Page 83 of Echo and the Homicidal Sea Panda

Mael shuddered against Echo. “You’re going to look so beautiful… big and round with my calves growing inside you.”

Echo whimpered imagining his belly full with his mate’s babes.

Mael lifted a hand to the underside of one small breast. He squeezed and kneaded the flesh as he pumped deep. Milk trickled over the back of Mael’s hand and down into the water. Mael lifted his hand and licked the droplets off his skin, holding eye contact as he did.

When they kissed again, Echo could taste his milk on Mael’s tongue.

“I’m going to keep you pregnant…” Mael mumbled before capturing his lips with another fiery kiss. He smiled against Echo’s lips. “Baby after baby… just like that mural showed us.”

There had been eight small dolphin/orca hybrid creatures encircling the pair.

Their children.

He had no proof, but he knew it soul deep.

In the deep recesses of his mind, Echo knew it was too soon for them to have a child, but any logic was lost to his lust. His body craved the seed to be planted deep within. Not one, but two. Both wombs contracted, needing Mael to calm the burning desire within.

He closed his eyes, envisioning himself pregnant with Mael’s babies. Wrapped in the fantasy, he neared the edge of oblivion, tendrils of pleasure rising from the base of his spine and radiating through his body.

Bright, blue light exploded around them. Back bowed, a scream tore from Echo’s lips, the sound reverberating around them. His body seized as his orgasm crested, muscles locking as the little death robbed him of conscious thought. He floated outside of his body, time slowing, until he was thrust back inside himself. He gasped for air, shocked at his body’s powerful release.

Mael followed him a few pumps later, roaring. His fingertips dug into Echo’s hips as warm jets of cum rocketed from his cocks. The dual quivering from both erupting inside Echo sent him into an aftershock. He moaned loudly, echoes of it repeating over and over while both channels spasmed around his mate’s cocks.

The blue glow faded. Echo trembled against Mael, spent and gasping for air. They clutched one another, lingering in the serenity of gratification. Mael dropped tender kisses on his neck and shoulder, one hand stroking his damp hair at the back of his head. Echo’s arms wrapped just above Mael’s waist, holding his mate close. After lowering his head to Mael’s chest, he listened to his orca’s heartbeat, rapid and powerful until gradually returning to slow and steady. His own seemed to match the rhythm as it calmed.

The hazy satisfaction after their coupling couldn’t last forever. Once the last of his lust faded and clarity was restored, Echo glanced down at his arms and chest. The blue dots were still there—as were Mael’s—but they were slowly sliding down and back into the water. As soon as they’d all moved off their bodies, they swirled together one last time, illuminating the full cavern, before growing dim and falling toward the bottom of the pool.

He and Mael were left in almost total darkness. Shafts of light came from where they’d dropped their flashlights on the chamber floor—which he didn’t even remember doing.

Mael pulled him closer and swam for the front edge of the pool where their flashlights were.

“How long are your heats?” Mael asked, his voice low near Echo’s ear.

“Hours. Sometimes a full day,” Echo replied, his voice deeper after the screaming he’d done when he came. He glanced down at the bottom of the pool and the dying light. “It’s way too early for me to ovulate. What if this place caused it?” He lifted his gaze to Mael. “The lights… I think they drew me here. They got brighter when we entered the water and even brighter just before I came.”

Mael didn’t say anything.

“Now I feel crazy,” Echo muttered.

“No. I felt off, too,” Mael replied. “Like I wasn’t in full control.”

Echo released a shaky breath. “At least I wasn’t the only one.”

“We need to get out of here. Who knows what that was,” Mael said. “Or what it might’ve done to us. I knew we should’ve gone back.”

Echo met Mael’s gaze in the dim light when they reached the front of the pool. “It didn’t harm us.”

“We don’t know that.”

Echo knew. Deep down, he knew. The light had drawn them together. He placed a hand over his abdomen, suddenly sure he’d end up pregnant.

A beam of light appeared before they could move. Echo lifted his hand to block the bright flash stinging his eyes after it was aimed their way.

“Seriously?I was scared something had happened to you two,” Tempest roared. “I thought I heard screams—and here you arefuckinginside a goddamned—” She shone the light around. “An underwater cavern?”

Echo eyed Mael.

“Get your asses out of there and let’s go!” Tempest yelled. “You know… if you’re donebreedingEcho.”

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