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do to make that happen.
His teeth scraped against her shoulder and Lena shuddered at the reminder that she was a long way from home, wrapped up in a man that wasn’t human.
It didn’t matter. He was hers. There it was. That primal need to claim him, to be claimed by him. Any other time and she might have been terrified of it, but right now she knew that nothing could be more natural. This had been meant to be since the moment they were both born.
He filled her up and then something started.
“Fuck,” she growled, the curse ripping out of her. Was he vibrating? “What—?”
He kissed her rather than spoke and Lena didn’t need words, not when his cock was driving her mad with lust. She crashed into the orgasm, body tightening around him, muscles rippling as he emptied into her with a roar.
They came down slowly, wrapped together, neither willing to let go.
Lena didn’t want to fall asleep, no matter how good she felt. She feared that when she woke up in the morning, this Solan, her Solan, would be gone.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
SOLAN WOKE SLOWLY, his body warm and sated and his arm trapped under Lena. She shifted in her sleep, freeing his arm, and Solan rolled away, sitting up as his mind struggled to make sense of the situation. It wasn’t much of a struggle. They’d had sex. Just like he said they couldn’t.
He wanted to do it again.
Now that he’d given in he couldn’t see why he’d resisted at all in the first place. It had been... transcendental. But were those his real emotions? Or was it the Match talking?
“Have a crisis later,” Lena muttered, tugging on his arm and guiding him back down to the bed. “I need warmth.”
He smiled as he laid down and curled himself around her. He didn’t know what time it was, but the light was glowing green above the door and he decided to take advantage while he could. Lena slept peacefully in his arms, and soon he drifted off alongside her.
Hours later, he woke again, but this time remained lying down since Lena still slept. The urge to push her away and demand that things go no further between them had mostly subsided. Now he was just... confused. He’d thought Matching would make things frenzied, would make it impossible to pay attention to anyone but his Match. He’d thought there wouldn’t be leisurely morning cuddling and drifting off to sleep. Yes, the sex had been more satisfying than any he’d had before, but he didn’t know if the bond between them had anything to do with it. It could have just been Lena.
He hoped it was just Lena.
“You’re not going back to sleep, are you?” She curled into the blanket that he’d scooped up from the floor sometime during the night.
“It’s morning.” It had to be. To confirm, he reached for his comm and checked the time.
That only made Lena grumble more. “It’s always morning on this stupid moon.” Her words were muffled by the blanket.
“Are you like this when you wake?” He didn’t know she could be grumpy. He doubted she’d appreciate it if he told her it was cute.
She threw the blanket off with a groan. “Mornings are for caffeine, and I’ll take whatever weird-ass coffee you drink.”
Coffee wasn’t grown on Aorsa or Kilrym, but a human resident had managed to create an artificial caffeinated drink that Solan was told resembled the Earth beverage. He’d tried it and found it much too bitter for his liking.
“We’ll get you your caffeine,” he promised. But looking at Lena was enough to wake him up. All of him. They were bound to have more work to do soon, but he didn’t care. He leaned in close, cupped her cheek, and kissed her, giving her a proper good morning.
He expected a smile from Lena, not the cautious expression she shot his way. “We don’t have to treat this like it’s a big deal,” she said quietly.
His heart hammered. That wasn’t what he wanted to hear. “I think we do.” Did she want nothing more than a night? Had he misinterpreted her desires? It might have made him a hypocrite, but now that he’d had her once he didn’t know if he could go back to the way things had been. “We’re bound together for the rest of our lives.” No matter what they decided, they couldn’t treat it casually.
“Yes, we’ve established that.” Some of the caution began to dissolve, but she wasn’t smiling.
“So