Thane could already feel the internal changes taking place. There was an uncontrolled, untamed urge to taste the blood in Velika’s hand. Some blood fell to his lips and his teeth grew. He could feel the sharpness cutting through his gums.
By Zeus’s balls, he had fangs!
He had been turned into something other than human. He knew that as the blood trickled down his throat, it was the nectar of life. He cleaned Velika’s hand, taking every one of her fingers into his mouth, one by one. Velika smiled devilishly and leaned down to kiss his lips, sharing what was left on the corner of his mouth. She flicked her tongue out until it met his as she stroked his hair affectionately.
“Welcome to our family,” she purred. “You are one of us, warrior, a Koltoi. Go and feast—enjoy the gift of eternal life.”
With Rain’s precious blood, the life seemed to flourish once more in his veins. There was an incredible urge to feed, to replenish his body, but with Rain dangling from the ropes, the sight of it kept him grounded, kept him from succumbing to his primal desire. All he had to do was play along a little bit longer, make them believe he was truly one of them, and he could exact his revenge.
“I believe he is ready,” Olesia prompted. “Let him eat this she-wolf so we can get back to more pleasurable matters.”
Velika nodded her approval. “Very well. Dinner,” she said, pointing to Rain, “is served.” She cut away his bindings, and it was the first time his hands were free since he had been captured by the winged women.
Velika and Olesia stood next to Rain’s dangling form and motioned him over. He rubbed his eyes and stretched, standing with his new set of fangs still extracted.
“No...” Rain gulped. “Don’t do this, please.” He saw the horror in her eyes as he approached and heard the terror in her voice.
He bent down to run his nose along her jugular. The blood flowing there was the sweetest thing he ever inhaled. He could also smell the fear, and it was bitter. If only she knew, even in his new form, that he could never harm her. The blood was coursing faster as she thrashed wildly at the restraints overhead. She then sealed her eyes shut and turned her head away from her impending doom.
Thane suddenly swung his full attention to the two Koltoi. Their eyes widened in disbelief as he took hold of their necks. “What are you doing?” Velika snarled, her fangs extracting in defense. “Unhand us, you incompetent fool!” she demanded. Her blade swept forward, but Thane hurled her against the wall.
Olesia slapped at his forearm, but it was like punching steel. “We gave you eternal life,” she protested. “You are supposed to be ours.”
“I gave you a chance,” he said, evenly and coldly. He squeezed her neck tightly, until her face turned bright red. He wanted, for an instant, to end this winged demon, but something stopped him. There was almost a childish look in her eyes, and she was terrified.
Instead of crushing her throat, he tossed her to the bed and swiftly tied her wrists and ankles to the bedposts. She showed no signs of resisting. “I only wanted to have fun with you,” she groveled. “Are you...going to kill me?”
“If you promise me you will no longer feed on humans or werewolves, I may spare your life,” he offered.
“I promise,” she agreed. “Look out behind...”
Velika had righted herself and threw the dagger end over end. The blade missed Thane’s skull by an inch. Olesia’s warning had saved him. Velika swooped in, fangs bared, letting out a wild screech.
She was incredibly strong for a woman, but his shoulder threw her to the bed and trapped her with his bodyweight. She struggled as he roped her wrists and secured her against Olesia.
“Damn you,” she hissed. “I created you.”
“I should end you, demon,” he said in a heavy breath. “But I give you this one chance. Vow to me you will only feed on the blood of wild animals and I will allow you to live.”
Velika pursed her lips and scowled. “Animal blood is so bland.”
“Velika,” Olesia cut in. “Don’t be stubborn. Agree to his kind and gracious offer.”
“Very well.” Velika sighed, showing her annoyance. Then a slow rising grin suddenly turned sinister. “Is there anything you want to do with us? Punish us, perhaps?” she asked while spreading her thighs apart, exposing her glistening pink center.
“I don’t believe so.” As tempting as the offer was, there was only one woman in this tree house he loved.
With his new abilities, he went to Rain and leaned to her ear, pressing his lips against them. “Where did you go, Rain? Why did you leave me?”
She gulped. “You defeated the Koltoi. I thought they were the most powerful beings in the forest. But you...”
“Answer my question! You left me.”
“I was confused, Thane. I never thought I would possess such strong feelings for a human.”
“What feelings?”
“I love you,” she whispered. “I need you.” He wanted to tell her the same, but he was still hurt by the fact she left him.
“I am no longer human. Those demons changed me into something else. Even now I can smell the blood pumping through your body.” He kissed the nape of her neck and gently tugged at her ear with his teeth, his warm breaths washing across her flesh. “Don’t ever leave me again.”
She nudged him with her ass, bumping her tiny rump into his crotch. “Take me,” she gasped.
He swelled instantly against the crack of her ass cheeks. “Right now?” he grunted.
She took a wide stance, spreading her legs apart, and pressed against him. “Right now,” she echoed.
He didn’t need to be told twice. He glanced over at the Koltoi women, and they were watching intently and looked as if they wanted to speak, but they remained quiet after Thane gave them a stern look.
He gripped her slender hips and slid his cock beneath the warmth of her folds. He could feel her heat and the moistness of her lips. She was already slick for him. He slowly rubbed her with his cock, feeling her swollen pussy, holding her waist steady.
Velika suddenly laughed. “She is far too small for you, warrior. Try a woman your own size.”
Thane thought she was right. He could damage Rain if he penetrated her, and he had no intentions of doing that.
“Don’t listen to that faerie whore,” Rain whispered in a throaty voice. “Show them I am yours, and yours alone.” She craned her head back and kept her voice low. “Please put your cock in me, Thane. Force it in if you have to—I don’t care.” She bowed her back against him, straining against his girth, her wrists still suspended overhead.
His cock was already slick from arousal spilling from her center. Slowly he angled and went forward, feeling the tight squeeze around his head. She squirmed against him, panting heavily, her hips trembling as the head, fat and throbbing, inched toward her womb. She thrashed against the invasion, and her pelvis shuddered in his large hands.
“Ohhh, yes,” she squeaked. “Don’t stop—please don’t.”
Encased in a blissful heat, he pushed past the restrictions of her velvety walls and held himself halfway submerged into her sex. The squeeze of her inner muscles made it almost impossible to go any further. “I don’t want to hurt you, Rain.”
She thrust her hips back causing him to sink deeper and she yelped. “Oh, Goddess, help me. Do it...Thane. Please do it.”
He couldn’t take this any longer, he had to push through and feel all of this woman. He forced her hips back further, stretching her womb to the maximum, until he was root-deep. She bucked and flailed, but he steadied her. Pulling back, he began a slow, steady movement inside her. After the initial shock she settled, he could see that as her body relaxed, losing some of her initial tension.
“Breath, Rain,” he muttered. “Just breathe.”
Taking hold of her small breasts, he angled into her tight pussy, delicately but with increasing speed. Every pass drew a whimper from Rain’s sweet lips. His cock was soaked, and her cream frothed the base of his shaft with every
smooth stroke.
He wanted this amazing woman to be his forever and wished for this feeling to last a lifetime. Her pelvis began rotating against his thrusts, taking his punishment more readily, willingly. “Gods, Rain. Your pussy is so tight.”He moaned. “I wanted this for such a long time.”
He had to brand this woman for life—right here and right now. Taking hold of her long blonde hair, he forced her head back and moved one hand down to her clit. Hammering into her with more speed, he bowed her lithe body as he padded a rough finger over her clit that was already hard and swollen.
Her pussy clenched even tighter and she groaned. He felt her inner walls contracting, pulling him in deeper as she trapped his cock with her orgasm. He knew he couldn’t last much longer—her sweet cries of pleasure were too profound.
Taking hold of her waist, he drove himself as far as physically possible and thrust upward. His strength lifted her feet from the ground and he came, releasing his seed into her womb. The eruption was so violent that it shook Rain’s entire body and she grunted. “Thane,” she said in a panicked, trembling voice. “I am going to....” she couldn’t say it, but he felt her second release pinching his shaft, milking him for more seed.
She went limp and sagged against the restraints and against the cock that was suspending her in the air. Thane lowered her feet to the ground and carefully slid his cock free. She still sagged like a sack of potatoes. He recovered the dagger that Velika tried to behead him with and noticed Olesia and Velika engaged in a luscious kiss. They had somehow managed to wiggle through some of the ropes enough to pet each other’s pussies and kiss intimately. Velika then shoved Olesia’s jaw away and looked right at him.
“Sounded like you killed that poor little she-wolf,” she chided. “Ready for us yet? Your show managed to make us both pretty wet.”
He ignored Velika’s comment and moved to Rain in order to cut away her restraints. He caught her limp body and cradled her close to his chest. She was shivering but held to a wide smile. She seemed drained physically and mentally. “I can’t walk,” she whispered contently.
“I will carry you, my love.”
She rested her head against his chest and closed her eyes. “I will never leave you again.”
“What about us?” Velika ranted. “You can’t just leave us here all tied up.”
“I can and I will. You tried cutting my head off, Velika.”
“It slipped from my fingers,” she lied with a ravishing smile.
“I am not known as a man of mercy, and you turned me into some sort of monster. Take some solace in the fact that you should be able to gnaw through the ropes eventually.”He then stepped out of the room with Rain in his arms.
Velika and Olesia both snapped the ropes that bound their wrists with ease and sat on the bed. “Well, should we go and get him?” Olesia asked.
“No, he is a Koltoi. And one day when he realizes it, he will return to us. That little she-wolf will not live forever. Time is all we have.”
Chapter 14
The following week had been nothing short of remarkable for Rain, the best in her entire life in fact. It mattered little to Rain that Thane had become a Koltoi. The only difference she could see was his fangs, and those only grew when he fed. His eyes, too, would sometimes shift from his usual light gray to misty silver. Again that was only during a meal.
Nothing to concern myself with.
He would drain the blood from all the small game, and she would eat the meat. She thought they complemented each other pretty well. And the lovemaking was the best she ever experienced now that she was able to fully accept him into her body. Sometimes she would feel herself become absolutely wet when he stared at her a certain way, but she didn’t know if that certain look meant that he thirsted for her or her blood. Either way, his eyes melted her control, and he could have her anytime he wanted. He had to do very little to make her climax. Just insert, lay his weight upon her, and she was done. The fill of him alone was enough.
This particular morning was already starting out to be an amazing day. She woke Thane from a deep sleep by licking the head of his cock. He rolled to his back, and she climbed on him to sink on his thick shaft. He was rock-hard before she even slid him into her wetness. She rode them both into oblivion within seconds. Her mind was still in a foggy haze from the aftershocks of his eruptions inside her.
They had been following the same trail for several days, and she suspected that a few more would see Thane to Jarna. She was still in the dark about his true plan, and this gave her a sinking feeling at the center of her belly.
She padded alongside the warrior knight in wolf form and glanced his direction every so often. She could not get enough of his body, and there was also an internal fear that she would lose him. His attire had been reduced to knee-high boots, doeskin trousers, and a belt. His jerkin and sword had been long lost to the Koltoi women. Those two redheaded sluts. The thought of them made her sick with anger.
One other change she observed in Thane was his speed. It had very much improved. Before, she could outrun him easily in wolf form, but now, since his transformation, he could mirror her movements, her speed for short distances.
A man with his raw power and speed was in itself a frightening and amazing thing to behold.
Thane suddenly stopped in the trail and caught her by the tail. “We are being watched,” he whispered.
Lifting her nose to the air she scented the breeze and could smell them now. They were wolves, but how did he sense them before her? Thane darted off the trail to the right, Rain following. He put his finger to his lips, “Stay quiet and keep out of sight.”
“Wait,” she said. “They are wolves, probably six or more. I think they may be from my pack.” There was no fear in his gray eyes, and she knew he could hold his own against any foe, but six werewolves would shred him to pieces, bit by bit.
He stepped out alone into the open. “I know you are out there,” he called in a powerful tone. “What do you want?”
Three wolves emerged from the line of shrubs to his left, and three more from his right. Rain saw that two of them were Arran and Rander. Another was Tregon, Colcu’s eldest son. The other three she was not familiar with. Rander was the first to shift.
“Rain,” Rander replied sharply. “We came for her.”
“Well...you may not have her,” Thane said evenly.
“She is close, human. I can smell her essence from here.”
Rain trotted out beside Thane and shifted. “I am no longer part of the pack,” she objected sternly. “Why are you here?”
“Ahhh, my sweetness,” Rander said with a mischievous grin. “There you are. Come to us, girl. We will deal with the human.”
“I don’t think so, Rander.”She growled. “He saved me from Colcu, and I have chosen him as a mate.”
“Don’t be silly,” Rander countered. “Your place is with us. Zurk is the new alpha, and he has claimed you. You have no other choice.”
Rain laughed dryly, bereft of any humor. “Zurk claims me? I was sentenced to death while you three did nothing. He has no right to claim me.”
Rander’s grin faded. “Kill the human and get the she-wolf!”
“Wait.” Arran tried to reason. “Come home, Rain, with us where you belong. We can avoid any needless bloodshed.”
“My home is with this man,” she said defiantly, latching onto Thane’s arm. “Where he goes I will follow.”
Rain could see that the discussion was over as Rander shifted and charged. Rain shifted, was readying herself to defend the man she loved when a large hand pushed her back through the hedges. Thane had shoved her out of harm’s way.
Rander jumped at Thane’s throat, but he ducked low in a swift move and dodged the attack. Three more wolves vaulted toward him with mouths open and fangs ready. One wolf latched onto his forearm while a second bit into his chest. The third, however, he kicked against the base of a tree. There was a terrible crack and the wolf lay listless. Thane pried the
other from his forearm and hurled it against a rock some ten paces away.
Rander seized the moment and scaled the giant’s back to chomp down on the human’s shoulder. Blood sprayed in the air, and Thane winced at the pain. He fell to one knee but fisted the neck of Rander and flung the wolf past two more werewolves that were stalking toward him.
* * * *
Arran and the remaining two werewolves circled the giant. Arran could see that Thane was winded and bleeding steadily from three wounds. He was still apprehensive about going in and attacking. The man was incredibly large and fast, more so than any human had a right to be. If he were going to do this, now was his only chance, but a passing thought of Toria nearly halted him. Would he see her again? Thane was much more than any of them bargained for.
“Come on then,” the human rumbled. “Come on and die some more—join your brothers in Valhalla.” With that taunt, Arran hurled himself forward, determined to end this human threat.
* * * *
Rain, in wolf form, vaulted to Thane’s side once again. She had to help. His injuries were just too grievous to maintain the fight he once had. She assumed an aggressive posture and stood her ground. She snarled ferociously as Tregon edged closer. She saw Arran and a second wolf crowding next to Thane, snapping at him from all directions. Her heart sank at the sight, but Thane somehow managed the strength to fight on. He gripped Arran by the snout as the other wolf sank its teeth into Thane’s left calf. In a desperate effort, Rain hopped over Tregon and went toward Arran. She was going to tackle him away from Thane if nothing else. She had to give him a chance to engage the one tearing at his backside.
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