15. Chapter 15
Marduk
Smelling my mate’s arousal made everything around me fade. My entire focus was on Bec.
Move to the area to your left, Danzig said. There’s soft grass there.
My answer was to make my way quickly but carefully to the grass. The soil was even, perfectly tilled, and covered with soft, new growth. My guess was that this would be a pasture for the cow to enjoy once the grass was a little taller.
Even with this grass, I didn’t want our mate on the ground. It was cold and dirty, and she deserved so much more.
Keep hold of Bec, I ordered Danzig.
I felt him shift a little, then I shrank under him until he was standing up and holding Bec cradled in his arms. I flipped over and got bigger again until Danzig and Bec could sit on me once more.
Now that I was on my back, and they were resting on my belly, I lengthened my body until I could double over and put my head on my belly right in front of Bec.
I flicked out my tongue, touching her jean covered leg. Tell her to strip!
“What are you doing?” Bec asked, sounding equal parts nervous and intrigued.
“My brother wants to show you that he can be your bed and your pleasure,” Danzig said.
“That doesn’t make any sense,” Bec said, reaching out to rest her hands on my snout. I rubbed my scales against her palms, enjoying the feel of her soft hands.
Get her naked! I ordered Danzig, feeling desperate.
You know we can’t simply demand that, Danzig said. I could feel his frustration with me. We need to seduce, not demand.
Then start seducing, damn it.
I felt Danzig’s annoyance give way to amusement. After we give Bec a mating bite, you’re enrolling in meditation lessons.
Whatever, I grumbled. Let the ravishing begin.
“I know you’ve realized I lost my clothes,” Danzig said to Bec, his voice low and husky. I watched him move one of his hands from around her waist to press against her chest, below her breast. I felt her suck in a breath and watched her shudder.
“My body is pressed against you, with only your thin shirt and jeans separating us. Don’t you want to feel my skin against yours?”
“I do, but, um, we shouldn't,” she said. There was so much longing, but I could sense her trepidation.
Tell her we can stop the moment she isn't happy, I said.
Hush, let me work, Danzig said, sending me a mental shove.
“We won’t do anything you don’t want, Bec,” Danzig murmured, his lips right next to her ear. “All we want to do is worship our queen of the serpents.”
I used my forked tongue to grasp at her pant leg, emphasizing Danzig’s words. Her eyes focused on my tongue, her pupils expanding. She liked the look of my tongue.
Tell her what I can do! I told Danzig.
Danzig used a hand to tug Bec’s shirt up a little, revealing a slip of bare flesh.
Show her yourself.
I ran my tongue over her skin, then gently played with her belly button. She gasped and shuddered. I pulled my tongue back in my mouth and waited.
“Wh-wh-what’s he doing?” she stuttered. “Why did he stop?”
“He's waiting for permission,” Danzig said. “Will you let him show you what he can do with that tongue? Let us worship your body Bec.”
“But we’re out in the open,” she whispered. “What if someone comes over here?”
“I can fix that,” Danzig said, and I felt him send out a pulse of power. It soaked into the grass below us and clung to the trees around us. It was a clear warning for everyone to keep their distance from us. It wasn't a barrier, simply a warning.
“It feels like static just flowed across my skin,” Bec said with a shiver. “What did you do?”
“Magic,” Danzig said. “No one will bother us now.”
Not unless they want to die, I grumbled.
“What did you say about dying?” Bec asked, making both Danzig and I jerk with surprise.
Did she hear me? I asked.
No, she couldn't have, Danzig denied
“Um, why are you guys upset?” she asked, sounding worried.
“We aren’t,” Danzig said. “Can you hear Marduk speaking to me?”
She frowned slightly. “I’m not hearing a conversation, exactly. It’s more like soft mumbling where I’m making out a word or two.”
“That’s incredible," Danzig said, echoing my own thoughts.
“Why do you say that?”
“Because not even our mother can hear us when we speak like that to each other,” Danzig said.
Absolute adoration flowed through me. Bec’s ability to hear us was another sign that she was meant to be our mate.
Even though I knew from the beginning that we were all meant to be together, her reluctance had me worried.
Shouldn’t mates fall over themselves to be with each other?
Although humans could be slow to feel the magic, Bec’s continued rejection of us had been difficult. No, not simply difficult. It hurt.
To find out that she could do something no one else could made me rejoice.
“Why do I get the feeling that Marduk is really happy?” Bec asked. She sounded a little breathless as well as confused.
“Because he is,” Danzig said with a low chuckle. He nuzzled his face against the side of her head and licked the delicate shell of her ear.
“Let’s get back on topic. Marduk would be even happier if you were naked. Or at least didn’t have pants. I can promise no one will bother us. Everyone here is much too polite to walk past the warning I’ve set up.”
“I don’t…um,” she whispered. “We really shouldn’t.”
“Have you ever fucked under the stars, Bec?” he whispered in her ear. “Didn’t you tell me you wanted adventure?”
Danzig couldn’t see her face, but I watched her expression go from worry to want, and then neediness. When her expression settled on determined, I was worried she was about to say no.
“If we do this, it doesn’t mean anything,” she said, toeing out of her shoes. Then she reached down to undo her jeans. “I’m not saying I belong to you or anything.”
Even though her words upset me, Danzig maintained his composure.
“Certainly,” Danzig said smoothly, rubbing a hand on me to help me cope with Bec’s dismissal of our feelings. “We’re all consenting adults enjoying each other.”
“Consenting serpents and a human," she muttered under her breath.
She isn't rejecting us, Danzig reminded me. She's setting boundaries. It's her right.
I knew that, but I didn't have to like it.
Danzig helped steady her on me as she wiggled out of her jeans, her panties going with them. The clothing fell to the side, and my beautiful mate shivered a little from the cool evening air.
I focused on warming myself up, giving her a more comfortable bed.
“Is it just me,” she said, trying to sit back up after basically laying down with her head on Danzig’s thigh to get her pants off, “or did Marduk suddenly get hotter?”
“He’s trying to keep you warm,” Danzig explained, then put a hand on her shoulder to keep her from sitting back up. “Stay there.”
“What?” she said, going still, her heels tucked up against her ass, and her knees pressed tightly together. “Why?”
“For access,” Danzig purred to her as I delicately ran my tongue over her foot, then up her shin. She shivered and licked her lips when I got to her knee.
“He couldn’t want to do that, could he?” she asked, her words a little jumbled.
“Part your legs,” Danzig said. “And find out.”
I petted her knee with my tongue, making sure to show her how dexterous my forked tongue could be.
Her lips parted, and I heard her heartbeat kick up. I withdrew my tongue from her knee and watched her move with tantalizing slowness. She stretched her legs out and parted them, but only a little bit, then froze.
I could feel her hesitation. She wanted this but was scared. I could understand.
Tell her I can feel if she doesn’t like something. That I’d stop right away, I told Danzig. Tell her I love her and would never hurt her.
She relaxed and flashed a smile at me before Danzig said anything.
“I know you wouldn’t hurt me on purpose,” she murmured. “It's only that you have those really big fangs folded up in your mouth. They’re a little intimidating.”
I opened my mouth wide and let my fangs drop down. Her eyes went wide, then her mouth dropped open as I focused on shrinking my fangs until they were nothing but little nubs. It took some effort, but her reaction was worth it.
“I didn’t know you could do that!” she exclaimed.
“We can make any part of our anatomy any size you’d like,” Danzig said as I flicked my tongue back out and circled it around her ankle. “If you tell us what you want, we can make ourselves fit it.”
I could feel it when she understood Danzig’s implication. Her body jerked a little, and she let out a nervous chuckle.
“I guess that’s good to know,” she said.
My tongue was still wrapped around her ankle. I tugged without any force, urging her to relax and straighten her leg.
She moved both legs, letting her back fully rest on me and Danzig.
“Can I kiss you?” Danzig asked.
She nodded and tilted her head back to make it easier for him. I watched her body carefully as they kissed. It was easy to feel Danzig’s desire, but Bec was a little harder. We had to be careful because we both knew she wanted us, but it would be easy to push her too far too fast.
Honestly, I was amazed she was letting us do this. A few months ago, all she'd known was her familiar human world, and now a giant snake was petting her with his tongue.
When she relaxed into Danzig’s kiss, I felt emboldened. I moved my tongue up her leg, making sure to give her plenty of time to protest. When I was almost to her sex, she shifted her legs further apart, a clear invitation.
I could see slick gleaming on the inside of her thighs. I took a moment to lick some of it off, teasing myself. She moaned into Danzig’s mouth, and tilted her hips slightly, encouraging me.
Unable to wait any longer, I dipped my tongue into her slit, separating her lips and revealing her wet, delicate flesh. With one tine of my tongue, I massaged her clit and I eased the other tine into her feminine sheath.