Say it, my thoughts snarled. She will choose you, another voice soothed. When she's ready, came a warning whisper.

"Khell!" Sunny gasped, her eyes wide, almost frightened, legs shaking and trembling.

She lifted a hand from the earth, reached for me, and I fell upon her. I took her lips without consideration for my tusks on her fragile skin. My arms wrapped around her back, crushing her to my chest and knowing she could bear my strength. I buried my hips as close to hers as she could take, stretching her to her limits as my stav expanded painfully in my cock, and then my orgasm exploded into her.

It was obscene, filthy. Sunny was crying out, her voice swallowed by my mouth, shaking in my arms as I filled her with burst after burst of seed until it was splashing against us both, spilling out between us onto the cloak. A mating's worth of cum, painting Sunny in my scent to warn others away, to mark her as mine.

Mine, and not mine.

I would let her leave tomorrow and then I would be fired from MSA, or at the very least, I would have to quit. I belonged to Sunny now.

Sunny let out a high sigh, wiggling beneath me. I grunted, and another almost painful jet of release shot into her, making her gasp.

"Holy fuck, Khell," she whispered, giggling slightly.

I growled and bundled Sunny in my arms, hiding my face in her hair, keeping us locked together. Impulsively, I tilted her hips a little higher, trying to prevent any of my seed left in her from leaving. She wouldn't get pregnant, we were both covered, but I wanted her filled to the brim with me.

Sunny moaned, a strong aftershock shuddering through her, and her arms circled my shoulders, her cheek rubbing against my throat, flushed and warm and soft.

It was on the tip of my tongue again to tell her what had just passed, what she was to me now, if not what we were to each other.

Then she shivered, and the mating bond rallied a list of what needed done. Wrap Sunny up and get her inside, preferably all the way into the bed without my cock having to leave her silky wet heat. Get her water, food, fuck her until she couldn't speak or move, until she couldn't even think. And tomorrow, I would have to let her leave.

There was no possible reason she would find me again, although the bond would call me closer to her, so maybe—

Don't hope. Just be what Sunny needs. Until tomorrow, when she needs you to let her leave.

CHAPTER 16

Sunny

Something was different. I wasn't sure if something was wrong exactly, only that it wasn't…quite right.

"Khell?" I breathed, my voice hoarse from how much I'd been babbling and begging all day, gasping and shouting praises, whimpering and whining.