Hunted: An Erotic Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (An Adult Fairy Tale Novel) (2 page)

And afterwards he'd introduce himself to her and apologize for his actions.  Oh, she'd say, flustered, it's no problem, just, perhaps could you help me out of these woods?  And he would say yes, except why didn't she spend the night at his log cabin?  It'd be very late by then, so she would agree, and after a dinner filled with sexual tension the huntsman would do his best to act proper and she would pounce him and they would make love all through the night.

Her fantasy got as far as the thrusting, and her arousal grew frantic and wet from the images in her mind, but Michael failed at playing the part of her huntsman.  Instead, just as Danya was about to orgasm, he thrust himself into her one last time and let loose.  His first jet of cum was strong, and she thought he might be able to finish her off if he kept it up.  The second barely shot anything, and then she felt his cock squirming inside of her with a few final dribbles of white cream before Michael shuddered and pulled out.

He collapsed on the ground in a heap.  In a few seconds, pants bunched around his ankles, he was snoring.

Danya stood against the tree, completely and utterly dissatisfied, with cum leaking out of her and dripping down her thigh.  At least if she'd done this at her father's shop, like Michael insinuated, she'd be able to clean up afterwards.  Ugh, this was disgusting.

She heard a howl in the woods and looked up.  The moon wasn't full, but she didn't know if wolves only howled during full moons?  Apparently not, since this one had howled while the moon was just a sliver.  She fixed her panties and her dress, pulling it up over her breasts and down to cover her ass, then quickly knelt beside Michael.

"Michael," she said softly, tapping his shoulder.

Nothing.

"Michael!" she said more urgently.  This time she grabbed his shoulder and shook him.

Nothing.

"If you get eaten by wolves, it's not my fault.  I'm not going to stay here and be a meal for an animal."

With that, she ran through the forest, heading back to his family's home.  She could see fireworks coming from that direction; the night spectacle they'd planned for all their party guests.

The male was spent, having mated with the female.  The male didn't interest him, so he left him slumbering on the forest floor.

The female was running, though.  Teasing him, making him chase her.  Her scent mixed with the male's seed as it slid down her tender legs, leaving a trail through the woods for him to follow.  He sprinted after her, spotting faint traces of her long, tied-up, raven-black hair vanishing behind trees up ahead.

She wore a dress, a pretty thing.  How long had it been since he'd seen a dress like that?  An eternity, or more, and this saddened him for a moment, but the constant thrum of his arousal, pounding through his hardened cock, soon brought him back to the task at hand.

The other male was weak.  She deserved a strong man, one who could breed with her until her stomach bulged, filled with offspring from their fierce mating.

He would chase her and show her he was strong.

Danya ran faster through the woods.  Michael's parent's land was just up ahead, and the fireworks were shooting up faster and faster.  They boomed through the air, the lights illuminating bits and pieces of the darkened woods.

She ran fast because something was chasing her.  Or she thought it was.  It briefly struck her that maybe she was imagining it.  Perhaps it wasn't real.  Except, no, she could hear the pounding of footfalls behind her, the crunch of leaves, and the snarling of a beast.

It was the wolf, she thought.  The one that howled earlier.  It had eaten Michael and now it wanted her for dessert.  She wasn't going to be a meal for a wolf, though.  At least not without a fight.

She broke through the outskirts of the forest and sprinted through the fields towards the revelers at the fireworks.  Someone saw her and pointed and she ran towards them.  Would the wolf come and eat all of them?  Was she luring it towards everyone for a massive meal?  She hoped not.

She blacked out just as someone ran towards her and put their arms out to catch her.

The party was a week past.  No one had noticed the cum on her legs, thankfully.  Sweating while running through the woods, with her thighs pressing against one another, had eliminated most of the evidence of her and Michael's illicit romp.  She'd been saved from having to explain where he was after falling unconscious, too.  The local physician said it was the effects of too much alcohol combined with heavy exertion.  Everyone said there was no wolf, either.  Hallucinations, and again that was blamed on the alcohol.

Michael used the same excuse when he came to talk to her at her father's shop a few days later.  "Sorry about that, Danya," he said.  "I was drunk.  I don't want you to get the wrong idea.  It was a one time thing.  I don't want to marry you or anything."

She nodded.  "It's alright, Michael.  I understand.  I was a little drunk myself."

"Unless—" he started to say.  "If you want to make some extra money, we could...?"  He jerked his head towards the back room.

Danya might have said yes.  It was a slow day, and while they didn't need the money right away, she knew they'd need it eventually.  Except she was pissed at Michael, and he hadn't given her any satisfaction the previous time.  Maybe he'd be better when he wasn't drunk, or maybe he'd be worse.  There was a certain amount of pleasure to be gained from reckless fumbling, and if he couldn't even hold off cumming until he brought her to climax when he was drunk and she was excited by her fantasies, she doubted he could do it when he wasn't drunk and she was annoyed with him.

Also, her father walked in just then, carrying a bag of useless trinkets.  He set them down on the shop counter, greeting her and Michael with a friendly hello, then began rummaging through his worthless crap.

"What did you get today, daddy?" she asked, feigning interest.  By the looks of it, nothing good.  She hoped he hadn't spent a lot on it, because they'd be hard-pressed to sell any of this.

Michael left quickly after that.

Later that night, after they sat down to a family dinner, Danya heard a crash in the alleyway beside their home.  Her father looked up, then shrugged.

"A cat," he said.

"Is it a cat?" her youngest sister, Felice, asked.

"I bet it's an elephant," Alena said.  "A big, yellow elephant."

Danya rolled her eyes at her little sisters.  They were sixteen and eighteen respectively, and a little daft.  She thought they took after her father more than their mother (whereas Danya always imagined herself being like her mother), except—well, she was still here, taking care of her father so perhaps she was a little daft, too.  Her mother had left years ago, leaving the three sisters to mostly fend for themselves.  It hurt at first, but she could hardly blame her; if Danya could leave right now, she thought she would.

"I don't think it's a cat," Danya said, and with a silly glare towards Alena she added, "or an elephant."

"It could be!" Alena squeaked.

"I do so wish it were a cat," Felice said, wistful.  "I'd like a cat."

"I'm going to check."  Danya scooted her chair out from the table and stood.  "Whatever it is, I think it's rummaging through our trash.  I don't want to have to explain to anyone why we have garbage lining the side of our house."

Her father grunted, then shrugged and went back to dinner.  Both of her sisters began discussing whether it would be a cat or an elephant, if it were either, if Danya hadn't said it was neither.  Danya sighed and left them to their silly argument.

She left the house through the back entrance where they grew a small garden, instead of the front through the shop and to the streets.  Rumors already made their way through the small city and she didn't want to cater to more by having people see her head into the alleyway alongside their house in a flimsy nightgown for no apparent reason.  The garden was nice this time of year, too.  The light from her neighbor's windows shone dimly on the flowers, leaving a sort of ghostly feel to the area, as if it both existed and didn't exist all at once.

Danya snuck through the gardens towards the little fence door leading to the alley.  Unlatching it, she quietly stepped through and shut it behind her.  The alley was dark this time of night, but she could see faint impressions of images through the shadows.  All their trash was scattered on the ground, with the trash baskets knocked over amidst the junk.  More odd than that, someone had moved them from their usual place to a spot right below her window.  Her window—which she distinctly remembered closing—was open, the drapes fluttering in the slight evening breeze.

There was someone in the house.  They'd come in through her window and were going to rob them.  Perhaps murder her whole family, or wait until they slept and torture them until morning, and, and...!

Danya scrambled back to the garden.  She tried to fling open the fence door, but she forgot she'd re-latched it and it wouldn't budge at first.  Her fingernails dug into the wood, pulling with all her might, before she calmed enough to carefully undo the latch and gain entrance to the yard.  Running in her silken nightgown through the small garden, she dashed past the back door and into her house.

Her family was fine, her father and Alena and Felice still eating dinner and chatting amongst themselves.  She wanted to scream and yell at them to get out of the house, but maybe that would alert the intruder and he'd catch them before they could escape, then kill them in a minute's notice.  With screaming out of the question, at least for now, she had only one other option in her mind.

She would go upstairs and confront the intruder by herself, and if it came to it she would scream and her family would hopefully run from the building while she distracted the burglar.

The stairs by the backdoor creaked beneath her feet and seemed loud beyond belief.  Danya crept up them as quietly as she could, but each creak sounded louder than the first and then she could hear the thumping of her heart, pounding in her chest.  The man who'd broken in must be able to hear her, could hear everything.  Even her thoughts seemed too loud and she feared he might know her intentions and thwart them by going back out the window and running into the house through the back door to attack her father and sisters.

Frantic, wild thoughts roamed through her mind.  She had no lantern up here, but they kept spare candles in holders at the top of the stares for emergencies.  Grabbing one, she lit it with a match from a matchbox next to the candles and held it aloft.  The flames danced, sending shadows through the sleeping quarters of the house.

All of the doors were closed, so she hoped the infiltrator was still in her room.  If only she had a lock on her door she could lock him in and then run away, but she didn't.  Cautious, scared, and witless, she touched the doorknob to her room and turned it.  The door opened without a sound, hinges oiled, but it was a small concession compared to the cacophony of her trek upstairs.

Her room was a mess, and not at all like she left it.  The window was open, drapes waving about.  The linens on her bed were a mess and scattered this way and that, some thrown to the floor and others twisted into knots.  The intruder had thrown open her dresser drawers and tossed all of her neatly folded laundry to the floor.  Or, she noted, not all of it, but mainly the lingerie and undergarments.

Most of which, she now noticed, were laying in a trail towards her closet door.  The thief, who apparently had a penchant for woman's delicates, must have sought refuge in her closet when he heard her on the steps.  She walked closer, scared, unsure why she would continue moving towards imminent demise but unable to stop herself.  Her hand reached for the doorknob on the closet and her mind screamed for her to pull her arm back and run away, but her body didn't listen.

The door swung open.  An animal hulk of a man was sitting on her closet floor, his form shrouded in the darkness.  The candlelight from her candle illuminated him slightly and she saw a heavy beard growing on his rugged jaw.  Except beards only covered parts of a man's face, and this one seemed to engulf all of his.  A flash of yellow lit up his eyes as the candle's light found them, and he bared his teeth and snarled.  He looked for all the world like a wolf trapped in a man's body.  Clutched in clawed hands, he held bunches of her panties and a few flimsy negligees, sniffing at them.

Danya screamed bloody murder.  The wolfman leaped into the room and clasped a hand to her mouth.  He jumped so hard and fast that the next thing she knew she was laying on the bed with him atop her.  His eyes contained something akin to curiosity and he stared at her intently.

Still holding his hand over her mouth, keeping her pinned to the bed, he moved his head lower.  He sniffed at her nightgown, down to her stomach, then to her crotch.  She felt a heady rush of self-awareness when his moist, hot breath blew across her cloth-covered core.  The beastman sniffed long and hard, but never touched her except to hold her down and keep her quiet.

Her father shouted something upstairs.  "I heard you scream.  Danya?  Are you alright?"

The beastman jolted up, surprised.  He stopped sniffing at her and jumped away and off the bed.  She watched him flee out the window, entranced by his grace as he leaped, landing in the alleyway without a sound.

"I'm fine, daddy!" she yelled downstairs.  Her heart pounded hard and heavy still, but she managed to talk without giving her fear away, or so she hoped.  "I'll be down in a moment."

"Alright, darling.  Just checking."

Danya ran to the door and shut it tight.  She took the chair from her desk and propped it up against the door so no one could enter.  The window remained open, a light breeze fluttering the curtains around like before.  Scrambling to her bed, she jumped onto it and yanked her nightgown above her waist.

She imagined the beast breathing on her again, his almost-human nose sniffing at her crotch.  She imagined him thrusting it against her, smelling her up close and personally.  Jamming her fingers against her clit, she rubbed it hard and pretended it was the beastman and his nose.