Page 39 of The VaDorok’s Unexpected Mate (The Mate Index: Dorok #1)

Katie hummed happily as Kull hauled her into their tent, her fingers reaching eagerly for the ties of his breechcloth at his hips.

He rumbled against her lips with a distinctive sound of pleasure, his hands dropping to join hers as they pulled the ties and slowly teased the lacings loose as their mouths came together in a heated kiss.

Although they had already mated, it felt like the first time all over again.

She savored his touch as he undressed her and stroked her skin with complete reverence and fascination.

Every kiss was a prized treasure that she locked within her heart and let the joy from it spill through her.

And when she finally tugged the lacings free from the material secured around his hips, and watched the long, embroidered length of his breechcloth fall to the floor, she was stirred with their mingled desire burning through her.

This desire grew, scorching her with the intensity of its inferno, as she watched his cock extrude, the almost spiny-looking bulbous tip already swollen and ready for her.

Heat flickered through her at the sight of it, and she lowered herself to her knees and took the length into her hands.

Kull dragged in a deep, ragged gulp of breath as if caught between surprise and a moan of pleasure as she rubbed a thumb against the slender, delicate bristles covering the head of his cock.

“What do you call this?” she asked.

He peered at her with a perplexed expression and blinked. “A... amitus,” he managed around a gasp as she swept her thumb in a circular motion over them.

“Amitus,” she echoed in fascination.

Outside of his cock being an ivory black color and possessing a pronounced bulge near the base of his shaft that ballooned to lock them together, this was perhaps the most alien feature of his otherwise normal looking cock.

She had to admit that she found it pretty fascinating to look at it and tease with her fingers.

And despite its odd appearance, she very much enjoyed the way it felt inside her.

Thank goodness she hadn’t got a good look at her before she experienced it.

Leaning forward, she teased the soft, slightly firm, bristles with her tongue, drawing another ragged sound of pleasure from him that deepened to a moan as she closed lips around his cock and sucked it into her mouth with a tiny, muffled moan of her own.

His hips kicked instinctively, gagging her a bit on its thickness before she got her hand up between them to act as a buffer.

She had to admit that he tasted good, however, and her eyes fluttered shut as she ran her tongue over the tip to collect his precum.

Kull’s large body suddenly quivered, and he growled deep in his chest before abruptly drawing away so that his wet cock slipped from her hand.

He gave her a wild-eyed look and then he bent, and an excited gasp left her as he plucked her up into her arms and carried her to the pallet waiting for them.

Stretching on the furs, Katie spread her legs eagerly for him, desire humming through her.

He knelt between her legs, a reverential expression on his face as his eyes slid over her, the heat in their amber depths scorching her as she felt his longing as keenly as her own echo within her chest.

Her hand went to her heart in surprise, and he smiled in response.

The tip of his cock jerked slightly, rubbing her in a way that made her shiver as he notched it into place against the opening of her sex.

A low growl vibrated from Kull and into her as his hips pressed forward and his cock slowly opened her around its invading girth.

Although he was focused entirely on her, she watched as his ears twitched slightly, shifting at every sound of the ongoing celebration of the gathering beyond the walls of their tent.

His tail curled around her side, and his large body covered her completely as if to form a barrier between her and everything else in the world.

His head lowered beside her, cheek to cheek and dangerously close to one curling horn if she didn’t trust him as much as she did, and he whispered in her ear.

“What you feel is the ulukskinon. It drew us together with the dance of its inferno, and it has now completed the connection between us, binding us within its fire. In the ulukskinon, there is no you. There is no me. We are one united within the heart of it.”

It made a strange sort of surreal sense that defied logic and yet made sense in terms of everything she’d been experiencing.

“It feels like you are within me, and even more so with every touch,” she observed in an awed voice, and Kull nodded.

“Touch naturally enhances and strengthens its pull, drawing our hearts and souls closer to each other within the weave it has created between us. And then when I’m truly inside you—”

Katie’s hand quickly covered his mouth, a hot blush climbing into her cheeks.

He smiled behind her hand and pressed a kiss to her palm before wrapping his fingers around her wrist and slowly drawing her hand from his mouth.

He pressed a kiss to her fingers and then pressed her hand in the furs beside her head, and he drew her other hand up on the other side before dipping his head and brushing her lips with his.

He kissed her leisurely, putting to the test every caress of mouth upon mouth that she had led him through in their previous encounter.

He kissed her not with just his mouth but with his heart, demonstrating every bit of adoration through the thoughtful and careful touch of his lips.

Her entire being responded to it as she returned his kiss, her body arching against his, undulating so that the hard strength of his muscles and the incredible softness of his fur stroke over her skin, awakening every nerve ending as he leisurely thrust into her.

Growling against her lips, he brushed a final kiss to the corner of her mouth and rocked his hips in a powerful thrust before withdrawing cock from the clutch of her cunt.

Her scent seemed almost soaked into his fur and skin, and his phallus rose from between his thighs like a bar, and yet that didn’t seem to sway him from his purpose.

Instead of thrusting home again, he released her hands and began a downward oral exploration, drawing heat into every contact point as traced an exquisite path down her throat, and along her shoulders and breasts.

Whispering a sigh of pleasure, she tangled her fingers in his mane as she clutched his horns and she shivered in reaction that culminated in a cry when pleasure ripped through her in a bright current when his mouth finally on her most intimate center between her thighs.

She rocked her hips instinctively, riding the need roaring through at the touch of his tongue stroking over sensitive flesh and his lips capturing her clit and teasing her nerve endings as he sucked it sharply into his mouth.

He did so with such intensity that she was shocked when her soul didn’t simply separate from her body as she shouted her release to the roof of the tent.

Her climax tore from her, and her hands fell away from his horns with the violence of it.

Yet, rather than leaving her sated, it left a vacuum of unsatiated need in its place that roared ravenously at her.

It shouldn’t be possible to feel so possessed after she orgasmed.

Instead of feeling relaxed in a post-organismic glow, it prickled through her senses, stroking the flames higher within her so that she twisted needily on the furs.

Kull watched her through his lashes as he slowly lifted his head and crawled up her body with an unmistakable expression of satisfaction, his tail sliding over her in a long path.

Katie’s skin was slick with sweat, but this didn’t seem to bother him as he ran his tongue up her belly to her breasts where he teased her nipples with the sides of fangs and the curl of his broad tongue, turning them into pinpoints of pleasure that slowly expanded and shot downward at the brush of his cock at the entrance of her sex once more.

Holding her gaze with his, his cock sank into her as his tail slowly stroked her inner thigh just behind his hips.

Her hips lifted to meet him, a small puff of excitement escaping her as he began to slowly shuttle in and out, filling her to the brink and retreating.

It stirred the flames of her pleasure and need higher within her, coiling tighter and tighter within her as their bodies moved together, his cock plunging into her harder and faster as their lovemaking grew more frantic in their rising need.

Kull growled deeply, and the bulbous base of his cock swelled, pressing on her most sensitive internal fleshing, catching and rubbing frantically against her G-spot as his cock jerked and began to release his seed with every vicious thrust against his knot.

Heat filled her belly, triggering a powerful rising sensation from her depths, and Katie quaked against him before exploding with the sensation of a thousand hot strands unfurling simultaneously within her, bringing her over the crest into bliss.

He clutched her tightly within his arms, words of adoration filling her ears, letting her know that through all their trials they had finally come home to where they both belonged.

.. and where they both wanted to be without demands or expectations trying to confine and manipulate their love.

Even Ren had given his subtle blessing with his willingness to cease fire and his support in dealing with Zalla.

Finally... Katie had found exactly where in the universe she was meant to be.

“I love you,” she whispered as they clung to each other, their bodies locked together in an instinctive, and yet fruitless attempt for the time being, to breed the next generation.

Kull lifted his head and smiled, his eyes warm with love and the promise of a long future together. “My heart is yours, ulukska.” He brushed her hair back from her face gently with his claws. “I’m doubly blessed to have found a home once more in the heart of the ulukskinon—with you.”

He pressed his lips to her brow, and she smiled, feeling his adoration spill once more through her. They were truly one. There was nothing that they couldn’t achieve or succeed against now that they had each other.

And hours later, when the sharpness of their need faded, Katie brought out the flute and presented it to her mate.

She knew that she had made the right choice when his eyes brimmed with tears and something subtle shifted in his expression as he ran his fingers reverently along its length.

To her surprise, he brought it to his lips and began to play.

Singing to the past and the future. To ulukskinon that made them one.

Pillowing her head on his lap, Katie smiled and dreamed of a future full of family and love. The nightmare was finally put to rest as Kull’s love song drifted over her.