he didn’t speak. I
appreciated his keeping out of it. “It did hurt me, to see you with someone
else. I didn’t know I could be jealous, but I’ve never had anyone for my own
before. You are my own. It’s like it’s imprinted on my skin.”
“Veronica, may I call you Roni?” Setterus spoke against my
lips and his body trembled. His words were different, but I heard it as, I
love you .
It was too soon to be in love, I knew that, but I nodded. He
let out a breath and his voice was urgent, needy when he replied, “Only mates
who are close give one another pet names. Please call me Seti. I will never be
with anyone else without your approval.”
I kissed him. With all my body pressed against him and
struggling to get closer, I let my feelings flow. His mouth opened and he
sucked my tongue into his mouth. My entire body lit up and I shivered with
pleasure.
He pulled away and I clutched his shoulders, trying to bring
him back. My nipples were hard again and my pussy grew wet, aching. I tried to
throw my leg around his hip, but he used his large, gorgeous hands to hold me
back. “Let’s clean up, first. Then to bed.”
“Bring her to the Gathering, Setterus.” Vorreka’s command
made me jerk. I’d forgotten he was here. “If you are to prove your breeding works,
that you can keep one mate, then bring her. Show everyone she’s carrying your
child in her womb, that she controls your sexual needs, and that a pairing will
work. It’s not done. Nothing less than a triad would be accepted.”
“But, she wouldn’t want that.” Seti had gotten to his feet
and reached down to help me up. Already, he knew me well. I really didn’t share
well.
“If we aren’t accepted, what could happen?” I faced Vorreka
with my hands on my hips and tried to forget I stood there naked. Seti was mine
and the urge to fight, to keep him, had already taken me over. He was mine. I
was keeping him. He’s the first thing I’d ever wanted for myself and I wouldn’t
let him go.
“The experiment could fail. We would lose this opportunity
to resolve our breeding issues. Now, it is uncommon to successfully breed one
of our own children. If our customs shun pairings, we could doom ourselves.”
I nodded and gripped Seti’s hand. “We’ll be there.”
Vorreka’s expression went dark and his smile sensual. “And
I’ll fuck you both.”
I blinked and opened my mouth to say something smart, but he
turned and left. Just walked right out the door nude and left my mouth watering
and my mouth aching to bite his tight ass.
“Will he be one of the friends we bring to our bed, Roni?”
Seti asked a bit breathlessly. My mate did have lustful feelings toward Vorreka
and I couldn’t blame him.
“Let me think about it.” I turned to him, finding that he
stared down at me, not at the door where Vorreka had just left. His eyes
glittered and he gave a gentle smile. I wanted him. Bad. I wanted his cock in
my mouth. In my cunt. Between my breasts. I wanted him to whimper and come in
my hand. “Where’s the shower?”
He fucked me against the wall of the shower and it was
glorious.
After, we got some sleep. Seti had promised to keep me wet
and clenching around his cock until he’d bred me or he had to return to his
duties. The hint that our interlude was almost over made me think hard about
this friend idea Vorreka had mentioned. I didn’t want to have sex with everyone
I ever saw, but I needed to fit into this world. I couldn’t stay in this room
for the rest of my life. I would, if that meant staying with Seti, but I began
to see Vorreka’s arguments. Now that I was here, recovered from the serum, the
anxiety about my future finally hit me like a blow to the chest.
Trying to work up how to tell Seti that I’d finally decided
to go to this Gathering—he’d explained it as like a big orgy where concubines
shared their milk with others, to allow breeding, if possible. But he didn’t
know if I were a concubine or not. Sharing was