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Good. These Earth females reacted so well to our touch. The natural pheromones we gave off through scent, and more strongly through touch, both calmed and excited, but they only worked on species who are a match for us sexually. More importantly, they only worked on individuals who already found us attractive on some basal level.
These humans might fear us because they thought of us as demons, or monsters. But somewhere hidden in the lizard brain, the system that controlled fight, flight, freeze, feeding, and fornication, was a deep-rooted attraction. Their brains might tell them to be frightened, that we were alien,other, but their bodies knew we were compatible.
This little human female might protest and struggle, but the very fact that my pheromones worked on her meant that hidden just below the surface, there was desire for me, waiting to be sparked. She’d burn so brightly with lust; she just didn’t know it yet.
I continued down the corridors to my quarters. The cave-like interior welcomed me. This female would change this cavern into a den.
I deposited her on my bed—our temporary nest—a mattress piled high with pillows and draped over with dark netting. It was a pale imitation of a real nest in a cave high in the mountains, lined with furs from beasts I’d slain and filled to the brim with treasures I’d collected. But here in the stronghold, this was all I could offer her.
She stared at me with frightened eyes and crab-walked backward on my mattress.
“Don’t.” She put her hand up, as if she could stop me with her little palm. I stalked toward her playfully, but before I could reach for her hand and snap at it with my teeth, she snatched it away with a gasp.
I grinned at her, showing my sharp teeth and fangs. I’d been told they were impressive, and I hoped she was impressed. Instead of admiring me, my mate continued backing away. The scent of fear hung strongly in the air. These humans might remind us of our females, but they were clearly impressed by different things. My sharp fangs had scared her instead.
I needed to soothe my female. Our pheromones could do that too. They knew what the female needed and affected them accordingly.
I grabbed her and stripped her of the dress she wore as she gasped and covered her body. She wouldn’t need it. We needed to have skin-to-skin contact for my touch to have the correct calming effect on her. She struggled ineffectively and was soon naked, save for the thin scrap of fabric covering her sex. That could stay on for now.
I held her to my body, willing my touch to calm her. It worked on our females, and the last two mating heats with human females had proved that it worked for them too. Her struggling subsided and her heartbeat calmed.
She looked up at me with her big brown eyes. “What’s happening?”
“I am soothing you, my mate.”
She continued to look at me, confused. “I know I should be scared, but it’s like I forgot how. What are you doing to me?”
“Kadrixan males soothe our females through skin-to-skin contact. What causes lust also causes calm, but it only works to a degree. If you were truly in danger, you would still be able to react. You are in no danger from me.”
She nodded. “I guess you haven’t hurt me yet. I’m really confused right now.”
Hurt her? Never. I’d never hurt her. She was mine, and now that I had found my mate, I’d do anything to keep her safe.
“I will never hurt you, my mate.”
Her brow furrowed. “My name is Clara.”
“And I am Krxare.”
“Hello, Ker-zar.” Her pronunciation of my name was a bit off, but the mistake was adorable, and I did not correct her. “Can I have my dress back?”
Clara was calmer now, and we no longer needed to be touching skin-to-skin, but I enjoyed her mostly naked. There was no one here but us, and I delighted at looking at her body. It was rounded with feminine curves and a soft belly, so different from mine and so very beautiful.
“No. You have no need for clothes when we are alone. You are my mate.”
Chapter 5: Clara
The unnatural but addictive calm enveloped my body, and I relaxed into Krxare’s muscular arms. I should have been terrified. A giant, hulking beast of an alien had claimed me, thrown me over his shoulder, and stripped me bare. But somehow, instead of terrified, I was calm. I knew I was safe. I knew that Krxare wouldn’t hurt me.
Was this his doing? Did he cast some sort of spell on me? I wasn’t religious; worshiping anything other than the colony itself was frowned upon. I hadn’t paid much attention in history class, but didn’t people on Earth once believe that demons could control women and make them do sexual favors? Or was it incubi that did that?
Surely, these monsters only bore a physical resemblance to the demons of Earth culture. They didn’t cast any magical spells. Magic didn’t exist.
I’d known coming into this what choosing the rut entailed. I’d be having a lot of sex in the next few weeks, but I’d thought I would at least be clothed some of the time. No matter. I’d survive this. Krxare wasn’t as scary now that I’d talked to him. And he was still dressed, even if it was just a pair of tight-fitting leather pants that left nothing to the imagination.
“I claim you as my mate,” Krxare repeated, and for the first time since waking, I wondered how I was able to understand him.
“How can I understand you? I know you don’t speak Nova English.”
