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“What about with your perfect thighs wrapped around my head while I lick you until you peak?”
I thought I didn’t have the capacity to be shocked by him anymore.
“You… want to do that?”
The grin he gives me is almost feral.
Then he’s between my legs, laving my core with long, greedy licks. It’s illicit and thrilling and when his tongue circles my clit, my eyes roll back into my head at the intensity of the pleasure it wrings out of me.
Soon, I’m crying out, my core convulsing around nothing, aching to be filled. When he presses a finger inside me, I shatter, my climax breaking me into a million tiny pieces.
“That was, that was-” I can’t even finish my sentence as he comes to lie beside me, nuzzling into my neck as he holds me through the aftershocks. “I feel…”
“Good?” He offers, chuckling again. I love how his laughter feels when I’m all pressed up against his chest.
“So good.”
“Then we will be sure to do it again in a moment.”
“Again?” It seems impossible, but even as I think this, the sweat on my skin starts to fade, the echoes of pleasure dulling down until I feel like I felt when we first arrived in the dreamspace. Fresh and alert.
And needy. So very needy.
“Again,” I say, and this time there’s no question in my tone.
I feel Maldek’s grin against my neck.
“As many times as you like, linasha,” he says, as he kisses a trail down my body. “After all, we have all night.”
EPILOGUE
Maldek
There is much concern amongst my brothers the next morning. Those of us who are mated have been told of Mercenia’s plans and of the things in my Brooks’ memories in their dreams, the message passed to the rest over a breakfast of roots porridge, while the females sit together, discussing something.
“Theclowsestahcaymetoamotherwusmysoopeerior,” my Brooks says, her words musical and nonsensical to me, but her tone bright, happy. “HernaymewasBrannigan.”
I recognise the name, know she must be discussing the elder. Last night, between matings, she asked me if I thought the female knew that she was being moved from one breeding program to another.
“I do not think so, linasha,” I told her. “I think that female cared for you as much as she was able to, given the circumstances you were both in.”
My Brooks seemed to take much comfort from that.
“I do not like the idea of these weapons that can kill a male from a distance with one blow,” Gregar says. “My heartspace is troubled much by this place, but more so at the thought of this.”
“My Sally used such a weapon when she arrived,” Jaskry says. “They have a source of their strength. My Sally says it’s like putting a log on the fire. I don’t fully understand it, but the weapon is burning the wood all the time, faster when it is fired. Then it needs to have more wood placed inside it to keep it burning, as with a fire. Only it is not wood, it’s something else. But it is not like a spear or a blade, more like a bow. It can’t be used indefinitely without need to replace the fuel.”
“ThenwhadabowtDebra,”Sally says to my Brooks, while Liv and Lorna nod.
“Theraskarranswillprenownseitrong,” Liv says. “Yoodgetcalledde-BRA.”
The four of them almost fall about laughing, while Jassal stares up at them with confusion.
I smile, delighted that my female is already making friends with her sisters. I could watch her happy interactions all day, but force myself back to the discussion. I catch Rardek watching me, an amused glint in his eye.
“Their equipment is not so well suited for our weather, either,” I say, thinking of my Brooks’ boots and the sores they rubbed onto her heels. “Small advantages, perhaps, but we have some.”
I remember my Brooks’ impassioned words about defending the forests, her new home.
