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  “Gods!” Dru’s hips bucked upward involuntarily, jerking in response to the gentle, teasing pleasure she was giving him.

  Annie gasped as she felt his thickness invade her even more deeply and suddenly the little bump under her fingers was gone.

  “Don’t move!” Dru’s deep voice was harsh and desperate. “Be completely still, Annie.”

  “Why? What…what happened?” God, had she thought he was in her deeply before? That was nothing—after that last, involuntary thrust she knew she had never been so completely filled and it was perfect.

  “I think…think my Pleasure Barb slipped inside you.” Dru’s voice was hoarse. “You need to hold completely still while I try to pull it out of you. If you move, even an inch, the barb will pierce your flesh and begin injecting you with my mating and pleasure compounds.”

  “But I don’t want you to pull out,” Annie protested. “Please, Dru—I’m finally starting to feel better. What if…” She bit her lip and looked at him appealingly. “What if we just sat still so I could feel you in me for a little while? Please?”

  “I don’t know,” Dru growled. “It could be dangerous. If either of us moves so much as a fraction the barb could engage.”

  “Please,” Annie pleaded again. “Let me just sit here and feel you inside me—just for a minute.”

  “Well…” He shook his head and groaned. “Gods, teeska, I can deny you nothing. All right, but just for a minute.”

  “Thank you, Dru.” She leaned forward carefully and kissed him on the mouth and at the same time, she used her inner muscles to squeeze the long, hard shaft inside her. God, it felt good to have him filling her up like this!

  But it could feel better, whispered the naughty voice in her head. If only he would thrust a little…or maybe if you rocked on him some.

  But Annie had promised not to do anything to cause the big Kindred’s Pleasure Barb to engage and she swore to herself she would keep her promise.

  Dru returned her kiss with interest and then pulled back carefully.

  “Gods, Annie—you’re so tight all around me,” he groaned. “Being so deep inside you without moving is damn hard. Do you think you’ve had enough yet?”

  “Just a little more,” Annie begged softly. “And could…do you think you could suck my nipples again while you’re in me? I think maybe my breasts are filling up again and it’s really painful.”

  “I can if you’re careful,” Dru growled. “Come here and give me your beautiful breasts to suck, teeska.”

  He was half-sitting/half laying back against the pillows propped against the headboard so Annie leaned over him and fed him one of her ripe tips. She was almost certain that the movement would cause his barb to slide out of her but to her surprise, the Pleasure Barb stayed planted firmly inside her as Dru sucked her tingling nipples.

  “Better now?” he asked at last, letting her pink point slide from between his lips. “Gods, the nectar you make is sweet! I know it gives you pain but I cannot help loving to suck it out of your full breasts.”

  “I’m glad you don’t mind helping me,” Annie murmured. “And I think I’m feeling better now. If we just—”

  Just then a tiny bark startled her. With a gasp, she turned her head and saw Nutter Butter on the floor beside the bed, looking up at her with his bright, ink-spot eyes and wagging his teeny tail.

  “Nutter Butter!” she exclaimed. “How did you get out of your nut and all the way in here? Did you climb down a towel or something?” She turned back to Dru. “I have to get him—he could get into trouble down there.”

  “No, wait,” he protested but Annie was already starting to get off him.

  And that was when she felt it—the fleshy barb suddenly and painlessly hooked into her, just inside the mouth of her pussy. A sudden rush of intense pleasure took her by surprise and Annie fell back, gasping as a whirl-wind orgasm suddenly rushed through her.

  “Oh Gods, Annie!” Dru’s head was thrown back, the cords on his thick neck standing out as he tried not to move. “Gods, I can feel you coming all around me…squeezing my shaft. Gods, I can’t help it…I’m so close to taking you.”

  “Just do it,” Annie moaned. “It’s too late, Dru—too late to stop. Just take me—just fuck me.”

  And bracing her palms on the hard planes of his chest, she lifted herself up and then sat back down hard, deliberately pushing him deep and hard inside her.

  Dru seemed to go a little wild then. Annie saw his eyes slit open, revealing the Drake’s flames, and then he flipped her over and spread her thighs wide, his thickness still buried inside her.

  “You want me to fuck you, teeska?” he growled, taking a hard grip on her legs. “Want me to fill you will my barb and my seed and breed you?”

  “God, yes!” Annie moaned. This was what she needed, she suddenly understood. Not just to be filled and penetrated but to be fucked—completely and utterly taken. And Dru was certainly doing that.

  With a low growl he pulled out and slammed back into her, making Annie gasp and cry for more. With each hard thrust the barb lodged inside her gave her a new injection of pleasure compounds so every time she felt the head of his cock giving the mouth of her womb a rough kiss, it triggered another mini-orgasm.

  She had never been into rough sex before but this time she couldn’t get enough. Besides, Dru wasn’t exactly being rough now—just extremely thorough.

  He’s Claiming me, she thought deliriously. Making sure I’m his completely—marking me as his own.

  Dru’s eyes were shining with golden light now as he looked down into her face.

  “Going to come soon, Annie,” he growled hoarsely as he kept up his steady, deep rhythm inside her pussy. His voice had that deep double echo and she knew his Drake was there too, just under the surface, taking her along with Dru. “Going to fill your pussy with my seed and tie us together forever. Is that what you want? Because if it is not, tell me now while I can still pull out.”

  In answer, Annie locked her legs around his trim waist and pulled him closer.

  “I don’t care,” she panted as he thrust into her. “Don’t care where we go or what we do as long as we’re together. Finish it, Dru—bond me to you!”

  “Gods, I want to, too,” he groaned. “I should not do it—I should give you more time to think. But I cannot help myself, Annie—I want you.”

  With a last, low growl, he thrust himself inside her as hard and deep as he could and Annie gasped as she felt hot wetness spurting inside her. It seemed to trigger another one of those mini orgasms inside her and she could feel her body tensing, drawing his seed deeper into her pussy, welcoming it into her womb.

  Coming, she thought as the pleasure overwhelmed her. He’s coming inside me…making me his. Tying us together for ever.

  “That’s right, sweetheart—that is exactly what I am doing.”

  Dru’s voice seemed to come from inside her head this time. He leaned down and kissed her hard, taking her mouth ruthlessly as he finished shooting inside her.

  Then Annie heard another voice in her head—a deep, familiar one.

  “Mine,” growled the Drake. “Mine at last!”

  “Ours,” Dru corrected his other half. “Annie is ours forever now.”

  Annie felt a warm rush of love and belonging.

  “Yes,” she sent back to the man she loved and the beast that lived inside him. “Yes, I’m yours forever and I love you both.”

  Twenty-Four

  Far above Annie and Dru in the Mother Ship, strange things were happening—though no one exactly knew it yet.

  Sophie, who was sitting comfortably curled up on her couch, sniffed the air and looked at her twin sister, Liv.

  “Do you smell that? Something sweet? Like candy.”

  “Smells like…marshmallows. And caramel.” Liv put down the knitting needles she’d been using. Knitting was a new hobby, one she and Sophie were trying together.

  “And chocolate! Is someone baking something?” Kat threw her need