by Belle Harper
Lying about who I was kissing at night was wrong and I took a deep breath as I held Eren’s hand down to the water.
“My heart, what is the matter?” He was worried about me… Oh god. A tear sprang from my eye.
“I have a secret to tell you…” The way he looked at me like I hung the stars and the moon nearly broke me. I took a deep breath. “I have been secretly kissing Zezii at night when you and Tyee are asleep.” I took a step back but he held me tighter. Oh fuck, he was mad.
“This is only a secret to the clan. We know this Quinn. It is why we do not mind when you leave the hut at night. We know it is to kiss Zezii. We watched you leave to sit with him the first night, but when he told us that it was a secret we did not wish to make you feel uncomfortable with your affections to him.
“I felt like I had upset you into feeling ashamed when I told you he was young. So when he told us that he had asked for you to consider him and you accepted I knew I had made a mistake with you. I didn’t know your feelings for him were so strong, my heart.”
He told them? This whole time I thought I was just sharing secret kisses and feeling guilty, but really, Zezii had told them both. I felt relieved, yet a little annoyed that Zezii couldn’t keep a secret.
“How long have you known?” I was so lost. He just smiled at me and touched my face gently, stroking along my jawline.
“Nvaa came and told us of his asking you to consider him, that same day Zezii had told us he asked you the same thing and you also accepted. I was glad of this. You asked many times when we got here about how you wanted to take Zezii as a mate—” I put my hand over his mouth to stop him from talking.
“I did not ask many times,” I chuckled with a huge smile on my face. I didn’t want Luna to think I was some cradle snatcher was all. He shook his head and I could feel the rumble of his chest as he laughed. Cheeky ass.
“Zezii wanted to be your mate, and we could tell by the way you touched him that you did too. We see this, we know you touch him like you touch us. He told us of how you are waiting until his eighteenth birthday. So he will keep your secret, just as we have. From the clan. But not from his soon to be family.”
So they all knew. I rolled my eyes at him and he let me go. I quickly got undressed and made my way over to Luna. She playfully splashed me as I got close.
“Early morning session?” Luna asked wiggling her brows. I chuckled.
“No… but we need to talk.” She opened her mouth to reply but before any words came out there was a huge angry growl.
“Eren!” Vallyn screamed so loud the birds flew from the trees. I turned around and screamed when Vallyn hit Eren right on the jaw. Luna grabbed my arm and we both screamed as we watched our mates punching on in front of us.
What the fuck was going on?
Chapter Sixteen
Ryven
I knew I was in trouble when Zezii spotted me. Did I want to be found out? Maybe? I wasn’t allowed to get close to the females here, I was told I must stay away until they pick me. But how would a female pick me if she never saw me? This did not make any sense to me.
But when they did choose, I would be overlooked for sure. No one would want a mate who was missing an eye. How could I protect a mate if I could not see the threat? It was why I was a rejected male. I fought in battle against other outcast for my clan and lost my eye. My queen thought I was weak so sent me into the free lands as a rejected male many moons ago.
But that female—Quinn. She called to me every day with her intoxicating scent. I needed to be near her. My cock wept to her scent when she was close. I had spent an afternoon watching her and how she enjoyed watching the birds. I carved her a bird from the klaven tree. I had seen her with it, she held it in her hands and I thought this was a sign that maybe…
“You, male. Come here.” I turned to Zezii and gave him my best innocent look before moving up the nearest tree. He was inexperienced but he was a large male. I didn’t want to be close to him if he chose to strike me.
“Who, me?” I asked him playfully as I wrapped my tails around a tree branch and hung down low towards him. He was a young male but I was more experienced with the trees. I had learned a lot in my seventy-eight years as an outcast. Tails were the key to swift movement in the trees.
“Yes, you. I know it was you who came close to my Quinn. You were warned away from the females and yet you came so close that you could have taken her. You must be banished for such a thing.” I cocked my head to the side, this young male was going to banish me from Clan Wolf?
The thing he did not know was that Apak… he was my brother. And I had found him still alive after all these years and I knew he would not wish for me to be banned after all these years. I laughed at Zezii, then as fast as I could, I scaled the tree and made my way through the tree canopy. I heard him chasing me, but he was larger and slower than me. When he stopped, I did. I tapped my carving stone against a tree and listened to the direction he was. It helped me to know where others were with my limited eye sight.
“I will tell Eren you will be leaving Clan Wolf. I protect my mate, and you need to leave.” I moved quietly through the trees, I could sense where he was. This warrior was not quiet, he was untrained at many things. I tapped my stone again and heard him turn to where I was. But there was the thick morning fog and he couldn’t see me. He wasn’t using his other senses; he could not protect Quinn. I just only realized that I was a better warrior than him, even with my lack of sight that I would be able to protect her.
I could protect her.
There was a loud roar that echoed through the trees, it was the first mate of Luna. Vallyn was challenging Quinn’s first mate. Why? When the females screamed, I moved through the tree canopy at record speed.
When I arrived at the water hole in which the females bathed, I saw both males using fists. They were rolling around beside the water and punching each other over and over.
Other males were on the scene, but it didn’t stop my eye from wandering over the naked form of Quinn. She was made in the form of our Goddess. I liked her small frame, the way her hips curved and that she was not ashamed of her body like Luna. Quinn did not hide her breasts or pussey—I liked the human word for it—from the other males. No, she held her hands on her hips and screamed her human words to the two warriors.
Zezii came from behind me. I sensed him and I felt him stiffen as he passed me. He turned to look at me before running to help break up the fight between the first mates.
I had a feeling that Zezii wanting me out of the clan had nothing to do with me coming so close, but me knowing he was not a mate of Quinn, yet they kissed in the early hours each morning. I knew so, I watched them both. Zezii was supposed to keep watch but the young male every night fell asleep. So I would wake him with my tapping. Yet I always woke Quinn, and that was never my intention in the beginning but I enjoyed seeing her, her hair was full of dark curls. Dark like elder hair, yet she was so young.
When the males had been separated, I looked back to the water. Quinn was standing there with one of her coverings over her breasts, Tyee by her side. He was fussing over her like any takxe would do. I could see from my eye, Zezii and Nvaa were dragging a very angry Eren towards their hut, Vallyn was stomping away, Daku behind him.
When I turned to the water hole, I saw her, her eyes on me. She tilted her head, then gave me a smile. I grinned. She didn’t hide from me. I watched her take a step towards me, like she too was drawn in, affected just like me. I moved closer to her hut and moved up onto the low branch. She pushed her takxe away and moved closer. I hung upside down with my tails, and her head tilted over further, trying to see me better.
Was she looking for my missing eye? Was she seeing this as a fault in me? I moved my hand to the tree’s trunk and using my stone I tapped it. Her eyes lit up from within when she saw and heard me. I watched as a smile spread across her face. I felt warmth spread inside my chest.
The female has now seen me. I might still have a chance at b
eing her chosen.
Chapter Seventeen
Quinn
Well, that had been an eventful day. Nothing like your mate getting punched in the face. I knew it would happen eventually, he had been bitching about Vallyn looking at me and the dumbass watched me beside Luna. I knew he didn’t watch her like he would me, but it was enough that it finally broke Vallyn who was so even-tempered.
“I am so sorry, my heart. I did not wish to cause you distress.” I rolled my eyes and chuckled. He had a black eye and a split lip. I stroked his face as he lay in the nest. He was not impressed by that at all. I told him I would only speak to him if he was lying in the nest, so of course he was in the nest at once, apologizing for his behavior.
“From now on, you are banned from bathing with me. We have decided that takxe mates only are allowed. They don’t fight and understand that they are not looking at each other’s mates.” I felt him pushing himself up to sit but I held my hand on his chest to stop him.
“Axoh and Tyee just chat on the side, they do not glare at each other. It makes me happy that you like to protect me, but it is a little too much to have a good bath time with Luna if you’re starting fights.” He lay down again, his tail sneaking up to wrap around my wrist. I patted it and it got tighter.
“I was bad boy?” His eyes darkened at the words.
“Ugh, you were a bad boy, but I can’t do bad boy things today. I need to speak to Luna first. You know, make sure she is okay with us still being here and stuff.” I knew that wasn’t the case, she wouldn’t kick us out, but I didn’t want him following me to her hut.
I needed to speak to her in private about how I thought I was… no, that I knew I was growing a life inside me. I wanted to make sure, be sure that I was pregnant. It had been over a month here and still no period and my nipples were sensitive. The only sign I had.
“Okay, my heart. And then you return to me, I will do bad boy on you. Tyee will do the anal.” I threw my head back and laughed. He spoke so well now, I really had to stop laughing when he speaks English, but fuck. “Do the anal.” His brow furrowed, not understanding why I was laughing.
“Okay, he can do the anal… later.” After I talk with Luna. And maybe if all goes well today, I will ask Nvaa to be my mate, if he still wants to. He had been so attentive, and the biggest sweetheart now that he could actually talk to me. And I wanted to kiss him, but I had to be sure, I had been super good around him. He wasn’t a rejected male, so we had to be sure before I touched him and gave him his first boner. But maybe he should know about the knocked-up thing first. In case he changes his mind and doesn’t want to be with someone who was already pregnant.
When I got to Luna’s hut and asked her how she had been feeling lately, her brows raised and her eyes went straight to my stomach, which was still flat. Nothing had changed… yet.
“You are?” She squeaked out. I nodded and shrugged, then nodded again. “Oh god, I thought I was going crazy not telling you the same thing.” Her hand went to her stomach. “And I didn’t want to mention anything in case I was wrong or it was stress from being here, but if anyone here is knocked up it would be you. You’re like rabbits over there, humping each other all the time.”
I laughed but it was true. We did kind of fuck like rabbits. Hell, after this chat I was going to get a “bad boy” fucking with Tyee. Which didn’t happen often, he was my gentle lover, I couldn’t push him too far. I didn’t want to. He didn’t like seeing me held down and rammed by Eren’s huge cock. He would join in for anal, but only if it was gentle. So it was a nice pace between them both.
“Do you think we should tell them? Like, today?” I asked, unsure if we are supposed to wait. You know, the three months thing, when it was in the safe zone. Oh shit, Eren would freak out and not want to be rough with me if he knew I was pregnant. I was glad Luna had given the birds and the bees human version to her mates, because they spread that news like crazy through the whole clan. I didn’t even know it was different for the Aashi females. That they went into “heat” about five years after the bonding ceremony. So at least me announcing this won’t be too much of a shock. I hoped at least.
“Maybe we can surprise the whole clan at feast day?” Luna suggested. Oh yes, feast day, three days from now. When that planet was in the sky—Hetaa, it seemed like a huge planet. It had something to do with their Goddess and we could all eat meat, well us females could eat it all the time but we chose not to. The males were only allowed meat on feast day. Which really, for a bunch of guys ripped like that, and only eating fruits and mushrooms… oh and oha. That stuff tasted like a dry potato. Maybe it was full of protein and I probably should eat it more. I needed a better diet than the one I was currently on.
“I think surprising them all on feast day would be amazing… Now if you don’t mind blocking your ears for an hour or so…” Luna slapped me and chuckled.
“Go on, minx, I will see what my guys are up to. Maybe we can go away… far, far away.” I laughed at her but nodded. Maybe it was for the best, I needed to get my fuck on. Because I was horny.
When I got back to my hut, Tyee had walked me from Luna’s. He was my guard of the day. I was pretty sure Zezii was close by, he was never far. Nvaa had more duties than my three guys, he was in charge of protecting us from outsiders on foot. He was a lead warrior guy, and he took his job very seriously.
“My heart, you have returned.” Eren rolled out of the nest and to his feet, wrapping me in an embrace. I told him I would be back. Why wouldn’t I be here?
“Yeah, you promised me bad boy and Tyee was going to fuck my ass. I need you both, now.” I reached for Tyee, he came to me and his eyes twinkled at this. As much as I loved when we had our special times together, and hell, they were great, nothing beat having the both of them fucking me together and I needed that more than ever right now.
It didn’t take long for me to be stripped naked, and their little cloths covering their impressive cocks had dropped to the floor. I reached out and grasped both their cocks in my hands, stroking them hard and fast. I knew Tyee would spill within moments, as much as he didn’t like my rough sex, he got off on a rough handjob.
Tails sweeping my body, hands everywhere. When I felt a hand grasp my throat and tilt my head back, I gasped, looking up into Eren’s eyes. His black eyes made him look deadly. “Fuck,” I hissed out just before he took my mouth in a bruising kiss.
Tyee panted beside me, his hands sloppy on my heated skin. He was close… so fucking close. I dropped Eren’s cock and he let out a growl as he dropped our kiss, not happy with the loss, but he knew what I was doing and he watched me. I reached behind Tyee and ran my hands down his spine. He shivered under my fingers.
“Quinn, enoh, oh…” Tyee’s eyes rolled back as I grasped him right at the base of his tails, running my fingers gently over and under, brushing past his little dark hole. He made a strangled sound as I felt his cock swell and he started rutting my hand. Eren watched on, as he always did, which just made this hotter.
“Come for me,” I whispered and he did just that, rope after rope of cum hit me. It got my leg, rolling down my wrist, as I gave his cock a few more twists and tugs and Tyee shivered and shook with my touch. He was breathless which didn’t happen too often around here, but I could do that. I could rock his world so hard and I loved every minute of it.
“Sweetheart,” I called to him, his eyes finding mine and focusing. I smiled and kissed him quickly.
Eren didn’t wait, he hauled me off the floor and threw me over his shoulder. I squealed and giggled as he slapped my ass. The guy remembers everything I ask of him. I was so wet, fuck, I was dripping. They just had this way about them that had me so worked up.
“Quiet, my mate, or I will make you be quiet.” I giggled and nodded. It wasn’t the exact same, but it was close enough. The growl he emitted had my legs clenching, seeking friction of any kind. He dropped me into the nest and I let out a whoosh of air. Tyee watched, his eyes roaming my body to see if I was hurt. F
uck, I hated that look.
“I’m okay, Tyee.” I looked to Eren and he nodded. I had told him if Tyee felt uncomfortable then we needed to tone it down. Maybe Nvaa was kinky? Well, he wouldn’t be… he is a total virgin but maybe in his thoughts? Probably not.
“Take my cock and mouth kiss it.” Eren’s hand went to my hair and pulled just a little, it had my heart racing.
I reached up and took Eren’s cock. I looked up at him, his eyes watching me, hooded and dark. I poked my tongue out and licked the slit, I could see his nostrils flare at the heat of my tongue, then I kissed. Gentle and soft. I knew he wouldn’t like that; he liked my rougher ways and he pulled my hair tighter and closer to his cock.
“Suck,” he growled out between clenched teeth. I knew he was on edge, and I was teasing him. I loved this power I had over him. He was close to coming and this was how we always started this. I made sure they both came before we fucked, because they would get too worked up and come before I did, then spent so much time apologizing that it drove me crazy.
I sucked the wide head of his purple cock into my mouth and hummed, it was too big for me to do much else, but I stroked him with both my hands until his hips started pumping into my mouth. I quickly grabbed the base of his tail; I didn’t often need to touch underneath with Eren. He would come just from a touch, but I wanted to drive him wild. So I flicked my thumb under there and before I could stroke him in his dark place, he roared out my name so loud I worried males would come breaking down our door to see what had happened.
