Page 63 of Horns & Heart

“Your barb…” I had no idea how that weird thing would feel now, but a part of me wanted and needed it, craved it.

At the demand, Inkiri couldn’t hold himself back anymore.He slammed into me with a force that would probably bruise, but I didn’t care.I screamed all over again, another tremor of pleasure running through me.

I could feel it inside me when he came, so much of it, flooding me.His barb set in sooner this time than it had before.I felt that pinching deep inside me, riding that very subtle edge between pain and pleasure, but coming down on the side of pleasure in the end.

“Did I said I love you too?”I asked over the echoes of our panting.

“You said that.I heard it.I carry the words inside me now, Sadir.”

Inkiri lowered his body, shifted this way and that, and hugged me close, and by the end of it, we were lying side by side, our bodies connected by his barb.

“That’s good.”I slung my arm over him and lifted my leg higher up his hip.“What now?”

He clicked.“We wait until my barb goes down.”

I blushed beyond the red apple cheeks of orgasm.“No, I mean, like, what happened?And with the cola ash—I mean, the Koa Esher people.The gunfight… What happened at the Stone, and what do we do about it?”

“Ah.”Inkiri ran a hand over my hair and down the back of my head.“Vergis found out a few things, and we will talk about it.Not now.Not until the sun has fully risen.Until then, you’re mine, Rory.”

“Sounds good to me.”

I leaned in to press a kiss to his lips, wishing furiously that the sun would take its time.