Daughters of Lyra: Heart of a Mercenary (11 page)

“
Dominance.”

Her lips parted and her
breath left her in a sigh. He kept moving towards her and she
leaned back to counter his move.

“
Strength.”

Her back hit the bed and
she stared up at him as he moved between her legs.

“
Danger.”

Her heart beat hard
against her chest.

Her breathing
quickened.

Perhaps he was right, when
he put it like that. She lay beneath him, willing him, waiting for
him to make a move. Her throat felt too tight to breathe. Her heart
felt as though it would explode if he didn’t touch her
soon.

With a smile that revealed
his teeth, his gaze left hers and drifted down to her flight suit.
She watched his face at first and then her eyes fell to half-mast
when he slowly undid her flight suit. As his hand passed her
breasts, she arched upwards, forcing the two sides of her suit
apart. He moaned his approval and continued onwards, until he had
reached her navel.

She gasped in air when he
dipped his hand inside and trailed wet kisses downwards, from her
chest over the curve of her breasts, to her stomach. She longed for
him to keep going, wanted to tell him not to stop, but was
powerless as she lay on the bed, submitting to him.

His hand skimmed up her
thigh, over her waist, and finally settled against her breast. She
pushed it up into his palm, desperate to convince him to undress
her.

“
Miali?” he
whispered against her stomach and pressed kisses up to her
breasts.

She made a garbled noise
in her throat in response when his hands grazed her shoulders and
he parted her flight suit and began to pull it down her arms. He
groaned when her breasts sprang free and she gasped when his lips
caught one of her nipples and he suckled it.

Her hips bucked up,
rubbing against his body in a dire attempt to ease the hunger
growing inside her. She needed him. Her whole body felt as though
it was on fire and only he could bring cool relief.

Her hands went to his
hair, tangling in the black spikes. She shrieked a moan when his
teeth teased her nipple, sending a shockwave of pleasure rippling
through her.

“
Shh,” he
whispered and kissed her breast, flicking her nipple with his
tongue. “I’m petrified of your brothers as it is.”

She would have laughed had
he not wrapped his mouth around her nipple and started sucking it
again, tugging it into his mouth and making it painfully
hard.

“
Miali?” he
said again as he moved across to her other breasts and laved her
nipple.

“
Yes?” She
squeezed the word out and bit her lip to stop herself from moaning
again when he tortured her nipple with his teeth.

Lost in a haze of passion
and pleasure, she couldn’t deny anything he had said about Minervan
males. In fact, she was thankful for it. Sharp teeth definitely
made everything sensual and erotic, the added hint of danger making
her nerve endings flicker with delight.

“
You are going
to marry me?”

She laughed this
time.

“
Ask me again
when I’m back in my head, not floating somewhere outside my
body.”

He dipped his head and
licked a path from her breast to her mouth. She sighed into his
when he kissed her, fervent and passionate, stealing her breath and
stirring her desire beyond her control. She went to grab him but he
moved out of her reach, sliding down her body and taking her flight
suit with him. Her eyes opened and she stared up at the ceiling
when he stripped it off her, leaving her bare on the
bed.

She went to say something
but all words failed her when he eased her legs apart and darted
his tongue between her folds. Her head fell to one side, her eyes
wide and mouth open as he licked the length of her, from her slick
opening to her pert nub. She moaned and stared at the stars,
feeling as though she was going to explode as he devoured her, his
tongue teasing and lapping at her arousal.

“
Kosen,” she
said, panting it as the feeling of tightness inside her increased,
her body so hot that she was aching for release. She writhed
against him and he moaned. The sound of it only drove her on and
she threaded her fingers into his hair, clutching him to her,
begging him not to stop until she had come undone.

The moment his finger
eased into her hot depths, she cried out her release at the
universe. Her whole body trembled around him, quivering as she
came. He thrust his finger into her a few times, drawing out her
orgasm, and then pulled it free. She collapsed into the bed and
then tensed again when he lowered his mouth and lapped at her
opening, drinking her juices. It tickled.

She pushed against his
head, forcing him away from her. Wriggling on the bed, she looked
up at him as he stood by her feet, watching her. He grinned and the
sight of his sharp teeth sent a flush of heat through
her.

“
In Arkus’s
name I’ve never tasted anything as sweet as you.”

If he thought that her
taste was amazing, he was in for a surprise. Her mother had warned
her that her hair might not be the only thing that she had
inherited from her.

Sitting up, she gave Kosen
a seductive smile and ran her hands up him. She pulled the
fastening on his black flight suit and eased it downwards. Her lips
parted and her whole body trembled at the sight of hard packed
muscles rippling under his pale skin. She had never seen a body
like his, compact but powerful, speaking to her hunger on a sexual
level.

She eased the flight suit
off him, pulling it down over his hips and pushing it down to his
boots. He kicked them off and then stepped out of the
suit.

“
Now I really
don’t want you brothers to see us.”

She smiled and looked at
his long hard length where it jutted out from a nest of black
curls. Leaning forwards, she took hold of it, wrapping her hand
around its girth, and licked the sensitive head. He was shaking. He
would be doing a lot more than shaking soon. She closed her mouth
around his cock and sucked on it, moving her mouth up and down. The
feel of it gliding into her aroused her. When he thrust forwards,
she moaned, wanting more.

He groaned. “I really
really don’t want your brothers seeing this.”

He worried too
much.

But, just to be sure they
were left alone, she reached over to the control panel on the
cabinet beside her bed and locked the door.

He would need
it.

If what her mother said
was true, he wasn’t going to go quietly when she got him inside
her.

Kosen groaned again and
muttered something about stopping. She did and looked up at him. He
had his teeth buried deep into his lower lip, his eyebrows knit
into a frown. Taking hold of his hips, she guided him to the bed.
Dominance. It sounded like fun.

It only took a slight push
to make him fall on his back on the bed. Before he could say
anything, she was on top of him. Whatever protest he had been about
to form left his lips as a groan when she lowered herself and
rubbed her slick groin against his hard shaft.

“
Wait...” He
held his hands up, breathing hard. “We need—”

She pressed her mouth to
his to silence him, kissing him and grinding against him. She
needed him inside her now. She was tired of being so innocent and
she wanted to be his.

“
My mother is a
nurse,” she said, knowing what he was trying to say. “I’ve been
given sterilisation injections since I turned mating
age.”

His eyebrows rose and he
didn’t seem to have a response so she ground one out of him,
rubbing herself on his length and tearing a moan from his throat.
He felt so good beneath her, the sensitive head of his cock teasing
her nub.

“
Are you sure
you’re ready for this?”

She smiled down at him and
kneeled, taking hold of his length. “Are you sure you’re
ready?”

He frowned and before he
could answer, she sank back onto his cock, letting it slowly fill
her. There was a momentary sting of pain and then nothing but pure
bliss. Kosen groaned and his hands went to her hips. His fingers
pressed in as he gripped her hard and started moving her on his
cock.

The feel of it thrusting
into her, filling her and striking deep inside her, tore moan after
moan from her throat. Her body trembled as she tensed and Kosen
closed his eyes, a heavy frown marrying his eyebrows. She pressed
her hands against his stomach and moved up and down on his cock,
riding him, her thrusts opposite to his. Her entire body burned,
tightening with each plunge of his length into her and each slam of
her clit against his pelvis.

The tightness in her
abdomen grew, feeling as though it was pulling everything into it
like a vortex, sucking all the heat from her body until she was
crying out for release. Kosen’s hands went to her breasts and his
thumbs flicked her pert nipples. She stared down at him and when
her eyes met his, the whole galaxy exploded.

A blast of fire and
lightning slammed through her, a bright white shockwave that left
her quivering and trembling against Kosen’s chest, weak and hot.
The sound of his heart pounding filled her ears, mixing with the
tremendous beat of her own. She shook in his arms and then realised
that he was shaking too. His rough breathing matched hers. His
length throbbed inside her, spilling his seed.

The only sound Kosen made
was a strangled sob.

“
Wow,” Miali
said and sighed against his chest, waiting for the scattered pieces
of herself to fall back into place and the room to stop
spinning.

“
Wha—”

She managed to gain
control of her limbs enough to shift herself around so she could
see Kosen. He was staring at the ceiling, pale and trembling, his
eyes unfocused.

“
What was
that?” she breathed, still panting to catch her breath. “Besides
incredible?”

He nodded and his gaze
fell to her. His pupils widened and narrowed, as though trying to
focus.

“
There’s a lot
of you,” he said with a drunken grin and went to touch her cheek
but missed by several inches. “Which one is you?”

Her mother was right.
Dazkaran females did climax in ways that sent males of other
species out of their minds.

She took hold of his hand
and pressed it to his cheek. “Right here.”

He smiled and blinked a
few times before passing out. She pulled herself up and smiled down
at him. Perhaps she should have warned him but then she hadn’t
known if she had picked up that trait of her mother’s
species.

Slumping next to him, she
closed her eyes, snuggled against his arm and waited for him to
come around.

Hours passed but
eventually Kosen muttered something about the cold and stirred. She
reached over and pulled the blanket across them.

When he opened his eyes,
he still looked a little dazed.

Miali pressed a kiss to
his lips and then smiled at him as she brushed the flattened messy
strands of his hair from his forehead.

“
Better?” she
whispered, concerned about the amount of time it was taking him to
recover. She hadn’t expected it to take this long.

He nodded. “Incredible. A
Dazkaran trait?”

She nodded in response and
continued to smile. “You asked me a question.”

He frowned. “I did? I
did... lost it there for a moment.”

She laughed as he blinked
as though he was still trying to clear his head.

“
Will you? It
doesn’t have to be now. Just someday?” His arms went around her,
holding her against him.

The feel of his bare body
against hers made her ache to have him inside her again but he
didn’t look up to an encore. At least not yet. There was still a
long way to go before they reached the Nebula-Lyra II.

“
Will I
what?”

“
Marry me... a
worthless Minervan who doesn’t deserve you?”

She frowned this time and
stroked his forehead, her eyes never leaving his. He smiled up at
her and it held such hope that her heart warmed.

“
A heroic
Minervan, the only man in the universe for me, the man who saved
me.” Dipping her head, she held her mouth bare centimetres from his
and whispered, “Yes.”

He craned his neck towards
her and she kissed him, her lips caressing his in the lightest of
touches. It warmed her through until she was constantly smiling
against his mouth. He pulled her on top of him, turning that warmth
to fire as his body pressed into hers.

She would have to work on
his sense of self-worth but she had the perfect solution to that
problem. She rubbed her hips against his and he groaned and kissed
her harder. His teeth caught her tongue and this time the pain
didn’t shock her. It only added to the thrill of loving
him.

For now, she would stay on
the Nebula-Lyra II and perform her ambassador duties from there,
greeting dignitaries and visiting planets where the vessel
stopped.