Ascension Saga (Interstellar Brides): Book 9

“Mine.”

“So hot,” she moaned as I thrust, grabbing her ass, lifting her hips so I could go deeper. “…so hot when you go caveman.”

That was not the first time she’d used that word. I would ask for clarification later. If my mate preferred a caveman, I would act as a man in a cave for her.

Too fast, it was over. Both of us riding the edge before we’d begun. I rinsed my seed from both of us and turned off the water. Holding her close, I activated the drying feature. As warm air circulated and dried us from head to toe, my fear for her life swam back to the surface, turned to anger.

How dare she place her life at risk for me? I was nothing. A soldier. A warrior. She was everything.

When the dryer setting turned off, I opened the door.

Her gaze raked over my body, took in my still hard cock, then moved higher so her dark eyes met mine.

“You’re mad.”

I laughed, which was ironic because I wasn’t amused at all.

“You are well?” I asked a third time. “The doctor said your skin might be sensitive for a few days.

She nodded. “Perhaps you could take a nibble and we can test it.”

“I want to hear you say it, mate. Are you well? Are you in pain?”

“I am fine.”

I nodded once, then took hold of her hand and tugged her out of the bathing room and to the bed. I picked up the restraints she’d put on me earlier, to keep me from following her into danger, dangled them between us.

“I should tie you down, mate. Then you couldn’t be hurt. Wouldn’t be able to do stupid things like get blown up.”

“Nix,” she began, but I tossed the restraints onto the bed, picked her up and had her over my lap, ass up, in two seconds flat. Now, when she called out my name, I followed it with a nice hard spank on her ass.

She bucked and wriggled and I hooked her ankles with mine. When her hands went back to cover her ass, I gripped them together in one of mine.

“You said you love me.” Spank. “You shield me with your body.”

“I didn’t want you to be hurt!” she cried.

Spank.

“If you love me, Destiny, you will let me protect you. You are my life and I will protect you.”

Spank.

“And you are mine,” she said. Her muscles went lax over my lap and she moaned. I could smell her arousal, calling me. Mocking my attempts at a punishment. Goddess damn it. She liked this.

I spanked her twice more, but without any intensity. I rubbed her reddened cheeks, my thumb dipping between the lush swells to find her pussy nearly dripping.

“Mate,” I groaned, sliding two fingers deep. “You like my palm on your ass.” She clenched her inner muscles around me, bit my leg. Not hard enough to hurt, but to let me know she wanted to devour me. That the wildness in her rose to meet my own.

“Yes,” she replied breathlessly. “It burns. So hot.”

That was it. I needed to be balls deep. Now. Right fucking now.

I scooped her up, tossed her into the center of the bed, then crawled over her, my forearms planted on either side of her head. Settling between her parted thighs, my cock was right at her entrance. I looked down at her, met her dark gaze.

Our breaths mingled. Her soft skin touched mine. Her heat seeped into me. Her heartbeat thrummed in time to mine.

“Mine.”