Page 1 of Claimed By the Orc Lord

Chapter one

Kai

ThelasttimeRainnwent missing for this long, I stole one of his packages off the porch out of curiosity and found myself staring at a replica orc cock that had green sparkles in the silicone.

He had to have added the sparkles as a special request, and a small part of me still felt bad that I stole it… but at the same time, he was the entire reason I was a closet monster-porn enthusiast, so it was almost like he owed me.

Almost.

That and I was straight, so there was no way he needed to know that I actually tried to use it on myself.

He definitely didn’t need to know I did it while listening to an audiobook about a demon wrecking his human mate.

And he definitely,definitely…def-uh-not-ly didn’t need to know I orgasmed so hard I fell off the bed, broke the nightstand, and got a black eye.

I told him I got hurt at a job, and thankfully Rainn believed me.

I didn’t use it again after that, but sometimes I pulled it out from beneath my bed and side-eyed it.

I had no idea how Rainn stuffed himself full with things like that every night—and I knew he did it every night because he wasn’t quiet about it at all. I had to guess that someone who wrote monster smut for a living needed to make sure that he knew what he was talking about… but still.

Every night?

That was real…. dedication.

It was honestly the lack of waking up to him moaning that made me realize he’d been gone too long. I’d been so busy on the project I was working on that it hadn’t crossed my mind—I left early and came home late, and it wasn’t until my sleep hadn’t been interrupted for almost two weeks that I realized something was wrong—that was six nights too many for a week-long camping trip.

When I checked his room, it was still empty.

When I checked the refrigerator, there were no new groceries in there.

The bananas on the counter were going brown, and there was a few weeks’ worth of mail in the mailbox.

So…

Rainn hadn’t come home.

Thankfully, I’d finished my project the day before, so I had all the time in the world to grab coffee and breakfast and call our local police station.

“Hey there, Kai.” The bored drawl of the woman who worked dispatch in Destiny was familiar.

“Hey, Charlene.” An easy smile she couldn’t see—but I knew she could hear in my tone—spread across my face. “How’re you today, sugar?”

If she could hear my smile, then I could hear the blush when she let out a small laugh, even though she was in her early fifties and happily married.

“Fine, like always. What has you calling?”

My hand lifted, scratching at my jaw while I tried to figure out how to phrase my concern. It wasn’t like this was the first time Rainn had wandered off. The whole ‘twenty-four hours’ policy didn’t apply to him.

“Just wondering if you’d randomly heard anything about Rainn.” Did that sound casual enough?

She let out a small, exasperated sound. “I’m sure he’s fine, Kai. He probably wandered off to join a dance troupe or something.”

“Nah, Charlene. He’d call me if he did so I could come watch. Besides, he went camping up at Forest Glen, but he’s been gone two weeks instead of a few days. I just wanted to see if anyone reported… I don’t know, bears or something? You know people go missing.”

She blew out a breath. “Like I said, I’m sure he’s fine. Why don’t you go out to check? If you don’t find him, you can call us back and we’ll file a report.”

I would have been offended if it weren’t for the fact that Rainn routinely stayed out longer than he said he would when he got inspired. She was probably right—he’d probably gotten distracted, and I’d find him lying in a field of moss wondering if he could come up with a plant monster with three cocks.

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