CHAPTER 9
SYLVUS
After she’s rested a while, I let her drink straight from my cocks. She’s earned it.
She behaves for me, so sweet and docile.
A precious gift.
Andromeda recovers faster this time. Her body is adjusting to the transformation and gaining resilience.
I might even struggle to keep up with her stamina.
I’m looking forward to the challenge.
I roll over fully onto my back and pull her onto my chest, stroking her with my hands and all my paws.
She hums happily.
After basking in the attention, she tips her head to the side and looks up at me. “So, I have another question.”
“Are you waiting for my permission to ask it?”
She pinches my ribs.
I let her.
A warm smile spreads across her face. “So… you fucked me pretty hard.”
“Mhm.”
“With your cocks.”
“I did.”
Her fingers trace across my chest. “Does that mean I’m gonna get knocked up with your spider baby?”
“Do you want to be?”
“I…” Surprise flickers across her face as a gorgeous crimson blush spreads across her cheeks. “I don’t know. Maybe.” Her brow knits. “‘Maybe’ is kind of a seismic shift for me. Do… do you?”
“I want what you want.”
“Hey, no copping out. I was honest.”
I cup her face with my hand. “I mean it. I want to grant you every desire of your heart. I also want every moment of your life to myself. To see you happy with my babe on your chest… or to hold you against mine, and never share you… both futures are equally appealing to me.”
“Oh…” She lets out a sigh, as if a long-held tension suddenly releases.
“To answer your question, no, I haven’t introduced any sperm to your system.”
“Are humans and Arachnoids even compatible?”
“Humans and Arachnoids? No. Hucows and Arachnoids…? Yes.”
“So… how did you not introduce any sperm? You came in me… a lot.”
I chuckle. “I did. These…” I snug my pedipalps around her hips and stroke her ass. “Don’t actually produce sperm.”
“I knew you were impotent.”
I smack her ass.
Her indignant expression is as gorgeous as the pleasure it melts into when the endorphins make their way through her body.
She flops against my chest with a happy “Hmph.”
“I produce sperm, just not from there.”
“From where, then?”
I tap a foot next to my semen glands, right below where my abdomen meets my thorax. “Here.”
“So… if I, like, grind there…?”
My laugh brushes through her hair as I kiss her forehead. “You could, if you wanted. But I can load it into my pedipalps—”
“Your cocks.”
“My cocks. And apply it in the… usual way.”
“So, said another way… right now, you can cum in me all I want and there’s no risk of pregnancy?”
“Correct.”
“Alright. Good to know.”
“Choose when you’re ready. In the meantime… I’m going to be greedy.” I snuggle Andromeda to my body, wrapping her with all my limbs. “Be sure when you choose. You’ll find I’m very virile.”
She lifts her head, eyes narrowed. “You’re not going to put a baby in me just to prove a point, are you?”
I lean down and purr next to her ear. “Careful what you wish for.”
“Do you have to go back to work?”
“I can take a while off.”
“Okay, I know what I wish for first.”
I brush my lips over her cheek. “Tell me what you wish, and I will grant your every desire…”
She shivers against me. “Do you have any… trashy reality TV in that Earth collection of yours?”
“Of course. Those discs are amongst my rarest and most coveted artifacts.”
“Good. I want to watch that, and then I want you to eat my pussy.”
I laugh and hold her against my chest as I roll over, rising to my feet. “Your wish is my command.”
“Wait, I get to boss you around?” The wicked glint in her eye is perfection.
“Yeah. If you make me cum so hard I can’t see straight.” I step down into the silk tube that leads into my home—our home.
“Hm. Well. I want to add that to the list too, then.”
“Greedy, greedy, greedy…” I pinch her ass.
“Get used to it.” She loops her arms around my neck.
I kiss her cheek. “It will be my absolute pleasure.”
She snuggles into my chest. “Wait, can you get strawberries? You can totally get black market strawberries, can’t you?”
“I can.” I move slower than usual through the silk tunnels. It’s not because of Andromeda’s weight—that I can handle quite easily. I’m just… unhurried. There’s nothing I want more than her in my arms, and she’s already here.
She gasps. “Bacon!”
“What?”
“Oh, fuck, I want to eat a pig again… I know that’s so wrong, but… they taste so good.”
“Keep going.”
“What?”
“Tell me. Everything you want.”
Her emerald eyes shine up at me. “And you’ll get it all for me?”
“I’ll get it all for you. I’ll take it as my personal challenge.”
She hesitates. “What if you can’t? What if I ask for something insane?”
I tousle her hair. “Then I’ll fuck you silly until you can’t remember what it was.”
She blinks, and a coy smile lights up her face. “I… okay, yeah. You are good at deals.”
I tilt my head. “I have a certain reputation to uphold.”
“Well, in that case… I want popcorn. With butter. You can make butter out of hucow milk, right?”
“Mhm.”
“Ooh, and a cat! A pet cat.”
“Earth-cat or cat as a general category of fluffy, semi-domesticated animal?”
“Surprise me. And—” She stops short, hesitates.
“Go ahead.”
“No, I—it’s too much.”
“Oh, so you want me to pry it out of you?”
She shivers against me. “No… Well, tempting. It’s just… my personal item allowance. I had… a little plush dragon. Some other things. I know it’s impossible, but I figure they’re buried in some ISCC archive or… at some museum somewhere…”
“Describe them for me later. I’ll find them.” I walk across the side wall of my home’s central pillar, then step into one of the many radiating tunnels.
“You really don’t—I was just teasing—”
I lean down and grab her chin, tilting her gaze to mine. “I’m not. You’ll describe them to me. And then I’ll find them. Wherever they are. There’s not a corner of this galaxy where I haven’t laid my threads.”
Her eyes water. “Really?”
“Really. I promise.”
“And you Arachnoids take promises really seriously…”
“We do.”
She tucks her forehead against my neck. “Thank you.”
We’re almost to my collection room.
I laugh, and she leans into the rumbling of my chest.
“What?” she asks.
“I realized something. You are a fluffy, semi-domesticated animal. My cat wants a cat.” I tousle her hair.
“I am not—Well… okay, yeah, that’s pretty accurate. Wait, can I be a cat if I’m a cow?”
“Cow, kitten…” I weave a little scrap of silk, then fasten it around her neck. “They both wear collars. Collars with…”
I step into my collections room where precisely arranged silk cubbies hold all the treasures I don’t currently have on display. I grab the polymer case holding the data disk for my favorite reality TV series, then rifle through a few cubbies nearby.
She gasps quietly. “Wow, it’s amazing in here…”
“Aha. A bell.” I thread a bit of silk through the round, polished silver bell and attach it to her collar. With the tag on her ear, she now looks like a perfect pet.
She presses her fingers gently to the cool metal, blushing.
I tap her nose. “This way, you can’t sneak out of my room again.”
A devious little smile appears on her face, and I know it means challenge accepted.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I tip her face up with my chin. “Andromeda…”
“Yeah?”
I pin her to the nearest bare panel of silk, pressing my stomach between her legs. My fingers brush hers over the bell. “You’re mine.”
She moans quietly, head tipping back, opening her lips.
I kiss her hungrily, gripping her plush ass and pulling her to my body at the same time as I press her into the taut silk behind her.
Her sweet, spicy scent surrounds me.
Every piece of bone and chitin in my body vibrates with happiness.
She’s mine.
Mine forever.