Thanred put a hand behind the back of her head. He bent lower and pressed his lips against hers in a kiss.
This time he didn’t plunge his tongue into her mouth, searching and hungry. He kissed her gently, savoring her taste the way she’d savored the taste of the fruit.
The world seemed to melt away.
When she pulled away, he let her. Though his cock was already hardening again, he let her go, opening his eyes to look at her again.
A funny smile played along her lips. “Thanred,” she said.
“Royla,” he answered.
“Can a human and a Dranark...”
He knew what word she’d left unspoken.
Mate?
He pulled the large leaf up to the fire, over his back and brought her to lie next to him. His cock was bothering him, but he didn’t want to take her again. Not yet. All he really wanted was to feel the heat of her body next to him as they slept.
Royla didn’t press. She shuffled back, pressing her back against his chest.
It wasn’t long before his eyes closed to the sound of her deep breaths.
Thanred drifted off to sleep.
Chapter Nine
It was still dark when she woke. At first, she mistook the powerful ache in her belly as the need to relieve herself. She soon realized it was not that.
Thanred’s cock was stiff again. The hard flesh grazed against her back as he slept.
Royla turned to face him. He looked so different than when she’d first laid eyes on him. Powerful still but so handsome. Her mind wandered to everything that had happened in the last few days. Lust pulsed through her as she raked her eyes up and down his hard body.
A ripple of excitement wormed through her as she reached out. She grazed the hard flesh of his cock with the tips of her fingers. It sent jolts of heat crackling through her, hardening under her touch.
Thanred took a deep breath and stirred.
Royla’s chest swelled with excitement. The ache had swollen in her core to something almost unbearable. Her hunger for him eclipsed all other thoughts. Shuffling closer, she wrapped her fingers around his girth and stroked.
Thanred growled as his eyes fluttered open.
Royla continued to caress him, pressing her other hand against his bare chest. Her body was thrumming witharousal. As he turned to look at her, she let go of his member, got up onto her hands and knees and turned her backside toward him, swaying it from side to side.
He growled again as one side of his lips curled into a hungry snarl. Rising off the forest floor, he grasped her bottom with both hands and knelt behind her. Lifting a palm, he brought it down onto her backside in a sharp slap.
Royla gasped but not from the pain. The swat, while somewhat painful, deepened her excitement. She craned her neck to look back at him.
His mighty member, the engorged head throbbing in anticipation of his claim, swayed just above her backside. His eyes fell.
Royla blushed, knowing that once again he could see all of her softest, most intimate parts. She raised her eyes to look into his. “Will you have me, Master?” she whispered. And though she knew he wanted her to call him by his name, the wordmasterfelt so much more seductive. So much more... exciting.
He pressed two fingers against her dripping pussy.
Her back arched, head tilting back at the throb of pleasure his touch elicited.
Pressing harder, he drove them into her, the digits stretching her soft walls.
Royla moaned, her voice carrying through the forest like an animal’s cry. The idea that she was on her knees, naked and about to be taken by this beast sharpened her arousal. When he twisted his hand, his fingers prying her open wider, she bucked back against him, desperate to feel him inside her as deeply as she could.
