Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 103211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
“You did it because I asked you to!” Seline cried. “Because I would rather be beaten until I bleed than be dumped in that Box and raped over and over by those horrible ghosts!”
Nox shook his head.
“There’s no excuse. I should have taken you away from the Halls of Pain while I had the chance.”
“Lendrex wouldn’t have let us go—we’d probably both be dead right now if we’d tried to leave,” she pointed out.
“Maybe I’d rather be dead than have these feelings—these urges and cravings—this guilt and shame,” he snarled.
“Nox, don’t say that—you’re just not used to feeling yet!” Seline protested. “You can’t judge all emotions on the ones you’re having now. We’ve just been through a traumatic experience. We can’t—ouch!”
She had tried to move too quickly again, and the pain between her legs was sharp and extreme.
“Lay still!” Nox loomed over her, his eyes flashing.
“I…I’m sorry.” Seline had never been afraid of him before…but now she wasn’t sure what was going on. “What…what are you going to do?” she asked in a small voice.
“Heal you,” Nox growled. “Clearly this cool-cloth isn’t doing the job.”
He snatched the cloth away and leaned over her—his silver eyes scanning her body. “Your breasts and nipples are still sore,” he said and it wasn’t a question.
“Well…yes,” Seline admitted. “But I don’t know—”
“Just lie still,” he commanded. “I’m going to use my essence to heal you.”
Seline bit her lip.
“But…earlier when you were, uh, healing my pussy…I thought you said you didn’t dare to put your mouth on me because you would want to…”
“To Claim you? To fuck you and bite you and Bond you to me to make you mine?” he growled, glaring at her. “Yes, but that’s a chance I have to take. Because I must heal you—it’s the only way to make up for what I’ve done.”
“Oh…” Seline felt a rush of desire and need run through her. “Heal me then, Master,” she whispered, arching her back to offer him her bare breasts. “Heal me and start with my nipples—they’re still so tender…”
THIRTY-THREE
NOX
Nox didn’t know what he was doing—he only knew he had to heal her—had to make up for the pain he had caused. But first he couldn’t help looking at her.
Seline didn’t have what the humans considered a “perfect body.” She was full-figured and curvy for one thing—which Nox thought was fucking beautiful. She also had the lines in her flesh that he’d once heard a human woman call “stretch marks” in some areas. But to him she was the most tempting sight he’d ever seen—he couldn’t get enough of looking at her…except now it was time to taste her. To heal her.
Leaning over her, he cupped her lush, full breasts, noting the way they filled his hands. They were red from the marks of the crop—especially the tight, tender nipples. He decided to work from the outside in.
Putting out his tongue, he dragged it in a careful pattern around her right breast, circling inward towards her peak. Her skin was soft and slightly salty—delicious—and he could see the effects of the essence his fangs were producing almost at once. The redness began fading immediately—it was as though he was erasing the marks he’d made on her skin with his tongue.
But Nox knew he would never be able to erase the memory from his mind.
Pushing that thought aside, he sucked her tight nipple into his mouth, taking it as deep as he could, bracketing the tender peak with his fangs and bathing it with his essence.
“Ohhh!” Seline moaned and arched her back, almost as though she was offering him more—offering to give him anything he wanted—anything at all.
No—don’t think like that, he told himself sternly. She’s not for you—you’re a Dark Kindred and all these fucking feelings you’re having are wrong! The minute you get home you’ll be getting an emotion damper, so don’t even think of Bonding her to you!
Besides which, he knew for a fact that if he Bonded Seline to him, he risked getting her pregnant. And pregnant women couldn’t fold space—it wasn’t safe for the baby. And since folding space while using the Far Box was the only way to get home, Bonding was completely off the table.
But no matter how many reasons he gave himself, Nox couldn’t help wanting her. Now that the emotions inside him had come out of the box they’d apparently been locked away in, there seemed to be no controlling them.
He licked and sucked her other breast, taking her left nipple deep in his mouth and swirling his tongue around and around the tight peak, spreading his essence as Seline moaned and writhed beneath him.
But finally, he had done as much as he could to heal her breasts. Indeed, they looked perfectly fine—every mark he’d made on her tender skin had been erased.