“Don’t want you to help yourself, sweetheart,” Need said softly. His hands tightened on her hips and he looked up at her hopefully. “Will you let me do it, Lan’ara? Will you let me bond us together for life?”
Lan’ara felt like her heart was overflowing. Her relationship with the big Kindred had gone through so many changes in the time they had known each other, but there was one constant in it and she knew now that it was love. Despite the fact that the two of them had tried their best not to care for each other, some things can’t be denied.
“Yes,” she whispered and leaned down to kiss him, taking his mouth and tasting her own secret flavor in his tongue. “Yes, bond me to you, Need,” she said again, when the kiss finally broke. “Make me yours—and make you mine, too. I want to be with you forever—not as concubine and master or Mistress and slave but as equals in love, going through life together.”
“That’s all I want too, sweetheart,” he murmured, looking into her eyes. “Just to have you in my life forever—and I never want you to call me ‘my Lord’ again.” He grinned. “Although I kind of like calling you ‘my Lady.’”
“Well, right now your Lady wants you to make love to her and bond her,” Lan’ara panted, rolling her hips to remind him to keep moving. “Come on, Need—take me!”
His smile turned lazy and lustful and his eyes were half-lidded with desire.
“As my Lady wishes,” he growled softly. And then he was thrusting into her harder and deeper than before, making Lan’ara moan and grip his shoulders as he stroked into her open pussy, giving her exactly what she had asked for, owning her and letting her own him at the same time.
“Need…Need,” she moaned as she bucked against him. “Oh Gods and Goddesses, I’m so close!”
“Then let me help you reach the peak,” he murmured in her ear. And pushing her long curtain of hair to one side, he sank his fangs deep in her throat.
Lan’ara’s moan turned into a cry of pure pleasure as the big Kindred’s essence hit her bloodstream. True to his promise, it gave her an instant, Earth-shattering orgasm the likes of which she had never felt before. Her toes curled, her fingers dug into his broad shoulders, and her nipples were so hard they ached as she strained against him, feeling the hot, deep spurting of his shaft inside her pussy as he filled her womb with his seed.
It was a transcendent moment and she would have expected the pleasure to wane after they reached it. But somehow it just kept going on and on until she wondered if someone could die of pleasure.
“You’re not dying,” she heard Need say inside her head. “This is just part of the bonding process, sweetheart. Relax and let the pleasure sweep through you—you’ll be okay.”
His words made her feel more relaxed for a moment until she thought, Wait a minute—he’s speaking inside my head? He must be—his fangs are still in my neck! What in the universe is happening?”
“Just another part of the bonding process,” Need promised her. “Telepathic communication between bonded mates is normal for Kindred and the females they Claim.”
“It…it is?” Lan’ara thought at him, trying out the new way of communication herself. To her delight, it was clear Need could hear her.
“It is,” he sent firmly. “So just relax, sweetheart—we’re together now and everything is all right. Everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be with the two of us bonded for life.”
Then he withdrew his fangs and looked up into her eyes.
“I love you, Lan’ara,” he whispered hoarsely. “So much, sweetheart. Love you forever.”
“I love you too,” Lan’ara told him and kissed him deeply. Despite filling her with his seed, he was still hard inside her and her kiss seemed to make him ready to go again.
Lan’ara didn’t mind. As his thick shaft stroked deeply into her once more, she rolled her hips and moved with his rhythm, urging him on. She was finally where she was supposed to be, she thought, as she looked into her new mate’s eyes. She was with the man she loved, not as a subservient concubine but as an equal and they would never be parted.
And to think it had all started when Need had seen her on an auction block and decided to buy her, decided to make her…The Kindred Warrior’s Captive Bride.