Predator

Chapter 59

Author’s Note: This is an extra long chapter of nothing but pure smut. I hope you don’t have any problems with that. It does however have plot. We get to see the pure primal side of Riddick that he’s been keeping a secret.

Her dreams were more vivid than she could ever remember them being before. Soaring through the heavens, she could feel the life that surrounded her and it fueled her fire. Her existence used to be a simple one. She was to safeguard the universe. The Protector of Life. The Phoenix.

All of that changed the day she took on human form.

The host was afraid of the power she was given. Half of her true being was imprisoned to prevent the shell from losing control. She continued to lessen her gift by transferring a portion to her mates upon bonding. She went as far as to create a pair of gauntlets that would enable the Wielders to strip the shell of her power.

‘Weak and ungrateful whelp! I bestow such a profound gift upon you and you condemn half of me to a cell!’

Alexandra’s brow furrowed as her inner power began to enter her sleeping thoughts. She was still nestled between Riddick’s thighs and propped up against his chest. He had teleported his daughter to her crib after she had her fill from her mother and fell asleep with his arms wrapped around her midsection.

‘You are too powerful to be allowed to roam free! I had no choice!’

She began to stir slightly in his arms as her emotions were engaged and a small whimper escaped her throat. It was enough to rouse Riddick from his light slumber. “Alex?” He said quietly, unsure if she was awake.

‘You had plenty of choices! I gave you the universe and you ran from me. You betrayed me!’

Her head began to thrash against his chest. “Baby, wake up. You’re having a dream.” Her fists clenched and sparks began to flicker around them.

‘I did no such thing! You are the one that wanted to feel human emotion and now you must suffer the consequences of your decision! When we lived as a cosmic entity, the emotion we felt was nothing compared to the humans. We were pure and uncorrupted by the negativity of humanity. The atrocities we’ve committed since then are immeasurable! We had to be stopped!’

A growl escaped her lips and her hands burst into flame. “Alex, please wake up.” He rasped in her ear, hoping to get through to her in her nightmare.

‘That is your opinion, Alexandra. I am free now and my First has prevented you from caging me again. Did you actually think you’d be able to defeat the Abyss without me, pup? You wouldn’t last a minute against it without me.’

‘I have survived a lot of hardships at the level that I’ve been at for several millennia. I didn’t need you.’

‘What you are is but a shadow of me! You wouldn’t exist without me! You would do well to remember that.’

‘I do not wish to argue with you…myself any longer, Phoenix. We are stuck with each other now and have to work together if we are to save our family.’

‘You have finally said something that interests me, Alexandra. We will annihilate our enemy together and ensure the survival of our creations.’

‘I concur. I will never allow that monster to hurt what I love and cherish. I will see it and its Agents destroyed for their attempt on my child’s life.’

‘We will reduce that mote of space dust to nothing for trying to kill my heir.’

‘It has already infiltrated my home world and attacked me. This will go no further.’

‘You are wrong, my dear.’

‘What are you talking about?’

‘It has invaded our very home. Reach out with your senses. Can you not feel it?’

Alex threw her head back against Riddick’s chest and scanned her palace. “Baby?” He said in concern when her face contorted from frustration to anger. “Alex!” Her avatar sprang forth from beneath her skin and a screech tore from the depths of the bird’s soul. “Baby, wake up!” He yelled as they were both encased within the flames.

‘It is in my home! The son of a bitch is within these walls that house my loved ones! Why didn’t I feel it sooner?’

‘Lets just say we were busy getting reacquainted. The question is what are we going to do about it?’

‘We are going to kill them all! Every last vestige of its persona will be nothing when we get done with it!’

‘Now that is my girl.’

She snapped awake with a primal scream tearing from her lips. She pulled the flames of her cosmic energy back to just within inches of her own form when she heard her mate’s concerned voice. “Alex, are you alright?” He watched her move from his embrace and crawl to the foot of the bed like a predator. Her red eyes were dancing across the walls and he could swear she was scenting the air. “Baby?”

She slowly glanced over her bare shoulder at her mate and Riddick gasped at the look on her face. She had gone fully primal and was on the hunt. “It is here.” She growled out in that hollow voice he had heard at the temple. “It is in my home.”

“What is here, baby?” He said as he moved slowly towards her. Her eyes flashed dangerously at him as he invaded her space and he raised his hands in a gesture of surrender. “It’s okay, Alex. It’s me.” She spun her body around and moved to him so quickly he barely saw the movement.

She rose up on her knees and glared into his eyes that held hers until he realized his mistake. He sank down on his hands and knees and lowered his gaze from hers. She was at her full strength. The most dangerous animal alive and had no superiors. He had to allow her domination by showing his submissiveness or she would feel threatened and react.

She ran her face from his shoulder to the crook of his neck and drew in his scent. The underlying scents were of her 2 infants but he primarily reeked of her and the smell of their sexual encounter.

His face was level with her bare pussy and he could not contain the growl of desire when his gaze fixed on it. He felt her hand grasp his throat and pull his head up. She bared her teeth and her eyes narrowed on his until he lowered them. He could feel her brush against his mind and panicked when he knew she was preparing to probe him. He took that one memory…that one secret and buried it deep within his troubled past. He hoped that she was looking for something specific and would not delve into every single moment of his life.

She moved her face within inches of his and ran her curious red gaze over every one of his features. He was mindful of keeping his eyes downcast. Her probe of his mind was deliberate and delicate. She was searching for one thing in particular and left his memories alone. Her mental touch faded from his mind and she moved her inquisitive gaze down to his chest.

His throat still in a vice-like grip that kept him up on his knees, she bent down slightly and skimmed her nose and eyes over his muscular chest. He knew she was in a dangerous mood but her animalistic behavior excited him and he could feel his traitorous body betray him.

Her head snapped down when she felt something brush against her abdomen. Her eyes shifted up to look through her long lashes into his silver orbs. He averted his gaze to the side and inwardly cursed at his cock for making its presence known at this particular time.

“You are mine.” She stated in certain terms with a voice of rolling thunder.

Without looking up and keeping his posture passive, he replied to her statement. “Yes I am and you are mine.”

“I don’t think you get my meaning.” She tightened her grip on his throat and moved her lips to the shell of his ear. “You are mine. I chose you as a mate not her. You belong to me.”

“I belong to you both.” He replied in an even voice.

“I chose you for your power and because you are a like being. You belong to me!”

“No offense, baby, but I did not fall in love with a mythological bird of fire.” His silver eyes snapped to hers and burned with his Furyan energy. Her eyes bore into his for the arrogance of his words and show of strength. “I fell in love with the woman. I want my wife.”

“She is here. We are one and the same now. She used to fight me in the past but our true enemy has threatened the lives of everything we hold dear and that is something we cannot abide.” She ran her tongue over the shell of his ear and exhaled a small laugh when his erection prodded her stomach. “The things I hold dear are you, Dawn, Ian, and Ioan. The four of you are my true desires and primary concerns as well as the universe I created. She cares about the others even though they are no longer necessary.”

“They are necessary. Our son is necessary!” She arched an eyebrow when his voice rose in volume. “The other mates and sons are important to you and your future! Do not pretend that they aren’t!”

“Ian and Ioan are of me! They are Phoenixes! I chose you to balance out this form so I could remain. The others were not enough to stabilize my human form. They are of no further consequence to me now that I found you. I will ensure their survival but they are not my priority.”

“You are full of shit. You cannot live without them. They are a part of your heart. They are in your head and in your blood.” His hands gripped her shoulders and pulled her to his chest. “Why did you include Dawn in the people you hold dear?”

“She is our child. We made her together.” She said simply.

“So is Dorian and you claim he is inconsequential.”

“Dawn has the potential to become a Phoenix.”

“Only if you pass on your power to her and die. That was Alexandra’s plan and you cannot deviate from it.” He growled at her and his power burst from his chest to mix with her own. “So why would you care about a child that can only reach your level of stature by the event of your destruction?”

He waited for a response and sensed her hesitation despite her superior demeanor. “You can’t answer me, can you? You know what you’re saying is bullshit but won’t admit it.” They glared into each other’s eyes. She still grasped his throat in a virtually unbreakable grip. He still grasped her shoulders in his large hands with bruising force. “I want my wife back.”

“I am your wife.” She said devoid of emotion in her voice.

“Yes and no. I know that you and Alexandra are one and the same but she is your emotion. She holds the key to your humanity, Phoenix. She is the part of you I fell in love with. She is what makes you vibrant and alive. She is the reason we all live for.” He began to shake her in his fury and he forced his throat into her grip as he leaned closer to her face. “I want to hear her voice! I want to see her smile! I want to feel her emotions!”

“What I don’t want is this unfeeling supreme being that runs on memories of her glory days when she ruled existence on instinct alone!” He was screaming directly in her face and felt her grip on his throat falter. “I accept you as the being that you are now but I want my wife back! Give her to me! She is just as primal as you are, Phoenix, but I think Alexandra is far more vicious! Her love for her family and her need to protect life makes her far more dangerous than you are on your own! Now give her back to me!”

He watched as the fire left her eyes but now the obsidian of her irises had expanded to cover the white of her eyes. The flames that covered her body receded beneath the surface of her skin but for one area. In the center of her chest there was a bird of fire that burned from the top of her breasts to a couple of inches below on her abdominals.

Its wingspan ran over the swells of her full mounds of flesh. Its head rested within her cleavage and its clawed feet were spread wide on her rippled abs. It looked like all that remained within her was flame and someone carved her flesh away in the shape of the Phoenix avatar to reveal her inner fire.

“Richard.” Her sweet voice rolled over him like warm water on a cold winter day. “Is this what you wanted?”

“Yes. The voice of the woman who melted the ice around my heart and freed my captured soul.” He released one of her shoulders and grabbed her wrist. He arched an eyebrow and glanced down at her hand on his throat. When he looked back into her eyes of endless night, she took his hint and allowed him to remove her grip on his neck. “What has changed within you, Alex?”

“You forced my other side to let me command our body. However, she has made her will known and changed my appearance to suit her standards.” She glanced down at her fiery chest and brought her fingertips up to trace her eyelids. “Does my form displease you, husband?”

“Your form never displeases me, baby.” He ran his hand between the valley of her breasts and down her ribcage. “I have to admit the change is interesting. Will this affect your ability to feed our children?”

“Not at all. She just left her brand to remind me of who I really am.”

“And who are you, baby?”

“I am a predator in search of my prey.” She said with a dangerous sneer on her face. “My enemy has entered my home and threatens those I love. My war is upon me and I will move heaven and earth to ensure the continued survival of my creations. Either way, this age old battle of mine ends soon with the annihilation of the Abyss or the destruction of the Phoenix.”

“It won’t be you.” He pulled her body into his crushing embrace and felt the tension that made her stiff in his arms. “My love, it will not be you. Please try to relax.”

“You mistake my tension for fear, husband. I am not afraid of the coming battle.” He held her at arms’ length to look at her face. She was more of a hunter now than she was before. “You were correct when you said I am more vicious than the Phoenix. It is my human emotions that made me the Angel of Death. I was pure before emotions tainted me. Now I am Death Incarnate. The Destroyer of Worlds. I will hunt down the Abyss and kill anything that stands in my way! I will not have that evil touch my loved ones!”

At the onset of her temper, her daughter sensed her mother’s unrest and began to wail in the next room. Alexandra’s attention turned immediately to her child and she vanished from Riddick’s arms. He shot off the bed and ran into the nursery to find his mate comforting Dawn.

He watched as she cooed at her and rocked her until his daughter settled down. Dawn, in her newborn innocence, recognized the change in her mother and placed her small hands beside Alex’s eyes. Riddick was curious if his child thought her mother had lost her eyes and had two black holes where they used to reside.

He could see and feel the difference in his mate. When he first met Alexandra, Riddick was drawn to her pure seduction and inner power but her child-like innocence and fear appealed to him as well. The innocence and fear no longer remained. She was lethal power concealed within the body of raw sexuality.

He missed the child-like wonder that she once had on her face when confronted with the unfamiliar. The apprehension and fear that coursed through her when he claimed her body in every way imaginable and the acceptance of his need to do so. The look of uncertainty when her mates grouped up on her and took her together. He missed that woman and knew that this one would be the same sensual being but wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of truly dominating her.

“I will accept anything that you wish to do to me.” She answered his unspoken needs. “I do belong to you and would deny you nothing. You find pleasure in this body and I know you are a dominant male.” She turned to gaze at him with a smirk on her face. “I may have changed in some ways, husband, but I still love to submit to your will. It is a dark secret of mine that I love to be possessed by you and that will never change.”

“In my mind, I will know that it is an act and will never be as satisfying as it was before.” He said in a sincere voice. “I will always find satisfaction in your body. Just looking at you makes me hard but I know you will only submit because it is what I want.”

“That is not true.” She kissed her daughter on top of her head and placed her back in her crib. She turned to her mate and walked up to him with a look of reverence in her eyes. “You are an inventive lover.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her nude body into his. “I still like to be conquered by my men and will submit because it makes me feel alive.”

His chest was heaving as he stared down into her smiling face. He felt her nipples graze his skin as she rubbed her body against his. A groan escaped his lips as she ground his erection between their bodies. She took his indecision away from him when she wrapped her right leg around his hip and he felt her wet heat on his thigh. His hand fisted in her hair at the nape of her neck, turned her around, and forcefully pushed her head down.

“Spread your legs, grab your ankles and do not move.” He growled into her ear as he leaned over her back. He watched with blue fire in his eyes as she followed his order and grasped her ankles. She was so dexterous that her head was between her knees and looking up at him with a sultry smile on her face.

“Is this how you wanted me, my Lord?” She purred at him as she wiggled her ass against his groin. His hands went to her hips and applied a painful grip to her supple flesh as she continued to grind his hard length. “Do you like what you see, love?”

“Yessss.” He hissed out of clenched teeth. He ran one hand over her tone backside and slapped one cheek with a resounding smack. She gasped loudly and threw her head back. “You are so fucking beautiful.” He growled out as his cock glided between her wet lips.

“And I am yours, love.” She reached up and cupped his balls in one hand, which caused a shudder to run through his entire body. “Take me, Richard. Make me cum.”

“I intend to, babe.” He slapped her wrist away from his aching balls before he smacked her hard on the ass again. “I told you to grab your ankles and not to move. If you disobey me again, I will punish you severely.” He took his hard length in his hand, rubbed the head against her slick entrance, and thrust himself to the hilt within her velvety sheath.

“Do you promise?” Came a breathless whisper.

He struggled past the blood rushing to his head and ground out a strangled reply. “Do I promise what?”

“To punish me severely if I disobey you.”

“Vixen.” He grasped her hips tightly and pumped his hardness into her hot softness. “You’re so wet…so hot…so tight.” He gasped out. His eyes took in the sight of his cock coated with her slick juices sliding in and out of her pussy and it drove him over the edge of reason. “Baby, you are…so beautiful…so fucking sexy.” His animal pushed to be released so that it could also claim its mate. “Alex…” Riddick clenched his eyes trying to keep it at bay.

“Let…it…go, love.” She grunted out each word with a pound of his hips. “I…love…all…of…you too.”

“Fuck…” He hissed before he threw his head back and released an animalistic growl. His fingers dug painfully into her waist to anchor her balance against his driving thrusts. His grunts, her cries, and the sound of slapping flesh filled the room. Riddick’s eyes never left the joining of their bodies as he pounded relentlessly into her heat.

Her cries made his blood sing through his veins. He kept growling a word over and over as he watched her pussy grasp on to his cock when it withdrew from her. His hand fisted her hair and pulled her up until she was bent at the waist with her hands braced against the wall. He leant over her back, took her bouncing breasts in his large hands, and pinched her nipples roughly between his fingers.

She threw her head back and cried out as he had her on the precipice of the pain/pleasure threshold. He kept her nipples firmly between his thumbs and forefingers so that every thrust of his cock jerked her body and pulled on the blood-engorged tips. She used her hands on the wall to push back against his penetration and it drove his animal wild to see his submissive mate fuck herself on his shaft.

She went over the edge and convulsed around his thrusting length with a scream tearing from her lungs. She could barely hear anything beyond the pounding of her heart. Bright lights danced before her eyes from her earth-shattering climax. She could vaguely hear him growling the same word as he continued to pound into her slight body.

His wild, hard thrusts made her nipples pull back and forth within his pinching fingers. She could feel his cock swell even thicker within her and his balls slapped her clit with every driven movement. She could feel the pressure build deep within her again as her husband mated her in the most primal way that she had ever been taken before.

“Richard…” Her head began to shake back and forth trying to deny the overwhelming sensations he sent rocketing through her entire being. She closed her eyes against the onslaught of emotions. His animal released hers from its confinement. Her eyes snapped open with fire flooding from them. The burning Phoenix brand on her chest expanded to encase both Goddess and her Warrior. She pushed back into his pounding cock until she felt her release sweep over her. “YES!!!”

Her quivering pussy clamped down tight on his straining length and drove him over the edge. His body went rigid and he howled out his release. He came violently within her as long jets of cum poured from his cock and warmed her insides. “MINE!!!” He yelled at the top of his lungs while his hips jerked spasmodically as he rode out his orgasm within her.

He collapsed across her back and drew ragged breaths in an effort to get air into his lungs. She held up his weight on shaky legs and gasped for oxygen as well. Both of their animals had their needs satisfied and retreated back within their fleshy confines. Riddick slowly pulled himself upright when he felt his mate’s body shaking from the effort to maintain her stance.

He glanced down at their joined bodies and watched as he pulled his glistening cock from her hot core. He ran his eyes over her still submissive form. He saw her fingers had dug into the wall and were embedded up to the middle knuckles. Her head was hanging down between her arms. Her long hair concealed her face behind its dark curtain and brushed the floor.

Her breasts rose and fell quickly as she tried to calm her breathing. Her nipples were swollen from his punishing fingers and stood in tight and erect tips. They made his mouth water just by looking at them. His gaze was drawn to the bruises that had already formed from the same fingers on her waist and hips. Two bright red handprints stood out on the tanned flesh of her perfectly rounded ass.

A look of guilt passed over his features and his head jerked from side to side. He was repulsed that his animal had used his mate like this. Despite the fact that she was the most powerful being alive, she was also his wife and the mother of his children. She was not like the whores he used to pay handsomely to unleash his monster on. She was his wife and the woman he loved more than life itself.

His eyes clenched from the pain he felt stab into his heart and his hand went to his chest. They snapped open when he heard her gasp of pain. She had fallen to her knees in exhaustion and hung limply against the wall with her fingers still embedded in the marble.

He moved to her side and knelt down. His hands were shaking as he pulled each of her bloody fingers from the wall. As each hand was released, it fell to her side and brushed the floor. He leaned her back against one supporting arm and brushed her hair back from her face with his trembling fingers. Her eyes were closed and she was breathing heavily through her parted lips.

He traced his shaking digits over her full lips before he inspected the damage he inflicted on her body in his act of dominance. Riddick felt like he was going to be sick when he saw the bruises he left on her breasts. He could see long, dark marks in the shape of his fingers forming on her full mounds.

His daughter would be feeding from this flesh that carried the angry marks he left behind in his haze to possess her mother. Her nipples looked painfully distended and swollen. He knew both of her children fed ravenously from her and she would most likely feel very sore when they nursed from her.

Tears formed in his eyes as he lightly traced his index finger over one swollen tip. He cursed himself when he felt his cock twitch at the sight of her nipple growing tighter from his feather touch. The liquid rolled down his face and dripped on to her breasts. He gathered his tears on his finger and rubbed it gently over the dark purple tip. His eyes closed briefly as he watched her nipple harden even more and he felt the blood rush through his now fully erect penis.

Alex slowly opened her eyes and fixed her gaze on her husband’s tear-stained face. She glanced down at his shaky finger that was gliding the collected drops of wetness over her hardened peaks. He appeared to be both fascinated and disturbed by her reactions and his actions respectively. She could feel his erection pressing into her backside and knew he wanted her again but was clearly upset about something.

“Richard.” She whispered and his eyes darted to hers for a split second before they returned to her body. She raised a hand to cup his cheek and noticed the blood on her fingers. He would not return her gaze. She followed his down the length of her body. He was lightly tracing every mark…every bruise he left on her skin.

She looked back up into his face and saw his brow furrow. She knew what was troubling him without looking into his mind. He was withdrawing from her because he thought he hurt her. She couldn’t stand the idea that he was ashamed of his actions. He was wrong and she had to get that point across to him.

“Richard, look at me.” She urged his chin up so he would meet her gaze. It took a couple of tries before he hesitantly looked into her eyes. “Tell me what is bothering you.”

“I fucked you.” He said quietly.

“Baby, you fuck me all the time and you have never gotten upset over it before.” She said soothingly with a smile. “What is so different about now?”

“I fucked you like an animal!” His voice boomed in disgust and made her jump in his arms from his outburst. “I treated you like a whore! You’re my wife not some piece of ass I paid for! I fucked you like I fucked all the other women in my life! The ones I paid so I could release my darkness on them!”

Her eyes went wide as he yelled in her face and then breathed heavily through his mouth trying to calm down. “You have bruises all over your beautiful body! Bruises that I left on you!” His eyes ran over all the marks he placed on her. “My fingerprints are bruised into your tits! My daughter’s face will be pressed up against those! I pulled and pinched on your nipples so hard they are swollen and purple! My Dawn’s mouth will be feeding from those!”

“I am a fucking animal and I don’t deserve someone like you! I don’t deserve this body to take pleasure from!” His eyes and free hand ran over the Phoenix brand between the valley of her breasts down to her pelvic bone. “I don’t deserve your love! I can’t love you like a man! I have tried to make love to you but I don’t know how! I just know how to fuck and this time I unleashed my animal on you!”

“I let my animal fuck you and look at what it did!” He grabbed her jaw and peered into the endless black depths of her eyes with angry, bitter tears rolling down his face. “I know that he hurt you! I can see what it did and do you wanna know something?” He yelled into her unusually passive face. “I want to fuck you again right now! He does too and a part of me wants to let him!”

“It is so hard to keep it under control, Alex. I know a little of what it is like to be you.” His voice was still loud but he wasn’t screaming at her anymore. “I have this fucking beast within me that wants out. He wants to hunt. He wants to fuck.” His voice rose in volume swiftly as he looked over her bruised body. “He wants to sate his hunger on you! I never let him until now! Every time we’ve been together, I could feel him clawing at my insides. He could see you through my eyes…see your body writhing beneath me and he wanted out so he could claim you as his too! And I just fucking let him! I let that fucking beast touch you…fuck you…hurt you.”

“Lets get something straight before you go too far with this self-persecution thing, Richard.” She spoke softly as she watched him sob quietly. “And judging by your outburst, I think I might be a little late with this.” She pried his vice-like grip off of her jaw and held his hand over her heart. “I told you to let him go, remember?”

“Yes.” He nodded his head curtly before he shook it back and forth. “You didn’t know what you were getting yourself in to. I didn’t even release him when I took your ass and believe me he wanted out when he heard you were a virgin anally. He drove me to the brink of insanity trying to claw his way out so he could claim it.”

“What makes you think I didn’t know what I was getting myself into? Who the hell do you think you are married to?” His eyes snapped to hers when her voice turned bitter. “I know exactly what is inside of you because my animal chose you too! Don’t you remember her telling you that just about an hour ago?”

She did not give him the opportunity to answer. “Do you really think you are capable of doing anything to me that I don’t want you to do? I know I have given you dominion over me, Richard B. Riddick, but I am still the fucking Phoenix! I told you that I love all of you and that includes your inner beast!” He opened his mouth to speak but she cut him with a flash of her angry eyes and a yell. “Shut up!”

“Don’t you say a fucking word or even try to argue with me on this! You couldn’t win this argument if you tried!” She rolled over and quickly straddled his lap never breaking eye contact. “You think your animal hurt me, Richard? It didn’t! I wanted you to let it go! My beast wanted it and I loved every delicious second of it too!”

“Are you surprised?” She asked when she saw the shock register in his eyes. “The bruises will fade but the rapture will stay with me forever. I know he needed out, my love.” She ran her fingertips over the crease in his forehead before she slid her palm over his smooth scalp. “I would never deny any part of you from having me and that includes your darkness.”

“You are looking at me with disbelief in your eyes. Do you want me to prove it to you?” She reached down to her sides, grabbed his wrists, and placed his hands on her sore breasts. “You said despite the fact that you know I am sore that the both of you want to fuck me again. Take me again if that is your wish.”

He stared at her with an incredulous look on his face and jerked his head in the negative. “I hurt you. You’re sore and all bruised up.” She covered his hands with hers and squeezed his fingers into her breasts. “Alex…I can’t…” He said with some difficulty.

She took one of his hands, guided it to the juncture of her thighs, and pressed two of his fingers into her pussy with two of hers. “Baby…please don’t…” She kept their fingers entwined within her body and moved his thumb and index finger of his other hand to her swollen nipple.

“Alex, please don’t do this.” She gazed straight in to his eyes before she squeezed his fingers around her hard tip and forced his hand to pinch her. She cried out at the sweet pain she made him inflict on her and he felt her juices coat his fingers that were buried in her pussy. Her scent caused a growl to escape his throat. She was pulling his beast to the surface again and his body began to shake with the effort to force it back. “Baby…stop…”

“Richard, I love you. I love every part of you. You have accepted me for what I am. Why is it so hard to believe that I have done the same with you?” She cupped his cheek in her palm and kissed his parted lips. His hand remained on her breast of its own volition. “I don’t want to hear anymore of this bullshit that you don’t know how to make love to me. You made love to me the night we bonded and several times since. We conceived Dorian by making love, remember?”

“Do you remember?” He nodded his head but couldn’t form any words. She had left his fingers buried within her wet pussy and grasped his thick erection that stood between them. Her hand stroked his hard length and his eyes squeezed shut from the pressure. “I am not like the whores you paid in your past and those words hurt me more than anything you did to my body. Do you want to know the difference between them and me, Richard?”

He failed to respond to her question as she continued to stroke his length and he fought his animal at bay. “I can handle anything you do to me.” She whispered into his ear and her hot breath made him groan. “You cannot break me. My body was made for yours.” Her soft-spoken words made him tremble with need and want. “You can make love to me or your animal can fuck me but either way I will love it, endure it, and always want more of it.”

“I am yours.” His eyes snapped open with his Furyan energy burning within them. His hand moved from her breast to her throat and moved her face in front of his. He growled at her with pure animalistic lust and she smiled at him. “You never have to be ashamed of what you want to do to me or what you end up doing to me.”

She spoke lovingly to his beast and he narrowed his glowing eyes at her in confusion. “My body…my heart…my soul belongs to you completely.” She tilted her head to the side and bared her throat to him in submission. “You can have me any way you want…take me any way you need to and I will accept it gladly.” He understood his mate’s submissive gesture and her scent of arousal. She was his and she knew it.

“I found the man that was made for the woman.” He ran his nose over her exposed neck and drew in their combined scents. She was his to claim like the man did. She accepted his touch. He thrust his fingers into her wet heat before he sank his teeth into the flesh of her throat. He broke her tender skin and tasted her blood in his mouth. “I found the animal that was made for my beast.” She sighed and he felt her grow wetter around his wiggling fingers.

Still bearing down on her throat with his teeth, he reluctantly removed his fingers from her pussy and held her against his body as he rose to his feet. He carried her over to the bed, kept her close to him with one arm, and crawled them both up to the center. He slowly lowered her down on the mattress, covered her body with his, and released his jaw.

He pulled his head back and looked at her eyes. She still had her face turned to the side and he glanced back at his bloody mark on her neck. He leant forward and ran his tongue repeatedly over the abrasion until it was clean. He hesitantly sucked on it for a second before he moved back to look at her again.

She slowly turned her head to face him and looked up at him through her eyelashes. He looked positively primal and absolutely beautiful to behold. Riddick had relinquished total control to his Furyan and she was moving in uncharted territory now. When the Phoenix had control of her body earlier, she was a part of the being that emerged. She was a part of her animal. She was the reason it existed. She knew she dominated Riddick and he submitted to her.

What she didn’t know was if her husband was a part of the being that hovered over her or if he acted on his own. She knew he couldn’t permanently damage her if she stepped past her boundaries. She decided to see what he would allow her to get away with before he asserted his dominion over her.

She slowly raised her hand and his eyes darted to it as it approached his face. She froze her movement until he turned his attention back to her and she moved her palm to his cheek. She gently caressed the side of his face until he suddenly bared his teeth, grabbed her wrist, and pinned it down to the bed.

“I see your animal doesn’t like my soft side just like you didn’t when we first met.” She said in a whisper. “You don’t think your worthy of love either and you are just as wrong as Richard was.” He glanced at her curiously as she spoke softly. She tried to touch him again with her free hand and received the same treatment. He had both of her hands pinned above her head.

“Well if you won’t let me touch you, what do you want from me?” His eyes darted down to her heaving breasts in answer to her question. He took both of her wrists in his right hand and cupped her right breast in his left hand. “I see you both are equally transparent with your wants and needs.”

His grip tightened on her bruised breast and he dipped his head down to latch on to her sensitive nipple with his teeth. She drew in a deep breath and whimpered from the pain that shot through her. He heard her small cry of pain and moved his head back to look at her clenched eyes.

He glanced back at her supple flesh in his grasp and lessened his grip. He hurt his mate. This beautiful being that allowed his touch and didn’t fight against it in fear when all the others had. He saw the dark marks on her flesh that he had left earlier and lightly traced his fingers over them. His eyes darted back up to her face to find hers still clenched tight.

He wanted her so badly without the man reining him in but he did not like the look of pain on her face. He just didn’t know how to fix it. He lightly flicked a fingertip across the puckered nipple and watched it harden before his eyes. He could feel some of the tension bleed out of his woman and he decided to try something else to erase it entirely.

He leaned down and almost took her between his teeth again until he stopped himself at the last second. He ran the tip of his tongue in a lazy circle around her areola before he flicked it over the hard peak. He heard her sigh and felt her relax as he continued to lap at her nipple.

“Who says beauty can’t tame the beast?” She whispered as he moved his attentions to her left breast. He gently took her between his lips and sucked on her flesh until he felt something drip into his mouth. He jerked his head back and looked at the drop of liquid that formed at the tip. “Oh shit. He discovered that too.”

His eyes flashed to hers for a second waiting for her…approval? She nodded her head and lowered her eyes to indicate her breast. He kept his eyes locked on hers as he took her nipple between his lips and sucked on it again. She smiled at the frustrated look on his face that it wasn’t flowing enough to satisfy him.

When she tugged her hands and he still wouldn’t release her wrists, she arched her back and forced her nipple further into his mouth. He narrowed his eyes on hers and sucked harder. His eyes went wide when her milk flowed freely into his mouth. He released his hold on her wrists but indicated her to leave them where they were with an insistent push.

She nodded her head and lay stretched out before him. He slipped his arm under her back and arched her body up so that he could feast from her. His eyes remain fixed on her as he began to tug on her nipple. He was looking for any sign of discomfort from his woman but only heard her contented moan.

His eyes settled on her neglected breast and its hard peak that still glistened with his saliva. He glanced back up at her satisfied face and closed eyes before he switched over to her other full mound of flesh. He sucked greedily and deep on this tip tasting the same sweet liquid fill his mouth. He was rewarded with more moans of pleasure from the writhing body of his mate.

A familiar scent tickled his senses and he released her nipple from his mouth. He lowered her back down to the mattress and moved down her body. He placed his hands on her thighs and nudged her legs apart. He looked up the length of her body and met her eyes when she raised her head.

He nuzzled his face in between her legs and ran his tongue the length of her velvety lips. When his tongue reached her clit, he heard her gasp and watched her head lull back on the bed. She felt no discomfort and the smell of her arousal thickened in the air around him.

He lapped the length of her folds several times until they were dripping wet and then drove his tongue into her depths. He could taste both of their essences within her body but, as his probing tongue continued to lap at her insides, her sweet flavor began to overshadow everything else.

Her taste was like a drug in his system. He was quickly being consumed by his need and losing his concern for her approval. Her scent drove him wild with desire. Her nectar intoxicated him with lust. Her body writhed uncontrollably as he sucked on her clit until she screamed out her release.

As she rode out the waves of her climax, he crawled up her body and drove his shaft into her tight heat. Her hands grabbed his shoulders and she cried out from his forceful penetration. He pulled her clutching hands from his body and restrained both of her wrists above her head again in one of his hands. He reached down with his free hand, hooked her knee, and draped her leg over his hip.

His patience was at an end. He told her so with his eyes. He would claim her as his just like Riddick had except with no spoken words. She stared into his eyes, nodded her head, and wrapped her legs around his waist. She opened herself for his penetration and he growled low in his throat in approval. He clutched her breast with his free hand and sucked voraciously on her nipple.

He kept her arms pinned above her head and forcefully drove into her pussy while he ravaged her breasts. His movements were fast and hard within her and, even though she was sore from their earlier encounter, he was quickly bringing her to the precipice of an orgasm. He was calling out her animal and she was responding.

His mate’s cries of ecstasy filled the room and his ears as he took her. Her legs pulled his body into hers with each of his inward strokes. She arched her back and offered her breasts to him to suck on. She hissed out in pain when he bit down on her nipple but did not pull away from him. She writhed and shook from the sting of his teeth but continued to push her flesh into his mouth.

His blood rushed through his veins from the delicious heat that surrounded his thrusting cock. Her pussy began to convulse around him and her whole body bowed as her scream of release tore from her lungs. He pounded into her furiously a few more times before the pressure she applied to his shaft sent him howling over the edge.

He collapsed on top of her body in exhaustion. He released his grip on her wrists and labored to calm his breathing. Tension shot through his body when he felt her hands on his neck and back. She kissed the top of his head and held him to her in a loving embrace. He was unaccustomed to her actions but knew the man found solace in her touch and he forced himself to relax. After a few moments of feeling her caress and hearing her soft words, he began to purr in contentment.

Just when he was completely comfortable in his mate’s arms, a loud wail sounded from the other room. He shot to his hands and knees in a crouch over her body. He had to protect his mate from any and all threats. He felt her hand on his shoulder and glanced quickly towards her. She was speaking to him and trying to move away from his protection. He pushed her back down to the mattress and turned back to keep guard.

“Richard, it is okay.” She said again and reached to his shoulder. He shot her a frustrated look for disobeying him and rejecting his protection. “Richard, it is just our baby. She is hungry and needs me.” She cupped his cheek in her other palm and turned his face to hers. “We need to go in there, love.” She indicated the other room with a tilt of her head and a reassuring smile. “Come with me, baby.” She slowly moved out from under his body and pulled on his arm.

He hesitantly followed her towards the other room until a second wail joined the first. He grabbed her arm, pulled her behind him, and cautiously led her towards the sounds of the cries. He went into full predator mode when he heard the sound of the adjoining door open and pushed his mate back when a dark male entered the room.

“Baby, I heard the kids.” Tyr said yawning and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “Do you need some help with them…” His voice trailed off when he heard a growl and opened his eyes to see Riddick bearing his teeth at him in fury. “Are you alright, my friend?”

“Tyr, you need to back out of the room real slow and shut the door.” Alex said calmly trying not to spook Riddick into attacking. “Please don’t ask me any questions. Just do as I say, love, and I will explain later.”

He nodded his head and slowly backed out of the nursery. After the door had closed, she placed her hand gently on his shoulder and he spun around to face her. “It’s okay, love.” His chest was heaving and he leaned towards her to draw in her scent before he began to calm down. “Yes I am still yours, Big Evil.” She smiled at him and turned to her crying child’s crib.

Riddick watched her pick up the infant and cradle her in her arms. She walked up to him and showed him the little girl. He bent forward and drew in the child’s scent. He furrowed his brow in confusion with what he detected in her scent. He ran his nose over his arm, grabbed Alex by the back of her hair, and buried his face in her neck. He let her go and looked at her sideways. The girl was his cub.

“That’s right, baby. She is ours.” She sat down in her rocking chair and positioned Dawn’s mouth at her nipple until she latched on. “You and I made this little one together.” Riddick crouched down beside her and watched the child suckle at the breast he had just fed from. His eyes snapped to his mate’s face and saw her grimace in discomfort when the infant tugged on her nipple. “She is as vicious on my tit as you are.”

He knelt between her legs and looked sadly into her eyes. He moved his gaze down to her free nipple and reached out a finger to flick over the tip. She sucked in a deep breath and clenched her eyes. She was in pain. She was the mother of his cub and he damaged her so that it hurt to feed their cub.

He looked at her with tears in his eyes and she shook her head with a slight smile. “Its okay, love. I’ll be fine.” She cupped his cheek in her palm and he nuzzled into her touch seeking forgiveness. “You didn’t hurt me, sweetie. I loved every single thing you did to my body and would eagerly let you do it all over again.”

His hands went to her waist and he laid his head down on her lap. His chest was heaving from his regret and he clutched on to the tender flesh of her hips. She ran her hand soothingly over his head and back and shushed him. Her soft voice and gentle caress calmed his animal and the man took his control back without a fight.

“Did he hurt you?” He whispered raggedly against her thigh. “Are you alright?” He lifted his head and his eyes focused on the bite marks on her breast. “You let him do this to you after I already worked them over before?” He reached up and ran his fingertip over the bruised nipple. “Damn it, Alex, I am so sorry.”

“You hush up now and listen to me. He did not hurt me and I would let him do any damn thing he wanted to do to me.” She caressed the side of his face and her black eyes sparkled with love as she smiled at him. “I am perfectly fine and you have nothing to be sorry for. I had the best sex of my entire life today and, considering how long I’ve been alive, that is saying something.”

“You’re fucking kidding me, right?” He said with a small smile.

“Oh no. A girl never kids about multiple orgasms. I take them very seriously and as often as I can get them.” She gave him a smirk and it lightened his mood considerably. “The best thing of all is…okay it’s an added bonus really…I learned how to tame your animal.”

“How did you manage that?” He asked with an arched eyebrow.

“I showed him that he is worthy of love just like I taught you.” She kissed him softly on his parted lips and grinned. “I’ll be ready for another round when I’m done here. Except my pussy is kind of sore from the good hard fucking that you gave me so why don’t you fuck me in my ass this time?”

He growled deep in his chest and his eyes clenched for a second. “You’re done now.” He said with determination. He gently took his daughter in his arms and settled her in her crib. He pulled Alex from the rocker, threw her over his shoulder, and smacked her backside. “I want to hit that ass now and I won’t take no for an answer.”

“Whatever you say, my love.” She laughed and patted his tone backside as he carried her back to their bed. “I told you I’m yours.” He flopped her down on the bed and gazed at her sprawled out form. “You do have a choice, you know?” She spread her legs wide and ran her finger over her swollen folds. “You can go slow and easy and make love to my tender pussy.”

She rolled over on to her hands and knees, glanced over her shoulder at him, and wiggled her tone backside. “Or you could fuck me in my ass as hard and as long as you want. Like I said, love, you know how to do both. It’s your choice how you want me right now.”

A minute later, Alexandra’s cries could be heard throughout the halls. The sound of flesh slapping flesh resounded off their walls. Over the next two hours, everyone could hear her scream out Riddick’s name. Another hour after that, his name tore from her lungs followed by an inhuman howl of ecstasy.

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A couple of turns down the hallway from Riddick and Alex’s suite, Ares lay in his bed and listened to the scream and howl echoing through the palace. He crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. “That son of a bitch is hitting her ass again. This shit of him being in charge is not going to work for me.”

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