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  Paladin’s Pride 3: Her Forever Knight

  Angelina Evans

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  Copyright ©2005 Angelina Evans

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  Prologue

  Paladin -- Hidden Dangers

  Paladin lay on his great bed. He was naked, his cock thrusting like a lance into the air.

  “You’re dangerous tonight,” Moulina purred, her eyes narrowed on his long, thick shaft. She licked her lips and he felt it in his gut. He wanted that rough, feline tongue licking him, working him as she sucked him.

  She crawled onto the bed, her thick coppery mane tumbling in curling waves around her face and down to her shoulders. Knees spread, she sat back on her heels and cupped her breasts, her claws fully extended and kneading the slopes of her full mounds.

  She licked her lips again and a pearly drop of liquid welled up in the slit at the head of his penis.

  “Taste it,” he ordered, his deep rumbling voice harsh. He needed release, not games. Moulina thought she could entice him to her, coerce him into formally mating with her. She couldn’t. He’d been blunt with her. He hadn’t found the woman he would bind his life to. It wasn’t Moulina and she knew it. If she persisted he would sever their relationship. He didn’t want a jealous mistress. He wanted an enthusiastic bed partner.

  Moulina leaned forward, reached out and lightly scraped her claws down his rigid length. Paladin inhaled sharply but never took his eyes off her. She said there was something dangerous about him but she was the one who was dangerous tonight.

  Desire and adrenaline mixed in his blood. “I want my cock in your mouth.”

  Her claws flexed against his shaft. He watched her, his eyes cold despite the fire racing through his veins.

  She lowered her head and her tongue, pink and long, flicked out of her mouth in a fast swipe, stealing his essence from the head of his cock. The rough lick made him swear and his hips leap off the bed.

  She moaned and licked him again. “I don’t want to want you,” she hissed, almost spitting. “But I do. I crave you. Your taste. Your huge cock splitting me nearly in half. If you wanted me, I could laugh in your face and leave. But you don’t and you never will.”

  Paladin lifted himself on one elbow and fisted his other hand in the hair at the nape of her neck. “This will be our last night together. Do you want sex with me or do you want to leave?”

  Her eyes shot green sparks. Her claws tested the steel of his arousal.

  He tightened his grip on her hair and his eyes narrowed. “Don’t.” The one word was a warning and a promise. He’d never learned what mercy was. If she maimed him she would learn how unforgiving he really was.

  At the same time, the threat fueled his need. She wouldn’t tell him no and, even if she did, he wouldn’t let her go. His cock throbbed. He would push his thick length into her but first he wanted her mouth. He wanted to see her lips stretched around him. He wanted to watch her cheeks hollow and listen to the sound of her sucking him.

  He applied pressure to the back of her head, forcing her mouth closer to his cock as she glared at him.

  “Open your mouth.”

  She did as she was told. Her tongue stroked over her bottom lip, touched him before her lips did. Paladin’s breath caught. His eyes half-closed and his hips jerked off the bed again.

  A buzzer sounded, shrill and intrusive. Paladin cursed viciously. “What?” he roared.

  “Incoming communication from Kai.”

  Paladin’s hands clenched into fists. “Forward it,” he snarled. Kai wouldn’t contact him unless it was important. This better be monumental.

  Moulina’s mouth closed over the head of his penis and she sucked hard. It felt like she was trying to pull the head off his cock. He arched into her. The veins in his neck stood out as he thrust into her mouth. His teeth bared in a grimace. Her mouth was pain and pure pleasure.

  “Paladin?”

  “You’re interrupting,” Paladin snapped through clenched teeth. “Take more of it,” he ordered Moulina, his chest heaving, his heart beating heavy and fast.

  “I’ve got a woman aboard the Therik.” Kai named his own spaceship.

  Paladin swore as Moulina took another inch of him into her mouth. Her tongue, agile and rough, swirled around him, poked and licked the crevice at the head of his cock, found and tormented the sensitive underside of his shaft just below the head. She was trying to distract him and coming close to doing it.

  “I’ve got a woman in my bed.”

  “Do you trust your woman?” Kai asked, his tone cold.

  “She wouldn’t have my cock in her mouth if I didn’t.”

  There was a pause before Kai continued. “I’ve got Genae Galaran, President Galaran’s daughter. She’s got her father’s plans to annihilate non-human species throughout the galaxy. We need a Mriln healer on Sai-sen-Sai to retrieve the information.”

  “A healer?”

  “The information was implanted in her heart.”

  Moulina’s teeth sank into Paladin’s cock.

  Shouting a curse, he shoved her away. He rolled off the bed, one hand holding his nearly maimed penis. “How far out are you?” he demanded, his cold stare pinning Moulina where she knelt on the bed. She would pay for what she’d almost done.

  “Two days.”

  Paladin’s mind played through scenarios with lightning speed. Ryvn was near Thalanace. There was a Mriln healing facility there. It would be the closest.

  If what he’d heard from the Mriln and what he’d put together himself added up to what he thought, the tides had just turned against President Galaran; at his daughter’s hand.

  “I’ll have a Mriln healer here the day after you arrive. Sooner if possible.”

  “I’ve got three League destroyers on my tail,” Kai warned.

  Paladin’s smile was savage. “Let them come.” He would show the League the true might of his own fleet. He’d wanted to do that for a long time but the time had never been right, until now.

  “Two days,” Kai said and disconnected.

  Paladin strode across the room and activated his connection to the communications center. “Get Ryvn. Tell him to get to Thalanace. I want a Mriln healer here in a day. Less if he can do it. I don’t care if he has to kidnap one. Get them here.” He closed the connection, sure his orders would be carried out, and looked back at his bed.

  Moulina was on her hands and knees, her mane a wild tangle of curls around her face. Her breasts hung free, swaying slightly with each breath she took. Her lips were swollen and red.

  Paladin’s cock jerked to full attention. He smiled, the expression cruel. Finally, he would fight the League head on. If he died, it wouldn’t matter as long as Galaran, the bastard, was brought down. The only thing that c
ould be better would be Galaran himself being aboard one of the destroyers following Kai.

  Need slammed into him, hot and wild. He stalked toward the bed, his eyes narrowed and glinting. “You bit me,” he rumbled.

  Moulina threw her hair back and shrugged. “It’s not every day you hear that the President’s daughter is with someone you know.”

  “League bastard,” Paladin growled. He didn’t like the way she said the President, as if he were her president.

  She shrugged again. “Did I injure you too badly to get the job done?”

  Paladin grabbed her hips, turned her ass to face him and rammed his cock into her.

  “Pallladiiiin.” She screamed his name, her back arching, her claws shredding the covers on his bed.

  He grunted as he pounded into her, watched as his penis moved in and out of her. She was tight and wet, hot and wild. Her body shook each time his pelvis hit her ass. She moaned and cried out, arched and flung her head.

  He felt the building pressure in his balls. He wouldn’t come before she did. He wouldn’t let her have that control. Reaching between her thighs he pinched her clit. She screamed. Her vaginal muscles clamped and spasmed around him. Moulina dropped her head to her forearms, her ass still raised, her cunt impaled by him.

  He rode into her, as fast and hard as he could. The sensation boiled up inside him and he came, his cum shooting into her in spurts.

  He bowed over her, propped up by his arms that caged her. “Finally. The League bastard falls.” He savored the words as he enjoyed the feel of her inner muscles tightening around him as the aftershocks of her orgasm worked through her.

  Moulina shook her head against the bed. The only one who would fall was Paladin.

  Chapter 1

  Two Days Later

  Genae woke slowly. A smile lit her face as she stretched. She was tender from another night of Kai’s loving. He was amazing. She didn’t know how many times she’d climaxed. Sometimes he didn’t let her come down, he just forced her higher and higher until she wasn’t sure she was even bound in her own body any longer, just a being of energy and light connected to reality through him.

  She wanted more time with him. The past two days aboard his ship, the Therik, had been the only calm she’d known in over a year and it felt wonderful. Thoughts about the information she carried intruded. There was still so much to do. Making sure the information was retrieved and got to someone who could do something with it.

  She shook her head and tried to hold on to the contentment of the moment. She didn’t want to give up this time she had with Kai.

  She yawned and rubbed her eyes before opening them. She looked toward Kai and her jaw dropped. He was asleep. The man never, well hardly ever, slept. She itched to reach out and touch his hair and trace the hard contours of his face. It still amazed her every time she looked at him how golden he was. His thick golden mane, his gold toned skin and his old gold eyes.

  She wrinkled her nose and kept her hands where they were. He needed his sleep and she wasn’t going to disturb him. How he had managed to keep a close watch on League activities, see to his own vessel and spend a considerable amount of time with her, she would never know. His stamina was tremendous but even he had limitations. Not that he would ever admit to them.

  A rueful smile lit her face and warmth filled her. He really was perfect. Reality, though, wouldn’t be held at bay. Three destroyers were headed for Sai-sen-Sai. One of them was Rabala’s.

  Her stomach knotted and she pressed her hand over it. Rabala would want revenge. Kai had tricked him above YelAsta and sent him chasing a ghost. That would make the whole thing very personal to the general.

  She looked out the view port and tried to take a breath around the fear choking her. There were so many planets with so many people. The information in her heart meant the difference between life and death for them. The price of saving people she would never know was so high. It could mean Kai’s life. How would she live with that?

  She looked back at Kai and her eyes traced over his face once more. A feeling she couldn’t describe swelled in her chest. His planet and people were in jeopardy. The League destroyers weren’t chasing only her this time. Kai had made her much more dangerous. Suddenly there was a chance she would succeed. They wouldn’t be satisfied killing her. They would destroy the planet. They wouldn’t even hesitate.

  Taking a deep breath, she rolled to the side of the bed and sat up. How did she live with the destruction of a planet and its people?

  A humorless smile lifted her lips. She wouldn’t have to live with it. She’d be dead right along with every other person on the planet. That was comforting.

  A hard arm circled her waist and pulled her back across the bed. Kai rolled her onto her back, pushed her legs apart and settled himself between them.

  “Where were you going?”

  She reached up and tunneled her fingers through his hair. He made a low approving sound and she smiled. He loved her touch and she loved touching him. He was truly the most beautiful male she’d ever seen and for now, unbelievable as it seemed, he was hers.

  “I thought I would bathe and dress for the occasion. Naked might have been all right for YelAsta but not for Sai-two.” She used the VanDai abbreviation for their planet.

  Kai growled. The sound vibrated his chest and teased her nipples where he pressed against her. “You’ll wear clothes everywhere except our chambers. There I want you naked. I like having you accessible.”

  He reached between them, grasped his cock and found her wet entrance with its thick head.

  “Accessible?” Her breath caught as he pressed against her. His penis was huge and throbbing.

  He forged into her with heavy, insistent pressure and she bit her lip as he filled her. Her body arched into his. The sensation was incredible. It crashed through her as he surged deeper.

  She twisted, trying to compensate for the heavy intrusion. He stretched her almost to the point of discomfort. His pulse throbbed inside her, stimulating even when he was still. She never wanted him to leave her.

  “Accessible.” He groaned as he pulled back and thrust forward, the first stroke slow.

  A single harsh word exploded from him. She didn’t understand what he said but his tone made it a curse. She clutched his shoulders, her body moving against his, seeking the pleasure he’d taught her to expect.

  “Can we talk about it later?” She moved her hips as much as she could under the press of his. The miniscule movement inflamed already sizzling nerves. Every time was better.

  Kai glared down at her. “You’re so small. Delicate. I should be gentle with you.”

  Genae smiled, slow and sensual. She didn’t want gentle. She wanted Kai. “I love your power. Just take me.”

  Kai’s lips drew back in a feral snarl. He pulled out of her, flipped her onto her stomach and pulled her hips up. He positioned his cock and plunged into her. His hips ground into hers. He pulled out and hammered into her again.

  She shook and moaned. Her inner muscles tightened around him but couldn’t hold him as he pulled out and lunged back in. She was on fire and he forced the flames higher.

  Kai couldn’t go deep enough. He wanted to sink himself in her. He wanted them to be one being. He growled as she melted around him, milked him. She was everything he wanted, everything he needed. The sound of his flesh slapping hers, her wet heat sucking his cock in as he thrust forward, slurping to keep him in when he pulled out; her hot, feminine scent, drove him on.

  She would never get away from him. She would understand that in time. Whatever force had sent her toward YelAsta had sent her to him and he would never let her go.

  He groaned as she clenched around him.

  She cried out as an orgasm rocketed through her.

  He couldn’t hold back and didn’t want to. He wanted his seed filling her. He wanted her bound to him in every way a woman could be bound to a man. For them, there was no going back, only forward.

  He shouted as his own r
elease caught him. His cum fountained into her, hot and thick. He rocked into her once, twice more before settling over her, covering her body with his. Her inner muscles tightened around him in unpredictable spasms as aftershocks rippled through her. It was a sensation he was becoming addicted to.

  “Do you think anyone would notice if we didn’t transport down to the planet?” Her voice was soft, almost dreamy.

  Kai nuzzled his face into the crook of her neck and kissed her. “Paladin would send up a search party if you weren’t on the first transport to the surface. No one is going to take any chances with you and the information you carry.”

  Genae’s heart skipped a beat. No one is going to take any chances with you and the information you carry. His words reverberated in her head. No one would take any chances with her until they had her where they could get the information. She didn’t really have any doubt how Kai would take the news of how dangerous the retrieval process was. The chances of her surviving were slim. He’d been protective from the moment he’d seen her. He wasn’t going to be happy when he found out the rest.

  She murmured a protest as he rocked back and his cock pulled out of her. She had to make sure he didn’t find out. Getting the information was more important than her life. She’d believed that to start with, but now it meant even more. Because of Kai. He was worth saving. Others like him were worth saving. She couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t do everything in her power to stop her father.

  She closed her eyes as pain stabbed through her. Her father. He wasn’t that. Not anymore. The man her father had been would never have thought about killing whole planets of people.

  Kai ran his hand over her raised bottom, up her back and under her arms to cup her breasts. He teased her nipples, tugging at them and squeezing her full mounds. “A quick bath, we’ll get dressed, and it will be time to go.”

  His erotic stimulation of her breasts stole the somber thoughts from her mind. “I think that’s what I was doing when you started this whole thing,” she grumbled as she arched into his hands. She loved the way he was always touching her. It would be interesting to see how that changed when they were both fully clothed and in the company of others. She would miss the way he caught her hand or her arm or lifted and carried her.