Taming Two Warriors (Kindred Tales)

“Talli, tasting you is the pay-off.” Liosh stroked her cheek gently as he looked down into her lovely blue eyes. “And I promise you now, even if it doesn’t work—even if I can never make love to you with anything but my tongue, we’ll still stay together.”

“Liosh, don’t!” she exclaimed. “You can’t make promises like that—we barely know each other.”

“I know you enough to understand that you’re the one female who’s perfect for me—the one the Goddess meant for me to find,” Liosh told her. “And I’ve known it from the first minute I saw you sitting in your mother’s yard under that big old tree with the Varians attacking you. I knew you were the one I’m meant to Claim. So will you let me try it? Please?”

“Um, now?” Melinda looked at him uncertainly.

Liosh shook his head.

“No, you’ve been through enough tonight. Reliving your pain and telling it to me, which I know wasn’t easy. No, tonight I just want to hold you in my arms and keep you close to me.”

A tremulous little smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.

“I…I’d like that too,” she admitted. “There’s something about you, Liosh—you have such a warm, kind, comforting presence. From the minute I saw you, I just wanted to crawl into your lap and stay there.”

“That’s because you felt it too,” Liosh assured her. “The knowledge that we were right for each other—that the Goddess meant us to be together.”

“I don’t know about the Goddess,” Melinda murmured. “But I certainly felt drawn to you from the first. Maybe it’s because you’re not a human guy—you’re a Kindred. And I know a Kindred would never do…what was done to me.”

“No, never,” Liosh agreed fiercely. He still felt the Rage in his heart—the fire that burned bright and hot against the male who had wronged her so callously. Who had decided that her innocent body was something to plunder for his own greedy pleasure and her gentle spirit was something to be broken.

If I ever find him, Liosh promised himself, I’ll make him pay for what he did to my Talli. I’ll visit the agony of the Seven Hells upon him and make him beg for death.

But for now the embers of his vengeful Rage were banked, ready to blaze up in the future if they were needed. Right now, he just wanted to hold Melinda and let her know how perfect and beautiful she still was, despite what had happened to her. Tonight he just wanted to show her his love.

“Come on, Talli,” he murmured in her ear. “Let’s go to bed and hold each other.”

She looked up at him and he saw her heart in her big blue eyes.

“All right,” she whispered. “Let’s go.”

Liosh gave her a gentle squeeze and kissed her forehead. Then he rose with her still in his arms and carried her into the bedroom to hold her close all night.

Twenty-Two

The ride home from The Todd was stiff with sexual tension. But at least it wasn’t angry sexual tension, anymore, Jodi thought to herself. She and Vorn understood each other now—understood that they had unconsciously been driving each other crazy and that the feeling between them wasn’t either one of their faults.

Feeling…right, sneered a sarcastic little voice in the back of her head. Don’t you mean desire? Or maybe lust would be a better word. And don’t forget, you’re engaged.

Jodi could hardly forget it. The diamond on her left hand wouldn’t let her. And yet, the animal magnetism of the big Kindred sitting in the car beside her was undeniable…inescapable. Just smelling Vorn’s Mating Scent in the enclosed area was making her nipples hard and her pussy wet.

From the way Vorn’s nostrils were flaring and the hot looks he was throwing her way, he was feeling the effects of their mutual cycle of arousal as much as she was.

“You know, baby,” he growled, when they were about halfway back to her apartment. “I don’t wanna be pushy, but I think it might be a good idea if you used those toys on yourself the minute we get in the door tonight. Your scent is so sweet and hot it’s kind of making me crazy right now.”

“Don’t forget, your scent does the same thing to me,” Jodi pointed out, a bit breathlessly. “And I fully intend to break in some of the toys we got. Only…” She hesitated for a moment.

“Only what?” Vorn growled, shooting her a glance.

“Only, I just thought that maybe…maybe I would put on a little fashion show first,” Jodi heard herself saying.

God was she really saying this? And did she really want to go through with it?

The tingling in her pussy was answer enough. Jodi loved to dress up and pretend she had an audience watching her. If she actually did have someone looking while she paraded around in her sexy new clothes…God! Just the thought alone was almost enough to make her come!