12. Yuri and the Woods
Chapter twelve
Yuri and the Woods
F uckin’ Freddie Carter … I stared at my dining room table, inspecting it like it was an ancient tome full of answers to an ageless riddle. And not just a wood table that held no answers to my already turbulent social life. I had hoped to never cross his path with Aurora. Only a matter of time, though. I tapped my finger against the glossy wood top. Irritation flared through me, making my blood hot and scales itchy. The sheriff must have mentioned Aurora and me when I brought her home. Sheriff Thompson was sympathetic to my plight, as he considered me one of his townsfolk. Like everyone in town, he held a fatherly view of all of us. I didn’t blame him for Freddie; I blamed Freddie for Freddie.
Ever since we were children, he’d been a massive jack wagon. If it wasn’t his idea, it was wrong. And what had been my crime? I gave his girlfriend a hug at the lake. That was it. The girl who babysat me for years came up to sit with me at the lake. Mellie Smith was the prettiest girl at school for sure. Sweet face, sweeter attitude, a real gem. She knew I couldn’t swim, so she sat and talked with me while the other kids jumped into the lake.
I told her about missing my parents… and she hugged me. That was it. Freddie Carter didn’t even let Mellie tell him to quit. He told everyone to get out of the water and chucked me into the deep end, a tiny pipsqueak with no buoyancy and a fear of drowning. When he jumped in after me, forcing me under the water over and over, I wished for things I shouldn’t have… because when I panicked as a tiny kid, never used to having power, I lost control.
“And now, he has reared his ugly head again.” I didn’t even know where he got the audacity to stake a claim over Aurora. Or maybe he was just trying to keep me lonely and miserable. I took his good eye, he refused to leave me alone. That was our deal.
My mind circled the problem like it could be solved. Problems like Freddie don’t get solved. Then, my phone went off in my back pocket, and my heart skipped a beat. The telltale kissy sound echoed off the walls of my head. Plucking it from my back pocket, I forgot about Freddie Carter and the town and everyone who did a double take when they saw me.
All I could think about was the heart pulsing on my screen, Kis-Meet beckoning me to hunt down Aurora Murphy.
Are you ready?
I stuffed my feet into my boots, hardly remembering to tie them. The door slammed shut behind me as a deep auburn sunset flickered through the trees. Right, she challenged me to a hunt. Something hidden deep within my guts, a hungry, primal feeling, washed over me as I glanced at the phone. It gave me GPS coordinates to her.
A new message popped up. The GPS turns off when you’re within 50 feet of me. After that, if you catch me before I get to your house, you win.
And the pulsing heart burst, the GPS turning to dark mode. Game on. I trotted down the steps of my cabin to the soil of my ‘yard’ and glanced around before following the moving directions on the screen. My pace was slow at first, searching the darkening wood for the woman of my fantasies. She’s not far… Well, for me. I jogged forward, picking up speed. Zigzagging through the trees, avoiding fallen logs, and checking the GPS steadily, I descended deeper into the evening. As the sun began to disappear beneath the horizon, the mushrooms began to glow. So that’s your trick, stupid magic woods. I wondered how she intended to outrun me in the pitch black of night. Had it summoned all the pale blue bioluminescence? Or had that been her?
An owl hooted over my head. The skittering of small woodland animals lessened over time as night set in fully. An hour later, I was deep in the forest and the sun was gone, only the inky night and the magical glow of the forest around me to keep me oriented. Not that it mattered. I could navigate these woods on scent alone. I tilted my head back and took a deep whiff. Sunflowers and wildflowers, not native to these trees—it was just a hint. She’s close by .
Slowing to a creep, I edged around the path it gave me, closing in on the fifty feet of her. Stepping onto a massive log, I watched the navigation turn into a timer. Incoming in 10… 9…8… Then, it slowly went dark with only soft pink text across my screen. Time to hunt, Yuri.
I pocketed the device, crouching onto the bark of the log. My claws plucked a few chunks of wood off. I slowed my heart, listening to the world. A tender crack here, the shuffling of leaves there, and breathing; I could tell she was feeling it. Not only did her floral scent give her away, but so did her ragged breaths. I saw her first. However, for no reason other than it stroked something deep in my soul, I waited, watching her like a predator, primed to pounce on its prey.
Aurora glanced up from the earth she was trying not to trip over. She must have caught my eyes reflecting in the pale, blue light, because her body stiffened, and she clutched her hands to her chest. “Yuri… that’s you, right?”
Like she played it through a stereo, I could suddenly hear her heart, the way it slammed against her chest. One by one, I clicked my nails against the log, my teeth aching to sink into her. I craved the taste of her panic. “It’s me all right, Dollface. This will be your only warning…”
I trailed off as she stepped one inch closer, and I realized… she was wearing a dress. Unlike her other ones, this one was cut off at the middle of her snackable thighs. How much do I wanna bet there’s nothing underneath that super snag-able fabric? The thought of shredding it off her, watching it fall to shreds, it was too delicious for words. My mouth pooled with hungry saliva at the image of her naked, hair flying behind her, falling into the mud. The way she could scream all she wanted and not a soul would hear her. The way she could run for ages in what little scraps of fabric are left.
“Run,” I barked, and Aurora bolted. Atta girl.
My body held still, giving her a reasonable five second head start. She wasn’t slow by any means… but when I flung myself through the air to the glowing ground of the woods, I knew it wouldn’t be long. I lost all sense of reason. Scraping off tress, bark and splinters flying off behind me, I hunted my prey. Her scent lingered. It told me where she darted off to, trying to evade my efforts to follow her. Clever. She cleared a log ahead of me and dove through a heavy cluster of trees. My brick wall ass wouldn’t be able to get in there after her.
Good thing she wasn’t trying to wait it out. Oh no, my prey was flying through the night, trying to win. Her eyes were on my cabin. A flicker of light told me the app was still giving her directions. Did it tell her how low her chances were to outrun me? Or was it cheering her on, telling her to run faster? I wound around the trees, taking a slightly rougher path to cut ahead of her.
She screamed, a giddy but panicked expression on her face as she narrowly escaped my claws. Well, she escaped them… I was rewarded with the delightful look of my sweet girl in a cleaved dress. Split down the middle, it clung to her for only a moment before it fell off her. In nothing but her boots, she glowed like a lightening bug in the bioluminescent light .
“Oh, Dollface,” I purred hungrily, creeping forward through the dusty, blue haze. “You really want me to eat you alive, don’t you?”
She giggled sweetly, her cute eyes flickering with mischief as she backed away. Her mind was a visible collection of cogs, all turning. I watched with glee as she darted her attention left and right, looking for an escape. The fabric fell away from her glorious breasts, letting me memorize the trial of goosebumps over her torso. They ran from her collarbone to her navel. I hunched over, crouching to spring again. She yelped, bounding to the left, heading deeper into the woods.
That’s a mistake, sweet thing. I cackled to myself, bounding after her. “Poor thing, lost in the woods. Let me take you home.”
She let out a shrill, bubbling laugh as she planted her hands on a log and launched herself over it. Admittedly, I let her get a little further ahead. I just wanted to see her naked ass in the fairy light. My cock stirred, pressing against the edge of my slit. It wanted to be buried in her. I wanted to be buried in her. I wanted to hear her ragged breath as I fucked her into the mud and moss.
Aurora seemed to realize she’d gone the wrong way. In a slick set of moves, she jerked to the left then back around me, narrowly avoiding my grasp. Slippery little snack. I had to wheel around a tree to bulldoze through the underbrush, heading straight for her. She was trying. All props to her, because she truly tried her best… But I was gaining on her.
She cleared a boulder, only to shriek as I got ahold of the wild mane on her head. I yanked her back, careful of her scalp by reaching an arm around her belly. Pressed against her, her warmth soaking through the thin layer of my clothes, I growled in her ear, “Nice try. Those pretty thighs did you well…”
She thrashed in my grip, and I almost slammed her over the boulder out of instinct. Aurora dropped all her weight and like the slippery eel she was, escaped my grasp. I sank to my knees, pinning her before she could crawl off. Chest to the soggy earth, legs kicking out from under me, she tried to claw her way out of me. But this time, I knew better. My prey was very clever. I pinned her wrists to the glowing moss ahead of her. Pressing my knees between her legs, I spread her as wide as she could go.
Aurora gasped. Her hips bucked backward against me, trying to shift my weight, but it only made me growl in her ear, thrusting my covered hips against her. Every inch of my prey shivered as I sat against her, reaching down to pull my shirt off my torso. Aurora didn’t miss a beat. She dug her elbows into the moss, taking her only opportunity to escape. As I was peeling my jeans off my hips, she used a buck of hers to propel herself through the mud.
I chuckled darkly, proud and impressed by her determination. Too bad it’s just going to get her dirtier. She climbed to her feet before I could get out of my pants. I lunged for her, missing her by a breath as she spun to face me. Her chest was smudged with dirt and moss. She wiggled her eyebrows at me suggestively, jogging backward. “Nice try. Those thighs did you well.”
“Keep it up, Doll…” I grinned from ear to ear, hearing her heart pick up again. Aurora licked her lips nervously as I cocked a single brow. “Better run.”
And she did. Aurora booked it around, flying through the trees. This time, it wasn’t just a hunt. It was a race. To see how far she could get. Those legs of hers were trembling, I knew it was only a matter of time. She knew it was only a matter of time… maybe she’d give up on purpose.
I flew over a log, forgetting anything but the desire to sink into her. Aurora rounded a bend of trees. I bound through them and caught her by the arm. She let out a surprised yelp as I whirled her around—back into the mud, but this time, there was no escape. Kicking and clawing at the moss around her, she did her best, but I spread those thighs, my cock already out. This time, there was no thought to be gentle.
I’ll lick it better after. Not that Aurora seemed to mind, as her struggle immediately stopped and she cried out, “Fuck yes, Yuri.”
A hand instinctively wrapped around her bare throat, pulling her face off the moss. Hair tossed back, full of twigs and leaves and glowing clumps of moss, she was a glorious prey. Her ass was splattered with glowing blue stains. She sank back onto me, spearing herself on my cock .
“That’s my girl,” I groaned, eyes nearly rolling back into my head. Her pussy closed around my cock, and I drowned in her. She was warm, wet, and nearly suffocatingly tight, and it took coaxing to get all of me inside her. She cried out for it, begging for more as I rutted into her. My hips slapped against her ass. The sound of our wet, desperate fuck bounced off the trees around us. Not even the moon could breach the trees canopy as I took my prey on the glittering moss. The lights almost seemed to glow brighter as I grabbed her by the hip and dragged her all the way onto my cock.
Her pussy clenched around me, drenching me, giving into me with every thrust. I was mindless. The only thing in my skull was how much I wanted her to scream. The vibrating growl rumbled out of my chest.
“Oh! Oh! Fuck!” she shrieked, her voice growing in pitch as I slammed my buzzing cock into her at a vicious speed. Her body trembled in my hands before something in her broke, and she screamed. The trees rattled as birds took off and squirrels fled the scene. My ego couldn’t be bigger as I fucked her through her orgasm. Her body sank into the earth, and I stretched out across her back as warm cum trickled out of her. There’s no room.
Pressing my face into her sweaty shoulders, I panted for air. Every muscle in my body tensed, my orgasm racing toward me. I slowed. Licking up her spine, I tasted the forest on her flesh with a hint of salt. My teeth ached, and I couldn’t help it… I bit into her shoulder. Her fingers flexed out at the side. Body tense at the sharp pain of my teeth in her flesh, my prey whimpered. Steadily, her body relaxed beneath me, and I moaned happily against her back. My hips rutted a sloppy pattern. I didn’t want it to end. But then she croaked my name, and I saw stars.
My teeth slipped out of her flesh, and I moaned in her ears. “My sweet prey.”
Her body was limp as my hips jerked against her. I painted her insides, filling her to the brim. Not like she could have taken more anyway. Our desire covered the forest floor as we panted together. I stayed buried inside her, collecting my strength. After an eternity, my cock softened and slipped from her, returning to its cavern.
I pulled back, clawing to my feet. The screen of her phone lit up, having been nearly tossed into oblivion in the tussle. The kissy sound went off, and I chuckled at the message across the screen.
Yuri’s pants.
She wheezed for air, flopping onto her back. Dripping with me and painted with mud, my glorious prey stared up at me. In the quiet of the trees, nothing was said and yet… everything. She beamed that pretty smile that filled her whole face and made my insides clench. She liked it. She really enjoyed it. Me.
“Come on, let’s go find my pants… and then a bath.”
“And dinner?” She peeked up at me sheepishly .
I snickered. “You did all this on an empty stomach, Dollface?”
“I was hungry…” Her eyes trailed down my body as her voice fell off. Then, those glowing orbs snapped back up to me. “But I had other priorities.”
I crouched, scooping her into my arms. She clutched her phone to her chest. “I appreciate your misguided priorities.”
“Hey!” she huffed, slapping at my chest flirtily.
“Don’t worry, Doll. I’ll stuff your belly with more than just my cum here in a moment. But first, someone made me leave my shit behind. If she’d been a good girl and just let me fuck her the first time I caught her, we wouldn’t have to backtrack.”
Aurora flopped her head back, laughing from deep in her belly. “Oh, I have no regrets .”
Neither did I.