Lost Star by Hawke, Morgan (digital book reader .TXT) 📕

Aubrey shuddered. “It’s a fucking control collar.”

“We call it a shen.” Seht closed his arm around Aubrey’s chest, embracing him, but didn’t release his wrists. “Rehkyt are very aggressive by nature and can be very dangerous to anyone other than their master.”

Aubrey stilled. “Dangerous? How dangerous?”

“Extremely.” Seht pressed a kiss to the side of his brow. “Pushed too far, rehkyt have been known to rape to relieve their urges, and then there is rahyt, blood rage. A life threat to themselves or their masters can trigger a mindless killing rage in the more aggressive rehkyt.” He snorted. “And you, my dear pet, are very aggressive indeed.

The shen is designed specifically to stop a rehkyt that has gone beyond sense.”

Aubrey could see the practicality, he really could, but wearing one still made his skin crawl. “Is that all it does?”

Seht sighed. “The shen is also a telepathic tracking device.”

Aubrey turned his head away, his heart sinking in his chest. “I figured.”

Seht tightened his embrace. “Through the telepathic link, the shen allows you to find me as well.”

Aubrey frowned. That was different. He hadn’t heard of collars that worked both ways.

Seht’s hands tightened around Aubrey’s wrists. “This is the other command.”

Aubrey stiffened. “Another one?”

Seht barked out another phrase.

Heat and lust burst in his belly, then clenched tight with hideous strength. All thought fled but for the heat in his cock. He writhed, moaning in urgent need.

Abruptly the vicious hunger relaxed its grip.

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Aubrey gasped and shifted restlessly. The urgency was over, but his dick was violently hard.

Seht released his head and wrists.

Aubrey groaned and leaned against the cliff wall. “Bleeding Fate, I didn’t think I could get hard again.”

Behind him, Seht stood and brushed off his knees. “You are no longer human.

Your body is capable of enduring a great deal.”

“Fine, great, whatever…” Aubrey took in several deep breaths. “Are we done yet?”

“The telepathic commands are programmed. Turn around, and up on your knees.”

Aubrey turned around to face Seht. It was an effort to rise up on his knees. He was forced to grab onto Seht’s hips to keep from falling over. Despite his erection, he was still exhausted.

Seht stepped close, with his feet to either side of Aubrey’s knees. He cupped his hand under Aubrey’s chin. “Keep your head up.”

Aubrey frowned up at him. “What?”

“Be still.” Seht winced and groaned.

Hot liquid sprayed across Aubrey’s belly, soaking his erection and thighs. The scent of urine burned his nose. Aubrey stiffened. Seht was pissing on him? Abruptly Aubrey’s bladder reacted. Painfully fast, his erection left him. He closed his arms around Seht’s waist and pressed his nose into Seht’s belly. His control released, and his bladder emptied, all over Seht’s feet.

Seht stiffened. “You did not…”

His face pressed against Seht’s smooth belly, Aubrey let a chuckle escape. “What?

You did it to me.”

Seht grabbed a handful of Aubrey’s hair and jerked his head back. “I marked you for a reason, rehkyt!”

“Ow!” Aubrey winced. “Seht, what…?”

Seht grabbed Aubrey by the shoulders and pulled him up onto his feet. His nails dug bleeding furrows in Aubrey’s skin. He slammed Aubrey against the cliff and pressed hard, pinning Aubrey.

The wind whooshed out of Aubrey’s lungs. He gasped. “Ow! Shit!”

His eyes narrowed to feline slits, Seht bared his teeth in Aubrey’s face and snarled.

“Who is your master right here, right now, rehkyt?”

Aubrey couldn’t stop staring at Seht’s bared fangs. His heart slammed in his chest.

Seht was seriously pissed off. But…he didn’t want that. He didn’t want Seht to be angry with him.

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Huh? He stilled utterly. He didn’t want Seht to be angry with him? What in Bleeding Fate? The hair on his body rose. He had hoped that Seht hadn’t really meant what he’d said about mastering his mind as well as his body, but this strange need to please said otherwise.

Seht dug his nails in viciously and pulled Aubrey from the cliff face, then slammed him back against it again. “Answer me, damn you! Who is your master?”

The stone bruised his naked back. Aubrey gasped. “You, Syr.”

Seht curled his fingers through the front of Aubrey’s collar and tugged him close, practically nose to nose. His angry feline gaze speared into Aubrey, and his liquid growl rumbled. “I claim you by right of conquest as mine: my property, my pet, and my slave. Do you yield to my claim?”

Aubrey shivered with more than just the chill of the rain. “Yes, Syr.” Shock and despair warred in his heart. The answer had come far too easily. But what shook him to the core was that some small place at the bottom of his heart was pleased to say it.

“At last…” Seht pressed Aubrey up against the cliff side and took his mouth in a brutal kiss that left no question as to who was master.

Aubrey couldn’t stop from clinging to Seht’s shoulders and his kiss, any more than he could stop the rain or his tears.

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Aubrey snapped awake on his side under the blanket. Seht was warm against his back with his arm flung over Aubrey’s hip. He frowned. The last thing he remembered was being outside in the rain. He shifted and winced. The hot length of Seht’s cock was wedged deep in his ass, again.

Seht sighed against the back of his neck, and his hand slid along Aubrey’s belly in a light caress.

Aubrey shivered and felt a warm, sleepy curl of heat spill downward. His cock pulsed and swelled with rising heat. Warm waves of erotic excitement mixed with twinges from his tender abdominal muscles. He sucked in a breath. What in hell? His whole body ached and his ass hurt like hell, but here he was, getting excited yet again.

Seht’s long nails dug into his flanks lightly, and a rumbling growl vibrated against Aubrey’s back.

Aubrey’s whole body clenched in sudden and voracious anticipation.

Damn it! What was it with his body?