Page 29 of Loaned to the Leonid Knight

“ButImay devour you? Licking, sucking, kissing?” Gideon confirmed, worried that his rapidly swelling erection would create a wet mess just from the thought of Sasha giving him permission to do such a delicious act.

“Yeah. Yes,” Sasha breathed out between kisses, nodding hard. “But if I need you to stop—”

“I will stop. It is not hard to stop doing something if stopping gives you more comfort, Sasha. I am happy when you are happy, when you are safe.”

“Yep. There’s that thing I told you not to do, or I would fall in love with you,” Sasha said, her smile soft, her lips pressing one more kiss to his cheek.

“Ah. That is the one thing I will have to disobey you in, because it is for your own good,” he warned, and let out a little gasp of surprise when his much smaller human companion pushed him onto his back.

IT WAS SO PERFECT.The snuggling. The kissing. The gradual way she shed her dress with his careful, almost reverent help.

Gideon’s eyes were so wide, she was afraid they might actually pop free. “You have seen naked women, right? Like human ones?”

“When I studied, I saw a few images, but I didn’t dwell on them. Those Queens were not mine, so I didn’t think it was right to stare.”

“You can stare at me—but maybe not too long, because I’m not some model.”

“You should be. You are incredibly beautiful,” Gideon protested, watching as she slowly undid her bra.

Gideon made a gulping noise that sounded like a vibrating hiccup, surrounded by his purr. “By Bastet... Why were you not already someone’s mate and Queen? For your beauty alone, men would fight for you. And that is before they hear your laugh, before they speak to you and find out that you are so warm and full of joy.”

“I’m not like that on Sapien-Three,” Sasha admitted. “Because there’s no one to make me feel safe and happy, Gideon. The things you like about me? You cause them.”

“As if we were meant to be,” he murmured in awe.

“Exactly as if we were meant to be,” Sasha repeated, clinging to his side, her hand stroking through the thick, plush fur on his chest. “So soft.”

“As are you. Skin like silk.”

“Fur like velvet, only such thick, thick velvet,” Sasha sighed as his paw caressed her naked back and tentatively moved to her breast. “Speaking of thick things—your pants look like they are in serious danger of tearing.”

Gideon grunted as his much larger body slid down so that his massive head and what felt like yards of mane nestled into her middle. “I will repair them.”

“I meant you could take them off.”

“Are you certain? I know you are worried about size issues. I thought if I kept them on, you would know that I wasn’t going to attempt, uh, attempt anything.”

“I already know that, that’s why I want you to be as comfortable with me as I am with you,” Sasha encouraged. “We can touch each other without having penetrative sex.”

“Oh. I knew that, but I didn’t know if that was allowable to you,” Gideon said in his sweet, polite voice that just melted her. “I feel like I have so much to learn, but it is the Queen’s job to be adored. She shouldn’t have to stop and instruct,” he let out a noise of frustration.

Sasha laughed and shook her head. “Trust me. I can already tell that you are someone who doesn’t need ‘instructing.’ It’s just a good policy to talk to your partners about likes and dislikes, expectations.”

“Mm. I will do that, then, my Queen.”

SASHA BIT HER LIP TOkeep from moaning directly in Gideon’s ear as his tongue lapped over a tight nipple, and his digits stroked up and down her outer thigh. Apparently, he had taken her directions to talk to your partner in the most literal sense of the word—and it was a fucking revelation. Her past experiences included guys who spoke in terms of “fuck, yeah” and “yes, yes, yes!” as their entire romantic communication. Gideon?

“Mmm. This is such a little treat, my Queen. And so sensitive? Do you enjoy that?” His tongue dragged from one nipple to the other, then ended with a gentle suck that put her entire breast in his mouth.

“Ohhh, oh, God, Gideon...”

“But to devour you properly, I would like to lick you here.” His digits traced the damp space between her thighs. “You smellso divine here. This is the part of you that makes my mouth water. I would like to drink the nectar you are making all night.” And his kisses continued down her belly. Over the fabric of her panties. He licked the fabric over her pouty labia, and she jumped at the sensation, at the forbiddenness of having this huge alien lover so into her that he would literally lap at the panties she was turning into a puddle because of him. “Wetness is a good sign, yes?”

“So good.”

“Am I making you wet, my Sasha?”

“I’ve never been this wet,” she whimpered when he pulled the fabric tight and licked hard at the plump lips that bulged around it.