Chapter 16
Tabby
Eclipse City is like a mountain range, except flat.
There are so many buildings, and they’re so tall they all look like crags in their own right.
We drive through them in the car, which has a shiny pad on the back of the front seat where you can watch pictures move and make sounds.
I’ve spent much of the journey here watching a hand-drawn pig have tepid adventures.
Now, as the world elevates itself around me and buildings of all kinds rise above my head to giddying heights while lights and little metal creatures rush about in the sky, I am entranced by what I see.
“How many people live here?”
“Oh, millions,” Krall says.
There are hundreds of them around us right now. Thousands probably. They’re wandering around, driving about, whizzing on motorbikes.
“What are the pretty yellow ones?”
“They’re delivery bikes. There’s a rumor the king’s mate likes to drive one of them when the mood takes her.”
We drive through the vast city all the way to the river, where a glorious palace stands in a fancy sort of way. None of this looks real to me. This is all just generally outlandish. The palace is large enough that hundreds of people would have to live in it just to make it make any kind of sense.
“Are we going in there?”
“We are. We are expected.”
Now it makes sense why he made us all get changed before we came.
The men are all wearing suits with high collars, broad shoulders, tight pants, and tall boots.
I am wearing a black dress that covers all the indiscreet parts of my body.
My hair has been put up into a style that Krall described as tidy.
We get out, Krall taking the lead and me walking behind him with Skor and Thorn flanking me. Someone comes and takes the car away, though he has an expression on his face like it should probably be burned rather than parked. This is a place where only very fancy things happen, I can tell.
There are a lot of uniformed guards around the place, but they sort of defer to us as we walk into the palace under garden arches. It’s very pretty, with many exotic plants, a lot of which threaten to make me sneeze.
We are met just inside the palace by a very tall and handsome wolf-man with an incredible beard and piercing eyes. He greets Krall like a brother, extending his arms and drawing him into an embrace.
“Krall! We are honored to have you here. It has been too long!”
“What’s going on?”
“Krall’s kind of a big deal,” Thorn murmurs to me. “He’s a war hero, basically. He’s killed more vampires than the rest of us put together.”
“Really? I never saw him kill anything. He just growls and snaps and…”
“This is my pack, and my mates,” Krall says. “Tabby, Thorn, and Skor.”
The older wolf gives us all a onceover and nods. “You are all honored guests of the king.”
We are drawn into the royal household and once again I have the feeling that I am living in a dream.
I am far from the windswept mountains where dark things roam.
Here the only dark thing is Skor and he has been more like a muted shade of gray lately.
This is a world of riches and pageantry and finery.
We are served on delicate plates and the food is of a kind I have never imagined could exist. It’s all complicated and so good, I think it’s going to ruin me.
As the day goes on, and we meet people whose names I doubt I will ever be able to remember, and Skor and Thorn are taken off to learn about their duties, because all my mates will have positions in the royal household, Krall pulls me aside, taking me to the suite we have been assigned.
It is big and fancy and the furniture looks like the kind I’m going to probably ruin by accident, but the bed is a lovely big one with soft silk coverlets of white and gold.
“This is where we are going to live, Tabby,” Krall says. “This is going to be your home.”
I wonder why I ever thought to resist it. I should have run here as soon as possible when they told me where we were going. But I was afraid. I thought life was made up of darkness and monsters and though they were terrible, they were what I knew.
“What do you think of it?”
“I think it’s beautiful,” I say honestly.
He kisses me with a gentle possessive passion, and I melt into him.
The quiet passion between us sparks. Skor might be my darkest mate, but Krall is the one I have clashed with the most. From the very beginning, he and I have been at odds.
I have resisted his dominance, and he has done everything in his power to break me to his will.
The kiss deepens and I find myself grinding against his leg. The dress feels too restrictive right now.
“Are you going to be a good girl for me here?” He murmurs the question in my ear. “Are you going to let your wolf daddy breed your sweet wild pussy?”
I let out a soft moan under my breath, so excited by his words I can barely contain myself.
He slides the zip of the dress down my back and lets the garment fall from my body like a second skin. I step out of my shoes and am entirely naked, a fact he takes advantage of as he grips my hair and pushes me down to my knees, freeing his cock.
I look up at him with soft eyes as he guides the head of his thick rod into my mouth, sliding it deep to the back of my throat before pulling it out.
“This is where Daddy is going to teach you how to be civilized,” he says, his tone deep and gravelly and full of lust. “You are going to be such a good girl for me, aren’t you?”
I feel myself getting wet as I suck his cock. The way he is speaking to me is so sweet and filthy, I am confused into intense arousal.
I want him to fuck me. I want him to take me.
And that is exactly what he does. Once he has entertained himself using my mouth, he pulls me up and lays me on the bed below him, slowly stripping his fancy clothes from his rough body. Muscle and scars. That’s what he is.
He looks down at me, his gaze running over the length of my naked body.
“You are exquisite,” he says. “You are the most beautiful little thing I have ever seen, and you are mine. All mine. I know the others have their way with you. I know Skor has claimed you and defiled you. I know Thorn’s eager loving has pleased you.
But this, Tabby?” He leans down, his eyes boring into mine.
“What is between us? You know it, don’t you. ”
He rubs his fingers over my wet slit as he speaks to me, circling my clit with practiced agility. I let out soft little moans and my hips rise and fall with animal desperation.
“I am the alpha of this little pack. And you know it. This pussy knows it.” He runs his teeth down the side of my neck. “Your womb knows it, too. You’re Daddy’s little breeding bitch, aren’t you?”
His rough words make me absolutely desperate for his cock. Skor has defiled me, he’s right about that. Skor made sex something twisted and perverted. He branded his essence on my soul.
But Krall is here to redeem me, and he does so with the natural dominance of an older alpha who doesn’t need to demonstrate his prowess anymore. Krall has nothing to prove to anyone.
I spread my legs and the hard line of his cock slides down my pussy. He’s not inside me yet, but he is making me absolutely desperate for it.
“Tell me,” he growls. “Tell me who you are.”
“I’m yours,” I say, my voice trembling with need.
“Yes, you are. And who am I?” He captures my chin gently and turns my face to his.
I know what he wants me to say, but it’s too loaded a word. It makes me too soft, and too small. It makes me feel vulnerable in a way I never felt vulnerable before, even when I was small.
He drags his cock along my pussy, settles the head at the entrance to my body, but doesn’t push in.
“You’re not going to get what you want until you do as you’re told,” he purrs deliciously. “You went through it with Skor, but that chapter of your life is over. No more hunting horrors in the dark. Now you live in a palace and you have your cute pussy bred by your daddy.”
I moan with need and try to squirm so his cock goes inside me, but he keeps himself away from me.
“Say it,” he says. “Say it or we’ll put our clothes back on and go to afternoon tea and you will have to suffer with a wet, unsatisfied pussy.”
“Fuck me please, Daddy.” I mumble the words, blushing as I do. “Breed me.”
“Of course, princess,” he growls, thrusting inside me in one long, slow, delicious stroke that makes my pussy grip him so tightly as I let out a moan of pure contentment.
He fucks me long and hard, with experienced motions that make every part of my body tingle. Krall has been biding his time, I realize. He tried to get me under control to begin with, being all stern and rough, but now he has me where he wants me he is a different kind of dominant.
“I’m going to fill your pussy up again. Breed you nice and deep, and then you’re going to have a nap here and later you’ll be bred again,” he growls in my ear as his knot starts to thicken inside me.
“Daddy wolf is going to make sure you never go more than a day without being fucked like you need to be, you naughty little whelp.”
He’s speaking with a kind of sexual softness that makes my clit tingle with orgasmic energy.
I am being used and loved and bred and fucked, my legs are wrapping around him, I am begging him to come inside me, and my voice doesn’t sound like my own.
It sounds higher and more desperate as I start to come even before he has knotted inside me.
“You’re a hungry little girl, aren’t you,” he says, thrusting deep and hard, giving me a rough rutting as he gets closer and closer to filling me up. “The first time I saw you, I knew this is how you’d end up, wrapped around my knot, coming so hard for me.”
He pins me down and pushes himself deep inside and I hear him roar as he breeds me, spilling thick ropes of cum in my pussy.
I am so fucked. I am so fucked, so bred, so owned, and so loved. Krall rolls us to the side, and I lie in the midst of luxury, Krall’s roughened fingers languidly rubbing traces of cum into my lips and clit until I take that nap Daddy insisted I take.