Let

by Cherie Denis

  “Come?”

  Cia grinned and rubbed his nose with hers. “Yes. Come. Like you did…explode like the volcano.”

  “Oh. Come. I like the word. Come, my mate,” he said, lifting his hips and forcing his cock higher in her body. “Come!”

  “Touch my clit, and I will come for you, Let.” He understood what she wanted and did as she asked. He placed against her and

  stroked as she had taught him. Soon, she was trembling from head to toe. “More,” she wailed. “More…harder…more…”

  Moisture oozed out of her body to blend with his, and his slick, hot cock slammed in and out of her body. The sound of their bodies meeting filled the cave, echoing off the walls.

  “Come, Cia,” Let moaned. “Come…”

  Ahhhh!

  Cia was unsure who was coming. Was it she? Was it he? Was it both of them?

  It did not matter. They were one.

  * * * *

  Cia had confided her plans to her friend Gem, so she was not surprised when later she found hot food outside the sleeping cave.

  “Thank you, my sister,” Cia whispered, picking up the bowls of hot meat and vegetables.

  Her belly was empty, and Let had complained he could not fuck if he didn’t get something to eat soon. That would never do. Cia planned to fuck until they were both dizzy and limp with exhaustion. Maybe two or three more passings of Tec might be enough to satisfy her hunger for her mate, and then he would only have to fuck her once or twice a passing of Tec.

  * * * *

  Gem left food outside the sleeping cave at regular intervals. Cia and Let only left their cave to visit the scat cave and bathe. They waited until the main cave was empty and the families were sleeping. Then they would slip out into the night to lounge in the heated pool and scrub each other with herbs and the foaming soap Gem made.

  It was a wonderful time in Cia’s life. Let was going to be a wonderful help-mate. He was large and hard and easily aroused. He seemed to care for her, but neither of them could find the words to express their feelings. They rubbed noses and touched lips often. When they weren’t fucking, they would hold each other and whisper soft words of wanting and care.

  They talked about what they would do when they had their own clan. Cia told Let she had been looking for a place for the clan and may have found something.

  Soon, they would go look at the cave and see if it would work. There would not be many of them at first, but clans grew, so they needed a place that would be comfortable.

  * * * *

  Today was the day Cia decided. She would tell the dwellers the news. She was going to leave the clan and start her own clan family. Let had learned well and was also ready to help her lead a clan. He was strong, and with Og in the clan, they would be safe.

  “Yes,” she whispered. “It is time.”

  “What?” Let mumbled, his head buried under the sleeping skins.

  Cia flipped the skins back and giggled. “Fuck me, Let, and I will tell you what I was talking about.”

  Let was more than willing to fuck her. He rolled to his back and clasped his hands around his cock. “I am ready, Cia. Are you?” he asked.

  Cia licked her lips. Yes, he was ready. Baby-making juice formed and ran down his cock, making him slippery. She climbed on him and let his massive cock slide slowly inside her body.

  Ah, yes. This was what she had waited for her whole life. Her beautiful, strong man.

  Later, lying in Let’s heavily muscled arms, Cia sighed.

  “What is it, Cia?” Let asked.

  “Today, we will tell the elders it is time for us to start our own clan. You know the shaman claimed such when I was born, and now, it is time. I will be leader. You will be my help-mate. You understand what it means, don’t you, Let?”

  Let nodded.

  Cia breathed in his scent and buried her nose in his neck. She wound her fingers through the dark curls guarding his cock and tugged gently. “I don’t think you are old enough to fully understand what is going to happen.”

  “I am eighteen summers old. How old do I have to be?”

  Cia licked his skin. He tasted of sweat and spice. “It has been a very long time since anyone left the cave to start another clan.. There are things to be done before we can leave.”

  Let stroked Cia’s long hair and took a deep breath. “Things?”

  Cia remained silent.

  “What things?” Let asked.

  “You will be not be happy when you hear, but it must be done before we can leave. Even though the shaman proclaimed me a leader, I still must prove to the elders I am strong enough to leave and rule on my own.”

  Cia’s hand moved from his man fur to stroke his belly. “Your skin is so smooth. I could touch you all day.”

  “Yes, but if you do, I will have to fuck you all day.”

  “Is that a bad thing?” Cia asked with a laugh.

  Let laughed along with her. “No. I want to fuck you again. But first you must tell me what is worrying you.”

  “I don’t want to, but you are now my mate, so I will.”

  Let put a heavy hand on Cia’s teat and softly squeezed. “Tell me.”

  “In order to leave, I must prove I am strong, brave, and able to lead.”

  “Yes, you said so, but what does it mean?”

  “I must leave the cave on my own and hunt the large, furry beast with the huge teeth. I must bring it down on my own, bring it home, and tan the hide.” She sighed and wiggled against him, finding comfort with her head on his broad shoulder.

  “If the animal is not large enough or the hide is not tanned correctly, then they may either not let me leave or force me to go hunting again. The worst thing would be if the elders decide they won’t let me go unless I fight at least two of them to prove I can be strong as a man. I must be strong and swift as the best hunter, stronger than the elders. Brave and strong.”

  “If you have to fight them, what happens?”

  “If the elders win, they will show their power by fucking me while you watch. They will want to humiliate me.”

  Cia had her hand on Let’s chest, and she felt his heart leap at her words. She waited for him to forbid her.

  “Go on,” was all he said. He left unsaid his fear and anger. Being a clansman was a hard life. Nothing came easy to men and women alike.

  “I must hunt alone. If I do not return, then I have gone to live with Tec. If I return with what they want, then they will decide if I am strong enough, or they might demand I fuck two of the clansmen of my choice to prove beyond doubt how strong and brave I am.”

  “If they demand their way with me—and they might—then my mate must take me after they are done. If you refuse, it will prove I have made a fool of you, and you can leave me to pick a new mate. If you still want me after the two men are finished with me, my mate will have to fuck me in front of the cave-dwellers to prove he believes in my strength and bravery. Then and only then can I leave and start a new clan.”

  Let sighed. “I don’t care how many men fuck you, my Cia. I will always want you. You are mine and mine alone. No one will take your heart, for it is mine.”

  Cia took his hand and placed it over her breast. “Feel that? It beats only for you.”

  “Yes. I know.”

  “While I waited for you to become a man, I pleasured many men, and you watched me. Knowing I was with other men does not seem to bother you. You still want me. This will be no different. They will never have my heart, only my cunt.”

  “I know. I do not care about the fucking. I do not like them sending you out alone to find and kill the large, furry animal. I have seen the furry beast kill a man with one stomp of its foot. I do not want you to die to prove you are strong.”

  She nuzzled his neck and licked him once more. “You are a good mate. Better even than Og. You are my heart. I am afraid to hunt the furry one, but if I know you are waiting for my return, I can do what is demanded of me, Let. You make me brave and strong.”

  *
* * *

  Much later, they ate their evening meal and cleaned up the cave. Cia took Let’s large hand in hers, and they walked to the center fire of the main cave. Cia held Let’s hand in the air.

  “Behold my mate. Let is mine for all time.”

  The older dwellers moved their hands in a song of joy while the younger dwellers used their voices to make a noise they called singing. The youngest girl, Lia, had a voice as sweet as the wind on a summer day. She was the one who had made up the song. The others followed her lead, blending their voices into one.

  When the song was over, Cia let go of Let’s hand and raised both of hers toward the curved ceiling of the cave.

  “The time has come for me to be leader of my own clan. It is my right to ask for leadership, and it is time for Let and me to go out on our own.”

  Lia came to stand next to Cia and signed for the old dwellers who did not understand the words. There were many gasps.

  The elders signed together a resounding, “No.”

  Cia did not let them dissuade her from her decision. She repeated her declaration in a louder voice. “I want to be leader of my own clan. It is my right. The shaman proclaimed it on my date of birth.”

  The eldest of the elders, Tre, one of the wisest men of the elders, stepped forward, shaking his head. “No one has ever left us before. Do you know what trial you must go through to become head of a clan?” Cia nodded. “Yes, Old One, I understand, and I am ready.” Calling an elder “Old One” was not disrespectful. It was a name of high honor among the elders.

  Tre turned and stared at the other elders. They signed furiously back and forth for what seemed like forever. Cia held onto Let’s hand and felt his strength flow from his body to hers.

  Gem signed as Tre spoke. “It is our decision, Cia, that you will hunt the large, furry animal. Kill it and bring it back here with no help. When that is done, we will again discuss your wishes for a clan of your own.”

  Cia signed her thanks to the elders.

  Tre continued to speak. “You know if we are not satisfied, you must pick two of the clansmen to fuck. We must see how strong and brave you are. Bring us the largest furry animal you can find, and we will decide after the hunt if you must fuck two men.”

  Let stirred next to Cia. “Silent,” she whispered to him. “Do not argue.”

  “But—” he mumbled.

  “No. It is all as I warned you. Be silent, or they will tie you up until I return.” Cia smiled and said, “Good, we agree, Old One. I leave tomorrow at the rising of Tec and will return with my prize—the furry beast.”

  Cia’s mother had been silent, sitting at her fire pit. She stood and signed. “Go with Tec, my daughter. You will be leader of your own clan soon.”

  Cia’s father stood and pulled his mate’s hand. “Sit down, woman,” he signed.

  Her mother yanked her arm free and gathered Sin closed to her breast. She stood beside Cia and raised her hand in the air. “This is my daughter. She will be leader.” She turned to Cia and put her hand on Cia’s shoulder. “Go with Tec. Be strong. I will feed and care for Let while you are gone.”

  “Mother,” Cia gasped. “You can speak?”

  Her mother nodded. “It does not make your father happy, but I learned to speak when you were a child. I couldn’t hold my mouth closed any longer. Bend down,” she ordered her daughter.

  Cia bent down, and Fa kissed her forehead. “Be safe.”

  “Thank you, Mother. I will be very careful.” She kissed her mother’s forehead. “Thank you for taking care of Let. Watch him so he does not follow. For if he follows, the others may harm him.”

  “I will watch him like the eagle who lives on the top of the cliffs.”

  * * * *

  After a celebratory dinner served by all the clanswomen, Let and Cia went to their sleeping cave. Of course they could not leave without a lot of teasing, both in sign language and by word. Everyone was laughing and happy for the lovers, even though they knew that tomorrow, all could change in an instant.

  Because of the lives they led, death was a fact of life. At any moment, a tiger could steal a child or a hairy mammoth could stomp a man or child. A snake could slither into the cave and eat a baby before anyone was aware of the intruder. Spiders were poisonous, and even the bats who lived in the caves were dangerous. They ate a lot of bugs, but sometimes, a sick bat would bite a dweller, and he would die of a horrible sickness.

  It was a terrifying way to live.

  Most dwellers lived moment to moment, laughing and loving as much as they could because tomorrow, death might be at the door.

  Let was not worried about their sleeping cave. He kept it spotless for his mate. He swept every day and shook out the sleeping skins every rising of Tec.

  Let and Cia stopped at the scat caves and then met in the narrow walkway. “Do you want to swim tonight in the hot pool?” Cia asked. Let agreed it would be nice. They stopped at their sleeping cave and got rabbit fur to dry off with and clean aprons to wear back—although Cia didn’t plan for the aprons to stay on long once they returned.

  The pool was empty, the night silent. Tec’s sons had lit their fires in the sky. The breeze was warm and pleasant. The lovers kissed and slid into the pool. Cia placed herself on Let’s lap, close to his cock but not too close. She wasn’t ready to fuck yet. She had something to say to her mate, and her heart told her it was important.

  “Let?”

  “Mmm.” He tried to pull her closer, but Cia put a hand on his smooth chest.

  “I have so many things I want to say to you, but I’m not sure how to say them. There are so many new words every day, and I want to use them all. Gem and I made up a new word yesterday, and I think this night is the time to tell you.”

  Let’s brows furrowed. Cia smiled and kissed the furrows away.

  “I am afraid, Cia. Must you go?”

  “Yes. If I want to be clan leader, I have to go.” She pushed her fingers through his dark, tightly curled hair and brought his face to hers. They rubbed noses and kissed. “I will not be gone long. I know where the hairy mammoth lives. I will be home in seven settings of Tec. Have faith in me, my mate, for I love you and will not leave you.”

  “Love? What is love?”

  “Love is the funny feeling we get when we are together. The way we do not want to be parted. It is also the fear you feel for me and I feel for you. Fear you will be gone forever. Fear, fucking, and other feelings make love have meaning.”

  Let nodded and smiled. His white teeth gleamed brightly. “Then that means I love you, Cia.”

  She moved closer to his body and gave him a teasing smile. “Really?”

  “Yes.”

  “How much?”

  “I don’t know, but I think I can show you.” He’d been sitting on a natural ledge of rock. He knew Cia was squatting on the same ledge. He lifted her and put her over his cock. “I want you more than ever before. Please, Cia, fuck me. Fuck me hard.”

  She straddled his enormous cock and slid down his shaft until he was touching her womb. “Aahh,” she moaned. “Yes...yes. You are my lover.”

  He pushed as far inside her as he possible could and then lifted her and slid her back down slowly. “Does it feel good, Cia?”

  “Oh, Tec. You are touching my heart, Let. I love you.”

  That night, their lovemaking was hot and furious in the pool. Eventually, they got out, dried off, and went back to their sleeping cave, where they made slow, sweet love until they fell asleep still connected, still one with the other.

  * * * *

  She was gone. Let shuffled through the skins but could not find his mate anywhere. He searched the cave. Her spear and club were gone, as was her backpack and water holder.

  Cia had left without saying goodbye. She would be back. He could feel it in his heart, and his heart was heavy with fear and love. Let whispered a short prayer to Tec for her safe return.

  He cleaned and neatened the cave and went looking for Fa. She had promised
to take care of him while his mate was hunting the beast. Let was hungry enough to eat a whole antelope.

  “Glory to Tec,” Let greeted Fa. He rubbed his belly. “I am hungry. Is there food, good woman?”

  “Glory to Tec,” she answered and motioned for him to be seated on the fur rug next to the fire. “I have brown brew, antelope stew, and flat bread.”

  Let smiled. “I am very hungry.”

  Fa served him a large bowl of hot stew, a smaller bowl of brown brew, and a huge piece of flat bread.

  Flat bread was something the women of the tribe had been experimenting with in recent passings of Tec. They used dried corn ground to a fine powder and added water. When it was mixed, they rolled and kneaded the mixture in more dried powder until it was stiff. They broke off pieces and patted them flat and draped the pieces over hot rocks. The result was tasty, especially when filled with the hot stew.

  One of the women had found other dried grains, and they ground the grains using the same method as the corn. The breads were very good, but once in a while, a small piece of rock would be inside the bread. Many had broken a tooth. The pain was bad, but the food was worth the discomfort.

  The women tried to be careful when they mixed the bread to make sure the hot rocks were clean and clear of sand.

  “Thank you, woman. I am full.”

  Fa signed her happiness and warned him not to disappear.

  Let wandered the cave for what seemed like a lifetime, and then he grabbed his spear and club and headed for the cave door.

  Tre was standing in his way. “Where you go?”

  “Hunting.” Let shook his spear to prove his point.

  “Not alone. I will go with you.”

  Let was not happy but had suspected Tre would not leave him alone today. It didn’t matter. He had talked to Og and begged him to stay out of sight. All Let wanted Og to do was make sure Cia would not get injured. Og had promised he would do nothing to interfere unless he had to save her. Let had also asked Og not to tell Gem. Og had agreed only because he, too, did not want his brother-friend’s mate to be injured.