Total pages in book: 50
Estimated words: 46078 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 154(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 46078 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 154(@300wpm)
The second orgasmic energy stops running through my body, and I get a chance to think, I start to freak out. His come is inside me, and there’s every chance he has already achieved his goal. I could already be pregnant. That makes me feel so many things all at once.
“Azlan….”
“Hrrmm?” he growls the answer, half-asleep.
“Do you really want a baby with a complete human stranger?”
He opens one eye lazily.
“I need a baby,” he says. “My position as alpha requires it.”
“And you wanted a half-human baby? From a woman you owned?”
“It seemed easier,” he says.
“Ah.”
He doesn’t seem like the sort of guy who chooses the easy way out. I feel like there’s more to this. Something he’s not telling me. Maybe he doesn’t think it is my business. This was supposed to be a transactional arrangement, right? At least initially? There was no way for him to know he would actually like the female he found. He just wanted a womb for a baby.
It’s hard not to notice that Azlan sort of sounds like a huge asshole right now. But he hasn’t otherwise acted like one, and I’m curious. Is he as much of a dickhead as he seems to be?
“Why?” The question escapes me even though I thought it couldn’t. “Why wouldn’t you mate with a female Leonid? I can’t bear your lion baby.”
“Of course you can. The baby we bear will have claim to the traits of both our species. It will fulfill the requirements of my family and my inheritance. It will keep me as alpha, and it will provide an heir who is not likewise subject to the obligations of our species. In impregnating you, I break a legacy of tyranny of first-born sons.”
“That sounds complicated.”
“It is. And in due course, I will explain it more. All you need to understand for the moment is that I have purchased you in order to inseminate you. You will take my cum at least once a day while you are fertile, until you are…”
It’s time to interrupt him. “And if I do not want a baby?”
“If you do not want a baby…” he repeats the words, almost without understanding them. Then a light goes on in his eyes. “You do not want a baby?”
I guess it’s time to be honest. As hot as it was when he came inside me, and as reckless as I was to let him do that to me, I have never seriously planned on having children. Not even for aliens who own me.
“Not particularly, no. They’re very loud. And squirmy. And they need a lot of attention.”
“You… do not want… a baby.” He repeats the sentence very slowly. He’s not being judgmental. It’s like he’s trying to process the sentiment, understand something that never occurred to him before. “But you are female.”
I am blowing his big, beautiful, fluffy mind.
“Exactly. You want a baby, and someone else makes it for you inside their body. It doesn’t inconvenience you one bit. But for me, it’s months of sickness, pain, and maybe death. Babies are much larger than the holes they have to come out of. There’s a logistical issue right at the end that everybody tries to gloss over.”
“You are afraid,” he says.
“Uh. Yeah.”
“I understand.”
I breathe a sigh of relief. “Okay, so… we be careful next time. Right?”
“Careful. Yes. I will be very careful with you.”
There’s a long pause.
“I will stay here,” he announces. “Until you are pregnant and have delivered the baby. Then I will take the baby and…”
“You will do no such thing.”
He gives me a puzzled look. “Why not? You don’t like babies, you don’t want babies. You are my mate, but I will not force you to raise an infant you do not want. If you do not wish to come to my world, if you do not want your baby…”
“Who says I don’t want my own baby?”
He pauses for a moment to let my words sink into my own brain. “I believe you said that, Ava.”
“I might not want a baby in advance of having one, but once I did, don’t think I’m going to hand it over. I don’t like Buttface, but I wouldn’t let you take him either.”
I actually love Buttface more than anybody should, but obviously I’m not going to admit that and undermine my entire argument.
“I bought you…”
“I bought you,” I reply, sitting up, as if that’s going to help the situation when I am next to a Leonid many times my size. He could destroy me with one casual swipe of his paw if he wanted to. I am very well aware of his power and strength, even though he is not trying to make a show of either.
“And I have agreed to help you with what you need. I am willing to stay here and help you on this farm of yours, Ava. Before I leave, I will ensure that your fences are secured, your home restored. You will get everything from me that you paid for. All I ask is one baby.”