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CHAPTER 12

MAHK

I glanced around to make sure nobody was watching, then turned my back to my Tanner. I looked at him from over my shoulder. “Hop on.”

He stared at me incredulously. “I’m sorry, what?”

I remembered then that I was still in my human form and Tanner was quite larger than I was like this. I could understand why he would be skeptical. But while I may look human, I was still orc.

“Please trust me, lulekai . I do not want to waste any more time.”

Tanner sucked in a breath between his teeth. “Neither do I. Fuck it.” He walked behind me, wrapped his arms around my neck, and then hopped up, his thick thighs circling my waist.

I could admit it was awkward in this body to hold him like that, but I could carry him with ease.

“Hang on,” I whispered, then took off, no longer hiding my speed. I did not want to waste time walking like a human to get to the shop.

Tanner’s arms tightened around me, his fingers digging into the fabric of my clothing. He laughed breathlessly. “Holy fuck. This is wild!”

Before long, we were standing by the back door of the convenience store. Tanner hopped off my back with a laugh. “That was so fucking awesome. We’re doing that again.”

I grinned. “When we can cross the barrier, I will take you through our forests in my true form just like that.”

Some emotion that looked like sadness flashed across Tanner’s features, but he quickly hid it. I wanted to ask him what was wrong, but then my mate was pushing me up against a brick wall and having his way with my mouth again, and I forgot all about it.

His fingers curled in my hair and held it as he fumbled to pull his keys out with his other hand. Finally, he grabbed them and opened the door. Tanner dragged me in, took just long enough to close and lock the door, and then he was on me again.

I melted in his hold, loving how he took control. “Fuck, sweetheart,” he muttered into my mouth and rocked his hips up against me. “Take that bracelet off. I want to see you.”

“Are you sure?” It was unlikely anyone would come anywhere near here at this time at night, but it was possible. Sometimes, potential hikers or campers who were looking for an early start on the fish would pull in thinking the shop was open and looking for gas for their vehicles or snacks.

Tanner sucked on my neck. “Yes. Fuck yes. We’re in the back. No one can see us. But I want our first time to be only us, no magic, no illusions.”

I was still me, even when I looked human, but it pleased me how comfortable Tanner was seeing me as an orc. I’d learned that humans were often more relaxed with what they were used to, and if they could pretend something wasn’t real, then they would. But Tanner never pretended.

I touched the bracelet and whispered the words to deactivate it. As soon as the magic lifted, Tanner fell to his knees, his fingers curling into the waistband of my breeches. I barely had a chance to blink before my mate was pulling down my bottoms and exposing my erection to him.

He sunk back on his heels, his eyes wide and hungry. “Fucking A, sweetheart. I knew you were huge, but . . . damn.” He sounded both aroused and frightened at the same time. Still, he reached out and brushed a featherlight touch along my cock, driving me wild and sending a shiver down my spine.

His hand circled my knot. “Holy fuck, baby. This…please tell me this is what I think it is?”

I frowned. “My knot? I have seen human media. You know what this is, yes?”

I knew Tanner would not have one, but my research had shown many, many stories that featured males with knots.

“Your . . . knot. I should’ve realized you’d have a monster cock.” That was a good thing that I did, right? Tanner was certainly aroused.

“And this expands when you come?”

“You mean orgasm? Yes. It would lock me inside my partner if I was penetrating.”

“Fuck me. I usually top, but I will need to feel that one day.” I nodded, unsure what to say and pretty incapable of forming complete sentences as Tanner massaged my knot with his calloused fingers. I arched my back and rested my hands on his shoulders.

“Whatever you want.” I gasped. That was my last coherent thought because Tanner leaned forward and licked along the underside of my thick cock.

“Next time. Today, I really want to be inside you. Are you okay with that, sweetheart? We can do something else.” His thumb brushed over my tip.

“N-no.” My teeth sunk into my lower lip. “I want that. I want you inside me, to mark me as yours.”

Tanner cursed quietly under breath, and then his teeth sunk into the meaty flesh of my thigh, right by my groin. I screamed out in pleasure and pain, my nails digging into his shoulders.

“Don’t say shit like that to me, little stalker. I’ll leave marks all over your body so everyone, both orcs and humans, will know you’re mine.”

Yes. That, please. I wanted that so badly. I would proudly wear Tanner’s marks. I wanted to do the same to him, and I couldn’t wait for the day that he was ready for that. We hadn’t discussed it, but I could tell Tanner was still apprehensive. He was frightened about something, but whatever it was, he wouldn’t discuss it with me. I had to be patient. I was confident he would come to me when he was ready.

Tanner licked across the mark he’d left, soothing the ache. Then he was standing, his fingers fumbling with the button on his pants. I stilled his hand. “Let me? Please.”

Tanner’s pupils were huge. He licked his lips and moved his hands to my body. I took that as a yes and immediately tugged at the button. I didn’t mean to rip it off completely, but I must have used too much strength because the tiny button went flying across the room, the only sound the ting ting as it bounced across the floor.

I opened my mouth to apologize but never got the chance. Tanner growled, his hand curled around my neck in a possessive grip. “Clothes off now. Can’t wait another fucking minute!”

All I could do was nod my head like one of those bobblehead dolls that were sold at the novelty shop in town, and then it was just limbs and awkward fumbling as we undressed each other. His mouth and hands were everywhere, nipping and sucking at my jaw while his hands possessively cupped my hips. Then his mouth drifted lower, as did his hands.

I wasn’t better. As soon as Tanner was naked, I could not stop touching him. My hands mapped out every inch of his skin, memorizing every curve, every scar, all of it.

Tanner’s tongue flicked across my nipple, and I screamed out, surprised. He flashed me a wicked grin. “I knew these were sensitive, sweetheart.” One hand teased my right nipple mercilessly, while his mouth did wicked things to the other. I was glad I was pressed against the wall because I did not think I had the strength to stand.

Tanner switched his mouth to the other side, his hand drifted down and he wrapped those thick fingers around the base of my cock, tugging it roughly.

“T-tanner,” I whined, completely undignified, but I didn’t care. I arched into his touch, desperate for more.

“Lube,” he whispered huskily. “Fuck, we need lube.”

I wracked my brain, trying to place the word. Finally, it came to me. “Oh, pleasure oil.” That distracted Tanner from his ministrations enough for him to pull away with a goofy smile on his face. “Pleasure oil? That’s what you call lube?” He jerked my cock again, and it took me a moment to remember what words were and answer.

“Yes. It’s different. Magical. Allows a human body to adapt to our penises more easily.”

“Fuuuck. Okay, yeah, we will absolutely have to try that.” I nodded, agreeing. I didn’t want to hurt my Tanner. “Luckily, I have a normal human dick, and I’ll make sure I fit in your pretty, tight hole perfectly, little stalker. What about condoms?” he asked. I’d learned about them, but it was not something we needed.

“No. We cannot get or transmit diseases. You are safe.”

“Thank fuck.” Tanner stopped what he was doing and I almost cried. But then he kissed me roughly, all teeth and dominance, before pulling away. “Don’t move.”

He ran out into the store, naked as the day he was born. I closed my eyes and squeezed my cock, slowing the flow of pleasure. I did not want to have my release until Tanner was inside me. It was not the same as him accepting the mating, but it was close, and it was all I wanted.

Within thirty seconds, Tanner was back, holding a plastic bottle. “Remind me to pay for this before we leave.”

I grunted and watched my beautiful mate as he scanned the small break room/office that we were in. His eyes landed on the two-person sofa that was shoved against the wall.

“I guess that will have to do. Over the side of the couch, little stalker,” Tanner ordered me. “Let me see that sweet ass of yours.”

I could not move fast enough. Soon, I was bent over the end of the sofa, but it was awkward. The arm was too short, and I could not seem to get in the right position.

Tanner pulled me up, clearly losing his patience, then he was moving the love seat away from the wall. “Kneel, sweetheart. On the couch facing away from me. Lean your upper body over the back.”

This would’ve been easier in the more compact human body, but Tanner wanted me as an orc. We somehow managed it, and then his body was pressed up against mine, his thick cock slotting between my ass cheeks.

His nails raked across my back in a brilliant burn of painful pleasure that had me arching into his touch. “You’re so fucking beautiful, Mahk. Inside and out. You are the best thing that ever happened to me.”

I was overcome with emotion and at a loss for words. By the time the lump in my throat cleared enough to speak so I could return the sentiment and let Tanner know I was the luckiest orc alive to have him as a mate, he had spread my cheeks with his hands, exposing my hole.

“Tanner—” It was the only thing I managed before something wet licked across my entrance. Tanner had his tongue pressed up against my hole as he licked and sucked.

I cursed in my native language, completely undone by the sensation. My toes curled and my fingers dug into the fabric beneath me. I could not stay still if I tried.

“Tanner! Lulekai . . . What—” Nothing else came out as he pressed past the rim. “Fuck!”

I humped against the couch, but I couldn’t get enough friction. I needed to touch myself. I reached for my cock. Tanner pulled back and bit my ass cheek, hard. “I don’t think so, little stalker. That’s mine. Hold the back of the couch and don’t move your hands.”

I melted a little even as I immediately let go of my cock and obeyed. I couldn’t help it. Tanner’s words held power over me. “Tanner!” It came out more as a cry than a whine. “

What is that? What are you doing?”

He kissed the bite mark with gentle lips. “Have you never been rimmed before, sweetheart?”

I shook my head. “N-no.” I wasn’t familiar with the term. I’d read and watched many educational videos on human sex, Tanner called it porn, but I don’t remember seeing that. I’d have to look?—

I lost my train of thought when something cold and gel-like replaced Tanner’s tongue. “Lube,” he told me gently when I stiffened. Why was it so cold? Pleasure oil was never this cold. He pressed the tip of one of his fingers against my hole. “One day, I will make you come just from eating your ass, but I’m sorry, baby. I’m too desperate now. I need to be inside you. I can’t help it.”

“Yes. Please. Now.”

He pinched my thigh. “No. You need to be stretched. I may not be as big as an orc, but I’m not small by human standards, and I won’t hurt you.”

He pressed a finger with the cold lube inside me.

I regretted not bringing pleasure oil with me across the barrier. I could not wait till I could use some on my Tanner. I wanted to claim him with my knot in the orc way and take care of his every need.

“Fuck, sweetheart. You’re so tight. Look at you squeezing the fuck outta my finger. I can’t wait till it’s my cock instead.”

I couldn’t wait either. I needed it so badly. Tanner thrust his finger in and out a few times before twisting it, touching a gland that made my poor cock leak with pleasure. Soon, he was adding a second finger.

By the time he added the third, I was done. My head rested limply between my hands and my neglected cock was ready to explode.

“Tanner. Please. I am ready. Take me.”

Tanner tsked. “I don’t know, baby. I don’t want to hurt you. Maybe I should add a fourth finger?”

There was something about his tone that made me believe he was teasing me. I was still learning all the nuances of the human language that the magic in the bangle did not help me understand. But I knew my Tanner well enough to read his tones.

Still . . . “Please. Lulekai . I’m good. I promise.”

Tanner growled, sounding more orc than I was. His teeth scraped along my shoulder. “Yeah you are. You’re so fucking good.”

His fingers left me, and I suddenly regretted everything as the emptiness made me feel hollow. I twisted my head, ready to beg Tanner for . . . well, anything.

I didn’t need to. It was only seconds before I felt the tip of his cock press up against my entrance. “Ready?” he asked breathlessly.

In response, I pushed back, like it would be possible to impale myself on his dick. Tanner laughed, squeezed my hip in a bruising grip, and then pushed inside me.

He didn’t hesitate, and I relished the burn as I adjusted to his thickness and length. Tanner was right. He was not as large as an orc, but based on the research I had done on human sex organs, he was both larger and thicker than average, and I felt every inch of that as he pushed inside me.

I could feel Tanner’s breath on my back, his fingers flexing on my hips, his thighs pressed against me, his balls resting on my ass. For a moment, everything was still. Tanner, me, the air. We were on a precipice of everything changing, and I savored that moment and all it meant.

Then the tension broke, and Tanner fucked me like a wild beast. All I could do was hold on and take everything he gave me as he pulled out and thrust back in, his pace brutal, hard and fast and fucking everything. He bent over me and sunk his teeth into my shoulder. My Tanner loved to bite me. Apparently he loved to leave his marks. I wanted every one.

“Fuck. Mahk. You take my cock so good. You’re such a good fucking boy. So pretty, so tight. You like being stuffed with my cock, baby?”

Tanner was breathless with exertion, but he kept up a steady stream of dirty talk, and the words all washed together in a wave of pleasure. My dick was painfully hard. I didn’t dare touch it, but I tried to get some kind of friction. I needed something, anything, But even as it rubbed up and down along the fabric of the sofa, it wasn’t enough. I needed Tanner.

“Tanner, please touch me, lulekai . I need you. I need to orgasm.”

“Shit. You need some help, baby?”

“Y-yes. Please.”

Tanner thrust in, changing his angle, and I was so, so close to the edge. I needed a little something more.

Tanner’s hand wrapped around my cock and I almost cried. He didn’t move it, though. In fact, he stopped moving altogether.

“Fuck my hand, sweetheart. Make us both come.”

I was muttering nonsense now as Tanner’s grip tightened, and I did exactly as he’d asked. Every movement impaled me farther on his cock and gave me the friction I so desperately needed to finally gain my release.

“Close.” I screamed out.

“Me too. Come for me, Mahk. Come on my cock.”

His words were more powerful than any orc magic I’d seen. As soon as he said them, the invisible wall that had been holding me back crumbled and my release was spurting all over the cushion. My hole clenched. Tanner’s hips stuttered and he cursed loudly as he orgasmed, his release filling me.

I felt claimed as my mate painted my insides. I’d known Tanner was mine from the moment I’d laid eyes on him, but this? This brought us closer in ways I could never imagine. I wanted this every day for the rest of our lives. I wanted to claim Tanner as well. I wanted him locked on my knot and my marks on his skin the way his littered mine. I was confident we would get there. Tanner belonged with me. He needed to let go of his fear and . . .

“Um, Mahk? What the fuck? Is that your knot?”

Tanner’s hands were wrapped around my cock, holding my expanded knot tightly within their grasp. I closed my eyes in pleasure. It felt so good. Not as good as it would be inside him, but it was close.

“Yes.”

“Oh. My. God. Okay, yeah, I need this ASAP. We gotta get that pleasure oil.”

I felt a small pang of longing, knowing the barrier was still locked. Most days I didn’t think about it. It was not like I’d seen my family every day, and it had only been a month, but at times like this, I remembered I didn’t have that option. More than missing my family, it was knowing why I couldn’t get through, because Tanner had not fully accepted the bond.

He seemed to understand, though, because Tanner adjusted us, his one hand still around my knot. We were half-lying on the tiny couch, Tanner practically on top of my back, with his softening cock still inside my hole. It was awkward, but I loved feeling the weight of my mate on me. He kissed my shoulder tenderly.

“I’m sorry, Mahk. I shouldn’t have said that.”

I shrugged. I was not angry. He meant no harm by it. “I swear I’m working on it. Maybe it opened now that we had sex?”

“Maybe,” I agreed, even if I knew it did not. Not until Tanner fully accepted the bond. Not until he allowed me to bite and claim him.

Tanner heard it in my tone. “Fuck. I’m sorry, Mahk. I’m—I just need a little more time.”

I twisted my head to kiss him. My tusk pressed into his lip, but Tanner licked it, unbothered. “You do not need to apologize, my sweet mate. Take all the time you need.”

Tanner looked conflicted, and all I wanted to do was go back to basking in the post-orgasm pleasure. So I nipped at his lip.

“That is a worry for tomorrow, Tanner. All I want is to feel pleasure and be in your arms.”

He smiled softly. “That I can do for you.” He tightened his grip on me and kissed the side of my face. My eyes fluttered close.