Page 48 of Tribute
“But—”
He jerked hard on the leash. “Right now, or I’ll make you walk while I do it again.”
Come dripped down over Price’s lean stomach and thighs. There was nowhere to hide, everyone would see, and that was exactly what Kai wanted. The quicker Price got over his inhibitions, the more smoothly the rest of the training would go. Price needed to get used to being handled and fondled and fucked by anyone Kai wanted. He had to get used to being emotionally jerked around even more.
“Now.”
He opened the cage door and Price followed him, the harsh lights catching the pearled whiteness adhering to his skin. If he’d had time, he would’ve liked to slick some of that back to explore Price’s no doubt virgin ass. He was looking forward to having that ass . . .
As soon as the doors of the training facility opened, he forgot about the sex and focused on assessing Price’s overall fitness, stamina, and something else—his stubbornness. Unlike a lot of the trainees, Price was military and was already pretty damned fit, his body lean and muscled with almost no excess fat. That was a good thing.
The problem with the military types was that they had been taught to give up control to a higher authority. Individuality was beaten out of them during basic training because they needed toact as a unit, to be unquestioning and willing to run into fucking danger and die if they were told to do it. Which meant they did what they were told, but often cracked under the extremes demanded of them at the Tribute facility.
Soldiers fought to winagainstan enemy, and the battle with theUngrichwasn’t like that. The upcoming conflict was all about fighting to maintain their concept of self in an alien environment and not go mad. It was a stark situation with no real winners, and he couldn’t even tell them the truth because the treaty forbade it.
All the most successful trainees, the survivors, had something within them that just refused to let them fail, some cussed, stubborn streak that just wouldn’t quit regardless. Working out whether a trainee had that was a question of trial and error. Bringing it out was Kai’s specialty, a process he had honed to perfection over the past few years and that Price, being his final trainee, would receive the full benefit of.
Lucky guy.
“Stand there.”
He stripped off his shirt and watched as Price’s gaze fixed on the ridged scars that decorated his chest and throat. He had double puncture wounds from two excruciating encounters with the native alien species called theUngrichthat slept beneath the planet’s surface.Of course, he couldn’t tell Price any of that yet.
It was confidential.
He unclipped Price’s leash and handed him a pair of shorts. “Put these on.”
“Thank you.”
As Price bent to put on the shorts, Kai rushed him, knocking him to the floor in a tangle of limbs. To his credit, Price abandoned the shorts and turned his attention to Kai, getting in a couple of decent blows to the kidneys before Kai regained control by grabbing his balls.
“You don’t fight fair,” Price growled.
“Why should I?” He grinned down at his trainee. “You want me to rip them off? You said you didn’t need them, that you weren’t interested in being fucked.”
Price set his jaw and continued to struggle, until Kai increased the strength of his grip and he went still. Watching the other man’s eyes, Kai wedged one knee over his throat and chest and walked fingers down over his flat stomach to the tangled wet hair at his groin.
“Nice cock, Price.” Gathering up the wetness that still clung to Price’s skin, he eased a finger beneath his balls, along the smooth skin of his taint, and back toward the man’s ass.
“Ever been fucked, Price?”
“That’s none of your business, sir.”
“Yeah, it is. You have a nice tight ass.” He eased the tip of his finger inside Price’s clenching hole. “I’m going to enjoy having you.”
“I doubt it, sir.”
He eased his finger a little deeper. “You think I care about whether you want it or not? Doesn’t affect my getting off. You’re just another hole I can stick my dick in and flood with my come.”
Price’s breath caught, and at the same time his dick jerked. Kai laughed. “You think you’re going to suffer nobly for the cause, Price? Let me tell you now, you’re going to want it bad by the time I’ve finished with you. You’re going to dream of having my dick in your ass or in your mouth.”
There was a shout from one of the trainers nearby, and he raised his head. “Time to go. Physical trials are about to begin.”
Kai rolled off Price and stood up, watching his trainee take several deep breaths before he reattached his leash and jerked it hard.
“Get up.”
Price got up with easy grace, his cock at half-mast, his light blue eyes narrowed and already spitting fire.
