Page 4 of Rix & Val (Cosmic Crowns MC #2)

V al’s staring at my cocks with a look of abject terror on her face. Not the emotion that I was hoping for. And if I could control my second cock and tuck it away, I would. Unfortunately, I can’t. Not when it comes to my mate.

I know that my mate has been abused, and the look on her face only cements that fact. If I could, I’d go find someone or something to pound on to get rid of the anger. I hate that she’s been abused. But I won’t do that. At least not yet. First, I need to show her she has nothing to fear from me.

Sinking to my knees at the foot of our bed, putting me lower than her. I can be patient. For her, I’ll be patient until the end of time if it means that she’s no longer terrified.

Keeping my voice low, I whisper her name, “Val.” She lifts her gorgeous eyes to mine and yes, she’s scared, but she’s not completely in her head. Resting my hand on the bed by her foot, I tell her, “I’m going to touch you, agrá . If I do something you don’t like, you only have to tell me.”

She bites her lip, but her eyes don’t leave mine as she nods. I need more from her, though, if we’re going to do this.

“Okay, milseán? ” I push again.

“Okay,” she nods and takes a shaky breath.

Taking my time, I rest my hands on her shins and run my hands up them, never going farther than her knee before running them back down her legs to her feet.

Taking one shapely foot in my hand, I press my thumbs to the centre.

Her body relaxes, and she sighs as she sinks into the bed.

After a few minutes, I move on to her next foot.

Never rushing, taking my time, she needs to get used to my touch and know that I’ll take care of her always.

As tough as she is and the life she’s lived, I doubt very much that she’s been shown much softness.

Slowly, inch by inch, I make my way up her legs, ignoring her pussy and the way it’s weeping with every touch that gets closer and closer to her centre.

When I’m finished with her legs, I start on her hands.

She shifts her legs restlessly, and I bite back a smile.

I figure she’s expecting me to go straight for either her breasts or her cunt.

I’ll get there eventually, but not just yet.

Taking my time, I work at the tight tendons in her hands, noting every nick and scar that marks them, finishing each one with a kiss to her palm.

Only when I’m done do I look up. She’s watching me, eyes wide with surprise and wonder.

Lowering her hands to the bed, I lean over her, resting my weight on my fists, ensuring that I’m giving her enough space to move if she feels the need to.

“Can I kiss you?” I ask.

Instead of replying, she raises her head and tentatively touches her lips to mine.

I love the way she’s taking the initiative, and I open for her, allowing our tongues to dance against one another until she pulls away, pupils large and elongated, lips swollen, shiny and wet.

She lowers her head back to the bed. Reaching up, she wraps her hand around the nape of my neck and pulls me down towards her.

“I don’t know what to do,” she whispers against my lips, eyes never once leaving mine. “You need to take over now.”

Closing my eyes, I rest my forehead against hers, knowing how much trust she’s giving me.

“I can do that, a chroí. But you have to promise me you’ll tell me if you don’t like something.”

“I promise,” she agrees with a small nod.

Taking her at her word, I lower my head. She loves to be kissed and relaxes when we do, so I start there. Nibbling at her lips, she smiles before she opens for me and deepens our kiss. Slowly, I adjust and turn so that my body aligns with hers.

Lowering myself, just barely touching our bodies together, resting my weight on my forearms to keep my weight off her.

When she wraps her arms around me, ripping her lips from mine with a gasp, tilting her head and giving me access to her throat, I take the hint and run my lips down her neck, laving my tongue across her pulse points until I reach the top of her breasts.

Taking my time, I run my tongue around one peaked nipple, cupping her other breast with the palm of my free hand.

Loving the way her softness fits perfectly.

Sucking her nipple deep into my mouth, humming as she cries out and tunnels her fingers into my hair, holding me to her chest as her legs part beneath me.

Ignoring the way my cocks naturally find her soft cleft, I enjoy tormenting each breast until she’s pleading.

Her head thrashing back and forth on the bed.

“Rix… Rix, more. Please, I need more.”

Sliding down the bed until I’m lying flat between her raised thighs. I know that Val’s gone silent, but she’s not stopped me yet. Turning my head, I kiss the inside of her thigh. Ignoring the urge to bite her, mark her. Instead, I suck, hoping to appease the need.

“Oh,” she sighs, hips rising with every suck, her pussy beading with her desire. There’s a wet patch on the comforter under her ass. It gives me some comfort seeing that she’s enjoying my teasing.

Her scent is intoxicating, and I need more. Turning to her pussy, I run my nose up her damp lips. She’s hairless and her hood is larger than I’ve seen on our species.

My voice is husky with the need to taste my mate. My mouth watering, I tell her, “Your pussy is gorgeous, milseán . And dripping for me. I’m going to touch you now. Remember the rules.”

Her grip tightens on my hair as she releases a breathy moan, her next words exhaling on a needy sigh, “I remember.”

Having got her assurance, I don’t waste any time in burying my face in her pussy.

My eyes roll to the back of my head as I get my first taste of the sweet, exotic taste of my mate.

Val gasps, her fingers tightening in my hair.

I savour every husky moan, every sharp inhale as she rocks her pussy against my face, her thighs trembling.

Sliding a finger into her, loving the way she clenches around me.

I can’t wait to see how she feels around my cock.

Moisture coats my finger enough that I know she can take another.

Sliding a second into the depths of her body, I feel a tiny sucker slide from her walls and attach to my fingers, sucking, massaging.

A groan rumbles from me at the feeling .

‘Feck, that is going to feel amazing on my cock.’

When their massaging stops, Val wails my name, voice breaking as she reaches a peak.

Looking up her bowed body, her head’s thrown back in ecstasy, mouth now open on a silent cry, chest heaving with pants as she comes and comes hard.

Wetness coats my fingers. I’m unable to remove them.

She’s gripping me so tight. As she sobs, I move back up the bed, curling my body around hers as she sobs into my chest. Val’s tears nearly break me, and if I didn’t know that this is some kind of release for her, I’d be concerned.

Her arms wrap around my waist, and she pulls me close in a hug.

Her lower body relaxes, allowing me to remove my fingers from within her, and I wipe them on the sheet.

I turn us so that she’s lying on top of me.

Sprawled over my chest, her arms and legs bracketing me, her face stuffed into my neck.

Running my hands up and down her back, I feel the scars, but I’m ignoring them for now. This moment is about my mate, and I don’t want to bring attention to something else that will cause her pain.

“Thank you,” she whispers against my throat, and my chest aches that she feels the need to thank me; it speaks volumes for the way she’s been treated.

Turning my head, I kiss her forehead, assuring her, “No thanks necessary, a chroí .”

She lets out another shaky sigh, kissing my chest. “What did you call me?”

“ A chroí?”

Val lifts her head and rests her chin on her hands. Lifting a hand, I run it through her hair and tuck a stray piece behind her ear.

She nods at my query.

“It means my heart. You’re my heart,” I tell her.

Her expressive eyes fill with tears. One escapes, running down her cheek. Catching it, I gently wipe it away. Her lips tremble and her voice cracks when she tells me, “I’ve never had anyone feel that way about me. I’m not sure if I can say the same yet.”

Smiling, I wipe at the tears that are streaming down her face. I’m not sure she even notices them.

“I know, milseán . I can wait,” I assure her. And I can. She’s my mate, but I also know that I’ll need to earn and build her trust. We have time.

Her smile is tremulous. She brushes her lips against mine, leaning towards me. Then whispers, “Please, will you make love to me?”

My heart leaps in my chest at her request. Instead of replying, I deepen our kiss.

I’ll never tire of kissing her. And she loves kissing—it relaxes her.

Picking her up, our lips never losing touch, I settle her on my cocks.

Her breathing quickens as they pulse between us, and I slide easily into her body.

My second cock, with the pleasure tip, attaches to her clit, hidden deep within her hood.

Val removes her lips from mine as she shifts experimentally, “Oh,” she mouths.

I bite back a groan, fighting to keep from thrusting as she does it again.

Resting her hands on my chest, she looks down at me. Face flushed, lips parted . ‘Fecking hell, she’s gorgeous.’

“What do I do?” she wants to know.

“Whatever you want, a chroí . Do what makes you feel good. When you need me to take over, you just have to ask.”

Val rocks her hips until she finds a rhythm that works for her. Gritting my teeth to stop from coming, I move my hands and grip her hips, helping her when she seems a little uncertain.

“Oh, yes,” she sighs, head thrown back as she rides me.

Sweat coats her skin, and a bead runs down her chest, down her belly to where we’re joined.

I follow its trail until it reaches her pussy.

Using my thumbs, I gently part her hood and watch as my second cock sucks and massages her clit as my larger cock disappears into her body over and over.

“So fecking hot, milseán .”

She grinds down harder at my words, and I can feel the little suckers on her walls attach to my cock.

“Holy fecking hell,” I grind out as they gently massage my length. I’ve felt nothing like this before.

At my groan, Val stops moving. Tightening my grip on her hips, I beg, “Don’t stop, a chroí. It feels so fecking good. I can’t promise to last much longer,” I warn her.

She giggles. It’s such an unexpected sound that I open my eyes that I’d closed in ecstasy as soon as her pussy had begun to massage my cock.

I can’t help but smile back at her as she moves again, eyes holding mine.

She’s beautiful, relaxed, and enjoying herself, teasing me with slow rolls of her hips.

Driving us both to distraction until we can’t hold back anymore and come hard and fast, our voices crying out in unison.

And I swear to the gods that I see stars.

So many stars, as she grips my cock hard within her until every drop of my essence is sucked out of me.

Only then does she collapse on my chest. Her teeth pierce the skin just above my right pec in a claiming mark. I thought I was done coming, but with her bite, my cock pulses again as I thrust up into her pliant body.

Her bite calls to the berserker side of me and even though we don’t usually mark our mates I can’t seem to help myself from biting down on her shoulder hard enough to leave a mark. Val must enjoy it because her walls strangle my cock until I’m seeing stars.

When I’m done coming, we’re both panting and covered in a fine sheen of sweat, but I can’t find it in me to move us. Not when the warm, soft weight of my mate in my arms fills me with a level of happiness I’ve never imagined possible.

The feelings I have growing for her are something I’ve never expected to feel. I’ll go to war for this female if I have to. Even though she’s perfectly capable of kicking ass herself. From this day onwards she’ll have me at her back helping her while she does that.

Her breathing deepens as she drifts into sleep. I follow not long after.

I’m not sure how many times we wake during the night, reaching for each other until we’re exhausted.

We were sleeping soundly when a loud banging on my door wakes us up.

Val stirs in my arms and grumpily mumbles, “It’s too early,” before slipping back into sleep.

The persistent hammering at the door continues. Slipping from her arms, I stomp naked to the door and angrily rip it open, glaring at my brother. “What the feck, Vorn?”

He glares right back at me. His eyes stray to the female in my bed, and I pull the door closed, stepping into the passage.

“Eyes off my mate,” I rumble, bumping my chest against his. His eyes flare in surprise, but he steps back.

“I didn’t realise,” he mutters. Turning, he begins to walk away before saying, “You’re wanted in the common room. Make sure you put some clothes on first, though. Don’t need your cock flapping around.”

“Why?” I want to know.

He stops and turns towards me with a look of confusion. “Why put clothes on?”

Rolling my eyes at his idiotic question, “No! Why do I need to come to the common room?”

“Her sister is here demanding her presence.”

With those words, he disappears around the corner.

“Feck,” I mutter. I didn’t like the look on Vorn’s face when he’d realised what Val was to me. He’d not been the same since we’d lost Istes.

Pushing the door open, I walk back to the bed and sit on the edge to wake my beauty up. Hating that I have to when all I want to do is spend the day in bed with her. Looks like that isn’t happening.