Page 79 of Thexan

Only then did he climb on the bed between my legs, kneeling over me brushing my body with his eyes. After a few moments he positioned himself at my entrance and held there, just the head pressing against me, stretching me open in that initial tease of fullness.

I locked eyes with him—golden and amber, alien and human, bonded and chosen—and he thrust into me in one smooth, deliberate motion.

Thexan

We fit together perfectly. She was mine.

I seated myself fully, feeling her walls adjust around my ridges, the heat of her welcoming me home. The bond flared between us, not with the desperate urgency of healing, but with the deep, steady burn of rightness.

I began to move, rolling my hips in a pattern that would stimulate every sensitive point within her. She cried out, her hands gripping my shoulders, raising her hips to meet my thrusts.

I wanted this to last. I wanted to draw out the ritual, to make this joining last for hours. But she felt too good, and I was already climbing toward the peak.

“Brynn,” I groaned. “I'm close.”

“So am I,” she gasped.

I shifted my angle slightly, hitting that spot inside her that made her cry out, and I felt her begin to tighten around me, her orgasm building with the same inevitability as my own.

“Let yourself come,” I urged. “And I will follow, completing the bond as it was meant to be completed.”

Her eyes opened, meeting mine, and then she was coming, her inner muscles clamping down on me in rhythmic pulses that dragged my own climax from me. I roared above her, thrusting deep one final time as my seed flooded into her, hot and endless.

And then—the knot.

The swelling began at my base, rapid and unstoppable, expanding to lock us together. Brynn cried out again as it stretched her, filling her completely, pressing against that sensitive spot inside her, and forcing her into a second peak before the first had even faded.

We were joined. Locked. Unable to separate for the next thirty minutes as the biological imperative fulfilled its function, ensuring the maximum chance of conception, ensuring the bond remained unbroken during the most vulnerable moments.

I collapsed forward carefully, supporting my weight on my forearms, my face pressed against her neck. “Brynn, you are exquisite.” I panted, and I could feel through the bond that she felt exactly that.

“And so are you,” she whispered, her hands stroking my back, my ridges, my scales. “That was wonderful.”

“It was and I could not move if I wished to,” I admitted, and felt her smile against my shoulder.

Brynn

The knot held us together, pulsing gently inside me, keeping him locked deep where he belonged. I could feel every twitch, every throb, every beat of his heart through the connection between us. The bond was singing, bright and clear, and I knew that this—this was what he had wanted to give me. Not the desperate coupling of survival, but this ritual, this ceremony, this claiming.

We lay tangled together for long minutes, breathing each other in, the sweat cooling on my skin. I stroked his back, his sides, anywhere I could reach, and he rumbled his pleasure against my neck.

“Thirty minutes,” I whispered. “That’s what you said?”

“Approximately,” he confirmed, lifting his head to look at me. His eyes were soft now, the slit pupils wide with satisfaction. “Does it discomfort you?”

“No,” I said honestly. “It feels... intimate. Like you’re not just visiting. Like you’re home.”

Something shifted in his expression then, some emotion he usually kept locked away breaking through the controlled surface. “I am home,” he said, his voice rough. “With you. That is home now.”

I kissed him then, soft and slow, while the knot held us joined and the world outside waited.

Thexan

When the knot finally began to subside—thirty minutes of connection, of whispered words and gentle touches, and the reaffirmation of what we were to each other—I withdrew carefully, feeling her shudder with aftershocks.

But I was not finished.

The ritual required the initial joining, yes. But then, the texts said, the mates should join again simply for enjoyment.