Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 56021 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 280(@200wpm)___ 224(@250wpm)___ 187(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56021 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 280(@200wpm)___ 224(@250wpm)___ 187(@300wpm)
“You are very physically appealing,” I tell her. “But that is not why I chose you.”
“Why? Was it for my sparkling personality?”
“You were supposed to be given to Zin,” I tell her. “I told him the next human we caught was his. He had claim over you. I took you for my own. Don’t think for a second you have not been claimed by me, brat.”
“Brat?” Her cheeks flush with color. “I’ve never been called that before.”
“No? Well. I assume your position on a ship full of renegades might have given you the wrong idea. Might have left you thinking you are better behaved than the rest of them, or well-behaved at all. Might have led you to think that because you are not looting or pillaging, you are somehow innocent. You have your edges, and your strength, Allie. I see it in you, even if you do not.”
She turns brighter red still. “Is that true?”
“It is.”
“Wow,” she breathes, more to herself than to me. “I never thought of myself like that.”
I suspect she hasn’t thought of herself at all. It seems to me she has tucked herself away from thinking about or being herself on any level. Easier to become a little hermit among dozens of pirates than to attempt to be herself.
I am used to helping those who come to me broken in some way. I am very much a keeper of those who fall through the cracks of the world. This may not be a saurian, but I see so many marks of neglect on her psyche. She is lucky. I know precisely what to do with her.
“It’s not easy to discover that you have been betrayed by those you have submitted to,” I say. “But it happens. Sometimes, true gems are overlooked, or even deliberately excluded from society. Just because you’ve spent your life on the outside, doesn’t mean you will always be there.”
Allie looks at me with an incredulous expression. “I don’t understand how you have such a bad reputation. You are such a nice saurian. You are so wise, and so kind, and so caring…”
“And I stand against the law. I act according to my own rules, and I make decisions and take actions that others consider cruel or illegal. Sometimes both. I am not a hero. I am an alternative.”
Her expression is shifting from incredulity to admiration. “I think I like you,” she says, somewhat shy.
She is absolutely adorable.
“I like you very much, Allie,” I say.
She lowers her head but looks up at me with a sweet little hopeful smile.
We have nothing but time down here in the bioluminescent darkness. The mad human has unintentionally given us the gift of privacy and space.
“Have you been mated before, Allie?”
“Yes,” she whispers. I see a tremor pass through her, a trembling of her lower lip. She lowers her head and attempts to avoid my gaze. If she could disappear like one of the chameleon lizards that blends into walls, I believe she would.
“Is there shame in having had sex before?”
“Some men don’t like it. “They like to think they are the only ones to ever touch you. They even sometimes think that having let others inside you means you’re worth less.”
“Do you fear being mated?”
“Yes,” she admits.
“By any male? Or by one like me?”
“Any male. And especially one… like…”
She trails off, her shyness and fear overcoming her ability to be specific. Especially one like me, she means. I frighten her. Not surprising. I frighten most creatures.
“One like me.”
“They said you would ravage me. They said it would hurt.”
I feel my cock stirring again. My erection never truly left. I want to be inside her, but I want it to mean something. This woman needs meaning. She has just been betrayed by those she thought she could trust. She has been used, abused, and discarded. If I mate her, she needs to know that it is not an act of casual use, but of total possession.
Allie
I am deep underground, cast in a purple-green glow, half-covered in a blanket which I have already let slip off one shoulder and breast, and facing one of the most imposing figures I have ever encountered in my life.
I can’t ignore the fact that his cock is proportionate to the rest of his body, which is another way of saying his cock is impossibly large. There is no way such an appendage could ever fit inside me. It is silver and it is scaled, a truncheon of potential punishment.
I bite my lower lip in the effort to keep myself from whimpering. I don’t want to seem so pathetic as to be intimidated by the same cocks that have been ravaging the rest of the crew for months now. There has to be a way of taking it. It has to be possible. I just need to be logical about this.