Gabe
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“Properly put the amenities of our new cave to the test,” she said, full of longing to be alone with him and to satisfy her craving for his most intimate caresses. After all she and her mate had been through, eternity wouldn’t be enough time with him but she kept the tone light and teasing. “Ensure the bed we’ve been given is adequate to the needs of an Alpha and her mate. If you’re up to the task?”
He caught her by the arm and pulled her off the path into a darker spot under a huge tree for a lengthy kiss. Gabe certainly left her in no doubt of his readiness to fulfill her request.
Hand in hand, they made their way to the residence cave section of the valley cliffs and into their newly assigned and partially furnished home. Although it was a cave, Keshara was entranced by the beauty of the crystalline mineral deposits sprinkled throughout the walls, and the beautiful multi-colored lichen growing here and there on the stalactites and stalagmites. The lichen gave off a soft light. She and Gabe had also been given a unit created by MARL to provide heat, light and power. She rather enjoyed the rough primitiveness of the domicile, after a life spent inside an austere Khagrish facility. She’d picked out a few things from the valley’s storage facility to augment the barebones furniture Gabe had already been assigned as a bachelor officer but neither she nor her mate were much into material possessions.
“You have to allow me to carry you across the threshold,” Gabe said, stopping her short of the cave entrance. “Now we’re officially moved in and all. It’s an old human custom.”
“Any excuse to be in your arms works for me,” she said.
As he carried her through the living space and into the large bedroom chamber, Keshara remembered the first time they met, after his flyer crashed, and how far they’d come since then. An amazing journey together but just the beginning. So many possibilities for the future now. When Gabe laid her on their spacious Badari-sized mattress, he paused, looking closely at her face.
“What are you thinking?”
“How we met, how the goddess made sure I was in the right place at the right time.”
“My memory is hazy, but I distinctly recall you showing me a knife and warning me not to try anything.” He laughed. “And there I was, basically dying of my internal injuries. I thought I was hallucinating from the pain, since Badari women don’t exist.”
Keshara pressed her hand to the bulge in his utility pants. “I exist. Shall I prove it to you yet again?”
He flopped on the bed next to her and lay on his back. “Be my guest. Have I mentioned lately how grateful I am to the goddess that there are Badari women?”
Pausing for a moment, Keshara raised one eyebrow and playfully extended her talons a fraction. “Badari women?”
Laughing, Gabe pulled her close to lay on top of him, his shaft a hard column against her stomach. “Woman, singular and spectacular and all mine.”
Carefully, she undid the fastening on his pants and tugged at them until she was stymied by his boots. Cursing in Badari, impatient, she struggled to get the boots off. With a deep chuckle, he sat up to assist her then tore off his own shirt before reclining again.
Keshara grasped the impressive cock standing proudly away from his body and licked the plum-shaped head with her tongue before taking as much of him into her mouth as she could. Massaging his sac and the sensitive skin behind it with one hand, she held his erection in the other and tormented him in all the sensual ways she’d learned since they became mates. She’d never get tired of exploring his body and giving them both pleasure.
Gabe was a generous lover when it was his turn to stroke and touch her. Right now he laced his fingers through her hair but gently, holding her to her self-appointed task and encouraging her efforts to torment him. Finally, he pulled her away.
“If you keep that up, this interlude won’t last long,” he said. “And you have too many clothes on. Let me help you with the problem.”
She allowed him to slip her clothes off, which he did slowly, teasingly, pausing to admire her lacy underpinnings. “Who knew that’s what an Alpha wears under her trousers?” He grinned, sliding one hand under the gusset of the panties and exploring her soft folds.
“There are wondrous things in the storerooms here at the valley. I was told the inventory is mostly pirates’ loot taken from the cargo holds of ships seized for the Khagrish and then confiscated by the Badari when the pack takes down a lab.” Keshara arched her back to enhance the pleasure as he carefully inserted two fingers into her body and caressed the most sensitive bud of flesh with his thumb. “You’re too good at all of this.” She grabbed his shoulders and tried to pull him up, impatient to have his cock buried deep inside her where she could wrap all her nerve endings around it, pulsing and massaging until she and her mate would be driven to sensory overload. “How did I live all those years without you and your more than generous equipment?” she asked with a throaty laugh.
“I don’t know.” He pulled the panties off and cast them aside before plunging himself into her body with a rush that had her gasping in pleasure. “Do explain it to me. I’m sure it’ll be hot to hear. Or you can show me.”
“Some other time, we’re way beyond that right now.” Keshara gave him a little warning bite close to the mate mark, extending her fangs ever so slightly, knowing the area was especially sensitive there. Gabe moaned in pleasure and thrust deeper, filling her with his amazing girth. She locked her legs around him, moving in a rhythm, which became faster and more intense by the second, until they both found release, holding each other tight and safe as the sparks of sensation drove conscious thought away.
“Happy?” Gabe asked as he wrapped her in his arms in one of the tight hugs she loved so much.
“I’ve never been happier,” she said with perfect truth. “And you?”
He nodded, kissing the mate mark on her shoulder and chuckling as she shivered and snuggled closer. “All my travels and travails, even being kidnapped by the Khagrish, were all worth it, to end up here with you right this moment.”
“We’ve earned our joy,” she said with satisfaction, holding tight to her mate. “And we’ll help my sisters find their way to happiness as well now that we’re all free.”
“You’re the Alpha—your wish is my command,” he whispered into her ear, before nibbling on the tender lobe.
And although she knew the future held challenges, for the pack and for her, Keshara was content…she and Gabe would stand together and overcome anything fate threw in their way.
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Veronica Scott grew up in a house with a library as its heart. Dad loved science fiction, Mom loved ancient history and Veronica thought there needed to be more romance in everything. When she ran out of books to read, she started writing her own stories.
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