"Mmm, you're probably right," she said, falling quiet. I washed my fingers in the milky water and then used the scrub over Sunny's lips, her tongue flicking out to sample the sugar on my fingertip. "I was so scared, you know?"

I fought the sudden prick of my claws in my fingers, the urge to arm myself, to attack whatever had frightened Sunny.

"Of me?" I growled, brow furrowing, throat tight.

She huffed a laugh and blinked up at me, and I forced my expression to be smooth. "No! No…of myself, I think. Of coming here and…being wrong about what I wanted. Or even of being right. I don't know. But this is so easy. You're making this very easy, Khell."

She was meant to call me master, sir, beast. Why had I given her my name in that first hour? It wielded too much power on her tongue.

"That's my job, petal," I said easily.

The words were true, and unlike last night, I hadn't said them with the intention to remind her of our respective roles, but her eyes shut and her lips pursed under my touch. I wanted to correct myself, but I swallowed my tongue for a moment, focusing on my task, rinsing the last of the sugar off Sunny's lips and then dressing them with a thick coating of balm to help them heal.

"You don't need to be afraid of what you want, Sunny," I said slowly. "You are…you are exquisite. You please me, petal."

Her smile twitched, and I pretended that I was only soothing my client as I bent, pressing a kiss to the scant inch of clean skin at her hairline.

"Tomorrow, you may be afraid," I rumbled in her ear, watching her nipples pucker and her body ripple with her shiver. "Tomorrow, I will taste that fear in the air, and then I will lap it off your skin, right from your cunt. I'll make my petal scream tomorrow."

Sunny grinned, lips smeared with a thick paste that reminded me of the sight of my cum on her mouth. "I can't wait."

"You will wait," I growled. "You may suck my cock tonight after dinner. And you may leave your legs open for me to fill you up tonight as you sleep. But you will sleep tonight, petal. And you will wait until tomorrow for more games."

Sunny beamed at me like I'd just promised her a king's wealth and the night sky on top of it all.

CHAPTER 11

Sunny

I moaned as I woke, my cunt throbbing, stuffed by Khell's cock, my breasts aching as he sucked one roughly and rolled the other in his hand. He was barely thrusting, but his stav was pumping eagerly inside of me. There was a bitter aftertaste on my tongue, some of Khell's flavor lingering, and his earthy scent was dense from his position on top of me.