mind it, come to think of it, as her thighs clenched and she braced for the next smack. She’d heard about spanking but never indulged. The Fleet instructors beat students during the first few months of training, though it definitely hadn’t been as interesting as being over Nokx’s knees and having his hands on her bare ass.
Whips and sticks were definitely not fun. Not at all. But a flat palm…
Nokx peppered her with half a dozen smacks all over her ass and the backs of her thighs, the heat and stinging building painfully until she tried to shield herself with her hands. “Wait, wait!”
Nokx gave her a few more for good measure, then leaned down to tug on her hair again. “Is there something you want to say?”
Her whole face burned and she had to squeeze her thighs together so she didn’t rub all over his legs and cock or push her ass into his hands. “I, well, maybe. Uh, I mean—”
She yelped at another series of whacks, and thrashed to get away until he pinned her shoulders with one arm while the other swung back to deliver the punishment. EJ hollered and struggled until he finally stopped, then she collapsed against his legs with a shuddering sigh. “No more. Please. No more.”
Nokx grunted, his palm resting against the back of her thigh as it radiated heat and ached from the strength of his arm. “So what are you going to do when I tell you to do something in the future?”
She wanted to tell him to piss off so he might smack her a little harder, but her ass already ached and she knew she’d hardly be able to sit down the next day. Eating in the mess hall would be humiliating if she whimpered every time she shifted between cheeks. So EJ gnawed on her lip and finally whispered, “I’ll do what you tell me to do.”
“Good,” he said, crooning it out until she wanted to arch and preen at the praise. Nokx patted her butt gently, then moved so he could lay her in the middle of the bed. “Now you need to sleep, otherwise—”
But she couldn’t take it. The moment he started to recline next to her—between her and the door, though she didn’t know if that was to protect her or keep her from running—EJ seized his shoulders and shoved him back. Of course, he was strong enough she didn’t actually make much progress, but Nokx obliged by resting back on his elbows as he watched her with an amused quirk in his eyebrow.
Smoldering approval replaced amusement as EJ straddled him, though she squirmed as her bruised ass rested against his iron thighs. She reached between them to grasp his cock and slide it against her. Her head tilted back in sheer pleasure as she lifted up and then sank down on him, feeling every delicious inch as he stretched her wide yet again.
EJ kept her eyes closed as she rode him, reveling in the muscular body between her thighs and his heated presence inside her, and let her hands drift from her breasts down to her clit. He started growling the moment she touched herself, which made EJ smile, but she didn’t stop even when he grasped her hips and tried to make her move faster. He snarled in Xarav still more, either cursing or encouraging her, but he didn’t flip them over so he could take over.
She smiled and slowed her rocking as pleasure built from a spark to a raging inferno, and savored every moment of it. It didn’t matter what tomorrow brought. She didn’t have time to worry about it. She wanted him in that moment, and he wanted her, and that was enough. It had to be enough. She couldn’t count on tomorrow having any happiness in it. There was only that moment.
Chapter 16
Nokx
Nokx hadn’t meant the spanking to turn quite so erotic. He knew he’d enjoy it, just because having her naked and squirming anywhere near him was enjoyable, but he hadn’t anticipated the Earther moaning and rutting against his legs as he smacked her. It was a pleasant surprise and something he needed to explore further, though he didn’t dare ask the other Xaravians if their Earther mates liked to be disciplined. He wasn’t sure he wanted to know that about any of them.
When she pushed him down on the bed after he finally let her up, he thought she was angry and wanted to express her displeasure.