Page 41 of Love & Monsters
A smile not meant for anyone except Mina graced my lips. My hand skimmed over her hip to the underside of her breast, and I ran my thumb in teasing circles over her. Other than a small twitch of surprise, Mina appeared alright. Even the smell of her fear gradually faded.
They tried to hide it, but everyone watched. Eyes eagerly assessing Mina as if she were a prize to be won.
And she was, certainly she was the greatest prize of all. But she was mine. All mine. This wasn’t entirely an act for me because I needed my subjects to know that Mina belonged to me.
After picking at food, Mina relaxed a fraction. She looked out over my people. This time, I saw no fear and revulsion in her eyes. Now those luminous green eyes were cold, and she offered a smile even as my tail curled around her calf.
My blood hummed, feeling her legs inch wider as my tail snaked up her leg. I had feared that this night of pretense would take her back to her initial fear of me, but my confidence grew at hearing the hitch in her breath when the tip of my tail disappeared under her dress and stroked the inside of her thigh.
When my wandering thumb traced over Mina’s breast, I felt her pebbled nipple. She noticeably leaned into that touch. I could feel her racing heart under her skin and inhaled the fresh scent coming from her. Sweet and heavenly was the smell of her stirring desire.
The smell was too potent, however. I caught sight of males at the nearest tables fidgeting as the scent of Mina’s desire reached them. Their eyes wandered to her, and I hated using her body like this, where others were watching just so everyone would believe this act.
Still, I lowered my head and licked my tongue up the side of her neck. Shivers broke out all over her body, and I felt her core tighten as her back arched slightly. I thought she might pull away from me in revulsion, yet her legs widened a fraction as she fell against my chest.
My tail continued brushing over her inner thigh, and she was breathing hard. Mina let slip an almost inaudible sigh as my tail went higher with each pass over her smooth skin. She didn’t flinch once.
Was she honestlyenjoyingthis?
Mina’s body melded into mine despite the eyes glued to us through the feasting, laughing, and conversing. Tail creeping higher, my hand once again passed over the soft swell of her breast and I realized how hard I was slipping into the haze of longing.
Nearby I overheard warriors talking as they leered at Mina. “I heard someone say the Lord brought a pet but didn’t believe it until now. And a human at that. Who would have thought?”
“You think she’s as soft as she looks?” One asked.
“Well, I’m not bound to find out. That’s the Lord’s pet. She’s not ours to make beg and scream, now, is she?” I wanted to rip their heads from their bodies for their remarks.
If Mina heard them, would she hate me for the things they said? It felt wrong to objectify her in this manner. Mina was no mere pet, no matter the fact I sat here now, luxuriously fondling her.
Regret and shame filled me for subjecting Mina to this night. I should have found some other way to protect her from the greedy eyes watching her now. Sitting here caressing her in my lap, I was no better than the monster she once thought I was.
“Vadric,” she whimpered when I massaged her breast again. The seductive notes in her voice weren’t laced with the fear and disgust I imagined would have been there. Thoroughly shocked, the grip of my opposite hand on her hip tightened until I felt my claws tearing at her flimsy dress like butter.
Mina’s legs widened again, and she writhed in my lap. A feral growl almost escaped from me in an eruption that would have trembled through the fortress. My hands roamed and touched her delicate body, and her petite hands explored my thighs.
My pants tightened painfully, and my inhibitions escaped my grasp as a vicious desire overwhelmed me. Dipping my face to her neck again, I inhaled her scent, taking deep reverent breaths of her divine smell. I imagined what it would be like to taste her again, to consume her body and soul.
Mine. Mine. Mine.
I had to choke back a pleased laugh at how intensely Mina reacted to my touch. Heat radiated from her, and it drew me in. My tail flicked closer to her core and her hands gripped my thighs.
To my utter delight, Mina’s head fell back against my chest as I ever so slightly shifted my hips. The feeling of her body pressing on mine made me ravenous to swallow her whole. The tip of my tail brushed against the sensitive skin where her thigh met her soft center. Dangerously close to where I wanted to be.
My hand on her hip fell to her thigh and the corresponding moan she gave me was so low and sultry, I felt my cock become impossibly hard under her squirming ass. Mina twisted against me, as if fighting to get closer. Then she stilled completely, feeling how hard I’d become from her movement.
My breath caught, and I stilled, waiting for Mina’s reaction. Then she surprised me by grinding harder against my straining cock. Her intoxicating scent was better than any sweet-wine, and I would happily drown myself in it.
I wanted to devour her. To tear her apart from within. I needed to sink my cock into her deliciously tight cunt and drink her blood. To bathe in it and submerge myself in every visceral part of Mina. I wanted this and more. I wanted all of her. And I wanted to take her right here on the floor in front of everyone until she was screaming from the pleasure. To mate her and enjoy the ecstasy of filling her, never mind the consequences.
A quiet, satisfied growl burst from me. I trailed the tip of my tongue up the side of her neck, feeling her fingers digging into my legs. My tail rose higher until it met a slickness, and Mina froze as I felt the wetness between her thighs.
The beastly need to taste her, to fuck her, clouded my mind to the point everyone else faded away. I was breathing hard. My nails dug into Mina’s hip and ribs as the pressing tension grew to its boiling point. My jaw opened, and I pressed my mouth to her neck.
When Mina felt my teeth on her skin, she whined. But damn me, it was fear, and it was desire all muddled together. She wanted me just as badly as I wanted her, and yet she was still afraid. Yet that fear didn’t hold her back.
Mina still wanted me despite her fear. As if the fear was part of her desire for me.
My pause seemed to snap Mina out of the haze she was under. Suddenly, she lifted her head from my chest and glanced around the roaring room of monsters again. Her heart skipped a beat under my palm on her chest, and she took a shaky breath.
