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My movements pick up speed and intensity as I hear the sounds of pleasure I’m pulling from my mate. She doesn’t answer my questions. No, she is allowing herself to feel what I am doing to her, not allowing her own worries and thoughts to ruin her enjoyment. I keep my neck bent so I can watch her. I make sure she does not start to slip into her own head, and when she does, it is my honor to get her attention back on me.

“My little mate, so little everywhere, but she opens so beautifully for me.” The words are more vicious the closer I get to my release.

The sweetness in my voice turns to anger, though I am happier than ever before. My mate doesn’t care about how much fury I have deep inside myself. She is used to this version of me, the part of myself I cannot keep held down because I let it out for so long. It comes out in need to protect her, in my words and body seeming angry. My words are anything but angry, though, as I praise my little mate for taking me so perfectly.

“Wrap your legs around me,” I snarl as I feel myself getting closer to my release. Alice does what I ask, her heels digging into my backside as she holds me close to her. “Good mate, so fucking good. I’m going to coat your womb in my seed, and you will grow with my young.”

“Yes, please,” Alice’s voice surprises me since I think I am mainly speaking to keep her from having to think at all. She surprises me even more as she locks her heels deeper into me, taking me deeper. “Put a baby in me. Please, fuck.”

Her back arches, her pussy clamping down on my cock over and over as she finds her own pleasure. It has me releasing inside of her, grabbing at her hips with one of my hands and cupping her to me as close as possible. The roar that tears through my throat could rival the first when she first made me release to mate her. I fear I might always be a roaring mess when she has her way with me.

“You found pleasure,” I state when our breathing finally slows, and our beating begins to even. My cock slides from her, and I slide back down her body until we are eye to eye. “Twice now on my cock you have found it. This is good, yes?”

“So good.” Alice pats my shoulder with one of her hands, the other wiping the sweat from her forehead. “But now, I’m starving.”

“Let me clean you, and we will go see about food.” I am out of bed, grabbing one of the tunics in the dresser to wipe away my seed from between her legs.

She makes soft sounds as I clean her, watching me the entire time. Her eyes are still hazy like she has not recovered from her pleasure just yet, and it makes me want to put my tongue on her and keep her so soft and complacent. Another day, when we have our own home, and I do not need to worry about the brothers making fun of me for being so loud when my little mate makes me release so hard. Yes, I will get us a home soon, and we can worry about being with one another in all ways then.

19

Alice

Iexplain everything that happened when I was kidnapped. Everything. The way I was trying to use the bathroom before a giant lizard man I didn’t know grabbed me around the waist and covered my mouth to keep me from screaming, the way he choked me to shut me up when I was being too loud.

Thro is there as I tell them all about how he tried to protect me, how he helped to save me from whatever it was that the demons were about to do to me. He tries to give me a small smile, but even he’s not proud of everything that happened. The worst is watching so many dark eyes turn red when I say it and knowing Toron’s holding me like he thinks he’s to blame for all of it.

When I finish explaining, it’s Thro’s turn. He’s already sitting next to me. His hand is gripped firmly in mine as he recalls the events leading up to my kidnapping. How he tried to warn us that others were coming to take one of us. He left a note on one of the great hall windows, then ran back to the safety building they were all staying in, thinking he would find the two who kidnapped me and tell them of what he saw when scouting. Instead, they were already gone, with a note left behind telling him to wait until they returned and pack all of their belongings. The first time he saw me, I was passed out from the first time Curls choked me.

Thro’s voice catches in his throat a few times, and the tears in his eyes are wiped away before they can fall like he’s ashamed of them. He tells us all over and over that he didn’t know and that he’s sorry. I squeeze his hand and rub his arm, hoping to make it clear to him that no one here blames him.

He’s still so young, and Toron’s told me he’s still many years from going through the changing. He has no interest in females and won’t until he matures. There’s nothing to blame him for because he was forced into leaving his tribe and helping the others with nothing to gain.

“The day Toron came to us, I thought he might kill me too,” Thro’s voice is hollow as he speaks, refusing to look at Toron or me as he talks. “I would have deserved it. I did not do enough. They hurt Alice many times, and I was too scared to do anything.” No one speaks. No one says a single word. I’ll deal with telling him how wrong he is when we’re in private, but right now, he feels like this is an important part of his story, so I’ll let him tell it. “She grabbed the knife I used to… you know. Well, she stood in front of me, and she chose to protect me. Against her own mate, she wanted to protect me.”

Toron tenses underneath me, his arm wrapping tighter around my abdomen. I rub his scales, wanting him to stay quiet for just a bit longer until Thro has finished saying his piece. Thankfully, he remains quiet even though I’m sure he just wants to make it clear to everyone he wouldn’t have killed Thro. He told me on our way back to the tribe that he wanted me to know he would never hurt a young like that, no matter what state he was in. I believe him if for no other reason than he could have killed Thro, and there was nothing I could have done to stop him.

“Then, when he finally woke up, he did not blame me for what happened to her either,” Thro’s words are small. It’s almost like they’re meant more for himself than the group around us. “He has every right to kill me, but he lets me live.”

At the final confession, Toron shifts me in his lap until I’m standing. “I need to speak with Thro for a moment.”

“Yeah, of course.” I step away from him, giving him the space to get up. Thro’s hand is still squeezing mine as he wipes away more tears with his other hand. “Go with Toron, just for a little while, okay?”

Thro sniffles, his eyes moving from me to my enormous mate who’s tense and red-eyed. Yeah, he definitely wants to stay with me because I don’t look like I’m about to commit murder every second of every day. I nudge Thro’s shoulder, getting his attention back on me and giving him a small smile.

“Okay.” He nods, standing from his seat and giving my hand one final squeeze before turning to Toron. “Where do you want to go?”

Toron rubs the back of his neck, looking around at the brothers around the table. “I need to speak with a couple of brothers about fixing up a home for them. It is right outside the walls. Do you think you would be able to join me?”

“If you are looking for Lyath and Beren, you should be warned that they have taken a mate,” Erkoz says with a hint of mischief in his eyes. The same hint that’s always there no matter what kind of mood he’s in. “I do not know what her role in their relationship is, but I wouldn’t want you to be unaware if you walk up to the house and they are preoccupied.”

“A mate?” Toron seems more surprised than me. The time for a new woman to come to the tribe happened while we were out in the forest waiting for Toron to heal, but I wasn’t expecting it to be someone already mated to two males. Especially not two males who, as far as I know, enjoy each other’s company.

“Many things happened while you were gone,” Erkoz laughs. “Many things to discuss, but first go and speak with the young. He still thinks Toron does not like him.”

Toron casts an accusatory glare down at Thro, who cringes away from him. Yeah, I’m sure that kind of attitude is really going to help their relationship. Toron must sense the same because he’s rubbing at his face to ease some of his facial tension.

“Fine, I will show you the house I want for Alice. No one will be preoccupied there, surely.” He looks around the room, waiting to see if anyone is going to say anything about the house he wants being used already. When no one says anything, he stalks off through the great hall to the pair of double doors with Thro trailing behind him, uncertain of what they’ll even be talking about.

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