew members who whispered promises of aid in finding Lacey.

After the door to Roxy’s room opened, they rushed inside as Gwarnon prayed that Roxy knew something about Lacey’s disappearance.

“Oh my God,” Roxy gasped and reached out to touch Chel with a concerned look on her narrow face. “What’s wrong?”

“Lacey is gone,” Gwarnon roared, then tempered his tone when Roxy flinched. “We think she left on the speed craft bound for Earth. The one with the young Earth girl from the Baladium that was being returned to her family.”

“What happened?” Nosa asked, his long black hair falling over his bare chest as he tugged on some pants.

Gwarnon threw his hands into the air, adrenaline, grief, and his inner beast tearing at his self-control. “I do not know.