223: Pact of Flesh!

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"Come to me," she whispered, eyes closed, vulnerable in every way a Queen could be.

And Kai answered.

He stepped into her shadow. His thorax and limbs shifted, adjusting with precision and grace. When he lowered his primary limbs to hold her hips steady.

Kai grunted. A deep, resonating sound from his core. The pressure of pheromonal pull built like a storm within him. He steadied himself, refusing to be consumed too fast.

He would not rush. Not with her.

"I'm going to fill your belly," he muttered.

She nodded, antennae brushing over his mandibles. "Make it sacred." The air trembled on that comment. 

She raised her eyes to his. There was hunger there, yes—but tempered by restraint, by something gentler. He looked at her not like a prize, but like a sovereign meeting his equal. Her lips parted slightly. Her mandibles twitched.

And then… They kissed.