Fury

Where do I begin? This may be embarrassing but I’m here to help these women. Ellie kicked off her shoes to sit cross-legged on the couch. “The way they talk for starters. I never speak that way and if a man spoke to me the way they do in those films, I would probably get pretty upset.”

“Calling females offensive bad words and demanding they do sexual acts even though they don’t look that pleasurable for females?”

“Yes. Exactly.”

“We thought it kind of shocking. Some believe it’s downright rude.”

“Yeah, well, if a guy said some lines in those movies to a woman in real life, well, he’d end up being slapped or worse.”

“Understood. What else is different?”

Ellie shrugged. “I don’t know what you’ve seen. Most people don’t have sex with multiple partners to start with. We’re monogamous in general.”

“So I don’t have to invite a female friend to our bed if I want to do it with a fully human man or sleep with two of them at once? I had decided to never touch a human because of that. We don’t share well and I figure a capable male should be able to please a woman without needing help from a friend.”

“No!” Ellie closed her mouth, which had fallen open. “Stop watching those. Watch love stories. Porn movies are…well, they just…” She softly cursed. “Tell them to stop watching them and forget what they’ve seen. Please. Those are actors and actresses who are paid to have sex on film. They are given a script that someone wrote. Do you understand? They are made to be entertainment but not a ‘how to’ guide on sex unless you want to see how something is done without actually doing it.”

“Okay.”

“What is your version of sex? Maybe we can start there. It might be the same.”

“Well, we enjoy kissing. We love to kiss. That is new to us but we picked that up after we were freed. We love to touch. We say soft, appealing words, and growl to show our level of arousal. Is that all right?”

“Perfect,” Ellie admitted. The growling… She let that slide.

“We fight for dominance and whoever is tougher gets to decide the position we have sex. The male usually wins unless he is tired or weak from injury.”

“Uh…” Ellie’s mind blanked with that shocking news.

Breeze stopped talking. “Is that different from you?”

“Explain ‘fight for dominance’.”

She blinked. “It’s just the way it sounds.”

“Like wrestling?”

She nodded. “Very similar.”

Ellie shrugged. “That would be okay but we don’t usually enjoy pain during sex. You know that, right?”

“Okay. I’ll share that. So no fighting?”

“I’d skip that part. I’m sure some people would be into it but it’s not something you’d want to generally assume as okay to do.”

“So who gets to decide the positioning?”

Her mouth opened and then closed. Who indeed? Ellie smiled. “We talk and try to mutually agree on that. Sometimes we mix it up.”

“Mix it up? Explain.”

Ellie hesitated. “Well, let’s say I’m on top straddling a man and then after a while he could flip me over to be on top of me. Mixing it up. Is that clear enough?”

Breeze nodded. “Yes. We don’t do that. We get into a position and stay with it to the end.” She hesitated. “Why would you be on top? What man would lie there for that? Isn’t his pride injured being dominated that way?”

Ellie knew her eyes widened. “It’s…” Damn. I’m so glad I never had children if this is the kind of discussion I’d have to face. She was at a loss for words yet again but Breeze expected an answer. “It’s not about dominance with us. It’s about pleasure. Have you ever been on top during sex?”

Breeze appeared horrified by the question. “No. I refused to take a man when he was tied down and helpless. Even when the technicians threatened to punish me I would not do it. I would rather have taken the beating than harm the male’s pride.”

“Oh boy. Human guys don’t think that way. He would be thrilled for a female do that to him.”

“Oh. Our males wouldn’t be. They would get very angry. Fury would feel insulted if you even asked him to lay meek under you. Our men are dominant.”

She had nothing to say to that. Ellie just nodded. “I wouldn’t ask it of him,” she finally got out.

“Good. He would be very insulted. Our men would rather die than be submissive. That’s why, inside the testing facility, I took a beating before I would do what they wanted when they bound one of our men down.”

An image of Fury restrained against the floor while Jacob hurt him flashed in Ellie’s memory. She’d never forget seeing that sight or the horror she experienced at knowing what kind of hellish nightmare she’d walked into. God, she thought, hugging her chest tightly with both arms.

“Ellie? Are you cold?”