move exactly as fast as she wanted. Sure, his hips thrust up as he tried to bury his cock in her, but he didn’t hold her hips in place to force it.
So EJ kept up the torture for them both until her thighs trembled with need and the strain of holding herself above him. She finally sank down on his length and let his massive body fill her. She sighed in pure pleasure at the intrusion, the hard heat that parted her until her muscles clutched at him.
Nokx groaned and held her hips down as his moved to meet her.
EJ laughed breathlessly as she held on to his shoulders for balance as he took over. “Slow down.”
And the big Xaravian did. He took a deep, tormented breath and calmed down. EJ’s heart cracked a little. No one had ever really taken her feelings, her needs, into consideration before. The occasional times she’d slept with men in training and the Fleet, they’d been focused on themselves. That the Xaravian warrior got himself back under control to make sure she could ride him at her own pace... She bit the inside of her cheek to keep from saying something crazy, like blurting out that she loved him.
Nokx growled as his hands tightened on her hips and rocked her a little so his body pressed deeper and sent sparks of sheer need cascading through her. “Tell me what you want, nixtava.”
She didn’t know the words that followed in Xarav, and her translator was on the fritz. But she knew Nokx’s tone and understood the firm, reassuring pressure of his grip and reveled in the way his body fit perfectly with hers. It was like he was made for her. EJ exhaled and started to move with a slow, sensuous rise-and-fall that ignited ripples of pleasure. She lost herself in the sensations, the rough friction of his scales and palms, the firm muscular thighs under her ass, the growling that never stopped and the way his silver eyes turned to boiling mercury as he watched her.
They moved together, slow and easy, until EJ collapsed boneless on his chest, shaking from the intensity of the orgasm that raced through her and left her seeing stars. Nokx grumbled and pressed his lips to the soft spot behind her ear and starting growling all the things he wanted to do to her as his hips surged up again and again. She moaned and held on to his spikes until he tensed under her and drove harder in sharp jerks that set off another cascade of ecstasy in her exhausted body.
Then they were both panting and still. EJ’s head rested on his chest; she could hear the double beat of his twin hearts as she dozed and the sweat cooled on their bodies.
Nokx stroked her back and kissed the side of her neck. “Much better than the loading bay.”
EJ laughed and pressed her face into his shoulder, licking the base of the spike until his whole body convulsed and his cock hardened all over again. She played with his hair and nuzzled closer. “So you really meant all afternoon, huh?”
“We will need more dessert,” was all he said, then he rolled and she squeaked, holding on for dear life as the Xaravian rose up over her.
She sighed and let him take over, reveling in the way he looked at her... like she was a treasure. Something precious. Something he loved, maybe. She didn’t let herself hope and instead closed her eyes and focused on feeling. Enjoying the moment while she had him.
Chapter 24
EJ could have stayed there with Nokx in bed for days. Weeks. Maybe even months. Even if they starved. She figured he felt the same way, since he made all kinds of angry noises when the door pinged to indicate someone waited on the other side. She attempted to rise but Nokx rolled her up in the sheets and covers, so not a single inch of her was visible, before he stalked—completely naked—to answer.
Another pirate waited outside and a brief conversation followed, then Nokx returned long enough to kiss her, throw on his robes, and disappear again.
She was perfectly content to doze, until... the lock chimed on the door. Her eyes popped open. Locked in. He locked her in?
EJ swung her legs over the side of the bed and frowned as she got up, wincing as she stretched out sore muscles, and went to the door. The panel next to it that facilitated entry and temperature