Adira's Mate (10 page)

She couldn’t deny him anything.
She looked at him and arched against his fingers, the touches that he was
giving her.
“Yes, Sir.”
She was gasping now. “May I,
please?” She felt her skin prickle in need, a chill washing over her as she tried
to hold off her impending climax.

“
You may,” he whispered to her. He
pressed a kiss to the top of her mound and curled his fingers inside of her
pussy.
Fintan
gave her nipple a stronger pinch as he
watched her fall apart.

Adira
screamed as a climax unlike
anything she had ever felt before seared through her entire being. She sobbed
his name as she came, her pussy clenching his fingers tightly deep inside.

When she regained her senses she
found
Fintan
watching her intently. As soon as he
noticed her watching him in turn, he leaned in to kiss her. “You are beautiful,
Adira
. And that was amazing to witness.”
Another kiss before he slid his fingers free of her body, and
proceeded to slowly lick them clean.

“
I-I’ve never felt something so
right, so perfect in all of my life,” she admitted bluntly.

“
It was my pleasure,” he said.
Settling his hand on her hip, he eased over her, pressing her body deeper into
the bedding. “You can let go now, you know,” he told her, tipping his chin
toward where her hands were still over her head. “I don’t want you getting a
cramp from maintaining that position for too long.”

She let go of the bedding and
lifted her hand to his cheek. “That was everything, incredible,” she told him.
“I want to make love with you now, please?” She wanted to know how it felt to
have him inside of her, having him climaxing right along with her.

Fin’s lips curled up slightly,
and he gave her a nod. “I think I can accommodate your request,” he said.
Cupping her cheek, he pressed a kiss to her lips, sucking on her lower lip as
he settled into a position that had his cock rubbing her swollen folds.

She shivered when she felt the
thick head of his cock brushing against her pussy. She licked her lips and
moved just a bit to accept more of him. “I love the way that you feel, so
much.” She could become very accustomed to him inside of her.

“
Wrap your legs around me,” he
said against her mouth.
“And your arms too.
I want to
feel every part of you holding on to me as I slide into your body.” He nipped
at her lip before moving his lips down to her neck.

She did just that, wrapped her
arms and legs around him. She tightened her legs around his waist and let her
hands lightly run over his back, her nails biting into the skin as she did so.

He let out a low growl, arching
into the bite of her nails. Moving a hand to cup her ass, he began to push his
cock into her sheath, filling her slowly. “You’re so wet, and hot,” he muttered
against her throat.

She tilted her head to the side
so that he had better access to her neck and shuddered.
“Only
for you.
Always for you.”
As he began to fill
her body she sobbed in pure delight.

Another growl escaped him that
turned into a low moan when he slipped fully into her body. For long moments
they lay holding one another. Slowly he began to
move,
his thrusts long and steady pushes and pulls.

Adira
moved with him, legs tightening
around his ass, her hands splayed against his back.
“
Fintan
.”
She breathed his name reverently. He was
everything to her. He was her very soul.

“
Right here,
Adira
,”
he said. He pressed his cheek to hers, his fingers squeezing her ass gently.
Lifting his head he kissed her lips. Little kisses, deeper kisses, long and
slow kisses. His other hand moved to cup her shoulder, holding her in place for
his harder and deeper thrusts.

She gasped with the deeper
invasion into her body. She clutched his shoulders to her tighter and her heels
dug into his ass while he thrust harder and harder inside of her body. “Sir,
please. There.” She gasped aloud and shivered as she did so.

With
Fintan
staring down at her with an intense expression, she didn’t notice what he was
doing at first. But soon the pressure on her anus began to register in her
mind. His finger was stroking over the tight bud, rubbing, pressing and
releasing.

Adira
gasped at the intimate invasion
of his finger into her anus. Her gaze locked onto his, her mouth dry, but she
didn’t stop him. Instead,
Adira
opened herself more
to him, giving him access to every inch of her body. She gasped suddenly as the
pressure turned into a painful pleasure. It wasn’t pain, but it wasn’t pleasure
in the purest sense of the world. It was, well, it was perfection. “Thank you,
Sir.” She arched her neck. “That feels so good.” She was back to biting her
lower lip while her body moved along with his.

“
One day I’ll take you here,” he
promised softly. “Maybe with your hands bound, bent over so your ass is bared
to me, and perhaps even with a blindfold. I can see it already,
Adira
.”
Fintan
put his mouth on
her throat in a heated kiss with a hint of teeth.

She
cried out. “
My body
is yours.” He would always see to her pleasure first, she instinctively knew
that. And the thought of him tying her up, taking her in a place where none
other had even touched her had her pussy squeezing his cock harder. Giving in
and simply letting go, that would be her ultimate submission to the man and
they both knew it, or she was certain he knew it as well as she did, at least.

“
Yes it is all mine, every single
inch,” he gritted, through clenched teeth. He scraped his teeth slowly over her
neck, moving up to her ear.
A soft flick of his tongue to her
earlobe before he nipped.
“I can tell how much you like my plans for
you. I have many I should mention.”

“
I am your willing vessel,” she
said, her voice unsteady, her breathing harsh. He knew her limits. They were
part of their contract, so she knew that he would never cross those boundaries.
Adira
trusted
Fintan
. She
trusted him to be her Dominant inside of their bedroom from now until the end
of time.

Fintan
pressed a kiss to her pulse,
then a little lower before biting her at the point where her shoulder met her
neck. He pressed his teeth to her flesh, holding her as he drove his hips
faster.

The bite of his teeth to her
neck, his cock pounding in and out of her pussy, had her gasping.
Adi’s
hands clenched his arms, her cunt tightened on his
cock, and the scream built in the back of her throat.
“
Fintan
, please.”
She was riding that edge of her
orgasm and knew that it was coming. She needed him to push her over that edge.

He let out a fierce-sounding
growl,
his hold on her tightening at the same time his teeth
seemed to grip her harder. Fin curled the finger invading her back hole, and
did some maneuver with his hips.
A roll of some kind that had
his cock sliding into her at a slightly different angle.

She screamed, between the
pressure in her backside that turned into bone-melting pleasure and the new
angle of his cock thrusting deeply inside of her womb. Her orgasm washed over
her, the pleasure practically short-circuiting every single synapse in her
brain. “Please, Fin.” She begged him to come with her.

Another couple of hard thrusts,
and he stiffened. With a shudder he came, his seed hitting inside her sheath in
hot spurts. A moment later he collapsed over her. His teeth released her
shoulder, but his hands still gripped her close to him as his breath puffed
unsteadily over her skin hot.

She continued to pant, her breath
coming in gasps while she was held close to
Fintan
.
“Thank you, Sir.
Fintan
.
For giving me something that I never knew I wanted.”
Until him.
She had never thought to even ask for the things
that he gave her so naturally.

With a low groan, he pushed a
hand to the bed and levered his shoulders up enough to look at her. “All part
of being together,
Adira
.
Learning,
growing our relationship, and exploring all that we can with one another.”

Adira
caressed him as he pushed up
from her. She pulled him close, brushing her lips to his. When she pulled back
she was smiling. “Should we go and get cleaned up and then come back and nap or
should we remain just as we are right now?” She would totally vote for
remaining where she was right now.

He rolled them over to put her on
top. “I think we should stay right where we are for the moment. Later we can
clean up once more, but I like the idea of you remaining just as you are.”
Fintan
flipped the corner of the blankets over her back,
tugging on them a couple of times to ensure she was covered before wrapping her
in his arms.

Adira
snuggled up against him and
nodded. “I enjoy this after the fact part as well. I don’t think that I have
ever had this before, actually.” In fact she knew, after a moment’s
thought, that
she had never been there with a male after
having made love with them.

He gently stroked her hair, his
fingers drifting over her shoulders occasionally. “Not one to cuddle, are you?”
he asked softly. “Oddly I’m not either, usually. With you it’s different,
better, so much more.”

“
Hmm, I think that each night we
should cuddle. Would you be willing to do this with me every single night?” She
felt as if this was where she was born to be. She finally felt as if she had
found the place that she was destined to be.

“
Of
course,
Adira
.
You don’t even have to ask,” he said softly. She
felt him press a kiss to her forehead. “Why would you even ask? If it is
something you enjoy, then of course we would do this often.”

“
I just wanted to make sure that
you knew I liked it, a lot. Part of our contract is that I would always tell
you what I liked and what I wanted. This is me asking for that and telling you
about it.” She glanced down at him. “Wouldn’t you tell me if there was
something you liked that we did together?”

He
nodded.
“
Of
course.
It’s a part of our agreement, and one I’ll abide by always. Now why don’t you
curl in closer, close your eyes and drift off to sleep? We’ll have a nap, and
then I’ll show you around the destroyer.”

“
Sleep does sound good.” She
settled in as close to him as she could possibly get and closed her eyes.
Adi
yawned again and found
herself
drifting off and into sleep.

Chapter Nine

Five days later,
Adira
was alone in their quarters on the destroyer.
Fintan
had gone to speak with Bracken about some matter,
and left her to do some more reading about her new home world and the people.
She was in the middle of an interesting section about their history when the
door from the corridor opened.

Fintan
entered, pausing only long
enough to locate her before walking toward her. He settled on the sofa next her
and stretched his legs out. She knew his knee was still bothering him, but he
was healing remarkably well, and quickly. “What are you reading now?” he asked,
leaning in to see the data pad.

“
I’m reading about the social
structures and how the women of your people fit your society. I think it’s
amazing that you have women inside of your Fleets.” If only her people would
see that women were more than just the wombs to carry the next generation or
healers. His people were far above where the
Imarian
people would ever be. She was one of the highest ranking women on her world,
but there was still a council that would go over what she had ordered. She was
essentially a glorified manager of sorts. “I missed you,” she confessed as she
passed him the data pad to place on the table. “Did you get everything done
that you needed to, with Bracken?”

“
I did,” he said. His hands free,
he lifted her up and settled her into his lap. “He’s become rather impressed
with you over the last couple of days. He has also agreed to preside over our
marriage as commander of the ship.
Though he mentioned trying
to talk you out of marrying a bum like me.
I think you have a fan in my
soon-to-be ex-friend.”

Adi
couldn’t help but grin. She
actually rather liked
Fintan’s
friend as well. “He’s
a very sweet man. He and I have found a common ground in our care for you. He
finally relented, though, and gave in that perhaps I did indeed care for you
far more than he possibly could.” She shifted slightly and pressed a kiss to
the side of Fin’s neck. “So did you come get me so that we could have lunch together?”
Even though the men and women on board had accepted her, they were all still
wary around her. Even worse, they all knew something she didn’t and it was
bothering her. “Are you ready to tell me yet what is going on behind the
scenes? Why at times Bracken won’t look at me?”

“
I did come to gather you for our
midday meal. Bracken tells me he has a surprise for you, something he won’t
even share with me. As to the rest, it’s a few things that need to be dealt
with prior to our arrival.
Paperwork, notifications, and such
things.
The rest you will need to ask Bracken, though. I do not pretend
to know what goes through his mind. I prefer not to know, actually.”

“
Very
good point.”
She relented. “Okay, I don’t think I’ll ask him, because I’m worried he will
say something that will make me uncomfortable and then you will once more
decide that you need to train a bit with him.” She snickered as she recalled
the event two days previously. Bracken had made a comment about
Fintan’s
sexual prowess and Fin had, of course, taken
offense and ordered him to train with him. It was funny, actually, because
Bracken had been praising Fin. Said that she certainly had more color in her
face and wore the look of a well-loved woman.

“
He has no right to make you
uncomfortable. I know he was teasing, as he explained several times during our
training. Does not mean I don’t have the right to correct him. Hopefully he’ll
be a little more circumspect in his words to you.” He urged her off his lap,
then
stood next to her. Taking her hand in his, he gave her
a look up and down. “You ready to go for our meal?”

“
I think that he will. He’s a good
man,
Fintan
. I like him. Not as I like you, of
course, but I do enjoy that I’m able to call him a friend just as you are able.
As for food, yes I’m starving. I hadn’t realized that I was hungry until I saw
you and then heard my stomach rumble.”

“
So you saw me, and got hungry for
food?” Shaking his head, he led her out of their quarters. He tucked her arm
through his as they walked through the corridors. “We will need to discuss your
reactions to seeing me. I’m not sure how I feel about that particular one.”

“
Actually, I saw you and got
hungry for you. I was trying to come up with a way that would have you asking
me to get naked for you but my stomach decided to speak out against the
feelings that my pussy was putting out.” She spoke bluntly because she knew she
could with him, always. “But if it means that I will be punished for thinking
things like that, then I am willing to give in. I’m willing to claim that I did
see you and think of food first.”

He snorted at that. “You’re not
supposed to find ways to be punished,
Adira
. We’ll
talk about it when we are in private,” he said softly. They stepped into the
lift to go down three levels to where the dining hall was.

She was standing just to his side
and bowed her head as was respectful. She was only about an inch behind him but
still felt the heat of him surrounding her. When he put his hand to his side
she easily slipped her hand into his and gave a squeeze. It was odd just how
quickly she was easing into life at his side, something that made her very
happy. “Thank you for taking the time to instruct me.” She was playing with
fire and knew it. She loved it, loved the way that he would look at her and the
way that he would growl lightly at her. The sounds were things that made her
panties wet and had her aching with need.

He shot her a warning look, but
one filled with heat.
Fintan
knew exactly what she
was up to. The fact she was behaving in public, though, earned her points, she
knew.
Adira
was learning that fine line she could
walk around others, and was using it as much as she could to get what she
wanted. Fin squeezed her hand when the lift stopped, and tugged her along. “I
think I will punish you,
Adira
. But it won’t be
anything you’re expecting,” he said.

Adira
looked at
Fintan
and grinned. Oh she certainly looked forward to whatever her
fiance
would do to her. The punishments that he had come up
with so far for her had been wonderful, granted she knew that he knew she was
misbehaving mostly to have him strip her naked and do delicious things to her
body. “I’m certain that whatever you choose to do to me will be more than
acceptable.” She squeezed his hand once more and nodded. “I’m happy, Fin. Are
you?” Not the right place for that strange question, but she blurted it out
before she could even think to stop herself.

He
stopped,
hand on the door release for the dining hall. Lowering his hand, he turned to
face her. “Of course I’m happy,
Adira
,” he said softly.
“I know this is all strange, and new to you, and your nerves are frayed from
all the
unknown. But you have to know that I would say
something if anything at all wasn’t right in our relationship.” Shocking her,
he cupped her face in his hands. “I may be the type of man to keep things
close, but I would never hide anything from you on a personal front,
Adira
.”

Adira
leaned into his touch and closed
her eyes as she soaked up his gentle caress. “I know, and for that I’m happy. I
won’t ever hold anything back from you either.” He was far too important to her
to hold anything back from him.

“
Good,” he said. She felt the
press of his lips to her forehead as his hands moved to her shoulders and gave
a squeeze. “Now, can we go inside and eat? Bracken is likely getting very
impatient in there. He’s not one with a lot of patience when it comes to his
food.”

“
So I have come to notice,”
Adira
told him with a grin. “At least he saves us the good
foods.” She had also noticed that
Fintan
tasted her
foods before he let her eat. She was astounded by this man, in every way
possible.

“
He’s the one in charge around
here. Of course he’s going to ensure he has the best foods possible. The fact
we get some is luck, I believe.”
Fintan
placed his
hand on the door release. Taking her hand in his once more, they walked in and
toward where Bracken sat drumming his fingers on the table top.

“
I have a feeling that no matter
who was in charge you would ensure we were both well cared for.” Once more
Adira
went quiet. She knew the protocols in that she
couldn’t speak until she had been once more addressed by Bracken since they
were on board his ship.

“
True enough,” he said. At the
table he pulled out a chair for her. Once she sat, he settled in next to her.
He looked at the covered dishes on the table, then to Bracken. “Been waiting
long?”

“
Long enough,” his friend
muttered. “
Adira
, you’re looking rather mischievous
today. What diabolical plans do you have in mind for my old friend here?”

“
Well, I thought that perhaps
today I would be able to talk him into going out onto the G-Deck with me.”
The deck on the ship that allowed for zero gravity, a deck that she
couldn’t personally wait to see.
“I was also hopeful that he would then
walk with me in the hydroponics bay to see how our little seedlings are doing.”
She had planted seeds with Bracken, of all people, while
Fintan
saw to something that needed his direct attention.

“
Last I checked they were doing
quite well,” Bracken told her. “I wouldn’t go to G-Deck today, though. We have
some training sessions going on there today and tomorrow. Last I looked in on
the
group,
there were several not able to hold down
their meals. I’d wait on that trip until after we clean it out.”

“
Likely
a wise plan.
Besides, we do have something else to attend to today.”

“
True enough,” Bracken said.
Reaching out, he pulled off and stacked the covers for the platters on the
table. “I’d normally say ladies first, but we both know
Fintan
will want to taste everything.”

Adira
blushed at his words but nodded.
“This is true,” she said as she relaxed against the back of her seat. “He is
far too good to me. He’s an amazing man.” One she cared deeply for, her
affection growing more and more with each day that they spent together.

“
Call me overly suspicious, but
I’m not going to risk her life. Too many are unhappy with the
Imarians
.
Which is why today’s events
need to proceed without a hitch.
”

“
They will,” Bracken assured him.
Fintan
started to taste everything on the platters. Each
bite he rolled around his mouth, and frowned over. “I’ve seen to everything
personally. I have all the pieces in place. All we need are the two of you in
position on time.”

“
What is planned for today?”
Adira
asked with a slight frown and tilt of her head.
Placing her hand over
Fintan’s
, she smiled. “I’m thankful
that you take such wonderful care with me. You are truly a woman’s dream come
true.” He was her only family now. He was all she had in this universe now that
they had signed the contracts, and she chose to stay with him. She couldn’t
think of a better place to be, either.

“
It’s all safe,”
Fintan
said to her. “You can tell her our plans,” he told
Bracken. Fin passed her a plate and set the utensils down next to her hand.

“
Thank you,” Bracken said
sarcastically. “The plans today are to marry you two. We have an area set up
for some of the crew to witness the ceremony. It’s relatively simple, but
Fintan
was very clear he wanted it done prior to our
arrival. It’s another measure to ensure your safety on our home world, one I
applaud and am happy to assist in.
Fintan’s
even seen
to a special outfit for the ceremony for you to wear. It should be delivered to
your rooms any time now, actually.”

That was a surprise to her. She
had thought he would wait until they got to his home world before he arranged
for their marriage.
“Really?
Fin
,
thank you,” she whispered, her hand once more going to his and giving it a
squeeze. “I can’t wait to be married to you.” They had already had their
wedding night, so now it was all about getting married.

Fin shrugged, but he gave her
hand a squeeze in return. “You should eat. We’ll be holding the ceremony later
this afternoon. Then there will be a small celebration, including some sweets
the cooks have been working on. They have also, or so I’ve been told, been
working on a traditional
Imarian
wedding cake. No
idea how they figured that one out.”