“Hmm…I think I woke up the moment you reached between my legs and grasped my shaft,” he murmured. “I was startled at first but then I decided to wait and see what you were doing. And what you were doing was this.”
He made a little movement inside her—a slight thrust that made Vicky moan.
“I just…just wanted to see how it felt,” she protested weakly. “I…I’m sorry I didn’t ask first.”
“Oh, I’m not mad, sweetheart,” Chain assured her. “You can wake me up by slipping my shaft into your tight little pussy any time. So tell me, beautiful Victoria,” he went on in a low voice. “How does it feel?”
As he spoke, he thrust forward long and slow.
Vicky moaned breathlessly as she felt him finally bottom out inside her, his thick shaft at last filling her to the root.
“How does it feel to have me all…the way…inside you?” he growled in her ear again, grinding against her so that the head of his cock pressed hard against the end of her channel, giving the mouth of her womb a rough and luscious kiss.
“Oh God, Chain,” she panted. “It feels good. Really, really good.”
“Feels good to me too, sweetheart,” he murmured. “In fact, it feels so good I think we should keep it up.”
“Oh, I…I don’t know,” panted Vicky though to be honest she thought she would die if he stopped now.
“Hmm,” Chain hummed thoughtfully. “Well, I know we were going to take things slowly but maybe just one or two deep thrusts so your sweet little pussy can see how you like being filled with my shaft? Or I could just pull out if you’d rather not.”
As he spoke, his big hands came around to cup her breasts and tug at her tight nipples and his thickness pulled almost all the way out of her, as though teasing that he might leave completely.
“No, don’t do that,” moaned breathlessly. “I think…think just one or two thrusts should be okay. Just to see…see what it feels like.”
“As my Lady wishes,” he growled and then his thick shaft slid slowly into her again until he reached the bottom of her channel where he ground against her before pulling out once more and thrusting in again.
Vicky gasped and pushed back against him, helpless to resist the pleasure of being so deeply and completely penetrated. God, he felt good inside her—felt right—as though he belonged there. She knew they were only going to do a few thrusts but she hoped he wouldn’t stop too soon—she loved the feeling of being filled by him too much to ever want it to end.
Chain seemed to feel the same way because he kept thrusting deep inside her and as he did, he stroked and tugged and twisted her nipples and spoke into her ear, in that deep, growling voice of his.
“Gods, sweetheart, your pussy feels so good around my shaft,” he murmured in her ear. “Love how tight and wet you are—love to feel your sweet pussy sucking my cock—taking me deep inside you and opening up to let me fuck you so long and hard and deep…”
The hot words and the feeling of him thrusting deep inside her were almost too much for Vicky. Helpless to stop herself, she reached between her thighs and began to stroke her throbbing button again. Her pleasure built and built and she knew she was going to come soon—come hard with his thick shaft buried deep in her pussy.
Chain seemed to know what she was doing because he murmured to her, encouraging her actions as he continued thrusting inside her.
“Are you stroking that soft little pussy of yours while I fuck you, sweetheart?” he growled softly. “Are you teasing that hot little clit so you can come for me? Come all over my cock?”
“Oh God…Chain!” she gasped, writhing against him. “Oh God, yes…yes, I am. I can’t help it—I love feeling you inside me. I need…need to come.”
“Of course you do, my beautiful Victoria,” he murmured, still tugging at her nipples as he thrust inside her. “It’s all right—just make yourself feel good. Pet that pretty little pussy and make yourself come for me—come while I fill you.”
His words as much as his thick shaft inside her finally pushed Vicky over the edge. With a shuttering moan, she felt her orgasm hit her. Her pussy squeezed tight with pleasure, milking the hard shaft that impaled her as her back arched and her toes curled with sheer pleasure.
“Oh,” she cried, bucking against him uncontrollably. “Oh, Chain, yes! That feels so good—Yes!”
The orgasm seemed to last forever but at last her inner muscles stopped clenching quite so hard and she lay panting on her side with Chain still deep inside her.
After a moment, she realized that he wasn’t moving anymore. That in fact, he was holding perfectly still inside her, almost as though he was afraid to move.
“Chain?” she made his name a question and turned her head to see that his eyes were glowing like blue coals in the dimness of the bedroom. “What’s wrong?” she asked, frowning. “Are you all right?
“I’m fine—just…right on the edge.” His voice had the tense, strained quality of a man trying to lift something heavy or do some other task that was nearly impossible. “I’m trying…trying not to come in you because I know it will form a bond and I know you don’t want that. Not now, anyway,” he added.
Vicky bit her lip. A part of her—the strict, sensible, mature part—felt like they ought to wait to take such a lasting and permanent step. Felt that they ought to spend time dating and getting to know each other and all of that.
But another part—a stronger part—whispered that this felt right. That part told her that Chain was the one for her—the man who would love her and never leave or hurt her like her ex had. The man who wanted to be with her forever. And despite their age difference, he cared for her deeply—loved her. And she loved him, she realized—she really did.
The heart wants what the heart wants, she thought. And aloud, she said,
“Do it.”
“Do what?” Chain’s deep voice was still strained and his big body was rigid against hers.
“Do it,” Vicky said again, looking up into his eyes. “Come in me, Chain. Make me yours—bond me to you forever. If…that’s really what you want,” she added, a bit uncertainly.
“Gods, sweetheart—that’s all I want,” he growled softly in her ear. “To make you mine forever…to never let you go. Do you really mean it? You’ll let me bond you to me here and now—tonight?”
“Here and now,” Vicky agreed and to prove she meant it, she wiggled her hips and rocked back against him, fucking herself on his thickness as she had been before he woke up.
Chain gave a low groan and pulled almost all the way out of her before thrusting in again, filling her to the hilt.
“Hang on, sweetheart,” he growled in her ear. “Gonna fill you up with my cream in just a minute—going to come deep in your pussy and make you mine—make you my mate and my bride forever.”
And then he pressed deep inside her again and held still with the head of his cock kissing the mouth of her womb. Vicky felt his shaft grow even thicker and then he was pulsing inside her—hot spurts that bathed her inner pussy and soaked into her folds as though trying to find her inner core and make her his completely.
She moaned and found that she was coming again too—coming with the force of his orgasm as he bathed her inner pussy with his seed. Her channel milked him hungrily, clenching around his pulsing thickness as he emptied into her and Claimed her as his own forever.
“Yes, forever,” she heard Chain say—only he was speaking inside her head this time instead of using his voice.
Oh—that’s right—the bond makes a telepathic link, she thought with some surprise. She remembered hearing something about the link between a Kindred and his mate a long time ago, but she had dismissed it as being too fantastic to be true.
“It’s true, sweetheart—believe it,” Chain assured her. “That’s what it means to be bonded—to be so close to another person that they’re like a piece of your soul.”
“That’s beautiful,” Vicky sent back, testing out the bond for herself.
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sp; “You’re beautiful, my beautiful Victoria,” Chain murmured in her head. “You know, I never dreamed I’d be allowed to have a bride since I’m an M-Switch Kindred. I’m so glad I was wrong—so glad I found you and made you mine forever. I love you, sweetheart.”
“Oh, Chain—I love you, too,” Vicky told him. She found that now that they were bonded, all her doubts and fears had melted away like snow in the summer. This was right—beyond right, she suddenly understood. She and Chain were meant for each other and they were going to live the rest of their lives together, loving each other more every day.
And all because she had met a thief who came into the Last Call Bar on Valentine’s Day and he had ended up…Stealing her Heart.
Epilogue
“Well, I have some good news and some bad news, I’m afraid,” Sylvan told them as they all crowded into the room at the Med Center where Melinda and Jodi had been placed.
“What’s the bad news?” Jodi demanded at once, her dark, perfectly shaped eyebrows knitting together. Vorn, the big Beast Kindred, was still by her side—though neither of them seemed very happy about it, Vicky thought.
“No, tell the good news first,” Melli said, contradicting her older sister. “I like good news.” She and Liosh, the Blood Kindred, were holding hands and she smiled at him shyly as she spoke.
“All right, well…” Sylvan cleared his throat. “The good news, Victoria,” he said, turning towards Vicky, who was standing quietly with Chain’s arm around her, “Is that I have sent a cleaning and repair crew down to your domicile on Earth and I promise it will be as good as new within a week. The Varians did a lot of damage but everything precious to you with be restored and everything that can’t be fixed will be completely replaced.”
“A week, hmm?” Vicky frowned. “Thank you very much, Commander Sylvan—that’s good news.” She hesitated. “It’s just, well… I’m going to have to find someplace else to stay while it’s getting done. I’ve already missed way more school than I should—I’m going to be in danger of getting fired if I’m not careful.”
“Let them fire you, then,” Chain rumbled in her ear. “You should stay aboard the Mother Ship—we both should. Don’t they have schools here? You could still teach if you wanted to.”
“Chainor is correct,” Sylvan said. “He has told me what an excellent teacher you are and we are in need of a Dramatics instructor for our upper grade levels.”
For a moment Vicky was tempted. The teaching conditions at Woodrow Wilson High School had been going steadily downhill for decades. She honestly barely made enough to get by anymore and the administration didn’t support its teachers like they should.
“I’d love to take you up on your offer,” she said slowly. “But I can’t just leave my girls—especially after what happened with the Varians.” She raised an eyebrow inquisitively. “Did you ever get the, uh, weak spot in your defense system fixed? The one that let them get to Earth in the first place?”
Sylvan frowned. “Unfortunately, that is the bad news. We’re not sure how the Varians got through the security net we have placed around the Earth. I have a crew checking for weak spots but so far we’ve found nothing.” He sighed. “It looks like they might have found a way to circumvent our security system completely—maybe by some new technology we’ve never heard of before. So I have another crew examining the two ships they left behind on Earth, but again—so far, we have no answers.”
“So what does that mean for us?” Jodi demanded.
“Yes, what does it mean?” Melli’s big blue eyes were filled with fear. “What if those lizard aliens come back?”
“And don’t say we should stay here on the Mother Ship,” Jodi went on, her green eyes flashing. “I’m in grad school and I’ve already missed more than I should. I need to get back down to Earth.”
“As to that, please don’t worry,” Sylvan said smoothly. “I have anticipated your needs, which is why I am assigning a personal guard to each of you. A Kindred warrior who will live, eat, and sleep beside you at all times, guarding your life with his own until we have this situation resolved.”
“Really? Who…who are you sending?” Melli cut her eyes shyly to the left to look at Liosh, who was still holding her hand firmly in his.
“I am coming with you, my Lady Melinda,” he said, smiling at her. “I will guard you with my life—I swear it.”
“And I’m going with Josephine,” Vorn said shortly.
“What?” Jodi exclaimed, looking at the big Beast Kindred incredulously. “Look, I appreciate your offer of a bodyguard, Commander Sylvan, but I can’t accept. I mean, I have a fiancé back on Earth and he would not be happy if I brought home a seven-foot-tall Wookie to sleep on the living room couch!”
“I don’t know what a “Wookie” is but I’m assuming it’s not a compliment,” Vorn growled. “And don’t worry—I’m going with you to guard you—not interfere in your relationship in any way.”
“Well, I don’t like it!” Jodi said obstinately.
“You don’t have to fucking like it,” Vorn growled. “But you do have to deal with it. Pardon my language, Commander Sylvan,” he added, nodding at Sylvan.
“You’re excused, Warrior,” Sylvan said dryly. Turning to Jodi he said, “I’m afraid this is non-negotiable. Please don’t worry that the warrior assigned to you will be in your way or a drain on your resources. Vorn and Liosh both have their own monetary resources and strict orders to operate in the background—you won’t even know they’re there. They will get their own meals and be as unobtrusive as possible.”
“But he’s still going to be sleeping on my couch, right?” Jodi demanded, glaring up at Vorn.
“I can sleep outside your door, if you don’t want to let me in,” he growled, glaring right back. “But I’ll have to check and make sure any back entrances to your domicile are secure first.”
“Jodi,” Vicky began, looking anxiously at her oldest daughter. “Commander Sylvan is trying to help you here.” Her oldest daughter could be so stubborn sometimes! It was one of the reasons Jodi was so successful at just about anything she turned her hand to, but it was also a pain in the neck at times.
“I know that.” Jodi sighed and ran a hand through her long, dark hair. “It’s just…what will James say, Mom?”
James, being her fiancé, of course. Vicky worked hard to keep her face blank at the mention of her future son-in-law. It wasn’t that she didn’t like him exactly—he came from a very wealthy family and could be incredibly charming when he wanted to be. But she had the feeling that he undervalued her daughter and Jodi was always trying to “keep up” with him and his upper-class family.
He also thought that the Masters degree in sexual psychology Jodi was getting was a joke. He was getting a Ph.D in Astrophysics himself and he seemed to think that only the “hard” sciences had any merit. So he was always teasing Jodi about her desire to be a therapist, as though helping people who were hurting was of lesser value than doing something that brought fame or money or recognition.
It was Melli who answered her sister’s question, much to Vicky’s relief.
“James had better not say anything unless he thinks he’s up to killing one of those lizard guys if they come back and try to get you,” she told her sister sharply. “I mean, he’s a nice guy and all, Jodi, but he’s skinny as a whip and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know any hand-to-hand combat or how to shoot a space gun or anything else like that.”
“Our weapon of choice is a blaster,” Liosh corrected her, with a small smile. “But it does take some skill to use it correctly. Maybe Vorn could give your sister’s fiancé lessons?”
“He’d be better off giving Jodi lessons herself,” Melli said honestly. “James is just going to think this whole thing is a big joke. He never takes anyone but himself seriously.”
Which pretty much summed up her future son-in-law in a nutshell, Vicky thought.
“What about you, my Lady Melinda?” Liosh asked, looking at her with those pale blu
e eyes all Blood Kindred seemed to have. “Do you also have a future mate who might be upset by my presence?”
“Oh, no…” Melli blushed a pretty pink and looked down at her hands. “I, um, I’m not dating anyone at the moment.”
“Try not dating anyone ever,” Jodi said. “Sorry, Melli, but you know it’s true,” she added, looking at her little sister. “I don’t know why you don’t put yourself out there more—you’re really pretty, you know.”
“She is beautiful,” Liosh agreed softly.
“Thank you.” She smiled at him again and then looked away in confusion.
Vicky frowned as she considered her younger daughter. It was a question she had asked herself more than once—why didn’t Melli ever date anyone?
She used to date, right up until her Junior Prom, whispered a foreboding little voice in Vicky’s head. But after that, she never accepted another invitation to go out with a boy ever again.
Of course, Vicky had asked her daughter if something had happened to her and of course Melli had denied it.
“I just haven’t found the right guy for me, Mom,” she always said. “And right now I want to concentrate on school.”
But she had been concentrating on school for the past three and a half years and Vicky was beginning to get worried. Why did her younger daughter never date?
I hope someday she’ll be willing to tell me, she thought, her heart aching at the idea that her daughter had a secret she felt she couldn’t reveal—even to her mother. I hope whatever is keeping her from finding someone to love her can be fixed or healed.
She just wished Melli would let her be part of the healing process. But her daughter was an adult now and she couldn’t butt in and demand answers. She had to let Melli—and Jodi—live their own lives.
And right now, it looked like both her daughters’ lives were about to get much more complicated.
“Will you accept the guards I’m assigning you?” Sylvan asked, looking at both Melli and Jodi. “If not, I’m afraid I can’t be responsible for anything that might happen to you once you leave the safety of the Mother Ship.”
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