Rescuing Reya (The Beast Masters Series) (5 page)

“I will not take what you do not truly offer,” he said,
unsure why he didn’t clear up the miscommunication about owning her. “Have you
a name?”

She stared at him for a long time and then the edges of her
mouth lifted upwards. “You phrase things funny. I like it.”

From her speech patterns she was most likely from Earth or
one of its sister planets.

“My name is
Reya
of Earth, Old
World Section Seven.”

“I am
Utan
,” he said.

Her forehead crinkled. “
Utan
and
Altan
. Your names are close.” She continued to study him.
“And you look similar.”

He nodded. “We do. Though our mother will assure you that
Altan
is the
hellspawn
of the two
of us.” He winked to let her know he was kidding. “He has always been a handful
for her while I am a model son.”

Her smile widened slightly. “Brothers?”

He nodded again.

“So, I belong to both of you or just you?” she asked, and
then continued before allowing him a chance to answer. “You should know that I
have some skills when it comes to sexual situations, but that I have not, as of
yet, had actual sex. I won’t be very exciting for you at first but I’m a fast
learner. I told your brother the same.”

Both?

The idea struck a chord with him. Could it be so? Could they
share a woman?
Jaston
and
Malock
had been in his establishment only days prior, when the trader vessel had first
landed, using one of his rooms to seduce the woman they both planned to bond
to. It was unique for
Ralen
in modern times, but that
had not always been the case. He remembered stories of old telling of two males
bonding to one female.

Could he and
Altan
do such a
thing?

Utan
slid his hand over hers. “
Reya
, for now let us worry
about ensuring you are well. The rest will fall into place.”

She cocked a brow.

“A question forms in your mind, but not upon your lips,” he
stated evenly, enjoying how animated her expressions were.

“I told you I don’t want to be property, and that I’m not an
exciting lover, but you haven’t yelled once. Aren’t all
Ralenium
males brutes, ready to shift form into a beast and descend upon the innocent?”

It took all
Utan
had not to fall
to pieces in fits of laughter. He had to take a moment to collect himself.
“Perhaps all you have heard is not truth?”

“Perhaps,” she countered, still watching him closely. “Am I
naked because you inspected me like the slave trader did?”

Utan’s
jovial mood soured at the thought of a slave trader touching her. “You will
tell me more of this.”

She stiffened and then inclined her head, averting her gaze
as she told him of the slave trader wanting to see how a woman of her kind
joined with a male. When she got to the part where he laid his sex organs upon
her body,
Utan
could barely control his beast. He
wasn’t known for having issues with it. In fact, others often consulted him in
search of secrets to control their beasts and their Heat.

His incisors began to lengthen. “I will seek him out and
tear his head from his skinny body.”

Reya
yelped, her eyes wide. “Your teeth.”

His anger cooled as he saw the fright in her eyes. His teeth
returned to normal and he looked away. “I liked not hearing he took advantage
of you and the situation.”

She said nothing for what felt an eternity and he continued
to look away, unsure he had full hold of his beast. When her small hand found
his shoulder, he stiffened. She eased up next to him, on her knees, the sheet
tucked to her body.

“He didn’t hurt me,” she said. “He was curious to see what a
female looked like. And he didn’t break my virginal barrier so your purchase is
whole, Master,
erm
, Sir? Uh, what do I call you?”

Utan
turned his face and found hers near his. Waves of golden tresses went in all
directions around her head, making her look wild—kissable, even. “You are to
call me
Utan
.”

“Very well,
Utan
.” She offered a
warm smile. “How will this work? Do I stay naked in here always? And do I just
wait until you want sex from me or do I follow you around and initiate it as
well?”

Yes.

He had to take a deep breath, his cock already swollen and
hard near her. “First, we shall see to your needs and then we shall think more
upon the rest.”

“My needs?” she echoed.

“You have been here for days,
Reya
.
You require food and I’m sure you’d like a bath that does not come in the form
of a washbasin.”

She glanced to the basin and the washcloth near it. “You
bathed me?”

“Come. You may soak in a warm bath while I have food brought
in for you,” he said, refusing to answer her. He liked her thinking she was
his. More than that, he liked thinking she was his.

There was a soft knock upon his chamber door.

“Enter.”

Shebia
stepped in, her jealous gaze landing upon
Reya
instantly. She focused on
Utan
. “Master, additional
men have arrived. More than we have women for.” She eyed
Reya
.
“Is she ready to begin servicing? Though I do not see how she will fetch much
coin; she is small.”

Reya
tensed, her nails digging into his shoulder. She looked from
Shebia
to him and her jaw fell open. “A brothel?”

Shebia
snorted. “She is not as simple-minded as we first believed. Come. I shall see
to it you are ready to receive callers. You may set your own price within the
limits of the House’s guides. I suggest you begin at the lowest.”

Utan
growled and met
Shebia
’s
gaze. She overstepped her
bounds. “Leave.”

“But, Master, we require her.”

“Get out!” he shouted.

Shebia
jolted before shutting the door and scurrying down the corridor.

Reya
tried to pull on the sheet and stand but couldn’t keep herself covered because
Utan
sat upon the sheet. She stood anyway before him in her
naked glory. He had to fight to keep from dragging her small frame against him
and fucking her senseless.

She kept her head lowered, her hair covering her face. “If
you point me in the direction of the bath, I’ll clean and get to work.”

He reached out and touched her chin, forcing her gaze up. It
was then he spotted her unshed tears. “
Reya
.”

“I understand now,” she said, her voice shaky. “No one
wanted me so I ended up here at a brothel. I’m not surprised. With my lungs and
all, I know I’m broken. For a moment I thought, hoped even, that
Altan
wanted me. Then I mistook your kindness for desire.
I’m such an idiot. I’m so desperate to be wanted that I invent it.” Her lips
quivered. “I should be grateful I didn’t get thrown out with the trash like
they’d have done on the ship. Thank you for taking me in when no one else
would.”

Utan
,
a master of self-control, found himself shattering as he drew her against him.
He pulled on her face, drawing her lips to his. He expected resistance. He
didn’t expect her to gasp into his mouth and then return his advances.

Reya’s
tongue found
Utan’s
and her body lit with need. The
man was her keeper and she was wildly attracted to him. It made no sense to her.
When she’d awoken in his bed and found him sitting there, washcloth in hand,
she’d been speechless. He, like the man she’d first encountered on the planet,
was so incredibly handsome he made it hard to think.

There was something in his eyes and the way he carried
himself that said he could dominate her in the bedroom—just as she’d always
longed for. That he could make her body feel things it had never felt before,
and that if he crooked his finger she’d bend to his every whim. Sadly, she
expected she’d have done the same for
Altan
. Was it
all
Raleniums
? Was her body attuned to them? Would
she service them all with such vigor and wanton desire?

As his tongue darted around her mouth, she found herself
pressing her nude frame against him. Seated on the bed, he was still tall and
hard to reach. She pushed against him more, crawling up and onto his lap. His
hands found her hips and he drew her to him, her legs going around his waist.
He had on too many clothes and she wanted to feel his sleek, hard, thick cock
against her mound.

Whatever he was doing to her, it was powerful. She wanted
this man. She wasn’t sure of the
hows
or whys, but
she knew she wanted to please him. Maybe it was profound gratitude for saving
her from a fate of death at the hands of the slave traders. Since no others had
wanted her,
Utan
had at least given her a chance at
survival.

He eased to his back, taking her with him. She continued
kissing him, feeling powerful because she was on top of him. The harder she
kissed and ground against him, the more his hands roamed her body, pulling on
her as if he wanted to pull her straight through him.

He broke the kiss and held her at arm’s length. “Go! Summon
Shebia
and the others quickly!”

Confused, she stared down at him, his golden gaze full of
lust. She thought harder on his request and then nodded, making a move to slide
off him. “I understand. I know I’m no prize, that your kind like your women
stronger than me. I’ll get the others to service you. I’m sorry. I don’t know
why I kissed you.”

He thumped his head on the bed. “R-
Reya
,
go from me, now!”

Hurt, she failed to stop the tear that came to her cheek.
Rejected again. It was the story of her life. She eased off him fully.

He snatched a hold of her and stood, towering over her. “I
seek to save you from being ravished by me and you weep?”

Ravished by him?

He wasn’t rejecting her? He was protecting her?

She wiped her cheek and smiled up at him. “I’ll get the
others.”

“
Reya
,” he said, his voice so much
deeper than it had been. “Now you smile?”

She nodded. “I’m happy you want to ravish me.”

His eyes widened. He swallowed hard and kept hold of her.
“Bathe.”

She nodded, understanding his senses were probably
heightened because he could shift into a beast.

He pulled her across the room to an adjoining one and thrust
open its door. It was a large bathing chamber with a huge bath that bubbled. As
he began to undress, she hid her excitement. He was bathing with her?

She couldn’t stop staring at him as he peeled off his shirt,
casting it aside. Every inch of him was sculpted. When he removed his pants and
stood before her totally naked, she knew she was staring at his cock in an
unladylike way, but she couldn’t help it. He was huge.

“
Reya
, I hang by a thread,” he
said, his voice deep. “Continue to look upon me with desire in your eyes and I
will
descend upon you
.”

“Okay,” she said, holding her arms up. “Descend upon me.”

“What?”

“This isn’t how I wanted to lose my virginity, on some
strange planet, but I know what you’re cleaning me up for—servicing others—and
I’d like some say in all this. If that means I pick you to be my first full
lover then so be it. It’s a little bit of control and, honestly,
Utan
, I don’t think I ever dreamed a man could look like
you do.”

He tipped his head back as if trying to gather control of
himself.

Reya
gathered her nerve and stepped closer to him before going to her knees. She
took hold of his hard, long cock and he gasped, looking down at her. She moved
her head forward, opening her mouth and taking the head of his cock between her
lips. If she was going to service men, then she damn well was picking her first
bed partner and
Utan
was it. She’d done enough with
men to understand what they liked, and her friends back in Old World Section
Seven liked to whisper of the naughty things they’d done to men. She could do
this. She could make sure her first real time was good.

She took more of his cock into her mouth and it went down
her throat. She relaxed as she remembered the girls from home whispering that
was best to do. Her jaw opened wider, allowing more of
Utan’s
shaft to enter her mouth. She moved, bobbing her head up and down, sucking on
his cock. She used her hands to help cover and stimulate the part she couldn’t
fit into her mouth. There was simply too much man to be had.