Chapter 7 – Aidro
I woke to a pounding headache and a cheerful Himari. She was no longer cuddling me but across the room, working again on one of her weaving projects. “The coms beeped while you were asleep. Uli caught on to your hack, and they’ve been out searching for us. They’re coming for us in Uli’s shuttle tomorrow. They have to resupply and adjust the weapons, since we’re in uncharted territory apparently.”
“Why are you so cheerful?” I groaned, rubbing my head.
Himari shrugged, still grinning. “I’d like to take a bath. Or a swim in the lake. And to eat something other than psychotropic berries. Or…” She glanced at me and trailed off with a shudder, and I wondered if she really just wanted to get away from me.
“What did I tell you yesterday?”
“I don’t remember. Something about six tits and wanting to suck on them.”
“Those berries were interesting.” Chuckling, I rubbed my hands over my face. “We didn’t have sex, did we?”
“No, you said we shouldn’t, not when we were hallucinating extra hands.” She winked and stood up. “My hero.”
“I’m not your hero!” I called after her as she walked down the hall and peeked out the door.
“So the orange berries were the ones that made us trip balls,” she said. “The purple and blue ones were the ones I tried first, and you mistakenly thought it meant they were all okay.”
“I wish we could find something to eat other than the damn berries.”
She wandered back to me, climbing into my lap and straddling my thighs. Then, with her eyes on mine, she kissed me, and I remembered the kisses we’d had the night before—tender and sensual, driven to new heights by the strange, drugged feeling brought on by the berries. And she kissed me like she remembered as well. I pulled back, looking her in the eyes.
“It’s fine, Aidro. You didn’t even talk in detail about it. Why are you so afraid to share?”
“And you still want to kiss me, even after…” I took a shaky breath, leaning back against the hull of the little ship. “You still want to kiss me?”
She nipped my earlobe, then whispered, “I want to kiss you more.”
“Why?”
“You’re so down on yourself about it, but it was an impossible situation and you were trying to help your sister. And you were a fucking child yourself. Okay?”
Uli had spoken these words to me a hundred times, but somehow they’d never stuck. But now, with her, that was all I could hear. She didn’t hate me. She didn’t fear me. “There’s a monster inside me that could come out at any time.”
“I hope it comes out while you’re fucking me,” she said, winking.
“This is not supposed to make you cheerful,” I growled, and flipped her onto her back, pinning her and grinding my hips against hers.And having her body there, under me, made my control slip, just a little. Her softness was delightful. I dropped my mouth to her ear. “I’m going to fucking claim you.”
“All right,” she said cheerfully.
I frowned. “That’s not how the game is played. You’re the prey and I’m the predator.”
“Okay. Hear me out here, though. I want you. I’ve wanted you for ages, and you just threatened to fuck me. Not gonna run away. Gonna wrap my legs around you and hold your dicks just where I want them.” She did that and I narrowed my eyes at her, even though it felt damn good to be pressed into her like that.
“You are very infuriating,”I growled, setting my fangs against the spot on her neck that I had bitten. She whimpered and tilted her head, giving me access when she should have been fighting me off, like good prey was supposed to do. I scraped my teeth there, and she shivered beneath me.
“When you had my hand around my throat the other day, I wanted you to rail me in that position,” she whispered, and I almost lost it completely.I wanted to tear her clothes from her body, but I supposed that would be impractical, so I stood and neatly folded everything as I removed it.
She leaned up on her elbows and watched me undress, her eyes hungrily roaming my body, a grin on her face. “You try to pretend to be all badass and savage, but look at how you just folded my panties. No self-control, my ass.”
“Your ass?” I looked at her ass, frowning. It did have an impact on my self-control, so I supposed she was right. “We only have one set of clothes. I can’t just rip them apart like a savage beast.” Her curvy little body was so soft and enticing and ready for me. I only needed to fold my pants.
“Oh my god, Aidro. Why are you folding your pants?”
“I think usually the women say ‘oh my god’like that after I’m inside them.” I spread my jacket out on the mat, making sure she had something soft to lie on, then kneeled by her feet, staring down at her golden skin. She was precious and beautiful, and in this moment she was mine. I was going to worship her. I started at her feet, kissing my way up to her ankles, grazing my fangs against her calf, smiling when she whimpered. “You want my big dicks in you, flower?” I asked, nipping at the soft skin beneath her knee.
“Yes,” she whispered. “But you’re taking a very long time.”
“Do you like it when I bite you?” I asked, licking the marks my teeth had just left. She moaned softly.
“I like a little pain,” she said. The scent of her arousal surrounded me, and everything in me told me to stake my claim on what was mine. I wanted my sigil right there, on her inner thigh. My mark would look perfect on her silky skin. I sank my fangs in lightly, not breaking the skin.
“Like this?” She moaned softly, an approving sound, and ran her fingers through my hair as I soothed the spot with my tongue again. I spread her legs wider, dropping my lips to her sweet pussy and finally tasting her.She was so sweet, so perfect for me, that I never wanted to stop.
The words that echoed through my head were raw and as savage as she wanted me to be. Mine. My property. My woman.But I couldn’t let go of control. Not now, not ever. So instead I took her over the edge, stripped her of her control, made her writhe for me.