Chapter 2 #3
“Yeah,” Rehz said. “And they coveted that feeling.”
“Which means what?” Kai snapped. “That we’re their drug of choice? We already knew that.”
“It’s more than that.” Rehz lowered his voice. “They want to experience what we have.”
“By torturing us?”
“It’s more than the physical,” Rehz mused. “I just can’t grasp the whole of it yet.”
“Then fucking hurry up. Because Aled can’t take much more of this and neither can Anna.”
Rehz gave him a level stare. “If you focused down and stopped emoting, we might work out what is going on faster.”
“Yeah, right.”
“You like pain more than most, Kai. They could take you deeper than Aled and you’d deal with it better.”
“So you’re suggesting I offer myself up as sacrifice now?”
“If you want Aled to survive.”
Kai dropped his gaze to his unconscious lover’s face and shut up. Rehz didn’t need to ask for his help. No one else needed to know how deeply he craved pain. If he offered it up to the Ungrich and worked out what they wanted? He might even be proud of himself for once.
Aled opened his blue eyes, and Kai forgot everything else.
“You okay?”
Aled licked his dry lips. “Not nearly as bad as being fucked over by Palk.” He blinked. “Is my cock still attached to me?”
“Yeah. It’s gained a few holes, but it’s all still there.” He bent and kissed Aled’s nose. “It had better be all right because I own that cock. I’ll need it when we get out of here.”
Aled’s pupils dilated. “They . . . liked it when I screamed. They liked the taste of my blood. They want . . .” He frowned. “Something they lack.”
“Don’t worry about it now. Get some sleep before they come for you again,” Kai ordered.
Aled obediently closed his eyes again, and Kai laid him back down on the soft surface of the cell floor.
He hated seeing his lover treated like some kind of breeding machine.
It wasn’t right. He had a terrible sense that unless all of them gave everything they had, the Ungrich would triumph.
If they couldn’t work out a way to get back, Aled and Anna might be doomed to stay here and fuck forever.
“Rehz? Keep an eye on Aled for me, okay?”
Taking a deep breath, he turned away from the other three and walked over to the far corner of the cube.
He sat on the floor and wrapped one hand around his dick.
He thought about Aled and blood and pain and .
. . yeah, felt his cock spring to life and the Ungrich tentacle probing his brain wake up so he could communicate with it.
“Kai Mexr . . .”
“Fuck me like they did Aled.”
The tentacle around his throat quivered and stretched, sending thin tendrils like red raindrops trickling down over his abs.
“Make me bleed and hurt for you.”
For the first time he voluntarily reached for the tentacles, wrapping them around his fingers and balls and shaft as he finger-fucked himself.
“Taste me. Get off on my pain . It’s much better than that love shit. I swear it.”
The Ungrich surrounding him shuddered, and suddenly he couldn’t see anything but the pulse of tentacles closing him in.
His moving finger was yanked out of his ass and replaced by a big, thick, pulsing probe.
He sighed even as he struggled to take it inside him.
For the first time, instead of hiding his pain, he embraced it and offered it up to them.
They took it.
Fuck , they took it all.
His knees were spread wide and his back arched as he struggled to take the beast. Looking down, he watched as the finer tentacles became barbed, dragging themselves over his skin, leaving bloodied tracks behind them.
Gods, it was like his body was on fire. His nerves were exposed and his whole being became a vibrating vehicle for pain . . .
He joined them, diving in deep: felt their joy at his surrender, begged them to do more, and felt the scrape of the barbs like teeth on his balls and cock.
He climaxed, his blood mingling with his come, and they soaked it up, made him hard again.
Hooks through his foreskin like red-hot needles dragging him up, sending him to that place where everything was peaceful and the white wall of pain suddenly made perfect sense.
He took a breath and saw them clearly.
And took more pain.
When Kai woke up, he was stretched out in the corner, and Aled was fucking Anna again. Everything hurt. He tasted his own blood and come on his parched lips and tried to clear his throat. Gods, it hurt to even swallow, as if he’d been screaming for hours.
Maybe he had.
Rehz glanced his way, and his eyes widened before he came over and crouched next to Kai.
“You look like a side of flayed meat.”
He attempted a nod, and Rehz frowned.
“Can you talk?”
“Throat sore,” he croaked.
“Aled nearly lost it with the Ungrich when you emerged from that sea of tentacles all bloodied and punctured. I had to remind him that you’d done this for us.” Rehz shifted his stance. “Can you hold on to me and come closer to Aled? He needs to see that you’re alive.”
He attempted to roll onto his side and almost threw up. At his second attempt he sat up. His vision went black and he saw stars.
“Breathe.” Rehz offered his hand. “Ready?”
He managed five staggering steps with Rehz’s help before he collapsed to the right of Aled, whose face lit up at the sight of him.
“Kai. I thought . . .”
Kai waved him on. “Just finish the fucking. Trust me, I’m not going anywhere.”