ceasing his steady licking and sucking even as she bucked fiercely against his mouth. At last, though, when Kara collapsed, panting on the bed, he looked up, his mouth shiny with her juices.
“Gods, you taste so damn good. Feeling better, baby girl?” His voice was hoarse with lust and he licked his lips as though he was ready to taste her again if she needed him to.
“I…I think so.” Kara was still trying to catch her breath. “Goddess, Raak—that was so…” But she couldn’t think of a word that adequately described the sudden shift from pain to pleasure.
Raak seemed to understand because he nodded.
“For me too, baby girl. You have the sweetest little pussy I’ve ever tasted. And I fucking love the way you pull my hair and moan while I’m going down on you.”
Kara felt her cheeks getting hot but there was no point in being embarrassed now, she told herself. After all, she and Raak had just done something that was usually reserved for people who were either bonded, or about to be bonded.
But thinking of that made her sad. Because she and Raak were never going to be able to bond.
“Thank you,” she said, trying to push her regret away. “For…for helping me. For healing me.”
He frowned. “Don’t know if I managed to heal you, exactly. I think only time will tell about that.”
Kara bit her lip. “You think it’ll come back? The essence, I mean? You think it’ll happen again?”
Raak looked serious.
“I hope not for your sake, baby girl. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see.”
“I guess,” Kara said hesitantly. “But I feel so much better now, Raak. So much…” She yawned suddenly. “Oh my, so much sleepier.”
He smiled at her.
“Not surprised, considering how hard you came. Of course you’re all tired out afterwards.”
“Will you hold me?” Kara held out her arms to him. “Can we just take a nap together, please? I…I feel better when I’m in your arms,” she confessed, though she knew she shouldn’t.
His dark eyes, which had been half-lidded with lust, went soft.
“Of course I’ll hold you, baby girl. I’d love to hold you.”
He climbed into the sleeping platform with her and pulled her close to his broad chest.
Kara sighed and snuggled closer, not even minding that both of them were nude. In the past such a sleeping arrangement might have felt dangerous. But she trusted Raak to do the right thing by her always and besides, it was so comforting to have his bare skin next to hers.
I’m better now, she told herself as she pillowed her head on his broad chest. All better. Raak cured me by sucking out the essence that had been flowing in and down and out the wrong way. I’ll never have to worry about it again.
That was what she thought, anyway…until the sharp, aching pains woke her again in the middle of the night.
Twenty-Eight
“We can’t go on like this.” Raak ran a hand through his hair wearily. Not that he didn’t love going down on Kara—Seven Hells, he’d do it forever if he could. But the constant cycle of her need was wearing after a while, even for her.
Her tight little nipples were sore from him sucking them so much and her little clit was swollen and over-sensitized from the way he’d been licking her almost constantly for the past twenty-four hours.
It had been a non-stop marathon for the past day and night, Raak thought as he looked at her, lying panting on the bed from her last orgasm. Her hips had begun to twitch away from him, her body trying to protect itself from over-stimulation even though she needed to come to get over an “essence attack,” as he had started calling the episodes in his head.
No matter how gentle Raak tried to be when he sucked her nipples and lapped her pussy, those sensitive areas weren’t meant to be continuously stimulated over and over for hours on end. Yet there was no other way to ease Kara’s pain and need and she swore that the electrical shocks she got in her nipples and pussy were worse than the over-stimulation of those same areas when Raak licked and sucked her.
He was willing to keep on for as long as it took for her to get over the essence attacks but as time wore on, it became clear that they weren’t going to stop on their own. Kara needed help and he could only think of one place to find it.
“We need to