Chapter 39 #2
Scarlet chuckled, leaning back to smile at him, running one of her hands over his neck.
“Havali, it won’t be like that every time.
That was an unusual circumstance. I guarantee you, Holly will have the benefit of medical care throughout her labor, and it won’t be anything like the natural way.
There won’t be any pain, no complications, and I’ll probably be able to speed it up.
It’s just bad luck that the first hybrid baby born was completely naturally. ”
“Bad luck,” he sneered, “or the carelessness of gossips with nothing better to do than make life painful for their own amusement.”
“Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Whatever happened to that drone?”
Havali shook his head. “Unclear. I lost track of it after the ship got caught in the energy field. With any luck, it was damaged and cost a lot of money.”
“Well, at least they couldn’t watch Peony give birth.”
“Hm? Why do you say that?”
“Well, we couldn’t even get a message out, much less a full length, streaming video.”
“Only if it was using subspace transference to stream the vid,” he said simply.
“Likely, it had backup systems in place so that the stream could still be sent uninterrupted in case something like that happened. It’s not Standard, but if they can afford the extra cost adding all those systems would bring, then it’s not impossible. ”
Scarlet leaned back. “Wait, you mean…”
Turning from him, she rushed from the bathroom, ignoring his confused question about where she was going. She grabbed her combot where it had come to rest on its charging port after she entered the room and immediately pulled up that streaming site she had found before.
The blood rushed from her face. They were talking about baby Viktor. About his camouflaging abilities. They were showing a full color, ultra-HD video of him changing to match Alanna’s skin and dress.
“You have got to be kidding me,” Scarlet mumbled. “Really? We couldn’t get out a single message, but they managed to capture the entire birth with surround sound?”
“I don’t know what that means,” Havali said, following her into the room. “But that stream is probably how the authorities knew to bring a stretcher for Peony.”
“Oh, no. Does Peony know about this?” Scarlet gestured to the feed. “Birth is a traumatic and private thing. It’s not something people want broadcast to the entire universe. Oh, fuck, were there shots of her… Ugh, those idiots!”
She shook her head, turning away from her combot.
The last thing she wanted to do was go back in the feed and see if they had a close-up view of Peony’s vagina as a baby was coming out of it.
Or before that either. They hadn’t exactly cared about modesty throughout that entire process.
But that didn’t mean they wanted the entire known universe to watch.
“I’m sure Atem knows by now,” Havali assured her calmly, putting a hand on her shoulder. “And maybe we wait to inform Peony until she’s had a chance to rest.”
Scarlet blew out a long breath. “Yeah. You’re right. It just makes me mad that they’d be so… just, ugh. You know?”
Havali chuckled. “I haven’t seen you so frustrated that you lose your words before. It’s strangely adorable.”
She glared at him over her shoulder, prompting him to wrap his arms around her, pulling her back against his chest as he rested his head on hers.
“Are you this protective of all your friends? Or is it because she is your patient?”
“It’s the nurse in me,” she said, struggling not to smile as she leaned into him.
“That is the name for healers on your planet, correct?”
“It’s the name for a type of healer on my planet.”
“What type? A specialist of some kind? You have not specialized in anything here. Well, I suppose you could be a specialist in hybridization.”
She lost the battle against laughter, though she wasn’t sure why. It did seem to be the most accurate description of the focus of her studies in healing. Though, hybridization was something she attributed more to botany and hearing it applied to humans was somehow funny.
“A nurse is, well,” she leaned back thinking of the best way to describe it to him. “A nurse is part of the team of healers that work on patients. There’s a lot of people on the team, but the two most basic parts people think of are doctors and nurses.”
“What is the difference between them?”
She thought again for a few seconds before an answer came to her. “Doctors treat diseases. Nurses treat people.”
“Is that not the same thing?”
“No. There’s a slight difference. A doctor might worry about how to treat your blood pressure or the wound you have.
A nurse worries about how to keep you comfortable and safe and heard.
You know, in case the doctor gets too in their own head.
It’s easy for doctors to lose focus on the person.
My job as a nurse was to make sure that, even if that happened, the person wasn’t overlooked. ”
Havali made a soft sound of understanding. “The empathetic and kind side of medicine.”
“Yeah. Pretty much.”
“I understand your protectiveness now.” He nuzzled her hair. “Adassani is fortunate to have you as her advocate and friend.”
“It’s just wrong, what they’re doing,” she grumbled, turning back to her combot. They were still talking about the baby. A newborn, and they were just flashing his face and birth all over the subnet like it was a damn public event.
With a snarl, she banished her combot back to its charging port.
Havali chuckled even as he lowered his lips and began licking gently at her neck.
Teasing it with little bites from his lips, grazing the skin with his teeth.
She shivered at the warm wetness as one of his thumbs began to stroke under her breast. She was still nude from the bath, but she had been so angry that she hadn’t noticed until he began to massage the soft skin of her lower belly, fingertips swirling in her curls.
The hard bar of his cock pressed into her lower back and Scarlet found her hips canting back, seeking more of that heavy, throbbing heat.
“Now you’re all worked up. After all that effort I put into calming you down,” he chastised gently, a smile in his voice.
“It just makes me so mad.”
He bit her neck. Softly. Not enough to break skin, but just enough to focus her back onto him. “Tuvo is handling them. There’s nothing you can do. And you’ve already done enough. Rest.”
“I know that, but-”
His jaw tightened, digging his fang into her skin, making her gasp as her hips jerked back against his cock. She responded so quickly. So easily. The contrast of the gentleness of his hands and the sharp points of his fangs was a dizzying combination.
“Disobedient female,” he mumbled, running his tongue over the spot he had just bitten, making it sting and warm deliciously. “What am I to do with you?”
She could think of a few things. All of them scandalous and exciting. But she wasn’t willing to ruin their game by asking for them.
Instead, she rubbed herself back against him, like a cat in heat, and said the most erotic thing she could think of that he would respond to.
“You know, seeing Peony’s pup today really got me thinking…”
Havali stilled behind her. All but his tail that she could feel curl tighter around her ankle.
“He’s so cute. Ugh,” she dropped her head back against his shoulder, grinding her body on his. “I could practically feel my ovaries clenching.”
He was growling now, claws pressing into the soft skin of her beast and mons.
“You tease me, Healer,” he snarled. The rumble of it shot excitement through her veins like a strong swig of hard liquor leaving her languid and heated.
“It just made me so needy,” she whined. “To feel your big, thick knot plugging my hole.”
His growl deepened as he thrust compulsively against her ass.
“And your hot cum in my womb, filling me up. Breeding me.”
She was thrown forward with a cry. Her body folded over the side of the bed and, before she could get her wits about her, Havali was there, covering her body with his own.
They were both still naked from the shower.
And now that she was bent over the side of the bed, he was able to line his cock up with her entrance as he once again took hold of her neck with his teeth.
Like an animal, he thrust into her. Hot and hard and fast. Pounding her into the bed as she cried out and tried to squirm below him. But she couldn’t. Not with his torso weighing her down, his arms locked around her, pinning her arms to her body, and his fangs digging into her neck.
Drawing blood.
The sharp pain only added an edge to the already harsh pleasure, somehow improving it. She couldn’t move. Couldn’t resist. Couldn’t help. She could only lay there, trapped in his embrace, as he hunched over her, slamming their hips together.
Then, suddenly, something was wiggling against her clit making her scream. The tip of his tail, swirling around the sensitive bud, flicking it every so often. Twisting her up higher and higher. He groaned, sucking at her blood like a desperate vampire.
She screamed when she orgasmed.
Havali grunted, no doubt feeling her body clenching around him, but he didn't stop. His tail didn't stop. He kept fucking her right through her first climax and into another. Until she was too sensitive and begging him through tears to stop.
But she didn't use her word, and he didn't stop.
He kept going, wringing every last drop of painful ecstasy from her body.
His knot was hard and throbbing when, with a grunt of effort, he slammed it into her hole.
She swore she felt it pop into place. The pressure of it on her inner walls sent her careening into an orgasm so hard, her entire mind went blank as her vision turned white.
She tensed and spasmed, her belly and thighs quivering from the force of it.