The Frog Prince

by Tracy Lauren

  Instead he rips away from me. Or he tries to at least, his hands still grip me and he keeps his forehead pressed to mine. “We can’t do this.”

  “Why not?”

  “Because you’re a virgin, Madison. No man has ever touched you like this. It shouldn’t be me; I shouldn’t be doing this.”

  “Because of some stupid title? You think you can’t touch me because I’m a princess and you’re a guardsman? All I care about is how you make me feel. None of that status stuff matters to me, Kethian—” I grab his face and force him to look at me. I need him to hear this. “I want you.”

  With that, Kethian grabs me, lifting me into his arms. My legs wrap around his waist and the world turns as we fall back onto the bed. And I realize, I’m ready for whatever he plans on giving me. Hell, I’ll take it all—greedily.

  Chapter 19

  Kethian

  Madison speaks the words I long to hear and the weak control I have over my restraint breaks. Before I know what I’m doing I have her on the bed beneath me. She teases my tongue with hers and her shy hands begin to roam, her nails digging into my shoulders as she arches against me.

  Madison’s breaths are panting and needy and I lean in, licking her neck. Her nipples pebble under the thin material of her tiny shirt. “What are you even wearing?” I ask. “Are you trying to drive me mad?”

  “Just…trying…to get…your attention,” she pants.

  “You have it, Princess.” I run my hand over the side of her breast, still hesitant about how far I should allow us to go. But Madison is murmuring her desire.

  “Touch me, Kethian. Taste me.”

  “I can deny you nothing.” I slide one slender strap off her shoulder and press kisses there. Madison tastes like fresh fruit and the thought makes me want to steal between her thighs and lap at all her sweet juices. But that is too much for a virgin. I must go slowly as I introduce her to what happens between a man and a woman.

  Carefully, I tug the other strap down as my kisses dip lower towards her breasts. I peek up at Madison. Her eyes are pressed closed and her mouth is a soft O of pleasure. When my tongue glides over her exposed flesh she moans for me.

  “That feels so good,” she gasps, spurring me onward. I tease one puckered nipple through the fabric of her shirt and she cries out in ecstasy. Wait until she feels my tongue there…

  I tug her shirt the rest of the way down and Madison’s eyes shoot open in surprise.

  “Is it too much?” I ask. She answers by grabbing my head and forcing it to her breast. I lick her through my laughter.

  I spend time on her breasts, lavishing them with my affection and making up for all that time they went unattended to. Madison becomes unhinged beneath me. She moans and writhes until her legs lock around my hips and she begins to grind against my cock.

  I imagine feeling her skin, hot and bare against my own and how amazing it would feel to press into her. But that is not my plan for today. Today I just want to make Madison feel good. I want to make her cum. Beyond that…who can tell what tomorrow will bring? I’m certainly in no position to make promises I can’t keep. Because when it comes to Madison, I just can’t seem to stop myself, regardless of what it will mean for me once she’s gone.

  “More,” she begs. “Kethian, I want more.”

  I push myself up on my knees and her legs fall open. The soft material of her short pants is loose on her body and I reach down and pull it to the side. She sucks in a breath, watching me with heavy lidded eyes. I nearly cum in my pants when I see her pussy, wet and exposed to me.

  I groan. “No panties?”

  She shakes her head.

  Absently I rub a hand over my throbbing cock only to notice the front of my pants are wet from Madison grinding against me. To think I have her so turned on nearly drives me insane.

  “What do you want me to do to you?” My voice comes out rough.

  She swallows hard. “Touch me,” she says shakily. “Teach me how this is supposed to work.”

  That I can do. I’m about to run my fingers through her wet folds, but she pushes herself up on her elbows.

  “Can I…can I, um, see you first?” she asks, her eyes going to the bulge in my pants. My hands shake, but I nod and drop down next to her on the bed, positioning myself so I’m on my back.

  “Do you want to—” I offer to let her undo my pants.

  “Could you?”

  I nod and unfasten my belt, keeping my eyes on hers the whole time. I want to gauge her expression, see what she wants to get out of this. Slowly I unzip my pants, shifting to free my cock. I don’t know what she expects. Are men’s cocks different on Earth? Her pussy looks like what one would expect—fat, wet, folds that I want to get lost in. Of course they are the most beautiful fat, wet folds I have ever seen in my life, but what else would I expect from Madison?

  She pushes herself up to her knees, eyes locked onto my cock. “Can I?”

  And I have to laugh at that. “Madison, you can do any damn thing you want to me.”

  Her grin grows wide and her fingertips go to my shaft. “You’re so smooth here. It feels nice.”

  I grunt in response, caught up in watching her.

  “Can you show me how to—” Though her expression is hungry and eager, her words are shy and nervous.

  I nod. “Wrap your hand around my cock.” She does as she’s told and I cover her hand in mine. “You can hold me tighter.”

  “Like this?” She tightens her grip.

  “Just like that.” Then I start to move her hand, jerking it up and down along my length. But quickly I let her take the lead, pulling my hand away. She adds a second hand to work me.

  “Does it feel okay? Am I doing it right?” she asks, looking so painfully sexy, with her shirt bunched around her waist and her pert breasts exposed.

  “Fuck, Madison, I’m just trying not to cum all over your hands right now,” I grit out and her smile grows wide.

  “Really?” She scrutinizes my cock and a thick pearl of cum beads on the tip. “That’s your cum?” she asks.

  “Some of it.”

  “Can I?”

  “Can you what?” I ask. But she doesn’t answer me and she doesn’t wait for permission. Instead she leans down and licks the tip of my cock with her pretty pink tongue.

  “Oh fuck,” I groan as she laps up my pre-cum.

  “Sorry. I was curious.” She releases me, all smiles, and I’m nearly undone.

  “Are you finished exploring?” I ask her.

  She nods, a happy smile on her face.

  “Your turn?”

  At that, her smile brightens. I’ll take it as a yes.

  I pull Madison back down to the bed spread her legs once more. I’d take off her shorts, but I like the image of pulling the thin strip of fabric between her legs over to one side. Before anything though, I lean down and kiss her until she’s panting again. She bucks into me and my cock rubs against fabric and pussy lips both. Based on her reaction, I’m not the only one getting off on the sensation.

  “I’m going to touch you now, Madison.”

  “Please,” she begs and I continue to kiss her as my fingers find her wet lips. She feels utterly delicious and I can’t help but imagine my cock pressed to her core, ready to slide home. Her legs open wider and she clings to my shoulders. When I finally pump my digits into her she screams out an obscenity and grabs my wrist.

  “Do you want me to stop?” I ask, stilling my motions.

  “Don’t stop!” she commands, forcing my hand. I smile, diving into another kiss as I use my thumb to tease her clit.

  “Ohmigod,” she pants. “This feels, I feel…” She grinds against my hand, still gripping tightly onto my wrist, forcing my motions to be hard and rough. Her cheeks flush. Already she looks as if she is on the edge.

  “Are you going to cum for me, Madison?” I ask.

  But she doesn’t respond. Instead, she bites into her bottom lip and then her pussy is clenching around my fingers. She’s cummin
g. I lean my head against her, groaning. I’m intoxicated by her arousal. And when the last of her peak fades away I bring my fingers to my mouth and lick them clean, savoring her taste.

  “I cannot believe you just did that,” she says, watching me with wide eyes.

  “You tasted me; can I not do the same?”

  “I guess. If you want to.” She grins, trying to hide her blush.

  “Oh I want to. Next time I want my tongue buried between your legs when you cum for me.”

  “There’s going to be a next time?”

  “That’s up to you, Princess,” I tell her, running my hand up her thigh. “I’m yours to command.”

  She laughs sweetly, burying her face against my chest.

  “What’s so funny?”

  “For a second there I actually felt like a princess.”

  “Mmm. Don’t ever doubt that you are my princess.”

  Silence stretches and Madison tucks herself closer to me.

  “Kethian. Can I really command you to do whatever I want?”

  “Haven’t you noticed?”

  She chuckles as I gingerly play with her hair. “I suppose so. Is it okay if I exercise my power then?”

  “Your wish is my command.”

  “Then I command you to stay with me tonight,” Madison tells me, her voice playful, albeit sleepy. “Just until I fall asleep.”

  “An easy task,” I answer. As a matter of fact, it is almost too easy. For it isn’t long until she is sleeping beside me.

  More than anything, I want to remain tangled in her arms for the rest of the night, but tomorrow we arrive on Earth and there is still so much work for me to do.

  Chapter 20

  Kethian

  “Gods, Kethian! We thought you were never going to answer our comms!” Thaves shouts at me.

  “I’ve been preoccupied.”

  “To say the least! How’s your kidnapping going? I don’t see your captor anywhere. Should I take that to mean you’ve escaped?” my brother asks, his tone both angry and sarcastic.

  “What?” But then a smile crosses over my face. “Ah yes, I forgot I was kidnapped.”

  “Well, now that you remember, there are many people looking forward to your return,” he tells me. “I don’t like this situation with Tevera, Keth. My people tell me the princess has yet to be found and that you are wanted by the Teverans for attacking two of their guards on Titan Station.”

  “But there are no threats of war?” I ask, needing for that fact to be confirmed. Madison is important to me, but so is my world.

  “I hope that is not the benchmark! Please brother, come home before it comes to that.”

  “I still have work to do, Thaves.”

  “What work do you have that is more important than Atana? And please don’t tell me this is about some infatuation you have with that princess. She’s the daughter of the Warrior King, she is untouchable, brother!” Thaves shouts, trying to reason with me. Untouchable, he says. Yet I can still remember her touch quite clearly.

  “You don’t understand.”

  “Then help me. I can’t have your back unless I know what’s happening.”

  “I found the princess in Prett’s dungeon.”

  “That much we assumed.”

  “And, once upon a time, she did kidnap me.”

  “You forget that I have seen the princess of Tevera, brother! There is no way that wisp of a creature got the drop on you.”

  “But she did.” I drop down into my seat and kick my feet up, smiling at the memory. “She was ruthless and cunning, brother; you would have loved it. Madison pretended to drown and stole my gun when I tried to rescue her.”

  But Thaves doesn’t seem amused. “Why didn’t you just take it from her and return her to her people!”

  My smile drops away. “That’s the part I don’t think you’ll understand. Madison wants to go home, Thaves.”

  “Then what in the name of the Gods are you doing halfway across the galaxy?”

  “Tevera isn’t her home. Earth is.”

  “Earth? Earth is a protected planet! No one is allowed to go to Earth!”

  “I’m taking her there, whether you back me or not.”

  “Kethian, this is insane. Her parents will be furious. If they wanted her on Earth they would have allowed it themselves.”

  “What they want doesn’t matter. I’m going to see to it that Madison gets what she wants.”

  “She’s a fucking princess, Keth! She already has everything she wants!”

  “See, you don’t understand. I knew you wouldn’t”

  Thaves takes a deep breath. “Explain it.”

  “She’s miserable on Tevera. We all know the queen’s story, right? How she had been taken from her primitive world. She went back for her daughter, but from Madison’s perspective she was abducted by her mother and Vazrium—stolen away from the only life she had ever known. She’s practically a prisoner on Tevera, Thaves! You wouldn’t believe all the life she’s missed out on!”

  “They treat her like a prisoner?” Thaves voice becomes harsh and protective. He doesn’t like the sound of it.

  “They don’t mistreat her if that’s what you’re asking. But they don’t let her live, Thaves. I couldn’t waste my life like that and I won’t force Madison to do it either, not when I can help her.”

  “Why are you doing this? Why are you risking yourself to cater to this princess’s—”?

  “Hopes? Her dreams?”

  Thaves frowns at me, leaning back in his seat. For a moment he looks just like our father. “She’s beautiful, Kethian, we all know that. But is that truly a reason to risk your freedom? You could stand trial for involvement in her kidnapping. This could threaten our world’s long-standing relationship with Tevera. Hell, would she even want you to do this for her if she knew what it might cost?”

  I shake my head at my brother. He still doesn’t get it. “She’s spent her entire life trying to make other people happy. That’s done, Thaves. I’m setting her free.”

  “You think I don’t see you right now, Keth, but I do. Perhaps even more clearly than you can see yourself. You’re in love with her! But you need to use your head. Tell me brother, how are you going to deliver the princess to Earth and then simply walk away? It’d be easier to rip your own heart out and leave it on her alien world.”

  “You think I don’t know that I’m in love with her? That’s the only reason I have the strength to do any of this, Thaves. Whether you like it or not, this is what’s happening. When Madison’s safe I’ll come home and I’ll take full responsibility for all of this. I will protect Atana. But I will protect Madison too. If Earth is what she wants then I’m going to give it to her.”

  Thaves stares at me through the monitor, his features hard as he studies me. “If this is what you want then we’re with you, brother. All of us.”

  “Thank you.” That’s one weight off my shoulders.

  Chapter 21

  Madison

  “Are you ready to see this?” Kethian asks.

  My hands tremble. “I am.”

  I move closer to the view screen and Kethian focuses in on Earth. My home, my world. It fills the monitor, big and beautifully blue. I see my continent and I nearly double over with emotion as an ugly sob rises from my throat. Kethian moves to my side and takes my hand. It gives me strength, but I can’t fight back the tears.

  Down there there’s life—billions of lives going happily about their business. That used to be me and now it will be again, thanks to Kethian. There will be Hot Pockets, and Skechers, fast food, and TV shows. And there will be Justin motherfucking Bieber. Praise God.

  “Where do you want to land?” Kethian asks me.

  I point to the United States. “Pretty much anywhere in here. But not on this side.” I indicate California. “That’s where my mom and I were from. I don’t want anyone to recognize me from a milk carton or anything.” And though Kethian probably doesn’t know what a milk carton is, he gets that pe
ople would ask questions about a girl who mysteriously reappeared after having vanished for nine years.

  “It might also be a good idea to land somewhere forested, but still walking distance from a town,” I suggest.

  “I’ll be sure to cloak the ship.”

  “That reminds me. I made something for you.” I retrieve my bag from the chair and pull out the clothes I made for Kethian on the synth. “Now this is some top-of-the-line stuff,” I tell him. “Well, it was from about 2005 to 2009 at least. Hopefully fashion hasn’t changed that much. Here you have your skinny jeans—not easy to make, so you’re welcome—a trucker hat, some Converse knock-offs, and a standard issue hoodie. Between the hat and the hoodie I think you’ll be able to get around fairly unnoticed.”

  Kethian wrinkles his nose at my creations, but he tears off his boots and tosses his shirt aside. I drop down into the captain’s seat to watch him change.

  “What are you going to wear?”

  “Doesn’t matter what I wear. I don’t have the skin tone of a frog,” I remind him.

  “Fair enough. If you’re ready we’ll land and head into town.”

  “What do you mean, like right now?”

  “Yes, right now. Unless you want to come home with me and try again in another nine years.”

  “No, I just didn’t know it would be so quick. Shouldn’t we scope things out first, make sure it’s safe…that the government won’t find us or your ship?”

  Kethian scoffs. “If I do not want Earth government to detect my ship then they won’t. It is as simple as that.”

  “Yeah…I guess our technology is pretty pathetic compared to yours.”

  “Are you ready, Madison?”

  I feel a twinge of anxiety in the pit of my stomach, but I push it down. “Of course I am. I’ve been waiting nine years for this.”