Prime Selection (36 page)

Nadia shoved him onto his back and straddled him. “But this time I’m on top.”

Rolling her hips forward, she pressed her swollen clit and pussy lips against his stiffened cock and rubbed herself up and down his length, spreading her moisture, marking his cock as hers.

Huw’s intent, golden gaze fixed on her face, he opened his mouth. She caught the protest forming in his mind and leaned over. Cupping his face with her hands, she kissed him, swallowing his words.

Damn his alpha-Prime-male hide. He wanted to be on top. Obviously, the sex surrogates who’d taught him how to do the deed were all meek and submissive. She was not meek, and her peers and enemies could all attest to the fact she sure as hell wasn’t submissive.

She broke off the kiss and Huw inhaled. His body tightened under her as he prepared to roll her over and take control. “Enh. Forget all that crap about always being in control.

We’re partners in everything now and that goes for our sex lives also. Let me show you how a battle-mate makes love to her
gemat
.”

His body still tight with suppressed sexual urges, Huw said nothing. He lay quiescent and looked at her, his hands idly stroking her ass. His touch made her shiver. Yeah, her man was dominant as hell. The images in his head made her pussy clench and her clit throb. She readily admitted to herself she didn’t need to be on top all the time.

But this time, she did. Her man had to learn she could hold her own and had her own fantasies. One was riding him, controlling all that male potency even for a short time.

And, God knew, she could only do so if he allowed it. Huw could overpower her at any second—and they both knew it. Whatever control she had, he consented to. And wasn’t that what being partners was all about? The ceding of control?

His mind-touch stroked along their connection and he smiled. A sexy, shit-eating grin which told her he’d once again picked up on some of her fantasies. He squeezed an ass cheek with one big, hot hand. “We’ll definitely try that later. I love your ass and am more than happy to give you what you need. Claim me, Nadia. Show me what it is to be your man.” He slapped her butt. “Since I’ll be the only man who ever has you in his bed.”

Nadia released his face and began trailing biting, sucking kisses along his neck and shoulders. “My only man.”

She slid down until her lips found his
gemat
marking. It glowed and swirled in a hypnotizing pattern of gold, red, black, and white. She traced the intricate pattern with her tongue. Her own marking heated, and she imagined it mimicking the colors and motion of Huw’s.

Huw groaned and swore under his breath, but did nothing to stop her. She touched his mind and found a predator lying in wait, ready to pounce. Well, the prey wasn’t ready to be taken yet. The predator would have to wait his turn.

“Huw, am I too heavy?” Her body lay upon his full length, her legs lying between his, her arms bracing her slightly above him, and their lower abdomens skin to skin.

“No. Your weight is nothing. Why?” He stroked her back from the nape of her neck, down her spine, to the top of the crease in her bottom. His hand lingered, teasing and tantalizing her butt before he trailed his fingers back up to her nape. Over and over he petted her, slowly and surely driving her arousal ever higher.

Nadia shuddered and scrambled to find the words to answer. She had a plan and his stroking wouldn’t dissuade her from its successful execution. “Because I intend to be on top of you for a while.”

She pinched a male nipple and smiled at his sharp inhalation of breath. “So, that means, you’re not to take over unless I tell you to.” She scored his nipple with her teeth.

“I want to lick and bite and touch you all over. It’s my turn to arouse you until you scream my name.”

He frowned and lifted her chin, forcing her to look up. “I always shout your name when I come.”

“Not the same, big man—” Grinning, Nadia rotated her hips on top of him; she felt both their pleasure at the move zing along their mate-bond. He growled; the powerful rumble expanded his chest and she rode the motion like a sea creature rode a wave.

“Because by that time, you’ve already had me begging for release and screaming your name many times and—”

“And swearing with words I’ve never heard before.” Huw raised his head, nipped her lower lip, and then kissed away the hurt. “You, my
cwen
, are very foul-mouthed when you come.”

“Never before you.” At his look of shock, she explained. “No man has ever made me come as hard as you have. Only you have driven me to the point of begging and swearing. Only you.” She brushed a light kiss over his mark. It pulsed against her lips.

Huw’s immense pleasure at her admission was a living, breathing thing inside and all around her. His emotions wrapped her in a golden, hot glow until she couldn’t separate her essence from his. It was the same feeling she’d had the first time they’d orgasmed together and cemented their bond.

“Take what is yours, my
gemate lubha
. Show me how you love me.” Huw placed his hands by his head, a motion of surrender in most cultures in the galaxy.

Tears of joy teased the corner of her eyes. She knew what it had taken for Huw to cede control. She read it in his mind, sensed it in his still-taut muscles. He fought the primal need to claim—for her.

“I do love you, Huw.” She undulated her body along his. “With my body, heart, and soul.”

Huw’s eyes glittered, but he said nothing. His molten hot gaze traced her body. His lips tightened, and he emitted a low rumble like a giant cat’s rough purr. He asked to be stroked and stroke she would.

Nadia turned her attention back to his chest. It was a wide expanse of muscle covered in bronzed skin and a light dusting of dark hair. His nipples were puckered into tight peaks and his mark was sizzling and swirling like a kaleidoscope in nonstop motion.

Her lips twisted into a slight smile.
Mine. All mine.

Bracing herself on one elbow, she rubbed her cheek from nipple to nipple, occasionally pausing to nuzzle and kiss the warm smooth skin. Turning her head slightly, she licked a male bud delicately, making it wet, before taking it between her lips and suckling it. He tasted clean and spicy, something uniquely Huw; it reminded her of the pure sea salt found only on Earth and some citrusy herb.

Leaving the one nub, now reddened from her lips, she nuzzled her way to the base of his throat and inhaled again. His scent had made her pussy ache from the first time she’d met him. She licked the hollow at the base of his throat. More salt. More citrus. And something earthy, musky.

“God, you taste so good. So hot.” She licked her way from his throat to the neglected male nipple after making a quick lick over his marking. She suckled the other nipple until it was as red as its mate. “Do you taste this good all over, hmm?”

“Why don’t you find out?” Huw purred the words. His body twitched under her, and his heart rate increased as she licked around his
gemat
mark without touching the mark itself.

“Does my mark look exactly like yours when we’re aroused?” Nadia pushed up from him until only her lower body was meeting his.

Huw’s gaze zeroed in on her
gemate
mark. His nostrils flared and his constant low purr turned into a louder, more guttural buzz-saw growl. She looked down and was amazed at the sight of her marking moving and glowing just as Huw’s was.

Before she realized what he was doing, Huw brought one hand down to cover her mark, the heel of his hand massaging it.

“Huw!” Nadia pulled away from the incendiary touch. She took his arm and shoved it back toward his head. “No touching. Not yet—and especially not like that. I could come from that touch alone.”

Huw’s lips twisted into a naughty grin. “That’s the point. I can make you come—you can make me come—at any time just by rubbing the marks that make us one. Prime”— his voice lowered to a sexy murmur—“are very sexual creatures with their mates.”

“I’m getting that message.” Nadia ached like a son of a bitch. She sensed Huw could come at any time. But she didn’t want either of them to gain pleasure until she’d reached the one goal, the ultimate destination in her master plan to be on top of this magnificent male creature who was her mate. “But it might be nice to try another way, a Terran way to reach the same goal.”

Huw’s forehead creased. “What way is this?”

Nadia smiled. “Let me show you.”

She slithered her way up Huw’s body again and then retreated, brushing her body all along his until her face was in line with his thick erection. All through the hours of sex they’d shared, she’d felt his cock in her, but hadn’t had the chance to explore it in all its glory.

“Your cock is the most beautiful cock I’ve ever seen.” She breathed hot moist air over the tip of his cock as she fisted his base in one hand and cupped his balls in her other. Precum glistened on his purpled glans. “Like that?” She licked the pearly fluid away, cleaning his cockhead thoroughly. His cum was salty and sweet like a taffy she’d once had on Mars.

“Oh,
Diew
! Yes-s-s-s!” Huw’s words came out on a sibilant hiss of pleasure. “More … please.”

“Oh, baby, this is what I’ve wanted to do ever since I felt you in me the first time.”

She ran her teeth lightly down the heavily veined column of his cock. “I love sucking cock.”

A stream of Prime words flowed from Huw. Nadia couldn’t understand most of the words, but suspected they were both foul and praising. She took him in her mouth and hummed. Another spate of words. His hands were on her head, holding her. She sucked him in and out of her mouth using only her facial muscles.

Huw used his hands to force her to move more vigorously on his cock. She let him since it was what she wanted to do.

Hunched over his loins, she fondled his balls with one hand, balls so big she could barely hold onto both of them, and fucked his cock with her mouth. Huw set the rhythm, but when she sensed his balls tightening to come, she released his balls. Then she squeezed and pulled at the base of his cock, stopping the climax.

Huw roared above her head. “What…?”

She released her grip on the base of his shaft and began the rhythm Huw had shown her once more. This time her other hand stroked the seam running down his ball sac with little forays to his perineum. And as he was about to come, she stopped him again.

Huw’s growls were now mixed with groans. In between the sounds, he muttered, “Please,
lubha
… good,
Diew
, it is so good …
ansu bhau
, Nadia, just wait…” His words disintegrated into streams of Prime words and her name.

Smiling around her mouthful of cock, Nadia dared to tempt the beast lying under the surface of Huw’s iron control. God knew her man was being so good. Time to let the beast roar. Her own arousal was near boiling. Every time she’d stopped Huw’s pleasure, she’d stopped hers.

Both of them needed release—and she’d made her point. Each of them had the right to tease and pleasure the other. Sex was a mutual endeavor, a rarefied balancing act of dominance and submission.

Suckling him strongly, she slipped a finger wet from the saliva coating his cock and balls into his ass.

Huw bellowed and withdrew from her mouth. The room swirled as he flipped her over and placed her under him. With an arm braced by her shoulder and one hand under her ass, he lifted her hips up and plunged into her wet and ready sex with one firm thrust.

And then they came.

Nadia arched up and into his pounding hips. She would later swear her mind and soul soared into the outermost reaches of the universe. Huw shouted her name as he engulfed her essence within his, anchoring her. They floated on a solar wind of pure pleasure as they came and came until neither could come any longer.

She must have slipped into sleep, because the next thing she was aware of was Huw nuzzling her neck just below her ear. His words of apology had her jerking awake. She tilted her head and looked down at his dark head as he nibbled his way along her shoulder. “What are you apologizing for?”

Huw raised his head. “For taking away your control. For taking over.”

She looped her arms around his neck and pulled his head toward hers until they touched nose to nose. “You took nothing, my
gemat.
My love. I gave. Each of us took and each of us gave. That is love Terran-style.”

Huw rubbed his nose gently across hers. Even that touch transmitted to their still joined bodies. “I adore you, Nadia Petrovich-Caradoc.”

Nadia would’ve replied in kind, but her man stopped her by taking her lips with his and beginning to make love to her all over again.

Amid the bustle and white noise of the Command Deck, Nadia sat at her station and began the task of fine-tuning the ship’s long-range sensors. Her end goal was to determine the exact types of power sources the enemy ships used. If the energy signatures proved to be of the correct type, the beta-protean weapon could be used against them.

The weapon had been recently tested and proven reliable after an attack on the
Galanti;
it interrupted the engine function of the enemy ships and, as a result, cut all power to the weapon systems and shields. The beta-protean weapon didn’t affect stored energy, and thus, backup battery systems would still be effective to power basic emergency systems and preserve life. Unfortunately, the weapon only worked on certain types of nuclear fission power sources which were used primarily by freighters, passenger ships, and older, decommissioned military ships.