Lilli gave a half-laugh/half-sob and hugged her back.
“Thanks. I don’t know why I’m feeling so emotional.”
“You’ve been through a lot of trauma,” Liv said soothingly. “And you’ve got crazy preggy-lady hormones. That will make anybody emotional, hon.”
“I guess so.” Lilli sniffed and swiped at her eyes. “I’m just so glad my baby is all right and Karn is okay and we’re all together. I only wish…” She trailed off, biting her lip.
“Wish what, hon?” Liv asked gently. “Go on, you can tell me.”
“I only wish I could have that bond with Karn—the soul-bond you were talking about,” Lilli admitted. “It sounds so wonderful. Can’t a Hybrid ever bond?” she asked Liv wistfully.
“Well, you know what, I actually know several that have,” Liv said thoughtfully. “It’s usually impossible but sometimes the Goddess intervenes and it happens.”
Lilli felt her heart jump and she heard a little voice in her head murmur, “Do not be afraid to attempt the impossible.”
“I see,” she said, nodding. “Thank you, Liv—you’re a wonderful doctor.” She ducked her head shyly. “And an even better friend.”
“We are going to be friends,” Liv said, grinning at her. “As soon as you get some rest and feel up to it, I’m going to introduce you to a group of girls you’re just going to love.”
“A whole group?” Lilli asked uncertainly.
“Well, sure.” Liv looked at her anxiously. “Why, does that upset you?”
Lilli bit her lip.
“It’s just I, uh, had a group of girls that were supposed to be my friends on Yonnie Six—but really they were just the daughters of my mother’s friends. And they were awful. That’s how Karn and I got caught—one of them made a vid of us, uh, being intimate and sent it to my mother.”
“How awful!” Liv exclaimed indignantly. “I promise you, Lilli, that friendship is nothing like that here on the Mother Ship. We love and support each other and if anybody has a problem, they talk it out.”
“Okay, well…thank you, then. I’d love to meet your friends,” Lilli said, smiling. “They sound more like the group of girls I grew up with at the convent than the ones I knew on Yonnie Six.”
“You’re going to love them,” Liv promised her. “My best friend, Kat, is going to want to throw you a baby shower and my cousin, Lauren, is going to want to make the cake and give you all kinds of cupcakes—anything your pregnant cravings can dream up, she can make. And my twin sister, Sophie, is going to be thrilled to meet you too. And there are so many, many more—even another Mistress from Yonnie Six, Neh’sa—but she’s really nice, don’t worry. She and her man didn’t like it there, either—that’s why they ended up here.”
By the time they finished talking, Lilli’s head was spinning. Liv sent her away from the Med Center with strict instructions to rest and said that she would want to see her every other day, to chart the course of the quick-grow pregnancy.
“Normally I’d only want to see you a couple of times a month and then once a week when you got close to delivery,” she told Lilli. “But this is unprecedented—the baby’s growing so quickly I’ll need to check on him more often.”
Lilli was happy to promise to come back soon. She really liked Liv and was excited and a little nervous to meet the other women she’d talked about. Maybe here on the Mother Ship, she could finally have the kind of life she’d dreamed of—a nice, normal life with supportive, caring friends and a mate she truly loved.
There was only one thing missing. But maybe, just maybe she could have that too.
“Do not be afraid to attempt the impossible…” The voice of the Goddess rang in her head.
Lilli was through being afraid—she was ready to reach for what she wanted. And what she wanted was Karn—completely.
She just hoped she could have him.
Fifty
The suite Karn brought her to was charming. It was furnished with oversized furniture, obviously meant to hold a huge male of his size, and it had a cozy little living area with a fireplace, as well as a lovely deep bathing pool to relax in. Yet, he seemed anxious about it as he showed her around.
“I know there’s no anti-grav pool or flo’jamon courts,” he rumbled, as Lilli looked around. “And no servants to cook and clean for you—”
“I don’t need any of that,” Lilli interrupted him. “We didn’t have any of that at the convent, you know. We did all the chores ourselves and we certainly never had any fancy amenities.”
“But at your mother’s house—” he began.
“Is my mother,” Lilli finished for him. “And all the gold and jewels and fancy tech and servants in the world couldn’t make living with her bearable.” She blinked, trying to hold back the tears that suddenly threatened. “She was awful, Karn!”
“I know she was baby,” he rumbled, drawing her close and rubbing her shoulders and back soothingly with his big, warm hands. “But you don’t ever have to see her again. We’re together now and she can’t hurt you.”
“Or you. Or our son.” Lilli put a hand protectively over her belly.
“Gods, I still can’t believe I got you pregnant.” Karn shook his head wonderingly. “That’s supposed to be impossible without a bond. It must have been those crazy quick-grow hormone shots your mother gave you. It’s the only way I can think it could have happened.”
“Oh?” Lilli tilted her head and gave him a mischievous look. “I can think of a way it happened—maybe you filling me with your shaft and your seed over and over and over again for the past week?”
His mismatched eyes were suddenly half-lidded.
“Well, yeah, that too,” he growled softly. Leaning down, he cupped her face in his hands gently and took her mouth in a long, hot kiss.
As their lips met, the tingling need came back in full force. Lilli nearly gasped with the sudden desire, which reminded her of how she had felt on their journey to Opulex. It was like her body was hungry for his cream—hungry to be plowed and planted by his seed yet again.
“Karn,” she begged, the moment the kiss broke “Make love to me, right now! No, don’t just make love to me—fuck me.”
He gave her that charming, lopsided grin of his—the one that showed only one fang.
“We’re barely alone for a minute and you’re already asking for sex? I thought Dr. Olivia told you to rest.”
“She did,” Lilli admitted breathlessly. “But I can’t seem to help it—I need to have you in me. I…I think I’m still feeling the effects of those awful hormone shots.”
He raised an eyebrow at her.
“Is it the tingling again, baby?”
Liv nodded.
“It is. And it’s making me feel crazy.”
She went to the bed and lay on her back. Lifting her top to show her naked breasts and taking off her panties, she spread her legs to offer him her open pussy.
“Please, Karn,” she whispered. “Fuck me—fuck me hard.”
His mismatched eyes went half-lidded and a low growl of desire rose in his throat.
“I’d love to, but what about the baby?”
“He’s safe,” Lilli promised him. “I asked Liv about it and she said we could, er, do what we wanted.”
Her cheeks got hot at the admission. It was one of the last questions she’d asked her new friend before leaving the Med Center and it hadn’t been easy to ask, but she’d had to know. Now she was happy to report that it was safe to do exactly what she wanted with her man.
“Well, as long as the doctor says it’s okay…as my lady wishes,” he rumbled, coming to stand between her thighs. “But first, I need to taste you again.”
He dropped to his knees between her legs and looked up at her.
“Is this okay, baby? I want to check you out and be sure that damn metal phallus at the conception center didn’t hurt you.”
“It didn’t.” Lilli bit her lip. “It felt awful inside me, but it didn’t wound me any—though I think
it might have if you hadn’t, uh, stretched me out some before I went there.”
“It made me crazy to see you so upset on the other side of that plastiglass barrier and not be able to get to you,” Karn said hoarsely. Leaning forward, he rubbed his cheek gently over her bare mound. “Sweet baby,” he murmured. “Just want to heal you and make you feel good.”
“Oh, Karn…” Some of her desire melted into tenderness and she reached down to stroke her fingers through his long, thick hair. “I love you,” she whispered. “Thank you for being so sweet to me.”
“Of course, baby.” Gently, he kissed the apex of her mound and then ran just the tip of his tongue tenderly down her slit.
Lilli moaned and arched her hips as her desire flared again.
“Karn…” she whispered, tugging at his hair. “Please…”
He gave her a wolfish grin.
“Can’t wait for me to spread your hot little pussy with my tongue again, little Mistress?”
“You don’t have to call me that anymore, you know,” Lilli pointed out breathlessly as he opened her outer pussy lips with his thumbs and kissed her aching clit.
“I know I don’t,” he rumbled, grinning up at her as she writhed in pleasure. “But maybe I want to, sometimes. I fell in love with you from the first minute you bought me, you know. I don’t want to forget that part of our time together.”
Lilli started to answer but at that moment, he started to lap her pussy. With long, slow strokes that started at the mouth of her channel, he bathed her inner folds with his tongue, tasting her juices and teasing the ripe bud of her clit until she thought she might go crazy.
“Oh, Karn…Karn!” she moaned, arching her back to ride his face. “Oh yes, please—that feels so good.”
“Feels good for me, too, baby. Gods, I love to lick your pussy,” he growled and went back to lapping and sucking her clit until Lilli thought she was going to explode with pleasure. She could feel her orgasm hovering just over the horizon, like a thunderstorm threatening to break. If the big Kindred would just keep licking…
Karn did. He seemed to know exactly which spots to concentrate on and once he’d found the right place, he kept licking steadily, never varying the speed until Lilli’s hips were bucking in a regular rhythm and her breath was coming fast and short.
“Karn!” she moaned, gripping his hair even harder and grinding against his tongue. “Oh yes, there! Right there!”
The thunderstorm broke and a hot rain of pleasure overwhelmed her. It felt so good—so right—and yet Lilli still needed more.
“In me!” she begged, tugging at his long hair as the pleasure of her first orgasm at last began to fade. “Please, Karn, I need you in me!”
He got on the bed with her and pulled Lilli into his lap so that she was straddling the long thick shaft of his cock. His mouth was still shiny with her juices and his eyes were blazing.
“Is this how you want it, baby?” he growled. “Face to face?”
“Yes.” Lilli nodded eagerly. “Face to face. And… and I want it really deep—just how it was in the ship on the way to Opulex. I…I want your mating fist inside me again. I really liked that,” she admitted, feeling her cheeks get hot again with a blush.
“That wasn’t supposed to happen,” he told her but he was already fitting the head of his cock to her wet pussy mouth once more. “It was dangerously close to bonding, you know, baby.”
“I thought you couldn’t bond me to you,” Lilli whispered and then moaned softly in pleasure and relief as he filled her once more.
“I can’t. But I wanted to try—my body sure as hell did, anyway,” he growled, seating himself to the hilt inside her—all but his mating fist, Lilli noticed with disappointment.
“Deeper,” she begged, wiggling against him. “I want to feel you all the way in me again, Karn! In fact, I want you to pretend like you’re bonding me—like your breeding me and trying to get me pregnant,” she told him.
He frowned down at her.
“You want me to pretend like I’m planting a baby in your belly? But I already did that.”
“Do it again!” Lilli moaned eagerly. Goddess, just the thought of how he had made her pregnant made her pussy clench all around his shaft with need! She had never wanted a baby before this, but now the idea of the big Kindred planting one inside her turned her on so much she could barely breathe!
“Please, Karn,” she begged raggedly. “Put yourself all the way inside me and come deep in my womb!”
A low growl of desire rose in his throat and he thrust forward. Lilli moaned as she felt his thick shaft fill her completely and his mating fist slip into her unresisting pussy. Goddess, it felt good—felt right to have him so deep inside her!
“Karn!” she moaned and leaned forward to put her neck directly against his mouth. She could feel the sharp points of his fangs as he kissed her there—they skated dangerously over her skin but never quite drew blood.
“Gods, baby,” he groaned, as he thrust inside her. “You feel so good wrapped all around me. Love to feel your soft little pussy clenching around my shaft!”
“Come inside me,” Lilli begged breathlessly. “I want to feel you shooting in me, Karn. And…and bite me while you do.”
He pulled back, frowning.
“Baby, if I bite you, my body will think I’m trying to bond you to me and we might end up with a failed bonding. That hurts—hurts a hell of a lot.”
“But it might work,” Lilli pleaded. “After all, you weren’t supposed to be able to get me pregnant but you did that! Please, Karn, can’t you just try to bond me to you? If it doesn’t work this time, I promise I’ll never ask again but please? Can’t you just try?”
“Gods, baby,” he growled. “Almost from the first minute I saw you, all I wanted to do was sink both my shaft and my fangs in you at the same time.”
“Really?” Lilli looked at him with wide eyes. “You’ve wanted to bond me to you before this?”
“Hell yes,” he growled. “I’ve been fighting the urge for days.” He sighed. “I shouldn’t but if you’re really not afraid…?”
“I’m not,” Lilli said eagerly. “Please, Karn—let’s just try.”
“As you wish, little Mistress,” he murmured. “All right then, spread your legs wide and let me get really deep into you—then bare your throat for my fangs.”
A shiver of pure desire ran through Lilli. She did as he said, opening her thighs even wider as she felt his thickness stretching and filling her. At the same time, she pulled her long blonde hair out of the way and pressed the side of her throat to his mouth once more.
“Bite me, Karn,” she whispered. “Bite me and bond me and make me yours forever.”
Her words seemed to have an electric effect on the big Kindred. With a low growl, he sank his razor-sharp fangs deep in the vulnerable side of her throat.
Lilli gasped as a short, sharp pain went through her. Then the pain turned abruptly to pleasure—a pleasure so deep it made her earlier orgasm look like dipping your toes in the ocean as opposed to being drawn in and drowned by it.
With a low moan, she began to come, her inner muscles squeezing around the thick shaft buried deep inside her. And as her pussy clenched around the big Kindred’s cock, she felt the now-familiar sensation of his cream shooting deep inside her, filling her completely, making her his forever…
“Yes, you are mine forever—and I’m yours, baby,” a deep, familiar voice growled in her head.
If Liv hadn’t told her this was a side effect of bonding with a Kindred, Lilli probably would have screamed. As it was, she simply moaned and sent back a message of her own.
“It worked!”
“Yes, it worked.” Karn pulled her even closer. Withdrawing his fangs from her throat, he looked down into her eyes. “You’re mine now, baby,” he growled softly. “Mine forever and I’m never letting you go.”
Then he thrust into her once more, filling her with himself and sealing their love as they continued to cla
im each other over and over again.
Lilli hung on tight and reveled in the new bond she felt—the deep, wonderful closeness that told her their two souls were entwined.
Thank you, Goddess, she prayed as her heart overflowed with joy. Oh, thank you so much! You’re so good to me!
She had a whole new life now—away from her controlling, hypercritical mother. A life with a mate who loved her and new friends and a baby on the way.
And all because Karn had insisted on…Protecting his Mistress.
Epilogue
“So how is the baby?” Karn was hanging anxiously over Liv’s shoulder, watching on the monitor as she waved the wand over Lilli’s lower belly again. “We didn’t er, hurt him, did we?” he asked in a low voice.
“No…” Liv was frowning. “You didn’t hurt him,” she said, reassuring them when Lilli and Karn exchanged anxious looks. “But, well…this is strange.”
“What’s strange?” Lilli asked quickly.
“Well, it’s just…I’m reading two heartbeats, here.” Liv shook her head. “I could swear there was only one little guy in there yesterday. But now there seem to be two.”
“Twins?” Lilli gasped and Karn growled, “A double blessing!”
“Let me just get Sylvan to double check this,” Liv said. “Oh, Sylvan?” She poked her head out of the exam room. “Would you mind coming in here for a moment?”
“Of course. Karn, it’s good to see you again.” Sylvan offered Karn a warrior’s clasp. “And this must be your lovely mate, Lilli.”
“Mate in every sense of the word,” Karn informed him proudly. “We’re bonded now, though I always thought it would be impossible.”
Sylvan’s eyebrows raised almost to his hairline.
“Truly, you are blessed by the Goddess!”
“Possibly doubly blessed,” Liv told him. “That’s what I want you to check—do you see two heartbeats in there, Sylvan?”
Sylvan took the wand and waved it over Lilli’s belly as he studied the monitor for himself. After a moment, he nodded.
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