Zandian Pet (Zandian Masters 7)

His horns thickened, and he swallowed convulsively.

Beside her, Tomis stroked Talia’s thigh, his fingers traveling higher and higher, his horns as thick and hard as Erick’s.

What would her sister think of her past as a sex slave? She wanted to tell her but couldn’t risk their father finding out.

What did Erick think of her now? She got the sense he was ashamed of his behavior at Prium’s. Hell, he’d even apologized to her at the time. Maybe his lust had taken him by surprise, too. If there were no other Zandian females around, his reaction to her might have been as surprising as her reaction to him.

She found the head of his cock and squeezed it with her toes.

~.~

What was Mina’s game?

If she didn’t stop stroking his cock with her little foot, he’d never be able to leave the table because his malehood was at a full salute.

“So, Tara,” —he cleared his throat— “how did you find our pod?”

The conversation didn’t stop her toes, although he swore he saw reproof at his question.

“I heard of it a few lunar cycles ago and made it my intention to get myself here. I’d hoped I’d be able to beg for assistance from the prince, but I had no idea my father had survived the invasion.”

She looked over at her father’s scarred face. He had one hand buried in his human mate’s hair, but he froze when she looked at him, an apology in his expression.

Now her little toes stopped, and she dropped her foot to the floor, which shouldn’t have come as such a disappointment.

“I don’t mind about your new mate,” Mina said softly, and the table went quiet around her. She flushed as if she hated the attention.

This was the same female who’d goaded it back at Prium’s. He vecking hated seeing her out of her element. Wanted to do everything in his power to make her comfortable, although he couldn’t, for the life of him, think of what that might be. He offered Mina what he hoped was an encouraging smile.

Seke’s mate, Leora, lifted her green eyes.

“I’m happy you found a new mate, Father. It’s strange for me to see you with her, but I don’t mind.”

Talia nodded beside her. “Me neither.” She shrugged. “Of course, my memories are incomplete anyway.”

Leora inclined her head with regal grace. It was easy to forget she was human and had also recently been a slave. “I’m grateful for your acceptance.”

Everyone seemed relieved when Zander stood, indicating the dinner was over. Mina jumped to her feet, although she couldn’t go anywhere because she was immediately boxed in by a half-dozen interested males.

Separated from her by the table, there was nothing he could do to aid her. If she even wanted that.

What did she want from him? Had she just been torturing him because she knew he couldn’t do anything at the dinner table? Was this her form of sexual payback for what he’d done with her?

“Excuse me, I’m very tired. It’s been a long few planet rotations.” She elbowed her way through the crowd.

He slipped out of the Great Hall ahead of her, taking the corridor toward the sleeping chambers and waiting around the first corner. The moment she rounded it, he stepped into her path.

“Erick.” She stopped with an audible inhale, her pale hair falling forward into her face.

He advanced. One step then another.

She retreated. Not out into the corridor to the Great Hall, but backing up to the wall.

In a second, he was upon her, pressing her small, lithe body up against the smooth pastel plaster, dragging his open mouth down the column of her neck.

He hadn’t meant to pounce, hadn’t even known he’d intended to, but the moment he had her caged, his senses exploded with everything Mina. When she lifted one leg to wrap around his waist, his last thin thread of control snapped. He palmed her ass cheeks and ground his heavy erection against her core.

“Were you punishing me, beautiful pet?” He thrust his clothed cock into the notch between her legs, registering the dampness coming through her fine white leggings. “Did you want to make me sweat in front of your father? You know he’d vecking kill me if he found out what I did to you, don’t you? One word from you and my life would be over.”