Daughters of Lyra: Heart of a Mercenary

by Felicity Heaton

  His eyes narrowed on her, holding such heat that her body flushed and her hair threatened to rise again. She twirled it and tied it in knot to stop it.

  He leaned towards her and she was captivated as his lips parted, entranced by their beautiful shape and the sight of his sharp teeth. Thoughts of what he could do to her with that mouth made her heart flutter and her blood boil with desire.

  She licked her lips.

  He edged closer, his movements achingly slow. She looked down at his hands, yearning to feel them on her, and then back into his eyes.

  He whispered one word that made any shred of reserve she had disappear.

  “Dominance.”

  Her lips parted and her breath left her in a sigh. He kept moving towards her and she leaned back to counter his move.

  “Strength.”

  Her back hit the bed and she stared up at him as he moved between her legs.

  “Danger.”

  Her heart beat hard against her chest.

  Her breathing quickened.

  Perhaps he was right, when he put it like that. She lay beneath him, willing him, waiting for him to make a move. Her throat felt too tight to breathe. Her heart felt as though it would explode if he didn’t touch her soon.

  With a smile that revealed his teeth, his gaze left hers and drifted down to her flight suit. She watched his face at first and then her eyes fell to half-mast when he slowly undid her flight suit. As his hand passed her breasts, she arched upwards, forcing the two sides of her suit apart. He moaned his approval and continued onwards, until he had reached her navel.

  She gasped in air when he dipped his hand inside and trailed wet kisses downwards, from her chest over the curve of her breasts, to her stomach. She longed for him to keep going, wanted to tell him not to stop, but was powerless as she lay on the bed, submitting to him.

  His hand skimmed up her thigh, over her waist, and finally settled against her breast. She pushed it up into his palm, desperate to convince him to undress her.

  “Miali?” he whispered against her stomach and pressed kisses up to her breasts.

  She made a garbled noise in her throat in response when his hands grazed her shoulders and he parted her flight suit and began to pull it down her arms. He groaned when her breasts sprang free and she gasped when his lips caught one of her nipples and he suckled it.

  Her hips bucked up, rubbing against his body in a dire attempt to ease the hunger growing inside her. She needed him. Her whole body felt as though it was on fire and only he could bring cool relief.

  Her hands went to his hair, tangling in the black spikes. She shrieked a moan when his teeth teased her nipple, sending a shockwave of pleasure rippling through her.

  “Shh,” he whispered and kissed her breast, flicking her nipple with his tongue. “I’m petrified of your brothers as it is.”

  She would have laughed had he not wrapped his mouth around her nipple and started sucking it again, tugging it into his mouth and making it painfully hard.

  “Miali?” he said again as he moved across to her other breasts and laved her nipple.

  “Yes?” She squeezed the word out and bit her lip to stop herself from moaning again when he tortured her nipple with his teeth.

  Lost in a haze of passion and pleasure, she couldn’t deny anything he had said about Minervan males. In fact, she was thankful for it. Sharp teeth definitely made everything sensual and erotic, the added hint of danger making her nerve endings flicker with delight.

  “You are going to marry me?”

  She laughed this time.

  “Ask me again when I’m back in my head, not floating somewhere outside my body.”

  He dipped his head and licked a path from her breast to her mouth. She sighed into his when he kissed her, fervent and passionate, stealing her breath and stirring her desire beyond her control. She went to grab him but he moved out of her reach, sliding down her body and taking her flight suit with him. Her eyes opened and she stared up at the ceiling when he stripped it off her, leaving her bare on the bed.

  She went to say something but all words failed her when he eased her legs apart and darted his tongue between her folds. Her head fell to one side, her eyes wide and mouth open as he licked the length of her, from her slick opening to her pert nub. She moaned and stared at the stars, feeling as though she was going to explode as he devoured her, his tongue teasing and lapping at her arousal.

  “Kosen,” she said, panting it as the feeling of tightness inside her increased, her body so hot that she was aching for release. She writhed against him and he moaned. The sound of it only drove her on and she threaded her fingers into his hair, clutching him to her, begging him not to stop until she had come undone.

  The moment his finger eased into her hot depths, she cried out her release at the universe. Her whole body trembled around him, quivering as she came. He thrust his finger into her a few times, drawing out her orgasm, and then pulled it free. She collapsed into the bed and then tensed again when he lowered his mouth and lapped at her opening, drinking her juices. It tickled.

  She pushed against his head, forcing him away from her. Wriggling on the bed, she looked up at him as he stood by her feet, watching her. He grinned and the sight of his sharp teeth sent a flush of heat through her.

  “In Arkus’s name I’ve never tasted anything as sweet as you.”

  If he thought that her taste was amazing, he was in for a surprise. Her mother had warned her that her hair might not be the only thing that she had inherited from her.

  Sitting up, she gave Kosen a seductive smile and ran her hands up him. She pulled the fastening on his black flight suit and eased it downwards. Her lips parted and her whole body trembled at the sight of hard packed muscles rippling under his pale skin. She had never seen a body like his, compact but powerful, speaking to her hunger on a sexual level.

  She eased the flight suit off him, pulling it down over his hips and pushing it down to his boots. He kicked them off and then stepped out of the suit.

  “Now I really don’t want you brothers to see us.”

  She smiled and looked at his long hard length where it jutted out from a nest of black curls. Leaning forwards, she took hold of it, wrapping her hand around its girth, and licked the sensitive head. He was shaking. He would be doing a lot more than shaking soon. She closed her mouth around his cock and sucked on it, moving her mouth up and down. The feel of it gliding into her aroused her. When he thrust forwards, she moaned, wanting more.

  He groaned. “I really really don’t want your brothers seeing this.”

  He worried too much.

  But, just to be sure they were left alone, she reached over to the control panel on the cabinet beside her bed and locked the door.

  He would need it.

  If what her mother said was true, he wasn’t going to go quietly when she got him inside her.

  Kosen groaned again and muttered something about stopping. She did and looked up at him. He had his teeth buried deep into his lower lip, his eyebrows knit into a frown. Taking hold of his hips, she guided him to the bed. Dominance. It sounded like fun.

  It only took a slight push to make him fall on his back on the bed. Before he could say anything, she was on top of him. Whatever protest he had been about to form left his lips as a groan when she lowered herself and rubbed her slick groin against his hard shaft.

  “Wait...” He held his hands up, breathing hard. “We need—”

  She pressed her mouth to his to silence him, kissing him and grinding against him. She needed him inside her now. She was tired of being so innocent and she wanted to be his.

  “My mother is a nurse,” she said, knowing what he was trying to say. “I’ve been given sterilisation injections since I turned mating age.”

  His eyebrows rose and he didn’t seem to have a response so she ground one out of him, rubbing herself on his length and tearing a moan from his throat. He felt so good beneath her, the sensitive head of his cock teasing her nub.
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  “Are you sure you’re ready for this?”

  She smiled down at him and kneeled, taking hold of his length. “Are you sure you’re ready?”

  He frowned and before he could answer, she sank back onto his cock, letting it slowly fill her. There was a momentary sting of pain and then nothing but pure bliss. Kosen groaned and his hands went to her hips. His fingers pressed in as he gripped her hard and started moving her on his cock.

  The feel of it thrusting into her, filling her and striking deep inside her, tore moan after moan from her throat. Her body trembled as she tensed and Kosen closed his eyes, a heavy frown marrying his eyebrows. She pressed her hands against his stomach and moved up and down on his cock, riding him, her thrusts opposite to his. Her entire body burned, tightening with each plunge of his length into her and each slam of her clit against his pelvis.

  The tightness in her abdomen grew, feeling as though it was pulling everything into it like a vortex, sucking all the heat from her body until she was crying out for release. Kosen’s hands went to her breasts and his thumbs flicked her pert nipples. She stared down at him and when her eyes met his, the whole galaxy exploded.

  A blast of fire and lightning slammed through her, a bright white shockwave that left her quivering and trembling against Kosen’s chest, weak and hot. The sound of his heart pounding filled her ears, mixing with the tremendous beat of her own. She shook in his arms and then realised that he was shaking too. His rough breathing matched hers. His length throbbed inside her, spilling his seed.

  The only sound Kosen made was a strangled sob.

  “Wow,” Miali said and sighed against his chest, waiting for the scattered pieces of herself to fall back into place and the room to stop spinning.

  “Wha—”

  She managed to gain control of her limbs enough to shift herself around so she could see Kosen. He was staring at the ceiling, pale and trembling, his eyes unfocused.

  “What was that?” she breathed, still panting to catch her breath. “Besides incredible?”

  He nodded and his gaze fell to her. His pupils widened and narrowed, as though trying to focus.

  “There’s a lot of you,” he said with a drunken grin and went to touch her cheek but missed by several inches. “Which one is you?”

  Her mother was right. Dazkaran females did climax in ways that sent males of other species out of their minds.

  She took hold of his hand and pressed it to his cheek. “Right here.”

  He smiled and blinked a few times before passing out. She pulled herself up and smiled down at him. Perhaps she should have warned him but then she hadn’t known if she had picked up that trait of her mother’s species.

  Slumping next to him, she closed her eyes, snuggled against his arm and waited for him to come around.

  Hours passed but eventually Kosen muttered something about the cold and stirred. She reached over and pulled the blanket across them.

  When he opened his eyes, he still looked a little dazed.

  Miali pressed a kiss to his lips and then smiled at him as she brushed the flattened messy strands of his hair from his forehead.

  “Better?” she whispered, concerned about the amount of time it was taking him to recover. She hadn’t expected it to take this long.

  He nodded. “Incredible. A Dazkaran trait?”

  She nodded in response and continued to smile. “You asked me a question.”

  He frowned. “I did? I did... lost it there for a moment.”

  She laughed as he blinked as though he was still trying to clear his head.

  “Will you? It doesn’t have to be now. Just someday?” His arms went around her, holding her against him.

  The feel of his bare body against hers made her ache to have him inside her again but he didn’t look up to an encore. At least not yet. There was still a long way to go before they reached the Nebula-Lyra II.

  “Will I what?”

  “Marry me... a worthless Minervan who doesn’t deserve you?”

  She frowned this time and stroked his forehead, her eyes never leaving his. He smiled up at her and it held such hope that her heart warmed.

  “A heroic Minervan, the only man in the universe for me, the man who saved me.” Dipping her head, she held her mouth bare centimetres from his and whispered, “Yes.”

  He craned his neck towards her and she kissed him, her lips caressing his in the lightest of touches. It warmed her through until she was constantly smiling against his mouth. He pulled her on top of him, turning that warmth to fire as his body pressed into hers.

  She would have to work on his sense of self-worth but she had the perfect solution to that problem. She rubbed her hips against his and he groaned and kissed her harder. His teeth caught her tongue and this time the pain didn’t shock her. It only added to the thrill of loving him.

  For now, she would stay on the Nebula-Lyra II and perform her ambassador duties from there, greeting dignitaries and visiting planets where the vessel stopped.

  She would stay where she was safe and with the man that she loved. She’d had enough of the adventure of deep space. It was time for a different, more pleasant adventure.

  She squealed as Kosen rolled her over, nestling himself between her thighs, and kissed her harder.

  The adventure of falling in love.

  The End

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  About the author

  Felicity Heaton is a great believer in love at first sight and the romantic ideal. Having grown up reading extensively, she developed a deep love of classical literature, ranking Jane Eyre, North & South, and Persuasion amongst her all time favourite reads. The most romantic moment of her life was when her husband got down on bended knee on the steps of Sacré Coeur, Paris, at night in front of several hundred spectators and proposed. She was too drunk on love, and subsequently champagne, to care about the audience. All she could see was the man that she loved. A writer of emotion and life, she always strives to touch a chord of familiarity in her readers and give them characters they can love and a read to remember.

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