He alternately licked and suckled her nipples. His stubble chafed her breasts as he lightly nipped each one, causing the most exquisite darts of pain and pleasure that intermingled until the sensations felt as one.
Adan paid the utmost attention to her breasts until her nipples were so sensitive she was sure she could come with just a little more sucking by his hot mouth.
When her body began to tremble with an oncoming climax, Adan moved away, licking a path down the center of her belly, and she grudgingly let his hair slip through her fingers.
“You jerk,” she grumbled, and Adan laughed softly.
The closer he came to her pussy, the wetter she became. But after he nuzzled her mound, he moved to the inside of her thigh and gently nipped it.
“Ow, you big lug.” It didn’t hurt her, instead it turned her on even more. “Please. Please, fuck me now.”
“No, love.” Adan licked a path to the inside of her knee and then blew his warm breath over the wet skin.
Kara shivered and her thighs trembled. “You’re just going to keep doing this to me.” A statement, not a question. She knew exactly what he was trying to do to her. Kara clenched the bedcovers in her fists. She was so on the edge, but never close enough to achieve what she knew was going to be the orgasm to end all orgasms.
Before she knew what was happening, Adan grabbed her by her hips and flipped her over onto her belly. Kara gave a cry of surprise as she found herself face down, her nose buried in the soft taupe bedcover, her pendant dangling from her throat.
Adan rubbed his palms over his woman’s ass and began kneading the firm flesh. By all the stars, she was beautiful. “On your hands and knees,” he said.
“Take me now, Adan,” Kara demanded as she pushed herself up so that her thighs were wide and the dark pink folds of her pussy were clearly visible.
“That’s it, love.” Adan’s cock was so hard he would surely spew his seed all over Kara’s ass if he but rubbed the head of his shaft along the crack of her buttocks. But he was determined to make her wait as long as possible, until neither could take one second more.
Adan moved so that his hips were tight against Kara’s. With a moan she pushed back and rubbed her ass against his cock. He almost lost control.
He bent over her back, reached for her breasts and tweaked her nipples. She gave another moan, this time louder and longer.
“Please.” Her voice trembled and she sounded close to tears of frustration. “I need you now, Adan.”
“Do you need me or my cock, love?” He brushed his lips across her backbone.
Kara shuddered and let out a soft mewling sound. “Not a fair question when you’ve got me like this.” She wiggled her hips and rubbed them against his hardness.
“Whoever said I was fair?” He gripped his erection in his palm and rubbed it against her pussy. “Now tell me what you need.”
“You, damn it.” Kara arched her back and pressed against him, hard.
Adan gripped her hips in his hands. He placed the head of his erection at the entrance to her core and held still for one moment while Kara whimpered. In one hard movement he thrust his cock into her hot pussy.
She cried out at once, her body shuddering with an orgasm so powerful her channel contracted around his erection like a fist squeezing him, almost causing him to climax. He could feel heat rushing through her, heat that came from her crystal.
He gritted his teeth and began plunging in and out of her warmth. He fucked her at a slow and even pace, slamming his hips against her ass.
“You feel so good. Like a sheath made just for me.” He increased his pace, driving into her harder and harder. Her cries rang out in time with his thrusts and he felt her body begin to tense, bringing her closer to another orgasm.
“I’m going to come again, Adan.” Kara’s words came out in a breathy whisper.
“That’s it love,” he said just as she made a keening sound that stretched out until she cried out long and loud. It seemed that her orgasm would continue forever, and he did not want to stop until she had experienced every bit of pleasure he could give her.
Her arms gave out and she bent her head to the cover. He watched his cock move in and out as he continued to pound into her.
When he couldn’t hold back any longer, his climax barreled through him like the mother of all snowstorms.
Chapter Eleven
Three days after his release from the med-room, Adan was almost healed due to the Clans’ technology and Ana’s medical skills. Snow crunched beneath his and Kara’s boots as they walked beside the lake, and he was holding her small hand in his. Even in her snowsuit she looked beautiful, her green eyes bright, her face framed by fur from the hood of her suit.
Adan had tried to bring up the crystal pendant over the past days, but something held him back. He was afraid she would believe he only wanted her for the crystal. But he wanted all of her. Perhaps he was being weak, but he had decided to let the Cwen explain all. T’ni Lael could better tell Kara of the pendant’s history and its purpose.
In the distance, children played beside the lake, worked on their ice castles, and had snowball battles between the parapets. Their laughter and chatter warmed his soul, as much as the woman beside him warmed his heart.
Over the past days he had shown her around the village with pride. She had taken in everything with enthusiasm and seemed to especially enjoy visiting the school and watching the children work and play. She even participated in some of their activities, her eyes bright and a smile lighting her face. On more than one occasion, she had expressed how much she missed visiting the children at the orphanage near her home.
Wind chilled their cheeks and snowflakes swirled through the leaded skies while they moved along the lake’s snowy bank. One snowflake landed on the tip of Kara’s nose and he brought them both to a stop, lowered his head, and kissed it away. She beamed up at him, her smile like a burst of sunshine that brightened everything around them and chased away the gray.
He tugged at her curl and returned her smile. “Having you here with me—it makes my life have meaning again, Kara Marks.”
Her eyes widened and her smile dimmed a little. “I don’t know that I can stay here, Adan. My life, my friends—”
He placed his finger against her lips. “Shhh, love. A little time. You agreed.”
Kara gave a slow nod, her lips brushing over his finger in a way that made his groin tighten and his gut clench.
He dropped his hand away from her face and she said softly, “I know about your wife and child. I’m so sorry.”
The surprise at her words sent a ripple through him. Aye, the pain would never completely go away, but it did not hurt nearly as much with Kara by his side.
“Lilli,” he said.
“Yes, she told me.” The expression on Kara’s face was one of caring, and of sorrow for him. “I saw the holo-vids. Your family was beautiful, Adan.”
Raising his head he looked to the Mirror Mountains and stared at them for one long moment. In the glittering surface he could almost see Anna’s quick grin, and Adam’s dimple when he laughed. It seemed only yesterday, yet so long ago.
Before now, thinking about them nearly drove him to his knees. But because of Kara, he found the pain had faded some. He still loved his wife and son, and always would, but now it was time to go on. To go on with Kara.
“I hope you don’t mind me saying anything about them.” Kara’s voice brought his attention back to her. “It was none of my business, I know.”
“You have every right.” He hooked his finger under her chin and studied her for one long moment. “I miss them both, loved them with all my heart. They will always be a part of me.”
“As they should be.” Kara’s tone and expression held no jealousy, only a hint of sadness for what he had lost.
“Throughout the years, after their deaths, I was angry and bitter. I tucked away my heart, buried my soul. I did not think I could love again,” he said, wondering how much more he
should say, but finding he could not stop. “Until I met you.”
Her green eyes were wide and her lips parted. “Adan…”
A frown creased her features as she turned and stared at something past him. “I thought kids weren’t allowed to play on the lake.”
Adan’s blood chilled as his gaze shot up in time to see a small boy walking onto the ice to retrieve a bright red ball. He was stepping carefully, as if aware the ice was dangerous, but seemed determined to go after his toy.
“Keiden!” Adan shouted and tore away from Kara. “Do not move!” Behind him he heard Kara’s breath coming out in small pants, her boots making soft crunching sounds against the snow as she chased after him.
The little boy bent over to pick up the ball.
“Keiden!” Adan belted out again.
The child picked up the ball and froze when he saw Adan running toward him. “I just wanted to get my ball,” he said, panic in his small voice, as if knowing he was in trouble.
“Do not move,” Adan repeated as he came up to the lakeshore. Kara stopped beside him.
A loud crack echoed through the chill air.
Adan’s heart stopped.
Everyone and everything around them went quiet.
A woman’s scream ripped through the silence, “Keiden!”
The boy’s lower lip trembled. “I want my mom.”
“I will take you to your mother.” Adan stepped to the edge of the ice. He was a little more than an arm’s length from the boy. “Hold still.”
Another crack. Ice jerked beneath Keiden’s feet and his eyes went wide with terror.
Adan knelt beside the ice. In the background he heard the boy’s mother sobbing, heard other Clan members trying to calm her.
“Is there anything I can do?” Kara asked, her voice quivering.
He reached out to Keiden, stretching out his arm as far as he could. Inches still separated them.
Keeping his hand stretched out, Adan eyed the ice at his knees. A crack ran from the shore to where the boy stood. If Adan knelt on it, likely it would give way before he could grasp Keiden’s hand.
“You will need to reach for me.” Adan’s gaze met the boy’s terrified eyes. “Slowly.”
Keiden shook his head.
Adan tried to stretch himself out further. “You can do it. Your mother has told me how proud she is of you and how strong you are.”
Still clinging to his red ball, the child bit his lip.
Another crack. The ice jolted again.
Keiden reached his small hand out and clasped Adan’s hand. A moment of relief filled Adan as he started to guide the boy toward him, slowly.
The ice gave way.
A woman screamed.
Fear rocketed through Adan as he tried to jerk Keiden toward him.
The boy plunged through the small crack that had opened in the lake’s surface. Keiden screamed as his body wedged between the thick sheets of ice, stopping at his armpits.
Adan tried to pull the boy out, but his small form was trapped, as if between the jaws of a vise.
“I want my mom,” Keiden cried out, tears rolling down his face.
“I will get you to your mother,” Adan said with determination.
Kara had never been so frightened as she was at that moment. Even when she and Adan had been captured, she had not feared for her life as she feared for this boy’s life.
“The ice is freezing around him.” Adan tossed a look over his shoulder, never relaxing his hold on the boy. “Get Dominik.”
“It will be too late,” the boy’s mother wailed. “He’ll freeze to death.”
Kara’s fear nearly overwhelmed her. The heat of the pendant began pulsing through her and she remembered what she had done at the ice palace. Could she do the same here?
She didn’t take time to think about it any longer. She focused on the ice around Keiden’s waist. Concentrating on the energy within her pendant, she imagined it melting the lake’s surface.
Adan was shouting. Keiden was crying. His mother was screaming.
Kara blanked them all out.
The heat of the pendant roared through her and burst from her in a hot wave. Ice cracked. Melted before her eyes.
Keiden’s body came free. Adan stumbled back, jerking the boy from the lake at the same time. He landed on his backside, with Keiden in his arms.
Kara dropped to her knees, her breathing heavy, her heart pounding in her throat. Around her were shouts and a flurry of movement. Keiden was bundled and taken away.
The next thing she knew, Adan had his arms wrapped around her, and was kissing her forehead. “Thank you, my love,” he murmured as he held her tight. “Thank you.”
* * * * *
Holding Kara’s hand, Adan led her through the hallways to the enormous common room. No matter that he truly did not want to share her, he looked forward to introducing her to more of his people.
“I’m nervous.” Kara held her hand to her belly as she looked up at him. Her pink sarong floated around her body and defined her attributes. “What if your people don’t like me? Don’t want me here?”
“How could they not?” He paused in mid-step and brought her to him. “Even if you had not saved Keiden’s life yesterday, we would welcome you as one of our own.”
“You saved him,” she argued yet again. “My pendant only helped a little.”
“Enough.” He ruffled his fingers through her curls. “No more arguing over it. You saved the boy’s life and that is what matters.”
“I don’t belong here, Adan.” In a nervous gesture, she ran her free palm down the soft material of her sarong.
He lightly brushed his lips over hers, breathing in her scent of spring and woman. When he raised his head he squeezed her hand. “You belong here as much as I do.”
She didn’t respond, but gave him a little smile. It was enough to warm his heart and his loins, and he almost turned them around and headed back to their room, to take her hard and fast.
Before they reached the common room, laughter and music filtered out to meet them.
“What’s going on?” Kara asked.
“Once a month many of the Clans’ members gather for a night of dancing, good food and mugs of fire ale.” Adan brought her up to the open archway where they could see his people dancing to music played by Dane and two other knights. Dane was highly skilled at an old Earth instrument called an acoustic guitar. He composed countless songs that he played for the Clans when various members pressed him.
It surprised Kara to see the dangerous-looking man playing the guitar for a roomful of people. She would never have guessed the brooding knight was an artist. “He’s good.”
“Aye, that he is.” Adan tugged her hand and pulled her through the doorway and into the throng.
“What he’s playing—it sounds like rock music, but not,” she said, raising her voice over the laughing, the chatter, and the music. The mood in the room was infectious, and Kara couldn’t help but smile.
Adan smiled in return, and began introducing her to Clan members, many of whom hugged and kissed her, thanking her for saving Keiden’s life. The boy’s mother was the most profuse in her gratitude. She promised them that Keiden was doing very well and would be in school the following day.
Some of the women were dressed like Kara, in sarongs of various hues. Others wore the knight’s uniform and bore the Blackstar sword and star emblem on their sleeves. Many of the men also wore the uniform, and others were dressed in more casual shirts, pants and boots. The people seemed happy and carefree for the most part, at least tonight.
Adan introduced her to so many people that her head began to spin. She had an unusually good memory for names and faces, so at least in that regard she was in luck.
She saw Lilli in the arms of a gorgeous dark-haired man who was apparently very familiar with her. Lilli was rubbing the man’s crotch through his pants, and one of her breasts was free from her sarong as he played with her nipple. In full view of everyone
in the room. Kara’s eyes widened when Adan took her directly up to the couple and introduced the man as the third Clan Leader, Dominik. She had heard about him from Adan, but had yet to meet him.
“Welcome to Blackstar.” Dominik took her hand and kissed the inside of her wrist. He flicked his tongue over her flesh, causing Kara to shiver.
“Er, my pleasure.” Kara pulled away from him, trying not to look at Lilli’s exposed breast and hoping no one noticed the rise of her own nipples.
Adan scowled and Dominik gave him a teasing grin. He lowered his head and began to suck Lilli’s nipple just before Kara and Adan started to walk away.
Kara swallowed back the feeling of lust rising up within her, and tried to ignore the tingling in her pussy. “Is Lilli his wife?” she said over the noise in the room.
Adan lowered his head and spoke near her ear where she could hear. “Lilli is a pleasure-partner. She enjoys pleasure with any man who needs to ease the fire in his loins.”
Kara’s eyes widened. “She’s a prostitute?”
He frowned and shook his head. “No. It is simply something she has chosen to do, something she enjoys very much.”
“Oh.” Kara tried to imagine being a pleasure-partner and fucking a variety of men. It kind of turned her on—even though she couldn’t imagine herself with anyone but Adan. And then another thought occurred to her. “Have you ‘relieved your needs’ with Lilli?”
Adan shrugged and continued leading her through the crowd. By his lack of denial, she knew he had. The thought sent a fierce rush of jealousy through her, and she wanted to slug him.
What was wrong with her? It wasn’t like he belonged to her or something.
As they moved through the dancers, Kara caught more people making out along the fringes. Bare breasts, hard nipples, naked backsides, mouths sucking erections, and fingers stroking clits. Apparently sex was something these people didn’t think belonged only in the bedroom. Who knew, maybe there would be a mass orgy tonight.
Even though the idea was titillating, that wasn’t something she was prepared to deal with, or be involved in. She was a one-man woman and she didn’t like to share.
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