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around her to hold her tight. Quinn sighed, memorizing the sated feeling as Iskanu once again stroked her spine.
    “I am glad you made it home, Quinn.”
    Against his skin, she smiled. “I would never have guessed.”
    He shifted until they lay on their sides, his cock still inside her thanks to his death grip on her hips.
    “What was the bite for? It isn’t on your species specs.” She pressed her lips to his neck and licked gently at his skin.
    “Selna don’t pair bond in general, but when we wish to, the bite locks our bodies to our mate.”
    Quinn blinked and looked into his face. He was serious. “You are stuck with me now?”
    He nodded. “No other female will be able to cause a reaction within me. This will mean that you might be a little busier than you would be with a normal male. Do you mind?”
    She shivered at the thought of spending all of her idle moments with Iskanu inside her, behind her, around her or licking her. She cleared her throat and wrapped an arm around his back while she pressed her breasts to his chest. “I will manage, I am sure.”

Chapter Eight
    Quinn groaned and stretched happily. Their bathing chamber was large enough to accommodate the massage table that Iskanu had brought in, and she was loving the feel of his hands smoothing out all the knots under her skin that he had helped her create.
    “You do realize that the noises you are making are similar to intense sex.” Iskanu’s voice was low and husky. She could feel the tension in his hands.
    “One winds me up, the other rubs me down. They are flip sides of the same coin, Iskanu. Do you want me to keep quiet?” She went up on her elbows and looked up at him through her lashes.
    He grinned, “Don’t you dare. I love the sounds. Music to my ears.”
    He was standing in front of her, and she lifted herself just a little to slide the stalk of his cock into her mouth. She sucked slowly and flicked the opening with her tongue until his hands gripped her shoulders and pushed her back down.
    She giggled and lay flat. She was already leading him by three blowjobs. Apparently, a male Selna prided himself on his ability to please his partner with his mouth alone, and she was far too distracting when she changed position into a sixty-nine. He wanted to be dominant when they had sex, and she could wreck his concentration with a flick of her tongue.
    It was a bit of power that she was going to use to distract him at every opportunity. She resumed her groans and sighs as he poured more oil on her and worked the tension from every major muscle group and several small ones.
    She grunted as he worked out a particularly stubborn knot of tension on the upper right side of her ass. “Where did you learn to do this?”
    “I spent two years in Companion training as part of my education in the Citadel. Soothing an aching partner was one of the courses.”
    She almost sat up and stared at him, but he had moved on to her thighs. “Companion training?”
    “I am a Selna. If I was to get my body under control, I needed to know what it was meant to do. I spent two years learning movement, details of the sexual needs of a variety of species and control over my pheromones.”
    She went up on one elbow and faced him. “Control over your pheromones? I haven’t noted that much control. Even in the Enforcers, I always knew exactly where you were by scent.”
    He nodded and used her angle to flip her over, pouring more oil on her. It was a shimmering blue river between her breasts and down each leg, a small pool between her thighs.
    Quinn licked her lips as he smoothed the oil over her ribs with a slow, strong stroke before wrapping his hands around her breasts and kneading them in that same rhythm.
    “I have never had much control where you are concerned, Quinn. It is how I knew that I had to have you, and since your scent heated up whenever I was near, I knew it was mutual.”
    She blushed, and he moved his massage to her shoulders, pressing back and