Trained as His Mate: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance by Samantha Madisen

Author:Samantha Madisen [Madisen, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2023-10-05T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Torian was grateful for his extensive training as a combat medic. Reaching for the switch in his mind, the one that allowed him to become clinical and detached, was a trained and well-honed skill.

He did so now, after disciplining Quaia Sangsen, for his own protection and for hers. He had gone too far, said too much.

He’d been driven to that breach of… was it ethics? Duty? He couldn’t even be sure… because his Voklha—the inner instincts of the Voklish male—was screaming out for her. The scent of her arousal was an intoxicant that drove him wild. Tangy, sweet, unique to her and her alone, it awakened a hunger inside of him, the kind he’d never felt before. He wanted to taste her, to please her endlessly with his tongue, drinking in the sweet nectar of her arousal.

What he wanted to do after that was well outside even the most liberal reading of his mandate—which gave him a wide berth, certainly. Maybe even wide enough to taste Quaia for himself, provided he could rustle up an explanation for having done so. Which he could.

What he couldn’t do, he felt certain, was taste her and then stop there.

But if there was no more to it than the delicious smell of her, the promise of her sweet taste, maybe he could have done his job professionally and without straying outside his mandate.

But the marks he had made on her skin, across the expanse of pale and delicate softness, burned into his eyes and worked into his thoughts. Not just when she was present; all the time. His entire half-cycle had been clouded with images of her, images that crept into his mind’s eye and blocked out everything else: his work, his correspondence, his many mundane tasks.

He clenched and unclenched his hand several times as he stood over the workspace, his back turned to Quaia. The soft mewl of her pleasure echoed in his ears, daring him to elicit it again.

Nothing he’d said to Quaia had been untrue: if the circumstances were different, he would have claimed her immediately. He knew as soon as he saw her that something inside him had snapped.

So he consciously reached for the switch, the turning off of emotion and the closing off of his heart and his Voklha.

To some extent, it worked: the path to the mind of a combat medic, seeing only problems and potential for resolution, only flesh, for which he felt nothing more than would a mechanic for a machine, was an easy and well-trodden one for him.

Quaia Sangsen was not his, and never would be. She never could be.

Robotically, he turned to her and recited his list of instructions. Quaia was to be trained, not pleasured. He tried very hard to ignore the obvious confusion that played on the features of her face. He couldn’t be responsible for that.

He performed his duty, reciting his instructions to her, a silent prayer running along beside them in his mind: that she please do as he

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