“Interesting.”
“Not really. Just give it back.”
“Not yet.” I very much wanted to open this book and discover what human stories said of pair bonds and mating rituals.
With an irritated grumble, Lily apparently decided her best course of action was to ignore me and devote her undivided attention to unpacking her cases and cases of books.
Which left me time to wonder at the entertainment I held in my hand. Lily appeared to be entertained by large males with bulging muscles and biosynthetic implants just below the skin. On the outside covering of the book, the male’s expression was serious and the words on the back spoke of war and torture. A beast of some kind.
Hoping to understand Lily a bit, I opened the book to a random page and began to read. The time I had spent in training simulations with Lily had accustomed my cipher implant to reading in her language. However, the words shocked me. Made my body react with need. Lust. Desire. Everything I’d been fighting diligently to control since the moment I met Lily came roaring to life as the Beast man in the story boldly told his human female exactly what he would do to her body. The ways he would claim her. Fill her with his seed. Make her body writhe with pleasure. Pound his hard cock into her wet heat and make her come over and over…
The book fell from my hands and landed with a soft thud on the floor.
Fuck. This was what Lily had brought with her from Earth? Not clothing. Sentimental items. Jewelry. No.
Lily had books full of hot, naked sex? Dominant males seducing their pair-bonded females? Fucking. Tasting. Claiming them for all time. The story had been told in the female’s perspective as her mate had filled her body with his cock. Pumped into her. Touched her. Kissed her. The lust burning from the pages had me struggling to breathe.
“Lily?”
“Yes?” Her clipped tone held little to no interest in my presence. She had moved on from organizing her books on the floor to placing them in groups inside the cabinets along the bedroom wall. As she’d done from the moment her wide eyes had landed on me with shock when I appeared at her door for the first time, she appeared to be doing anything and everything she could to ignore me.
This human female had already wrecked my carefully laid plan. Ruined everything. Nothing she did was expected. I had no idea what to say to her or how to approach her.
How to get her naked.
She’d barely spoken to me, but fuck all that was holy, she started humming as she went about the room, organizing her things, her soft, lilting voice going straight to my hard cock.
“Is that what you desire?”
“What are you talking about?” Her movements became quick once again. Stilted.
“The beast man in that story of yours. He took his female and held her against the wall, filled her with his cock. Made her scream with release.”
“Oh, bloody hell,” she whispered under her breath but would not look at me.
“Lily? Answer me. Is. That. What. You. Want?” Because I was fully capable, eager, to take her against the wall and make her scream. But the only name she would be calling out would be mine.
My name. Over and over. Until she knew exactly who had claimed her.