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But what woman with her ability would have chosen not to
allow her belly to be swelled by a Centaurian Stallion? The foal growing inside
her would help to repopulate their dwindling  ranks. Despite all her prior
misfortunates, she would soon have the honor of bearing a Centaurian Stallion
foal
and
the shifter cub of the only male who had ever touched her heart
and emotions.

She undressed and got into bed, tearing her thoughts away
from the lives growing inside her. For now, she had more immediate concerns. Hopefully,
the problem with the transport would soon be resolved and she’d waken on Aeolia
to begin her new life. Once there, she’d take a few weeks to come to terms with
her swelling belly and her life without Markes and Adarinas.

She came awake abruptly in her darkened quarters to find a
tall figure standing by the doors. Reaching for her newly purchased side arm,
she sat up, and trained the weapon on the upper body of the figure. “Stay where
you are or I’ll shoot. I always hit what I aim at,” she warned.

“I’ll bet you do.”

At the sound of the deep, warm voice, a wellspring of
emotion burst in her. She sank back onto her hunches, allowing the side arm to
slip from her fingers. “Why are you here?”

He stalked across the chamber to stand by her bed. Curling
his fingers in her hair, he eased her head back.

While she couldn’t see his expression in the dark, she knew
he could see hers.

He brushed his free hand against her cheek. “Since I met
you, I’ve been tricked, shot, and drugged. None of the three are among my
favorite things.”

He sounded angry. She sucked in a breath. Was he there for
revenge? If so, what form would it take? Had she been a fool to drop her side arm?
She reached for it.

His hand shot out and closed around her wrist before her
fingers could close on it. “You won’t need that.”

“Why not?”

“Lights low.”

In response to his command, a soft glow lit the chamber.

She blinked and met his dark gaze. While he didn’t smile,
the warmth in his eyes sent a surge of relief through her. Her eyes welled with
tears and she leaned against him. “I never intended to do anything to hurt
you.”

He slipped his arms around her, drawing her closer. Bending
his head, he brushed his lips against her ear. “What the hell are you doing on
this transport when you knew I was waiting to talk to you?” He stiffened and
glanced around. “And where is that ancient weapon of yours?”

She stiffened. “He’s not ancient!”

“Never mind what he’s not. Where is he? Do I need to worry
about being shot again?”

“No. Markes is on his way to get a systems upgrade. I’m on
my own now.” She bit her lip.

“And you miss him?”

She nodded. “He’s been my protector and only friend for the
last five years. Now he’s gone, I’m all alone.”

“And afraid?”

“Yes.”

“Are you afraid that now he’s gone you won’t have anyone
standing between you and your lusty clients?”

Hearing the disdain in his voice, she shivered. Clearly he
didn’t value women who earned credits with their bodies. “I’m retired now.”

“So I was your last client or should I say Daylon Adar was
your last client?”

She compressed her lips. “You know?”

“He told me he hired you and the Telmiran to trick me into
returning home. That’s a charming way you choose to earn credits.”

She inhaled slowly, struggling to suppress tears. “I didn’t
know you when I agreed to take this last job and I needed a big payout so I
could retire some place quiet and Markes could have the systems upgrade he’d
earned and needed to resume his military career.” She curled her fingers in his
shirt. “And Daylon promised me you wouldn’t be hurt. He didn’t hurt you. Did
he?”

“No. He’s my alpha and my cub mate.”

Tears of relief rolled down her cheeks.

He cupped a hand over her cheek. “Why did you leave when you
knew I wanted to talk to you?”

“I was afraid of what you’d say when you knew why I’d been
waiting for you in the shifter den.”

“Are you trying to tell me you care what I think?”

“Maybe I shouldn’t, but I do.”

“Why?”

She shook her head and looked away.

He slipped a hand under her chin and lifted it. “Why?”

“Because I…when you touch me, I feel something I’ve never…”

“Never felt with anyone else?” he asked when she allowed her
voice to trail off.

She nodded.

“I know the feeling.”

“Oh…you do?”

“Yes. I do.” He inhaled slowly. “Get dressed. We’ll have to
continue this discussion on my cruiser.”

“Let’s talk now.”

“The captain is ready to resume his trip. If we don’t get
off soon, he’ll take off with us on board. We can continue this discussion on
the return trip to the Blue Desert.”

“If I get off, I’ll lose my ride. I don’t want to be there
alone.”

“You won’t be alone. You’ll be there with me.”

“But why do you want to return there?”

“It’s home,” he said.

“Maybe for you, but not for me. My father is dead and Markes
is gone. There’s nothing left for me there.”

He locked his gaze with hers. “I’ll be there and I want you
there with me. Now are you going to willingly accompany me or must I take you
by force?”

The promise she saw in his dark gaze filled her with joy. Although
there was a chance she read more into his eyes than he intended, but she
doubted it. The Goddess had finally chosen to smile upon her.

“I have no intentions of going anywhere with you,” she said,
climbed off the bed, and rushed into the sonic shower.

“So be it.” He followed, caught her, and swept her off her
feet and into his arms. He stalked from the room with her cradled naked in his
arms.

She pressed her face against his body and closed her eyes,
content to allow him to arrange anything that needed attention. She drifted to
sleep and didn’t wake until she felt herself lying on a bed.

Opening her eyes, she found herself lying on a bed—their bed
in his bedchamber upon his cruiser.

He quickly undressed and joined her on the bed. Rolling her
onto her back, he rose above her, sliding between her thighs.

Feeling his heavy cock against her body, she moistened her
lips while she pressed her hands against his shoulders. “You said we needed to
talk.”

He lifted his hips from hers, reached between their bodies,
and pressed his cock against her entrance. “Why waste time talking when I’m
hungry to have you give me what only you can?”

She kept the pressure on his shoulders. “And when you’ve had
enough of mating with me? Will I find myself stuck here alone and defenseless?”

“When is a woman with your ability to control the male
populace ever really defenseless?”

“I didn’t do it willingly!”

“Then you’ll have no problem giving it up?”

“I’ve already given it up! And even if I hadn’t, I’ll soon
be in no position to do it.”

He stiffened. “Your belly is swelling?”

She nodded.

“With whose seed?”

She bit her lip. Dare she admit the truth?

“With whose seed?”

She moistened her lips. “I’m a courtesan, not a sexual
empath. I know my belly is swelling but I’m not sure with whose seed.”

“Whose seed?” he demanded.

She sucked in a breath. “Yours…and his…I think.”

“Mine and Renas?”

She nodded slowly, trying to gauge his reaction. “I don’t
know for sure and I’m ashamed to admit that I’m afraid of being alone.”

“I’m a shifter,” he reminded her, his voice softening.

“I know that.”

“Then you should know that we mate for life,” he said and
pushed his hips forward.

She shuddered with pleasure as his thick cock slid quickly
inside her pussy. “For life? What…what are you saying?”

“I’m saying you are mine—for life.”

His? For life? “What about the babies I’m carrying?”

“We’ll worry about the implications later. Right now, I want
my pussy.”

“Then take it. It’s yours and it has been from the moment we
met.”

“Damn right it is,” he told her.

“Brand me as yours,” she whispered. Slipping her hands down
his back, she drew his big body down until his chest crushed against her
breasts.

“This is my pussy. I may or may not occasionally allow Renas
a quick fuck, but no one else.”

“I like the sound of just the two of us and maybe Renas.”

“Maybe. Maybe not,” he told her in a brusque voice. “The
decision to allow it or not will be mine alone,” he warned her.

“Yours alone,” she echoed and shivered as he began that
delicious fucking motion with his big cock that quickly drove all rational
thought from her mind.

She raked her palms down his back to his ass, forcing his
cock deeper into her pussy. They both shuddered and groaned. When his mouth
crashed down onto hers, they began to fuck each other as only a lusty shifter
and a retired courtesan in love could.

She had lost her father and then Markes. But now she had a
big, handsome shifter who wanted to mate with her for life. Happily, as her
father’s daughter, she was up to the challenge. 

* * *

Four weeks later, Delsin, Renas, and
Parmia sat on the balcony of a guest suite in one of the houses within the
Adarian clan compound. Earlier that evening they’d shared a meal with Daylon
and his bond mate, Tanari, Kayden, Daria, and Daylon’s cousin Xander and his
woman, Cassia.

Meeting Tanari had helped allay
Parmia’s remaining fears about settling down with him in the Blue Desert. While
he and Daylon discussed his place within the pack, Parmia and Tanari had spent
their time touching each other’s bellies and cooing over how handsome their offspring
would be.

Just as the others left, Parmia had
received a message from Markes indicating his training was nearly over and
expressing a wish to see her again before he decided which assignment to
accept.

Although he had no fond feelings for
the side arm, Delsin had been pleased for Parmia, who he knew loved and missed
him. He’d forced a smile to his face and insisted he would be happy to have the
damned creature come for a brief visit.

Parmia had wept with joy and rushed
across the room to shower him with kisses so warm and passionate, they’d gone
to their bedchamber. After she gave him a scorching cock and balls suck, he’d
fucked her until her cries of pleasure echoed through the house. Within
minutes, Renas had appeared in the door. The moment, Delsin withdrew his cock
from her, Renas climbed on the bed and devoured her pussy.

Renas was so greedy for her juices,
he didn’t seem to care that he was also consuming Delsin’s seed.

After a quick sonic shower, during
which they’d fucked her again, they had dressed and left the bedchamber.

Now, seated on the balcony enjoying
the late evening desert with her and Renas, who had separate accommodations
within the compound, he felt content but impatient to hold his cub in his arms.

He glanced across the table at Renas,
who sat staring at Parmia with a look of delight on his face.

An examination by a shifter doctor
had confirmed that both he and Renas had managed to swell Parmia’s belly. That
meant Renas would rightly expect to regularly mate with her—at least until such
time as he took a bond mate of his own. Unlike his brother, Kayden, Renas
didn’t appear to feel an obligation to mate with a Centaurides Mare.

As Parmia’s swelling progressed,
she’d want to mate with them both with increasing frequencies. Delsin smiled.
Apparently, he was more shifter than he’d thought. Instead of angering him, the
knowledge excited him. While he felt certain he’d be more than content to spend
the rest of his life in a monogamous relationship with her, he didn’t mind
occasionally sharing her with Renas—as Daylon appeared to share Tanari with Xander
and Kayden, who had swelled her belly with his seed.

Renas suddenly rose.

The two men locked gazes before
Delsin glanced down and noted the bulge along his friend’s thigh.  Renas arched
a brow, a question in his eyes.

Delsin inclined his head slightly.

Breathing an audible sigh of relief, Renas
walked around the table and lifted Parmia to her feet, sliding a hand under her
tunic to palm her. “I need some more pussy,” he said.

She glanced at him. “Delsin?”

Pleased at the way she deferred to
him, Delsin shrugged. “Do you want to?”

She hesitated.

“It’s his right,” he reminded her.
“And I’m okay with it—as long as you are.”

“I burn only for you, Del, but I do
enjoy having him rut in me,” she whispered.

Noting the remnants of shame in her
voice, he shook his head. “We’re all three sensual creatures, Parmia. There’s
no shame in your enjoying mating with him.”

“I do.”

Given her natural instincts and the
size of Renas’ weapon, he’d have been surprised if she didn’t. “Then do,” he
told her.

“And you? Will you join us, Del?”

He suspected Renas might want her to
himself and was prepared to allow that on the odd occasion.

To his surprise, Renas spoke up.
“Join us.”

“I will—shortly. Right now I just
want to sit and enjoy the beauty of the night.”

Renas nodded and turned back to
Parmia.

Delsin watched in silence as his
friend slowly disrobed her, peeling off the sexy red and black thong and bra that
barely concealed her charms. As always, his heart raced with emotion and his
cock hardened as he gazed at her beautiful, naked body. The unmistakable
fullness of her belly, swelling with his cub, aroused him.

Judging by the way, Renas knelt to
kiss and caress it, he felt the same way. While still kneeling, he parted her
thighs and pressed his tongue against her clit several times before sliding it
up into her pussy.

She moaned and pressed his head
closer.