"So..." He tossed the rein along the back of the two brown horses. "Would ye like to know what I'm going to do to ye?"
Please, no. I swallowed.
I could imagine nothing I wanted to know less. "Nay. It matters not. You'll not have the chance."
He tossed back his head and laughed. "I'm intrigued to see if tha' venomous tongue of yers will still lash when I'm balls deep in ye."
"You won't ever be." I crossed my arms over my chest as much as possible in the shackles.
He snorted. "I absolutely will." He tilted his head as he looked back over at me. "Might as well get used to the thought now. I'm taking it ye haven't had a man afore."
I gave him a quick look. How'd he know?
He answered the question I hadn't asked. "No woman is tha' tight after she's had a man. That's why I bought ye. I intend to be yer first. And thought it best not to let another have one as small as you for her first."
***
"So, it should be one as large as you!" I stood up in the cart and leaned back. Yanking on the chain. Trying to escape.
"I'll take that as a yes." He laughed. Giving the chain a hard tug that sent me sprawling on my belly in the cart.
He glanced back at my buttocks exposed by the flared-up tunic. "Like that'd do."
I sat up on my knees. Looking at him hatefully. "Do for what?"
"Do for the first time I plant seed in ye."
"No!" I shrieked like a wild banshee.
He chuckled "I think first. I'll rip that tunic off ye and have ye walk about me hut in the skin ye were born in. Get used to how ye should be." He nodded thoughtfully. "Then I can have ye when I wish."
He stroked his pants as he felt himself hardening at the thought.
"Name's Mardichi by the by." He tossed over his shoulder.
I know. I heard you and the tradesman speaking. He clearly knew you.
I glared heatedly at his back. Trying to work a way out of this.
"Slave trader said yer name was Raven." Mardichi remarked. Giving me a questioning look.
I didn't answer.
"Raven 'tis."
***
We arrived in his hut and he walked me in. On the outside it looked relatively small and simple. But on the inside, it was high roofed and expansive.
To give his behemoth frame room to move. He'd need a spacious area to stroll about. I'd never before seen a hut I thought would fit him.
He turned and bolted the door up high.
Far too high for me to reach.
Then he turned and showed me the key to my shackles. Putting it in his pocket with a broad grin.
Reminding me who's in control. I gave him a black look.
Then without preamble, he reached out and tore the oversized tunic I wore down the front. Roughly ripping it off me and tossing it in the corner like discarded rubbish.
"This is how you'll remain." He commanded.
I glared up at him defiantly. "I won't."
"You will." He dismissed. Stepping forward to cup a small breast as he gave me a thoughtful study. "Ye're a small lass. I worry about breaking yer flesh."
He thought he might break me?
Reassuring. That was my fear too. I stared up at him in horror.
"You could let me go, in that case." I suggested.
He smirked.
"Aren't you adorable?" He bumped my chin with his knuckles in a disarming way.
He was a behemoth. A massive creature that loomed like a great bull. I couldn't begin to fear what he had beneath that bit of leather.
Something I don't want to see atall.
"It won't matter. You'll never have me. I'll get away."
"Will ye?" He laughed. Spinning me around and folding me over his bed. As bare as the day I was born.
He could take me. Rip me. And I'd be broken beyond repair.
Please don't. I willed.
I heard him moving the cloth covering his groin aside and I felt something like a small arm landing on my buttocks. He drug it against me. Sliding it over my crack then down between my thighs.
Holy shit.
It'll never fit. I recalled how the inside of my body had clenched around his finger.
"Put your legs together." He ordered.
Determined to show no weakness or terror I did as he bid. Closing my legs, I felt his hard member slipping between my thighs. And pinched against the moist wetness between my lower lips.
Sending strange heat surging through my lower abdomen. Something unlike anything I'd felt before.
He slid backward and moaned. Then forward, pushing in and out of my thighs rhythmically.
Despite myself, I knew my body got wetter. Slicking him as he moved.
"You like that, don't you?" His large hands landed around my sides. Nearly encompassing my width. As he pounded harder against the back of my thighs. His hips nearly bruising as he gained momentum.
Looking down I saw his cock parting my thighs as the head jutted between them. Shining wetly as it emerged and retracted.
He was moaning in pleasure. Pushing forward so hard he was tipping me further over the bed. My hands landed on it to brace me. He flattened a hand over the top of my buttocks so he could lean back and watch him sliding between my legs.
Then he lurched forward, hard. I watched the head of his cock emerge between my thighs and shoot white liquid a distance. Landing in my hair.
He moaned in pleasure and his grip loosened.
"Good, Lass." He patted my ass as though I were a good pup.
He turned and walked away. Dismissing me.
My mind was racing. Faster than a horse’s hooves as I considered my options. She embraced me tightly. “Forget whatever you’re thinking. Stay here with me baby girl!” “Here is where I was taken.” I reminded her. “Then I’ll gather all you girls and we’ll go somewhere else!” “Where?” “I don’t know yet. Just stay.” She stepped back to squeeze my hands. “Stay with me, Honey.” I wanted to. The sound of her sweet voice was something I’d badly missed. But Robin hadn’t gotten in with a bad lot trying to find me. Now I need to find him. But I knew nothing about bandits, their laws, or their weapons. But I know someone who does. And the truth was, I was aching to be close to him again. I’d missed his face every step I’d taken away from him. Now I need him. And somehow I knew, without a shred of doubt, that he’d help me. *** MARDICHI
“You’re a drunkard.” “But damn fun to be around.” He pointed out. “No. You’re not.” Mardichi gave a slight shrug. “That too, is a matter of opinion.” “What if she’s in trouble?” Acharius blurted about the young voice he could hear. “Then your old bawdys will care for her. They’re plenty vicious. Recall tha’ day they wouldna lemme in the house? I asked plenty nice and they…” He gave a low whistle. Acharius smiled fondly at the memory. “They were quite ready to fell you.” “I think they may’ve tried, too!” His voice rose slightly as he responded to Acharius’ comment regarding them killing Mardichi with the tiny daggers they’d wielded. “You were demanding to know if they had drink in the House.” Acharius defended. “Twas a fair question…It’d been a long morning.” “They thought you were a thief.” Acharius commented. “Shouldn’t you be out strolling Mane Country for Cimmerii?” “Ye mean
“I suppose.” He admitted. I turned and put my hand on the door. Realizing that every fiber of my heart wanted me to stay. Was screaming for me to turn around, embrace him and declare my love for him. But I can’t. I loved people before him. And I need to know they’re okay. And it was more than just that. Especially now. I need to know who I am. And if anyone else in my family knows how to control this… “Will you come back?” He asked softly. My gaze fell and my throat felt choked with emotion. “I don’t know…” “I travel to see the brethren often.” Mardichi breathed. But when I am not with them, I’ll always return here…For you.” He’s saying he’ll wait for me. Watch for me…Still be mine. “I don’t know how long it might take, if I ever did.” “I don’t care.” I stepped out and closed the door before the tears began pouring over my face. So, no
He’d lied. That was all I could think after it felt we’d walked for an eternity. He was incredibly spry. Nearly dancing on his feet as we walked through a meadow of tall wispy wheat grass toward a large hut. Well-built and beautiful. I felt a tingle of apprehension as I wondered who lived here. I thought it was apprehension. But it may just be my legs going numb. I’d sweated nearly all the way through the dress I was wearing. I was sure my armpits were dripping, and my hair was sticking to my forehead and the back of my neck. Mardichi jogged ahead to hold the door open for me. I was panting like a dehydrated hound. Dragging my feet and my shoulders slumped as I forced myself to take another step. Then another. I’m never going to get there. I was going to collapse into the grass first. He must’ve seen the distress on my face. He jogged back at a calm lope and swept me up
They were gloriously beautiful wings. Dark black with hints of a greenish hue which glinted in the sunlight sweeping through the trees and between the rustling bird wings around me. Everything around me seemed to quiet as I examined these things attached to my shoulders. Wondering where they’d come from. I reached out with hesitant fingers and grabbed the thickness of one. Startled by how warm, and real it felt. I didn’t know what I expected but this was the last of it. I’d half expected that my hand would sift straight through it. I flexed my shoulders, tensing the blades which I discovered, made the wings splay out and flex, to pointed tips. I moved my arms in, bringing my elbows together. Which made the wings wrap protectively around me. Instantly creating a cocoon of warmth. A blanket far warmer than any I’d ever climbed under. They’re unreal. Yet they were entirely so. Giving one a light tug revealed it was certai
I looked back down. Seeing that Mardichi was now bleeding badly. Though he was showing no sign of slowing down. The rodents were now dashing from the underbrush to tear at his slender legs. Ripping at tendons and trying to tear into something vital. One was currently hanging onto his soft stomach. Gnashing vicious little yellow teeth. Another had stepped out from the shrubbery. A flap along its belly began to lift and it loosed a woman’s cry. A sound that I’d have been certain was a woman screaming in distress. But there were echoing responses from every direction. Far too many out here. I could see them now. Coming from every direction with their hideous flicking tails. I felt a rush of heat and my teeth clenched. My arms felt like the bones locked out and my back felt as if it was ripping apart. There was a great flood of dark birds pouring from the sky in a swirl to come down and dump over the creatures. Blinding th