“That’s how I feel, too, baby—like we were meant to find each other,”Vik’tor told me.“Meant to be together.”
“Oh, Vik’tor…” I whispered and hugged him tighter, loving the feel of our new, intense connection.
I never wanted to let him go and now I knew I didn’t have to.
FIFTY-SEVEN
VIK’TOR
Afterwards—alongtime afterwards because we couldn’t fucking get enough of each other—Natalie and I lay wrapped in each other’s arms and just talked—sometimes with our mouths and sometimes through the new mental link we shared now that we were Bonded.
“I don’t have to live on Earth,” Natalie told me, as she lay with her head pillowed on my chest and looked up at me. “But I have to be honest, Vik’tor—I don’t really want to live on O’nagga Nine, either. It’s so cold and the Naggian people are so heartless and cruel—theyhateoutsiders and they’re never going to see me as anything else. I’ll still just be ahsh’fruxBlood Whore to them, even if Iambonded to the most influential man on the planet.”
“I understand, little girl,” I told her. “You know, I don’t fucking like O’nagga Nine either. I only stay because I can’t easily get blood anywhere else.”
She frowned.
“I thought you mostly stayed for business reasons?”
“Well, that too—but I can probably run the business remotely with some help,” I said thoughtfully. “But the blood is really the main thing. I don’t need as much as a full-blooded Naggian, but Idoneed it every once in a while. So if we lived away from O’nagga Nine,youwould have to be my only source of blood.”
I wasn’t sure how she would feel about this. In the Naggian society, a husband and wife feed off each other—it’s a part of their marriage. But this would be a one-way street we were talking about and it didn’t seem fair to put that on Natalie.
But she surprised me by sitting up and putting her hand on her hip.
“It doesn’t matterwherewe live, there’s no way in hell you’re getting your blood from anyone butme,”she said firmly. “I mean it, Vik’tor—I know how sexual biting is in the Naggian society. If Ievercatch you biting some other woman, I’m going to consider it cheating!”
I was taken aback at first, but I could see she had a point.
“You don’t mind me wanting to bite you all the time, then?” I asked uncertainly.
Natalie gave an incredulous laugh.
“Are you kidding? When every time you bite me, you give me an incredible orgasm? Hell no, I don’t mind it!”
I laughed with her, feeling a sense of relief. It had been one of the main reasons I held back from asking if she would stay with me—I didn’t want her to feel obligated to let me bite her and drink from her all the time. But if she truly considered it a pleasure and not an obligation, well—that was one less worry.
“If you’re sure,” I said, just to be certain.
“Here—bite me right now.” Natalie offered me her slim wrist and I took it and pressed my fangs gently to a vein.
The moment I pierced her skin, she moaned and her eyes rolled back in her head in obvious pleasure. I only took a little sip before licking the wound closed—I had already drunk from her twice that day and I didn’t want to weaken her. But when I finished, Natalie looked up at me, her cheeks flushed and her breasts heaving.
“See?” she said, giving me a satisfied little smile, like a feline that had gotten into the cream. “Iloveit.”
“I fucking love it too, little girl,” I growled. I was tempted to go down on her and lick her creamy pussy again, but we still had some things to work out. “So we’re not going to live on EarthorO’nagga Nine,” I said. “Where do you want to live?”
“I don’t know.” Natalie shrugged her shoulders. “Why don’t we just travel for a while? You know my degree is in Sociology. I’d love the chance to study other alien cultures.”
“I’d like that,” I said, smiling at her. Of course, we would probably have to settle down somewhere eventually, but the idea of traveling the galaxy with my new mate was a good one.
“We’ll have to go back to Earth first, though—just to let my family know I’m okay and introduce you,” Natalie told me. “That’s what I saw in my vision, so I’m assuming they’re going to be okay with you.” She frowned. “I just wonder who the blonde woman was?”
“Blonde woman?” I frowned. All the people I had seen in Natalie’s vision had the same smooth brown skin that she did and none of them had blonde hair.
“The one I saw in the visionbefore—when you were biting my thigh,” Natalie explained. “She was an Earth woman, like me and she was sitting on a golden throne. She’s the one who told me how we could get Bonded. She said I had to be, er, ‘pierced and penetrated,’” she added, giving me a look that was half embarrassed, half hot.
“Hmm, well whoever she is, I’d certainly like to thank her,”I murmured through our new link. I pulled her closer. “Let me know anytime you want to be ‘pierced and penetrated’ baby—I’m more than willing to help you out with that.”