Page 38 of Hainn

“Oh really and what might your desire be?” Hainn loosened the string holding his sweatpants up and allowed them to slide to the floor, revealing he’d gone commando. His cock was already engorged and slapped against his rock hard stomach. Rubbing it from root to tip twice he gave her a grin. “Something along these lines?”

“Exactly.” Hastily she finished the tea and set the mug aside on the nightstand. Ripping off the tee shirt which had been her nightgown, she kicked off the covers and beckoned to him with one hand. “I think it’s time we took care of the whole claiming issue.”

Like a giant cat Hainn prowled onto the bed, pulling her flat by the ankles and coming over her. His arousal prodded at her already soaked and aching folds and she opened her legs wider to accommodate him. The tip of his shaft pushed against her and she wriggled to invite him to go deeper. Looping her arms around his neck, she pulled him in for a kiss that started off passionate and rapidly became incandescent with need and desire as they ravished each other’s mouths, tongues dancing and dueling. Hainn drew back and then seated himself to the hilt inside her in one motion. Jezari took a deep breath and sighed in pleasure as she adjusted to his length and girth.

“Exactly where I want you to be, where I need you to be,” she said, kissing his shoulder and running the tips of her talons down his back lightly. Seized by an urge she hadn’t expected, she exerted all her strength to roll them over so she could be on top. After a startled exclamation Hainn went along with it, wrapping her in his arms protectively. Seated atop her lover, his manhood sheathed in her folds, she moved her hips in a circle, leisurely tormenting him, while studying his face. “Are you ready to be Claimed?” she asked, hearing a purr in her voice andknowing her inner predator was completely on board with the idea.

For answer he gripped her hips to hold her to her task and lifted his chin to expose his neck. “Your mate mark is what I want more than anything right now, sweetheart.”

Jezari set herself to bring them to fever pitch as fast as she could, which wasn’t a challenge with Hainn sheathed deep inside her and his hands caressing her breasts as they swung free above him. She was one tingling mass of sensations, each better than the last. Clamping her inner muscles on his manhood Jezari worked to milk him of the precious hot seed. Her man was arching beneath her, straining to hold himself back when she felt the first tremors of her own orgasm rippling in response to the stimulus his manhood was exerting on all her nerve endings. She threw her head back and screamed his name as she let herself go into the ecstasy of the climax. With a roar Hainn let loose his own iron control and held her tight to shudder through his matching release.

Like the hunting cat her inner beast truly was, she snapped her head forward and down, latching onto the soft spot where his neck met his shoulders and biting deep. The hot spiced blood which spurted into her mouth elevated her to a second climax more powerful than any she’d ever had before and this time she shouted triumphantly, “Mine!”

“Yours,” he said in a deep voice. “Only yours, forever.”

Jezari licked the spot where she’d marked him to stop the blood flow and barely had time to complete the task before Hainn rolled her over and onto her knees in front of him. She whimpered at the loss of his cock but a moment later he’d lined himself up at her opening and was pounding into her with a force she welcomed. She and her predator wanted to be thoroughly claimed by a worthy mate who could match their own ferocity and power and Hainn was undisputably thatmale. She held her position, digging into the mattress with her talons and doing her best to meet his every move with her own calculated to drive him wild. Holding her locked to him, Hainn roared and thrust a final time, his seed spurting yet again. While she was in the throes of her release, spurred on by his passion, Hainn leaned over and sank his fangs into her neck, maybe not as savagely as she’d done, but with controlled force. She could hardly think through the haze of arousal, pleasure and pride as he declared, “Mine. My mate at last.”

“All yours, my love,” she agreed, collapsing onto the bed with him on top of her, both breathing hard.

He rolled off and repositioned her to rest her head on his shoulder. “I’m the happiest man in the valley today, claiming and being claimed. I love you, Badari Daughter.”

“I love you back, South Seas man,” she said.

For a time neither said another word as they lay together, breathing hard. Finally Jezari laughed. “We’re both purring,” she said, “Like a pair of great cats.”

“We’re happy,” he answered, “And so are our beasts.”

“We’ll be bruised.” Jezari touched her neck gingerly where he’d bitten her.

“Worth it to be properly claimed.” Hainn’s answer was confident. “And we heal fast.”

“Can you see the mate mark yet?”

“It takes a few hours from what I’ve been told but I’m sure the Great Mother intends to give us the mark and the mate bond.”

Her stomach rumbled and they both laughed. “I guess I need my breakfast now, having had you,” she said. “And I am eating for two.”

Hainn laid his hand over her belly and she put hers on top of it. “This—our baby—is a miracle, you know that, Jezari? We’re not supposed to be fertile, any of us and even the bloodtransfusion has only worked for one couple so far. The goddess has chosen to greatly bless us. I’m filled with gratitude and love for you and our cub. You’ve made dreams I didn’t even know I had come true.”

“I’m the same,” she said, kissing him on the cheek. “I never could have dreamt of you when I was a girl growing up in the complex. Yet there you were in the South Seas, waiting for me. The twists of fate it’s taken for us to come together are dizzying.”

He raised her hand to his lips and kissed her palm. “Meant to be.”

It was a tender moment and Jezari had never experienced such happiness, but now her stomach rumbled again. “Breakfast?”

“Late lunch would be more like it,” he said pulling her to her feet. “You slept like your inner beast was settling in for hibernation.”

“Lunch? It’s afternoon?” Panicked she looked at the chrono for the first time.

“What’s wrong?”

“They won’t have done anything with the lady of the lake without me, will they?”

He shook his head. “Calm yourself. Aydarr said you’d need today for healing and he’d wait until you could be consulted. The container is under guard and under wraps and Timtur has asked the goddess to watch over it as well.”

Jezari relaxed into him again. “Good. She’s not to be buried is what the Great Mother told me. We’re to open the container and then my impression is somehow she’ll be absorbed into Ushandirr itself. The goddess wasn’t clear except to state Ilynis’s beliefs didn’t include burial.”

“We’ll do it properly, don’t worry.” Hainn hugged her. “Seeing her preserved in the globe was unsettling. I understandwhy she haunted you, whether there was anything supernatural about it or not.”

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