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He stiffened a little behind her before he reluctantly disconnected from her. She turned around to face him, and he gazed down at her, his wing tip caressing the side of her face and making her yearn to lean into his touch.
“My species has an incisor that grows when we’re aroused. We can choose to mark a woman so that no other male touches her.”
The world tilted on its axis, her eyes sharpening. “I never agreed to that! You never properly informed me what this marking was about.”
“You never properly asked,” he said tightly, as though he was the one offended.
Yet he was the one who’d just marked her for life.
“What exactly did your incisor do?”
“It injected a type of pheromone into you, claiming you as my own to warn other males of my kind to keep their distance.”
She gaped. When did he think she’d ever see another Gorema male for him to feel a need to mark her? “So we’re like...married now?” she squeaked.
“That is how many of our kind see it,” he said, his voice deepening.
She glared, even as a spark of something too much like yearning lit her up from the inside out. “That isn’t how things are done, not on my planet, and certainly not here.”
“You don’t approve?”
She scrubbed a hand over her face, her emotions as shattered as her thoughts. How did she answer a question she didn’t even know the answer to herself?
“Don’t answer that,” he said gently, “not right now. Let’s just take things day by day. In the meantime, let me take care of you.”
She sagged and nodded, too tired, too sated and too defenseless to resist.
She’d fight back another day.
Chapter Nineteen
Gray watched Siennaas she slept. She looked so peaceful, so calm compared to the woman who’d all but broken in front of him.
A hot shower had helped to soothe her, as did having him massage soap all over her body, then washing her hair thoroughly while giving her a deep scalp rub. Her bodysuit was already in the washing machine, her rapier within reach on the floor next to her bed.
That she lay naked in bed wasn’t something he was trying to think about. His willpower was tested enough knowing it was only a bedcover that concealed her gorgeous womanly curves.
