Page 39 of K'Vella

The walk to the entertainment room is quick. When we enter, everyone else is also there. Most of them are in their normal clothing. Sloane wears furs like me, much to Alik's disapproval with how hard he's glaring at her.

Holoth's in his normal leather pants with a fur tossed over his shoulders. He turns to face us as we step inside, and his eyes turn hot and heavy as he rakes in my appearance.

"I did good, right?" Helna asks as she walks over to her brother and pushes his arm. "Everything's made from furs from your room, so she should smell like you for a while. You might mark her at some point later in the night just to make sure everyone knows."

Holoth nods at what his sister's saying, but he keeps his eyes on me. Sloane's the first one of the group to say something, and it has me flushing even more violet.

"You look hot, K'Vella."

"I should've found some furs for myself." Essa scowls and shoots a glare at Helna. "You will help me find some if we're to be here for more days. I want to be hot like Sloane and K'Vella."

"I thought we've already been over that your kind isn't compatible with Rytharians," Alik says to Essa.

She shoos his question away and says something else, but I'm too caught up in Holoth's eyes as he walks over to me and places his hands on my hips, his thumbs sliding under the thin leather strip that ties my skirts around me.

"You're bare underneath your furs?" he asks, lowering his head to my ear to nip at it. I nod softly and bite back a whimperof pleasure. "Good, I'm going to make sure everyone knows you're mine, K'Vella. Everyone. Do you trust me?" I nod again. I can feel his smile against my ear before he steps away. "Alright, let's go get this over with so I can spend the rest of our time here on the ship."

"Hey!" Helna shoots him an unhappy look. "You might find out you both enjoy being here and want to spend time with everyone. We've all missed you."

"We'll see," Holoth says

He wraps an arm around my waist, sliding his hand underneath the band of leather and stroking me too close to where I'm already warm for him. My body tenses, thinking the others might see. None of them are paying us any attention, though. They're getting ready to leave the ship. They all file out ahead of us, and Holoth lets his fingers wander even further under my furs.

"Holoth," I gasp.

He purrs loudly and keeps his hand planted where it is. I limply push at his hand. It's more so a reflex to make it look like I don't want to be fingered out in the open instead of actually caring if I am. I've never had such touches that anyone could see, but I don't hate the idea of it.

"My species is open in our affections." Holoth nips at my earlobe again, sending more warmth down my body. "When we get to the great hall, you're going to sit on my lap, and you're going to let me play underneath these furs all I want. Aren't you, K'Vella?"

I whimper as his fingers slide lower, petting down my slit in soft teasing strokes.

"I need to show them all I'm a claimed male, and I'm going to do that by showing them how much I need you." He presses two fingers inside me, teasing my entrance with shallow thrusts until I open for him. "You won't be the only female finding pleasurewith her male in there. It's common, it's expected, and more than anything, it will show them all just how madly I'm in love with you."

"Yes," I cry out as he pushes his fingers inside of me completely. I whimper as he withdraws his hand and then lifts the fingers to his mouth. He coats his lips in my wetness and then rubs the rest against his neck. I give him a confused look, but he's back to wrapping his arm around my waist and teasing me with soft touches.

"If you need my knot inside you, don't be afraid to ask," he purrs as he leads me off the ship and down toward his clan.

I can hardly pay any attention to what's happening around us as Holoth tugs me down to his lap and wraps his arms around me, securing me against him.

He wasn't lying when he said public affections are common here. I've already seen more breasts than I ever thought I would in person. There are even females being pleasured on the tables by males who are all too eager to devour them.

Holoth's fingers slide underneath my furs and drag along my intimate places as he looks around the room.

Jovi and Alik are sitting in a pair of chairs off toward the other side of the room. Alik is glaring at a moving mass of females dancing with one another while Jovi smiles in the same direction.

Essa's dancing amongst them, her tall stature and horns jutting out above the rest of the crowd of females. She has a hand wrapped around someone that I quickly realize is Sloane. They're laughing and smiling, and a part of me wants to join them.

Holoth spreads my lower lips, and I gasp at the sudden pleasure.

"Only unmated females dance in the great hall to entice a male," Holoth growls against my ear, telling me there's no way I'll be allowed in the throngs of women enjoying themselves. At my soft pout, he runs his finger down me again and has a ripple of pleasure blooming inside me. "You can dance for me anytime, K'Vella. Dressed like this, I'd have the hardest time containing myself. You might put me in a rut months early."

I lean my head back against his shoulder, unable to stop my mouth from opening with a soft moan as he continues to tease me. Some of the others look at us, but they don't cast judgment or even seem to care any more than they do about the other acts of pleasure being performed all around.

"No words, K'Vella?" Holoth chuckles against my ear, knowing very well what he's doing to me right now.

I'm about to tell him as much when his purr rumbles and his body tenses. I look around, trying to see what's caused the change in his composure, and am shocked to see a few females looking over at us, their faces marred with animosity.

"They're upset there's not a new male to seduce," Holoth says to me, keeping up the teasing strokes against my center.

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