Barbarian’s Mate(40)
Haeden tugs at my tunic and begins to unwrap me like a present. Every inch of skin he exposes, he kisses and flicks his tongue over - more frankissing as he likes to say. “There will be a celebration for the new female,” he says. “Her name is Mad-ee.”
Maddie? “Don’t care.” I stroke his horns lovingly. “They can celebrate without us.”
“And a hunt for the missing female. Li-lah.” He reveals my boobs and grazes his lips over one nipple.
“That’s nice,” I say dreamily, pushing him toward our furs. “I don’t want to go. You don’t, either. Let someone else go find her.”
He lifts his head and gives me a heated, playful look. “I am surprised you want me with you, Jo-see. I thought you would be glad to have your leave of me after so many days of being my mate.”
“Are you kidding? I missed you like crazy.” I lie back in the furs and he crawls over me, tugging at the drawstring of his leggings.
“Even though I am unpleasant and surly?”
“That’s just you being you. And I like you,” I tell him, smoothing a hand over one big arm. His cock is freed from his leggings and he’s pushing mine down. “You can be surly all you want to everyone else as long as you’re good to me.”
“I will always be good to you,” he says solemnly, all traces of playfulness gone from his hard face. “You are my life, my heart, my everything.”
I wrap my arms around him as he pushes into me. If I’m his heart, he’s my soul. We’re one, and we’re together.
Nothing else matters. Not babies, not strangers, not endless snow. As long as I have Haeden in my arms, life here on the ice planet is utterly perfect. I couldn’t ask for more. I’ve always wanted to be loved; to be the center of someone’s universe. It took traveling halfway across the universe to succeed, but I’m exactly where I need to be.
“I love you,” I tell Haeden as he begins to stroke into me with hard, possessive strokes.
And it makes my cootie purr a little louder to hear him say it back for the first time.
The End