Page 21 of Claimed By The Orc

“What? I don’t want to leave?—”

“Fuck, Tan. I’m trying damn hard not to cockblock you. Go. I promise if something happens, I’ll text you. But for real, go be with your boyfriend.”

Jake stopped playing to look me directly in the eye, and his expression was so sincere, any doubts I had evaporated. Suddenly, I wanted nothing more than to go be with Mahk. Alone.

“Okay, but text or call me if you need me. Don’t try to handle shit on your own, Jake. I’m fucking serious.”

Jake rolled his eyes but nodded solemnly. “I will. I promise. Now, please go.”

I scruffed up his hair because it drove him crazy. “Thanks.”

Jake shrugged, and Mahk, apparently, was done with the whole exchange because he took my hand and all but dragged me out of the house.

He didn’t stop there, either. I barely had time to close the door behind me before I was basically running after my man, down our path and onto the street. He kept going until he was almost halfway down the block and in front of one of the patches of woods that surrounded all the homes in the neighborhood. I was breathless by the time we stopped. Partially from laughter at Mahk’s eagerness and partially because I was out of fucking shape and Mahk was fast when he wasn’t purposely slowing his steps to look human.

He glanced around, probably checking for nosy neighbors, before finally turning his attention to me. Mahk’s human hands reached up to cup my face. I suddenly wished to see his real form. I had barely had a chance this past week since most of the time we spent together was while I’d been working. He couldn’t change here, though, so I twisted my head to kiss his hand, which made him smile.

It didn’t last long, his expression turning serious again.

“You’re sad,” he stated matter-of-factly.

I frowned. “No, I’m not.”

“Yes, you were. Back at the house, when I was playing the video games with Jake. Talk to me,lulekai. Let me carry some of your burdens, at least for a little while.”

While I tried impossibly hard not to swoon in the middle of the fucking street, one of the words Mahk had said stuck out to me. He had said it before—lulekai—but I wasn’t sure what it meant. I had always been internally freaking out too much to ask, but now I was too curious to let it go again.

“You keep calling me that,lulekai.” I stumbled awkwardly over the word, not sounding anything like Mahk did when he said it. “What does it mean?”

Mahk’s lips twitched at my pronunciation. “Lu-le-kai,” he said again slowly, so I could understand it.

When I repeated it, I sounded a little better. At least it was likely understandable if I was talking to an orc. Maybe.

But Mahk beamed like I’d done the best thing in the world. “Perfect!” It so wasn’t, but okay. “Lulekaimeans protector in my native language. You are always caring for and protecting everyone else, and you forget to protect yourself.”

Well, damn, I never expected to get a fucking boner from learning a new language, but that had to be one of the sweetest and most meaningful things anyone had ever said to me. And here I was, calling him little stalker. I needed to step up my game.

I was so overcome by emotion, I couldn’t wait another second. My mouth was on him, aggressively devouring everything it could possibly taste. As always, Mahk submitted to me, opening up to all I wanted to give to him.

“Fuck,” I muttered into his mouth, absolutely fucking breathless as my fingers curled into his hair, holding him exactly where I wanted him.

I pressed my body against his, and Mahk stumbled back a step before bracing himself. I could feel his hard chest through his ridiculously baggy clothes, which only got me harder. I slid my free hand under the fabric, caressing up his hard flat stomach and over his pecs. Mahk moaned as my fingers grazed his nipples.

I never stopped kissing him. Even as I slotted my leg between his spread ones. He was so fucking hard, and I put a little pressure against his cock with my thigh. Mahk’s hips rocked forward of their own accord, and he let out a sweet little whine.

“Fuck, darling, you make such pretty noises.” He let out another little sound that went straight to my cock.

I was suddenly well aware that we were outside, and while we were away from the direct view of my neighbors, I wouldn’t put it past those nosy fuckers to have their ways to still be spying.“I want you alone,” I whispered to him, “but it doesn’t feel right to do it at the Cunninghams’.” I might have reasoned away the wrongness of Mahk “borrowing” their home, but fucking in there crossed a line I wasn’t willing to.

Mahk hummed and nipped at my lip. I wasn’t sure if he understood my hang ups about where he was staying, but he respected them. “We can go to the cave.”

While that sounded hot, and I added that to my mental bucket list of places I wanted to have Mahk, it was too far away right now. I didn’t have the patience to get there.

“Too far.” I nuzzled his cheek and then licked the edge of his ear. Even though he’d literally spent the day sweating outside in the beating sun of the high school baseball field, he still tasted and smelled so sweet. Did orcs not sweat, because what the fuck?

“The store?”

My immediate reaction was to shut him down. That was my place of work. I couldn’t fuck my man there. I’d get fired! But then Mahk rocked his hips again, letting me feel the thickness of his bulge. I pinched his nipple in warning, but it didn’t stop him, even a little, as he started to hump my leg. The little shit knew exactly what he was doing.

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