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  The slow, delicious fucking continued for a long time but gradually it began to speed up. Mei-Li wasn’t sure if she was thrusting faster or if Six was, but the pleasure was building inside her again and she knew it wouldn’t be long before she came.

  Six seemed to be close as well. He closed his eyes briefly, a look of almost painful concentration coming over his face.

  “Gods,” he whispered tightly. “Mei-Li, I wish to give you pleasure but I am… very close to losing myself in you. I want…I need…”

  “You need to come, Six,” she told him, moving her hips in time to the rhythm. “You need to let go and let yourself come. I’m close too…God!” she moaned at a particularly deep thrust. “Come with me—let’s finish this together.”

  “I want to.” His eyes were half-lidded with lust, yet still filled with indecision. “I want to but I should not allow myself to come inside you…to fill you with my seed.”

  “That’s exactly what you need to do,” Mei-Li assured him breathlessly. “Come in me, Six. Fill me up—I want all of you inside me. Now.”

  As she spoke, she pressed down hard, taking him as deeply inside her as she could. At the same moment, Six thrust up, his thick shaft penetrating her to the core, the broad head pressing hard against the end of her channel.

  “Gods!” he groaned. “Lasai…!”

  Suddenly it was too much. The pleasure that had been building inside her since he first breached her entrance broke over Mei-Li like a warm tide. She gasped as she felt her inner muscles clench, pulling him even deeper, begging him mutely to follow where she was leading.

  Six must have felt her urging because he thrust again and then Mei-Li felt him coming. She had never felt anything like it with a human man but with Six it was unmistakable. A heated rush filled her pussy and she knew his seed was filling her, bathing her womb, marking her as his forever.

  A strange, strong feeling came over her, prickling the skin on her arms and raising the short hairs at the back of her neck. Somehow she knew that if he left her, she could never love anyone else. She was his—Six had taken a piece of her soul and welded it permanently to his. Without him, she would never be whole again.

  Never again…never, never again…

  With a little cry, she threw her arms around his neck and hot tears poured down her face. She knew it wasn’t sexy or cool to cry right after sex—or technically while it was still going on—but she couldn’t help herself. All she could think about was how much she loved him—how much she would miss him when he left. All she could feel was the jagged hole inside her chest that could never be filled by anyone else.

  And then Six was hugging her back—crushing her to him so tightly she could barely breathe. To Mei-Li’s surprise, she felt something hot and wet against the side of her neck and realized that he was crying too.

  “I love you,” she heard him say though he didn’t seem to be using his voice somehow. “Oh Gods, Mei-Li, I love you so much! I do not want to go. I don’t want to leave you…”

  “Then don’t,” she found herself answering in the same way, without spoken words. “Don’t go, Six. I know you’ve been through a lot but there’s no pain or trauma here—there’s only me and you. And I love you. I love you so much…”

  “I love you but I fear to lose you,” he admitted. “The pain of losing Mere and Pere and Kaylee was almost more than I could bear. If I lost you too…I would rather die. Would rather live an emotionless existence than risk that kind of agony again.”

  “Six, look at me…” Mei-Li pulled back a little and swiped the tears from her cheeks. When Six met her gaze, his eyes were also wet and red.

  “I don’t want to lose you,” he admitted aloud in a low, hoarse voice. “That is why I planned to go.”

  “But that’s what you’ll be doing if you take the serum and leave—you’ll be losing me. And I’ll be losing you—as well as a part of myself.”

  “But if something should happen…” The shadow of fear crept into his eyes. “If I let myself love you completely and then I lose you…”

  “It’s natural to feel that kind of fear when you’ve lost someone else you love suddenly,” Mei-Li murmured. “I can’t promise you a life with no uncertainty at all, Six—that just isn’t possible. But I can promise to stay with you and love you and we can keep each other safe. We’re stronger together than we are apart.”

  He sighed. “I don’t know. I feel both stronger and weaker with you. I love you so much it is like a wound inside me—a wound only you can heal.”

  Mei-Li kissed him again. “That’s because we belong together, Six—can’t you feel it? Here?” She tapped his chest. “And here?” she sent through the new link they somehow had as she tapped his temple.

  His eyes widened and Mei-Li knew he had just realized what was happening.

  “I can hear you—in my head. And…you can hear me too?”

  Slowly, she nodded. “I think…I think we formed a bond, Six. I’m sorry—the girls told me it was impossible unless we both really wanted it but I guess they were wrong.” She bit her lip. “I know I seduced you into making love to me but I didn’t mean for it to end in a permanent bond. Not that I mind, but do you? Are you upset?”

  “No.” He kissed her and cupped her cheek again. “Surprised…I did not think I would be able to bond. Not even after the implant came out. It had been in me so long…”

  “I guess you were able to after all though.” Mei-Li still wasn’t sure how he felt about it. Suddenly she heard his deep voice in her head once more.

  “I can feel you wondering if I really want this,” he murmured through their link. “I can feel your worry that I will be upset or unhappy that I cannot leave now.”

  “Are you?” She looked at him uncertainly.

  “No.” He looked into her eyes. “As you say, it is impossible to form an unwilling bond. I wanted this—I wanted you, Lasai. I was just too afraid to reach out my hand to you. My fear of losing you paralyzed me and kept me from taking you.”

  “Don’t be afraid anymore.” Mei-Li kissed him and nuzzled close, pressing her cheek to his. “Just let yourself be happy, Six. Let yourself relax and know that I love you.”

  “I love you too, Lasai.” He looked at her seriously. “I think for the first time I really understand what that word means—and what the emotion behind it feels like. You’re right—it’s not just falling to your doom. It’s warmth and comfort and joy as well. You bring me all those things. I will love you always.”

  “Oh, Six…” She surged forward to kiss him again and then realized that he was still half-hard inside her. “Oh!” she gasped aloud at the sudden spark of pleasure the move gave her.

  “Mmm…” Six groaned. During their intense exchange, he’d gotten a bit softer but now she felt him growing within her again. “Gods, Lasai, your pussy is so tight and wet,” he sent through their new link.

  Mei-Li gave him a naughty smile. “Well that’s your fault—the wet part anyway. I swear I could feel you coming inside me. I’ve never felt anything like that before.”

  “Neither have I,” he growled softly. “But I wouldn’t mind feeling it again…”

  Mei-Li lifted her hips and let herself down again, moaning as she felt the head of his cock brush the end of her channel.

  “Go ahead then,” she whispered breathlessly. “Take me. But this time, I want you on top. I want to feel completely surrounded by you.”

  “With pleasure, Lasai…” With a sudden move, Six flipped them over, caging her body with his own much larger frame. “Wrap your legs around me,” he ordered in a low, hoarse voice. “And hold me tightly. I want to be inside you all night.”

  “That’s exactly where I want you to be,” Mei-Li whispered back. And then she was kissing him and feeling the long, slow thrust of his shaft inside her once more.

  “I never want this to end…”

  “It won’t. I’ll never leave you.”

  Mei-Li didn’t know which of them said what and she didn’t c