her and her sister.
Harken pulled her hand away from the frame, and she looked up at him, gauging his contempt.
There was no contempt in his gaze, but tears streamed down his cheeks.
With a trembling hand, she reached up and wiped at the tracks. “I made it through. The Alliance healed the irregularly knit broken bones, and I am now better than I was before I came to space.”
His tears still fell, so she went up on her toes and kissed one side of his face and then the other before pressing a soft kiss on his lips. “Thank you for your tears. It means a lot to me. More than you know.”
In her entire life, only one other person had ever shed a tear for what she had been through, and her sister had quickly learned to forget that anything had ever happened.
With arthritis in the once-broken bones, her life had been pain and quiet servitude. When she entered the Volunteer project, her pain was removed, but the servitude was still part of the package.
Idara lowered herself back to a standing position, but she stumbled forward when Harken pulled her to him. His kiss was not sweet or soft, but demanding and insistent. To her shock, she felt herself responding.
A flare of light rippled around them, and she was pressed to the wall of her own apartment, her body held to the stone by Harken’s body and her balance maintained by her legs around his waist.
She pressed against his shoulders, and he broke the kiss. “What are you doing?”
He grinned and pressed his lips against her neck. “Courting you.”
She squirmed against him as he licked, nipped and sucked his way from the left to the right. “This is a courtship for the Admaryn?”
He worked her suit open with the tips of his long fingers. “Since we are now as good as extinct, I would say that we were doing it wrong. What do you think?”
He cupped one breast and thumbed her nipple while his lips continued to torment her neck.
Idara stopped thinking as her body took over, arching into the hard ridge in his trousers. Admaryn were supposed to be compatible with Terrans, and she wanted desperately to find out precisely how compatible.
Her breath was coming in and out of her lungs, and a high-pitched whine burst from her throat when he exposed both of her breasts completely and used his mouth on first one, then the other. The wet heat spurred her body into reacting, and her hips ground against him in a slow twist.
His snow-white hair cascaded over her hands when she wove her fingers through it. The cool silk contrasted against the heat of his mouth, and she started a convulsive shiver that rippled through her and made her clench her hands against his scalp.
Harken chuckled against her skin, and he lifted her away from the wall, walking through her apartment before peeling the bodysuit to her waist.
She clutched at him when he tilted her back, but his hands swiftly unbuckled both of her belts before he peeled off the rest of her suit.
Idara shivered as he removed his clothing faster than she could see.
Ominous was a good word for a dark Admaryn when he was approaching with sex on his mind. His starry eyes were intense, the stalk of his cock was insistent, and it curved upward toward his flat, muscled belly.
He moved to cover her, rubbing his skin along every inch of hers until his slick cock was wedged in her equally moist opening. He rocked against her, spreading the lips of her sex wide with each thrust.
Idara stared up at him, wide-eyed as he began to work his way into her, inch by inch.
Her lips twitched when she realized that there were a few more inches than she had bargained for.
“How is the courtship from your end? From mine, I had not expected it to be so hot and tight.”
She blushed. “There is more to this than I had anticipated. Much more.”
He grinned and worked his hips against her until she moved with him in counterpoint.
Together, they shifted, rocked, twisted and moved against each other until she was panting with each thrust, and