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Her body clenched tight at the sight of the thickness sliding between the lips of its opening. It whimpered with the friction of the spikes pummeling along her insides, and it sucked at the silver slickness coalescing with its own juices.
Because it wasn’t her.
She wasn’t the one baring her throat for the uhyre teeth that bit and branded, the breath that burned. She trembled under the tongue lapping at her skin, dripping sweet silver as he curled his bulging shoulders over her. It wasn’t her bringing her hands up to dig her nails into his face, leaving red trails from her bloody fingertips. She wasn’t the one pitching forward to bite his lower lip until he grabbed her jaw to pry her away, punched his hips into her with an inhuman growl.
And it was definitelynother finding the cyan glow behind his eyes and falling into it, pinprick pupils fixing her in place as she came apart, shattering to pieces beneath Orion’s assault.
CHAPTER49
ORION
Orion hadn’t felt more himself in a long time. He pinned her in place as she broke beneath him, holding her gaze in a way only his kind could. Her hoarse breaths muffled in his ears as everything slowed, zoomed into a sharp relief that blurred out the edges until he had tunnel vision. Until all he could see was every little cell of the thing he was destroying. His primal parts unfurled through his bones as he forced himself inside the body. Its cunt squeezed a vise around his cock, making his balls tighten with the rush of impending release.
The exorin on his tongue needed to be on hers. He slid his hand up her bared, bitten throat, thumb tracing the line of taut tendon until it pitched itself right beneath the jaw. Her lips were already parted for him, forest eyes tracking him just as his did her. The way they followed his every move with a meticulous intensity betrayed her as a predator. She wasn’t wide-eyed prey surrendering to his consumption. She was a hunter too, relishing in her kill as they devoured each other in this demented ouroboros.
A gravelly grunt punched from his throat as she tilted her head up and extended the flat of her tongue for him. He let a string of silver ooze from his mouth. The exorin pooled on her offered tongue, and the way her eyes half-closed in spent satisfaction was enough to take him over the edge. He hilted himself in her cunt, balls pulsing against her slit and her thighs as he filled her with his seed.
When he was empty, Orion pressed his forehead to hers, catching his breath. Then, he supported her limp form as she slid to the floor on trembling knees.
“Let’s see just how immune you are, Kaia,” he said, giving her cheek a gentle pat. “Next time we do this will be when you’re begging for it.”
She’d been exposed to so much of his exorin now—there was no way she wouldn’t get hooked. She needed proof she wasn’t exempt, and she would have it. She might try to hold out or deny it. But Orion looked forward to making her beg.
He pushed the chunks of curls from her face, matted with sweat and silver. His gut tightened with satisfaction when he nudged her face up with a finger under her chin, looking her over. She didn’t meet his eyes, wet lashes clumped and heavy over shining cheeks.
Her chin was smudged with exorin. A trace of red was drying in the seam of her mouth, which was what made him register the string in his left shoulder, where he suspected he’d have marks for a while. The side of her neck was lined with marks of his own, blue suction from hungry lips and indents from his own teeth.
He was still admiring his handiwork when the NS subvoc came through.
Come to my quarters. Bring her.
Sighing, Orion rose and held out a hand, interrupting her motion to pull her knees against her chest on the floor.
“We have to go.”
Orion may have made a tactical mistake.
* * *
“You damn fool.”
Those were the first words out of his mother’s mouth when Orion sauntered into her cabins. Kaia, he was pleased to see, mimicked his posture, keeping in close step beside him. When he’d taken her back to their cabin to clean up for a few minutes, she hadn’t seemed in any state to meet anyone. She’d looked like she wanted nothing more than to crawl into some corner and stay there.
That was all right—she’d get used to it. She couldn’t fool him anymore about not wanting this, and he was pretty sure she couldn’t fool herself, either. Her admission back there was still coursing through his veins, as much as the excitement of actually fucking her. It was the raw confusion in her voice when she said she wanted him. It may very well have been the first honest thing she said to him. He had seen the denial collapse behind her eyes, and it only took a firm shove for the rest of her to crumble too.
It was proof that he’d made the right choice. Kaia could be more than just a tool for revenge, or some free-wheeling scavenger to make his life a little more interesting. All those times in the forced, tense moments when he sensed her feeling out the space between them even as she tried to resist and pull back… She couldn’t avoid it anymore. The cut she left on his neck had been the start of the collapse of her defenses. A firstrealglimmer of what she was capable. And he couldn’t fucking wait to splay her open and see the rest.
She’d recovered somewhat by the time they reached Mare Halena’s cabins, and was now standing firm beside him. He didn’t know if she was faking her confidence, but he liked it.
His father sat perched on a cushion in the corner. He and Mother exchanged glances before Mare Halena tossed a glass of whatever-she-had back and slammed it on a table. Of course, she could sense it on them—the stench of fresh pheromones didn’t wash off easy. Hell, she could see it, too—the evidence was painted right on their bodies in red and blue.
“They had to be told eventually.” Orion gestured Kaia toward a foam cushion, pleased at the immediacy with which she followed the instruction to take a seat. He sat beside her, leaning forward to rest his elbows on his knees, hands hanging loosely between them.
“They had to be told whenItold them,” Mother barked hoarsely.
Orion shrugged. “Well, now they know when I told them.”
“Orion…”
