by Ravyn Wilde
“Arghhh.” Raj could barely breathe. His body thrummed and pulsed with ecstasy as Nika’s hot mouth worked up and down over his cock under the water. She didn’t stop to take a breath and he was ready to come unglued within her sweet heat. He tried to pull her head up but she shook him off and growled around his flesh. The sound rippling around him combined with a spiking tremor she sent through their shared link and he threw up his hands to grip the sides of the pool, leveraging his hips to allow him to pump his cock through her lips.
The hot fever built within him to a volcanic pitch. He cried out as he felt his body tense and his seed burst from his body and into Nika’s mouth. She continued to ride his cock through his release and then rose before him with a smile. He struggled to get his breathing and wildly beating heart under control as he pulled her onto his lap and held her close to him.
“Goddess, Nika. That was incredible.” He thought of what she had done to him with the water and smiled. Glancing over her head at a corner of the pool behind Nika’s back, he concentrated for a minon. It didn’t surprise him to realize he could make her abilities work to his own advantage.
“Nika, love,” he whispered softly in her ear. “Remember I told you that when we were linked we would probably be able to share some abilities with each other?”
Nika nuzzled his neck and nodded.
“Well, it appears at least some of your water abilities have been shared with me,” he murmured against the soft skin of her neck.
“What are you talking about, Raj?” she asked sleepily.
“Let me show you, love.” He turned Nika on his lap to lay her back against his chest. Her head rested on his shoulder while he positioned her legs, open and draped over each of his thighs. She groaned in pleasure as he skimmed his palms slowly down her body, using one hand to capture and play with her breasts through the damp fabric covering her nipples, while the other hand dipped to swirl first in her navel and then down to comb through the curls covering her mound. Here the fabric was in his way. With a couple of quick tugs at the sides, he disposed of the barrier.
The hand at her breast cupped her weight as his thumb stroked over her nipple, causing it to bud and grow against him. The feel of his fingers mingled in and around the rasp of cloth that provided no impediment to him. The fingers in the slick heat between her thighs traced along each plump nether lip and played with her budded clit.
“Oh, that feels so good,” she cried as he slowly, relentlessly pleased himself with the responsiveness of her body. He wanted to build her passion slowly, get her to a point where she demanded more from him, where she begged him to fill her. So while he teased and stroked, he kept the links’ vibration to a slight hum, intending this to last.
Nika relaxed against her mate, her body boneless. She felt cherished and loved as his hands gently massaged and skimmed along her pleasure points. She enjoyed the soft slide into arousal, enjoyed feeling her nipples tighten and push against his fingers and her pussy lightly clench against his petting fingers. It was so…lovely. He wasn’t in any hurry to bring her to climax and she enjoyed the sensations of his hands moving over her. For several minons, it was just right.
All at once it wasn’t enough for her. Nika could feel her pulse speed up, feel her body tighten and yearn for more. She started to move against his hands, wanting him to tug on her nipples harder, rub her clit faster. “Please…” she sighed.
“Please?” Raj teased her by slipping one finger into her water-slick channel and then pulling out to rub over her tight little bud. Tempting her.
“Please. More. Harder. Faster,” she groaned.
“Ummm. Glad to,” he whispered into her ear as he bent to pull her earlobe into his mouth and suck. With his hand inserted under the top of her bikini, he pinched his fingers together over her nipple and pulled, rolling it in tune to her gasps. “Look between your legs, Nika,” he demanded softly.
“What?” she questioned dazedly.
“Look down between your legs,” he repeated. Raj worked to use the water as he’d just learned to do from his mate through their link. He fashioned a pulsing stream of water to resemble a cock. “I am not sure I can make this work the first time, I may have to use you for experimentation,” he said, chuckling.
Tilting her head to the side, she frowned at her mate and looked down between her legs. Sitting on Raj’s lap in water up to her waist with her thighs spread wide, between her legs she could see a sturdy shaft of water poised at her vagina. It was made the same way she’d fashioned the tornado to cover Raj. She gasped and moaned as he mentally manipulated the water to push against her. She could feel it vibrate as it seeped slowly into her channel and surged to fill her completely. Rolling her hips to meet the thrusts Raj timed to the pull at her nipples. “Yesss…” she moaned as he added the pounding throb of the links within her.
Raj kept his fingers rubbing over her clit and pulling at her nipples while he fucked her with the water cock. Nika had milked him with her hot mouth and it had taken him a bit to recover, but he was quickly growing against the sliding movement of her ass as he pleasured her.
“Arghhh…please, Raj… Harder. I need more.” Nika felt as if her heart would explode if she didn’t get more. The sensation of Raj’s fingers and the water cock kept her right on the edge of an orgasm but it wasn’t enough to send her screaming over the edge. The damn water just wasn’t hard enough. “Please Raj, I need you…” she cried again and wept in gratitude when he raised up her hips and slid her down over his thick, fully engorged cock. “Yesss…” she hissed. “Yes. Yes. Yes!”
Her muscles tightened around him and her body reacted, immediately thrown into the first spasms of orgasm. Raj’s hands held her still as she pulsed around him. Kept her motionless as he shifted underneath her and flexed…began to plunge his thick girth in and out of her. He increased the tempo and power of his penetrations and she moaned in concert with every deep plunge of his cock invading her core.
Digging up and into her, Raj threw his head back, the muscles in his neck constricting as he roared in ecstasy, and filled her with a powerful spurt of hot seed.
Her cries followed, and they collapsed together.
Raj decided he definitely liked the bubbles.
Nika rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at Raj’s back. He had definitely gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Raj’s pronouncements and demands started the minon they woke up and continued nonstop.
She wasn’t to be involved in any of this moons risings’ activity.
She wouldn’t participate in the rescue.
She wouldn’t be allowed to help recover the papers.
She wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the fortress or Brac or the women.
It didn’t matter to him if Tar and Mica couldn’t control their mates, he would not allow his mate to put herself in any danger.
Nika felt her eyes crossing. She watched Raj pace from one side of the room to the other and dictate to her what she couldn’t do and how she would obey him. She remembered what Tala had said. “You just wait until you want to do something Raj doesn’t want you to do, then tell us again how he won’t use the links.” Well, he hadn’t used them to try and sway her thinking yet, he was just ranting. Remembering Nyssa’s assurance that she could use the links to make him see her side, she decided maybe she should beat him to it. It was worth a try.
After all, she’d used them a little last night, but only to increase his pleasure. Wondering if she could keep him immobilized like Nyssa explained she had done to Tar, she didn’t think she had the mental strength to control him for more than a few short minons. But she was going to have to try something soon. Her mate was not allowing her to make one comment and she couldn’t even start to explain how she felt about participating. Now he was talking about putting her in a room with armed guards. I don’t think so, she muttered to herself.
Nika thought about how the links felt in her body and mentally reached down through the physical chains to touch the psychi
c threads binding her to her mate. She could feel their two souls join together and she could also see her own pulsing red and blue aura as it mingled outside her body with Raj’s gold and green. Pushing thoughts down through both the links and the soul tendrils, she wound threads of her need for skin against skin and thrusting heat with remnants of Raj’s carnal urgings.
Raj fell silent in mid-rant. Nika looked at him and noticed he was standing there looking at her in confusion, his body showing the beginning signs of arousal—if the growing bulge between his thighs was any indication. She kept a surreptitious thrum of longing broadcasting through the links and worked out what she would do next. Raj had said they could share powers or use each other’s powers like he had learned from her to manipulate the water last night. She tried to figure out through the link she shared with him how she could…ahhh.
Raj shook his head. The mating heat was on him again and he didn’t have time for the distraction. He needed to make sure Nika understood she would be staying out of harm’s way in the nilts to come. They were supposed to be going to a planning meeting in a few minons and he wanted her to realize he would take no chances with her life. But the sensations pulsing over his skin felt sooo good he closed his eyes to enjoy them for just a little while and missed the sight of his mate moving around the room to pull a few things from his Hunter supplies.
He felt her hand glide over his chest and push against him, guiding him to their bed. “We don’t have time,” he started to protest, but a shooting spark of ecstasy hit his cock and he lost his train of thought as he fell backward onto the bed.
Nika poured sensual heat through the links and used Raj’s momentary preoccupation with the sensations to tie his hands and feet to the bed with Zmarian knots—knots she had learned while sailing in Zmar with her uncle and cousins. Fishermen’s knots that couldn’t be broken easily, especially when the rope she used was one of his Hunter ropes. She knew the ropes had been psychically strengthened to keep anyone from escaping their bonds. A momentary flash of him being tied just this way by the women of Jandai changed her plans and she decided tying his hands would be enough. For this incident, she would leave his clothes on as well, as she didn’t want him reliving that experience. She just wanted him to listen to her.
She stopped the links’ torment and crawled up to straddle his hips. “Raj, listen to me,” she said. He looked up at her with passion-glazed eyes and smiled wickedly.
“We are going to have to hurry, sweet. The others are waiting for us,” he said as he thrust his hips against her soft heat.
He didn’t appear to have any problems with being tied to the bed. Gasping, she fought to keep her thoughts on what she was trying to do. Moving forward on his stomach and off the hard ridge of his erection…helped. “Listen to me, Raj,” she demanded putting her hands on either side of his face and holding his gaze with her own. “I didn’t do this for your pleasure. However, I may want to tie you up later and repeat the position… I did this so you would shut up and listen to me!” she exclaimed. “I will not be kept here in the palace with an armed guard while you and everyone else go to rescue those women. I promise I will be careful, but I will be included. This is very important to me and I will not be left behind.”
Raj frowned and worked to get his throbbing body under control. He realized now that she’d used the links to distract him so she could make him listen to her. He winced as he realized he probably hadn’t heard anything she said earlier while he was listing his demands. “But, Nika, I can’t take the risk of Brac getting his hands on you again. He could grab you and try and make a run for it, or if there is fighting you could be hurt,” he said earnestly.
“I know, Raj, and I don’t want to give him a chance to get near me again. But those women will need me. I alone know what they have gone through and some of them might recognize me and allow me to help them. If you and Tar and Mica go thundering to the rescue, the captive women will only run or try to hurt themselves…or you. They will not be expecting any man to be coming to help. They have developed an abject terror of men and I am not going to back down on this, love. Those women will be scared and I need to be there to help in any way I can.”
Raj, where are you? We are all waiting for you in Tar’s chambers.
Raj sighed and sent a quick message to his brother. Give me a few minons…I am a little tied up right now. With the silence came the knowledge that his very psychically powerful brother had used those powers to see into his room.
Mica, he growled in embarrassment.
His brother laughed in his mind and replied, Whatever she wants just give in to her now. Somehow, the three of us ended up with women who have a fascination for tying us up to get their way. Believe me, little brother, both Tar and I have been there and there is no use fighting them. We will expect you soon.
Mica’s laughter echoed in his mind as he looked up at his mate.
“Raj, what are you doing? Are you listening to me?”
“Yes, but I was also talking to my obnoxious brother. He assures me I should just give in to your demands because I will end up doing it anyway.”
“You can talk to Mica in your mind?” she asked.
“Well, yeah. I can—” —talk to you in my mind, love. Our link bond mentally ties the two of us and Mica and I are tied by birth. I think Mica is powerful enough he can talk to anyone.
Oh, Raj this is so cool. While we are in the fortress tonight rescuing the women and capturing Brac, Mica can help us keep tabs on each other.
Raj mumbled his displeasure. “All right. Let me up and let’s go see what kind of danger I can put my mate in. This makes no sense, Nika.”
She just grinned and leaned over to untie him, able to be very understanding of his mood, as she had won this argument. Her position put her breast next to Raj’s mouth and he took the offered treat and pulled through the fabric of her gown and bit her nipple. “Ah…would you be willing to try these ropes later?” she sighed.
“Oh, yeah!” he answered. “As long as I get a turn to tie you up as well.”
She shuddered as she thought about being tied and at Raj’s mercy. “Sure, ummm, that would be great,” she gasped as his hands grabbed her and he swept her underneath him for a passionate kiss. We really need to join the others.
“I know, I was just giving you a taste of what you can expect later,” he replied as he moved off her and escorted her from the room.
Chapter Twelve
After a heated discussion, it was decided the women would participate in the raid on Brac’s fortress. There were three objectives in the assault this evening. They needed to release the women in the caverns and the women at the glindash, capture Brac and any men present to bid on the women, and recover Brac’s papers which, hopefully, would lead them to other women who’d been previously sold by Brac.
Nyssa, Tala and Nika would not allow their mates to relegate the three of them to paper collection. They made the point loud and clear that they would divide up and be a part of each team. A point their mates finally and reluctantly conceded.
Mica and Tar hid in the dark outside the fortress with Nyssa. Before they left the ruling place, Nika remembered that at the one auction she’d been forced to attend, the men dressed in dark hooded robes—probably to keep their identities hidden. Mica and Tar hoped they would be able intercept three of the invited members to the glindash, turn the men over to waiting members of the palace guard for further questioning, and arrive at the last minon with invitation in hand and no time for Brac to discover they weren’t who they were supposed to be.
This part of the plan held the most danger and Tar was furious with himself for not being able to prevent Nyssa’s participation. Several setnons pregnant with their first child, he was crazy with the need to keep her out of the coming battle but she refused to listen to reason. Sighing long and loudly, he knew from experience if he tried to force her away from this, she would somehow show up anyway. The best he could manage was to keep her close by his side so
he could protect her.
“Someone’s coming,” Nyssa whispered excitedly.
“You will stay behind me and let Mica and me handle the situation,” Tar turned and threatened his mate in a low voice. He was not happy with Nyssa, again he told himself that he should have been stronger, his mate should be home where she was safe from any harm.
“But…”
“No, buts…you promised to obey every…”
“Tar, here is the robe. I’ve already fashioned one for myself, use this as the pattern for you and Nyssa,” Mica stated sarcastically. While Tar and Nyssa were arguing, Mica had surprised the man wearing the robe and turned him over to the waiting guards. Mica stood there dangling a robe from one hand and the invitation to the glindash in the other.
Tar wisely decided to step into the shadows with his mate and let Mica handle the next two men. With his mind, he crafted robes matching the one taken from the first man. Soon three men were on their way to the palace holding cells and they only needed to wait a few minons more before they presented themselves at the fortress. They wanted to be the last ones to arrive.
Raj, Nika and Tala watched with their contingents of guards as the three hooded figures made their way to the fortress doors. They held their breath as the group was escorted inside. Nothing happened. No cry of alarm, no door opening with Mica, Tar and Nyssa being thrown out to the street. Nothing.
We are in. Mica’s voice whispered through all three of their minds. The strongest psychically, the raiding parties decided that Tala and Raj would mind speak to the team through Mica. He alone could simultaneously project information to the rest of the team with little effort. They didn’t look at more than the invitation and we are being escorted down a long hall to a large chamber to the right of the entrance door. They have already started. Mica hesitated. There are two women at the front of the room.