Slave to His Desires (5 page)

When it was over, she blinked up at him, fighting to hold
her eyes open.

“It’s true.” Jul breathed the words with awe.

Whatever, but wow, make me come like that again please?
Her eyes fluttered closed, and she wasn’t sure if she’d thought the words or
said them out loud. Madison was too tired to care or wonder what was true.

Rothgorg and Uika promised to take good care of the still
sleeping Madison Edwards. Jul went to his office, and for the first time he
would have rather been home. Rex was there when he arrived, late again.

“Is she really that good in bed?” Was there a trace of
bitterness in Rex’s voice?

“I don’t know. I haven’t had the chance to enjoy her yet.”

“What has been keeping you out of work? You even come here
when you’re ill.”

“It’s true. I tasted her.” Jul whispered the words quietly.

“So, you’ve bought yourself a resonate. Are you going to
sell her services? Raette will be the first in line.”

“I’m not selling her. She’s not just any resonate. She
healed Bink…he wasn’t born mute or lacking intelligence. Slavers crushed his
throat. She healed him with a touch, didn’t even know she was doing it. When I
tasted her, I felt her soul. I don’t know what to do, she wants to go home.”

“Don’t be a fool. She’s yours. If it’s too much for you,
I’ll pay you two years wages and take her off your hands. I’ll even pay for the
translator too. Think on it, but we’ll keep this between us. If word escapes
about her, you’ll never get a moment of peace. You’ll be bombarded with
requests. And if the king finds out what she is, he’ll confiscate her without
any payment to you. Sending her home would be equally cruel. Their world is
smaller and their lives are shorter. By the time you return her, everyone she
loves will be gone. In just her short time here, years on Earth have passed.”

Jul knew his friend was right. Keeping her would be a
challenge; keeping her a secret might be impossible. “I… She’s been hurt and is
very weak right now. If I call a doctor he might realize what she is and report
it.”

“What are you doing here? Go home and care for her.”

Jul nodded. He was glad he’d confided in Rex. His friend
wouldn’t let him down. He turned to leave, but the expression on Rex’s face
stopped him. “So you’d really like to own her?”

Rex looked embarrassed. “She’s unique…yes, I’d pay
handsomely for the opportunity to sleep with her.”

Hearing his friend admit it was disconcerting, but Rex
continued, “You know how much sleeping with her would mean to Raette, can you
honestly keep such a treasure to yourself?”

Jul wasn’t the type of man to be selfish. However, after
seeing into her could he do this to her? She was almost completely untouched,
and she’d lived in a world where sex was a hidden thing. Madison Edwards wasn’t
prepared for what Rex would do to her. Rex would be gentle, but Jul had tasted
her and understood her in a way that one without that bond would never know.

“I’ve made up my mind. Rex, I care for you and Raette like
family. There is only one way I will consent to this—you must taste her, Rae
too.”

The stunned look on his normally confident friend’s face was
priceless. “Are you insane? The bond we would form with her…with each other,
it’s not something we could ever change. Are you willing to let us have that
kind of connection with your resonate? We’d always feel her and want her. I
know Raette better than you do, she’d never be able to be content with just one
night. Are you willing to force this on the girl? I can see how you care for
her.”

“The three of us can protect her. I can’t do it alone.
You’ll have as much of a stake in her wellbeing as I do now. I took too much
blood from her, so we’ll have to wait to do this. The girl will have time to
adjust to her bond with me. Humans aren’t like us. They are weaker and feel so
much more than we do. You can’t imagine what I feel…the echoes of her emotions
are beyond description.”

“Go, care for her, Jul. I’ll take care of business and talk
with Rae. When you return we can make plans for this thing, but yes, I want
this. I won’t lie. I want her. This type of bond became outlawed centuries ago.
They’ll kill us if they find out. Are you really willing to risk this and share
her?”

“Yes.”

A moment of solidarity passed unspoken between them. Rex
nodded. “Go.”

Jul rushed home to find Madison was still unconscious.
Oh,
great mother, I pray I haven’t killed her.

As he gazed at her, his heart filled with worry, he saw her
eyelids flutter.

Madison opened her eyes. She saw Julstavius next to her bed,
his strange eyes looking at her, full of concern.

“I-am-alive.” She felt much more comfortable with the
strange language as it fell from her mouth. That wasn’t the only difference she
noticed. Her heartbeat felt…different, and her eyesight seemed sharper. “What
did you do to me?”

“We…I… You’re more than a slave to me now. I’ve tasted you,
and there’ll be a link between us forever, until death. In your world a term
would be wife, or more accurately concubine.” He paused.

She wondered if the horrified feeling in the pit of her
stomach reflected on her face. Suddenly she felt an echo of pain over her
reaction; she’d hurt his feelings.

He continued. “I can never formally recognize our bond.
You’ll always be a slave, even if I want to free you with all my heart. I feel
you as you feel me. What makes you human is in me, and what makes me
Alburionian is in you. This will be a rather difficult adjustment for you. My
people have very different physiology, it will make everything you
experience…bolder. Your feelings will change. You’ll have more of our morality
and a dulling to the depth of your emotions. I, on the other hand, I’ll have a
dulling of my senses and a strengthening of my emotions.”

Feeling the truth of the words only made them more
terrifying. “I’m afraid.”

He looked sad. “I know.” They sat quietly for a long moment
before he broke the depressing silence. “I may lose you. What you are…it’s
unique to humans and rare. The bond we share is only possible because you’re a
resonate. You can take pleasure and emotions and echo it back, magnify it, and
create intense experiences. I thought this kind of sexual gift was a myth,
until now. The blood bond I created with you was the only way for me to be
sure. It’s true you are a thing of myth and wonder. I’m so very lucky to call
you mine. My people ingest the blood of those we love so we can always find
them. It works due to an enzyme in our bodies that creates a link, but when we
drink from a resonate it merges us with the human so deeply it’s actually
illegal.”

Madison felt horribly confused by all his woo-woo mystical
blood talk.

“If the king discovers what you are, he’ll have me killed so
he can drink from you and keep you for himself. If someone else discovers you,
they’d kill me and sell your sexual services illegally, underground. You could
make someone on my world very rich, very quickly.”

His words were terrifying, mostly because she experienced
the absolute certainty as he spoke them. He meant them, each of them. She also
saw something else behind his words.

“I don’t want to bond with your friends.”

His eyes widened a bit as if he didn’t realize just how
completely merged they were becoming. “I know, but we must. To keep you a secret
I need allies, Rex and Rae already know. I trust them with my life. You…we’ve
time to get used to this. The desires we feel will be open and experienced by
the four of us. When one feels pleasure, we will all feel it, when one hurts
we’ll all hurt. This is not ideal, but it’s the only way.”

Looking at him, feeling everything caused a burst of
something profound inside of her. She felt such caring and compassion for this
man, even if she should hate him. It terrified her. Lust mixed in with all the
other emotions, and she was filled with a deep desire to watch his face as he
came. His eyes changed, the echo of the thought reached him because Madison
found herself pinned to the cot. His breathing was heavy, and she felt his
erection pressing against her hip.

“Sorry,” he said in a hoarse voice. He backed away, and she
felt him smothering the animal instinct he’d experienced to take her hard and
fast. She felt the echoes of his needs and some of them honestly frightened
her.

She reached for him and pulled him back. “Don’t go, please.”
She wanted it as badly as he did.

“You’re weak.” He looked so unsure, and it touched her
heart.

“Give me your strength.” Those words broke him; she felt it
when he gave in.

“Mine.” The word was a growl as he began to remove her
simple tunic.

She allowed him to do as he wished, knowing it heightened
his desire. When he looked at her breasts, she blushed. He’d seen them before,
but this time she knew what he was thinking. Her nipples hardened just from the
look in his eyes.

“
I want to taste them. I want to fuck you until you can’t
walk.
”

She giggled, knowing he’d meant for her to hear those
thoughts.

“
I want you too.
” Shyly she threw the thought back at
him. Seeing his pupils dilate she knew those four words affected him deeply.
When she took a deep breath she could actually feel his desire, and it
heightened her own. She’d never felt so sexual before. In the past she’d never
been the one to initiate sex, but now she reached out to unfasten his belt.

He watched her awkward movements, and she could feel how
much he wanted to rip off his clothes for her, but resisted. Because of the
link they shared, she knew that as much as he wanted to take her, he also
wanted to savor it. She was his slave, but in that moment, she was also his master.
The power of controlling his desire rushed to her head.

Jul groaned, and she relished the sound. She should hate
him, but his exotic looks and muscular body made her forget it. When she freed
his cock, her breath caught. Beautiful, even with her limited experience she
knew it was special. The girth and length were almost a little frightening.
These people were larger than humans—everywhere it seemed. She knew he could
see her thoughts as easily as his own as she caught the echo of how much he
liked what she was thinking. It was strange to have him in her head.

He reached out and gently rubbed her nipples. When he
suddenly pinched them, she hissed. He did it again, but with more of a rolling
motion this time. She sighed. Seeing his feelings through their telepathic link
frightened her. She understood what his people liked. Sweet, tender sex wasn’t
the norm. She remembered the terrible body leash Raette had used on her. It
made her pussy ache just remembering the sensation. She’d never been into anything
kinky, but as she feed off Jul’s desire, she suddenly wanted him to teach her
to enjoy brutal domination. She blushed at the thought that she couldn’t just
think it, she had to tell him, because she knew how much it would please him to
hear her voice the words out loud.

“Julstavius, I want you to make love to me. Show me what it
can be like…your way.”

He groaned, and the sound was pure pain. “I want you, but we
must wait until you’re stronger. We must wait until the four of us can be
together. If I do this with you first, you’ll always be a little more mine, and
as much as I want that, it would cause the others, and ultimately you, pain. I
can’t allow that. You are too precious to me.”

She tried to hide her crushing disappointment, but the bond
wouldn’t allow it.

“Please. I want you so much right now. I should hate you,
but this thing between us, it’s amazing.”

* * * *

He groaned. Crushing her to him, his lips devoured hers.
She’d broken down his resistance. His hands caressed the exposed skin; her
naked body caused his heart to beat faster. His cock swelled with anticipation.
She looked so innocent and vulnerable. His mouth dipped to her breast, and he
suckled the large dark nipple like the most succulent of fruit. Hearing her
soft panting made him growl. He’d never felt such an overwhelming surge of
possessiveness. Pleasuring her was his greatest wish. He’d never given much
thought to pleasuring women, but suddenly feeling her needs he wanted to hear
her scream, make her forget all lovers that had come before him.

Jul switched to her other breast. His fingers found the one
he’d just abandoned, and he delicately squeezed and rolled the damp jewel. Her
small hands twisted in his hair as she held him to her body in desperation. Hot
and demanding, his mouth devoured her, and Jul smiled as she gasped. He could
smell how wet she was. Pushing her back on the cot, he moved to spread her legs
wide. Feeling the echo of her need and uncertainty, he kissed her flat stomach
and then looked into her eyes.

“You are beautiful. I’ll never let you go.”
For the first
time I understand why humans are so special. She’s giving me a piece of her
soul, and I love her, more than any other being.

Her body quivered. Dropping a tender kiss on the mound of
soft curly hair between her thighs, he spread the folds and his hungry mouth
found the nub hidden there. Tenderly, his tongue swirled it, and her soft cry
urged him on. He experienced the sensation along with her, and it shook him to
the core. He enjoyed every second of her pleasure as if it were his own.

Relishing the taste of her womanly musk, he sucked the nub
harder until she was on the very edge of an orgasm. Plunging a finger into her
tight, warm pussy, he wiggled it until he felt the ridges inside of her. Her
soft mews encouraged him to work harder. Soon he felt the shattering sensation
of pleasure ripple from her consciousness to his own. He moaned against her,
his own body on the verge of ecstasy. His cock ached to be inside her.