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Is Brooks all of who I want to be?
“Well, you could take a raskarran style name, if you wanted,” Liv says. “They’re named for their parents, kind of like a surname. Girls for their mother, boys for their father. Always two syllables. The first half of the parent’s name becomes the last half of the child’s. So Sally, Jassal, Marsal. But their brother is called Ahnjas.”
“From Jaskry.”
“Exactly. The first syllable is whatever you want, as far as I can tell. They all refer to each other as brothers, but the names are how you can tell which ones are actually blood related. Maldek and Rardek, for instance.”
“They’re siblings?”
I thought there was something more in the way Maldek introduced Rardek to me, even before I saw how facially similar they are.
“They are.” She turns to me. “The tribe is only small. Or it was. It’s bigger now that we’ve joined with two others. But you’ll find it’s like one big family. There are friendships and rivalries and blood relations, but ultimately to a raskarran, every male in their tribe is their brother, and every female their sister. You might not have arrived with the rest of us, Brooks, but you’re part of the tribe now, and that makes you our sister, too. I’m grateful for all the information you’ve given me so far, and we’ve got some shit to figure out here, no question. But if there’s anything you need, anything I can do to make anything easier or better for you, please let me know.”
I nod. “Yes, ma’am.”
She has no military bearing, no military training. But the words roll off my tongue as naturally for her as they ever did for any of my other superior officers.
* * *
I have no intention of sleeping when I head up to bed with Maldek, but exhaustion sweeps over me, dragging me down into the dreamspace before I can do more than plant a gentle kiss on his lips.
“I didn’t mean to be so tired,” I say, shooting him an apologetic look.
He just grins. “You have had to discuss difficult things with your chieftess. Such conversations are always tiring. And perhaps I am partly to blame for wearing you out before?”
He looks and sounds so hopeful, like the idea that he fucked me senseless delights him.
“Maybe a little, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t want to do it again.”
Abruptly, he’s on me, kissing me hard as he moves over me, laying me back into the soft furs that line the floor of this dream tent.
“We can do it again here,” he says. “A first mating must always be in the waking world, but any others may take place in dreams.”
I throw my arms around him, kissing him as we scramble out of our clothes while trying not to take our hands off each other any longer than necessary. Soon, I’m panting with need, and we’re both naked and fuck, I need to feel the stretch of him pressing inside me again. The delicious ache of my body adjusting to his invasion. I want him stroking me deep until my legs shake with the force of the pleasure.
“Oh, I need…” I moan, a gasp cutting off the rest of my words as Maldek palms my breast, rolling my nipple between his thumb and forefinger. “I need…”
Maldek chuckles. “Need what, linasha?”
“You,” I tell him. “Your cock in my cunt.”
He chuckles again, a deeper, more rumbling sound behind it that sends a delicious shiver through me.
But then he pauses, stroking his fingers over my brow and down to my neck, as if tucking some strand of hair I don’t have behind my ears.
“Is this okay for you, linasha?” he says, gesturing at me.
I frown, wondering what he’s talking about when he clarifies.
“On your back?”
Oh. Sweet, thoughtful guy. It hadn’t even occurred to me.
“You can have me on my back any time you like.”
“And on your front? From behind?” Mischief sparkles in his eyes, and I know he’s teasing, but his words send jolts of heat through me.
“Any position you want.”
