Page 37 of May the Stars Have Mercy
“Shall we?” he growled against her hair. “Test that theory? Can my mate best her Kannatch?”
“I’ve won once, and almost won the second time, you really think I can’t take you? Xexis?” She twisted only to freeze. Warm, gooey insides turning to angry butterflies at the hunger in his obsidian pools. They bore through her and stirred her to her feet. He rose with her, towering over her.
“Oh! Look, there they go, can hardly keep their hands to themselves,” Reevar snickered from the table.
“Excuse us, I have a hunt,” Xexis exhaled sharply, tugging Aphrodite with him across the mess hall.
Aphrodite caught the flash of Kiefgr snapping to their feet only to be wrestled back into their seat by Grooug. The words, “Not that kind of hunt, he’ll kill you if you join this one,” from Reevar echoing across the walls made her legs weak. She stumbled after her mate, failing to keep up with his fast steps. They came through archways in quick succession until they trotted up a handful of steps. A black door with crystal etching in it, much like the decoration on her skirt. He opened and held them ajar with two arms. The other two put her in the hallway. Aphrodite spun underthe shimmering stars. Dizzy and horny, she panted for air and jabbed her arms out to steady herself.
“My mate, I will close this door, you have until I open it again…to run.” He stepped back from the doors, and they hissed shut. A strip of crystal through the door, like windows, showed her a restrained Xexis stood on the other side.Not a man to give empty threats,Aphrodite knew better than to stick around.
Buddy raced forward down the hallway, blue lights scanning ahead of her. She glanced behind her and found a solid wall. To her left, decorative crystal and obsidian wall with faces etched in memorial.Probably past Kannatch.To her right, a wall of pure glass with obsidian and crystal pillars. She could see the abyss of space beyond the stars, glittering and the thick, forest-heavy planet beneath them. There was no time to study how the trees climbed into their atmosphere or the veins of water, or the massive size of their home world. Aphrodite took a deep breath and bolted down the hall. One hand holding up the skirt of her dress, she immediately kicked off the painful flats.
She was only a few feet down the hall, hair fluttering behind her, when the door whooshed open. The sound of Xexis entering the hall made her heart shudder. Adrenaline and giddy excitement pumped through her. The hall was covered in shadows but there were no twists and turns. It was a straight shot. She was a fish in a barrel. And Xexis had the faster gun.
She pumped her arms, glancing down at the map Buddy was frantically drawing her. Not that it mattered, Xexis knew there wasn’t anywhere to go. She was being chased down a hallway, dress rippling behind her, where there was only one exit. The door at the end of the hall, Buddy was furiously trying to figure out if it was locked. His panicked text came up on the screen swiftly.
He’s behind you!
Aphrodite squealed, leaping through the air seconds before Xexis pounced on her. She scrambled, grabbing her skirt in both hands. Bolting for the door, she was inches away. It hissed open. Her feet passed the threshold. Large hands spread into her vision and snatched her. One wrapped around her throat, one tangled in her hair, the other two around her torso, she was yanked backward. Aphrodite hissed at the sting.
Xexis slammed her back into the wall of the room as the door shut. The glass wall continued, illuminating part of the room and drenching the other in shadow at the same time. Between Xexis looming over her, and the nervous flickering of her gaze across the room, she couldn’t tell what all was in it.But it was a bedroom, with a massive bed at the center.The stars twinkled as Xexis growled into her face.
“I win, though, right? I made it to the room first?” She panted, face hot and sweat dripping down the small of her back.
“My silly prey, there was no winning,” He stepped closer, pressing his body into hers. She lost all the air in her lungs despite her breathers working their hardest. His weight against her, he locked her chin up so she couldn’t look away from his face. A dark hunger coated every inch of his expression. Aphrodite whimpered as he traced her jaw with his pointer finger. Leaning in close, his words going directly to her core, “A good hunter knows how to trap his prey, without letting the prey know it’s trapped.”
Something sassy, a little foolish, and wholly misguided in her bubbled up to the surface. Smiling up at him, she breathed, “Then, you should know what prey do when they’re cornered.”
Before he could speak, she dropped Buddy in between them and had him flash his headlights. Xexis stumbled back, hand to his eyesat the blinding light. Aphrodite dropped to her knees and crawled through his legs. She climbed to her feet on the other side of him, bolting across the room. Her focus was on escaping. The sounds of Buddy unhappily chirping as Xexis turned him off filled her ears.Poor thing.She had made it a handful of steps away when hands grabbed her by the torso again.
Kicking and thrashing, she fought the best she could. However, if she was being honest, there was little she could do. He pinned her hands to the bedspread with one hand and shoved her cheek into the mattress with another. His feet kicked her legs aside, spreading her before him. Two hands tossed her skirts up and over her back till the fabric was bunched at her shoulders.
“Are you ready to be claimed, or do you still think you can escape, my sweet prey?” He had her exactly where he said he’d have her. She panted for air, her chest pressing into the mattress. Swallowing air, her mouth was dry.
“Does my mate want me to keep fighting?” she croaked.
He chuckled, bending over her. She felt his cock press into her through his pants. “A little fight is healthy, as long as you want to fight me. I want you to want it.”
A wicked smirk crawled on her face as she kicked her legs, struggling against his arms. “I want to fight you.”
“Try all you like, sweet prey,” he rasped in her ear. The hand pressing against her head moving to the nape of her neck. She wrenched her head back, trying to catch him. He moved his face from her too fast.Dang it.Yanking at his hands, his grip hardened. He spared his bottom two hands to grab her by the hips. Her underwear was used as a trap. He shoved them to her ankles but stepped on the middle of them in quick succession, making herthrashing legs restrained. She growled in frustration.Glorious frustration.
Her cunt was drenched, her back arching as he spread her open with two fingers. He hummed with appreciation, clearly admiring his handiwork. She bucked her hips. It only resulted in him shoving two fingers deep inside her. Gasping, her toes curled involuntarily.
He was proud, she heard it in his rumbling tone. “Can my prey still fight me while I am inside her?”
Oh, she was planning on it!She ripped from side to side, trying to free her arms from him. He thrust his fingers faster, pressing directly where she was weakest. She cried out, head tossed back against his hand. His fingers pressed into the side of her throat as he shoved her head back down against the blanket. For every move, he countered it. She couldn’t help the hearty moan that broke through her mouth. With a kick, she freed one foot from its fabric restraints. Xexis grabbed her by the ankle, not stopping for a second. He fucked his fingers into her with a punishing pace. Her walls clenched around him. Stars filled her eyes and slowly imploded. Pleasure rolled over her, running shivers down her spine. Goose bumps covered every inch of her shoulders and arms.
He hoisted the one leg he captured, deepening the angle of his fingers until it was too much. She shrieked. The hand over her neck loosened. She tossed her head back, screaming, “Xexis!”
“That’s it, sweet prey, scream for me.”
Her orgasm beat her with the same mercy as Xexis.None.Her muscles snapped and her legs nearly cramped, they tightened harder. Aphrodite cried, tears welling in the sides of her eyes fromthe raw feeling. Bliss crashed over her and shook her from crown to clenched toe. Her fingers clawed into the blanket.
She heard the lewd sound of Xexis licking his fingers clean. For a moment, she half expected him to drop everything to eat her. He didn’t let go. In fact, he pinned her hands harder as her abused cunt was chilled by the soft breeze in the room. She heard thethwumpof his pants as they pooled at his feet. Hooking her trapped ankle at his hip, gripping her hip with the other hand, Xexis rammed inside her with little warning. She tried to throw her weight and slip away, but he was hungry.He wanted this.
Fuck, I want it too.Her need to feel him take her, push her over the cliff of pleasure, and toss her into oblivion, killed what play fight she had in her. She slipped her other foot slowly out of its ankle trap. He grabbed it and hooked it around his waist as well. With a proud growl, he continued beating his hips into her backside. “You’ve given in?”
