Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: alien romance, sci-fi romance
Publisher: Ruby Dixon
Published: 2015-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE

AEHAKO

It takes me a moment to digest the word ‘barren’. The mental visual the translation gives me is that of scorched, fallow earth with no animals and no plants, no water, no anything.

Then I realize what she is telling me. “You cannot have kits?”

Tears pool in her sad eyes and she nods. “When I was very young, I got sick and nearly died. I was in the hospital for a long time and when I finally healed, they told me that my reproductive system had been compromised by the illness and I’d never have children.” The tears spill down her cheeks and she swipes at them with quick, angry motions. “That’s why we can’t be together. Because you want to have a family. And I have to tell you that if you choose me, you’ll never have one. I won’t ever resonate, because I can’t have children.”

I feel a sharp pang of regret, but it’s quickly banished. Is this why she’s so sad? Is this why she holds me at arm’s length when it’s clear she is desperate to be loved? That she craves affection the way I crave her smiles?

I touch her chin and force her to look up at me. There’s such misery and heartbreak in her eyes. She truly thinks I shall cast her aside now that I find she cannot create life in her belly? “Is there anything else?”

A half-sob turns into a laugh and she swipes at her tears again. “I think that’s plenty, don’t you?”

“What if I told you it did not matter to me if you could have kits or not?”

Her small brows furrow. “But you said you wanted a family. I wouldn’t deprive you of that.”

“Do not worry on my behalf, Sad Eyes. There are no children without resonance, and now I do not have to worry about another male snatching you out of my grasp.” I stroke her cheek gently. “A few moons ago, I had resigned myself to a lonely life of hunting and the only companionship that of my hand.” My crude words make a small, horrified laugh erupt from her, and I continue. “Now, I have met you and I see a life ahead of me of laughter, and caresses, and loving. Does it matter to me that we will never resonate? It does not. Just to have you in my life is enough for me. You are my heart, Kira, and you should be my mate.”

She starts to cry again. “I don’t want you to feel trapped with me.”

“Trapped?” I laugh. “Trapped with a beautiful, strong, smart mate in my furs every night? I welcome such traps.”

“But children—“

“If we have no kits, then we shall always have our cave to ourselves,” I tell her, pulling her against me. Her wet skin sticks to mine and creates a delicious friction between us. I can feel the small nubs of her nipples rub against my stomach and it makes my cock jerk, desperate to be inside her. “And we shall scandalize all of the others by being the loudest mated pair in the caves.

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