Viper's Hope (Anguis Defenders Book 1)

by Stephanie West

  Viper was a bit aggravated. Granted it wasn't the way Anguis went about relations, but Hope was vastly different from their females. Adder had no clue.

  "It was glorious!" Viper replied. "And she doesn't have fangs." Viper said as he glanced down at his crotch.

  Viper was shocked by the admission that burst out of his mouth. For some reason he couldn't seem to keep it pent up inside. Viper was elated that Hope had welcomed him back into her arms. He wanted to shout it out from a mountain top. Surely that kind of pleasure was forbidden. Just the thought of her mouth on him had Viper's shaft straining in his pants.

  Adder's eyes widened for the second time that evening then he burst into hearty laughter.

  "Don't take this the wrong way my boy, but her pale curvy ass was quite a sight to be greeted with when I entered your room."

  Instead of growling Viper looked up to see his mother enter the room.

  "Sire you are busted!"

  "What's he busted for? And why are you two carrying on at this hour like a bunch of young boys?" Viper's mother, Hyla, asked with her hand on her hip.

  "I walked in on our filius with his subeo."

  "Why's that so funny? Oh. Adder!" She scowled at Adder with admonishment. "I thought she had rejected you?"

  "We're figuring it out. Hope's human, so it's complicated."

  "We can over look the fact that she's foreign, albeit it's a shock. I was just so upset at the thought of your subeo rejecting you. It broke my hearts." Viper's mother wrapped her arms around him.

  "Apparently having a foreign mate has its benefits." Adder winked at Viper.

  "It's good to see you both, but please tell me you didn't disturb me this late at night to make fun." Viper asked his sire as Hyla kissed Viper's forehead.

  "I'll let your father fill you in and I'll see you and your new mate in the morning. Don't be too late." Hyla patted Viper before heading back to the bedroom.

  Viper really tried to ignore the look his mother gave Adder, and the fact his father reciprocated it as she sashayed back to bed.

  "Ugh."

  When Viper finally had Adder's attention again he continued with the business that brought him to the ship.

  "Things have hit a snag with the new human colony. The inhabitants of Anguis Minor have raised some concerns about sharing the planet. And of course the inhabitants on Anguis Prime have also expressed concern about the close proximity."

  "They understand these concessions were made in part because the planet conditions accommodate the human refugees needs, but they are also my subeo's people."

  "Yes it has been released to the news networks but there are always the various factions making waves. The Purist groups are having a heyday with this." Adder related.

  Viper shook his head. How quickly people forgot their own precarious position and the fact that not that long ago they'd suffered a similar blow, but had been lucky. It shamed Viper that his own people would be so unwelcoming.

  "I understand resources are limited but we are more than capable, and our allies have pledged their support." Viper stated.

  "Of course. We are blessed indeed. Your mother and I are here primarily to show a united front when you land with the first group. Although we must maintain order at home, holding the Morbo at bay is a primary concern."

  "So what's the plan?"

  "We need to introduce your mate to the public when we land tomorrow on Anguis Minor."

  "Alright."

  Viper wasn't really sure how that would go over with the public, or with Hope.

  "We generally awaken the refugees shortly after we land but is it wise in this case?"

  "Once we land we need to proceed, it can't be avoided. We don't want to appear as if the Purists have altered the course we know to be just." Adder rubbed his chin contemplating every angle.

  Viper and Adder both felt strongly that it was their duty to stop the Morbo and help other species in their time of need. Though the Anguis had lost a catastrophic number to the plague, and they considered themselves lucky compared to other races. If they did nothing the Morbo would turn into an unstoppable scourge across the universe, annihilating all of creation as they knew it.

  "I agree we should get the humans settled as soon as possible, but can it wait a few more days? On last report there weren't enough volunteers and workers to make the revival process go as smoothly as I'd like." Viper reported.

  Not only was Adder his father, but his superior in matters of state.

  "I understand. Do not fear, despite the Purists, our people do a good job coming to the aid of others. I have no doubt you will have the numbers you need to assist you shortly after we land. For the most part the people have seen the benefit of this cause and the allies it has gained us. It's just a shame that there are always those selfish few."

  "I am worried how Hope will be treated." Viper admitted his concern.

  There would undoubtedly be many people who didn't agree with the Purists but who would still look unfavorably on their new Uxorem because she was a foreign race.

  "One day at a time my filius. That is why your mother and I are here. Why don't you go get some rest." Adder chuckled. "I will see you at first meal."

  Viper smiled back. They both knew he might be a bit late if he was lucky.

  Hope

  Hope stood in the shower soaking up the warm water. She was so giddy she debated calling her friends, but it was too late and tomorrow would be a crazy day since they were landing on an alien planet.

  Tara had asked Viper to help awaken and transition her fellow rescued humans and he agreed. Tara and JP were ecstatic at the prospect. They had already been helping out quite a lot.

  Besides being sexy and funny, Viper was proving to be very considerate and intelligent too. She appreciated how he included her friends and made them feel welcome. He was nothing like one of those chocolates you got from a heart-shaped box that looked yummy on the outside but tasted like toothpaste on the inside, leaving you disappointed. No he was more like Godiva, pure decadence.

  Hope didn't know why she was so surprised. Maybe it was the way things had started out between them. It wasn't the most ideal way she could imagine beginning a relationship, then again what in life was ever ideal. Sometimes wonderful things came unexpectedly knocking on your door and if you didn't take advantage they passed you by.

  Viper certainly was doing his damnedest to make amends. Besides redecorating their bedroom and taking her on little dates around the ship. He'd even come through with his promise to find her friends and family. Hope felt more than a little gratitude for the man. Maybe that was why she'd been so adamant this evening, insisting he join her in bed, despite her reservations.

  No it was more than that.

  It wasn't just gratitude or physical attraction that had her swooning. The sex had been mind blowing, better than she remembered, especially now that she didn't fear him. Though Hope had to admit there was something darkly erotic about being possessed by Viper while he was overcome with a hunger only she inspired. Just thinking about the way he hunched over her, caging her body as he thrust into her had Hope shuttering. Even when she'd ridden him, he'd bucked like a wild bronco between her thighs.

  Unfortunately their play time had been cut embarrassingly short. Hope still couldn't believe she'd been so sassy to Viper's father. He was the ruler of several planets for Christ sake. "Ugh!" She'd eventually have to meet him face to face. "Too bad that's what happens when you bully your way in to a grown man's room!"

  Hopefully that won't become a habit. Hope straightened her shoulders and refused to be embarrassed as she walked into the bedroom.

  Hope stretched out on the bed naked, to let her hair finish drying au natural after her shower. Her skin was still warm not just from the long shower but the lingering sensation of Viper's touch. She wondered if the hormones that told Viper she was his mate, didn't also work on her. They certainly seemed to.

  Hope might not be Anguis but every time Viper touched her s
he burned with a sensual heat. And when his mouth melded with hers it was like liquid sex coursing through her veins. Hell even the scent of him was an aphrodisiac. It had played havoc with her libido all week. Now that she'd gotten a taste she wanted more.

  Just picturing his swarthy visage and hot bod as she closed her eyes, made her shiver all over. Cool air drifted over Hope's damp skin raising goose bumps pebble her skin. Her hands traveled over her breasts pinching her stiff nipples. Hope trailed one hand down her stomach, pulled her knees up and let them drop open. The cool air hit her hidden flesh, and it felt nice, a tantalizing contrast on her overheated skin, as Hope spread her nether lips. Hope stroked her clit imagining a dark warrior god with dreads. She could almost hear the sexy rumble he made that turned her inside-out.

  When Hope opened her eyes again Viper stood leaning against the far wall watching her with rapt attention.

  "Is this what you do when I leave you alone?" He husked as he pushed off the wall and swaggered towards her.

  Hope was too enthralled to reply. The way the man swayed as he walked spoke of predatory grace and unrivaled dominance. He wore his passion like a cloak. The colors of his skin shifted through the spectrum from tan to a blood red so deep it was almost black. Viper stalked towards the bed, his green eyes flashing with wicked intent.

  Hope felt a gush of moisture between her thighs as she continued to caress her nub with tight insistent circles.

  Viper placed one knee on the foot of the bed crouched and slowly started to crawl up towards her. His swaying dreadlocks hung around his broad shoulders, muscles flexing in his biceps as he prowled up the bed.

  Viper's eyes pinned Hope, she was trapped in his gaze. There was a savageness about the lust she saw reflected there. Hope could see Viper's primal side lurking just behind his calm exterior. If she were to run right now, he would most certainly give chase.

  A shudder worked through her at the erotic sight.

  When Viper finally hovered between Hope's legs, he ran his hands up the insides of her thighs as his eyes roamed her splayed intimate flesh.

  "I've notice this little bud is very sensitive." Viper's finger slid up the length of her weeping slit and Hope started to move her hands away. "No keep touching yourself." Viper demanded as he explored her swollen cleft.

  Hope felt two long fingers push into her pussy. Viper curled them and stroked the walls of her vagina. When he hit her G-spot, Hope stiffened.

  "So that's another place I need to remember." Viper growled.

  "Yes, more please!" Hope begged him.

  Viper penetrating her with one hand while his other teased the surrounding flesh. It combined with Hope stroking her clit to create a madness that threatened to spill over at any moment. Viper added another thick finger and continued tormenting her as he stretched her channel. Hope was so wet her pussy made slurping sounds as he thrust into her.

  Viper's slick fingers trailed down to her ass, following the trail of moisture that spilled from her slit. Hope gasped and arched off the bed as Viper pressed against her puckered rosette then breached her with his finger. The sensation was new, dark and carnal. He pushed a little deeper, and she writhed from the delicious assault while vigorously rubbing her clit.

  "You are so sensitive everywhere. Look at how wet you are. I love the way your sheath trembles and clenches my finger." Viper groaned in lust.

  Hope would've been terribly embarrassed at how open she was for his perusal, but the way Viper stared at her with hungry desire as he leisurely penetrated both her ass and her pussy only made her hotter.

  "Hold yourself open for me." He growled as he leaned in.

  Hope bit her lip as she watched his mouth descend then latch onto her clit and suck it while he continued to invade her with both hands.

  Hope trembled as he growled how delicious she was. She'd had men go down on her, but Viper's tongue on her clit did wonderful, awful things to her nervous system. The pleasure spiking out from his carnal kiss sent Hope reeling. Part of it had to be the pheromones in his system, the sex drug he poured into her every time he put his mouth on her body. A drug specially designed for just for her. She wanted more, and she wanted it now!

  "Viper, now!" Hope begged the sex god wedged between her thighs.

  Viper reared back so fast flipping her onto her stomach that Hope's world spun. His knees pushed her legs wide, then he thrust his cock in to the hilt. She was so wet her pussy put up little resistance at all to the sudden invasion. Hope barely had time prepare. His complete and total possession would have made her cry out, but the way Viper had Hope pinned, his massive body pressed against her back, Hope's cry came out as a throaty groan instead.

  Viper forced her into the bed, his mouth moving over Hope's neck and shoulders kissing, sucking, nipping, as his hips started hammering into her from behind.

  "Yes Fuck it." She demanded.

  The sensual agony quickly had her riding the knife's edge. She'd been in control when she played cowgirl, now Viper was on top, and he wasn't holding back.

  Hope felt every inch of his throbbing cock shuttling into the tight recesses of her stretched pussy. She wanted to buck into him and pull away from his intensity all at the same time. The building orgasm would prove to be her undoing, in that Hope was sure. She couldn't move an inch but she could flex her inner muscles around his impressive tool, gripping him tighter with each back stroke.

  Viper snarled in response, his mouth buried at Hope's throat.

  "I can feel every inch of you. OH GOD HARDER!" Hope whimpered.

  Viper's teeth gnashed a scant breath from her skin. She should've been afraid of the man gone feral with lust, but it only ratcheted her higher.

  His hips pounded harder, grinding into her, shoving Hope up the bed. Close, she was so close.

  The bed rocked violently as he punished her quaking pussy. The primal sounds Viper made, the slapping of flesh, snarling and groaning, combined with her desperate moans and cries filled the room.

  The instant Viper struck the curve of Hope's shoulder, biting down, but not breaking the skin, to hold her still for his possession, the concentration of nerves at her core erupted shoving Hope headlong into ecstasy. Viper's hips kept pistoning, forcing past her frozen muscles into her spasming vagina.

  "YES, YES, YES" Hope cried as one orgasm morphed into the next, curling her toes as she clawed at the covers.

  Hope felt Viper start to swell in her grasping depths as he continued his frenzied thrusting. She sobbed not knowing if she could take any more.

  Viper's teeth plunged into her shoulder and Hope's cry turned to a scream of utter rapture and delirium, as his erotic drug added to the madness sending her headlong into the rapturous abyss.

  He kept growling and snarling as he burst, bathing her insides with his hot seed. The hormone induced nirvana invaded every cell causing Hope's boneless exhausted body to tremble. She was drained and yet she wanted more.

  God this ravishing man was dangerous!

  Viper released Hope's shoulder and licked the bite that matched the one on the other side. That was when they heard the pounding on the door.

  "Kadru dammit! Not again!" Viper growled as he rolled them to one side and threw a sheet over their sweaty bodies. "What!?" He snarled.

  "Hope!?" She heard two concerned voices say.

  Shit it was Tara and JP.

  "What do you guys need?" Hope yelled out louder than necessary, since she forgot the comm on the door would easily pick her normal voice up.

  "Open this door right now." Tara sounded panicked.

  "I'm fine, go back to bed."

  "I'm not leaving till I see with my own eyes." Tara shrieked through the door comm.

  "We're just going to start inviting people over when we plan to have sex." Hope whispered to Viper with a groan.

  "I think you just might like that." He husked into her ear as he thrust his hips.

  Hope gasped from the sensation it produced.

  "Come in." Viper said, and sh
e elbowed him. "What? Tara threatened to unman me in my sleep! I want her to see you're okay."

  Tara burst in followed by JP wielding a flower vase like a weapon. They stopped when they saw Hope and Viper spooning in bed.

  "WHAT THE HELL HOPE! It sounded like an episode of 'When Animals Attack' over here. We thought you were getting mauled." JP declared.

  Tara's eyes were red with tears and Hope immediately felt bad.

  "I'm fine guys." Hope attempted to console them while tucked in front of Viper, his cock still embedded deep in her pussy.

  To be having a conversation like this was weird to say the least. Thank god they were covered...this time.

  "You're not fine he bit you again!" Tara screeched her eyes zeroing in on the new mark on Hope's shoulder.

  "Yeah and I liked it." Hope retorted as Viper nuzzled the top of her head his arms pulling her back into him.

  "Please just come to the bathroom so I can clean it up." Tara almost pleaded.

  Hope knew Tara was unsure of this whole situation. Hope was too, but she liked Viper, a lot. At this point she wanted to see where all this was going.

  "Tara I can't do that." Hope replied.

  "Yes you can just let me clean it up." Tara cajoled.

  Viper chuckled and Hope elbowed him again.

  "Tara, honorable, caring friend of Hope, my little mate is trying to tell you that we are joined and will be for a bit." Viper said no doubt with a proud smile on his face based on the sound of his voice.

  Tara's eyes widened in understanding.

  "Come on she's fine. A dirty slut, but she's fine." JP shook his head trying not to laugh as he pulled Tara towards the door.

  "Hey!" Hope hollered back.

  JP winked as the door closed.

  "Did he just wink at you?" Viper growled.

  "Nope he winked at you." Hope giggled at Viper's indignant tone.

  The big sexy man had no clue. Maybe she'd tell him about JP when his jealousy and confusion stopped being so amusing.

  10 Mother Knows Best

  Viper

  Morning came too soon. Viper smiled as he awoke to find himself curled around Hope.