Sundown & Serena (25 page)

Nick gave a guttural roar, and charged, Vince
right behind him. Kev fought hard with them, roaring over and over.
Soon, the sand was wet with blood. Nick backed off first,
whimpering a little with a large gash on his side. Vince followed
suit, limping on three legs. But my eyes were all for my warrior,
who was coming fast to me.

I crouched down for him, readying myself, and
then I felt him roaring, thrusting hard into me like a jackhammer.
He let out a roar as he came, and then withdrew. But in another
moment, I felt him enter me again, just as roughly, and again,
within seconds he finished. I swiped at him that time with my
claws, my harsh bellow telling him he wasn’t pleasing me. Kev
chuffed in response, asking me to be patient with him. He mounted
me again. This time, he lasted long enough so my roaring joined
his, as we screamed out our pleasure into the night. The next time,
a few seconds after, he lasted longer.

Forty-five minutes later, Kev tried to enter
me again, and couldn’t. He gave it one more attempt, and then
walked away from me, lying in the shade of a palm tree some yards
away.

My two other paramours were already coming
towards me. Vince took Kev’s place, growling, and snarling at Nick,
who roared furiously back at him, yet backed away. Vince lasted one
stroke in me, and came. Annoyed, I swiped at him, connecting this
time with my claws. I drew blood from his nose, and he yelped. But
he didn’t strike me back, just grabbed hold of me again, pushing
inside me even as I squirmed under him.

Soon, he was pleasuring me, and we were
roaring together, losing ourselves in the rut until he was
exhausted. Twenty minutes later, he joined Kev under the tree.

Nick came to me then, and I swiped at him,
telling him there would be none of what had gone on before, to
enter me at all without pleasing me. He chuffed at me, then rubbed
his head against my side, weaving back and forth. The action
strangely mellowed me, and I crouched for him obediently. When he
mounted me, I got a pleasant surprise: he lasted long enough his
first time to bring me. Even though we continued on after, he
didn’t grow soft, or withdraw. And every time he brought me, until
finally he grew soft, and dismounted.

I turned to him questioningly. In my bear
mind, I was completely sexually sated. But I also felt the need to
run, to dig, and to eat. When he chuffed at me and ran away, I
followed him.

He ran to a nearby sealed barrel, and knocked
it over. Meat spilled out, and we both began eating greedily,
bolting down the large chunks of raw meat. When I’d eaten my fill,
he finished what I left. Then I noticed that Vince and Kev were
also eating from a similar barrel under the tree.

Nick nipped me with his teeth, and I roared
in mock annoyance. He ran into the surf with me in hot pursuit. We
wrestled, the waves crashing over us, and Kev and Nick joined
us.

The next hour was almost more fun than the
sex. We played together in the surf, and rolled in the sand. I
dunked all of them in waves, and they rose up, eyes closed, water
dripping from their drooping ears to shake hard, spraying salt
water everywhere.

Finally utterly exhausted, I walked up and
sprawled on the sand and dozed. My body began to change back. My
fur and claws receded, and my form grew smaller, and soon, I was
human again.

The men saw me changing back, and changed
back, too. As soon as they were human, Vince went right to Kev, and
punched him in the face. “This was our idea!” Vince said angrily,
and Nick echoed that he was right. “What right did you have to
crash?”

“I was and am the strongest,” Kev said
arrogantly, wiping the blood off his mouth. “I’m alpha bear here,
Vince. You’re beta. And Nick, you aren’t even ranked.”

“Fuck you!” Nick roared. “You had no right.
We aren’t wolves, that there is any kind of pack hierarchy rules
for mating!”

“I went in on that potion,” Kev said,
shrugging on his clothes, which lay draped on a nearby bush. “You
think your salaries covered it? You needed mine to pay for the
transportation of it here, which cost the same as to make it. It
only keeps for a few days, so it needs to be teleported via demon.
You’re just lucky that I kept the other bears away from the beach
tonight, Nick. Or there’d have been none of her left for you.”

Nick swore at him, but he didn’t move to hit
him. Kev looked at us, eyes glittering, and then strode off.

Vince came to me, and hugged me. “Are you
okay?” he asked hesitantly. “Please believe me, we didn’t intend to
hurt you, or to have you feel forced into taking on all three of us
in one night.”

“I’m okay,” I said, giving him a smile as he
let go of me. “I had a lot of fun. It felt really good, to be
animal.” I felt unshed tears gather in my eyes. “I never had any
idea...”

Nick came over and hugged me. “We’ll help you
try to be fox,” he whispered in a tender voice. “Males can usually
bring females into their animal form and back, the way Kev did to
trigger your bear transformation. We’ll start trying tomorrow.”

I was touched, and some of my tears spilled
over, even as I smiled happily. “Thank you.”

Vince grabbed me up in his arms, laughing,
and carried me up to the house, Nick following with their weapons
and our clothes.

Chapter
Six

I walked inside that night feeling wonderful.
The night was quiet, and I was very tired. After we’d dressed,
Vince and Nick had left me to go to their posts, and I was feeling
how exhausted I was.
I need to get to bed before
I fall down.

“Fuck me,” a soft hissing voice said. I
stopped dead in my tracks. It had come from above me, near my
room.

“Not in my bedroom,” a deeper hissing voice
replied. “I told you that, Esperanza. Wait for me near the stairs.
I’ll only be a minute.”

“Fuck me now, Lash, or I’m leaving!” she
hissed back. “And I want to be in a real bed for a change!”

“I pay you, and I say where we fuck, and
when!” he hissed angrily. “Wait for me there!”

“Bastard!” she spat at him. “You think you’re
so good of a lay that I need to put up with your shit? You aren’t!
There’s a python I know who...”

There was the harsh sound of flesh striking
flesh, and a woman’s cry of pain.

“Wait for me near the stairs,” Lash hissed in
a low threatening tone. “And God help you if you aren’t there when
I get there, Esperanza.”

I am not going up there, no
way.
I stayed quiet and motionless, right where I was.

A woman came slowly down the hallway, holding
the right side of her face. She continued down to the bottom of the
stairs. She was very pretty, with long dark hair, full lips, and a
lush body.

Why would she ever bed
Lash?
She might be weresnake, but I knew she wasn’t his
species. And he’d just hit her.
What an
asshole.

Lash came walking fast down the upstairs
hallway toward her, his gaze locked on her. From my hidden alcove,
I felt a shiver of fear. Lash went down the stairs, grabbed
Esperanza by the back of her neck, and gave her a shove. “Get to
the couch,” he hissed. “And drop your skirt, before I drop it for
you.”

I stayed still, riveted.

Esperanza backed away from him, showing him
her own snake fangs in a warning hiss. Lash bared his fangs back at
her, then grabbed hold of her, throwing her to the couch. He
unzipped his pants. She got up, and tried to run, but he grabbed
her again, pushing her face down on the couch.

“Hold still, you bitch!” he hissed. Esperanza
tried to bite him in response. He slapped her hard, knocking her to
the couch on her belly. She tried to crawl away from him over the
back of the couch, but he grabbed her hips, tearing her underwear
down. With a quick motion, he pulled her hips back against him
hard. Esperanza let out a cry, going still. He pulled down her low
cut tank top, baring her large breasts, and he grabbed hold of them
in his hands, squeezing roughly. Lash let out a loud hiss of
satisfaction, and then he was hammering himself into her, trapping
her body against the couch as he thrust fiercely into her, and she
was struggling, but she seemed to be moaning, too. He gripped her
hard, his one hand moving up from her breast to wind in her hair,
the other still fondling her breasts.

“Yes, lover, just like that!” Esperanza
hissed. “Yes, stroke me! Fuck me! Harder!”
Her
struggles are and were really her writhing in pleasure in his grip.
This isn’t force; it’s more role-playing. Ugh. Maybe this is where
Kev gets his ideas.

Lash continued to pound himself into her,
hissing fast and furiously, his eyes almost closed. Esperanza
alternated demanding he fuck her harder with loud hissing noises of
pleasure, her eyes tightly shut and her mouth slack with desire. In
a few minutes, it was over. Lash jerked, as he came inside her, and
Esperanza let out a soft cry of release, collapsing over the couch
under him.

They’d been so quiet, compared to my lovers
and me.
Maybe it’s a snake thing?

Lash stood up, and zipped his pants, looking
down at her with an angry expression. “There had better not be any
fucking python,” he hissed in a dangerous tone. “I told you I’d pay
you for every night, but I was going to be your only lover. That
was our arrangement.”

“There isn’t,” she hissed softly, turning to
him almost lovingly. “There’s only you.”

“You’re going to get tested tomorrow,” Lash
interrupted. “Before I fuck you again, you’re going to show me
you’re safe to fuck.”

“I’ll do it,” she said quickly, her fangs
disappearing, her eyes soft and placating. “I’ll bring you proof
tomorrow.”

“You had better, or you won’t be having any
more of me,” he hissed at her. “When I fuck you, I want to feel
your flesh against mine. I’m not going to wear a rubber.”

“You don’t have to, I told you,” she pleaded,
coming to him on her hands and knees on the couch. He helped her
stand, and she reached up, sliding her hands around his neck. “I
don’t want you to, anyway. I’m on the pill.”

“Go off it!” Lash hissed angrily. “I can’t
get you with child, I told you. So there’s no reason for you to be
on it, unless you’re fucking someone else besides me.”

“I will, tonight. I swear, there’s only you.
I like to feel you, too, Lash. So much...”

“I know you do,” he said, hissing in an
almost fond manner, and then he kissed her roughly. She wrapped her
arms around him, kissing him back passionately.

He let her go after a moment, though she
didn’t take her arms from around him. “You care for me, don’t you?”
she said softly. “I like you a lot, Lash. I love being with you,
feeling you loving me.”

She must be crazy.
Well, she’s his lover, so she has to be just from
that decision.

“You’re nice,” he said gently, looking down
at her. “That’s all I want in a woman, Esperanza. Just to have
someone to be with, to coil with, and not have to share her with
another snake.”

“You have that, in me. But I’d like it, if we
could be more,” she offered, kissing his neck gently. “I could be
your woman, Lash. There doesn’t need to be money between us.”

Lash took her arms off him gently, and pushed
her away. “There is too much danger here for that. I’m not that
kind of man, Sweetfang. You knew that when I first made
arrangements with you. Things are better staying as they are.”

He walked her to the door, and opened it for
her.

“Okay,” she said with a sultry smile. “I’ll
see you tomorrow then. I’ll bring you the proof.”

“Be safe going to your home,” Lash hissed
gently, and shut the door behind her.

I made a quick dash for the stairs. The
movement caught Lash’s attention. I blushed red as he gave me a
knowing look. “You watched us.”

I flushed deeper. “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean
to.”

“You thought I was raping her, didn’t you?”
he said angrily, as I backed away from him.

“I didn’t...I don’t judge,” I offered
lamely.

“She likes me being rough with her, even
sometimes to hurt her,” Lash hissed softly. “I don’t understand it
myself, but she needs it, to get enjoyment out of sex. I do it,
though some of what she asks me to do to her appalls me.”

“I saw that,” I uttered, hoping I wasn’t
making a bigger hole for myself. I hadn’t expected him to be
thoughtful enough to care what his partner needed, since he was
paying her.
But my guys cared about my happiness.
Why shouldn’t he be the same?

“I’d rather be gentler,” Lash went on,
looking at me with his cold eyes. “I like sharing soft caresses
with a woman, to make love to one. I miss it badly. But I can’t do
that with her. And she is the only were in this place who will let
me touch her.”

I flushed dark crimson at his words, the
reason for his explanation clear.
He wants me to
reconsider, to let him come to me.

I looked at his snake eyes and fangs, and
knew I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even imagine kissing him.
What if he wants some kind of fantasy, like
Kev?
Bile rose in my throat, and I swallowed hard.

“I see your revulsion in your eyes,” he
hissed flatly. “Forget I said anything.” He stalked past me, and up
the stairs. His bedroom door closed with a slam, and I almost fell
to my knees in relief. Somehow, I got to my bedroom, shut and
locked the door, then collapsed on the bed.

While I felt badly for Lash’s situation, what
could I do? There was nothing he could do that would make me not
fear him. And there was no way I wanted him inside me.
Not ever.

* * * *

That next week, after four nights of
attempting transformations with Nick and Vince, I finally changed
form. I became coyote first, not a fox. It felt so good to finally
run, to finally be what I’d always known on some subconscious level
I was. Two nights later, I managed finally to take fox form. It was
very different, though I wasn’t that much smaller. I seemed way too
short, and my legs too tiny to support me. Yet Vince and Nick
encouraged me with their friendly chuffs. With their help, I
adjusted to my new forms rapidly.