The Change: Episode one (33 page)

Instead of the gentle treatment she’d gotten
from me so far, I tangled my hands in her hair and gave a punishing
kiss that left me more than a little breathless. The taste of her
was intoxicating.

I deepened the kiss as I thrust forward,
holding her in place, and was rewarded with a low moan I was
determined to make louder. She wouldn’t be thinking about renting a
male when I was through.

I snagged the corner of her
cloak and lifted the string over her head. The black material fell
aside, and I nuzzled those perky breasts I still hadn’t
seen.
That
was
about to change, too.

I used a hard finger down the button-line to
rip her shirt open and she sucked in a tight breath that had me
thrusting against her heat. I liked her pleasure, and I couldn’t
wait to really taste her. I’d loathed it with the others, but they
weren’t my Candy.

Her bra was black, as I’d fantasized, and I
slid the straps over her shoulders with hot hands and a thumping
heart.

She was watching me, and when I released the
clasp between those tattooed swells, her pink eyes started filling
with crimson. The Change was coming, I would have to cuff her, but
first, I wanted to really see her… all of her.

I jerked on the button of her pants, causing
the bra to fall open and I throbbed at the sight of those perfect
breasts.

She had tattoos over her sides and hips, the
erotic kind with spiked, eye-catching details that said the person
who had inked her enjoyed their work. Disappearing into her snug
pants, the intricate green and black design ran up both slender
hips and came out to encircle bright pink nipples that I had to
lick.

My tongue lashed over a taut tip and she
cried out, claws ripping into my wrists.

I drew back to see that her eyes were
blood-red orbs. The muscles in her arms were swelled, her breathing
harsh, and I flicked a rough thumb over the rocky nipple I’d just
had my mouth on.

Her body shuddered and her swollen lips
parted. “Get… the cuffs.”

I had blushed earlier at the thought of
using them, but I wasn’t embarrassed now. I wanted her locked up
tight so I could go back to exploring that exotic body. How far did
the tattoo go?

She took in another ragged breath when I
moved off of her, staying still as I got the metal and snapped it
around the nearest pole. Luckily, we’d landed by the bed, but I
didn’t even think of stopping long enough to move us onto it.

She extended her arm for the first cuff, and
I quickly snapped it into place. On the second, Candice hesitated.
Worried I’d hurt her? It was a surprise to think it, and I dropped
the other cuff to the cold floor. “That’s enough.”

She shook her head as I carefully lowered my
hard body back to hers. “That’s not a good…oohhh…”

My kiss silenced her, and I
fell right back into the haze of lust as she arched under
me
. If not for our pants, I would be
inside her now!

The thought had me rocking harder, squeezing
tighter, kissing deeper.

C

He’d lost control of himself.

I recognized it, but I wasn’t sure I had the
will to stop things. Fire spread through my gut as he ground that
steel bar between my legs, and I groaned into his mouth again as he
roughly pinched a taut nipple.

My hand threaded through his silken hair and
held him closer, already nearing that golden edge. He knew exactly
what spot to hit, how hard to squeeze, and I stiffened in his arms
as pleasure seared me from head to toe.

I trembled, fighting for
air as he slid a hand down my stomach and inside my pants.
He wasn’t stopping
. The
thought had the fire flaring back to life before it had burnt
down.

I hissed in agony when he pushed that big
hand against me and his fingers dipped in to stroke my molten
flesh... I cried out as he hit it just right.

I was aware of him shifting, of my pants
being jerked off, but all I could feel was the raging inferno he’d
brought to life. The cool air on my skin was another pleasure to be
savored, and I kissed him back without a concern for safety as the
pain-like pleasure swept me up again.

Fingers moving in light circles, his mouth
traced down, skimming my jawline, my neck, my chest…

“
Uuuuhhh…”

In my lust, the lack of clothes between us
was a blessing, not a worry. I felt his bare leg against my hip...
I shivered - so close to that edge again! and I did what I’d told
myself I wouldn’t. I forgot where we were, who he was, and what
could happen as he moved on top of me.

The thick muscles of his arms clenched as he
lowered his naked body between my legs, stiff erection finding my
slick skin… pushing into me.

And that’s when I started to snap.

D

I couldn’t stop.
I wouldn’t!

Her nails shredded my arm as I shoved
forward and buried myself in her tight body.

A scream echoed off the stone walls, and I
dropped my mouth over hers in lust. I’d never felt anything like
her furious heat, and I grunted as her free hand raked my back.

I slid my tongue into her mouth as I thrust
forward harder, and I sank into her flesh like it was made for me.
Her legs came up to hold me close, and I ground my mouth against
hers, taking everything she wanted to give and more.

Her breasts pressed against my chest in
silken peaks, and I ripped my mouth from hers to suck on a swollen
tip. Her heat clenched around me and the handcuff split apart with
a loud shriek that we both ignored.

She rolled us over, pushing down to take me
deeper, and now I was the one arching, thrusting upward to accept
what she was offering. Her nails sliced into my chest, and I jerked
her down for a punishing kiss as we mated. The pain was distant,
but this pleasure! I used my hands on her naked breasts as I
shifted, thrust upward.

Her cry had our door opening and my grip on
her hot body tightening. I held her head to mine when she would
have looked up, craving another taste, and felt her nails sink into
my shoulders, drawing warm drops that matched the ones still on my
fist.

I rolled us back over and tilted her head,
making her look at me as I slid forward. She shuddered, grip on my
dick tightening to a pleasure-pain that sent me out of control. I
pinned her wrists to the floor above her head and thrust into her
again, hard enough to draw another cry, and she stiffened, clamping
down on me as she exploded.

Her tattoo flashed as she arched, exotic and
now mine! and I shoved deeper. I‘d never felt so good, so alive,
and I let my male side have its way. I pulled out of her slick body
and pushed her over.

The tattoo ran across her back and the
cheeks of her ass, too, and it had me jerking her into the position
I wanted so I could rub against it while I gave her a son. That
thought finished me off and I thrust deep as I held her by the hips
and groaned in ecstasy.

“
Now that’s what she
needs.”

Baker’s voice came through a haze of
pleasure that had me locked against her slippery body.

“
Come on.”

“
But he needs
medical…”

“
She’ll see to it. She
always did me.”

It was amazing, how fast that drove the need
to claim her, back into my body. Groaning, I sent my hand to the
trembling flesh in front of me, and leaned down to taste her
tattooed skin.

Chapter Twenty One

D

“
Good morning.”

Her eyes were already tinted pink as she
took in my hardness against her hip, the sights and smells of our
pleasure.

“
Daniel, about last night,
I’m…”

I didn’t let her say anything else, just
wrapped my arms around her naked body and sent my mouth to suckle
on her neck. I already knew the truth. She didn’t want them. She
lusted for me and the feeling was mutual.

My hands slowly slid down her arm to her
tattooed breast and I ran a rough finger over the hard tip with a
chill. She was so hot! And mine!

I nuzzled her neck, pressing against her
cheeks and she shoved back almost frantically. I slid my hand
between us to adjust and when she arched, I slid into her from
behind.

I growled low in my throat as I pushed
deeper, spreading her thighs. She twitched against me, nails out
and searching, and I pulled her back against my hard body as I
pushed against her again.

"Oooohhh."

My hands went to her flesh, stroking the
outside to trigger the inside as I’d been taught, and her cry had
me stiffening into full use. I grinned.

Knowing our morning noises would echo in the
tunnels sent my lust up a notch, and I thrust slowly in and out of
her stunning heat, feeling her hips responding, keeping pace. Her
core was soaked, sucking on me, and I pinned her in place with my
hand and body as I took what I wanted… her pleasure.

Shoving harder, I drew a gasp from those
lips that nearly sent me over the edge. When her body began
convulsing around me, I tightened my grip and pushed deeper,
drawing a cry that made me explode.

In that chaotic moment, I saw how she’d
bound me, how any other woman’s pleasure would never affect me the
same way. Candice was the only one for me, owner or not, and I shot
seed into her with every thick wave of piercing pleasure.

C

When we stepped from the room, still sharing
looks of satisfied desire, a low cheer started and then
swelled.

It came from the bachelors,
most of them gathered for the morning meal, and I felt him flush at
my side. He was a hero to them for standing up for himself and for
surviving it, but also for doing it so well. None of them, not even
Baker, would have had the sand to
take
a Changeling.

I gave Daniel a gentle push toward the two
males he had been talking with last night. “Spend a few minutes
with them before we go.”

Instead of rushing off, he ducked a head to
my cheek and placed a soft kiss on my skin. Then he moved off to
play with his friends, leaving me with a smile on my face that felt
foreign.

Settled in the corner near us, I heard
Angelica’s soft growl of agony. She hadn’t made use of Baker on the
train, and I already knew she wouldn’t touch one of these meek
males. She wanted what I now had, a match, and there was only one
place she could get it.

I moved toward the food with soreness and a
satisfied feeling that allowed me to swing my arm around Greg’s
thin shoulder as he started to step around me. He froze, like the
rest of the room, and I leaned close enough to lick his ear if I
had a mind to.

“
Send in your spies as the
level three and four Changelings. Wait until the final match, when
they bring out the bachelors. Do it while the winner is
picking.”

I watched his face flood with happiness and
discovery, already falling into the planning with his inside
information, and I inhaled deeply. Nothing. The grin on my face had
him leaning toward me, and Daniel moving our way.

I turned my head to give my mate a glare
that sent the frightened males from his side, and he stopped.
Satisfied I’d made my point (I was still the lead, no matter how
much his defiance pleased me), I looked back at Greg. “You’ll have
to leave the adults, and you’ll never be able to use it again
because they’ll figure it out after they watch the tapes.”

He was nodding. “What about the sealed
doors? They don’t open until two days after the winner picks.”

“
You take them out the same
way they took you in.”

His face paled. “The Ring…”

I flashed my Games grin and dropped my arm
from his stiffening shoulders. “Can be bought. Their profession
says it’s true, but there will have to be… sacrifices.”

I sent my eyes over those close enough to
hear my quiet words. “A few of you will get hurt to have them
distracted enough to not watch the monitors or tunnels.”

Greg looked back at me with more guts than
I’d given him credit for.

“
If it gets my sons out of
there, I’d service all of them myself without the
cuffs.”

I snorted. “You’d better take a lesson from
Daniel then, because they won’t use the cuffs, it might not work,
and you may end up dead.”

I stepped back, tone softening a bit in a
way that drew attention. The differences in me were almost obvious.
“Send in someone who can take what they dish out and ask for
more.”

When his head turned toward my mate, I shut
it down. “Win your own!”

Now there was a fury, but it was defensive,
striking out only because being away from Daniel had crossed my
thoughts. That wouldn’t be allowed… ever.