Page 37 of My Big Scaly Alien Naga
I kissed the crown of her head.“Never again.”
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Clare
I woke with a start.I'd had a dream, something about curling around a tree like a snake while feeling the sun's soothing rays on my scales, before the forest had erupted into fire.For a moment, I didn't know where I was.Then I felt the scales against my cheek, the heavy tail wrapped around my legs, and I remembered.
Venom.
I had slept with Venom.
Fuck.
I didn’t move.I wasn’t sure Icouldmove.His coils were heavy across my legs, not crushing but anchoring.His chest rose and fell steadily beneath my cheek, and the cave was still wrapped in that same hushed stillness as the night before.
I’d slept with him.
Not just shared heat.Not just survival huddling.I’dwantedit.Asked for it.Enjoyed it.
And now I was lying here, tangled up in a naga’s embrace, half-naked, on a hostile alien planet, wondering what the hell was wrong with me.
My stomach twisted with regret, but I didn’t quite know what I was regretting.Not the sex itself – that had been… gods, it had beengood.Not just the physical part, either.The way he touched me, the way he’d held back.The way he’dlookedat me.
His cock had been alien and yet perfect for me, like a key created to fit into my lock.It had been too dark to make out all the details, but there had been bulging rings around the shaft that had most definitely contributed to the best orgasm I’d ever experienced.
But still, the shame and regret didn’t disappear at the memory of how I’d come apart.Had it been too soon?Too reckless?Too much?
We'd met that day.Some time in the afternoon.
And I’d been ready to climb him like a tree by nightfall.
I closed my eyes and breathed through the knot in my chest.Who was going to judge me?My friends?My family?They were further away than I could even imagine.
No.This wasn’t about them.It was aboutEarth.About old rules and expectations that no longer applied to the person I was becoming.
Earth was far away.So were the people who’d raised me to believe love had a formula, that desire needed a waiting period, that you had to earn intimacy with time and social approval.
There was no approval to be found here.No society.No rules.
Just me.And Venom.And the wild beating of my own heart.
I shifted slightly, and his arm tightened instinctively around my waist.Not possessive.Just...responsive.
My guilt didn’t vanish, but it softened.I didn’t need to justify my choices to a world I no longer lived in.
I was allowed to want something – someone – for no other reason than that it felt right.
Especiallyin a place like this.Where every moment might be our last.
The air shifted.A faint clicking sound echoed near the cave entrance.
Venom stirred beneath me.His eyes opened – slitted, glowing faintly green in the dim light.“Clare?”he murmured.
“I’m awake.”
He tensed, not at my words but at something else.A vibration under the stone.A sound beyond what I could hear.
“Something’s wrong,” I said.
