Chapter 20
Jorusk tears off his chest armor. His cloak falls away, and the rest of his scalding bare skin brushes up against mine.
His whole body flexes as he wraps me up tightly in his arms and pushes hard, trying to bond us completely.
But I am tense from the erotic sensation of his swollen cock penetrating my core, spreading my hips… pushing deeper.
The pulsing heat of his shaft slicks me more, easing him slowly inside. He grunts and thrusts with force, but each time makes little progress. Until, finally, I sense the brush of his mating tines and the tip of his cock as it presses into my deepest spot.
We’re a mess of hot breath and embers and flames.
Jorusk kisses me with passion and then leans back to snarl a noise that’s his voice overlaid with a monstrous growl, like he’s fighting for control. It’s such a primal sound that it makes me clench around him.
He swears and promptly carries me into a nearby seedling room with a transplanting workbench, where he leans me back, grabs a handful of dirt from a container, turns it to ash, and marks my breasts and belly with symbols and murmurs quietly in a language I have yet to learn.
His body shimmers like molten lava as he leans forward and suckles my breasts.
Every time he grazes my nipples with his sharp teeth, another scintillating ripple of desire courses through me and makes me squeeze around him.
His cock flexes in response, igniting my high until I’m riding an incendiary wave of euphoria.
He withdraws, bends forward, and glides his hot forked tongue up my pussy. Jorusk swirls his tongue around my nub then guides his rigid length inside me again. He’s a massive male, but his heat eases the pain of accepting him.
Jorusk buries his shaft deeply, picks me up, and sits back in a chair, balancing me on his lap as he pumps slowly, grinding hard with deliberate and fervent force.
I clutch his head to my chest, desperate for an anchor in the dizzying heat even though I am supposed to be his. He kisses my breasts, and I am lost in his hot skin, his fiery gaze, and the fever of his mating.
“You’re too much.” Jorusk gets up, crushes me against the wall again, and kisses me as his tines nip into my opening.
“Ah, fuck…” Jorusk clutches me against him, moaning. “I’m sorry, Bryn. I’m sorry. I can’t stop them. Inferno just…wants to blow.”
The light twinge of pain accentuates my climax and thrusts me into a blazing hot realm of stars, my core filling with the scorching tide of his seed.
He roars like the monster inside him has something else to say. Jorusk’s teeth find the base of my neck with a light prickle, and he thrusts hard.
An exquisite pain jolts through my nerves. I cry out from the sweet agony of taking him. All of him. And his feisty, fiery Inferno.
He pants and releases his bite. His wings shudder behind him. Jorusk’s grip softens and forms to me like I am fragile as he eases me down from my high by licking his bite mark and pumping with slower, easier movements.
As I descend back to my body, I notice the scorched state of my lab and realize that simply sending seedlings with his kind may have been a mistake. The wall is blackened, and the plants around us either smoke or are missing completely.
“Shit.”
Jorusk blinks and looks up from my chest. “Ooh. Sor…”
I put a finger to his lips. “No. Don’t say it.”
“Or what?”
“I think for a moment. “I’ll make you eat me out again.”
He grins and mumbles behind my finger, “Sorry?”
I laugh. “You’re ridiculous.”
Jorusk gives me a wink. “Already hungry for more of you.”
We still have thirty minutes until we’re within range. But when Jorusk lets me stand on my own again, my legs give out.
He doesn’t hesitate to scoop me up. “Shower?”
I motion in the direction of my bedroom. He carries me inside and to the bathroom at the back. “Ooh. Rainfall shower?”
“It was one of my few joys in space,” I admit.
He taps the button and sets the temperature. When it streams, he steps inside and places my feet on the ground again. We wash up quickly, knowing we’ll arrive soon to the fleet of allies. When I’m done, Jorusk guides me against his hot body and holds me for a moment.
“No matter what happens, Bryn, I will always love you, admire you, and hold onto this memory of us.”
“You’re…not staying with me?”
“I want to stay. But I must accept that I may have to leave. I am useful in war.”
It’s not what I want to hear, but to deny reality is to set myself up for failure. I’ve learned that many times over.
“But if I leave, I will be certain you are with someone else. In fact, I would like you with Fieri or another Amphiran at the next opportunity.”
I push back from him and step out of the shower, not understanding why he wants me protected instead of fighting out there alongside him.
He stands for a moment like he doesn’t understand why I’m upset. Jorusk flares and dries in seconds.
I dry off with my towel, though it takes less time than usual.
“You don’t like that?” he asks.
I drop my towel in the laundry slot in my bathroom wall and turn to him.
He is a glorious shimmering beast, and I’m afraid that what Fieri warned us about will come true.
“Do not leave me behind. I know you’re a soldier, and you have to go where you’re needed, but the way you say it makes me think you’re going to do something stupid, and you don’t want me out there watching your back. ”
“I can’t promise what I can’t know, Bryn. You know that. But I will do whatever I can to always return to you.”
He guides a strand of hair behind my ear.
“I don’t want to lose you either, so stay vigilant.
But I have a feeling, knowing Aura, that he will be coordinating the mission.
And he doesn’t like sending females into battle unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Now, please. We need to get ready. And I want you in your best star suit. ”
I walk up to him, eye his arrestor, and then claw it from his body.
Jorusk wheezes, grunts in pain with an animalistic noise, and glares at me with fire in his eyes. “What was that for?”
“I want you in your best armor.”
Jorusk’s anger vanishes. He collects me and kisses me with passion so fierce that it makes me want him all over again. He grinds his stiffening cock into my belly, then nips at my ear and jerks himself back. His muscles tense in quivering waves like he’s trying to decide what to do.
“Stop it, focus!” he growls at himself.
After a deep breath to calm the fire in his blood, he cocks his head and looks down at me with dark hunger. When he turns to walk out, he reaches back and slaps my ass.
“Come, my gorgeous mate. Aura is calling on your coms. And I do not want him to see you naked.”