Page 7 of Kidnapped By the Beast (Beasts of the Kindred #11)

LEXI

Lexi woke slowly, the world swimming into focus a little at a time.

The first thing she noticed was how weak she felt.

And the second thing was that she was resting in what she assumed was some kind of big, cushy recliner.

There was a broad window above the recliner that showed a starry night outside with a single purple and gold planet floating off in one corner.

She frowned. Wait—was that a window or a painting? It must be a painting or some kind of digital rendering, she decided. Because the only way a window could show her a strange new planet was if she was out in space somewhere. And that wasn’t possible…was it?

“Ah, I see you’re awake.” The deep, rumbling voice sounded familiar.

Lexi turned her head and was surprised to see Dr. Brandt sitting beside her.

He was wearing the Kindred uniform of tight black trousers tucked into tall black boots and a long-sleeved button-down shirt made of some heavy, satiny material that was dyed crimson.

The deep color looked amazing with his dark skin tones and made his golden eyes seem to gleam as he looked at her.

“What…where am I?” Lexi asked groggily. She looked down at herself and saw that she had a five-point harness crisscrossed over her breasts and thighs, holding her in place in the comfortable, oversized chair.

Also, she was still wearing the clothing she’d had on for her interview—minus her bra which was nowhere to be seen.

Her newly perky breasts were clearly visible through the white silk of her interview blouse and her nipples were pressing hard against the thin fabric.

Speaking of her nipples, they were still tingling like crazy. In fact, Lexi thought that might be what had woken her up in the first place.

“Where is this and what happened to my bra?” she demanded, frowning up at the big Beast Kindred in the seat beside her, since he hadn’t answered her the first time.

Dr. Brandt gave her a stern look.

“We are currently orbiting Bio-Terius Centra,” he told her. “And as for your bro, I threw it away—it was nothing but a torture device.”

“It’s a bra and…wait a minute. What? Where did you say we are?” Lexi sat up straight and immediately regretted it. “Oooo!” she moaned, putting a hand to her head. “Why am I so dizzy?”

“Producing an extremely large amount of nectar in such a short time weakened and depleted you,” Dr. Brandt told her. “Here—eat this.”

He handed her something that looked kind of like a candy bar and a granola bar mixed.

“What is this?” Lexi took a nibble and a salty-sweet delicious flavor burst over her taste-buds. It was like roasted nuts and salted caramel and chocolate and some other savory flavor she couldn’t put her finger on. But whatever it was, it was good.

“That’s a high-intensity, calorie-rich nutrition bar,” Dr. Brandt informed her. “It will provide you with fifteen hundred calories and forty grams of fat as well as thirty grams of protein.”

“What?” As delicious as it was, Lexi nearly spit out the bite she’d taken. “But that’s horrible!” she exclaimed. “I can’t eat this—It’ll make me gain weight!”

“No, it will help you maintain your current weight—and keep your curves,” he said sternly. He glared at her. “You will eat it. I refuse to let you melt away to nothing while we are on this mission together.”

“But I never agreed to go on any mission with you!” Lexi exclaimed. “In fact—you…you kidnapped me! I don’t want to be here at all! I’m supposed to be back at my friend’s suite getting ready to go back down to Earth right now!”

“Now listen to me…” Dr. Brandt turned to her and took her chin in one big hand.

Leaning down, he got right in her face, his golden eyes blazing into hers.

“You will come with me and you will submit to any and all tests I need to run on you in order for your body to host the Bacillus Aurum,” he growled at her.

“My mission is too important to let one headstrong human female fuck it up!”

Lexi stared at him, wide-eyed. Previously she’d pegged him as kind of a nerd.

A big, muscular, handsome nerd, but a nerd just the same.

Now, with him growling at her and his golden eyes blazing, she was beginning to rethink her assessment of the big Beast Kindred.

She remembered how her friend, Natalie, had warned her that Beast Kindred had the hottest tempers—now it seemed like maybe that was true.

“I…I never agreed to this,” she tried to protest. “To coming here with you!”

“Too fucking bad,” Dr. Brandt growled. “Because I’m through begging and cajoling.

You will be paid a sum of thirty thousand Earth dollar-credits in addition to the six thousand I already owe you, but you will submit to me in any way I tell you to.

And if you don’t, you’ll be punished. Do I make myself clear? ”

“Y-yes?” Lexi breathed uncertainly. She could barely get the word out.

She had never felt so unsure of herself in her life—but then, she’d never had a man kidnap her and take her to another planet, either.

Her nipples were still throbbing with desire and she couldn’t seem to look away from his blazing golden gaze.

His warm, spicy scent seemed to surround her, making it hard to think.

“Yes, Sir,” he corrected her. “You’ll call me ‘Dr. Brandt’ or ‘Sir’ while we’re on this mission together. No other names are acceptable. Do you understand?”

“Yes…” Lexi licked her lips. “Yes, Sir,” she got out at last.

“Good.” He released her face but stayed where he was, frowning down at her. “Now that we understand each other, I’m going to do something I should have done back at my office.”

Reaching down, he began to unbutton her blouse, baring her newly-perky breasts.

“Hey, what do you think you’re doing?” Lexi tried to push his hands away, only to have him grab both her wrists and push them over her head.

“I’m removing the Bonding Fruit cream, like I should have earlier,” Dr. Brandt growled. “I’m going to suck your nipples to break the chemical bonds and you’re going to let me without misbehaving. Do I make myself clear, Alexandra?”

His use of her name and the way he was staring at her so sternly made Lexi’s heart pound in her chest. Was this somehow turning her on?

She read a lot of BDSM romance and it made her hot and bothered to read about a dark and delicious Dom bending the heroine to his will, but she’d never imagined being in a situation like that in real life!

Yet here she was with the big Beast Kindred leaning over her, holding her wrists over her head with one hand while he peeled back her white silk blouse to reveal her throbbing nipples with the other. It was like one of her naughty books had somehow become reality.

“I said, do I make myself clear?” he demanded, glaring at her sternly.

“I…yes. I mean, yes, Sir,” Lexi panted. “But… you have to pay me as soon as we get back to Earth,” she added, trying to keep at least some control over the situation. “And…and I want the money in cash!” she added. “I…ohhhh!”

Her words ended in a moan because Dr. Brandt had sucked her right nipple into his mouth and he was currently swirling his hot tongue around and around her tender tip, sending shivers of pleasure through her entire body.

Lexi’s back arched as she watched the big Beast Kindred work on her. He was being extremely thorough—sucking as much of her breast as he could into his mouth and then releasing her nipple slowly…then lapping her tight peak slowly before sucking it hard again.

Just as she had when the suction cups were milking the nectar out of her, she could feel the sparks of pleasure running straight from her nipples to her pussy, which was feeling extremely hot and wet.

She squeezed her thighs together tightly as the big Kindred finished with her right nipple and started on her left.

She had never known before today that she could have an orgasm just from having her nipples sucked and she was praying she didn’t have another one right now.

That would give the big Beast Kindred too much power over her!

What are you talking about? whispered a little voice in her head.

He already has power over you—ALL the power.

He’s got you out here orbiting a strange alien world and he’s sucking your nipples and telling you he’s going to do anything he wants to your body.

You’re light years from home at the mercy of a mad scientist!

What else can you do but submit and give him anything he wants?

Lexi had to admit that the little voice had a point.

Yet, she didn’t really believe that Dr. Brandt would hurt her.

Her friend Natalie had told her so much about how the Kindred were feminists and always careful not to hurt their women.

Maybe the big Beast Kindred was just upset because he thought she was going to walk out on him and not help him find a cure for breast cancer—which she was pretty sure had taken his wife’s life.

No—stop making excuses for him, she lectured herself. Don’t succumb to any kind of Stockholm Syndrome! He kidnapped you and that’s scary and wrong and…and…

But she was having a hard time thinking when he was sucking her nipples. He had finished with her left peak and gone back to the right one now, though she was sure the Bonding Fruit cream must be gone by now. Lexi’s pussy was throbbing and she was getting closer and closer to coming…

“Unidentified Ship, you are currently invading Terian air space,” a voice spoke from a speaker near the front of the ship. “Please identify yourself and state your mission here.”

Dr. Brandt let Lexi’s tingling nipple slip from his mouth and rose to sit back in his seat.

“This is Dr. Brandt of the Kindred Mother Ship,” he replied, his voice a low, rough growl. “I am here on a research mission with my human assistant. I’ve been working with Dr. T’Oo-loo at the Nectar Production Center. You can call him if you want to verify my credentials.”

“Unnecessary,” the voice replied. “Dr. T’Oo-loo and his research are well known to us. Welcome to Bio-Terius Centra, Dr. Brandt. Please land at the coordinates we are sending you—Dr. T’Oo-loo will be waiting for you.”

“Understood,” Dr. Brandt said. “Receiving coordinates now.”

It suddenly occurred to Lexi that she had understood everything the strange voice said, even though it was speaking what was obviously a foreign language.

“Hey…I understood all that,” she said, daring to sit up.

“Yes, I took the liberty of giving you a dose of Translation Bacteria while you were out,” Dr. Brandt remarked. He shot her a frown. “Finish eating the calorie dense bar I gave you. You’re going to need to regain your strength quickly.”

“What? Why?” Lexi asked apprehensively. She picked up the bar—which had fallen out of her hand and into her lap while the big Kindred was sucking her nipples—and took another bite of it before starting to button her blouse with shaking fingers.

“Because you’re going to be making a large amount of the golden nectar very soon,” he growled. “And the real golden nectar—which actually has the Bacillus Aurum in it, can take vast amounts of calories to produce.”

Lexi thought about protesting that she didn’t want to make more of the strange golden liquid that had drained her energy so severely that she fainted, but it seemed she no longer had a say about what her body would or wouldn’t do or be used for.

She still couldn’t make up her mind if that was sexy or awful—or maybe some combination of the two.

“My friend is going to wonder where I am, you know,” she said, still trying to get her shirt re-buttoned. “We were supposed to get together right after my interview.”

“I took the liberty of sending her a message saying that you’d agreed to work with me and we were going to Bio-Terius Centra immediately,” Dr. Brandt growled, shooting her a look.

“You can complain to her and report me if you want once we get back to the Mother Ship…but of course, if you do and I get thrown in prison, you’ll never see that thirty-six thousand dollar-credits I promised you.

And you’ll know that you personally are responsible for there being no cure for the cancer that took your grandmother from you. ”

“That’s emotional blackmail!” Lexi exclaimed angrily. “You big jerk!”

His eyes flashed and he glared at her.

“That is the last time you will call me anything other than ‘Dr. Brandt’ or ‘Sir.’ I won’t tolerate bad behavior and childish name-calling from a female I consider to be my property. If you break the rules again, you’ll be punished. Do you understand?”

Lexi bit her lip. She wanted to keep telling him off, but the thought of being “punished” made her uneasy. What exactly did he mean by punishment? What was he planning to do to her if she misbehaved? Maybe she’d better not find out, she decided.

“Yes…Dr. Brandt,” she answered reluctantly.

“Good. And are you going to behave for me?” He arched an eyebrow at her. “Are you going to be a good girl or a bad girl, Alexandra?”

“A…a good girl,” Lexi said in a small voice. She finally finished buttoning her blouse and put the last bite of the calorie dense bar in her mouth.

Part of her wanted to sass the big Kindred some more and tell him what she thought of him, just to see what he would do.

But the practical part of her told the other part to shut up and behave.

She was already in enough of a mess as it was, being kidnapped and dragged to a strange planet.

For now, at least, she had better behave herself.

Otherwise she might find out exactly what Dr. Brandt meant when he talked about “punishment.”