Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 24908 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 83(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 24908 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 83(@300wpm)
“No, not the same as your family by choice as you say.” I lean her back, arching her neck, holding her steady as I lower my face to hers. “Mine means you belong to me. Mine means I will take care of you forever. Mine means I will protect you with my life. Mine means…forever, Emmie. You are my mate and you are mine.”
She trembles like a leaf in the wind and the seed my body has saved for her for three hundred years seeps from the tip of my dick and down my leg. I feel my second cock come alive as well, being this close to her. I’ve yet to see the glow, meaning she is not in a fertile time, but that will come. And so will both of us.
“You should kiss me,” she whispers, sweet, warm breath against my lips.
“I will not be skilled,” I admit. “I have never kissed before. It is hard for me to judge what I can do and not harm you. You are delicate, small, and if you are hurt, I—”
“Just put your lips on mine and we will figure it out from there. But, yeah, those tusks…” She winks. “Like I said, we’ll figure it out…”
I capture her mouth with mine, tilting my head, working my tongue between her lips, tasting her sweetness and knowing in that instant I will never tire of this kissing. Her flavor spreads through me, sweet like smilak and warm like the morning sun. She lightens the darkness I’ve carried for so long. Makes me believe in a future I never imagined before her.
Her breath is warm on my face as I devour her in the passion of the kiss. My mating instinct rages inside of me as a feeling I’ve never had before envelops me from the inside out.
Love.
Orcs did not speak of it for so long it was almost forgotten. But, it comes back like an ancient wave. I will love her. I do love her. She is my heart, the part of my soul I did not think I brought back from Iriaza.
I run a hand down from her neck, feeling her heart thump, thump, thump against my palm before slipping under the silk of her robe and gripping the weight of her breast, groaning into our kiss as her heels slide around the backs of my thighs, pulling me in.
She moans as I squeeze—
“By the gods!” A deep voice and raucous laughter break into my perfect moment from over my shoulder.
I turn to see five orcs of my clan standing in the front living area, laughing and watching.
Red haze clouds my vision. “Get out! Why don’t you knock?” I roar as Emmie gathers her robe over her chest, wiggling out from where she sits and hopping down from the counter.
“Orcs don’t knock.” Ridak says and fury envelops me, but he is right, we don’t. “Besides, it is time to work, every morning for a week we are here like you said. If we are late, you are an asshole.”
A low cry comes through the open door.
“Darrell,” Emmie says, craning her neck to look out the window. “Oh, geez. He’s been trying to learn how to ride that bike, looks like he fell. I gotta—” She gives me a sad look. “I gotta go.”
She darts out the back door, leaving me standing against the counter with my crew watching, my dick hard and my heart breaking.
Chapter
Four
Emmie
I kept to myself most of the rest of yesterday. Tigor worked with his crew into the night but stopped by midnight and then blessed silence.
I watched him from the house and the garden, and I saw him watching me back, but I think maybe things got a little hot a little fast and he’s probably seeing things differently. I did hear him splashing about in his pool during the night, grunting and grumbling as I tossed and turned in my bed.
The looping tension that ramped up when he kissed me yesterday tortured me all day. When I listened to him in the pool, I crept to the window, looking out to see him naked, sitting in the shallow end, leaning against the wall, chin lowered like he was sleeping, but geez, his cock wasn’t.
I should have been mad that my next-door neighbor swims naked with a hella hard-on, but from my understanding, orcs don’t see nudity in the same uptight, puritan way as humans do. It makes sense. They are mated beings so seeing another orc naked that is not your mate wouldn’t be any thrill.
Still, that dick of his is visible from space and I probably should ask him to keep it under cover. More so for Darrell than for me, because I’ll admit, I could look at it all day.
Watching him roiled up all those fluttery lusty feelings and I couldn’t help but have a little me time, kneeling by the window, rubbing myself through my panties. It didn’t take much before I spun into a chirping, small orgasm. While I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to keep it quiet, I heard a loud growl and a splash from Tigor’s back yard.