Captive Desire (Planet of Desire) by Robin Lovett

Author:Robin Lovett [Lovett, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fated mates, Science Fiction, Entangled, aliens, forced proximity, captive, sex planet, sci-fi, alien, sensual, enemies to lovers, erotica, Scorched, erotic, enemies-to-lovers, erotic romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

GAHNIN

It takes too long for Assura to come back. Pvotton talks nonstop caution in my ear, telling me to wait and not be rash and go after her.

He’s giving me concerned looks, too. All the Ssedez are.

I’m pacing and acting like a male who’s entered the second stage of the Attachment—where I would be no longer just physically Attached to her, but emotionally as well. As though my emotions for her are inhibiting my reason.

I cannot see past my obsession of getting to her. It’s no longer about sex and just my physical need to mate with her. It’s turned deeper. Like I am invested in her. Like her well-being matters to me.

I feel like my insides have been ripped open. Feeling this…this…whatever it is for her is tearing holes in the very fabric of me. It should not be possible. And yet, it is happening. I can no longer deny it. I am forming the Attachment for her.

I do not know how to stop it—if it can be stopped. I have to somehow. I owe another century of mourning to Tiortan’s memory. I cannot think of Attaching to anyone until then, least of all a human.

The terror on Assura’s face when she saw the image of the Hades wrenched something open in me. I cannot abandon her. I would rather die. Which is…shocking. And has me pulling on my hair so hard, I am in danger of ripping it from my skull.

Anewtan pulls me aside, grabbing my arm. “You haven’t bitten her yet, right?”

“No, of course not,” I snap.

She nods emphatically. “Have you tried to save her life?”

“What?” I don’t understand her question.

“Have you irrationally tried to save Assura’s life, endangering yours in the process?”

“No,” I growl. “She takes care of herself.”

She slaps my back so hard, I give a grunt. “Good. As long as you don’t do those things and you don’t turn her Ssedez like Oten did to Nemona, no matter how rampant your feeling for her, the Attachment will not complete itself. You are still in control of what happens.”

She’s right. No matter how far gone my body and emotions are, as long as I never bite her or try to sacrifice my life for hers, I’m safe. For the Ssedez female to Attach, it is even easier. She need not willingly sacrifice herself for her male, merely bite him and give her heart, soul, and body to him—though that is hardly a simple thing.

I remember doing it for Tiortan. The Ssedez have made the last part of the Attachment a ritual, which couples formally agree to once they freely choose to finalize the biological mating. They arrange for a scenario, a surprise fake scenario, where the couple who has begun to form the Attachment must “risk their life” to save the other.

Many get very creative. There’s always a safety net, of course. No one would actually die, but when you’re in the throes of the initial stages of the Attachment, you’re not thinking rationally enough to know that.

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