The Viper's bite

Chapter 3


Everything was gray, including the floors they walked on. She could get lost here and never be found.

Her stomach began to grumble.


“There is food and rest in our room.” His purring was soft towards her not like before.


Paula clung to him tightly. He could feel her breasts pressing hard against his arm. She was afraid to leave his side this was unknown to her. Ky’an released her hand and placed his arm around her waist pulling her into his body as they walked. He felt her relax when she felt his strength and warmth. He leaned his head down to speak softly in her ear.


“I will protect you Paula; you do not have to fear anyone.” He felt her nod. He smiled in her hair.


“Ky’an, you can not wait to start with her.”


The Viper raised his head to see the Elder’s son Rah’fi coming towards him with his two bodyguards. They were not friends; a silent truce lay between them. Rah’fi only hated Ky’an because he did not nod or acknowledge his position.Ky’an did none of those things to anyone because the Elder Jake’her said he did not have to anymore.

Paula did not want to stop but Rah’fi deliberately stood in their path.Ky’an did not slow down he just kept walking towards the Elder’s son. Paula closed her eyes for the collision but she heard Rah’fi move when Ky’an growled.The two bodyguards looked at each other hoping for the fight that was destined to happen this year. They wanted to see Rah’fi end up a smear on the Viper’s boot.


“You did not introduce us Ky’an where are your manners.”


“Where are yours?” Ky’an disappeared around the corner with his mate.


Rah’fi growled he would not even say his name.


~*~

She just stood there in the middle of the bachelor pad he called his room. It had color. There were many rooms and where they stood was a sitting area. Ky’an began walking away looking at her, Paula began to follow him into another room at the end of the hall.

It was his bedroom and it was the size of her entire apartment. He heard her make a high-pitched sound with her lips.


He looked at her. “You like the room.”


Paula looked at him. “It is very big.”


“It is small compared to others.”


Paula looked at the bed. “Where do I sleep?”


“You will sleep beside me, naked as I will be.”


Paula stared up at him as he approached her. “But it is kind of cold in here.”


“My heat will make you warm as it has before.”


“Can I wear this to bed?” She touched the white material.


“No”


“What about just the top?”


Ky’an growled. “I said naked.”


Paula frowned but nodded at his demand.


Ky’an stared down into her eyes. “Avoid the male you just met, if he ever touches you I will kill him.”


“You think he wants to touch me?” Ky’an moved her hair from her face where it always seemed to go. He felt the tightness in his cloth and slowly pulled his hand away.


“We do not agree on anything, mainly the existence of each other.”


“Oh” Ky’an turned away.


“She still loves you.”


Ky’an smiled. “She only wants to mate with me.”


Paula frowned at his cockiness. “Are you going to mate with her?”


Ky’an began to remove his mesh vest and Paula lost all train of thought watching the unrestrained muscles appear on his back.Ky’an turned back to face her.


“She is not my mate.”


That was not what she asked him and Paula rolled her eyes.


Ky’an growled at her. “You think I want to mate with her.”


“Yes and that is what she wants to have that power over you.”


Ky’an smiled and towered over her. “It was I that held that power little one.”


Paula held his hands down at his sides as if she could stop him from raising them to kill her.“That was not enough to keep her here.”


Ky’an smiled and whipped around throwing her into the air. She landed on the bed and he was on her the moment she touched it. His weight crushed her into the firm pad.


“Are you asking me to show you what she can not have again and why she will beg to have it again?”


He growled in her face with anger.Ky'an could smell her fear rising with every passing minute. However,a grumble from her stomach made him pause his attack. Ky'an moved from her body and Paula took a long and deep breath to calm her fear and shaking body.

~*~

“Ooman, how dare he bring an Ooman into his bed?” Se'tra paced her room flailing her arms in anger.It was their place of refuge and now he intends to defile it with that disgusting creature. He still wanted her, and this was all for show. He could not possibly want to be inside that diseased female. Se’tra growled with disgust at that thought.


“He would not parade her in front of me if he knew he could have me again.”


Se’tra began to smile.Perhaps a dinner in his honor would show his true feelings. Of course, she would dress in his favorite color to show him what he is missing.Grails, Ford, Rah’fi, and their females would attend and they would all see that Ky’an was not over her.

Se’tra went into her sleeping quarters and rang the rooms of the females to inform them of her plans.

~*~


She stared at the food before her wondering what in the hell it was. Most of it was gooey and blue, red or green. Where she came from green meat was not a good thing. Her stomach grumbled as she looked across the floor level table to see Ky’an eating and watching her. She had no other choice but to apologize, she needed his help.


“I am sorry for making you angry.”


Ky’an grunted. “No you are not; you just want me to tell you what each substance is.”


“You know calling it a substance does not make me feel any better about eating it.”


Ky’an snorted and then got up and walked around the large spread of food until he was beside her. He sat down and stared down at her apologetic expression. He lost most of his anger the moment he was close to her.

Paula picked up what she thought was bread. Ky’an continued eating ignoring her as she looked at him and bit the blue cracker like thing. She began chewing slowly and then picked up speed.


“This is good.”


Ky’an smiled. “Those are usually what pregnant females like.”


Paula frowned. “I am human things would be different for me.”


Ky’an grunted and watched her try the green meat.


“It tastes like chicken.” She moved on to the red sauce. Ky’an stopped her.


“You will not like that.”


“Why not, you want it all?”


“It is some animal that lives underground churning soil and eating…”


Paula pulled her hand back. “Okay what about this."


Ky’an looked at the blue gooey stuff and nodded.

Ten minutes later, she had made a concoction of the blue crackers with the chunky red and yellow sauce on top, the green chicken meat over that followed by some brown curly substance.Ky’an did not tell her that the brown curly substance was Mseey worms that held toxins in their bodies that helped protect his species from poisons and disease.


Paula smiled at him. “I present alien nachos. Want one?”


She picked one up and ate it. Ky’an smiled at her as she picked up another and ate it moaning at the delicious taste.


“Thuis es sew goowd.” He could barely make out what she was saying with her mouth full of food.


She picked up another and ate it as well. Ky’an smiled as she licked the dripping sauce from her fingers. She smiled at him and picked up another one.She had eaten at least twenty before offering him another one.


“I am full.”


”Oh come on you know you want it.” She swung it in front of his face.


Ky’an grunted. “I am full.”


He said again. Paula began swinging her body. His eyes went immediately to her breasts.“You know you want to try it”

He noticed she held the offending concoction directly in front of her breasts, if he timed it right he could be touching them for another reason besides just wanting to touch them.

He pushed her hand back, the wet mess fell onto her breasts, and Paula gasped and looked down at the cold and warm liquid rolling down between her breasts.Ky’an grabbed the cloth that she was going to use to wipe off her breasts.


“Do you need some help?”


“No just give me the cloth.”


Ky’an tossed it over to the other side of the low table. Paula looked at him with a raised eyebrow.


“Why did you do that?”


“You need my help.” He moved forward. Paula moved back.


“No I do not.”


“Oh come on you know you want it.”


Paula burst out in laughter when he used her words against her. He tackled her to the floor and her laughter stopped.


“It is getting sticky.”


She tried to squirm from under his weight but Ky’an easily held her down.“Hold still and I will clean it off.”


Paula watched him lower his head to her breasts.


“Use the cloth please.” Her voice a higher pitch then normal.Ky’an transferred her wrists into one hand and untied her top.


Paula stared down at him and then closed her eyes when she felt his very warm tongue on her breasts. It slowly moved along the soft skin of her breasts as he licked up the tasty sauce. He licked around her nipple and then slowly took it into his mouth to suck off some more of the sauce. A strangled cry escaped her and he no longer had to hold her down. He released her hands and lifted her back to press more of her flesh towards his mouth.

The sound of a beep made him pause for a moment.Ky'an looked up at the screen and saw Se’tra standing there. Paula slowly came down from the haze she was in and followed his gaze.This was probably the only time she would be happy to see Se’tra. She smiled and turned back towards Ky’an to find him staring at her.


“I think it is for you.”


Se’tra waited outside the door trying to hear what was going on inside. The door slid open half way and Ky’an stood there bare chest and annoyed.


Se’tra smiled. “I remember this chest.”


Ky’an grunted. “Someone else lays on it now.”


Se’tra tried to look in the room. “Where is she?”


“She is getting ready for me.”


Se’tra crinkled her brow. “You mean to mate with her. How far are you going to carry out this plan of yours?”


“What plan are you referring to Se’tra?”


She sighed. “You can not possibly think she is better than me. She is not right for you. An Ooman that probably is diseased and whoring with everything she can.”

Paula could hear her cutting her down and decided to take matters in her own hand.


“That is enough talk about Paula and I will not tolerate anymore from you understood.”


Se’tra was silent.


“Why are you here and where did you tell Grails you were going?”


Se’tra growled at him. “Why would I lie to Grails?”


“You lied to me.”


Paula walked up beside Ky’an with a blue chip in her hand and pretended not to see Se’tra until the last minute while eating it.


“Oh I am sorry I’ll wait in the bath for you.”


Paula calmed herself for her next action, she stood on her tiptoes, kissed Ky’an‘s neck, and walked away.


Se’tra’s eyes became wide. “I came to invite you and Paula to a meal tomorrow night.”


Ky’an nodded and turned to leave. Se’tra stopped him. “You mated with her.”


Ky’an pulled her hand away from his arm. “I am mating with her.” He let the door close in her face.


Paula was already in the bath smiling at the surrounding warmth. Ky’an walked around the pool-sized bath watching her.


“Why did you do that?”


“She was cutting on me.”


Ky’an removed his loincloth and Paula turned away.
“You can at least tell me when you are going to do that.”


Ky’an smiled. “Come on you know you want it.”

He heard her laughter and felt a tingle run through his body. His body used to tingle like that when Se’tra touched him. He stepped into the hot water and quietly walked towards her. When Paula turned, he was standing before her. She stared up at him while he stared down into the water.


“I know that there will be rumors about the chip thing but she was saying things that are not true.”


Ky’an heard her rambling on about putting her foot somewhere and ripping out some hair. “I am referring to the kiss, why did you kiss me?”


Paula snorted and pushed on his chest as he came forward and she backed. “That was just for her benefit.”


Ky’an smiled and continued forward. “Will there be other things for her benefit?”


Paula smiled at him. “No”


“You are not afraid of me now.”


Paula pulled her hands away from his chest. “Dev’er said you would not harm me and you said it also. I will take you at your word.”


Ky’an nodded and stopped moving towards her. "I said I will never harm you and I meant it Paula. You are safe with me."


He began to bathe and Paula stared at him as he stared at her. She began to question how safe she really was as the tingling sensations began to rise again.

~*~

He laid there waiting for her to drop the towel and come to bed. It had been ten minutes and she still fought him about coming to bed naked.


“Why can’t you turn off the light first?”


“I have already seen your body.”


“So”


Ky’an continued to stare at her watching the chill beginning to affect her. He liked his room cool.He would have never done such things to Se’tra. He was never relaxed with her as he was with Paula and he did not know her.

She finally dropped the towel and climbed into the bed exposing her back to him as she lay down. He pulled the blanket over her and then pulled her towards him. Paula went very stiff feeling his warm body pressed hard against hers. His arm tightened around her waist.
Ky’an breathed in deeply the scent of her hair. This is what he missed someone to be there waiting for his return home. She began to relax to the sound of his soft purring.


Paula was exhausted from her day and a half captivity where she did not fall asleep, to this pretend mate thing to hurt someone. Even through all of this, Paula felt safe enough in his arms to sleep. He gave his word he would not harm her.She just hoped his definition of doing things that cause her harm was the same as hers. At this moment, she did not care she was too tired. Paula closed her eyes and prayed that Se’tra would be easy to crack.


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Author's Note
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