I frowned. “I… I don’t understand.”
“I’m coming to see now that our mating was never truly a choice. The connection between mates is too strong. You felt it when you came upon Drogan in the line of men.”
I couldn’t deny that.
“But it is the seed power now connecting us that makes the four of us dangerous to those with less than scrupulous plans.”
“I heard you saying that before. Seed power?”
“The seed from a Viken’s cock, when it touches his mate, when it fills her pussy, it unites him with his mate in elemental ways. It changes our bodies on a cellular level, as it will change yours. I know you feel the pull between us, the aching need, the addictive force.”
I shook my head, refusing the truth. Changed me on a cellular level?
“How do you feel?” His gaze raked over me and I flushed, glad he could not see my nipples hardening, my pussy clenching. When I remained silent, he stared at me, his eyes dark but tranquil pools of authority. I could drown in his eyes, forget myself and get lost there.
“Leah, I am the brother who will tie you up and take what I want from you. I will be the one to toss you over my knee and spank your ass for being naughty.”
My mouth fell open and I felt fear roar to life. So, I’d done it again? Trusted an asshole who would hit me, who would—I couldn’t even think about it. “You… you will beat me?”
“Beat you? Never.” He shook his head slowly. “I will demand obedience. I will also give you pleasure. Exquisite pleasure. I will watch your pulse and your breath. I will know when you lie, when you try to hide, when you truly need to come and when you would simply let your body rule you.”
It was my turn to shake my head. “No.”
“You wouldn’t be matched to me if you didn’t want me to own you, Leah. Imagine me tying your wrists to the headboard so I can have my way with you. Imagine me sliding my cock into your ass instead of my finger. Imagine me withholding your release until you scream, until you lose control. Until I command you to come all over my cock or my tongue.”
So Lev had been the one to take me from behind, to twist his finger in my virgin bottom hole, to fuck me hard, to the brink of pain before making me explode? Oh, God, I was equally mortified and aroused.
“The seed power doesn’t just affect you. It affects me as well. Tor and Drogan, too. They are feeling it more keenly now, surely, for they are not near you. Tell me. How. Do. You. Feel?”
Each word was clipped and intense, the sharp edge of it making me reply without thought.
“I don’t know what I feel exactly. Longing, need, arousal. Ache.”
“An ache for our cocks?”
“Yes, but an ache because… because they are not here.”
“Tor and Drogan?”
I licked my lips, worried he’d think I wanted the others instead of him. “Yes. I… I miss them.”
“Good girl.”
“You won’t spank me or tie me up?”
His eyes narrowed. “I’ll do both and you’re going to love it.”
I didn’t know what else to say, nor did I want to continue to wonder why I was so fascinated, so aroused by his very dirty plans even after all that had happened to me on Earth, so I switched topics.
“Where are we going?”
“To a remote center used to train new mates. Most mates aren’t matched as we were, but many warriors return from the fighting and they are unfamiliar to each other. For some mating to succeed, a retreat to a center can help. This specific center is the most remote, most isolated one. It is for the most recalcitrant of Viken females.”
“You think I’m recalcitrant? Seriously? I’m from Earth, not recalcitrant,” I muttered. He was not very skilled at wooing. Not much of what he said—my mood, his interest in tying me up—endeared me to him. Even so, I wanted him with a ruthless need that I could not deny.
“You were quite accepting when we fucked you earlier, but you have more to adjust to than the average Viken female with a new mate.”
“Oh? Like what?”
“To begin with, you were not a virgin, therefore we must break you of any past connection.”
“I assure you,” I grumbled, thinking about my Earth lovers, who, after the bout of fucking I just had, I could now say were most definitely duds. “There are no past connections. Do you think I’d be here on another planet if there were?”
“We do not know of this, just as you do not know us. Even with the seed power, you will be obliged to meet all three of our sexual needs, needs you’ve been matched to, but as you’ve just so proven, will most likely deny.”