Kyron was just stepping out of the shower when he heard a knock at his suite door. He had been hoping that the hot water pouring down on his head would help sweep the fog of despair away from his brain but it didn’t seem to have worked.
Commander Sylvan had cleared him of all charges several days ago, citing both the strange water he had drunk on the Hive world and the Rage which comes over Kindred when their females are threatened as mitigating factors in his use of his Touch sense as a weapon. But though Kyron had officially been forgiven for breaking his vow, he could not forgive himself or forget how he had ruined things between himself and Dani.
He had thought a hundred times of going to her and begging her forgiveness but somehow he just couldn’t. It was the look of fear he’d seen in her eyes when she begged him not to kill her father—the memory wouldn’t leave him. He was too ashamed to face her again after what he had done—not that he thought she wanted to see him…
The knock came at his door again, sounding urgent.
“Hold on—I’ll be there in a minute.”
Since whoever was at the door was obviously in a fucking hurry, he didn’t bother getting dressed. He just wrapped the towel he’d been using to dry himself around his waist and went to the door.
“Yes?” he said, thinking maybe it was Merrick, trying to get him to come out again. “Look, I really don’t want—”
The words died on his lips when he saw who it was.
Dani was standing at the door, wearing a blanket around her like a cloak. But the minute she stepped inside, she dropped it, letting it puddle at her feet.
Ky’s breath caught in his throat. She was wearing the pale lavender, see-through gown she’d had on the day he’d gone to rescue her from Goshan Prime.
Goddess, it shows everything. His cock was suddenly, achingly hard and he found he couldn’t help staring at her. From her berry-dark nipples to the small, neatly trimmed triangle of curls between her thighs, every detail of her lush body was clearly revealed beneath the see-through fabric.
“Dani?” he finally managed to make himself croak. “What…what are you doing here?”
There was nervousness in her dark eyes but she lifted her chin boldly and took a step towards him.
“I came here because I want you, Ky. Because I want you to Touch me.”
* * * * *
Dani didn’t know where she got the nerve. This was certainly nothing like how a proper female was supposed to behave—at least by Goshan Prime standards. But she was determined to get her male back and desperate enough to show it.
Also, the bonding fruit smoothie she’d sipped at Kat’s suite before going to get ready for her meeting with Ky seemed to be having quite an effect on her. Dani thought her nipples had never felt so tender and her sacred channel was dripping with her juices and aching to be filled.
But she knew she had to take this slowly.
He thinks you’re afraid of him—of his Touch sense, Elise had told her. Dani knew she had to let Ky know that wasn’t true—that she wasn’t afraid of him—before she would be able to convince him to change the color of her eyes.
She shut the door behind her and then took a step toward him.
“Ky, please…”
“Dani, I…I can’t believe you’re here, little girl.” He ran a hand through his still-damp hair, causing the muscular plane of his chest and abdomen to bunch and flex in a mouthwatering way.
Dani felt her belly and the area between her legs clench in response—Gods above and below, how she needed him!
“I’m here because I want you, Ky,” she said, keeping her chin up. “And…and because I hope you want me too.”
“Of course I want you.” His deep voice was hoarse with need as his eyes raked over her body. “But I can’t have you, Dani—I can’t be trusted anymore. Not after what I did.”
“What you did was save me and Lavi from awful, abusive marriages,” Dani said firmly. “There’s nothing wrong with that.”
“I used my Touch sense to kill,” he said darkly. “Once a Touch Kindred uses his Goddess given abilities for evil, he can never be trusted again.”
“Who says you can’t be trusted?” Dani demanded, coming even closer so that they were almost chest to chest—or really, more like breasts to abdomen, since he was so much taller than her. She looked up at him fearlessly. “You might not trust yourself but I trust you, Ky—and I’m here to prove that.”
“We can’t do this…I can’t let you.” He stepped away from her but Dani could see the tent rising under the towel wrapped around his slim, muscular hips. He wanted her as much as she wanted him—somehow she just had to convince him of that.
“Please, Ky,” she whispered, not wanting to beg but not quite able to help herself. “I…I took some bonding fruit before I came here. And now, well…I need some help.”
“Gods, Dani—you didn’t.” He sank down onto the arm of the couch which sat in the center of the living area. “You shouldn’t have done that—do you know what bonding fruit does to you?”
“I thought it was only supposed to make me stretch more,” Dani murmured, biting her lip. “So you could, you know, fit yourself inside me. But now I feel…Gods above, Ky, I feel so hot all over. And I ache here…” She touched her tight nipples through the thin, see-through gown. “And here.” Spreading her legs, she let him get a better look at her pussy.
She couldn’t help thinking how wonderful it had felt the last time she had done this for him, when she’d opened herself so that he could taste her. Gods above, she wished he would do that again!
“Goddess, little girl,” he groaned. “I want to help you, I just don’t want to hurt you—do you understand?”
“I understand you don’t trust yourself, Ky,” she murmured. “But I trust you. Please, can’t you help me? This bonding fruit is really giving me a problem!” She thrust her breasts forward appealingly so that her nipples pressed hard against the thin lavender fabric.
Ky groaned again at the erotic sight.
“All right, little girl—I’ll help you. If you’ve been eating bonding fruit you’re going to need to come at least once to help you get over it.”
Dani felt a rush of relief. Thank all the Gods, he was going to help her! She wasn’t kidding when she’d told him she was in need—the bonding fruit smoothie she’d drunk was really working on her—making her feel like she would die if she couldn’t feel his hands on her soon.
But it wasn’t his hands she needed to feel—not yet, anyway.
“Help me,” she told Ky, coming to stand in front of him. “Touch me, Ky.”
He reached for her but she pushed his big hands away.
“No, Touch me,” she told him. “Like you did the first time you made me feel pleasure, when you were chained in your cell. I want to feel your whisper fingers caressing me and your whisper mouth tasting me. Please, Ky.”
He shook his head, frowning.
“Aren’t you afraid to ask me to use my Touch sense on you?” he demanded. “It’s a weapon now, Danny. I’ve killed with it—killed with my mind.”
“You’d never hurt me,” Dani whispered, knowing it was true. “I trust you, Ky—please, I just need you to trust yourself.”
Still he hesitated. “I shouldn’t…”
“Do you want to taste me again?” Dani asked, remembering how he’d thanked her for allowing him to lick her pussy. Liv and Sophie had confided to her that this was something that Kindred males not only loved but needed to do. “Do…do you want to put your tongue inside me?”
“Gods, you know I do.” Ky’s big hands were clenched into fists on his thighs. It seemed like he was holding himself back by sheer force of will but Dani didn’t want him to hold back—she wanted him to learn to trust himself again.
“I-I’ll let you,” she said, only stumbling over the words a little. “If…if you’ll use your whisper fingers and mouth on me first. Just a little Ky—please. Just…just kiss my nipple. Here.”
She pointed to her right nipple and couldn’t help remembering how hot it had been that night in his cell, leaning over him and pretending she didn’t know her nipple was slipping into his mouth as she tended his back…
“Gods, little girl, I shouldn’t but…” Ky shook his head. “But I just can’t resist. I’m going to be careful though—very Goddess-damned careful. I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You never have before,” Dani pointed out. “Come on Ky, kiss me.”
His eyes were suddenly half lidded and she felt a rushing whisper in the air around him. Then a hot, wet mouth was sliding carefully around her tender bud, licking lightly at first and then sucking harder as Dani moaned and arched her back.
“Gods above, yes, Ky! Please, do the other one,” she moaned. Gods, how she needed him! The effects of the bonding fruit seemed to be getting stronger all the time.
The hot, wet mouth switched to her left nipple and then she felt his whisper fingers plucking at her right. The double stimulation sent sparks of pleasure straight down to the slippery place between her thighs and almost caused her knees to buckle.
“See?” she gasped as the big Kindred continued to use his Touch sense on her, stroking and caressing her body without moving from his place on the couch. “See, you’re not hurting me, Ky—you’re making me feel good. Ah, Gods—so good.”
“If you want to feel even better, spread your thighs for me.” His deep voice had lost its hesitancy and there was a hot light in his eyes that made Dani tremble with need.
“Yes…all right,” she whispered and opened her thighs.
“Spread your pussy for me, too,” Ky ordered, his eyes blazing. “If you want me to Touch you there, I need you to be open for me.”
She loved it when his voice took on that tone of command! All her life she’d wished to live as an equal to men but she found she liked submitting in the bedroom—liked doing what Kyron ordered and obeying him.
Slowly, with trembling fingers, she reached beneath her gown and parted her swollen pussy lips with her fingers. Gods above, the bonding fruit had made her juices so abundant she was overflowing! Looking down, she saw that her inner thighs were shiny with her honey and felt a stab of embarrassment.
But when she started to shut her legs, Ky shook his head.
“No, little girl—if you want me to Touch you, you have to let me see you. You’re so beautiful with your little pussy so hot and swollen, making all that sweet honey. Can’t wait to lap it all up with my tongue.”
“With your real tongue…or your whisper tongue?” Dani whispered.
“Both.” And then the hot, wet mouth moved from her tight nipple down to the wet, swollen place between her thighs. Dani gasped as she felt him lapping her there and wondered if he could taste her just as he could with his real tongue.
“So salty-sweet, little girl,” he growled, answering her unspoken question. “Does that feel good? You like to have my whisper mouth between your legs, licking your soft little pussy?”
“Oh yes, Ky,” she heard herself moaning. “But please, I want more—so much more. The bonding fruit…I feel so empty inside. I need…need for you to give me the Deep Touch.”
“And I will, little girl,” Ky growled. “But first I need to taste you with my real tongue and mouth—need to hold you in my hands and feel your lush curves with my real fingers…”
“Do it then,” Dani whispered. Before the words were even out of her mouth, Ky was off the couch, his towel falling heedlessly to the ground. He scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the bed chamber.
Dani moaned as he laid her down on the broad, Kindred-sized bed. Her pussy felt like it was on fire, she was so hot. How she needed him inside her!
But she had promised Ky he could lick and suck her pussy if he used his Touch sense on her, and it was clear he was going to take her at her word.
“Do…do you want to take off my gown?” Dani asked as he got on the bed beside her. “So you can…can reach me better?”
“Gods, no—at least, not yet,” he growled. “I want to lick you through it—the same way I did that first time in the cell.” He leaned over her so that his hot breath was blowing against her sensitive nipples which were tenting the gossamer thin material. “Remember that, little girl? Remember how you pushed your plump little nipples between my lips and pretended nothing was happening while I licked and sucked you?”
“Of course I remember,” Dani gasped as he began to lick her right nipple through the thin material, swirling his tongue around and around her sensitive point until she moaned. “I…I knew it was naughty to act like that but somehow I couldn’t help myself. I wanted you.
“And I wanted you too, little girl—I still want you. Gods…” he groaned and lapped at her other swollen bud before sucking it between his lips. When he drew back, the fabric of her gown was molded to her aching tips. Dani couldn’t help moaning at the sight.
“Look at that—look how transparent your gown is when it gets wet—like it’s barely there at all,” Ky growled. He stroked her breasts, cupping and caressing them gently with his big hands as he looked at her. “I want to try that with your pussy, Dani. I want to see you all spread out and open with just that thin little gown covering your hot, wet little slit.”
His words made her breath come short and Dani felt like her heart might burst right out of her chest.
“Yes,” she whispered, nodding. “All…all right, Ky.”
“Good—spread your legs for me, little girl. Spread your legs and let me in.”
Trembling, she did as he asked and watched as Ky smoothed the thin fabric of her gown over her open pussy.
“Gods—look at that,” he murmured. “I don’t even have to lick you to make the fabric wet enough to cling to you. Look at how your sweet pussy juice makes it mold to your hot little cunt.”
His words tore a little cry from her lips. Was he not going to lick her after all? Now that he had her in this open, vulnerable position she found she wanted him to—wanted it badly.
Again, Ky seemed to read her mind.
“But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to lick you, little girl,” he growled softly. “I’m going to lick your sweet pussy until you beg for more.”
“I’m already begging,” Dani whispered. “Please, Ky…”
But before she could finish speaking, he was leaning down to trace the slit of her pussy gently with his tongue. Dani gasped at the sparks of pleasure that shot through her, moaning at the sensation of him licking her through the thin fabric of her gown.
“Ky, oh, Ky,” she heard herself moaning.
“Mmm, little girl, keep saying my name,” he murmured and licked her again. “Keep on while I lick your sweet pussy.” Reaching between her legs, he spread her outer lips, letting the soft fabric mold more fully to her open folds. “Look at your hot clit, little girl,” he growled. “Look how it needs to be licked and sucked.”
Leaning over her, he suited actions to words, running the tip of his tongue around and around her pleasure button before sucking her into his mouth and teasing her with short, sharp licks that made Dani’s back arch.
The sexual teasing was amazing but the bonding fruit in her system was making Dani feel half crazy with need. As much as she loved to feel her man’s tongue between her legs, what she really needed there was his shaft.
“Ky, please,” she heard herself begging shamelessly. “Please, I need…need so much more!”
“What do you need, little girl?” he asked in a soft, growling voice. “Tell me…or show me, if you want.”
Dani felt like every heartbeat was shaking her entire body and her need was so great she could barely breathe. But she knew what she needed to do.
Somehow she managed to get to her hands and knees on the bed. Then she spread her thighs and lowered her head to her closed arms. Breeding Position—she was in Breeding Position and she had never felt more empty and achy inside—more willing to be bred.
“Please,” she whispered, turning her head to look over her shoulder at the big Kindred looming over her. “Please, Ky—I need you to change the color of my eyes. I need you to breed me and give me the Deep Touch. I…I can’t wait any longer.”
“Gods, little girl,” he groaned. “Are you sure this is how you want your first time to be? We don’t have to do it in this position, you know. We can be face to face so I can see you and make sure I’m not hurting you.”
“No,” Dani insisted. She didn’t know why she wanted so badly to be in this position when he took her—she only knew it felt right. “You won’t hurt me, Ky,” she insisted. “I know you won’t. Now please—just take me.”
“As if I could refuse an invitation like that,” he growled and she felt him kneeling behind her, his muscular bulk hovering over her much smaller frame. His body heat was like a fire against her skin and her pussy had never felt so wet…so open…so needy.
Need him to fill me…oh, please, Ky…fill me soon! Fill me up with your shaft and breed me hard!
She bit her lip, trying not to let the shameful, begging words come out. But Ky seemed to know what she needed and wanted anyway. Dani felt the broad head of his shaft brushing over her sensitive pussy folds and then he was pushing inside her, gently at first, until he got past her maiden barrier.
Dani stifled a cry as he breached her but it only hurt for a moment. Then all she felt was a deep, stretching pleasure as his thick shaft slid home within her channel, filling her so full she thought she would die from the intense sensation.
“You all right, little girl?” Ky was holding still inside her—the broad head of his shaft pressing firmly against the end of her channel, filling her completely. Dani could feel the tension in his big body but it was clear he didn’t want to risk moving too soon and hurting her.
Thanks to the bonding fruit, though, what might have been a painful first experience was nothing but pleasure…nothing but need.
“I feel good,” she told him, turning her head to look over her shoulder. “But…I think I’d feel better if you’d thrust inside me. Please, Ky…” She wiggled her hips experimentally, drawing a breathless groan from his lips. “Please, I feel like I need you in me hard and long.”
“If that’s what you need, little girl, I’m more than happy to give it to you. Gods, your pussy is so tight around me,” Ky growled. “Just let me know if you need me to ease up some, okay?”
But Dani knew she didn’t want him to ease up or be gentle, though she loved him for wanting to. The effects of the bonding fruit were demanding that he take her—that he fuck her hard and fill her with his seed.
“Please, Ky,” she moaned again. “Please just take me—breed me.”
With a low groan, he did as she asked. Pulling almost all the way out of her tightly stretched pussy, he gripped her hips hard and thrust back in again, filling her t the limit, just the way Dani had begged him to. Then he did it again…and again and again.
Dani cried out with pleasure and gripped the red coverlet of the bed, trying to stay in place as his thick shaft plowed into her, opening her pussy, claiming her and changing her in a way she knew would last a lifetime. It felt amazing—so good she didn’t know if she could stand it and yet she never wanted it to end.
Then, just as the pleasure was building inside her, she felt something else. Though Ky’s big hands gripped her hips firmly, holding her in place for his rough and thorough fucking, she could feel other fingers touching her—his whisper fingers plucking at her nipples, teasing the tender buds which hung down, her breasts swaying with every thrust he made inside her.
At the same time, his whisper lips encircled her clit, sucking and teasing the tender little button, laving her hotly as Ky pounded into her.
“Oh…oh!” Dani cried, her hands closing even tighter on the red bedspread as she tried to endure the pleasure that was spreading over her entire body. “Oh, Ky—yes…yes!”
Suddenly the sensations coming at her from every angle were too much. The fingers twisting her nipples, the mouth sucking and licking her clit, and Ky’s thick shaft stretched her pussy, thrusting deep into her sacred channel…it was more than she could bear.
With a moan, Dani felt herself start to come.
“That’s right, little girl,” she heard Ky growling behind her as he fucked her even deeper. “That’s right, come for me—come all over my cock while I fill you up.”
And then Dani felt him thrust inside her deeply—to the hilt. The head of his shaft kissed the end of her channel hard and she felt a short, hot spurt bathing the mouth of her womb. Then another and another as his thickness flexed inside her.
Coming in me—he’s coming—shooting his seed deep in my body. He’s breeding me! she thought deliriously. And the whole time, the whisper fingers and mouth never stopped pleasuring her, driving her higher, making her own orgasm so intense she wondered how she could bear it.
Gods above, this must be the Deep Touch, she thought and was surprised when she heard an answering voice in her head.
“That’s right, little girl—I’m Touching you while I take you. I’m inside your body and your mind at the same time—we are one.”
“Ky?” she gasped aloud, turning her head to look at him as she tried to think past the pleasure he was giving her. “Did you just…”
“Speak inside your head?” He pulled her close to him and rolled both of them on their sides so his big body was cradling hers. He was still pulsing inside her but the pleasure was ebbing a little, making it easier to breathe.
“Yes,” Dani panted, still trying to catch her breath. “Yes, I…I didn’t know that was possible.”
“It’s only possible between bonded mates,” Ky whispered in her head. “Which we are now, little girl.”
Dani thought she heard a little hesitancy in his mental tone. Though the bond between them was still new and she was surprised at being able to communicate with him this way, she couldn’t help picking up on the concern in his voice.
“What is it, Ky?” she asked, trying out her own mental voice. “Are you sorry that we’re bonded?”
“No, of course not, little girl! But…are you?” He stroked her back gently and spoke aloud. “After what I did on your home planet, are you sure you’re all right being bonded to me?”
“I’m more than all right.” Dani cuddled back against him. “I love you, Ky—I should have told you that before. I wanted to back when we were together on the Hive world but I was afraid.” She turned her head to look at him. “I’m not afraid anymore of you or of loving you. I’m just happy we’re finally together.”
“I love you too, little girl. What did I ever do to deserve you?”
“Nothing except get chained in a cell.” Dani smiled. “I know it was hard for you, Ky but I’m so glad you were captured. We wouldn’t even know each other if you hadn’t been, let alone gotten bonded for life.”
“And you don’t miss your life as a princess?” he teased gently.
Dani snorted. “I might have been a princess in name but I was a prisoner on Goshan Prime as surely as you were, Ky. When you came, you freed me just as much as I freed you.”
“We freed each other, little girl.” He turned her chin and leaned over her to take her mouth in a long, breathless kiss. Then he looked into her eyes. “Wow…beautiful!”
“What? What is?” Dani murmured.
“Your new eye color, sweetheart. It’s like honey…or maybe champagne. A really light, clear gold. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Of course, Dani had to jump up to see and Ky followed her into the bathing chamber—what Kindred called a fresher—to watch her look at herself in the 3-D viewer.
“Oh…” Dani looked at herself in wonder. “My eyes—you really did change the color of my eyes.” She turned to him and stood on tiptoe to throw her arms around his neck. “Thank you, Ky. I love you…love you so much.”
“Love you too, little girl. And I’m never going to stop.”
Dani wiggled against him. “Why don’t you prove it then? I, uh, know we just…just did it but I don’t think the effects of the bonding fruit have worn off quite yet.”
“Mmm…” Ky swung her up into his arms. “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go back to the bedroom. I want to give you the Deep Touch again—but this time I want to look in your gorgeous new eyes while I’m doing it.”
Dani sighed happily and pressed her body against his, loving the feel of his strong arms holding and supporting her. She knew in her heart that this was only the beginning of their lives together and she had never been more happy that she had decided to sneak into his cell on Goshan Prime and then to free this particular prisoner.
But then again, as Ky had pointed out, they had freed each other… and now they would never be apart.