Forgotten (48 page)

Kate gave a soft, surprised gasp and then he
was licking her again, tracing her swollen clit with his tongue and
lapping up her honey as though it was the most delicious taste in
the world—and to him, maybe it was.

Suddenly the orgasm washed over her like a
warm tidal wave, making her gasp and moan, making her shake and
tremble as her fingers tightened in his hair and her thighs
squeezed hard around the sides of his scratchy cheeks.

“
Oh,
Rone…
Rone!”
she
heard herself calling. And then, suddenly, he slipped two long
fingers into her entrance and fucked up into her, filling her with
them as he continued to suck and lave her clit, pressing deep to
find the end of her channel and make her moan his name even
louder.

Kate moaned and arched her back, her vision
going cloudy for a moment. God, she couldn’t believe this—couldn’t
believe she was spread open with the big Kindred between her legs
making her come with just his tongue and fingers. For a brief
moment she thought she glimpsed the life she and Rone had shared
together—the lovely, long days and the deep, dark nights, holding
each other, loving each other, and never wanting to be apart.

Then the brief vision faded and Kate was
coming again as Rone did something new with his tongue. She gasped,
bucking her hips up to meet him, giving herself completely in a way
she hadn’t even known was possible. She was losing control—losing
herself and yet she didn’t care a bit…didn’t care about anything
but the pleasure washing over her…

Chapter Twenty-two

Later…much later, it was finally over. Kate
didn’t know how long they’d been at it—how long she’d spent with
the big Kindred on his knees between her thighs—but she was sure it
had been hours.

At the start of it, she wouldn’t have
believed it was possible to come so many times. But Rone seemed to
know exactly how long to wait between each orgasm to start building
her up again. He also seemed to know about a million ways and
techniques to make her come. After using his hands and mouth for a
while, he showed her an array of kinky looking sex toys. Some he
had chosen for her, he explained, and some Kate had found and
ordered herself.

Kate was amazed at the variety but Rone
explained that they liked to try new things together, to keep their
relationshiop fresh. And of course, no matter how often she came,
he always wanted to make her come again, to bring her more pleasure
and more and more…

At last Kate couldn’t take it anymore. She
was exhausted and was amazed that Rone wasn’t also worn out. But
the big Kindred seemed to be tireless when it came to giving her
pleasure.

“
Rone,” she whispered,
stroking his hair as he kissed and licked her thighs, cleaning away
the honey she’d spilled for him during her latest orgasm. “Please,
I…I’m getting really tired. Are you…do you think you’ve had enough?
At least for now?” She had to ask because his eyes were still more
silver than blue—a fact that worried her.

Rone gave her one final lick and looked
up.

“
I think so. Sorry,
baby—I’ve just missed you so damn
much.”

“
I got that,” Kate said
dryly, giving him a little smile. “And that was…amazing. I
didn’t…didn’t know I could come that many times in a
row.”

He gave her a lazy grin.

“
That’s not even our
record.”

“
It’s not?” Kate looked at
him, surprised. “But how…how could we possibly…?”

“
On nights when the
hunger
is really bad we
usually start like this—with me tasting you and making you come
over and over with my mouth—giving you clitoral orgasms,” he
explained. “Then we move to the Breeding Chair and spend the rest
of the night there. Once I’m inside you and the precum and cum from
my cock is working on you, then I can give you vaginal orgasms—much
deeper and harder and longer than the ones you just
had.”

“
Really?” Kate felt her
mouth go dry. “But I thought…thought all that about clitoral or
vaginal orgasms was a myth.”

“
It might be if you’re
with a human male,” Rone told her. “But with a Wulven Kindred, it’s
completely different. The compounds my body makes begin acting on
you the minute I slide inside you. And the first time I come, it
spreads throughout your system and stimulates your G-spot and makes
you multi-multi-orgasmic.”

Kate frowned. “I’ve heard
of multi-orgasmic. But what does multi-
multi-
orgasmic mean?”

“
It’s a long chain of
orgasms that melt into one another until it feels like one, long,
single come that lasts for hours.” Rone gave her a lazy grin. “It’s
only possible with a Wulven Kindred because of the compounds our
bodies secrete to pleasure our mates.”

“
Wow.” Kate gave a shaky
laugh. “That sounds amazing but…I don’t know if I’m ready for it
quite yet.”

“
Of course not, baby,” he
said at once. “I understand—you’re still getting to know me all
over again. In fact, I think it would probably be better to hold
off on making love until your memories return.”

Kate bit her lip. “But what if they don’t?
What if I never fully remember…the way we were?”

He stroked her cheek lightly. “I think they
will, in time. But if not, I’ll just have to try to make you fall
in love with me all over again.”

Kate felt a blush rise to her cheeks at the
intent expression in his silver-blue eyes.

“
I wish…wish I could
remember now,” she said in a low voice. “Wish I could feel for you
what you feel for me, Rone.”

“
You will, in time. At
least, I hope and pray to the Goddess you will,” he said seriously.
“What we had was so precious and perfect,
Lalli.
But if we have to build it
again from the ground up, then I’m willing to do that. Like I said
before, you’re worth waiting for—and working for.”

“
Thank you.” Kate gave him
a shy smile. She had to admit, if making her love him was his goal,
the big Kindred was certainly getting there. Despite how much
bigger he was than her, he had never been anything but sweet and
kind and gentle. And if the way he had just spent hours between her
legs, making her come over and over while asking for nothing in
return was any indication, Kate thought he must be the most
sensitive and giving lover she’d ever had.

Thinking of that made her realize that while
Rone had been literally pleasuring her for hours, she had never
once offered to return the favor.

“
Um, Rone?” she asked,
looking at him uncertainly. “You’ve been doing so much for me—I
mean, tasting me for so long—but I haven’t done, er, anything for
you.”

He looked surprised. “What do you mean you
haven’t done anything for me? You let me taste you, baby—that’s the
greatest gift of pleasure you could give me.”

“
That’s very sweet of you
to say,” Kate said, smiling. “But you made me come over and over
and you never got to come yourself. Do you want…do you need some
help to, you know, get off?”

He laughed, a deep rumbling sound she was
growing to love.

“
Don’t you remember me
telling you that I almost always come when I go down on
you?”

“
Oh…that’s right.”
Kate
had
forgotten it. “It, uh, really turns you on that much?” she
asked doubtfully.

“
Hell yes, baby,” he
growled softly. “Tasting your honey and hearing you call my
name…feeling your sweet pussy tightening all around my tongue or
fingers—it’s
incredibly
erotic. I’ve probably come as many times as you
did tonight—if not more. In fact…” He grimaced as he stood. “I
really need to go clean up. I don’t produce as much cum when you’re
not physically touching my shaft, but I’m still pretty
sticky.”

“
So…are Wulven Kindred
multi-orgasmic too?” Kate asked him as he went into the small
bathroom and started to run some water.

“
All
Kindred males are,” Rone called back over the sound of the
splashing. He came out of the bathroom naked, with just a towel
wrapped around his lean hips. “The Goddess created us that way.
Coming inside your mate helps bond her to you and strengthens the
bond once it’s formed. The more often we can bring our mate to
orgasm and orgasm ourselves, the stronger and more closely we are
bound to her.”

“
I guess that makes
sense,” Kate said. “Since Kindred bond for life.”

“
We do,” Rone said
seriously. “I know that humans often divorce and go their separate
ways but that…” He shook his head. “It’s unthinkable for a Kindred.
The idea of leaving your mate once you have found her is
unimaginable. Why would you leave the one perfect female the
Goddess created just for you to look for another?”

“
But what if a Kindred’s
mate dies?” Kate asked curiously. “Can he form a new bond with
someone else?”

“
Some can. But most…” Rone
shook his head. “Well, most Kindred males won’t survive the death
of their mate.” He looked at her seriously. “That’s how I knew,
deep down, that you were still alive—even after you’d been
taken,
Lalli.
Because
I
was still alive. If you died…if I’d lost you…” His voice grew
hoarse and he looked away for a moment.

“
Oh, Rone…” Kate went to
him and put a hand on his arm. Rone turned to her and pulled her
close, wrapping her in arms that felt like warm, flexible steel.
Kate went to him willingly and pressed her face to his broad chest,
breathing in that warm, spicy aroma he’d called his Bonding Scent.
It made her want to wrap herself around him and never let
go.

“
I’m just so grateful I
found you,
Lalli,”
Rone murmured, kissing her hair. “So thankful to the Goddess
to have you in my arms again.”

“
You really believe in
that?” Kate asked, looking up at him. “I mean, you believe in the
Kindred Goddess?”

“
You do too—you just don’t
remember it,” Rone told her softly. “She is real and she cares
about her children. We met her, you know—or saw her in action,
anyway. At the joining ceremony of your friend Emily and her Beast
Kindred warrior, Tragar.”

Kate stared at him. “We did? She actually
came to the wedding? To bless the union or what?”

“
There was a bit more to
it than that.” A little smile played around the corners of Rone’s
mouth. “But let’s just say that anyone who was at the ceremony that
day is a true believer—even if they were an atheist
before.”

“
I wish I could remember,”
Kate said wistfully. “Before we came to Flame and Frost I just
wanted to regain my last memories of my Mom and find out what I’d
been doing for the last three years. But now, well…” She sighed. “I
wish I could remember
us
too.”

“
You will.” Rone stroked
her hair. “Maybe going back to G’nera will help jog your
memory.”

“
Where will I go while
you…while you change?” Kate couldn’t help the small shiver that ran
through her at the thought of the big Kindred morphing into a huge,
hairy beast. What would he look like, anyway? Some kind of
werewolf? Kate didn’t know and she wasn’t sure she wanted to find
out.

“
I have a relative—the
sister of my mother—what you would call my ‘aunt’ I believe,” Rone
said. “Tante Corii. She always liked you—you can stay with her
while I go to the Howlund and let my Beast free for the night of
the full moons’ convergence.”

Kate shifted. “That might be kind of
awkward—me staying with her when I don’t know her at all.”

He laughed, that deep rumbling sound again
that seemed to shake her entire body.

“
That’s what you said
the
first
time we
went to G’nera to let my Beast roam free. But believe me, Tante
Corii
loves
you—and you really like her too. You’ll get along just fine,
don’t worry.”

“
And what about you? Will
you be all right out there in the, uh, the Howlund place?” Kate
asked. “Are you sure I shouldn’t come with you?” Not that she
really wanted to but it seemed like she ought to offer.

“
No—no, I don’t want you
anywhere near me when I change.” For the first time Rone’s voice
turned harsh and his eyes flashed dangerously.

“
I’m sorry,” Kate said
quickly, taking a step back from him. “I just thought… She frowned
as a memory tried to surface. “Don’t the other girls, uh, females
go there with their mates sometimes?”

“
They do,” he admitted
heavily. “Usually during the first change after their joining, a
female will accompany her mate to the Howlund to try and tame his
Beast.”

“
And what happens when he
changes…when he lets his Beast come out around her?” Kate’s mouth
felt dry but she made herself ask anyway.

“
Then she either tames his
Beast and it breeds her or…” Rone took a deep breath. “Or she fails
to tame it and she dies.”

“
She…dies?” Kate asked
faintly. “Does he kill her?”

Rone nodded tersely. “If the Beast won’t
accept her as its mate, it will rip her limb from limb.”

“
But…I thought you said
that wouldn’t be a problem for us?” Kate asked. “I thought you said
your Beast would be more interested in, uh, breeding than
feeding.”