Eternal Beasts

Dazed and Aroused

Nikeera frowned as Jared peered into first one eye then the other, a cold pack pressed to her throbbing nose.

"No," she said firmly. "I am not concussed, Jared."

Leaning back from where the tuathan was sitting on the bed, the three of them back in the dorm room, Jared's frown deepened slightly.

"Are you sure, Nikeera?" he said, his eyes narrowing. "You got pretty wobbly at the end there after I popped you in the nose."

"I ..." she began before glancing at Samantha and stopping. "May I speak to you in private?"

That lifted a brow on Jared's forehead. Then he looked over at a frowning Samantha. "Mind grabbing your shower, Sams?"

"I suppose not," Samantha replied somewhat irked, grabbing a towel and a change of clothes along with her shower kit.

Nikeera waited until the door had closed behind the griffon before she dropped the ice pack and leaned forward to take Jared's hands.

"I promise you, my love, I am not concussed," she said in a low, but intent voice, her highlights a dark red. "What I am is very frustrated that you treat me like some stranger on the street instead of the woman that will share your bed and your heart in a few days."

Jared let out a quick breath.

"You know we can't do anything about that until the ritual frees us to do so, Nikeera," he replied somewhat exasperated.

"I'm not asking you to pin me against a wall and ravage me, my love!" She hesitated with a grimace. "Okay, maybe I am!"

"Nikeera!"

"Sorry." She quickly leaned in to give him a peck on the lips before letting go of his hands to capture his face between hers. "Sorry. I got distracted. It's just that my blood burns hot for you, Jared. All the time. But when we lie together in bed, it's like you're a log beside me, unfeeling and emotionless."

Jared sighed. Now he knew what the wiggling, the finger sucking, and the moaning was about. The physicality at the end of their sparring session was the intimacy she had been craving since before going into stasis, finally in physical proximity to the man that would become her whole world. And when she got it, she found herself climaxing, finally getting the release she had been silently demanding from him for the last couple of days. Demands that had been falling on deaf ears.

With that realization washing through his mind, the big man groaned in frustration as he leaned back enough to pull his face out of Nikeera's hands and stare up at the ceiling. But not for long.

Sliding off the bed to kneel in front of him, the tuathan princess once again tenderly touched his face, this time with just one hand.

"I know I will have all of you in a few short days," Nikeera said, straightening up enough to lean down and kiss him on the cheek. "I know that. But I just need a little bit of you now! To reassure me we're okay. We ... are okay, aren't we?"

Jared dropped his eyes off the ceiling and returned her purple-eyed gaze. Without a word he reached up to cup her chip with a big hand, Nikeera sighing with pleasure at the touch before lifting her own hand to hold his against her face. Then he leaned in to capture her full lips with his, Nikeera inhaling sharply through her nose in delighted surprise at the kiss. At the same time his free hand slid under her buttocks and pulled her forward to straddle him.

With the stunningly beautiful tuathan woman pressed tightly against him with only the thinnest layer of lycra between them, he deepened the kiss in a surge of passion that was somehow incredibly organic and emotional despite only knowing her for two days. Gasping with delight at his initial touch, the passion now made Nikeera moan low in her throat as she wrapped her arms around his head and slowly moved her body up and down against his, returning his kiss with a fire that made Jared's heart pound and his body urgently respond. It wasn't long before she was once again shuddering with release, this time continuing to kiss him through it as she breathed raggedly through her nose.