Chapter Thirty
Elaina
His knot shifting inside me as he rolled us over set off another orgasm that stole my breath and every thought I’d ever had. Nothing had ever felt that good.
That right.
My chest heaved as I lay atop Drazien, trying to remember who I even was. There was a new tightness inside my chest, a burning cord that seemed to sink from me into the male beneath me, but it was hard to focus on that with all the other sensations rolling through my body.
He’d bitten me.
Claimed me in the way of his people.
For some reason I had thought that would be the end of my heat. That his bite and the supposed bond it created would flip the switch, and I’d be fine again, but despite having two back-to-back orgasms, need still throbbed between my legs.
“Drazien… I…”
I couldn’t form the words.
His hand ran from the back of my head down my spine until he gripped my ass.
The other held my hip, as if assuring I stayed in place, but the pressure behind my pubic bone ensured I couldn’t go anywhere.
We were locked together, his knot swollen inside me, keeping every jet of cum I felt him release trapped inside too.
“Take what you need.”
The words made no sense until I realized my hips were moving. He might not be able to fuck me with his knot inflated, but it wasn’t necessary to move in and out to scratch the itch plaguing me.
Placing my palm in the center of his chest, I pushed myself upright. The change in where his knot pressed had me gasping and shuddering, my core clenching around the still-hard shaft inside me.
“Why?”
It was a struggle to think, but that was the question at the top of my mind that burst out on a whine.
Why did I still feel like this?
Why hadn’t my heat ended?
Why did it seem like I felt an echo of my lust within my chest?
I moved my knees into a better position, hissing at the tugging within my core. Each motion was torturous bliss, setting off sparks along nerves saying they were overstimulated but still demanding more.
More.
I circled my hips, moaning as shivers ran through me. I hadn’t realized with the fullness and pressure of his knot that his tail was still inside me too, and my lungs stuttered when he began to slide it in and out in time with my circles.
It was overwhelming.
Placing my other hand on his chest to keep me steady, I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. I had no concern for the other Morraki in the room. I’d completely forgotten about anything beyond the male beneath me and the pleasure coursing through my veins.
“Dra—”
I couldn’t even get his whole name out, my breath stolen by how every nerve in my core was being stimulated at once.
His shaft stretched me, his knot digging into that place that made me see stars, and his tail just added to it, moving in and out of me at a coaxing pace that had me trembling as shivers ran through my body.
“How?”
His hands came up to cup my breasts, kneading and squeezing just hard enough to make me hiss before easing. His claws raked the flesh, leaving lines of fire behind that led to the peaks of my nipples.
“You are an omega. I claimed you.”
He said it as if those two facts explained everything, and if he was right, I didn’t know how I’d almost walked away from this. If I had known what it would be like, how it would feel to be trapped on his knot, I’d have been on him the moment I’d awakened next to him on the ship.
My core fluttered around him, his shaft flexing inside me in response. I’d never been one of those girls able to have multiples, yet somehow I was already on the verge of another.
If the Morrak wanted more Human omegas, all they needed to do was let them know about their knots and how mind-blowing the sex was, and they’d have a mob trying to board their ship.
I gasped when Drazien shifted, leaning up to take one of my nipples into his mouth. The hand it had replaced slid around my ribs and up to my neck, taking hold of my nape.
I lost all ability to think when his grip tightened and he began to buck up into me, jolting my whole body. Each jerk yanked on the knot within me and crammed my breast harder against his mouth, until teeth scratched the sensitive flesh and the sensations all scrambled together.
Drazien was everywhere.
Pressed to my front.
Holding my back.
Invading my ass.
Inside me.
Desperate for some way to ground myself, I ran my hands up until I reached his ridges. They were the perfect size to grip, and I felt an explosion of lust burst through my chest when my nails dug into the place where they connected to his scalp.
“Please.”
I didn’t know what I was asking for. Pain and pleasure, need and overwhelm, all tangled within me, leaving me gasping and trembling and unable to think beyond reaching the peak that was so close.
Drazien shifted his head and shoulders, and I opened my eyes to find his neck bent in front of me. His mouth was still on my nipple, tormenting it with his teeth and tongue, but I didn’t need him to tell me what to do.
I could see the throb of his vein within his neck. The flutter beneath his dark skin coupled with the thick scent of him rising from that point had my mouth watering, and when he increased the pressure on the back of my neck, I leaned closer.
He smelled so good.
He felt so good inside me.
But I needed something more.
I didn’t realize I was still moving until my nose bumped his skin. Sucking in a quick breath, my eyes rolled back as he filled my lungs.
My jaw opened without conscious thought, my mouth pressing to his rough flesh before I could think twice about it. There was a mineral note mixed with the saltiness I would expect from sweat, and the taste only made my mouth water more.
I needed it.
Needed to taste him.
Needed to mark him.
Drazien’s movements had grown faster, and he was letting out a low growl against the flesh of my breast. He squeezed my nape, demanding without words, and something feral rose inside me.
He wanted me to bite him?
Well if I was his, then he was mine, and everyone needed to see it.
My jaw clenched, the effort to bite through his flesh making my teeth ache before they punched through. The metallic tang of his blood seeped into my mouth, feeling and tasting exactly like I had licked a hot stone, but oddly enough, I liked it.
Triumph mixed with the euphoric rush as my core clenched, but it was his teeth sinking into the flesh of my breast around my nipple that sent me over the edge.
I released his neck with a scream, tossing my head back as I spasmed around his cock. It went on and on, growing stronger instead of fading away, until I ran out of breath and couldn’t hold myself up any longer.
I would have collapsed backwards against his legs if his arm hadn’t been around me to hold me to his chest. I moaned weakly and twitched as he leaned back and pulled me down with him, but my brain was too fried to do anything more.
Cheek pressed over his heart, eyelids too heavy to lift, I listened to the steady thump slow as his hand moved up and down my spine.
My stretched channel gave the occasional flutter which pulled an answering twitch from his shaft, but I was too wrung out to even moan over how bloated I felt with the amount of cum he’d released inside me.
As I caught my breath and feeling returned to my extremities, I examined the new sensation in my chest. The one that echoed with feelings of satisfaction and wonder.
The bond.
It had to be.
I focused on that strange warmth, trying to separate what belonged to me from what didn't.
Satisfaction was easy. I was exhausted, wrung out, and so comfortable sprawled across Drazien that I wasn't sure I could move even if the cavern started collapsing around us.
But the wonder and faint thread of disbelief beneath it weren’t completely mine.
I opened my eyes and shifted my head enough to blink up at the alien I’d just bitten.
“Drazien?”
His eyes had already been locked on mine, so he only arched a brow, waiting.
“Is this the bond?”
The hand moving along my spine stopped and I lifted my head enough to get a better look at him. His expression was open in a way I'd rarely seen, but something shifted through the warmth inside my ribs.
Wariness?
I pressed my palm against the center of my chest. The sensation was hard to describe, but if I had to, it felt like there was a fishing hook caught behind my ribs, next to my heart, tugging toward the Morraki beneath me.
“I can feel it. It's like... like there's something in me, that isn’t quite me.”
His kethra flashed before dimming, and I felt the way he was trying to pull his emotions under control. His lips twitched, and the amusement that followed as he bucked his hips, shifting his knot inside me and making me gasp, was unmistakable.
“Well, I am inside you.”
His grin widened as I glared.
“It wasn’t bad enough seeing you laugh at me all the time, now I can feel it.”
He huffed and his hand went back to stroking me.
“I’m sure you’ll find a way to tune me out.”
His grin was still there, amusement still flowing between us, but I didn’t miss the undercurrent of something that felt like worry beneath it.
The realization that he still thought I’d wanted to leave stole whatever sarcastic response I'd been about to make. It made my throat tighten, and his smile faded as he searched my face.
“What is it?”
I swallowed, trying to shove my guilt away.
“Nothing.”
His brow arched and his hand stopped so he could tap on my back, directly over where I could feel the bond anchored.
“That’s a lie.”
I was glad I could feel what he didn’t want to tell me but irritated it worked both ways. Groaning, I dropped my cheek back onto his chest so I didn’t have to hold my head up anymore.
“This is going to be annoying.”
His chest vibrated beneath me, but he didn’t let me change the subject.
“There will be no more secrets.”