I felt his hard cock pressing against me, huge and hard, and all I could think about was how good it would feel inside me. Wrapping my legs around his waist, I urged him on, pulling him close.

Kreel’s teeth grazed my lip as he pulled back from the kiss, drawing a whimper of pain and pleasure from me.

“Please,” I whispered.

“You haven’t answered my question yet,” the asshole said, shaking his head. I glared up at him, and he laughed. “It’s simple, beloved. All you need to do is tell me.”

“Bite me,” I said. My brain caught up a moment too late. “Wait, no?—”

Too late. With lightning speed, Kreel was at my neck, his teeth digging in not quite hard enough to break the skin. More than enough to force me to thrash and squeal, though.

Moving his mouth down, he bit again, drawing another yelp from me. Lower still, down to my breasts,which he kissed and bit and licked, leaving me panting and desperate.

Not that Kreel was in any hurry to take advantage of my need. No, he was enjoying tormenting me with his slow, deliberate, patient assault.

A delicious torture if ever there was one. I bit my lip again, holding back my desires, until he shifted his attention to my nipples.

The first bite was too much, an overwhelming stimulus burning through my nerves. The second came before I’d recovered enough to speak, throwing me right back into a thrashing frenzy of sensation.

I gasped out something before he did it again. Nothing coherent, no words, but enough like language for Kreel to raise his face to look at me.

“Fuck. Fuck me.” Even I’m not sure if I was begging or just swearing. It made no difference to my beloved bastard, who just looked down at me, waiting. “We’re in the medbay VR, okay? It’s probably only been an hour or two.Fuck.”

“So we’re being healed as we fuck?” His grin showed off his sharp teeth, and a delicious frisson of fear ran through me. “Kinky.”

“I didn’t plan this! We both need medical attention, and I didn’t think we’d both end up in the same virtual world.” I shuddered again, my body tingling all over and my core achingly empty for him. “But since we are,pleasefuck me before I go mad, you asshole!”

His laugh was pure joy, and before I’d finished my plea, he’d torn away the rest of my dress, releasing mywrists to use both hands. I reached down between us, pulling at his pants, my fingers trembling too much to be quick. Finally, the clasp popped open, and my hand met his monstrously big, strangely textured cock. Bigger even than I remembered, harder than steel, and thrumming against my fingers.

Kreel’s turn to groan as I teased him free of his pants. My alien husband was less gentle with my underwear, ripping my panties from me with a single rough movement, baring my wet and aching pussy.

I guided his magnificent cock to it, shuddering at the touch of it. We locked gazes, and he growled hungrily.

And thrust. Hard. Deep. Fast.

Arching under him, I let out a cry of joy as Kreel slammed me into the ground, cushioned by the grasses and the remains of my dress. He filled me perfectly, thrumming inside me, the vibrations driving me wild.

A second thrust, even harder, and then a third, harder still. Each one sent a fresh shiver through me, blurring together as he sped up and I lost any semblance of control. I grabbed hold of him, urging him on, wantingmore, always more.

Kreel didn’t need any encouragement. Panting for breath, he drove into me with all the passion I could want, his hands exploring my body eagerly. Clawed fingers scraped my skin, a sharp and wonderful counterpoint to the hard, vibrating thrusts between my legs.

The orgasm rising in me was too much to contain for long. My fingernails dug into his back, and noisesescaped my throat that might have been words. If so, even I don’t know what I said.

It didn’t matter, though. Kreel was as lost in pleasure as I was, approaching his own peak. We climbed toward that climax together, urging each other on, each pushing the other to greater heights, and as we came to the brink, my alien lover brought his mouth down to my neck to bite.

That was all it took to push me over the edge, taking him with me. Clenching around his vibrating cock, I threw back my head and screamed as he exploded inside me.

Rocked by our paired climaxes, we tumbled into the light.

22

KREEL

Idon’t know how long I drifted in that meadow of strange, virtual grass. With my eyes shut and Rachel gathered naked against my chest, I’d never felt so comfortable. We might have lain there for hours, or even days. But when I opened my eyes, it was to the overdecorated sight of theStarshadow’smedbay.

The bed was too small for me alone, yet I shared it with Rachel. With her curled up on my chest, it was a wonder we hadn’t fallen off. My position was uncomfortable, a little painful, and I wouldn’t have moved for the Last Emperor’s treasury.

My mate’s head lay on my chest, her breath slow and steady. However long had passed in the virtual world, it had been long enough for the wondrous machine to heal us both. I ran a hand down her back, marveling at the incredible woman who had claimed my heart both by fate and choice.