Chapter 21

“Richard?” I said tentatively, my eyes never leaving the huge shaggy black form. It stood on its hind legs like a man, or maybe more like a bear that has reared up to attack, but its features were completely non-human. I searched the depths of those pale green eyes, looking for a single spark of humanity, just one faint trace of my brother. But there was nothing to see.

The beast which had been Richard threw back its head and howled again, a sound that was filled with hunger and need. Fear crawled up my spine as it took a step towards me. It was at least ten feet tall and thanks to my Amon-kai vision, I could see it very well despite the fact that it was now completely dark in the warehouse. Its arms and legs were shaggy, its paws tipped with long, deadly-looking claws. Its chest and belly were smoother, however, and as I looked lower I saw that it still had all male equipment, though it was considerably larger than it had been when Richard was a man. In fact, it was huge—I could tell that even though he wasn’t erect at the time, thank God.

It took another step towards me and I shrank away, feeling the cold iron bars brand my back like icy fingers. Oh, God, there was no place to go, no place to run. Richard had told me he would know me in any form but that was pure hunger I saw burning in his inhuman eyes. The desire to devour and I was his intended prey.

“No,” I said in a low, trembling voice. “No, please. Please, don’t.”

The beast whined deep in its throat and took one more shuffling step toward me. I shrank away from it, scooting around the perimeter of the cage, keeping the bars to my back. I didn’t know what I was trying to accomplish since there was no place to run but my mind was a blank slate, filled with panic. I wasn’t thinking very clearly at all. I just knew I had to keep moving, had to stay away from the huge shaggy nightmare that had been my brother.

Pale green eyes followed me but the beast made no move to advance. Suddenly my foot kicked something soft and giving and I stopped, confused as to what I had stepped on. I didn’t want to take my eyes away from the thing which had been Richard but I risked a quick glance down at my feet. Genevieve! My friend was still out cold, helpless and defenseless and I had led the beast right to her.

She stirred slightly and moaned and I saw the beast’s eyes narrow at the soft sound. Its long pointed snout wrinkled in a silent snarl and then it began to advance, the hunger burning in its green eyes like torches in the night.

“No! No, ~no.” I put out arms like a traffic cop signaling ‘stop’ and shook my head at the beast. The fear I’d been feeling for my own safety dissipated in my horror at what might happen to Genevieve. “Richard, no,” I told him. “No, you ~can’t~.”

But he or it was already sidling around me, sniffing at Genevieve’s feet and legs, clad in her customary comfortable flats and black dress slacks. It opened its mouth and I could see rows of teeth gleaming like daggers, white and curved and deadly.

“No!” I tried to shoo it away but it growled at me. Obviously the hunger was too strong to deny. Richard’s beast demanded to be fed and it had to be appeased. But how? How could I stop it from ripping my friend to chunks and shreds and swallowing her whole? I bit my lip and closed my eyes and then I seemed to hear Richard’s voice in my head.

~Once a month when the full moon is in the sky, I become a creature that is neither wolf nor human but partially both—a form which truly is monstrous. When that happens, there are only two ways to regain my human form. Either I have to join with my Lana-zeel, something I have yet had the opportunity to do, or…I have to kill someone~.

My eyes flew open and I knew what I had to do. Knew exactly how I would keep Richard from killing Genevieve and get us out of here too. God, this was going to be so hard. I didn’t want to think about it—if I thought about it, my courage would surely fail me. I just had to do it.

I took a deep breath and started stripping off my clothes. Off went my black pumps and my sensible blouse and skirt combo. Then, not letting myself stop for a minute, I pulled off my bra and slipped out of my nylons and panties too. I stood naked before the beast, the metal of the cage floor cold on my bare feet and a chill crawling up my spine.

The beast was still sniffing around Genevieve’s feet and legs, paying me no attention in his single-minded hunger. I could see by the way its jaws moved and its impossibly broad shoulders bunched under the black hairy pelt that it was getting ready to pounce. I was out of time.

By instinct, I reached down by my feet and grabbed my discarded panties. I knew they were damp because the moment I’d been forced into the cage with Richard the vee of my sex had gotten wet. Richard had told me he would know my scent anywhere. It was time to see if that was true.

The soft silky pink fabric of my panties hit the beast right in the snout and it snorted in obvious surprise. I waited breathlessly to see what it would do. Would it take a bite out of Genevieve? Or come for me? Its huge chest expanded as it inhaled. Then it plucked the pink fabric from its muzzle with surprising agility and dropped the panties to the floor. Then, just as I had both hoped and dreaded, the pale green fire of its eyes turned to me once more.

The beast growled softly and took a step towards me. I backed up again but this time to lead it away from Genevieve. I felt cold and vulnerable, leaving my clothes in a heap on the floor of the cage but what could I do? I had to get it away from her, had to keep its attention fixed on me.

I saw that it was wavering, its eyes turning from me to Genevieve and back again. “Richard,” I said. “Richard, here. Over here. Look at ~me~.” It seemed wrong to call the beast by my brother’s name but I knew he had to be in there somewhere, even if I couldn’t see him. In desperation I reached between my legs and dipped two fingers into my hot, wet pussy. Why I was still so wet and hot when I was about to do something so horrible was a subject I didn’t want to think about. Because surely I didn’t want to do this—did I? Maybe it had something to do with the musky, male scent still filling the air. The scent of Richard. The scent of the Amon-kai. I didn’t know and didn’t want to know.

“Richard,” I said, taking a step towards the beast and holding out my hand. “Richard if you’ll just come here and leave her alone I...I’ll give you what you want. What you need.”

The beast’s long head came up and I saw it sniff the air, inhaling my scent. It took a step towards me again and then another and suddenly it was almost on top of me. I lifted my fingers to its face, reaching up to do it despite the way my heart was pounding out of my chest. The long mouth opened revealing all those rows of sharp, curving fangs and I squeezed my eyes shut, fully expecting to feel the horrible searing pain of those teeth biting through my extended fingers.

But instead, something warm and wet stroked my vulnerable hand.

I gasped and opened my eyes to see the beast licking my fingers with a long pink tongue. Its green eyes were half closed in ecstasy, as though it was savoring the richest, most delicious thing it had ever tasted.

“That’s right,” I whispered, both relieved and terrified to finally have its undivided attention. “That’s right, Richard, and there’s more where that came from.” Slowly, I lowered my hand and dipped back into my pussy again. The beast followed my movements and before I could get my fingers back up to its mouth, it was suddenly crouching in front of me. I bit back a gasp as the long pink tongue lashed over my tight nipples. I was afraid again that the beast would bite but it didn’t. It lapped at my nipples and breasts a while longer and then the long muzzle continued down the trembling flesh of my belly until it reached my sex.

“Richard!” I gasped. The long hot tongue swiped between the swollen lips of my cunt and the beast’s huge bulk surged against me, pressing me back against the iron bars of the cage. Conflicting sensations swamped me, the cold metal biting into my back and the heated tongue invading my pussy. I cried out and pressed my hands down on the huge shaggy head, trying to push the beast away from me. But it was useless, it was single-minded in its purpose—to taste me thoroughly and completely.

I bit my lip and closed my eyes. There was nothing I could do. I was trapped against the bars of the cage with the beast between my thighs. I shuttered helplessly as it pressed even closer, making wet lapping sounds as its tongue invaded my body. I couldn’t help thinking of its long, curving teeth but to my surprise, I didn’t feel them at all. In fact, aside from its determination to taste me, it was surprisingly gentle. As gentle as Richard would have been.

I curled my fingers in its coarse fur and let it take me. What else could I do? I was naked, vulnerable, and entirely helpless as it pressed me against the bars of the cell and feasted on my cunt. There was nothing I could do but spread my legs and give in to the sensation of the long pink tongue spiraling around my swollen clit and invading my pussy, piercing me as deeply as it could. A faint hope had begun to grow in my mind as the pleasure grew in my lower belly. A hope that maybe the beast would be content to taste me, content to eat my pussy. Maybe I could satisfy its hunger without letting it do what I was so afraid of. Without letting it breed me.

The hope died as the creature raised its face from between my thighs and growled softly. Clearly the foreplay was over.

“Richard?” I whispered in a trembling voice. “Richard, please…”

It growled again and stood up from its crouching position. The huge muscular form towered over me and I saw that it was fully erect. Its cock looked almost as long as my forearm now, the broad slit head dripping pre-cum to the cold metal floor below. But what frightened me the most was the swelling at the base of its shaft—the knot as Richard had called it. I remembered how huge and thick it had seemed to me that last night we’d been together when he made me touch it. Now it looked twice as big and menacing. Oh, God. I clenched my hands into fists at my side. I was resigned to taking its thick length into my virgin pussy, because I knew I had no choice. But the idea that it would try to force that huge swelling into my tight, unused sex was too horrible to contemplate.

For a moment I closed my eyes, hating Richard with all my heart. Since he’d come into my life he’d brought me nothing but trouble. First he’d urged me to commit incest, or what felt like incest to me, anyway, and now I was going to be reduced to an even lower and more despicable act—bestiality. The shame was almost more than I could stand. To know that I was going to have to accept the beast’s cock into my body, to allow it to strip me of my carefully guarded virginity and pump inside me until it filled me with its cum was almost too much to bear. I promised myself if I got out of this night alive I would break the bond between Richard and myself no matter what he said or how ill and weak I felt. I would leave him and go my own separate way and to hell the Amon-kai and all their sick traditions.

But my lofty aspirations for the future had to wait because the beast would not. It growled at me again and came at me, as if it would bowl me over on my back and take me by force.

“No,” I whispered, knowing it would do no good. I knew this was going to happen whether I wanted it to or not. The beast was going to fuck me—breed me. I no longer had any say in the matter. I swallowed hard. Well, if it had to happen, at least I wanted it to happen on my terms. And I knew that I didn’t want to look into those pale green eyes, Richard’s eyes, while it took me.

Slowly, deliberately, I turned my back to the beast and grasped the cold iron bars of the cage. Then I spread my legs and waited for the worst. Waited to feel the beast enter me.