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never expected to be able to make the decision. I’m not known for my bravery.”
    “What you just did took great courage.” He kissed the top of her head.
    “They forced my hand.” Nuzzling him, she sniffed back more tears.
    So did I. He wasn’t going to force her to face the truth regarding his ultimatum—at least not yet.
    “Anyway, you did follow the mating ritual down to the last detail, so even if they wanted to fight our mating, they could not. Well, they could say it is a lie since there was no witness to it. Still…”
    “Karen, do not record over the vidi-report,” he ordered his coworker, knowing she was keeping an eye on them from the Defense Center. “Answer me, Karen.”
    “No problem, Jadon. Hell, if I wasn’t so ethical, I might sell copies of it to Circe Ten for the masses entertainment. You two set the sheets on fire.” He could hear the blush in his counterpart’s voice.
    “She wouldn’t.” Ta’Sha tilted her gaze to his face. An endearing blush tinted her cheeks. “I would die of mortification if I…we…our mating…”
    “Don’t worry,” he said on a chuckle. “Thanks, Karen. You can turn off the view screen now.”
    “Aw, damn.” The voice coming from the speakers imbedded in the ceiling gave a snort before going quiet.
    “I take all the fun out of her life,” Jadon teased. He dipped his head and kissed Ta’Sha. He sobered at the naked emotions teeming in her almost translucent eyes. “I won’t let anybody hurt you.”
    “Do you promise,” she whispered. Brushing her lips over his skin, she nipped it next.
    “I promise.” Ready for another go with his woman, Jadon lifted her in his arms. Without preamble he lowered her down on his erection. “I want you in my bed and in my life forever.” He held her still. Though the tiny wiggles of her hips might actually make him explode. The woman was a firecracker spitting sparks and had an amazing power over him. She could turn him on with a mere glance.
    “That sounds surprisingly like a proposal for life partnership.” A soft, breathy sigh escaped her lips. She tried to pull herself up but it was useless against his superior strength.
    Her use of the term coined by the Intergalactic Committee on Interspecies Relationships for marriage jerked a laugh from him. “It was meant to be.” He began a slow ride, wanting to revel in the feeling of her body sliding up and down his. “This is Valentine’s Day. A holiday on Earth when we celebrate love.”
    “Ah.” She was trying to get him to move faster. Fuck her harder.
    He wouldn’t be deterred from his explanation. “It is also a day when many couples exchange vows to wed or get married.”
    “Fuck me, Jadon.”
    “Not until you agree to marry me.”
    “Yes.”
    He kissed her hard. Gripping her thighs, he pulled her up, then down onto his shaft until he was mindless to everything save the woman in his arms, clutching his shoulders.
    “Ah. Ah. Ah.” She bit his shoulder. “Yes. Yes. Yes.”
    “Come for me, sweetheart,” he whispered. “Now.”
    She did. Her climax milking the cum right from his cock. Thank you, God.
    Holding her close, he refused to put her down. “It’s a good thing you said yes.”
    “Really? Why is that?”
    “Because I’ve already applied for the special license. Once the incidental of the ceremony is taken care of, we’ll be able to get a larger room here at the New Eden.” The quirk in the whole “no dating” policy. Sentient staff members couldn’t date, but if they were married, they were welcome.
    “What would you have done if I had said no?”
    “I would have hunted your cute little ass across the cosmos.”
    “I love you, Jadon.”
    “I love you, too.”
    The End

 
     
    Author Bio
     
    In Belladonna’s formative years, she’d heard her mother tell her an imagination is a terrible thing to waste. That’s what happens when your mother is also an author. In adulthood, life took her in a different direction. She became a