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go back to the Palace of the Unseen,” he told her. “Need to go back and see Qi again. Maybe he can undo all of this.”
“And make my fangs grow out again?” Kara looked near tears at the thought.
“What other choice do we have, baby girl?” Raak asked. Seeing her pale blue eyes swimming with tears, he gathered her close to his chest and held her.
Gods, how his heart ached to see her pain! He didn’t know why he was feeling the way he was for the sweet little female—he’d been around the galaxy and been with plenty of women but none of them had touched him like Kara. He wanted desperately to make her well—to help her through this crisis.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was falling in love with her, he told himself dryly.
But of course that was impossible. He had no soul and without one, it was impossible to fall in love or to bond—everyone knew that.
“I don’t want my fangs to grow out again,” Kara whispered against his chest.
Raak cuddled her close.
“I know you don’t, baby girl,” he murmured gently. “But if it’s a choice between visible fangs and feeling like you’re being electrocuted in your nipples and pussy all the time, which is better?”
“The fangs, I guess.” She looked up at him, her lovely pale blue eyes swimming with tears. “You’re right, Raak—we have to go back. We have to ask Qi to make my fangs grow out again. I know you’re willing to help me as much as you can, but I’m exhausted. And you must be getting lockjaw by now from, uh, licking me so much.”
She blushed pink as she spoke, which made his heart twist again.
“Well, I will admit you’re testing my endurance.” Raak massaged the sides of his jaw with one hand ruefully. “But I’ll keep going as long as you need me to—I love tasting your pussy, Kara. You know that.”
“I know.” Her blush deepened. “But you’re right—we can’t live like this. These attacks are happening more and more frequently and we can’t spend the rest of our lives in bed.”
“Well if we had to, you’re the one I’d want to spend mine with,” Raak told her, grinning tiredly. “But I think I’d better set us a course for Xephron Five. We need to get back to Qi as soon as possible.”
“Yes.” Kara sighed and then gave a sharp little moan.
Raak’s senses were on high alert—by now he knew all the signs of an impending essence attack, so he knew exactly what that little cry of pain meant.
“Is it coming on again?” he asked her anxiously. “You need me to lick you some more, sweetheart?”
Kara winced and nodded.
“Yes, but I can…can wait while you set a course for Xephron Five,” she told him. “Go on, Raak—I’ll be okay.” She winced again. “For a little while, anyway.”
“I’ll hurry,” Raak promised her. He jumped off the sleeping platform and ran to the front of the ship to lay in a course to the “disco ball planet.”
He only hoped they could get there before Kara was in so much pain he couldn’t help her anymore.
Twenty-Nine
“Because you are in my Palace of the Unseen and have eaten of my xanthos, you can, of course, cause your fangs to return to their normal configuration,” Qi said, from his invisible perch somewhere ten feet or so above them.
“Oh, thank you!” Kara had never thought she’d be so glad to hear that her fangs would be long and sharp—exactly the way they’d been before she messed with them.
She’d been reluctant when Raak first suggested coming back to Xephron Five to get the process reversed. But the constant shooting pains in her most sensitive areas had convinced her that she would much rather have prominent fangs than the feeling she was being electrocuted all the time.
She had eagerly taken off her clothes to enter the invisible palace and had willingly swallowed the biggest, squishiest xanthos ball she could find the minute the invisible plant alien produced them. Anything to be rid of this awful agony!
“I want my fangs back,” she said, closing her eyes and concentrating hard. “Make them grow back just like they were.”
At once she felt the familiar itching-tingling sensation in her upper jaw right where her canine teeth should be. To her relief, when she explored the area with the tip of her tongue, she felt the long, sharp tips of her fangs just where they should be.