Amatista

For hours afterward, Kavi seemed incapable of doing anything except keeping that fierce scowl on his face intact.

  They traveled by night, determined to put more space between the humans and themselves. Kavi hadn’t said a word to her, but he didn’t need to. Liana could feel his rage in every fiber of her being, in every long, heavy step he took, every withering look he sent her way.

  When they finally settled to make camp, deep in the heart of the woods, darkness was lifting from the skies, a promise of the coming sun spreading across the heavens like a veil of light. Fohers bustled around her, settling down to clean their weapons, hug their children. Charging toward her, Kavi clamped a hand around her elbow and dragged her away from the group.

  “I commanded you to stay!” he thundered as soon as they were out of hearing distance.

  Liana was surprised that, rather than tremble, she could barely keep from smiling. She was happy that Kavi was safe, even with that menacing scowl, and that every single Foher had returned. She knew Kavi’s anger stemmed from his concern, and all it did was make her feel wonderful. “I wanted to do something useful for a change, Kavi. I’m sick of doing nothing,” she softly explained.

  His fists waved up in the air. “You could have been mutilated. Killed!”

  She waved off his accusation with one hand. “He’d never kill me, he needs me. You’re the one who took a cut,” she said chidingly, instantly tearing a piece of fabric from her skirt and coming close to inspect it. “Let me see that.”

  He eyed her narrowly as she began to minister to the wound.

  “What is the human commander to you?” he asked gruffly.

  She stared at the welt, sure she would be screaming if she’d had it herself. Yet Kavi didn’t even wince as she began to dab at it.

  “Is he your mate?” he demanded.

  “Excuse me?”

  “Is he your mate, Liana? The human commander?”

  Liana gasped in revulsion. “Lyle my mate? Of course not,” she scoffed. Her eyes narrowed and she whispered, “He claims to be my cousin but I don’t believe him.”

  “Why?” he urged, taking her arms and squeezing her gently. “Why does he want you so much?” His attention shifted to her lips, his voice dropping an octave. “Why do I want you so much?”

  Liana ached for him to kiss her. “Kavi…” she whispered, leaning against his steady, muscled chest and craning her neck back. Spellbound by his eyes.

  He came closer with a lengthy growl, his warm lips brushing her forehead. His big hands smoothed down her arms then ran gently up her back. “I am not myself around you.”

  “Kavi.”

  His breath fanned her face as he drew back to stare at her. “My beautiful human. Your eyes are like amethysts when you are angry…the same color of the river I seek.”

  She heard the words, and yet she wasn’t listening. Her nerves, her muscles, every bit of her wanted. Begged. The bloodstained cloth fell at their feet as her fingers curled around his arms, her body undulating against his. “Kavi, I want you so much. I was so afraid they would hurt you. Please kiss me…touch me.”

  “Liana.” One big hand grabbed a handful of blonde hair, tugging back her face so he could look into her eyes. “We mate for life. You humans mate for a night.”

  Liana was so feverish she trembled. “I don’t care what happens after, just kiss me now. Touch me…like before.”

  His stance, his shoulders, his jaw—every inch of him had turned rigid. “I could not stop like before!”

  “Kavi, please, touch me.” She took his free hand and slipped it under her dress, pressing it to the warm, wet place between her legs.

  A groan choked him as he palmed her, felt her, stroked her.

  “Oh yes, please,” she whimpered, circling wantonly against his hand.

  She felt a powerful shudder course through him, heard his harshly indrawn breath. “I want you,” he rasped, his hand slowly retreating.

  He stepped back slowly, straining to catch his breath while Liana fought for her own. “Kavi?”

  A long moment passed before his lashes lifted. Hunger had darkened his eyes, but something else warmed them, something overwhelmingly tender. “I want you more than anything. But you are not meant for this life. Maybe you are not meant for me.”

  “I was born free. I was meant to choose!”

  “Then you must think on this,” he gritted out, grabbing her face and planting a dry, fierce kiss on her lips. “I will have you, but not for a night. If you are mine, you will be mine forever.”

  Chapter Five

  Kavi probably thought she was spineless. He probably thought she didn’t have the ability to commit to him, or was too weak to adapt to the Foher way of life.

  Well.

  Liana was determined to prove him wrong. Call her bubblegum or glue, she was staying right here. She would prove she was useful, knowledgeable, crafty and strong—and that he’d have to be an idiot not to mate with her!

  “How does a Foher woman let a man know she is…interested?” Liana asked Galina the next morning.

  They were both knee-deep in water as quick little fish danced around their calves.

  Spear held high in the air, Galina looked up at her from the water and smiled brazenly. “We take what we want.”

  Similarly holding her own spear, Liana cocked a brow. “Just like that? You take what you want, even if it’s…a man?”

  “Yes.”

  But Liana had done just that when she’d taken his cock into her mouth, and look what that had gotten her. Now she puzzled over Galina’s words.

  “The ficco, Liana. You have to focus on the ficco.”

  “I was thinking about—”

  “Think fish!”

  She did—and squealed with delight when she stabbed the water and felt the pole hit then vibrate all the way to the top.

  “I caught a fish!” she squealed.

  It was the first thing she said as soon as they strolled back to the camp. “Kavi, I caught a fish!” Never mind Galina had a whole string of them on her back. Liana had speared one all by herself.

  Kavi sat on a log, sharpening a knife. He set it down and rose to greet her, a smile dancing on his lips as he eyed the fish she held out to him. “What a nice baby fish, Liana.”

  She chose to ignore the “baby” part and focused on her gloating. “See? I’m not completely useless.”

  “Why would you think you are useless? Every living thing has a purpose. Do you see the tiny leaf under your feet? Even that has a purpose.”

  She wanted to hug him for that alone but then she’d have to drop the fish. And it was her first fish, after all.

  Instead her smile spread up to her eyes. “All I’ve done for the past nine years is strip to be stared at like some sort of object, and I think I forgot there was a living, breathing person in here somewhere.”

  His eyes narrowed, and she pursed her lips in distaste when she realized what she’d said. He must think she’d meant whoring.

  Liana quickly said, “It’s you I have to thank for that, Kavi. I want to be many things now, learn many things…” Be worthy.

  With haunting gentleness, he stroked a finger down her cheek then smiled a smile that stabbed her heart with yearning. “You smell like fish as well.”

  She scowled and slapped him playfully with her catch. “Now you do too!”

  He snatched the fish from her hand. “Take a bath and I will cook it.”

  “No, I’ll take a bath and I’ll cook it.”

  She smiled sultrily and headed toward the nearby river, feeling pretty good about herself. Pretty wonderful. Pretty certain Kavi was watching her sway her hips as she walked away.

  Yep, it felt pretty darn good.

  She was still smiling as she undressed and then waded into the cold water. She was used to the temperature now. Her body had adapted quickly to this new life. Her muscles felt leaner, stronger. Her skin looked toastier. She felt wonderful in a way she never remembered feeling before, not even on Earth. br />
  She dipped her head into the cold orange-gold water and when she reemerged, looked around her. Oriana was beautiful, a virgin land unlike any paradise on Earth.

  What would she think of Earth when she got back? Would she go back to her previous life and wonder what she had ever found beautiful about Oriana? Or would she miss this terribly—miss him terribly?

  She had missed Earth at the start. Surely someone on Earth had missed her too.

  Or was she only a distant memory, like her parents were becoming to her, fading like the fog at sunrise?

  She started when she heard a rustle and found Kavi standing motionless by the riverbank. She stared back in silence, inhaling deeply at the sight of him. You could combine every man on Earth into one and he’d still have nothing on Kavi.

  Liana had left Earth at the age of eighteen, only days before she’d planned to lose her virginity to Tim Robinson on a pair of old blankets in the back of a truck in his father’s garage. Instead she’d spent nine years without being touched. Talked to. Wanted for who she was, and cared for.

  She hadn’t realized how starved she was for affection until Kavi stared across the river at her now, with those all-seeing, glowing eyes. And at that moment she was grateful she hadn’t gone all the way with Tim Robinson. Because now…

  Now she would lose her virginity to this strong, gentle Foher. The prince who woke her up from a nine-year-long dream and made her love herself again.

  He remained as still as the trees behind him as she slowly waded out of the water.

  She felt the cold gleam of her skin under the sun and the cool stroke of air around her, but most powerful of all, she felt his eyes on her. Stroking every drop of water that swirled down her flesh.

  His chest expanded as she neared, as though he was holding his breath, a pulse drumming fast and steady at the base of his neck.

  Liana glided her wet hands down his muscled chest and he sucked in an unsteady breath. Looking up at him with a sultry smile, she whispered, “Sumi,” and latched her mouth around one tiny brown nipple.

  Kavi groaned as she suckled, powerful arms encircling her waist.

  Liana continued with her conquest. “Sumi,” she repeated, her tongue circling the other nipple.

  And then her mouth went south. Her teeth grazed the length of his cock through his breeches. He trembled when she pressed a fervent kiss to it and whispered, “Sumi.”

  His groan lingered in his throat as his fingers tangled through her hair and pulled her up. He stared at her fiercely, silver eyes glittering. “Sumi,” he rasped before capturing her mouth with his.

  His tongue stroked the outline of her lips until they opened. She shuddered when he entered her, hot and wet and powerful, his tongue melting into hers. Her breathing hitched as a shock of pleasure rushed through her.

  His arms tightened around her, holding her close so she could feel the thick column of his erection against her abdomen.

  His heart beat fast against her breast, his tongue plunging fiercely now, his kiss turning wild. Feral. She felt the change in him. Gentle giant turned hungry beast. His mouth slanted over hers, tongue stabbing in and out, tasting every warm nook of her mouth. A needy whimper rose in her throat as she moved her lips over his, her tongue just as hungry. As eager to taste.

  He lifted her, grinding his cock against her sex, powerful, muscled arms holding her fast as he bent his head and spread a wet, open-mouthed kiss down her neck. Liana arched her neck, exposing it to him. Her nipples throbbed with cold and were so sensitized that when his lips found a quivering tip and sucked it in, ripples flared right down to her womb.

  “Oooh, yes.” Liana shivered, her arms and legs coiling around him, nails digging into his back as she used his body to support her weakening one. Her pussy was burning, wet. Flames licked her on the inside, quickly spreading to her limbs and belly. She rubbed that swollen spot against his body while his teeth, lips and tongue pulled and played with the hardened crest of her breast.

  “I want you,” he rasped before he dove for the other nipple, suckling it into his heated mouth with such force she felt her toes curl.

  “Kavi, take your pants off,” she pleaded, sliding down until her feet touched the ground, her hands trembling in her rush to help him. “I want you in my mouth.”

  When he pulled back, his features were tight, the look in his eyes so fierce she felt it pierce through her like an arrow. “You want my cock in your mouth, Liana?”

  “Yes!” she breathed, more a plea than an affirmation.

  Tendons in his neck tightened as he swallowed convulsively. “You will suck me.”

  Liana shuddered, her cunt clenching heatedly. “Yes, Kavi, I want to suck you. I want your cock.”

  Muscles in his arms rippled as he shoved his breeches down his hips. His voice vibrated with yearning. “Suck me, Liana. Suck me like before.”

  His engorged length had barely popped out, his pants kicked off, before Liana was on her knees, sucking him into her mouth. She’d dreamed of taking his cock in her mouth again, of running her tongue down his never-ending length and filling her mouth, opened wide to receive him. Her memory had done no justice to him.

  He was wider, longer and more delicious than she’d remembered—or could even imagine. Now all she wanted was to please him. To rip out those animal grunts she’d heard from him before.

  Kavi rewarded her with such a sound, a grunt so quick and fierce it sounded like a hiss. His head dropped back, eyes drifting shut as his shaft disappeared into her mouth.

  Liana was sure she would come just by tasting him. Just by having that impossibly vast, pulsing cock dipped repeatedly into her mouth. Just by running her tongue along the bulging head and feeling her lips bump against the dampened folds beneath the crown.

  “How much do you like my cock, Liana?”

  She moaned, suctioning on the bulbous tip then taking his whole length again.

  “Tell me.” His voice resonated with desire, his grip unsteady on the back of her head.

  She pulled back to look at him through the flaxen fan of her lashes, whispering, “I love your cock. I want more,” and then took him in again.

  His features tightened at her words and he began to move in her mouth, unhurriedly at first. Then his pace increased and he groaned. “You are hungry for me.”

  She was starved. And she moaned to tell him so, a sound born from the deepest place within her.

  His fingers twined through her hair, gathering it into a ball as his hips started to ram fast, his cock merciless as it plunged into her mouth. Filling her all the way to the back of her throat and beyond.

  He panted as he spoke, his voice haggard with need. “I will spill in your mouth, little one.”

  Yes! Yes! He was so thick, so rigid, tasted so good. Liana had been aching to taste him again for weeks. She wanted his cum on her tongue, sliding down her throat. She could taste it already, warm and rich and salty.

  “I should have filled your mouth with my cream before.”

  Oooh, yes! She slipped a hand down to her throbbing pussy, rubbing herself up and down her slit. The lips were swollen, almost engulfing her finger, greedy to be filled, to take a long, hard length in deep.

  His fists, still in her hair, masterfully guided her head along the length of him. “You will eat me now!”

  Liana trembled when his cock started shuddering in her mouth. Her finger was quickly, wildly circling her clit as he roared and blasted a stream of salty, rich semen inside her.

  Liana swallowed the rich, lustrous texture, moaning in her hunger for more before she lost herself, and her own shudders took her.

  “You will come and keep coming for me,” Kavi vowed while she continued to shudder even as he gently lowered her to the ground. “I want your juices.”

  She felt the warm earth on her back and gripped his arms, keeping his hard, massive chest glued to her breasts. “Please, I want you inside me!”

  “Give me your sweetness first.”

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he was too weak to protest. Too weak to do anything but give him what he asked for. His hands spread her legs, the air caressing her still-damp thighs before he settled between them and plunged his tongue into her needy pussy. She rocked up to his mouth, tossing her head to one side as more ripples of pleasure fanned across her body. He growled as he ate her, feasting on her like he had when she’d been tied in his tent. Only now she wasn’t tied—and she would kill him if he stopped.

  His tongue was just as hot as her sex, just as wet. His tongue stroked up the labia, licking her moisture, until his mouth clamped around the tiny nub of her clit. He sucked, pulling it into his mouth with the force of his suction. She shrieked with pleasure, hips bucking up to his mouth.

  “I want your juices,” he whispered, his words rumbling against her swollen parts. He was staring at her face across the thatch of glossy blonde curls between her legs, his eyes glimmering as he pried her open with two fingers and plunged another inside her.

  “Kavi!” she cried, so loud even the sky could hear.

  He lowered his head, his moistened lips brushing gently over her clit as his finger stabbed into her cunt. Fast. Deeply. Recklessly.

  Force gathered in her core, tightening her womb, sparking up tremors inside her sex. “Oh God, Kavi…”

  At her sides, her fingers dug into the earth as he lodged his finger inside her. His mouth opened wide around her clit, suctioning greedily with quick, wet slurping noises that aroused her all the more.

  She couldn’t stand it, couldn’t hold back the tidal wave. The explosion. Her eyes rolled backward and she spasmed, spilling her juices in a quick flush of liquid as her pussy rippled around his finger in rhythmic contractions. He growled as he pulled out his finger and plunged his tongue into her sheath, devouring her cream. His big, solid body shuddered from the pleasure of tasting her.

  Liana was still rolling her head, trying to regain her senses, when he moved and stretched his length on top of hers. Her nipples stabbed into his chest at every panting breath, every heave of her chest as she fought to breathe. Kavi was panting hard, air whooshing in and out of him as he took her legs by the ankles and looped them around his hips.