“I lied.” Trel’s face pouted a bit. “You filled my womb with plenty of your seed. I am confident I’ll bear children. Don’t fight this Victor. It will just hurt more. My bite will numb you pleasantly. Just let the memories of our love making carry you into the darkness. You really were excellent.”
“No!” I tried to shout, but her left hand grabbed me by the throat and my words were cut off suddenly.
I tried to kick or lift my hips up, but her legs were too far away to each side, and her naked human body was a vertical line hanging right above me. There was nothing for me to kick, or push, or leverage against. There was only the incredible strength of her arms pinning my throat and shoulder.
Trel smiled at me, and the twin vampire fangs extended another six inches out of her mouth.
“Ahhhhcckkk!” I gasped through her grip on my throat as I tried to wiggle free.
“Shhh,” she whispered as her mouth dropped toward my throat. “Don’t fight my love. I am so proud of you. I will sing your praises to our children. They will never forget you.”
I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t help myself. Trel was going to kill me after an afternoon of mind-blowing sex.
The crazy thing was, I almost thought it was worth it.
“Just relax, Victor.” Her wet tongue drifted across the side of my throat and trailed up to my earlobe. Her tongue slipped into my ear and I fought against a moan of pleasure. Holy shit. Trel was about to murder me, but she was still turning me on.
Fuck it. I should have known this was how I’d go out. Tricked by some beautiful woman. My life flashed before my eyes, and I felt an incredible sense of sadness that I hadn’t done more with my existence.
“Annnnndddd. Fooled you,” she whispered into my ear, and her hand released my throat.
“What?” I gasped with surprise.
“Ha! You should see the look on your face!” Trel cackled loudly and flipped herself over so that she was straddling my waist again. “Your eyes were this big!” She brought the tips of her fingers together to make giant circles and then she held them up to her own black eyes.
“Wait. What?” I sat up, and Trel’s cackle turned into a roar of laughter.
“You… Thought… I’d… Kill… You… Ha!” Her body vibrated on top of me as she laughed, and her spider legs slapped the floor of the hut.
“That was a joke?” I asked as I touched my throat.
“Uhhh yeah, cool dude!” She had her arms wrapped around her lean stomach now, and she rocked back and forth on me. Somehow, I was still hard, and her movements pushed my tip against her lower back.
“Holy shit!” I shouted. “Trel, I thought you were going to kill me!”
“I know!” she screeched. “I wish I had a vid-camera. It was hilarious.”
“Uhh, no,” I growled. “That was fucking terrible. I can’t believe you’d do that.”
“Ha!” she laughed again and shook her head to make her hair bounce.
“No, for real. My heart is just calming down now. I seriously--”
Her lips pressed against mine suddenly, and I fell back against the floor mat. She growled into my mouth as she kissed me, and my tongue fought against hers.
“You think I’d kill you, Victor Shelby?” she growled as she pulled her lips from mine. “Trel-Idil-Iria keeps her word. I told you I’d be your lover without poisoning you. I told you I was yours forever. I’m furious that you did not believe me. I should kill you for your insolence.” I gasped as her fingers closed around my throat again. But then I saw the smile on her lips.
“You are in trouble, Trel.” I hissed.
“Oh?” she asked as she relaxed her grip on my neck.
“Yep. You need a spanking.” I brought the palm of my hand up and smacked her on her ass cheek.
“Oh!” she gasped when I hit her. Then she gasped again when I smacked her other ass cheek.
“And tickles,” I growled as I moved my fingers toward her stomach.
“Victor Shelby. Don’t you dare! I am a Duchess. I do not-- Eeeekkkk!” Trel screeched when my fingers poked into her skin on the sides of her tummy, and she leapt off my torso.
“Tickle, tickle, tickle,” I laughed as I rolled to my feet and walked toward her with my fingers wiggling.
“No! No! No! I take it all back! You are a terrible male! I’m going to kill you next time!” Trel laughed as she snatched up her silk clothes and dashed out the door.
I didn’t care that I was naked. Trel had to pay for tricking me, so I sprinted out the door after her. She hadn’t made it far, so I managed to grab her around the waist as I somehow avoided her thrashing spider legs. We both went down in a pile, and she screeched out laughter as my fingers poked every part of her smooth skin.
“No! Stop! Ekkk! Victor! Stop tickling me! This isn’t funny!” She almost couldn’t talk because she was giggling so much.
“Then why are you laughing!” I asked as I moved my fingers into her armpits.
“Nooo! Stop!” she laughed as she tried to pull my hands away from her.
“Ahhheeeemmm!” a voice shouted next to us.
Trel and I both stopped our naked wrestling and looked up at Kacerie. The pink-haired woman had her arms crossed over her chest and an unhappy scowl on her face.
“Are you two done in the hut? Some of us would like to eat dinner and work with the damn clay you were so interested in getting.”
“Uhh, yeah,” I said as I looked down at Trel. We were both covered with sweat and bits of grass from where we were rolling.
“We are done for tonight,” Trel huffed, “but I intend to have him tomorrow, and every afternoon moving forward, so maybe you should--”
“We are good,” I interrupted Trel as I ran my hand down her smooth inky hair. “You can use it now.”
“Fine,” Kacerie barked, and then she stormed into the hut. A moment later my boots, socks, pants, and two shirts flew out of the door and landed near us.
“I just can’t believe her attitude,” Trel sighed. “It’s like she doesn’t even understand all the things you do for her. How ungrateful.”
“Trel,” I chuckled as I thought about how she acted toward me for the last month. “You are something else.”
“I know,” the beautiful woman sighed as she moved her mouth toward mine. “I am all sorts of amazing and wonderful. And now I’m all yours. Just don’t let it go to your head, male. You have a problem with being a bit too cocky and arrogant.”
“Me?” I laughed. “I’m arrogant and cocky?”
“Yes, of course,” she said, and then we kissed again.
Chapter 9
That night was a bit of a celebration. We’d gone from a minor setback the day before when Sheela and I almost died and lost two clay jugs; to acquiring a shit ton of sinew for cordage, a good thirty pounds of clay, and Bob.
We feasted like a king and his queens that night, and everyone but Galmine ate a freshly barbequed orange bird. My gray-skinned lover chose to eat the last of our berries, and I told her we planned on getting more the next day.
When Kacerie left the hut to use our latrine bucket, I gestured for my three friends to lean in close over the fire. Sheela and I told them about the smoke that we had observed, and our worries about other hostile tribes. Galmine had trouble believing anyone would want to attack us, but Trel immediately suspected that they might already know our presence because of the various fires we lit over the last week when we cut through trees, and she began to puzzle through ways to mask our presence better.
We brainstormed a few ideas until Kacerie came back, and then we moved the conversation away from the topic, and to a discussion about keeping watch at night. The shifts were much easier to cover with five people, and I volunteered for the second one.
Other than a group of smaller raptor-like scavengers that came to eat at the corpse buffet, and the dancing green lightning bugs, the night passed without excitement. I slept nestled between Trel and Galmine and enjoyed kisses from both of them throughout the night. I knew Galmine was all into free love, and she’d often spoken about how her society just had massive orgies every night, but I thought Trel would have been way more possessive than she was. She didn’t seem to mind Galmine kissing me, other than to demand my lips after she saw me kissing the rock woman. She just wanted to be treated as an equal, and I had no problem with that, even if I kept asking myself how in the hell I had gotten so lucky.