“I’d take you harder. Do you understand? Once I enter you I’d be too rough. You’re too small inside. I’d cause you pain and I won’t do that.”
“Be gentle. We’ll go slow.”
He turned his head away and closed his eyes. “I have issues you don’t understand.” He stepped back and she had to try to regain her footing when he wiggled his hips enough to force her legs to slide down his.
“Go.” He released her, shoved open the shower door, and gently pushed her out of the shower stall.
Stunned, Lauren found herself dripping on the bathroom floor. Wrath slammed the shower door between them, held it closed, and fisted his own cock. She backed away, barely managed to grab a towel in her bewildered state but didn’t miss it when he released the door and grabbed the soap.
He jacked off in front her, a near brutal show of muscles and strength, and fear inched up her spine. If he took her as roughly as he handled his body it would hurt. The fact that he wasn’t hurting left her reeling as she backed out of the bathroom and finally turned away from him and she stumbled to the bed.
* * * * *
Shadow glanced at Brass, then at his watch. Brass frowned when he looked at him again. Shadow sighed.
“It’s after eight.”
Brass nodded. “It is.”
“Should we check on them? Wrath usually is here to eat at six when breakfast comes. Their food has grown cold.”
Brass shook his head. “I heard sounds as I passed the room. Leave them alone.”
“What kind of sounds?” Shadow arched his eyebrow.
Brass grinned. “He wasn’t force breeding her if that’s what you’re worried about. They were sharing sex for sure from the sounds but it was mutual. I heard the female moaning his name.”
“I don’t know if I should be very worried or very happy right now.”
Brass frowned. “We should be happy. She is attractive and they are having a good time together.”
“It’s Wrath. We both have reasons to worry.”
Brass hesitated. “It is a different experience with humans but nothing to be worried about. We have control of our bodies and strength. He will be fine and so will she.”
“You have never had to endure what we have.” Shadow’s voice lowered. “We’ve been conditioned against human females. The sight of their bodies drives us into rages when we remember what was done to us. Sex isn’t appealing but shameful and painful. We’re both terrified that we might snap if we were to have a female in our beds. We’ve discussed it at length.”
“I’m sorry about what happened to you but I’m sure he’s fine. He’s a reasonable male, he’s protective of her and I believe he cares.”
“Seeing one naked would be reliving what they did to us. You have never been forced to ejaculate your semen—the machine doesn’t stop and it hurts. Your dick remains hard because we are designed that way and hours of pain pass with only short bursts of pleasure when your body is forced to come. Images of human women are what they showed us to keep our dicks hard with the help of the drugs.”
Brass paled slightly. “I had forgotten the extent of your abuse.”
“Wrath was afraid last night to take her to his room. His attraction to her was very strong.”
“She is attractive.”
“You have no idea. After you left to talk with Vengeance I asked her to take her hair down. Wrath dropped a plate of food.”
Brass grunted. “Long and beautiful?”
Shadow nodded. “Definitely hair a man would want to spread out in his fingers and rub on his body. It looked very soft.”
Brass glanced at his watch. “If he is not here soon we will leave without him.”
“We should check on them to make certain they are fine.”
“They sounded fine. Perhaps his need to protect her is overriding his conditioning. She wasn’t screaming for help when she said his name.”
“I’m still worried.”
“Have faith in the male. I do.”
Shadow hesitated. “He was always stronger than I was. I have to believe he won’t harm her. We will leave without him anyway. One of us has to remain behind to guard the female or we’ll have to trust some of the human males to care for her here while we are gone.”
Brass’ fingers tapped the tabletop. “I was hoping to take her with us. I wanted to use her to bait Bill. We’ll give them more time.”
* * * * *
Lauren huddled on the bed with the towel wrapped around her when the shower ended and Wrath entered the room with a matching towel tucked around his hips. His dark gaze sought her out and he slowly approached until he lowered to his knees in front of her. Sadness showed in his expression and it tore at her heart.
“I’m sorry. I scared you, didn’t I?”
“I don’t understand. Are you into pain? Is that it?”
