“It’s gara,” she countered, completely at odds with every stubborn rebuttal she’d ever made.
I couldn’t help but grin. “That’s right, you’re mine.”
“Yes.”
“And you want my adornments? Even a clit ring? There will be no question you belong to me.”
“Who’s going to see my clit?” she wondered.
“Me,” I growled. A traditional Trion custom was to have a claiming witnessed by others.
That wasn’t going to happen with us. No chance. Zara was mine and only mine.
“Still… I… I want it. For you.”
I loved those words from her lips, but they weren’t completely accurate.
“You have to want it for you. To see it. Feel it and know you are loved, that you belong to someone. That I belong to you enough to have your clit claimed and adorned for me.”
She ran a finger over my shoulder as she thought. “I understand. It’s still a yes.”
So many feelings coursed through me. I was… happy. I knew I had to make my own happiness, but I’d found it in Zara. I wasn’t going to wait for her to change her mind not that it seemed as if she would. I gripped her hips and stood, turned us around, so she could sit on the edge of the bed where I had just been.
“Not until you ask me properly.”
She frowned. While her admitting her love was a balm to my wounded soul, it wasn’t what I wanted from her. What I’d commanded from her all along.
I waited patiently as she figured it out. As I watched her mind work through it.
She licked her lips. Said the one word I’d been dying to hear from her lips.
“Master.”
I groaned, closed my eyes.
“Master, please adorn me. Make me yours in every way.”
Taking a moment, I savored her words. The almost begging sound of her voice. Her need.
I lifted my lids, studied the female before me. She meant it. I could see it in the relaxed lines of her gorgeous body, of the need in her gaze. In the love I saw there.
“Wait,” I commanded.
“Yes, Master.”
I went to the bathing room, opened a drawer and pulled out the items I would need for this claiming. It would be a claiming. Now that I was her master, she would be mine in all ways. I would ensure everyone knew that. I’d never imagined the rings and piercing tools within would ever be used. I’d walked away from the possibility of a Trion mate at the same time as I had my family. My planet.
I returned with everything I needed, set them on the bed beside her. Leaning down, I kissed her upturned lips. Just as sweet as her lower ones.
“This will not hurt,” I murmured when I finally lifted my head.
She made a funny sound. A scoff. “Um, you’re going to pierce my clit hood. I think it’s going to hurt. A lot.”
I shook my head. “Trust me?”
She nodded, her pale hair sliding over her shoulders. “Yes, Master.”
Fark, I’d never tire of hearing that.