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She wasn’t the one for me.
No one would be.
Twenty-Eight
SLOANE
“Oh my God, Nia’n’an.”I sagged into the webbing all around me. “I came so hard I think I squirted out my soul.”
He looked at me curiously, and then at where we’d been connected, even though we were currently coming apart.
“Hey,” I said, to get his attention again.
Things could be weird when you lost your virginity. I remembered when I’d lost mine, to the absolutely wrong man. I didn’t want Nia’n’an to have any regrets. “Come here,” I said, reaching for him. He reoriented me so that I was beside his torso, as his two dicks were pulled back inside.
“It’s okay. That was so good. Did you like it?”
He nodded, but he still looked confused.
“Was...something different supposed to happen?” I asked him, as he moved to hold me. “It’s not too late for meto kill you,” I said, grinning, pretending to chomp down on the meat of his arm.
And then he was confused, for reals. He started moving away from me.
“No, no, no, no, no,” I said. “I was teasing. And I’m not hungry,” I clarified, realizing how he could’ve misread things. “I don’t know if spiders are big into cuddling? But I am.” It wasn’t a fact I wanted publicized, however. Even though half the planet had seen me naked, I didn’t want anyone to think I was soft. “I like it here, with you,” I said, and he seemed to take me at my word, arranging himself, so that he could hang beside me. “And I like you. A lot.”
He wrapped his arms around me and pressed me to him, and for the first time I got to properly hold him back, without hesitation. I rested my head in the space between his neck and shoulder.
“Yeah, Nia’n’an,” I said. “Just like that.”
Twenty-Nine
NIA’N’AN
I heldSloane in the glittering cavern, desperately trying to figure out my next move.
If I’d been honest with myself, there were probably several more direct routes we could’ve taken out of Threadstone than I had tried, but...
I’d wanted her.
Somehow I’d had her.
And because the Great Mother had abandoned me completely...the mating hadn’t worked.
None of that changed my feelings for her though, however.
It just made my need to help her get out of here more paramount.
Because if my clock was still ticking, as an unmated male, I had a limited amount of time left to rescue her in. My fears about not knowing who her kidnappers were—theslimmest of excuses for not rushing up—were unreasonable now that I was going to have to leave her.
I couldn’t believe how selfish I’d been, prioritizing my needs over hers, when she was counting on me. And now that reality had cut through the haze of my foolishness, exhaustion settled on me anew, all the extra strength I thought I’d had from being so close to my bond evaporating.
I brought my hand up to push her away from me, so that we could start going, but then I couldn’t bear it, and instead I brushed my knuckles across her cheek. I felt her lips flutter into a smile, she kissed my hand, and then she took my hand and pulled it down between her legs.
“I still want you, you know,” she said, nestling closer to me. “I think I was kind of hoping sleeping with you would turn down the horny, but it didn’t.” She worried her face into my neck, and ground my hand between her thighs. “Is it okay if I come again?” she asked, and I nodded. “Oh good. I don’t think I can take you inside me again for a day or two, but—” She positioned my hand against her beautiful flesh, as though I were grasping one of her thighs. “Don’t go inside. Just let me rock on you?”
I nodded again, and felt her wriggle. The space where her scent came from—from where I thought I belonged—seemed so delicate when I had gotten the chance to inspect it visually. And now she was rubbing those soft, beautiful folds against me, making her tiny, anxious sounds.
How could anything that felt this good not be right?
