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Marron

I have never slept so well in my entire life. I have thought that every time I have woken with Tori in my arms, but now I am almost positive it cannot get any better than this. Especially as her loud nose sounds fill the room as I wake, telling me she is finding much comfort in my arms.

Last night, after Tori fell asleep, I took her up on what she told me. I started by just thrusting into her softly, slowly, making sure not to wake her or cause her any pain if she was still sore from taking me for the first time.

I do not think it says anything about my ability to make love that she started making her nose sounds when I released inside of her. I may have then found myself seeing how gently I could make love to her while she slept for so long that my cock finally softened.

When that happened, I wiggled out from underneath my mate, who I now know can sleep through almost anything.

I washed between her legs and nuzzled the rough hair there until I was content with making sure her cunt felt as loved as I do when I am inside it.

I thought about falling asleep with my head on Tori's thigh and my face pressed against her curls, but then I remembered how good she felt in my arms and decided it was best to hold her our first night as mates.

" Is it morning? " Tori asks, startling me by her abrupt awakeness. I did not even notice that her loud nose sounds had stopped.

Strange that she was just sleeping so hard, and now she is looking at me with wide eyes like she does not need some time to wake up like I do. I am not fully awake for at least the entire walk to Beren and Lyath's farm every morning.

My mate is better at waking than me, and it has me wondering if her refreshed state will mean she might be interested in riding my cock again.

I did not manage to get her to ride me for very long last night before releasing inside of her, but maybe now she is more awake and willing to let me buck underneath her.

"It is." I swallow hard, trying to think of the correct way to ask my mate to slide herself onto me.

She looks up at me with a bright smile, and I think maybe I should think of something else because she seems much too bright and happy. I do not want to dampen that if she is not in the mood to make love with me.

" How many times did you release inside of me last night? " she asks, taking my breath from my chest in one quick question.

For a moment, I feel like a young who has just been caught doing something he was not meant to be doing.

I remind myself that Tori told me I was allowed to use her body in that way, but it is another thing for her to ask me about it with a loving smile on her lips.

It makes me feel like maybe I was not loving enough to her.

"Maybe five or six." I rub one of my horns. My scales feel too tight all of a sudden. "I hope that is okay. You told me I could, but now I am feeling uncertain."

Tori plops one of her hands over my lips to silence me. "You made love to me while I slept?" she asks, but doesn't release my lips, so I can only nod. The tightness of my scales grows. "I like that. I want to know about it. So tell me what you did to me."

My eyes go wide, but the tightness of my scales eases some. Tori narrows her eyes at me and still doesn't release my lips. I think she will, so I can tell her, but she says one more thing before releasing my tongue.

"I used to fantasize about you crawling through my window at night and having your way with me."

I hiss long and hard against her hand, and she finally giggles and allows me to speak. "You are a strange female. I have not heard of one who wishes for her body to be used when she cannot remember it."

"Well, I only want it to be you, Marron. I only trust you enough."

My chest swells in pride, and my cock does the same. Yes, I have decided not to be ashamed of fulfilling my little mate's secret desires. If she wishes for me to fill her womb in her sleep, I will do it every single night.

I might even try to get her to find release while she makes loud sounds through her nose tonight. There is no way she will be able to sleep through that. Or maybe she will, and I will have to think of other ways to wake her. Suddenly, this seems like it will be one of my favorite things to do.

"Are you sore?" I ask, needing to make sure I will not hurt my mate before I ask her to use her small human body to bring me more pleasure.

"Just a little bit." She pushes against my chest and sits between my legs.

Her eyes fall down my body, where I am most definitely flexing my muscles in an attempt to entice her into sleeping with me again.

She must like what she is seeing because she reaches out to my hardened cock and strokes it lovingly. "Want to see if I'm too sore?"

"Very much, yes."

I barely get the words out before my mate is straddling me and sliding herself down my length. I have only a moment to thank the goddess for blessing me so much before Tori tries to kill me with how vigorously she can bounce herself on my cock.

***

"Are you willing to tell us what happened to you a few days ago?"

Ralleth and Olivia sit in front of Tori and me in the dining hall.

The only reason I am in the tribe is to get this over with and also to grab some food so I can keep my mate in our home for the foreseeable future until I am sure my seed has been planted in her womb.

Even then, I think I will want to keep her to myself for a long while.

I tug Tori tighter against me. I might have made her sit in my lap as soon as we sat down in the dining hall. I also might have carried her around like I did last night.

What can I say? I am a male, proud of how beautiful my mate is. How can I not wish to show off to everyone that this is the female whose soul I have managed to woo? I am proud of this. Probably more proud of her than I am of anything else I have ever done.

" Keep your hands on the table while we talk to your leader ," Tori tells me in English.

Ralleth does not understand her words, but his mate does and tries to hide her smile. I hold my hands up and very purposefully place them on the table in front of me. Tori is right to ask it of me, though. I very much want to place my hands up her skirt.

I tried to convince her to let me fill her underwear with my seed before wearing it, but she told me that this could make her sick.

It was one of the worst things I have ever heard in my life, but then she told me I could spill myself on her, and she would rub it into her skin if I wanted to do that instead.

Again, I am a blessed male. How could I not want to parade my female around the tribe on my shoulder, claimed as mine?

"Joll attacked me the first night of the mating ceremony," I say.

It is not something that will keep me up at night, and I most definitely do not need to protect him. I have not said anything before now because I wanted everyone in the tribe to know he was a liar.

I understand a male wanting my mate. She is easily the best mate to have ever lived. But that means I need to work hard to protect her.

Joll put her honor into question, and I wanted her to have the ability to reject him on her own, to prove to everyone that she did not choose him and would not be bullied into a mating just because he was making it out as though he was her mate.

He thought to corner her by spreading lies and forcing her into a mating ceremony, and she was able to tell him in front of everyone that she did not want him.

"I do not know if Joll, Ere, or Nillin struck first. Thro might be able to tell you that.

" I continue telling them what happened.

"But one of the three hit me in the back of the head.

Thro says he and Jen saw a club left where I had fallen, so I assume that's what they hit me with.

While I was passed out, they kicked me a few times, or that's what Jen told me.

She was busy trying to hold Thro back so he wouldn't get hurt, so she missed some things.

" I tense behind Tori, needing to explain a little bit more.

"I do not blame Jen for not seeing much.

I am grateful to her. She is a small female and managed to hold my brother back.

Them not being found is how they were able to follow Joll and his friends. "

"You told Kal that Thro found you out in the trees on his way back to the farm," Ralleth says. It's not so much a statement as it is a question about how much of that is true.

"Thro and Jen followed Joll and the others as they dragged my body out into the trees.

They took me the opposite way of the farms." I frown and flick my eyes down to Tori because I do not want her to hear this next part and worry more for me.

Or really, I do not want her looking for Joll so she can slice into him herself.

"If Jen and Thro did not follow them, I do not know when I would have been found.

I was taken to a section that is not meant to be hunted for a few more days. "

I hear the growl in Tori's throat right before she whips her head around, an accusing glare in her eyes. I might find it frightening if it did not make my cock come to attention in an instant. I like it when she is ferocious. It reminds me of the bite in my neck that is healing nicely.

"Calm, little mate, I am here, and I am yours." I move my hand to squeeze her thigh. I want to push my hand even higher and stroke the hair between her legs, but she might try to kill me if I do it right here in front of Ralleth and Olivia. She cares very much about what they think of her.

"You are mine," she grumbles as she turns around to face Olivia and Ralleth.

Olivia gives her a knowing look, and Ralleth beams at me like he understands the pride in having a female claim him. It is wonderful. I can only imagine how wonderful it must have been for Ralleth since no one in his tribe ever thought they'd even see a female again.