Ascension Saga (Interstellar Brides): Book 1

“This was lesson nine, mate. Do you like it?”

“Nine?” Lesson? What was he talking about? I couldn’t think. I wiggled my hips, tried to lift and lower myself, anything to make the building tension ease.

His very male, very satisfied chuckle barely registered as he toyed with my nipple and sent his hot breath into my ear. “It was always the most intriguing to me. So much freedom for my hands.”

He fucked me. Slowly. His cock moving like a slow-burn engine until the rhythm became the center of my universe. My existence. There was nothing but him. And his hands. His mouth on my shoulder. My neck. His heat and energy filling me up, just like his seed would.

“Come, mate. Take me in. Make me yours.”

His order was a whisper, but my body heard him, felt the hard demand of his fingers on my clit. My body arced as if struck by lightning and he held me close as I shattered, lost my mind. Became nothing more than sensation.

He held me together, and I took everything.

His seed was a hot jet inside me, his growl music to my ears. He was mine. Right now, he was mine, and I wasn’t finished with him yet.

8

Leo

“I still don’t understand why someone left you something at the citadel,” I grumbled, driving down the deserted roads. There were few vehicles this late at night. Everyone was in bed, where I should have been. With Trinity. “It’s just an empty relic now. Multiple royals have entered and found nothing. And you won’t even be able to get inside.”

“Don’t worry about it, just get us there alive. Okay? That’s all we need.” Trinity’s voice was crisp, clear. Confident. Strong.

I loved hearing the power in her, knowing I’d helped make her that way.

Naked. Inside her hungry body. Filling her up.

In the two days since her arrival and my awakening, I’d fucked her until my cock was sore and my body completely drained. Every male on Alera knew the stories about the females’ Ardor. The need for both seed and energy our females were born with. Now, I was part of her. Would remain part of her forever. Our life force mingled. My energy nourishing her cells, preparing her to be a mother, to have children, to be strong enough to survive.

When I was a younger man, I’d believed the honor of easing a female’s Ardor was a violation. The idea of giving part of myself, part of my body, my very life force to a female had sounded like a burden.

How very wrong I’d been. Buried in Trinity, her hot, wet pussy milking my cock, the sweet scent of her skin, the soft silken strands of her hair—the sounds she made as I pleasured her.

Not enough. I’d give her everything. Kill for her. Die for her. Give her every last drop of my blood, my seed and my soul. My cock ached, but remained hard and hungry. I knew her now, knew from the way she squirmed in the seat next to me that she was far from satisfied. She needed more. Wanted more.

From me. Only me.

She’d said we fucked like rabbits, but I had no idea what that meant. I hadn’t given her much time to talk—about anything—before I’d had my mouth on hers, quieting her except for her moans of pleasure.

And now I was a tiny bit sorry I hadn’t given us more time to talk because I was taking the females to the citadel. To collect something that had been left there for them. Why the citadel? Did someone leave a package behind a shrub? That seemed unlikely, for the guards who circled the revered building had little to do but watch for strange people, strange packages. Anything out of the ordinary. In the past twenty-seven years, nothing had been out of the ordinary.

The spire still glowed brightly. The queen was alive, but silent.

Would this thing they needed to collect still be there? I’d definitely delayed Trinity long enough for their item to be found and confiscated. The three of them seemed confident that it was there. They were adamant, refused to go anywhere else.

“I still don’t understand why you’re here, on Alera,” I added, circling back to the first question I’d had about them since Prime Nial contacted me.

“You complaining?” Trinity asked. She placed her small hand on my thigh, and I had to fight the instinct to pull the vehicle over and fuck her right here in the car. Now.

I glanced at her, saw the curve of her lip and I knew she was in a teasing mood. If her sisters weren’t sitting behind us... I’d tug her ankles so she slid down on the seat and I settled over her. It wasn’t a big vehicle, I was only a Coalition fighter after all, but the cramped quarters would only be to my advantage as I fucked her. I could push off the side and take her hard and deep. And with her leg over the controls, she’d be wide open. Wet.

“Easy, soldier,” she whispered.

“You guys have had two days to work this Ardor and awakening shit out of your systems,” Destiny grumbled from the back seat. “Chill.”

“You’re the one who told me to jump him,” Trinity countered, squeezing my thigh.

Jump? She had all but flung herself at me. I couldn’t help but grin. “The strongest females on Alera have been known to awaken to Ardors that last up to a week. And Trinity is not yet appeased.” But fuck, the last two days had been amazing, touching her for the first time. Tasting her lips, feeling the heat of her pussy against my cock, even through our clothing. The tight peaks of her breasts against my chest. “Thank you, Destiny, sister of my mate, for advising her to, as you say, jump on me.”