Chapter 19
Raven silently fumed beneath her cowl.
Her gazed was fixed across the room on a sweating Beast Boy. He was cowering away, his wide eyes desperately seeking an escape route, while his ears twitched uncontrollably.
Raven ground her teeth together.
Beast Boy was holding a hand before him now, stammering something as he backed away slowly, his eyes still looking for an escape.
The plate of food in front of Raven began to bubble.
"Raven?" Starfire carefully asked.
Raven's power filled eyes turned to Starfire and she growled. "Why are they doing that?"
Starfire drew back in fright, her eyes wide. "Why are who doing what?"
Raven cast her eyes back to Beast Boy and Starfire's eyes followed.
"Oh," Starfire said inadequately.
Several Tamaranian females, their hands pulling at the collar of his uniform, were accosting a nervous Beast Boy. He was trying to disentangle himself and back away slowly and was failing, for every step he took backward, several more girls joined in the effort to peel his collar away.
"They've been doing that the last few days," she muttered. "First it was just one or two, now they're all over him the instant he walks into a room. It's getting annoying."
"They are trying to see if he is claimed."
"Claimed?"
Starfire nodded. "It is a Tamaranian tradition. We do not have the 'girlfriend' and the 'boyfriend'. We have 'chosen' and 'claimed'. Robin and I are chosen, we have chosen to become married, to bind ourselves to each other. You and Beast Boy would be considered claimed. Except that I have not told you of this and you have not claimed him." She sighed and touched Raven's shoulder. "I apologise, Raven. I should have spoken to you about this sooner. But with everything that you and Beast Boy have gone through, I did not believe you would allow me to explain."
Raven turned her eyes back to Starfire. "Explain away."
Starfire took a deep breath. "Until Beast Boy is shown to be claimed, he is considered single, a bachelor. He may speak to or have relations with whomever he wants. Any girl may try to claim him, if he allows them to and if he is happy with them, he can choose to claim them back. If you claim him, he would be considered yours and no female can touch him without your permission, unless they are family. We understand that offworlders have their own traditions so normally we will not try and claim an offworlder in our way. But if you claim him now, it will be something that they recognise as a partnership and they will stop the bothering of him. They still may challenge you to a duel to try to claim him but they will not be successful, especially if both of you decline the duel. It is not until you decide have children that you must become chosen and undertake xhandal and anyone may become a contender."
Raven's eyes narrowed and she ground her teeth. "Wouldn't that have worked for Rundn?"
"Raven," Starfire said carefully, her eyes wary. "You have only just begun to kiss Beast Boy. If I had said to you that you must go and bite him on the neck and then Rundn would leave you alone, what would you have done?"
Raven paled. "Bite him on the neck?"
Starfire nodded.
"Wouldn't a kiss work?" A kiss she could handle, but biting him?
Starfire shook her head. "A kiss is not a recognised symbol of affection on Tamaran."
Raven went pink. "Have you seen the size of Beast Boy's teeth?"
Starfire placed a hand on her shoulder. "You do not need to draw blood. Just hard enough to leave teeth marks. And he will remain yours as long as you keep those marks on his neck. Many Tamaranians choose to scar, but you will not need to as long you renew the bite every now and then."
"But… I can't just walk over there and bite him…"
"Why not?" Starfire cocked her head and blinked at Raven in confusion.
Raven wrapped herself in her cape. "Because… um… it's just not done…"
"You do not wish to display public affection perhaps?"
Raven gave a small nod, relieved that she didn't have to spell it out for her friend. "Yeah."
"I am sorry, Raven, but a claiming should be witnessed. It can be done in private, but they will continue to bother him until they see the marks. And there is always a chance that one of them will manage to claim him before you can get to him." Starfire drummed her finger against her lips and she looked around the room thoughtfully. "You do wish to claim Beast Boy do you not?"
"I almost lost him once. It's not something I want to do again," she muttered, her eyes back on Beast Boy.
There was a clatter as the plate of food Beast Boy was holding onto was upended on the floor and he continued walking backward holding his arms out before him. Beast Boy caught her eyes, silently appealing for any sort of assistance she could offer and she gritted her teeth.
"Raven, go. I will provide you with a distraction if you wish so that the only eyes that will be on you will be that of those women."
Relief surged through Raven's body. "Would you?"
Starfire beamed. "Of course." She floated into the air and zipped over to where Robin and Cyborg were talking animatedly, oblivious to anything else. She looked over her shoulder and make small shooing motions at Raven before reaching down and hoisting a flabbergasted Robin up into the air by the front of his cape.
Raven didn't need to see anymore. She allowed her raven form to envelop her. She traveled through the dimensions to Beast Boy's side coming out before him. She had to do this fast before she lost her nerve.
The arching black power pushed several Tamaranian women out of the way before Raven walked through it and grabbed Beast Boy by the front of the shirt, pulling him toward her. He looked at her in relief that quickly shifted to fear as she grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled it down. "I claim him," she snarled at the women surrounding them and clamped her teeth on his neck.
He eeped and went completely still as she bit down hard enough to leave a mark. She felt a blush creeping over her neck before she released him. She tilted her own neck at him. He eyed her warily. "Trust me," she whispered. "Say you claim me too and bite."
"I claim her," he said loudly and copying what she had done to him. She tried not to wince with pain as his teeth clamped down on the tender skin on her neck and she felt a hand land on her back to pull her closer. She glanced over at the women who were looking very disappointed and muttering between themselves. She felt Beast Boy's teeth leave her neck and he licked her skin before pulling his head away.
She scowled at the other woman, her eyes glowing dark with power. There was a rapid disbursement of female forms and Beast Boy heaved in a sigh of relief.
"What was that?" he asked hesitantly.
"Yet another Tamaranian tradition," she muttered, releasing the front of his shirt and smoothing it down with her hands. "But at least now they won't bother you again."
"Um… Rae?" he asked, his hand still hot on her back.
"Yeah?" She looked at him and he was staring at her neck. She lifted her fingers to her neck, surprised when they came back slightly bloody. She raised an eyebrow.
Beast Boy went bright red. "I'm sorry, Rae, I've never done that before and I didn't know my teeth were that sharp. You look like a vampire bit you."
She lifted the collar of her leotard back up and gave him a small smile. "I'll live. But if I suddenly get a craving for blood, you know who I'm going to blame don't you?"
The sound of a Tamaranian male yelling echoed through the Communal Hall before Raven heard Starfire's voice shriek something in return. Her eyes widened and she looked across the room to where Starfire was floating in the air. She had two star bolts glowing brightly in her hand and her eyes were glowing green as she shrieked at an equally angry Torkor in Tamaranian who hovered just before her.
Beast Boy grabbed Raven's hand and they dashed across the room to Robin and Cyborg's side, who already had their weapons out and ready, waiting for a signal from Starfire that this was more than just a screaming match.
"Whats going on?" Beast Boy asked as Starfire continued to shriek.
"Don't know," Robin said, whose cape was all skewed and he was sporting a bleeding bite on his neck. "One second Starfire was um… and the next Torkor's screaming at her. She said to wait."
Raven nodded. "Well, that certainly was a distraction," she muttered.
Torkor began to yell something back at Starfire, before he grabbed her by back of the neck pulling her toward him. She hit him in the belly with a star bolt before Robin could react forcing him away from her.
Robin leapt up onto the nearest table and grabbed her by the wrist, pulling her behind him while he leveled his bo staff at Torkor. "Back off, right now," he snarled.
"I do not care what you believe my father told you," she snarled angrily in English, her hand on Robin's shoulder while Torkor scowled at the both and rubbed his stomach. "I am not yours, I have never been yours and I never will be yours. Galfore is Grand Ruler; it is his will that I will bend to, not some fabricated story. If you continue this assault on my person or my friends while outside the arena, I will challenge you!"
"Torkor!" Galfore bellowed, his bulk suddenly filling the huge double doorway of the Communal Hall entrance. "You have previously been warned about your conduct. If you do not stand down now, I will remove your claim of xhandal!"
Torkor clenched his hands into fists, before giving Starfire as stiff bow. He cast his fiery green eyes to Robin. "In the arena then." He retreated and landed before stalking out of the Communal Hall past Galfore.
Starfire landed on the table, her eyes still glowing angrily.
"Koriand'r," Galfore said, walking up to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. "It would be wise not to provoke Torkor further."
She gave him a sharp nod. "I apologise, Galfore. I should not allow my feelings to overshadow my judgment. It will not happen again." She turned to her friends and jumped nimbly from the table. "I am sorry. That was very inappropriate of me. I should have just ignored him instead of responding like that."
"What did he say, Star?" Robin asked softly, turning to face her and retracting his staff before jumping down beside her.
"That my father promised me to him and it is an insult to his memory that I have allowed myself to…" She frowned. "Be sacrificed to an offworlder." She looked at Robin. "There is no truth in what he claims. Do not concern yourselves with it. I will not allow him to provoke me again."
Robin held out a hand to her. "Come on, we should get back to our rooms."
TTTTT
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!"
Robin lifted his head from the computer, his eyebrows shooting up to his hairline. He glanced at Starfire; her eyes were wide with surprise and the nail polish brush in her hand frozen above her toes.
"She didn't," he said, struggling to hold his laughter in as both he and Starfire bolted for the door.
The door swung open to reveal Beast Boy lying on the ground laughing hysterically, Raven floating in the air, her eyes shinning with power and Cyborg clucking around the common room, scratching at the carpet as he looked for imaginary worms.
"Cluck-cluck-cluck-buck-brok-cluck." Cyborg had his hands under his armpits and was flapping them crazily as his head made jerky backward and forward movements.
Starfire dissolved into laughter.
"Where's the video camera?" Robin asked, laughing merrily.
Beast Boy contained his laughter enough to point to the table, where the camera was already rolling. "Blackmail of the century!" he managed to rasp between laughs.
Cyborg leaped onto a sofa flapping his arms madly. He scratched around it for a while before squatting down.
Robin laughed. "You'd better stop before he lays an egg Raven."
"Or jumps from the balcony," she replied with a wicked grin and released her hold over Cyborg.
Cyborg surged upright as he looked around the room at his laughing friends, his face bright red. "Oh my god, you so didn't do that!" He glanced across the room and bolted toward the table. "Give me that effing camera!"
Beast Boy lunged for it, scooping it up before Cyborg could reach him and Raven quickly engulfed them both in her cloak and vanished.
They reappeared a few moments later. "We're going to keep that, just in case. And if you ever try and spy on us again, or Robin and Starfire, I'm going to post it on the Internet," Raven said.
Cyborg scowled at her. "Fine," he snapped and stormed red-faced off to his room.
TTTTT
Cyborg sighed and ran his hands over his face.
"No luck?" Robin asked, coming to stand beside him.
"Zilch. Nada. Zip. There's nothing there, Robin. I checked and triple checked. No signals, besides the ones that we've sent, has left the palace in the last four days that we've been here. No bugs have been planted. The sorals haven't been tampered with again. BB hasn't noticed anything suspicious outside the doors. Raven hasn't come across anything in her mind scans and she's even started doing them in the arena looking for answers. Are we sure they're even there?"
"This isn't the kind of thing Galfore would lie about and I know that he wouldn't needlessly worry her. Not when the Citadel is concerned. They're there, somewhere. We're just not looking hard enough."
"Or in the right place," Cyborg said quietly.
"What do you mean?" Robin asked sharply.
"Look, if it is a Tamaranian traitor, who's the only one that we know that would do something like this?"
Robin frowned and crossed his arms. "You're thinking maybe Blackfire's behind this?"
Cyborg shrugged. "It's a possibility."
"No."
"Robin, we gotta look at all the facts. Who's got it in for Starfire the most?"
"Cyborg, don't go there. I'm serious. Don't even mention to Starfire that you're thinking that. The Citadel killed their brother. I doubt Blackfire would be involved."
"It could be a ploy, make us think the Citadel is involved when something else is going down. Look, I've done a little digging into some of the contenders. Do you want to hear what I've found?"
"All right," he said carefully.
Cyborg quickly brought up the information on the screen. "All of the contenders you have remaining are nobles. Apparently, there are some stirrings of unrest amongst the nobles since Starfire gave the title to someone who wasn't of noble birth. What if someone, or Blackfire, is trying to use the Citadel as a cover to have some sort of coup. We watch for Citadel action where there isn't any and they steal the crown."
Robin was silent and Cyborg swiveled his head to look at their leader. He was rubbing his chin with his thumb, deep in thought. "Dig a little deeper. Just don't tell Starfire."
TTTTT
Beast Boy huffed and leaned against the balcony stone above the arena.
"That guy is fat," he muttered looking down at the lumbering mass of flesh that waddled around the arena.
Raven curled her lip in disgust. "Is he actually trying to eat something? What is that?"
Starfire pulled a face. "I am sure that you do not wish to know. Needless to say that is very disturbing."
"C'mon Robin," Cyborg called , pumping his fist in the air. "Smack him in the head and get it over and done with."
"Dude, I don't think Robin wants to get close to him. He probably reeks. I know I wouldn't want to get near him."
"What was this guys name again Star?" Cyborgasked. "Pyzl, or Pleasen or-"
"Plyzn," she replied absently, resting her hands on the balcony stone beside Beast Boy.
"You guys have weird names," Beast Boy said cheekily.
"Oh yeah, its so much better than Garfield," Ravemuttered.
A cheer arose from the crowd as Robin finally dashed toward the jiggling Tamaranian and jumped high in the air, smacking the butt of his weapon on the back of Plyzn's head before leaping away.
Plyzn wobbled for a moment before toppling backward; there was a loud thump and dust kicked into the air as his body hit the ground. He did not move, although his belly kept rolling for some time after.
Robin cocked his head before he rubbed the back of his neck. He crept up to the undulating mound of flesh and prodded it with his weapon before looking up at Starfire and shrugging. She began to giggle.
"Robin wins!" Galfore roared.
"You're kidding me," Cyborg said, outraged. "That's it? What a waste of time."
TTTTT
Something scratched at Raven's door.
She frowned and floated down to the ground, her meditation disturbed before walking to the door and opening it.
A small green kitten bounded into the room, a ball of yarn in his mouth. He dropped it on the floor, looking up at her with those soulful eyes and meowed happily.
Raven raised an eyebrow and looked at the ball before looking back at Beast Boy, quietly shutting the door behind him. "Seriously? You play with yarn?"
Beast Boy nodded, before nudging the ball toward her with his nose.
Raven knelt down on the floor and picked up the ball, considering Beast Boy carefully. He stretched out his front legs toward her, his hind legs, bottom and tail wiggling with anticipation. She looked at the ball in her hand. "Wouldn't Starfire be a better choice for this?" she asked dryly.
Beast Boy's eyes lost some of their happy light.
Raven gave a long-suffering sigh and bounced the ball in her hand, unraveling part of it before tossing it across the floor. Beast Boy pounced, his paws batting at the ball crazily, his teeth gnashing as he munched on yarn. He lay on his side and kicked at the ball, spinning around in circles.
A tiny smile crossed Raven's lips as she watched him play. He really was very cute like this. She enveloped the rapidly unwinding ball in her powers, pulling it out of reach and tantalizingly wiggled it for him. He cast her a happy glance before dashing after the ball.
Soon there was yarn all over the place, strings of it draped across Raven's legs and looped around chairs. Beast Boy had managed to get tangled in it, tying his feet together and was busily biting at the yarn to try and free himself.
She crawled across the floor to lend him a hand, pulling his paws from the string. He blinked at her happily before purring and leapt into her lap and she hesitantly began to stroke his back and rub under his chin. The purr grew louder and he closed his eyes, leaning into her touch.
There was a knock on the door. "Hey Raven, have you seen BB? I challenged him to a race earlier but he's disappeared," Cyborg called through the door.
Beast Boy's head came up and his eyes went wide in fear. Raven frowned. "He's standing watch out the front," she called loudly.
"Damn grass stain," came Cyborg's rapidly diminishing mutter.
Raven looked back down at Beast Boy as he jumped from her lap. "Why didn't you want Cyborg to know you were in here?"
Beast Boy looked at her sheepishly before changing back to normal. He rubbed the back of his neck as a blush spread across his face. "Um… he doesn't know I play with yarn." He dropped his eyes and picked at the carpet. "Nobody knows."
Raven blinked in surprise. He'd shared something really private with her. "I've seen you play with Cyborg and Robin before in animal form."
"Well, yeah. But Frisbee's different. I dunno. Yarn just seems to be a little more… personal." He eyed her hopefully. "You won't tell will you?"
She reached across the space between them and held his hand, giving him a tiny smile. "No. As long as you don't tell anyone that I kinda found that fun. Just a little."
His face lit up and he beamed at her.
TTTTT
Robin sighed. "I'm starting to think I'm never gonna see the end of this xhandal," he said as he and Starfire prepared for bed. He tossed the open handed gloves onto the cupboard by the wall.
"It will not be too far away," Starfire replied softly as she sat on the bed and pulled of her boots. "I am very proud of you, d'anthe l'ani. You are doing very well in your battles."
"Only done ten so far," he muttered as he reached around behind his neck to try and unlatch his gorget. "God knows how many I have left." She watched him fumbled with the latch. "Star, a little help please."
"Why do you find this so difficult?" she asked, getting off the bed and approaching him. "It is not unlike your cape."
"My cape isn't as stiff as this and the latch is on the front. Besides, its a weird latch, I'm just not used to it yet that's all."
She made a small noise of agreement before latches gave and she pulled the gorget off. Placing it on the cupboard she reached around behind her own gorget and snapped it off too, placing it beside his.
He rubbed his neck, before twisting it to loosen the muscles. He scratched a nearly healed bite mark on his neck. "Next time you decide to hoist me into the air and bite me on the neck in the middle of the Communal Hall, can I have a little bit more warning than 'brace yourself'?"
Starfire giggled. "Where would be the fun in that?" she asked she opened a drawer to retrieve her bedclothes, underwear and toiletries, intent on heading for the shower.
His hand snaked into the drawer and he pulled out the bikini-like purple outfit she had shown him before. He turned to Starfire holding it in his hands. "Hey Star," he said quietly. "Why didn't you want to wear this one?"
She raised an eyebrow at him. "No one beside my chosen should ever be allowed to see me with that much skin showing."
"Oh," he said softly and was silent for a moment before a cheeky grin spread across his face. "Well, can I see it on?"
She considered him. "You would perhaps like to do the play of roles? I should pretend that I am in the distress of damsels?"
Robin's face drained of blood and his eyes widened in surprise. "Where'd you hear that?"
She just looked at him and smiled cheekily.
He shook his head. "Cyborg."
Starfire giggled. "Bumblebee. She has a unique perspective on relationships. Apparently many boys have asked if she has a…" She frowned in concentration, what was the name of that person again? "'Princess Leia' I believe it is, outfit to match her hair. I believe that the boys who asked have been stung badly."
Robin laughed. "Oh poor Cyborg. I wonder if he knows what he's in for."
Starfire frowned. "Why? He will not be getting 'in' with Bumblebee. She does not have the 'crush' on him."
"She doesn't? Aww, poor Cyborg. He's got it bad for her. Who does she have one on then?"
She smiled. "Why are we speaking of Bumblebee? You wish to do the play of roles, yes?"
Robin reddened. "No… I just wanted to see what it would look like that's all."
She hummed and took the outfit from him. "Turn around."
"Why?"
"If you wish me to see me in this, then you should not watch in case you decide you would prefer me in nothing at all."
"I think I will always prefer you in nothing," he said wickedly and waggled his eyebrows.
She giggled and grabbed his shoulders, spinning him around before smacking him lightly on the behind.
"Hey!" he complained playfully and he looked over his shoulder at her.
She grabbed his head and forced him to look forward once more. "You still need to remove your boots, Robin."
He huffed and lifted his foot to pull off his boot and let it drop to the floor, while she hastily pulled of her xhandal outfit and slipped into the other one. As he lifted his other foot and pulled off that boot she pinched him on the bottom. He turned toward her, his eyebrows raised. "Hey, that wasn't-" The words died in his throat and his mouth dropped open.
Her xhandal outfit was nowhere near as revealing as this one, which is why she refused to wear it. Instead of just a barest hint of curve of her breasts, her cleavage and bare skin all the way done to well below her navel was exposed. She grinned and twirled for him, watching in delight as his jaw drop even further. Her back was almost completely bare, beside a small strip of material across her back that acted like a bra strap and the back of her bikini like bottom hugged her behind even closer than her other one. She watched desire filter into his eyes and it made her want to melt with happiness.
"Oh… my… god."
She giggled. "You like it, yes?" She floated away from him with a very wicked smile dancing on her lips. "If you can catch me, you may have me."
Robin pounced and she darted upward and out of reach. He lept up after her, his fingers briefly coming in contact with her leg before she slipped from his grasp. He landed on the bed, using that extra height to leap upward toward her once more.
Soon he was scampering up the walls in an effort to capture her as she stayed tantalizingly out of reach. She loved him like this, so eager and dexterous as he chased her. She lolled and rolled through the air showing that outfit off to its best advantage, an inviting smile lingering on her lips as she ducked and zipped away from his seeking hands.
She giggled merrily before he suddenly stumbled and rolled awkwardly on the ground. He groaned and hunched over, grabbing at his ankle and she thought her heart would stop. She didn't mean for him to get hurt. She was beside him in a moment; her hands reached for his ankle.
He tackled her, throwing her down to the ground and climbed on top of her. He attacked her mouth with his, his hands already slipping that outfit from her shoulders and she let out a muffled squeak of surprise that quickly changed into a moan of anticipation.
Gotcha.
His delicious wickedness sent a shiver down her spine. She slipped her arms from the straps her outfit as he pushed them down. She wrapped one hand around the base of his neck pulling him closer as his tongue probed into her mouth, her other hand digging its fingers into his waist, while his hands were warm against her breasts.
He broke away from her mouth, kissing, licking and nibbling his way down her jaw and neck. She arched back her head, lengthening her neck, her skin tingling against his touch. She loved the feel of his lips and hands on her and was so glad he wasn't timid about the way he touched her anymore. So many times she'd seen desire in his eyes, felt his hardness between her legs and he hadn't acted on his feelings.
Starfire moaned as his mouth closed over her nipple, her back arching off the floor and she hooked her legs around his waist. His other hand slid over her knee and up the outside of her leg to grasp at her bottom. He inched his fingers beneath her suit and suddenly he was pulling away from her breast and twisting around to look down her body.
He sat up and yanked the outfit down her legs and over her ankles and she was surprised and excited at his eagerness. His mouth made a small 'o' of surprise before he went bright red.
"What is wrong?"
Robin crawled back on her, burying his head in her chest. "Damn it. You wear a thong under that. God, I'm never going to be able to look at you again without getting a stiffy."
She frowned. "Stiffy?"
He grunted, shifting upward and pressed against her leg. Her eyes widened as she realised what he meant. "Would you prefer that I wear nothing beneath?" she asked seductively.
He propped himself up on his elbows to look at her and she giggled. "Minx," he muttered.
Starfire wrapped her legs around him and pulled him closer, grinding against him. His eyes rolled back into his head and he groaned. She wiggled; making sure to brush against him as much as possible, watching in delight at the expressions of lust and pleasure that filtered through his face.
He dropped his head to her shoulder and he leaned into her embrace. "Oh Star."
She smiled to herself and slipped a hand down between them, drifting inside his pants to caress his length, thrilled at the shudder that rocked through his body. It was such an interesting organ to play with, and so sensitive, he twitched and shuddered as she manipulated the skin around.
Robin groaned into her shoulder. "Oh god, Star, don't do that." He lifted his head to press his forehead against hers. "I've been so hungry for you all day that if you keep that up I won't last long."
"As I have been for you," she purred, pulling her hand away and trailing up over his stomach.
He got off her to sit on the floor beside her, quickly pulling his legs out of the purple xhandal pants and slipping his boxers down his legs while Starfire raised her bottom off the ground to wriggle out of her thong.
She'd barely had time to slip it over her ankles before Robin was back on top of her, his hardness pressing against her inner thigh. She moaned in anticipation and spread her legs wide, wrapping them around his bottom. He attacked her lips with his once more as he slipped inside her, her eyes rolling back into her head in pleasure.
They fit together so well; he filled her so completely that she could feel the throb of his pulse from within her. And when he began to move inside her, she felt like she could die from the pleasure. She groaned, one hand grasping at his back, the other entangled in his hair, her legs tightening around him as he thrust himself deeper into her, his skin growing hot beneath her hands.
She loved the sound of his quickening breath that blew against her neck, the huskiness of his moans, the way his back became damp with his sweat. She rejoiced in the feeling of him within her, the movement of his body, those little jolts of electricity that surged through her with each thrust. It sent her soaring higher than her flight could ever take her.
She groaned as a tingling sensation coursed through her entire body, a pleasure that was so intense she shuddered in delight, her passage clenching around his hardness. She arched her head back, crying out as waves of ecstasy pulsed through her. His teeth found her shoulder as he groaned in answer and she felt a warmth spread through her and him throbbing inside her.
He stiffened beneath her clenching hands before collapsing against her. "Oh god, what was that?"
She couldn't respond, she was still soaring to high, caught in climax.
His head left her neck. "Star?"
She sucked in a breath and her eyes fluttered open to see him looking at her in concern. "Oh X'hal."
A slow smile spread across his face. "Was that what I think it was?"
She nodded. "I do believe so."
He grinned in delight and nuzzled her neck. "Glorious."