Then, for the first time, I felt it. Felt her feeding off my pleasure, the beast sucking it from me even as it pushed me past any boundary I’d ever before experienced.
In that moment, I would have given it all to her.
But something new inside me resisted. It pushed back. I pulled my lips from hers, and said, “Now, Angel.” I didn’t recognize my own voice. “Now, you will give, as well as take.
I sensed her stiffen, still wrapped around me. She pulled her face away, her jaw jutting forward.
You will give, as well as take,I pushed through the link.Say it back to me.
Her lips moved, but she made no sound.
“Louder,” I demanded. “You will give, as well as take.”
She swallowed, and I saw the barest hint of Anna peer through the beast. “I will give, as well as take,” she whispered.
“Say it like you mean it,” I demanded.
The tip of her tongue appeared to lick her lips. Some glow faded from her eyes. Then, she stated, “I will give.”
And the floodgates opened.
I gasped as the energy pulsed into me, sending me into another impossible round of ecstasy, my body going from half-hard to completely rigid in an instant and then, over the edge, wave after wave both feeding me, and exploding from me.
It took her with me, again, gasping and shuddering, until she collapsed on top of me.
I slipped my fingers into her hair, pulled her close, and turned my face into it, inhaling hard. Which was when I realized she was crying.
“Hey, Angel. It’s okay. We’re sweet.”
“I know,” she whispered. “That’s why I’m crying.”
28
Talakai
“Watch out!” I yelped as the vehicle swerved across the lanes.
I wasn’t a yelper, ordinarily, but I also wasn’t accustomed to being at the complete mercy of a lunatic behind the wheel of a two-ton metal contrivance.
Haki turned, and we missed the elderly resident by inches. She waved her cane at us and shouted something that was probably rude.
I didn’t actually blame her. I was cursing too.
As morning had now dawned in this realm, we had our cloaks pulled up around our faces. The locals were, judging by the crowd, morning creatures as well as humanoid, with two arms and legs and golden skin. Their eyes were massive in their faces, while their noses were quite small. They hovered an average of six feet but had thin, wiry frames.
Needless to say, with our broad shoulders and close to seven-foot heights, we didn’t fit in. At least the vehicle hid some of our differences.
For as long as we would continue to live, anyway. I wasn’t certain that it would be for an extended period.
Haki’s fingers were white on the narrow wheel, and he reached down to shift the gears with a distinct grinding noise.
“Jacques would not be happy,” I pointed out.
“He’ll only be unhappy if he knows. And he won’t,” Haki replied cheerfully. “These things are a little different from the ones I’d driven before. Those didn’t have gears.” He manipulated the lever again with similar results.
Jacques’s vehicle was a transport with two front seats and a large, contained storage area in back. It had been built by the locals. As such, it lacked both sufficient height and width. I brushed shoulders with Haki as we swerved into the other lane.
Good thing I liked the guy.
