Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 108211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 541(@200wpm)___ 433(@250wpm)___ 361(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 108211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 541(@200wpm)___ 433(@250wpm)___ 361(@300wpm)
The enormity of the situation came over her all at once. She was completely on her own, lost on a strange planet that was all the way across the galaxy—millions of light years from home.
Putting her face in her hands, she wept.
9
CADE
Cade couldn’t understand why his female was making sad sounds. She was sitting on the floor beside him with her hands over her face and her shoulders were shaking while noises like,
“huh-huh-huh” came from her.
The sounds upset him—they stirred the deep instinct inside to protect and care for her. If she was making those sounds, it meant that something was wrong and he was failing in his duties.
Anxiously, he nudged at her hands covering her face. He needed to be close to her—to comfort her. She was everything to him.
He wiggled his way into her lap—which wasn’t easy since he was much larger than she was—but somehow he got his top half across her legs and nudged her hands again.
She pulled them away and looked at him and her cheeks were shiny with moisture. This was bad, Cade knew—it meant sadness. Her eyes were wet too, and the corners of her mouth were turned down.
Anxious to make her feel better, he leaned forward and nuzzled his cheek against hers. Her skin was so soft and smooth and her scent called to him. Soon she would be ripe for breeding, but for now her sorrow drew him, making him want to comfort her.
He nuzzled her again and licked her cheek, tasting the salt of her sadness. It made him want to howl mournfully to see how upset she was. This was his female—she should not be hurt in any way but the wetness meant she was hurting. He licked her cheek again and then saw the blood on her temple—she was wounded! He must heal her.
Cade lapped gently at the wound, healing his female with his tongue. She was his to protect and to heal—he would never leave her in pain.
“All right,” she said, pushing at him gently. “Enough of that. I’m okay—I just needed to cry a minute. Give me a second to get myself together and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do.”
Cade didn’t understand any of these words, but it made him happy that she was speaking. The tones of her voice sounded more hopeful than the” huh-huh-huh” sound she had been making a moment ago.
She put a hand to her head where he had been licking and then looked at her fingers.
“Hey—I’m not bleeding anymore! Did you…did you heal me?” she asked.
Cade couldn’t answer in words—not that he understood the question. He nudged his head against her again, noting as he did that her breasts were soft. A sweet smell was coming from them—a smell that called to him.
He nudged her once more, pressing his nose to her cleavage which made her gasp and say,
“Cade!” in a shocked voice.
Cade drew back. He recognized his own name and the tone of his female’s voice was sharp. Was she upset again?
He scanned her face anxiously. No—her eyes had stopped leaking and the corners of her mouth were no longer turned down. She was still making that sweet scent though—it drew him like a magnet. It was coming from her breasts—from the tight points of her nipples.
Cade liked the look of them—they looked full and ripe and suckable, but there was a fabric barrier in the way. Dipping his head, he latched onto one tight point anyway, sucking hard to see if he could get the source of the sweet smell to come to him. He knew not to bite—no part of his female must be hurt. But the fangs in his mouth had grown long with desire and his shaft was throbbing, though it too was confined in some kind of fabric, which seemed wholly unnecessary.
“Oh, Cade!” Her voice was shocked again as she pushed his face away from her full breast.
Cade made a noise of pure frustration in the back of his throat. The sweet scent was calling to him! He wanted it—needed it. Why did his female deny him? Why wouldn’t she let him suck? He only wanted to taste her and make her even more his. She was his mate—he needed to claim her.
What was the problem?
10
ANDI
“That’s it,” Andi said in a shaky voice as she scrambled to her feet. “We have to see about getting out of here.”
Cade was acting more and more like a pet—or he had been before he went for her nipple, anyway. In fact—aside from going for her nipple—he’d reminded her a lot of Spark, the German Sheppard/Lab mix that had been her family pet when she was little. He had always known when Andi was sad and had come to lay his head in her lap, whining softly while she cried.