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Chest to chest, my hands holding her thighs, I carried my mate back to my room under the amused stares of the tribe. A few hummed a nuptial hymn as I walked past them. I might have ‘accidentally’ tossed some sand their way with my tail.

My stomach fluttered as I carefully lay her down on the bed. Mirella had been wearing what she called a summer dress, with thin straps on her shoulders. It was so much easier to remove from her. She’d also taken to wearing a sports bra, sparing me the headache of detaching the other bras that used to drive me insane.

I plucked a leaf from the vines in my leinis and brought it to her lips. Mirella opened her mouth to receive it and started chewing. Seconds later, her pupils dilated. Unlike the Edocits, our leaves didn’t act like a recreational drug, but they enhanced every sense and boosted the endocrine system. Once we bonded, it would help her body assimilate my bonding fluids and ease her mutation.

I tried not to think about the next few days. If not for Lily having gone through the process first, I’d be even more worried about things possibly going awry. However, Lily was an Edocit, not a human. She’d had a significant head start in terms of adaptation. I had to keep reminding myself that Mirella and I were soulmates. The Goddess wouldn’t have paired us if we weren’t compatible.

As my woman lay naked on the bed, I feasted my eyes on her beauty. This was the last time I would see her this way. A part of me mourned that inevitable loss even as I rejoiced at the enhancements that would allow her to fully become one of us.

I worshiped every centimeter of her body, searing into my mind the memory of the softness of her human skin, the wondrous texture of her nipples, and how they hardened under my attentions. I savored the delectable taste of her essence on my tongue as I licked and sucked on her clitoris. As the divine sound of her moans filled my ears, I paid homage to each of her sensitive spots.

From gently raking my claws down her back or behind her thighs, to sucking and nipping at that sweet spot in the crook of her neck, each one received the attention it deserved. Naturally, I made sure to rub the bundle of nerves inside her until she was writhing and shouting my name.

By the Goddess, she was beautiful!

Being herself a very generous lover, my Mirella reciprocated, caressing and kissing my body with something akin to reverence. I would never tire of the way she traced my yevins with her tongue, sucked on my gills, and gently bit my nipples. Each of her caresses felt like the rays of the sun at its zenith, warming me to the bone and setting my blood on fire. No female had ever made me feel this loved, this desired, this beautiful.

A rattling cry escaped me as the inferno of her mouth wrapped around my length. Mirella bobbed over me as if I was a divine treat she just couldn’t get enough of. She knew exactly how to swirl her tongue around the head just the way I liked it. At regular intervals, my mate would graze her teeth against the ridges covering the upper half of my stem, sending lightning sparks flying in my nether region. She’d even discovered that massaging the upper edge of my deila, right at the base of my stem, was insanely erogenous. Naturally, she made sure to exploit that sensitivity until I came apart for her.

As was her wont, my mate swallowed every drop, stroking me with such dexterity that she had me hardening even before I fully recovered from the climax she gave me. With a satisfied smirk, Mirella climbed on top of me.

Our gazes locked, she rubbed her sex over mine, coating me with her essence. By now, with my leaf she’d eaten in full effect, her pupils were so dilated, they almost fully swallowed the purplish-blue irises. They were like wide open doors into the most beautiful soul, beckoning me in. I didn’t resist their call.

Mirella lowered herself onto my stem with careful movements until we were one. My deila instantly kicked into action, stimulating her little nub as she adjusted to me. Crayek! How I loved the blissful expression on her face whenever I gave her pleasure! Soon, she began moving over me in a sensual dance where nothing else mattered but the two of us.

As passion built, I thrust upwards into her, eventually taking over by flipping us around. I didn’t mind letting her take the lead from time to time and surrendering myself to her. But the dominant side of me loved having Mirella pinned beneath me as I lost myself in her. I also craved her hands on my back, the searing heat of her skin against mine, and admiring the radiant halo of her golden hair splayed over the mattress.

Our first orgasm built slowly, matching our tender love making. We cried out in unison, my tail and spine seizing as I filled her with my seed. I didn’t stop my rocking motions, and my erratic movements steadied as I hardened again.

The back of my throat tingled while my glands swelled with bonding fluids. A dull ache radiated around my teeth as my fangs descended to claim my bride. I bared them for her to see. Her eyes widened in understanding. The look of pure love that descended over her features wrecked me.

“Are you ready to be one with me?” I whispered.

“Yes, Taelen. Now and always,” Mirella responded.

“My love,” I said before reclaiming her mouth in a passionate kiss.

Our tongues mingled for a while before I finally broke the kiss. My lips brushed along her jawline and down to her neck. I kissed and sucked the sensitive spot there, making her shiver and moan with delight.

And then I sank my fangs into the fleshy part at the base of her neck. Mirella cried out from the initial burn of my bonding fluids entering her body. I rammed myself in and remained still, pinning her beneath me as my deila vibrated with renewed intensity. The pleasure distracted her from the initial discomfort. But as my fluids spread through her, Mirella began touching and caressing me with something verging on desperation.

Even when I resumed moving in and out of her, my mate would lift her pelvis to meet me thrust for thrust, her hands feverishly roaming over me and raking my back with near savagery. The blissful burn resonated straight in my stem, fanning the fire in my loins.

And then she bit my gills.

It was as if a lightning bolt exploded in my nether region. I roared, and something snapped inside of me. I started pounding into her as she writhed beneath me, spurring me on, demanding more, and begging me to wreck her. And wreck her, I did…

The violence of the climax that swept us both away felt as if my spine had been ripped right out of my back. The room spun as a mix of ecstasy and exquisite pain overwhelmed me. I continued pumping in and out of my female’s feverish body—who was rocked by the spasms of bliss—until I was fully spent. I collapsed on top of her, shaking with endless waves of pleasure before rolling on the side and gathering her into my arms.

“I love you, my mate,” I whispered, holding her tightly against me.

Sprawled on top of me, boneless, she didn’t respond with words but by tightening her embrace around me. As our heart beats settled down, her skin heated until it settled at a notably higher temperature than normal before remaining steady.

With much reluctance, I lay her on her back as she fought to remain conscious.

“Sleep, my love. The dawn of your new life awaits,” I said before kissing her one last time.

As she fell into a deep coma, I fetched some water and a cloth to wash her before spending the longest night of my life watching over her.