Ellora's Cavemen: Tales from the Temple II (11 page)

His heart stuttered in his chest when she slid her fingers from the sensitive tip of his erection all the way to the base of his shaft.

“You’re much bigger then you led me to believe in my dream,” she chuckled, her voice filled with delighted surprise.

Her words warmed his heart. Thank the Goddess she wasn’t fearful of his size.

“I didn’t want to scare you away,
a nara
,” he said in a dry tone.

“No worries there, tiger,” she teased.

“Panther,” he growled back as she briefly let go to slide his pants to his ankles.

When she stood up once more, she encircled as much of his wide cock as she could, pumping her hand up and down his shaft.

Kian moved his hips, thrusting into her hand, anticipating what her warm mouth would feel like on his erection. He closed his eyes and leaned heavily against the door, rocking into her.

His entire body jerked when her heated mouth closed around the tip of his cock even as she kept her hand on the base of his shaft.

Nothing compared to the reality of the warmth of her mouth around him. The real, physical sensation slammed through him confirming how right he’d been. Their connection was real…stretching beyond their mental link.

During her dreams their emotions were so strong, so involved and in tune with one another that each time either one of them came, his concentration stuttered. He’d had a hard time maintaining objects in her dream world other than himself when all he wanted to do was make sure she felt him as deeply as he did her.

Hmmm
, she hummed against him and the pleasurable vibration brought his focus back to the physical as Eriana almost drove him over the edge. As much as he wanted 62

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to know what she was thinking, Kian stayed out of her mind while she slid her tongue around his shaft and ran her mouth up and down, sucking and tasting him.

He wanted to anticipate, to
not
know what her next move was going to be. When she slid her hand past the base of his cock and grabbed the ridge of hard flesh just beyond his balls, then massaged and pressed against it, Kian’s knees bent. He had to work to keep from sliding to the floor while wave after wave of sensual pleasure jolted thought his groin.

“Goddess,” he hissed out. He fisted his hand in her hair, palming her head to guide and increase her pace to match his desire spiraling out of control. In the haze of lust surrounding him, his own need so great, he forgot to block Eriana’s thoughts.

If this is all I’ll have from him, I want to know what he tastes like
.

That was all it took.

His heart racing, his thigh muscles flexing, Kian groaned his pleasure and came hard and fast. As the last shudders of his orgasm dissipated, he welcomed the release of coiled sexual tension from his body.

Eriana didn’t let go until she’d swallowed every last drop. His heart swelled with love for her. After she reached down and pulled his pants back up, he pulled her to him, intending to kiss her.

She pushed away with a sad smile. “We need to get going,” she began, then glanced at the clock on the nightstand before returning her gaze to his. “It’ll be daylight soon.”

Kian wanted to argue. He wanted to pull her in his arms and kiss her until she begged him to take her, but he knew she was right—even if it didn’t sit well with him that she’d been able to push him away so easily.

* * * * *

“The next shift should change in a hour and a half,” Erin whispered to Kian as she pulled him along a darkened hall.

“What is this area?” he asked.

“It’s being renovated. Due to my time-travel discovery, Daniel expects more funding, more personnel,” she said, her tone sarcastic. “I explored this area late one night while one of the guards had fallen asleep. I was looking for an alternate escape route when the timing was right.”

“So that’s how you got away?” he asked, his hand tightening around hers. Erin could feel the tension, the anger radiating in his body.

Moving further down the hall, she finally reached the secluded place she’d been looking for. She opened the door and pulled him inside the empty closet, shutting the door behind them. “For obvious reasons, we’ll have to sit in the dark.”

Pushing the button on her watch, she noted the time on the illuminated background. “I’ll keep checking the time so we can slip in during shift changes.”

“Don’t you think they’ll anticipate you trying to come back here?”

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She shrugged, then realized he couldn’t see her in the dark. “It’s possible, but I only need a few seconds to destroy the files and the disk with the key code on it.”

“You mean it’s been in the lab the whole time?” he asked, his tone incredulous.

She chuckled, then tucked her skirt underneath her legs and sat down in the cramped space. “What better place to hide it than right under their noses? It’s the last place they’d expect to look.”

She heard a shuffle as Kian sat down as well and leaned against the opposite wall.

“What will you do when you go back to your planet? Find a mate, have a few cubs, and live happily ever after?”

His answer came swift and fast. “I’ve already found my mate.”

Erin’s heart sank at his words. “Oh.” But even though he was mated to another, she still wanted to know what he felt like inside her, shafting her body with his large cock, his mouth on her breasts, biting and teasing her nipples. Her sex throbbed at the thought. She pressed her hand against her mound to dampen her desire, thankful for the pitch dark so Kian couldn’t see what she was doing.
Think about something else, God,
anything but making love to Kian
.

As the quiet stretched out between them, she heard that humming sound from her dream. Erin looked around the room, sightless in the dark. It seemed to be coming from everywhere, surrounding her completely, making her associate the sound with making love to Kian.

“Do you hear that?” she asked as she started to raise her hands to cover her ears, to shut out the things the noise made her think about. But she didn’t get that far as Kian grabbed her hand and pulled her forward slightly.

She tried to pull her hand away when his tongue took a long, seductive stroke against her fingers, then took another lap. Oh God, the same fingers she’d had against her sex. The humming sound seemed to grow louder as his tongue traced in and around her fingers, making her nipples harden and warmth rush between her legs.

Kian groaned and before she realized his intent, he’d grabbed her ankles and pulled her flat on her back. His swift action caused her skirt to ride up to her hips and as she started to push her skirt back down, his warm lips touched her mound. Erin gasped, then put her hand over her mouth to muffle her cries of pleasure.

As Kian’s mouth vibrated against her sex, tears formed in her eyes. She realized that all that time, the humming sound she’d heard…Kian was purring, as any cat would do when highly excited or happy. What they had shared up until now may have been a dream, but the way he made her feel was very, very real.

When he licked a path along her sex and that rough tongue hit her clitoris, Erin bucked and keened her pleasure behind her hand. Again and again he laved at her body, bringing her to heights of passion over and over, yet never enough for her to come.

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Just when she thought she’d go insane from the need clawing in her groin, Kian spoke in her mind, his voice seductive, and dangerous,
Tell me how much you want to be
my mate, Eriana.

“You can’t do this, Kian,” she whispered as happy tears trailed down her temples.

“You have a mate already and you said you won’t go back home if we make love.”

“
You
are my one and only mate,” he replied in a low, gruff voice before swiping his tongue across her sex once more. “Now tell me what I need to hear,
a nara
.”

She felt him move over her and clasp her thighs with his hands. Spreading her legs, he prepared her as he bit out, “I see your tears, Eriana. I know you’re holding back. Tell me,” he demanded.

She jerked her gaze in the direction of his voice, surprised he could see her as she put her hands on his shoulders.

“Yes, I can see you, I can hear you, I can smell you, and I want you very much,” he replied as he pressed his cock against her entrance.

“Yes,” she moaned at the feel of him against her body. “Yes, I want to be your mate, Kian. I—I love you.”

Kian leaned over and kissed her as he thrust inside her in one swift plunge. Erin saw stars at the pain his shafting her caused, but as soon as he entered he began to move in and out of her body in slow, deliberate strokes, and the pain quickly turned to waves of pleasure.

Erin lifted her hips and met each plunge measure for measure while he paced the thrust of his tongue against hers with a dominate, aggressive sensuality he’d not been able to duplicate in her dreams. Nothing compared to the feel of him inside her, taking her breath away. Her heart hammered in her chest and her lower belly tensed in anticipation as her body’s tension built.

Thugam vu, m’nara
, he whispered in her mind, then said in her language,
I love you,
my mate.

Kian’s words, combined with his forceful thrusts, sent her spiraling right into a fulfilling orgasm. His mouth muffled her cries of pleasure as his own movements changed to a quicker, more urgent pace.

With each thrust, Erin felt a change take place. As he slid inside, his erection felt smooth but when he pulled out, his shaft rubbed against her walls feeling slightly rough. The erotic combination sent her libido into overdrive.

“Oh God, Kian!” she called out at the waves of pleasure rolling through her body.

Kian clamped his hand over her mouth and whispered against her neck, “I know it feels strange to you,
m’nara
. Just let my body bring you to pleasure as yours does mine.”

As soon as he spoke, Kian groaned and clamped his teeth on the skin between her shoulder and her neck, holding fast as he pistoned into her. Erin’s heart seemed to take on a mind of its own, beating at a pace she’d never felt before, making her lightheaded and woozy as her body clenched around Kian’s once more.

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In the throes of her second orgasm, she heard the panther’s
grrrroooooowl
in her head right as Kian came inside her, his warm semen shooting against her inner walls, filling her body.

He was here to stay.

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An hour later, Erin and Kian snuck into the lab while one of the guards took a pee break and the other was on the cell phone being dressed down by his wife for an affair she’s apparently just discovered.

“We have maybe five minutes before the sound of the reactor in full swing will draw their attention.”

Kian nodded as she booted up her computer and flipped on the reactor’s master switch. While the large machine hummed to life, she began to type in the passwords to get into the system.

“I’m in,” she said as she swiftly began deleting files.

“You’d better hurry,” he called out over the noise. “The guards are on their way down the hall. I hear them radioing for back-up.”

Erin’s heart raced and her entire body began to tremble as she punched in the rest of the files to be deleted as fast as her fingers would allow.

While she worked, Kian moved two desks in front of the door, creating a temporary barricade. But through the glass walls, Erin saw at least twenty military men bearing down on them, carrying their machine guns. Daniel led the pack, his face a picture of pure rage.

She looked at Daniel with a smile on her face and hit the delete key on the last file.

Nothing happened and Daniel still kept coming.

Shocked slammed through her.
Why? Why? Why?

Then she remembered, she’d made a back up file, burned it on an unlabeled CD, and tossed it in her desk along with a few others.

As the men started to batter the door, Daniel yelled and pointed to the glass. Erin jerked open her desk drawer and looked at the CDs. Which one? She frantically grabbed one and broke it in half as machine gun fire shattered the glass walls between them.

Kian had moved to stand between her and Daniel’s men when Erin picked up three CDs at once and broke them over her knee.

Time seemed to stand still as she watched the men vanish before her eyes—she assumed to wherever they would have been if she’d never discovered the ability to time-travel. Kian turned to her with a smile and she started to walk toward him, a grin on her face. Suddenly his body started to flicker and Erin began to panic.

“No!” she screamed and ran toward him. He gave her a puzzled look as if he didn’t understand why she was upset.

Then he was gone.

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Erin fell to the floor where he’d been standing and curled up on her side sobbing.

She grabbed her belly as the sharp pangs of deep loss began to wrack though her body.

She couldn’t have lost him—a man who loved her just as she was, imperfections and all.

She cried until her head hurt and her entire body was a ball of tightly wound nerves.

She wasn’t sure how long she lay there. An hour, two? Eventually, she told herself,

I need to move on.
I may carry Kian’s child, our child
. With that thought to bolster her spirits, she wiped her tears and forced herself to sit up and finally to stand.

“I will be strong,” she said out loud as she took a step toward the doors and then collapsed.

* * * * *

Erin awoke with a sense she was falling. She quickly grabbed her desk and righted herself on the stool. Looking at her computer screen, bleary-eyed and totally exhausted, she realized she’d fallen asleep at work. Several coffee cups littered her desk as she glanced down at her paperwork, then at her computer screen once more.

Blinking once, she rubbed her eyes several times and checked the date on her computer. The email she had started to compose on her computer was the one she’d outlined to her boss where she’d finally succeeded in creating the ability to time-travel.