The Vori's Secret
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His body shuddered and he closed his eyes as a great pleasure suffused his expression. When he opened his eyes, they were full of wonder.
“I never thought I would ever hear those words. Coming from your lips makes them all the sweeter. I thank the Mother for you.”
“If she brought you to me, then I thank her many times over again for you. I can’t imagine my life without you in it. I experienced it for a short time and can never again go back to that.”
His lips brushed her forehead.
“Let’s begin then.”
Picking up a basket of flowers he made his way to a carved image of the Mother, the likeness of which she recognized from the nests of the matriarch and Reggie. With whispered prayers, he threw handfuls of crushed blooms upon the surface. She didn’t catch every word he spoke but heard enough to know that he prayed for their life together and the family that they’d be together.
She scattered flowers over the surface of the altar. She had no words, but her mind and heart focused on every beautiful thing that they’d been given and her hope for many years ahead filled with such moments together. The only words she could find to say were, “Thank you.”
Eyuul turned her toward him and she met his eyes trustingly as he leaned her back into the cushions. His lips caressed her before they began to wander over her body with reverence.
Pressing his lips to her breast, he murmured against her skin, “Would you prefer I mark over your scars, or choose a new spot?”
Her heart fluttered, aware of what he asked. The bite. She’d had the month to get used to the idea and it no longer made her freeze in terror to think about. Jenn licked her lips. She’d already knew her decision on this matter.
“Choose a new place. I don’t want him being a part of us and our mating. Claim me like I’ve never been claimed.”
She felt Eyuul’s smile against her flesh and then he moved away, his lips seeking but never settling long on a place as he worked her to a fever pitch. Her body felt strung tighter than a bow when his lips finally made their way down and tugged upon her clit as he licked along the length of her sex repeatedly.
The stroke of his tongue sent an inferno surging through her veins and her belly tightened with her orgasm. Jenn gasped out his name on the edge of the precipice and he sucked her clit into his mouth, sending her crashing through rising walls of pleasure, her being breaking up until she was left with nothing but fragments of thought as she rode her pleasure.
She was aware of the warmth of his mouth against her inner thigh but didn’t register his intent until his fang sank deep. The heat of his mating venom struck her bloodstream, rolling orgasm after orgasm over her in what felt like an unending riptide that didn’t abate until Eyuul pulled his mouth away. He kissed his mark lovingly as she came down from the heights of ecstasy. Her heart still felt like it was about to leap from her chest as she lay there gasping beneath him.
He nuzzled her cheek with his nose, eliciting a smile from her. “You are well, mate?”
“Yes, that was... beyond words. I have never felt anything like that before.” Her brow furrowed. “That was all... we are mated now?”
“Yes, we are mated now. Typically, it also involves a sexual joining to solidify the mating bond, but I didn’t want to rush you into that when you likely needed time to recover from the bite.”
“Oh, thank you. That is very thoughtful.”
With a twist of her hips and a very cooperative male who moved with her cue, she settled on top of Eyuul and smiled down at him. “Now, I think I am going to romp all over this beautiful body for a while.”
“I am yours for however long you will have me.”
“Does forever sound acceptable?”
“Too short,” he groaned as she traced her tongue over his abs. “I don’t think even the gods can devise a period long enough to spend with you.”
With a surge, his lips captured her own and Jenn silently agreed with Eyuul’s assessment. She would treasure each day, but not even forever would be long enough for their love, much less the pittance of time they would spend in the land of the living.
Sometime later, as they lay together amid the soft pile of cushions, Jenn rested her head against his chest, listening to the twin beat of his hearts and smiled.
Author’s Note
Thank you so much for joining me for Eyuul and Jenn’s story. Over the last few publications a lot of folks were asking when we were going to get back to finding out what happened on Agraadax, and for Eyuul’s story in particular. I hope that their love story did not in any way disappoint!
The next one for the series, which I am hoping to release in either November or December, The Heart of the Agraak, will bring the reader to the events on Agraadax and reintroduced some characters that we glimpsed in The Vori’s Secret. Expect to see the crew under the command of Vish and the Arobi return. Eventually I hope that Vish will get his own story. His character drew me in quite strongly as I was writing him and I would love to give him his own happy ever after at some point.
In the meantime, there is a seasonal novella coming out for Halloween. Look for the preorder of A Mate for Oigr. When a lonely member of Lady’s Fortune discovers his mate in a human witch, it is asking for a bit of seasonal magic to bring their hearts together.
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S.J. Sanders