“I know,” I whispered.
 
 “I love you so much.”
 
 The rough need in his voice tightened my nipples, made me clench my thighs together.I arched my back and rode my hips against him, already so wet and aching for him.
 
 “I love you too.”
 
 “Even if you love me, you don’t ever have to forgive me.Just know that I will never hurt you again.Notever.I’ll find a way to prove that to you.All I want to do now is worship you and make you come apart on my tongue.”
 
 Whether I forgave him didn’t matter.I loved him.I trusted him.
 
 He grabbed my ass and ground me against his already rock-hard, pulsing cock.His tongue and lips ravaged mine and sharpened my desire to the finest point as he sank one hand down my pants.The other effortlessly ridded me of my black tank top.
 
 He pushed me back toward the console, his gaze devouring my heaving chest as he slicked a scaled finger through my wet folds.I moaned at the same time a growl vibrated through him, and the sound shot tingling, needy spasms through my pussy.My hips bucked against his swirling finger as he leaned down for another hot kiss.
 
 His lips dominated mine as he took off my bra and undid my pants while he added a second finger inside of me.He seemed consumed by his need for me, hardly letting me take a breath.
 
 Not like I wanted him to anyway.
 
 “I’ve missed you so much,” he whispered as he eventually kissed his way downward.
 
 I arched into him, riding his palm faster while I fumbled for his pants zipper.“I love you, Maxx.”
 
 He was winding me up so good, so right, that I couldn’t find any other words, especially when he sucked my nipple into his mouth and bathed it with his scaled tongue.
 
 “I love you too.”Slowly, he sank his mouth lower, peeling my pants the rest of the way off as he went, his fingers still working their magic between my legs.
 
 While he went down, his freed kaxxui wound their way upward, their forked tongues tasting the air.I sighed my pleasure at the sight of them, making Maxx chuckle.
 
 “I’m greedy for all of you,” I told him honestly, and spread myself wide for him while perched on the ship’s console.
 
 The door was half open, and we were on a recently crash-landed ship.Someone would come looking.I didn’t care.Let them come.
 
 A knowing smile tilted Maxx’s lips as he settled between my thighs.“Not greedy.It’s fuxxing sexy.You know what you want.”
 
 And he knew exactly what I wanted.I rode his tongue wildly, my hands clasped to the sides of his face, my fingers curling into his long, silky hair.He gazed up at me with half-shuttered eyes, the streaks of lightning inside them blazing hot while he fucked me with his mouth.
 
 His sexual serpents licked and sucked my nipples or twined themselves over my face and through my hair as though they were ecstatic to see me again.
 
 I gave myself over completely to all of Maxx, every part of him, while my pleasured cries bounced across the bridge and out the partly open door into the hallway.Thankfully I had enough sense not to accidentally hit the button that would broadcast what we were doing across this ship and mine, though they might be able to hear me anyway.
 
 Ah, fuck it.
 
 Maxx spread me wider, squeezing my thighs with bruising intensity in the same rhythm as his tongue.Then, suddenly, he sucked my clit into his mouth.
 
 I hurtled through the universe yet again, spinning through the stars, but instead of falling to my doom and shattering, I soared.The broken parts of me healed with my love for this alien king.
 
 Tears leaked down my face with the overwhelming feeling, but I whisked them away, hauled Maxx up to my lips, and poured that feeling into him.I could taste myself on his tongue, which he delved into my mouth as he shoved me backward toward the wall.
 
 He was inside me before my back hit it, and the impact drove him in deeper.I cried out into his scorching kiss, wrapping my legs around his hips, as he fucked me with wild abandon.He released an animalistic moan, his electric eyes glinting like stars, and clutched my ass with powerful force to guide me in a rhythm he liked.
 
 And damn, I liked it too.I melted into him as his scaled cock rubbed oh so nicely against my clit.
 
 A kaxxui encircled my waist and teased my aching nipple with its tongue.The other slipped inside me, moving along with Maxx’s hard thrusts and dancing across my clit.A pleasurable cry tore from my lips as it sucked me into its mouth.
 
 The other kaxxui coiled around my chest, stimulating both nipples with its tingling forked tongue.
 
 “You are a part of my soul, Nera,” Maxx breathed against my lips.“My one and only.My forever.”