Love in Troubled Times

by Gayle Riley

  “I know that I shouldn’t be doing this, but… I can’t…” Liak groaned as Flora wrapped her large, soft hand around his shaft and slowly moved it up and down his throbbing length. Forcing the words through his grit teeth, he went on to say, “I c-can’t… Stop myself… You sm-smell so damned good…” Flora looked up at him with a confident smirk, squeezing his manhood firmer, but keeping the tip hidden still. “Not quite as good as a male smells, but… Maybe trying new things…”

  “Ha-ha… It sounds like I turned you into a real chatterbox, huh?” Flora asked as she licked her lips, feeling her heaving chest steadily rising and falling with each slow breath.

  It was hard to see the soft redness on both of Liak’s cheeks, but Flora could tell the warrior was blushing. Just knowing how much power she held over him by controlling his lust was enough to get her gushing, but she could hardly keep away from the man herself. Every part of her was hyper-sensitive—begging to be touched and caressed, but she wanted more still. There was something else she wanted. A toy.

  Liak opened his mouth to speak, but Flora stole the words away from him as she tore the loincloth away with her teeth and took his cock head into her lips. “Ah… Mmm…” Liak stood on wobbling legs, curling and uncurling his fists repeatedly as he gently rocked back and forth. Flora hummed around his head, pleased, but pulled it out to leave a thin line of pre-cum from her lips to the tip. The warrior looked down, panting at his seductress and she merely grinned up at him, licking his taste off her lips.

  “I don’t know what’s come over me, ma’am,” Liak started to say as he lightly panted. “I’m not usually so… It’s just… It feels so damned good… What did you do?” Flora shrugged, twisting her hand around Liak’s shaft again and again while her other hand reached for his plump, shaven sack.

  “These feel pretty full. Are you sure it’s entirely my doing?” Flora let his balls roll atop her palm a little before she grasped them a little more firmly, squeezing just enough to earn a gasp out of Liak.

  “I w-wouldn’t be surprised by it…” Liak’s eyes couldn’t focus anywhere—not even on Flora. Watching her was enough to push him closer to the edge, so he closed his eyes and threw his head back, letting his mouth hang open as hot pants escaped it.

  Flora poked her tongue out of her lips and used it to round Liak’s cock’s crown slowly before inviting his head into her mouth again. She suckled lightly at first, using her tongue to guide his throbbing manhood into her mouth, inch by inch, as he groaned and grunted in pleasure. Fed up with not being able to hold something, Liak planted both of his hands on the back of Flora’s head. He ran his fingers through her thick, dark hair and murmured something Flora couldn’t quite hear underneath his breath.

  As Flora got into a steady rhythm, letting her tightly enclosed lips replace her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined what his meaty cock would feel like inside of her. He felt good in her mouth—too good from how she pulsed and tensed while sucking him, but she couldn’t help but wonder even though she knew it was forbidden. What’s the worst that could happen? she thought as she pushed her lips all the way down to Liak’s pubic hair, effectively deep-throating the warrior and holding herself there.

  “Oh…! Ohhhh! Oh my fucking…! That’s so good…!” bellowed Liak from above, grasping the hair at the back of Flora’s head tightly and thrusting his hips forward as if it’d get more of himself down her throat. “Sh-shit…” Liak said in a hot breath as Flora pried her lips off of him and let his length settle against her face.

  His cock dribbled pre-cum onto her cheek as she looked up at him with a smile and when she raised a hand to stroke him against her face, he tensed up. “Fucking thought I was going to blow it right then and there…” Liak managed to force out, still heavily panting.

  “Mmm…” Flora hummed, dragging her tongue up the underside of his shaft, feeling every pulse and throb on the way back to his head. “I’m glad you didn’t, babe.” Flora flashed Liak a devilish smile, reaching up to caress one half of his muscular chest and then the other. “I’ll admit it. When I was down there, I couldn’t stop thinking about having this big thing inside of me.”

  Flora could tell she’d made the warrior blush again, although he tried to keep a stoic expression as he crossed his arms. “Rreally?” He cleared his throat. “I mean, I’m sure that I can continue to assist you if that’s what you really want, ma’am…”

  “Oh, you’ll be doing more than just assisting me,” Flora said just before planting a small kiss on the tip of Liak’s cock.

  Liak shuddered and asked, “Wh-what do you mean…?”

  Flora threw her hair back and wiped Liak’s pre-cum off of her lips before flashing him a grin. “You’ll see…” she said as she turned around and put all of her weight on her forearms, which rested atop a few soft pillows.

  Liak stood in awe as Flora raised her backside to him and spread her legs apart, letting him see up Flora’s grass skirt with nothing underneath. Flora’s glistening snatch was clearly visible despite her dark skin and Liak couldn’t stop licking his lips. If he’d been left alone, he would’ve climaxed instantly from his hand working his shaft and the visual stimulation alone.

  “Get the picture yet?” Flora asked in a teasing voice as she shook her backside a little. The beast inside of Flora surged with her sexually charged energy. She didn’t just need to mate anymore—she had to. It was the only thing that would finally calm her mind and settle the stirring at her core. Liak’s seed would surely be enough to pleasure her hot, aching need.

  Liak tried again and again to come up with a worthy response and yet nothing but bestial grunts came out. It seemed that Flora wasn’t the only one feeling their bear starting to take over, but then again, neither of them were doing anything to stop it. If there was anything they could do to stop it to begin with.

  Both hands trembling and cock flexing, Liak came closer to Flora and grasped himself firmly at the base. Despite himself, he hesitated while trying to align his tip to her warm, flowing entrance and instead ground his tip up and down her vulva. Flora let out a soft moan in response, which only grew louder as Liak kept grinding harder and harder, making Flora’s pulsing clit firmly stand out against Liak’s slick shaft. “Mmm…” Flora hummed, backing herself into Liak in time with his thrusts against her. “Fuck, babe… Is this payback for earlier?” she asked in a playful voice, but the underlying lust made her tone sound deeper.

  Liak took hold of Flora’s wide hips, holding onto her as he went a little faster, squirting pre-cum and feeling Flora’s wetness coat his cock more and more. “I’m s-sorry… It’s just… I… Er…” Liak tried to speak, but the words got stuck in his throat right as he pulled his hips back. Sensing her opportunity, she positioned herself in such a way that when Liak threw his hips forward again, he’d end up penetrating her.

  Flora’s eyes widened as she felt his tip push into her entrance and she let out an even louder moan, her slit sending a faint wave of pleasure throughout her body. “Yeah, baby…. I want you to breed me…” Shit, if someone hears me, we might get caught. I don’t want the poor lug getting into trouble. Her eyes slowly closed as she leaned down and bit down on the pillow, trying to keep quiet just in case someone happened to walk past.

  “If… If that’s what you request,” Liak grumbled as he inched more of himself into Flora’s tight walls. She gripped him tightly, almost as if she was pulling him in with her womanhood as she backed up to him, her ass meeting his hips.

  “Fuck…! F-f-f-fuuuuck…!” Flora’s muffled moans were hardly concealed by the pillow and by the time Liak had managed to get his entirety inside of her, she was squirming beneath him. “Ugh… Fuck…! Liak, you’re so fucking huge!” Flora managed to say as she pried her teeth out of the pillow for a second only to go back to biting it the next.

  “Should I be saying sorry?” Liak asked with a grin as he gave Flora a slap on the ass, making the flab jiggle as she shuddered. “Heh… I always did love my women big,” Lia
k growled lustfully, pulling his hips back and then slamming them hard against Flora. She could hardly contain the outpour of pleasure-filled noises from escaping her throat as Liak quickly got into a rhythm thrusting in and out of her roughly, making the bed creak every other thrust.

  “Oh my God! Oh my God!” Flora repeated again and again, feeling as though she was being stretched to the limit by Liak’s massive, merciless cock. In the heat of the moment, as Liak panted heavily, he pulled his cock out of Flora, leaving her winking sex to drizzle onto his shaft as he ran it against her again.

  “Fuck, you’re… Hah… You’re really good…” Liak said as sweat started to form on his brow. “I don’t wanna cum just yet though…” He slowly stroked his hardness against Flora’s swollen lips and clit, which still continued to pulse with pleasure. Even just being against Liak was enough to send delightful tingles down Flora’s spine and made her arch her back for the second she felt Liak’s tip sliding back into her entrance again.

  “Ohhhh!” cried Flora as she hugged one of the pillows beneath her and gyrated her hips against Liak. Liak leaned over, laying his chest on Flora’s back as his arms came around to her sides. The beast in him taking over, he raked his teeth, turning into fangs down Flora’s shoulder. “Yes, babe! Take me!” Flora moaned, hardly able to keep up with Liak’s actions as he bit down harder, thrusting faster and faster.

  “That’s it, baby… Take my cock…” Liak growled into Flora’s ear, making sure to get the entirety of himself inside of her on every inward thrust. His heavy balls slapped against her and the claws starting from his nails came out to teasingly prod at the outside of Flora’s breast cover.

  Liak grunted and groaned, occasionally forcing himself to stop and slow down right when Flora started to feel herself getting closer to her climax. After repeating the stopping process a few times, Liak gritted his teeth, tightening his hold around Flora.

  The buildup for both of them seemed to be getting closer at the same time. The waves of pleasure overtook Flora and at the height of them, she shut her eyes tightly and shrieked aloud.

  “M-Liak… I’m gonna…!”

  “Oh… Oh, fuck, Flora…! I’m…!”

  Liak couldn’t stop himself from throwing his head back as he let out a feral noise—resembling a bear. Teeth and nails were replaced by fangs and claws by both, but Liak dug his fangs into Flora’s shoulder. Spurt after spurt shot into Flora as she spasmed beneath Liak, her head buried in the pillows as a gush of warm fluids combatted Liak’s seed.

  The both of them shared hot and heavy pants. Liak rested atop Flora who’d gone quiet, letting the effects of the afterglow calm her. Her mind was at last calm and at peace. But with the peace, however, Flora realized exactly what her hormones had drove her to do. She’d mated with one of the males in her tribe when she was supposed to be given off in just another day away.

  Oh my God… What have I done?

  Chapter 4

  “Flora! Flora, are you ready now or not?” asked a baritone, male voice from outside the hut’s door.

  “Y-yeah… I’ll be there in just a moment, Delson. I promise,” Flora replied as she fiddled with the back of her dress, trying to fit it around herself. It was apparent that the dress wasn’t made for one as voluptuous as her, but tradition ruled above all else in the tribe. Should I tell him? The question kept coming up in the back of her mind. Even when she least expected it. What’s the worst that could happen? Was the other thought still looming over her head and at the same time refusing to leave it. She knew what happened the last time she found her own answer, but it was the same reason she’d ended up questioning herself in the first place.

  Well, they’re going to be my keepers. I should tell him at least, shouldn’t I? She pondered the thought as she checked herself in the mirror. The clean, white dress was a little snug around Flora’s curves, but otherwise it looked dazzling on her. There wasn’t a question in her mind that this would be her wedding night. A special wedding night. Yet, something about it seemed wrong to her. Something was off, aside from the pregnancy.

  Maybe I didn’t even get pregnant by him… It’s happened before… Flora took a deep breath and looked around the room for anything else to check before going out. Steeling herself, she opened the door and walked through to find Delson standing outside impatiently tapping his foot.

  “Good God, Flora! What the Hell were you doing in there for so long?” asked Delson with a raised brow and crossed arms.

  Flora nervously fiddled with her thumbs. No matter what it was, she always thought that Delson knew she was up to something or at the least had an idea. Before she could answer, he cut her off by saying, “Never mind, never mind! We’ve got a wedding to get you to!”

  ***

  It seemed like everyone from both tribes was present. On the right was Flora’s tribe—a few shifted into bears, and to the left was her soon-to-be husband’s tribe all present in their human forms. Flora had heard that things were different in the other tribe. That they didn’t feel as in tune with their animal side—that they thought it was a curse. She could never understand them and their ways as much as she tried to wrap her head around it, but as she walked up the aisle separating the two tribes it was all she could think about. Surely there’s got to be something else we’ve got in common.

  Unlike most marriages, this was a vastly different occasion. It was an honor in the tribe. Flora caught faint whispers from Delson to Liak much to her dismay. Oh no… That’s not the guard that’s accompanying me, is it…? She wondered, trying to hide the nerves that were eating away at her.

  Liak, tall and clueless awkwardly walked beside Flora and followed her up to the end of the aisle. Sweat dripped from Flora’s brow, anxiety devouring her whole. She could feel every set of eyes she’d ever known watching her—cheering for her in this moment. It made her heart fall deep into the pit of her stomach. She could hardly hold back from gagging.

  There was no way she could bare to look at Liak. She could still recognize remnants of her scent on him and hoped that no one else noticed. The strong, fruity flavorings of their lovemaking were a reminder to her how far she’d stepped past the boundaries. If she was not taken by both on the ceremonial night, what then? What honor was there in her duty? She couldn’t wrap her head around it enough to understand it.

  It was a blessing to be given the honor to be the bridge between the two sides and she’d squandered it in a foolish act of lust.

  Glancing over, she could see her family nodding approvingly and Delson making his way to the stand to wed them just out of view. Somehow Flora felt her heart sink again, even deeper as the realization came up again. That she wasn’t just keeping her secret from everyone, but her family as well.

  On the way to the end, she kept her head bowed in respect, but once she reached the step beside her groom, she just had to look at him. He pulled the veil off and looked into her eyes with his icy blues. For some reason, she wasn’t expecting him to give her such a kind smile. It was the first time she’d met someone of his kind—a short haired, lighter skinned man with a well-kept face and tidy black suit.

  “Wow,” Flora said in a gasp. In an instant she’d forgotten that Liak was there.

  “Yes, my love?” he asked in a low tone, making my entire body vibrate with every syllable.

  “You’re…not what I expected,” Flora said shyly, trying to look away. There was something about him that made her usual confidence melt away—making her just as shy and bashful as the men she enticed. It was an odd feeling to be on the receiving end for once and Flora didn’t know where to look or how to act—let alone in front of both tribes.

  “Oh?” asked the groom as he cupped Flora’s chin with two of his fingers and tilted her head so that their eyes met again. “I didn’t mean to frighten you, love. Are you ready to begin?”

  “I… Could I know your name first, at least?” At least this should be out of the way.

  “Of course. I’m Jeris,” he replied with a patient
smile.

  “Floraka, but everyone calls me Flora.”

  “Liak, silent protector,” Liak interjected suddenly. Jeris paid little mind to him. A raised eyebrow and gentle nod were the most he got as a response. Not very silent, a voice in Flora’s head mentioned.

  Delson interrupted them both with his booming voice. The ceremony was about to begin, but Flora already found herself saying, “I do.”

  Chapter 5

  A few days passed and Flora found herself living happily with her new husband, Jeris. The two of them got along without having to use a lot of words. No matter what she was doing, Jeris knew what to say every time he saw her. She had never so much as seen him get angry with her, but the opportunity to tell him her darkest secret never seemed to arise.

  She tensed whenever Liak was around, but those moments were brief. He kept himself busy with his arrangements in the new village, making sure life for Flora and her husband were taken care of. Flora feared at any moment that he would burst into the room and declare that’d she’d broken her promise—but that day never came. The pressure to keep the secret still weighed on her heart, however, their official contraception was underway by the next full moon.

  Looking for a way to tell him or the right words to use started to tear her apart as she sat on the couch beside him or listened to one of the lectures he was going to present to the tribe. To him, above all else, honor and trust were the highest values. This was reflected in everyone’s eyes in Flora’s new tribe, which made her feel as though she had to slink away to the darkest, most hidden corners of the village in order to continue hiding from everyone. Maybe now…? Now…?

  The amount Jeris intimidated Flora was beyond all of her logical reasoning. The man had never so much as raised his voice at her, but she knew that he had great power. His large build, muscles and voice could only give her the vaguest idea about where his strength truly laid and how much of it he could hold.