Cravr (The Mating Games Book 8) (7 page)

The change was almost instantaneous and shocking. One second Cravr stood before her, the next second a huge creature was there. If she’d not looked in his eyes and still seen the love she knew Cravr felt for her, she would have bolted, assurances be damned. Cautiously stepping forward, she stroked his arm. A rumbling noise, not unlike a cat purring, broke free from his chest. Annie was an animal lover, she couldn’t help herself. They bonded instantly. Her immediate acceptance seemed to touch the massive being right away. A tear rolled down from one of his unusual eyes. The iris was black as coal, but rimmed in royal purple.

“You’re adorable.” She said and was rewarded with a growl. Apparently adorable wasn’t a word he appreciated.

Her mate changed back to his usual form just as fast. It was such a blur she didn’t see the details of the change. “You handled that well.” He praised.

Annie supposed she did, but Jorgr had mentioned something like that to her and Mimi, but they hadn’t believe him either. Even when their sister, Georgie, had confirmed it, they hadn’t truly accepted it. Seeing was the only way someone would trust that what they said was true. If she hadn’t already felt so committed to Cravr and envisioned the perfect future with him, could she have dealt with it as well? She would never know.

Cravr led her to the bedroom, it was nice, but simple with no frills. The bed was huge, larger than a king, but what did she expect? Cravr was naked in seconds and looking at her with passion and expectations. “You don’t need to cover up your attributes, Sweetheart. I want to see you in all your glory.”

Annie suddenly felt shy about undressing. Cravr was staring at her with a fever burning in his eyes and his beast was peeking out. She wanted this male, desperately. It was too the point where she worried he wouldn’t like what he saw and that she couldn’t satisfy him. Never before had that worried her, never before had that mattered so much.

“I can help you get out of all that clothing.” Cravr said, his voice deep with his demon’s influence.

“That’s okay.” Annie said as she pulled her shirt over her head dropping it carelessly on the ground. Having slipped out of her sandals at the door, she pushed her pants down, stepping out of them, then kicking them away.

Now she stood before him in just her matching hot pink bra and panties. Cravr looked like he wanted to gobble her up. It was both flattering and terrifying to her. Would that huge demon come out while they made love and tear her apart? Her mate hadn’t talked about his demon’s part in their mating.

“He will only watch through my eyes and feel through my skin. My demon knows he’s too big for you.” Cravr whispered in her ear. When had he moved so close? It made her shiver as he unsnapped her bra and it fell to the floor.

Her mate slid her panties down and as he crouched before her, his hot breath hitting her pussy, she stepped out of them. She heard him inhale her scent and it excited her when he let out a low groan. “You smell intoxicating. I need a taste.” Cravr said as she felt his hot, wet tongue slide along the seam of her nether lips begging and pressing for entrance. He pressed harder and slid in, running his tongue from clit to gate. Luckily his arms were wrapped around her legs steadying her or she would have fallen from the sheer pleasure.

A moan broke loose from her, begging for more. Crave obliged, running his tongue back and forth furiously. Before he changed tactics and speared her channel with his tongue. One armed encircled her, holding her steady while the other moved so a finger could circle her clit. “Oh, God!” She moaned.

Her body tried to lean closer to him, to somehow press into him, and make him do more. He held her back with one arm, unwilling to be pushed into speeding up. Never had anything felt this marvelous. Cravr was taking her higher and higher, his talented tongue hitting all the right places to build such a pleasurable tension that her body was singing in delight. A small nudge would push her over into a sea of bliss that she wanted to swim in more than anything. It came when she least expected it, in the form of a pinch to her clit.

Chapter 8

More Than Just a Physical Bond

Cravr lapped up the sweet nectar as his mate spilled her love juice on his face. It gave him satisfaction to please her in this way. His cock was now as hard as a rock with his own love juice leaking from the slit. Need coursed through him making him groan. This female made him want her so bad it hurt. Sliding up her luscious body, he centered his cock at her entrance and began to slowly fill her.

“So damn tight. It feels wonderful!” Cravr shivered with delight. Her legs came around his waist as she prepared to hang on for the ride. It would be a wild one. He finally made it all the way in before he started moving in and out. Slow at first, his speed built until a mating frenzy overtook him. The only thought that held him back was that his mate was delicate.

Annie didn’t seem to be as delicate as he thought, as she urged him on with her whispers, and her heels pressing into the soft cheeks of his ass. Her eyes opened briefly and they shone with desire. There was not doubt in his mind that they were a perfect match physically as well as emotionally. Many Mazlan males discussed their fears about mating with these delicate looking human females. It seemed some only looked delicate.

“Faster and harder, Cravr. I’m so close.” Annie whispered, but he heard perfectly. It was not in him to disappoint his lady. Speeding up just a little more, for her, he knew she was about to hit her orgasm. That would probably pull him into his. Would this create their first child?

Cravr’s feelings were mixed, he both wanted the child and the time alone with his mate. Their other children were older and would not demand the time and attention he had seen infants needed. Yet, to hold a baby in his arms, to fill their house with the big family his parents had had, that would be beautiful. He would leave it in the hands of the god’s who so far had gifted all but possibly Jorgr, with a child right away. All the other mates were either pregnant or had given birth.

The population of their planet was increasing at a dramatic rate. There was work and food for all, life was good. His mate stiffened beneath him, squeezing his staff, right before she exploded bucking under him like a prize bronc.

“Cravr!” She screamed as she came, her face rosy and passion filled.

His beast let out an other worldly sound as they succumbed to their own release before yelling her name. “Annie!” She was the beginning and end of their world. Their perfect mate, the one who would help them with their family, and she would also help calm the beast inside.

His gums itched just before his teeth lengthen. He knew his mating venom would be injected with the bite, beginning the process that would change her forever. His fangs sank in to the spot where her shoulder met her neck. Cravr could feel his venom shooting into her as her blood filled his mouth. Pulling back, he licked her wound so that it would heal. A deep feeling of belonging came over him and he felt a pinch, Annie had bitten him back to show her approval of their mating. Peace settled on him now that the mating was complete.

It was true the demon needed the mate as much, if not more than the male. A mate kept a demon grounded and kept his beast from bursting loose and creating havoc. There was no limit to the damage an uncontrolled demon could cause and the only way to stop them was with deadly force. Killing another of their own kind was a hard thing to live with. Cravr had not had to do it yet, because the males sent here had been, for a large part mated, and most of the others were younger like him. He and his brothers were in prime mating age.

“Gods, my Annie, you are perfect!” he exclaimed once he’d calmed enough to talk.

“You were pretty great too.” She said with her face still flushed and her breath still coming in pants.

Looking down, Cravr saw the mark just as he’d expected, a pale purple, crepe was what he’d heard it called. A smaller mark was on his mate, with the wolfish beast above her heart and fancy lines all around it. In his family, all mating marks were similar, but no two pairs, exactly alike. Hers would be a perfect match to his, only smaller, but no others, not even in his family, would be exactly the same.

“Oh, wow. How’d that get on there?” She asked as she ran her finger over his mark.

“The same way yours did.” He chuckled as she yelled.

“Oh, my God!” She saw the mark and it shocked her.

“It means we are true mates, just as I told you.”

“What if the mark hadn’t shown?”

“Sometimes it shows later. It would have made no difference to me.”

“What of your people, or your family?”

“They only want me to be happy, you make me happy.”

“You say all the right things, Cravr. If you truly mean them, we’ll have a good life.”

“Can you doubt me after what we shared?”

“That was physical, I need everything from you.”

“It was a physical reflection of a soul deep connection. Two people not intended to be together, would never experience such joy when joining.”

“You’re right, it did feel special. I felt it deep inside where it will never go away.”

Cravr relaxed, she felt it too, they would truly be as one. His com buzzed, he wished to ignore it but remembered Annie’s girls. “Cravr.”

“Cravr.”

“This is Ollil at the jail. Razar left instructions he wasn’t to be called until tomorrow. One of the prisoners wants a deal to give us information. We need someone with authority on hand.”

Annie was nodding as she paused while she dressed. He knew this was important to her even though he suspected law was not her calling. “I’ll be there in thirty.” Because so many humans, mostly from Earth, came to their world, they used human measurements to make things easy. He began to dress estimating they would be there in ten since the prison was only five minutes away as the crow flies. Another one of Lista’s colorful sayings. It showed how the mates had burrowed into their everyday lives.

They were both dressed and out the door in less than five minutes. The fact that the males present would smell that they had just mated, was not something he planned to share with his easily embarrassed mate. If they had any sense of self-preservation, they would say nothing. Once they arrived, he helped his mate out of the car. When they entered the building, Ollil was waiting at the main desk.

“You’re early.” He sniffed and looked at them in surprise. “I’ll take you right to the prisoner. I’m sorry to have bothered you.”

“It needed to be done. Let me introduce you to my new mate, Annie. Annie, this is the supervisor at this station, Ollil.”

They exchanged pleasantries as Ollil led them to the cell. The prisoner looked in better shape than when they had seen him as he was arrested. He looked up at them. “I want a deal. I’ll need enough money to get to the outer rim of known space.”

“Tell me what you have, and I’ll decide what it’s worth.” Cravr offered.

Chapter 9

Double Trouble

She still wasn’t sure why Ollil had sniffed the air, but she planned to ask Georgie to see if she knew. Annie listened intently to see what the prisoner had for Cravr. Even if the law wasn’t her passion, she wanted to know enough that he could discuss his day with her. This guy was a weasel, pure scum of the Earth, but that didn’t mean he didn’t have valuable information. Turned out, he did.

“So his son is taking over the company and he’s even worse than the old man. It also seems they agree on something, Oison can’t be allowed to become industrialized. It will kill the company’s profits from the Oison weed manufacturing.” The weasel sat there looking satisfied. He knew his information was worthy of a large pay off.

“Where do you wish to go?” Cravr asked.

“Argosy, I can make a life for myself there. Lots of women to take care of a man.”

“You have a deal. In two weeks, we’ll drop you off there with a small amount of cash. We are heading there anyway for another purpose.” Cravr agreed.

Annie remembered what Sylvia had said about overcrowding and underfeeding. Would it be fair to turn loose a rat on those women already starving and feeling like hell? It was true they would be removing a good portion of the females and dropping a large care package. He knew how bad things were there so she could only assume he intended to leave from there. The rat didn’t trust the Mazlans to know his location. Maybe he was just being smart, but she was sure none of them would ever tell anyone.

It was sad that this had to interrupt their mating. By the time they were done here, it would be time to go home. They would still have some privacy in their room, once they told the girls that Cravr would be in their life now. Now that the deal was agreed upon, there was no need to hang around here. Cravr led her out of the prison portion of the building. The prisoner screamed to be set free now that they had a deal. Cravr paused and turned to look at him.

“We would never trust you running free on our world. You are where you need to be until you are put on the spaceship.” The prisoner started cussing, but Cravr just escorted Annie out of the building.

“Let’s go home and take the girls to pick out their new bedrooms.” Cravr suggested.

“What about Sylvia?” Annie asked.

“She doesn’t need around the clock care, does she? You can feed her, and someone will come in the morning to check on her.”

“I feel guilty. It’s like I offered to help, and now I’m avoiding her.”

“If you want, I can get someone to sit with her overnight.”

Annie threw herself into his arms. “Could you? Thank you so much.” She had to admit that she didn’t want to stay in her old house now. The woman was ready to move into her new life and never look back. That didn’t mean she wouldn’t honor her commitments, but as long as they were seen to, she didn’t have to do it herself.”

Cravr helped his mate into the car. In Annie’s mind, were not just heading to her old house, they were heading to their future. The girls would be excited, they liked Cravr. As they pulled in the driveway, she knew in moments they would know how everyone felt. “Are you sure Jorgr dropped off the girls?”