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Authors: Lee-Ann Wallace

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She would drive them apart.

Tina gazed into his eyes and took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. She lifted her hand and gripped him behind his thick strong neck. “I believe you, Sorvar, and I know I have to learn to trust again. I’ll try, for you, because I want to be a female worthy of your love too.”

His pupils dilated so fast it surprised her that he didn’t pass out. A low growl rolled up his throat. “You already are,
pavri.
You already are.”

 

Chapter Ten

 

 

“Sorvar,” Tina growled at him a week after they’d found out she was carrying his three young.

Sorvar barely managed to stop the grin that wanted to spread across his face before he replied, “You seem frustrated,
pavri.
Tell me what’s wrong, and I will fix it for you.”

He might have stopped his grin, but he couldn’t stop the tension he was feeling from showing in his voice. It was the same tension he had a feeling that was filling Tina. He watched her rub at the frown that drew her brows together like she was trying to ease the tension. A surge of concern rushed through him.

Are you in pain, Tina?

“Yes, it’s just a headache.” She stared down at him where he reclined on the low couch. “I’m going crazy, Sorvar. You’ve kept me locked up in here for a week. You won’t touch me, you won’t let me out, and you keep stuffing me full of food. If I don’t go nuts, I’m going to explode.”

He chuckled. She said some of the funniest things sometimes. Her turns of phrase and expressions never ceased to amuse him, and the fact that it annoyed her when he found her amusing just amused him more. She spun away from him and stalked over to the other low couch he’d had delivered the day after he rescued her from the dungeon. She plopped down on it with a lack of grace he found endearing. There was nothing pretentious about Tina. She was the most unique female he had ever come across, and her honesty and openness made him fall in love with her a little more every day.

“You’re going to turn into a seed?” he asked. He couldn’t keep the amusement from his voice. “I’m not sure that is possible,
pavri.
Admittedly, our transformations are miraculous, but I don’t think we would have much success turning anyone into a nut.” He didn’t really need her to explain, he was just having a little fun with her and trying to ease some of the tension they’d been feeling for the last three days.

She let out a gorgeous little growl, which only made him laugh again.

“No...
handsome,
going nuts means you are going to go crazy.
You
are driving me crazy.”

He suspected
handsome
wasn’t what she had been about to call him. She had such a colourful language, another thing that amused him, but his need for her was driving him crazy as well, and he had a feeling that was what she was really talking about. They hadn’t had sex since they’d found out she was carrying three embryos. All the species the Morgath chose to mate with could not have any kind of sexual relations while gravid, and he would not risk his sons’ lives. He’d avoided touching her more than necessary or starting anything they wouldn’t be able to finish, but the strain of being so close to her and not being able to sink his cock into her was starting to take its toll.

“But,
pavri,
I’m just looking after you like a good Morgath male should. We cherish and coddle our gravid females, and it is doubly important I take care of you because of your injuries,” he told her. Maybe this would waylay where he had a feeling this conversation was going to end up.

Tina blew out an explosive breath, her frustration biting into him. “Right, I get it. But mental and emotional health are just as important to a pregnant woman as physical health. Besides, I was completely healed five days ago. I want to explore, Sorvar. I want you to show me your world. I want to talk to Bavric and learn about Morgath young and what I can expect during my gestation period.”

Holy Ninvah,
she didn’t ask for much, did she. He would love to show her his world, but her wings weren’t strong enough to fly yet, and he wasn’t sure how the males who hadn’t seen her were going to react to her. The other thing she asked for, learning about his people and her gestation period, was another matter entirely. He loved her, and would give her anything, but he knew his father would not be blinded by love. His father would need to be sure she had committed to staying with him before he let her have what she wanted. Knowledge was power, and if she learned about his people she would have great power over them. She was a medic, after all, and she had the ability to destroy them from the inside.

“That’s a lot of wants, Tina. Are you sure there aren’t more things you want from me?” He kept his tone light and filled with amusement. She didn’t need to know he couldn’t give her what she wanted.

Tina stared back at him for a long moment, then pushed up from the couch and walked over to him, a deliberate sway in her hips, and a sultry little grin on her lips.

Oh, handsome. You have no idea.

Her whisper filled his mind. Gods, she was beautiful and sexy, dangerously so. All she had to do to light his fire was look at him with those deep green eyes, and he turned to mush in her hands, something he had no intention of ever telling her.

She straddled his legs, flaring her wings out a little, and settled down on his thighs. “Since you asked, there
is
something else I want.”

The need filling her husky voice sent a surge of lust through him and he almost groaned. He stared back at her intently, but he didn’t move from his relaxed position on the couch—he didn’t touch her or grip her hips, he just looked at her. It wasn’t hard to figure out what she wanted, and unfortunately, he was going to have to disappoint her, but his body didn’t care about the safety of the babies, all it cared about was being inside her heated clutching depths. Having her so close to him, bathing with her and seeing her beautiful naked body and sleeping with her held against him was like torture, but he was adamant he would protect his young.

“Oh, and what could that be,
pavri?
” There was no amusement this time. His voice rough with the need he could feel swirling inside her as well.

Tina leaned down and placed her palms flat against his bare chest, her hands warm and soft on him. Gods, he wanted to feel those soft little hands all over him. With her face close to his, she replied in a low husky voice, “I want you, Sorvar. I want to kiss you, and touch you. I want to feel you slide inside me, and I want to come around your cock.”

Fuck, Tina!

She couldn’t say things like that to him. He would never be able to hold back when she talked like that. If his cock hadn’t been hard already, it would have been in seconds. As it was, the ache was already hard to ignore. He couldn’t stop himself from touching her. He gripped her hips and pulled her forward, rearranging her over the weapons strapped to his thighs until she settled over the thick bar of his hard cock. Tina moaned, the sweetest little sound he’d ever heard, and swivelled her hips, grinding down on him. He couldn’t control the low growl that rumbled up from his chest at the bolt of pleasure she caused.

“Yesss,” she hissed.


Pavri,
we cannot.” Damn, but he wanted to, though.

She stared down at him. “Why the fuck not?” she snarled.

So much anger and frustration from his little mate. Sorvar cupped her cheek, stroking her soft skin with gentle fingers.
Because of the babies, Tina. It is not safe for us to have sex while you are carrying.

She let out a deep breath. “Sorvar, humans can have sex right up to and including the day they give birth, but if you’re really worried let’s go see Bavric. If he says we can’t have sex, maybe it’s only intercourse we have to abstain from. There are other ways to enjoy each other without penetration.”

He stared at her. Did she mean that? Humans had sex all the way through the gestation of their young? What an amazing species they were turning out to be! But that didn’t mean they
could
have sex—her change might have altered things so that she was just like the other mates. An image of her taking his cock into her mouth rolled through his mind, the memory of what it had felt like to have the hot cavern of her mouth wrapped around him sending a jolt through him.

He surged up off the couch with her clasped tight to his chest. Tina squeaked and wrapped her legs around his hips, hanging on to him, her little claws digging into his shoulders as he stalked for the door.

Where are we going, Sorvar?

To see Bavric.

Her husky laugh filled his mind. If they couldn’t have sex, they would do other things. He would make her teach him how to pleasure her without being inside her. Maybe he could taste her as well, like she’d tasted him. Just the thought of putting his mouth between her legs sent a blast of need through him so powerful he almost staggered. Tina moaned, the low little sound and her return blast of lust almost driving him to his knees.

They were halfway across the room when the door chimed. Sorvar growled. Nobody should be at their door, which meant it was likely one of his family.

“Fuck!” he exploded.

“Did you order food?” Tina asked.

“No, I did not.” The door slid open. “Sedric,” he said when his gaze landed on his brother.

“Sorvar,” his middle brother replied.

“What do you want?” He gripped Tina, pulling her even tighter against him.

Sedric looked at Tina, specifically her wings, for a long time before he replied, “There is a communication from the Coalition for your mate. The human female refuses to wait for your mate to return her communication, and she is waiting to see your female with her own eyes.”

Tina whipped around so fast to look at his brother that she almost unbalanced him. “Did she say who she was?” she asked, and he could hear her excitement in her voice and feel it like little bubbles popping in his chest.

“She said her name is Emily Barker.” Sinder looked down at his mate, a strange look in his eyes.

Morgath mouths were not designed to speak Tina’s language. They couldn’t make sounds formed by lips because they didn’t have any. They had their own similar sounds, but the female’s name sounded strange coming from Sedric.

Tina whipped back around, her eyes wide, bubbles of her excitement bursting madly in his chest. “Let’s go, handsome! I want to talk to Emily. Something has to be up for her to say she was calling on behalf of the Coalition. Last I heard she was working for that stupid prat, Liaison Green.”

Sedric chuckled and looked at him. “Is she always like this?”

Sorvar couldn’t stop his own chuckle, amusement chasing away his lingering anger. “Yes.” He could feel Tina’s gaze on him and looked down. He still held her firmly in his arms and smiled wide when she huffed. “You are always like this,
pavri.
It’s one of the things I love about you.”

She couldn’t be angry with him for that, could she? He’d already told her he loved her, and he wasn’t embarrassed to say it in front of his family. Nothing about her could ever embarrass him.

“Can we go now? Emily is waiting, and she’ll start thinking you’ve done something...”

A surge of something he didn’t recognise flooded him and Tina buried her face in his chest. He couldn’t help her, comfort her, if he didn’t know what she was feeling. He would do anything to make her happy, and the prospect of talking to this Emily Barker had excited her. What had happened to chase that away?

He squeezed her tight. “We’ll go now,
pavri.
Sedric, can you fly ahead and let Emily know we are on our way?”

“That won’t be necessary. I had communications reroute the stream to the palace comm room,” Sedric replied.

Sorvar grunted, stepping from their room. Palace communications wasn’t that far from his family’s private quarters. He followed Sedric down the hall, Tina looking around. Her curiosity fizzled inside him. He was such an ass for having kept her in his quarters for a week. She was right, she should be out exploring her new home and learning about the species that was now hers. Not their Medical information, but about their culture, their festivals and gods, and their economy. She should learn about their history and about their continued attempts to join the Coalition. Those were all the things he should be teaching her, not keeping her locked in his quarters because of worry over how the other males would react to her.

They reached the comm room, and he set Tina down on her feet, holding onto her until she was steady. The face of the female they were there to speak to filled the screen that stretched across most of one wall of the small room. Well, it was small compared to most of the rooms in the palace. A male Sorvar didn’t know sat behind the console, monitoring the channel the stream came in through.

Tina squealed the minute she locked her gaze on the screen and rushed over to stand in front of it. “Can she hear me?” she asked.

The female on the screen stared back, her eyes so wide that Sorvar had to bite back a chuckle. She wasn’t what he had expected at all. She bore no resemblance to Tina at all. This female had yellow hair and blue eyes, and her face, although nice, wasn’t anywhere near as beautiful as Tina’s, but maybe he was biased. Her mouth was moving, but no sound came through until suddenly the blast of her voice filled the room.

“—Jeez, Tina. What the hell happened to you? Nobody said anything about wings!”

The female’s strange accent surprised Sorvar. She spoke the same language as Tina, but she sounded very different.

Tina laughed, the husky laugh that went straight to his cock. “Emily! Oh, god, it’s so nice to see you. Sedric said you called on behalf of the Coalition. What’s going on?”

“Shouldn’t that be my line? How the hell did you end up mated to a Morgath? I thought your assignment was on Urkelaron Station.”

An indelicate sound came from Tina that made Sorvar bite back a chuckle. “Yeah right,” she said. “The only position Green offered me was on Deranti. He never told me how often the station was raided. If he did, I would have told him to shove his position where the sun don’t shine.” She turned to him and beckoned him over.

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