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Total Acceptance

A ’Dar

Maya loves me, of that I have no doubt. We’re on a journey together that started rough, but I can see the smooth road ahead. I want to mark this occasion with a pledge. Not with my words, but with my body.

“I fed you my seed. Now I’m going to feed you the blood from my veins, my heart. Then I’m going to take all the time we need to love your body the way it was meant to be loved. You’ll teach me how?”

She pulls far enough away from me to look me in the eye. “I doubt you’ll need lessons, babe, but sure.”

After retracting my facial armor, I lean to kiss her. As rushed as things were in the beginning, and as bad as our communication was, it obviously terrified her.

I’m still carrying her. Her legs are naked and spread wide around my waist. We slaked a portion of our machta in the shower, so now we have the luxury of time. Pressing my tongue through the barrier of her lips, I explore her warm depths. Her taste bursts on my tongue. She’s so delicious, if I have another two thousand years, I’ll never get enough.

My cock is hard as steel, riding the slick seam between her legs. Is it machta or something else that makes me wonder if I’ll ever be able to be this close to her and not want to mount her?

I ply her with kisses, soft-lippy kisses, wet kisses, and deep explorations with my tongue. I’m relentless, not stopping until she’s whimpering and rubbing the hard points of her nipples against my chest.

“I want to feel your tusks,” she says, her voice sounding drugged.

I almost argue, almost remind her that my visage scares her, but I don’t. I pull back and allow my tusks to reemerge.

“They’ll hurt you,” I protest, wanting to return to kissing her again.

She examines the hard toothlike structures that surround my mouth. Although I’ve been a soldier all my adult life, I’ve never used them in fighting. They’re a throwback to Xenon’s cave-dwelling days.

“I saw your mandibles open when you were protecting us from the Frains. Show me now. Up close.”

We were just kissing. Her feminine slit was dripping for me. I wanted to sheathe myself in her wet heat. I intuitively know that opening my mandibles will shut that down. It will terrify her. She must see my hesitation because she says, “I demand it, A’Dar.”

Reluctantly, I open my mandibles, exposing more of myself. I remember being equal parts terrified and fascinated by my father when he struck this pose when I was a child. Even as a Xenon, I didn’t think it was a pretty sight.

With every inch she leans closer, my dreams of a happy future diminish. She doesn’t just look, she uses the pad of one finger to explore the newly exposed, vulnerable pinkish flesh around my mouth and my sharp external teeth. She bends to lick the open creases with her tongue, then presses hard against one of the exposed teeth, purposely pricking herself until she draws blood.

“I don’t just love you, A’Dar. I love everything about you,” she says, her chin jutting up in defiance. “You will not hide yourself from me. Ever. We’re mates.”

My mate is a bright female. She already knows me better than I know myself. I hadn’t realized I’d been fearful of her acceptance of my warrior traits, but I was. Now I’ll never need to wonder. She’s made it clear.

“Look at that!” she says with surprise in her voice.

She’s focused on my face. What could it be now?

“Your DNA gave me better eyesight, golden irises, and a good six inches of height. My DNA gave you freckles.”

She uses the pad of her finger to touch my cheeks and brow ridges as she says, “Freckle, freckle, freckle, freckle.”

“What?” I ask, baffled.

“Like these.” She points to the little speckles on her cheeks.

“I have face dots?” I’m excited and hurry to the bathroom to look in the mirror with Maya still wrapped around my waist. “I have my Maya’s face dots! I love that I carry your DNA.”

She kisses a few of my dots and says, “Me too.”

“Lay on that bed and spread your legs for me.” I order as I slide her to the floor. “Let me show you what my mandibles can do. I saw it on prohibited vids I snuck before I entered the military.”