Chapter 112 Chapter 14 - Book 3
Selena found that her new slave was quite useful, though not too smart. That could be a bonus, though, because stupid people rarely question anything. All she had to do was keep giving the slaves her blood in their food or drink, and they were hers to do with as she pleased.
She had already given her new slave girl to her two prize toys. They wore her out so much that, when they were finally done with her, she couldn’t even walk. Selena had to order one of her other slaves to drag her back to her room.
At first, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do with Jessica Winchester, but watching her with her two toys, she got a brilliant idea. If that bitch got knocked up, that could be useful. Selena would have her very own little beastie to raise and teach from birth. She was giddy with the possibilities. A broodmare. Yes, that would be her new duty to her mistress. Perhaps she should get a few more and have her own army.
She was standing in front of the beast’s cell. She walked in and kicked his sleeping form. “Get up, you lazy piece of shit!”
He jumped up in a frenzy; waking him from a deep sleep was never a good idea. He noticed that she stepped back, and a flicker of fear was in her eyes. That made him a little happy anyway.
“I want you to go back and look at their trail again. This time, sniff this enchanted crystal first. It will help to enhance the smell that you are looking for and get rid of all the others. I need to have that blood. You are going to get it for me. If you don’t, I wouldn’t bother crawling back here for forgiveness.”
He said his usual, "as you wish, Mistress." It was always best to get her to leave quickly. She wasn’t aware yet, but his memories were coming back, and in a little bit more time, he would have them all. It was a big mistake for her to let him out of the cell; he had no intention of ever going back in it. He still couldn’t remember his name, but he knew that as soon as he did, everything would come back to him.
He burst from the cell at a full run, taking off into the shadows of night. He was going to find those two females, but when he found them, he wasn’t going to collect their blood. He would have a story to tell them, and then maybe they could help him remember his name.
August was in a crisis between his morality and the needs of himself and Khan. Anna wasn't yet in crisis, but it was only two months away. Still, she is also a virgin; did she even know what any of this was about? How the hell was he going to seduce her?
They had just finished eating and done a lot of talking, and they’d gotten to know each other in a small way anyway. The cake was delicious; he was going to have to thank Ava for it later.
Anna had gotten up to use the bathroom, so August was sitting in the middle of the pillows on the floor waiting for her to return. Then he could discuss what the mating bond meant.
It was at that moment that he heard the bathroom door open, and there she stood, dressed in all red silk and nothing else. She was gorgeous, and he tossed out all morality from his mind at that moment. Khan was adding to August’s thoughts, and he decided that they were going to share this first time.
She wasn’t done teasing, though. She would dance around him, and when he would reach for her, she would twirl out of his reach. The silk would caress his skin as she twirled by him, again she would slide out of his fingers.
Finally, he stood up and went after her. She started to giggle as he chased her down, finally landing on the bed with her in his arms.
He held there, just savoring the feel of her; she felt perfect, her soft skin mixing with the slide of the silk. “My sweet blossom, are you sure this is what you want to do? Do you understand what you are agreeing to?”
“August, you are the single most gorgeous man on this earth. You’re sexy and smart, kind, generous, and considerate to a fault. Ava told me about all the shifter mating processes, and my sister gave me the talk a long time ago.”
“I know everything I need to, except how to get my mate to stop fretting about my age and virginity. It won’t be long, and I will be of age; my virginity is yours and yours alone. We are going to be together forever, so I think the sooner we get started, the more time we will have.”
With that statement of fact, August did not argue. He rolled her so she was on top of him. He lay with his arms out wide. “Well, blossom, here I am. Take as much as you want; I intend to do the same to you. It is going to be a long night, but you will be having so much fun, you are going to complain to the sun for rising.”
With that, she began to explore. When it was his turn, he took them to the skies, flying high on the wings of ecstasy. Just as Anna felt herself falling from the sky, August bit her hard on the neck, sending her even higher than before.
She lay beside August in sated pleasure when she felt her body becoming incredibly hot. Then she was in intense pain, and as the heat and pain subsided, she felt strange. August looked strange too; he got up from the bed with a surprised look and shifted into Khan.
She thought Khan was magnificent; he was a golden lion, but his mane was black with gold tips. As he was walking around the bed, she made a move to get up when she realized that she’d jumped. She looked at her hands; they were paws, gold fur, and razor-sharp nails. She started to hear laughter in her mind.
“Who are you? Are you my lioness?” “Who else would I be, silly? My name is Venus.”
Ava was smiling to herself while sitting on the couch watching TV; it was a murder mystery. She rarely got time to just sit and enjoy a bowl of popcorn. Harry sat with her watching TV. He stayed with her at all times. She finally got a little ticked off about it and asked him to go find something else to do.
He simply said, “I haven’t been given an assignment, so I have appointed myself as your guard.” She looked at him sideways; he was enjoying a soda and the popcorn. She wondered what his story was. It wasn’t normal for a Bear shifter to want to stick around anywhere that wasn’t his territory, so why was he staying?
It was then that they all heard a mighty roar coming from the upstairs, then there were more coming from both bedrooms. “Geesh, what is going on up there? I mean, mating is a loud event, but still, it sounds like wild kingdom in the spring.”
Ava started to laugh. “It is going to get a lot louder than that. That is human-level; wait till they take it outside, then it will be the wild kingdom.” “That reminds me, I better alert the others out on patrol to stay out of the way, but still, try to make sure no harm comes to them.” “Guess it is a good thing then, Ava, that we don’t have any close neighbors.”
They both started laughing when he reached over and kissed her. She looked at him in surprise. “Umm, tell me, Harry, did you sneak any chocolate cake by any chance?” “Oh, hell yeah, I saw that cake just sitting there; it smelled so delicious, so I snuck a little slice of it. It tasted like heaven.”
Ava didn’t know what to do with a horny bear. Was it like with wolves, or was it different? He is handsome and all; Arrgg, what was she thinking? She got up and ran for the kitchen.
He was there right behind her. He was laughing so hard he was having trouble breathing. “I am sorry, little Ava, I was only playing with you. You have been worn out and worried since the moment I met you. I thought a distraction would be just the thing to lighten the mood. I was just kidding about the cake anyway; the kiss, though, that wasn’t playing at all. Just wanted to give you something to think about. Let me know when you come up with any thoughts you would like to talk about with me.”
With that, he wiggled his eyebrows and went back into the living room leaving Ava out of breath and beet red. She went up to her bedroom mumbling under her breath…Stupid Bear.