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hard she moaned. Her bottom lip was lightly sucked into his mouth then bathed by his tongue. Soft pressure from his teeth had her arching her back, pushing her torso closer to him. She whined when he pulled away from her. She wasn’t ready for the kiss to be over, not when her entire body felt like it was being heated from the inside out.
    Before she could even open her eyes, her next question was floating on the air. “Do you like my kisses, Rella?”
    “Yes,” she answered on a whisper.
    She waited for him to continue, wanted him to with every cell in her body. When his fingers tightened in her hair, she sighed, opening her lips in invitation. A moan rumbled in his chest when his lips once again touched hers. This time there was nothing tentative about his assault on her mouth. His tongue pushed between her lips, forcing her to open farther. He stroked her teeth and her tongue with his, twining them around each other in a sensual dance. Her breathing increased as she tried to drag air into her lungs. When he finally stopped the invasion and used her hair to pull away from her mouth, they were both gasping.
    She opened her eyes and was surprised by the color in his cheeks and the brightness in his gaze. Satisfaction moved through her. He was affected by her, wanted her like a man wants a woman. She didn’t even try to stop her response as she leaned forward and placed a chaste kiss on his lips. “Thank you.”
    Surprise crossed his face. “For what, little Rella?”
    “For kissing me, wanting me.” She felt her cheeks redden again. She shouldn’t have said anything. When she tried to look away he held her face captive and stared into her eyes.
    “You never need to thank me for that. I would willingly kiss you every moment of every day if you’d let me.” He shook his head. “I’m getting distracted again. What do you know of matings between our races?”
    She sucked in a breath. Here it was. This was the question that she’d been waiting for. The one that would have him dumping her into the pile of females outside their little secluded area. She knew she wouldn’t be able to keep the anger from her voice. She thought for a moment about not answering and just taking the punishment, but what good would that do her? Perhaps she could answer him on strictly the government’s view and he would accept that answer.
    “Our races are mutually benefited by matings between us. Your people birth mainly males and ours females. Our governments find it useful to place our races together and urge matings between us.”
    “Correct, but that isn’t what I am asking you. Let me clarify. What do you think about these practices?”
    She sighed. “I don’t want to answer your question.”
    “That is not acceptable. Answer me, Rella.”
    “I don’t like it?” Would that be enough for him?
    “More, Rella. I want more from you.”
    “I find the teachings to be detrimental to our race. Forcing females to play subservient roles and teaching us to be submissive even if our personalities are not is a horrible practice.”
    “Good.” His voice was silky to her ears. “More.”
    She sighed again. “I find it detestable that females are made to attend gatherings dressed in close to nothing for males of your race to ogle at like we are a piece of meat to be bought.” She was on a roll but couldn’t seem to pull her anger back. She knew each word was digging her farther into trouble, but she didn’t care as she thought of her friends and sisters going through the same thing she’d been through over the last two days. “Keeping information secret, hiding the truth, making females feel like they are nothing…all of those things are despicable.”
    She closed her eyes, unable to pull her face from his grasp, and waited. She hadn’t spoken her distaste of their governmental system in so long. The last time her father had been forced to whip her in front of the magistrate. She’d worn those welts for weeks and privately