{Rick…I love you.}
Rick did not move. He did not respond. Once he had relaxed, his mind had registered the firm roundness of Leonora’s abdomen underneath his arm. He opened his eyes. He stared in amazement at the mound that was covered by the silver sheet.
{Rick? Did you hear me? I said I love you.}
Rick could not move. He had come close to losing not only his wife but also his unborn child for the second time in his life. Leaving Earth had been the right choice. His eyes filled with tears. He closed them and pressed his face into her chest.
Leonora sighed. She began to caress Rick’s limp hair. She wondered why Rick never responded to her words of love. Could there possibly be any truth to some of the things Tigif had said about Rick not being able to love her? Would Rick one day become tired of her? She heard a sniffle.
“Rick?” She tried to sneak a peek over his head. “Rick, are you all right?”
Rick raised his head and faced her. Leonora was stunned to see his bearded face covered in tears.
“Rick!” she cried, genuinely concerned for him. A male like the Predator did not cry. She hurriedly framed his face with her hands. “Are you all right?”
Rick chuckled at her question. “When the woman I love more than my own life says that she loves me and is carrying my baby, how else can I feel? I am the happiest man alive.” He sniffed.
A wave of relief washed over Leonora. “By thunder, Rick, I missed you. I missed you so much.” She pulled his head closer to hers. “I love you so much.” She kissed him.
Rick pulled back before she could deepen their kiss. “Nora, don’t, you’ll hurt.”
“I do not care. Please, kiss me. Kiss me, my beloved.”
Rick saw the painful longing inside her pale eyes. It matched his own for her. He could not deny what they both desperately needed and wanted. Therefore, he kissed Leonora with a fervor that originated from the deepest regions of his restored soul.
The next day, Leonora was discharged from the infirmary. Since he arrived, Rick had not left her side. Once they were back in her bedchamber, Leonora led her husband straight to her bed.
Two days have passed since Rick entered Leonora’s quarters, and he still had not seen the space and stars that sped past their window as they headed toward Oceana.
With his fingers buried deep in her rich, brown hair, and his manhood buried deep inside her beautiful, rounder body, Rick thoroughly kissed his beloved wife.
Breaking their heated kiss, he looked lovingly into his kitten’s hypnotic eyes. “I can never live without you. I don’t want to spend one second without you, ever again.” He caressed her face with his gaze. “Don’t ever leave me, Nora,” he pleaded. “You will kill me if you do. Dear God, you will literally kill me.” He kissed her, renewing his deep claim of her body. “I love you,” he spoke against her moving lips.
Leonora arched her back and purred. {I could never leave you, Rick.} She tightened around his probing heat. {I could never live without my soul.}
The End
Jessica Kong is the author of A Lost Kitten and A Forgotten Kitten, books one and two of the Sea-anan Saga. The major theme in each series of interracial families is inspired by her own experiences in a multicultural marriage as well as the experiences of her triplets. She addresses the issue through the lens of science-fiction characters whose heritage is of both planet Earth and planet Oceana. Through this literary device, she can convey the message that society should not judge people without knowing anything about them, as well as showing how, underneath it all, we are really all the same.
A Seacat’s Love is the first book in the Oceanan Trilogy. This science-fiction romance takes readers back in time to introduce the parents of the protagonists of the first two books in the Seaanan Saga.
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