by Cheri Wood
“Present company excluded, apparently,” Hiram muttered, walking up to them.
“I don’t have to justify my actions to you,” Duncan snarled at his friend and it all became perfectly clear to Ashley. Duncan was the Alpha in their little pack, and he’d made the decision for the group when he came to her defense and then stayed with her through the night.
“Question remains, however,” Connor said, leaning in and sniffing the air around her - probably to intimidate her, which totally worked. “How do we ensure our secret stays that way?”
“He makes a good point, Duncan,” Hiram commented soberly.
“Pretty photographer going missing in the territory where she was trying to find the elusive Kelb-el-khela? This place will be crawling with investigators and reporters,” Duncan said. It did little to settle the unease in Ashley’s body, though. It sounded like if they could get away with it, they’d get rid of her for good.
“I won’t tell anyone,” she blurted, drawing their attention. “I mean, I’m a photographer, not a reporter. And I didn’t snap a photo. I dropped my camera when I fell. So there’s no proof. No photo to sell.”
Duncan scratched his scar, drawing her gaze.
“How is it healed already? It looks like an old scar,” she said, reaching out to trace the marks left by the cheetah. As her fingertips ghosted along the scar, Duncan sucked in a breath and shivered. Placing her hand flat on his chest, she could feel the thudding of his heart, beating wildly.
“We heal fast,” he said, his voice thick. “Don’t do that.”
“Don’t do what?” she asked, mesmerized by the soft mat of hair contrasting with the glossy surface of the healed scar.
“Touch me,” he said softly, and it might as well have been a command as a clarification.
Those surreal feelings were back - the almost trance-like state she kept finding herself in whenever she was close to these men. Her heart was pounding, but not out of fear for her life. She was aroused.
“Why do I have this urge to-”
“Pheromones,” Duncan said, his voice gravelly with want. “We release them to scare people off, to make them leave an area so we can hunt in peace. But a true mate can’t be scared off. It has the opposite effect.”
“I’m- I’m your mate?” Ashley whispered, looking up at him.
“All of ours,” Connor’s voice sounded behind her as his hand stroked up her spine.
“Moments ago you wanted to kill me,” she protested, turning her head to glare at each of them.
“Kill you? No,” Duncan said, turning her face back to him. “We were discussing something else entirely.”
“Something… what?” she blinked, not understanding.
“Breeding you,” Connor answered huskily, nibbling her earlobe.
She gasped and Duncan shoved Connor away from her. “A mate carrying our offspring will become one of us. An Adjule shapeshifter. You would stay with us until the earth stopped turning.”
“I-”
“You want adventure. I know. And that’s why I won’t keep you here, even if it pains me to let you go. Maybe one day, you’ll decide to come back.”
“Do I have to leave right now?” Ashley asked, biting her bottom lip.
“It’s your choice,” Duncan said softly, stroking her cheek. “But you should know, the Alpha always shares with his pack.”
A shiver went through Ashley. Yet, instead of cooling her libido, it seemed to ignite every part of her. “Show me,” she whispered to him and seconds later, she was in his arms, being carried back to her tent.
Duncan had never dressed, and so as he covered her body with his, she felt his cock against her, seeking entrance through the thin fabric of her pajama bottoms.
“Do you have a condom?” she asked, reaching down between them to stroke his length.
“We don’t carry diseases,” he said, tugging on her shorts.
“But if you…”
He frowned, then seemed to understand what she was asking, and smiled. “We can only breed in our canine state.”
“Oh.” Her cheeks heated but she wasn’t given much time to worry about it before Duncan put his tongue to work between her legs. “Ohhhh…”
A memory fluttered through her mind, trying to take hold. Tongues lapping her body, stroking her insides… And then she could only focus on the present. Duncan worked his tongue in and out of her slit, intermittently circling her nub and making her pant.
“More… I need you… inside.”
Duncan’s laughter rumbled through his body, reverberating through hers, but he didn’t obey. Instead, he persisted tongue-fucking her until her cream doused his mouth and she dropped her ass to the ground, her legs spent from trying to keep his mouth as close as possible. She closed her eyes and lay panting, trying to get her breath back. Before she’d come down from her high, she felt the tip of him press against her opening and mumbled a protest. She couldn’t take him just yet, she didn’t have the energy. But her pussy seemed to differ, and it welcomed him wantonly.
“Yessss…”
His large hands cupped her ass and lifted her so he could move her up and down his shaft, making her whole body jiggle. Her breasts were a decent C-cup, but they felt huge as they rubbed against her tank top with every push and pull.
Then hands cupped her breasts and pinched her nipples. When had Connor and Hiram joined them? Now they were kneeling on either side of her, tending to her tits as Duncan pounded her pussy.
“This needs to go,” Connor said, ripping her tank in two and exposing her completely. She was about to protest that he could have just pulled it over her head, but then two mouths descended on her globes and their tongues swirled around her distended nipples.
She was nearing a second orgasm and babbled incoherently to that effect. Just as she could feel it coming on, Duncan pulled out and her pussy grasped at nothing.
“What are you-”
“Connor,” Duncan said, ignoring her protest. “Lie down.”
Connor didn’t hesitate, and then she was being lifted and turned over to straddle Connor and his already erect cock.
“Time to ride,” Connor chuckled and gripped her hips, positioning her over his shaft until his bulbous head breached her entrance.
She whimpered as she slid down his pole until he was balls deep in her. Oh, but he was a big one.
“That’s it,” Connor said, grunting as he moved her over him.
Ashley’s mouth dropped open as her head fell back, riding him slowly. The fullness was sensational. Rough hands cupped her breasts from behind and she leaned into Duncan’s touch.
“Open wide for Hiram, Sweetheart,” Duncan said close to her ear and she obeyed without conscious thought. Seconds later, she tasted Hiram’s tangy pre-cum on her tongue.
“Suck on him,” Duncan commanded, and Ashley closed her lips around the cock in her mouth as she worked her tongue. Hiram let out a low growl and she cupped his balls and stroked his length firmly with her hand while she used her lips and tongue on just his mushroom head.
Hiram fisted her blonde hair, holding her down on his cock, and Duncan pulled her off. “Enough,” he commanded Hiram, who was left panting with unfulfilled release.
Ashley wanted to ask why she couldn’t finish Hiram off, but then Duncan pressed down on her back, changing the angle of Connor’s cock inside her pussy, and all coherent thought left her.
Tears started to form at the rightness of Connor’s dick stroking her from within, but then another sensation took over. Duncan’s cockhead pressed against her asshole, seeking entry.
“I can’t,” she gasped. “You’re too big.”
“Yes, you can,” Duncan said, rubbing the head in circles around her rim, releasing some sort of lubricant she’d never encountered. Was that part of his nature?
He pressed against her again, and it was as if he had a smaller head just for this type of penetration. Whatever it was, it breached her sphincter and made her gush. As she came around C
onnor’s cock, the appendage in her ass expanded and stretched her until Duncan could thrust himself all the way inside.
In sync, Duncan and Connor moved inside her, and once she was building up to a third orgasm, Hiram gripped her head and thrust his hard cock all the way down her throat. Her nose was buried in his copper pubes as he held her down on him and she gasped for air each time he withdrew.
Every thrust of Duncan’s brought her harder down on Connor, and the two men were panting heavily as they were trying to hold back their orgasms. When they did let go, it was Duncan who came first, and then, as Hiram stepped up his facefucking of her, Connor shot his cum deep in her pussy. He was still inside her when Hiram let loose his load down her gullet.
She slumped against Connor, exhausted, but it was Duncan who picked her up and tucked her in.
“We don’t have enough water for a bath, but we could clean you up if you like,” he said quietly as the two other men took their leave.
The dream. So it was real. An erotic shiver went through her at the thought, and Duncan smiled.
“I can tell what your choice is. Rest awhile, and we’ll come to you at dusk.”
Ashley nodded, and then drowsiness overtook her.
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“Thank you for everything,” Ashley said, looking up at Duncan as she waited for her camel to finish drinking. Her pussy was sore from the many repeat performances since she first learned about the men’s secret a few days ago, and she wasn’t looking forward to the bumpy ride back to civilization.
“It was our pleasure,” Duncan said, stroking her arm. Oh, what she wouldn’t give for another embrace… “But, Ashley, I feel I should warn you,” he added in a lowered voice, guiding her away from the others.
Alarm prickled her skin. “What?”
“I have no proof of this, of course, but I have done research over the years, and it is suggested… that a woman exposed to the pheromones of one cryptid may become more… attractive to other cryptids.”
Ashley choked out a laugh. “What? You’re saying that because I fucked you, other mythical creatures will think I’m easy?”
“That’s not exactly how I’d put it,” Duncan said, frowning. “I just felt I should tell you what I’d read.”
“Okay.” She didn’t want to argue. It wasn’t the lasting impression she wanted to leave him with. “Thank you for your concern.”
“Remember, you’re always welcome here. For however long you choose.”
She melted against him, needing one last hit. While she soaked in the masculine scent of him, committing it to memory, Connor and Hiram walked up. Connor cleared his throat and she broke away from Duncan.
She was surprised to see Connor holding her camera out to her. “Where’d you find it?” she asked, examining it for damages and finding none.
“In the sand. We had a little photo shoot. I’ve geotagged the photos to say they were shot in Egypt, so you can tell your employer that you got a hot tip and headed there before going home.”
Ashley stared in awe at the photos. The men had posed for candid photos in their Adjule form, enough to make for cool photos yet enough not to give themselves away completely.
“I can’t believe you did this,” she whispered, shaking her head in astonishment.
“Anything for our mate,” Connor said with a wink.
Ashley laughed and hugged him hard, then Hiram. When she turned back to Duncan, though, a hug didn’t seem to be enough. “I’m not saying goodbye,” she whispered, their breaths mingling as he held her close.
“Go, enjoy your travels. Have adventures. Then come back to me,” he said through gritted teeth before crushing his lips to hers.
As the camel took her away from the first man - or men - to make her want to stay in one place, Ashley pondered Duncan’s earlier words. Were there more cryptids out there? And would she experience the same kind of euphoric arousal with them as she had with the Adjule?
She couldn’t wait to find out.
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Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed this story, keep an eye out for more in the series and follow Ashley as she travels the world seeking out new experiences.
