Sent Beast Mate(Beast Mates, #3)(11)

I crunched on a chip when Lore said, “She thinks she’s going to Jamie.”

“We’ll toy with her for a while.”

The little mouse put the tiara back on the pillow, then snuck her hand into the dresser and took out a black leather corset. I liked corsets. My mate would wear them. Not those, but new ones.

A smile played on her lips. I found mine turned up too. She strapped on the corset and twirled in front of the mirror. I licked my lips at the sight of her perky tits.

“Trouble,” Lore said.

“Why?”

“You’re not her type.”

“I’m every girl’s type.”

“I think she thinks you’re ugly.”

“Impossible. She will eat from my hand like a mouse.”

The mouse opened one of the jewelry boxes. “Oo la la,” she said, and both Lore and I leaned in to see what was inside. Ah. The teardrop earrings with pearls from Tineyan seas. They were tiny, and she put them on, then covered her ears with her long hair. I watched it sway well past her ass, and, seeing as I was learning my prey, I kept watching. Nice, strong, lean legs.

Next to me, Lore moved in his chair, probably adjusting his erection. “Give me this one, hm?”

“No.”

“You’re an ugly bastard.”

“The girl behind the bar downstairs called me God’s gift to women.”

“At the auction, this girl winked at me.”

A problem. “Which eye did she use to wink at you?”

“The left one.”

I made a mental note. “I’ll poke that eye out. She won’t be winking at you or anyone else anymore.”

“Mayhem,” Lore bit out.

I snapped my gaze to him.

He shook his head. “You’re possessive of the girl. I know you want to secure this city for us, and I understand what drives you. But remember, without you, we have nothing. Jamie can exile us back to Tineya. The only thing stopping him is you and the memory of his brother. We can’t lose you to some little whore.”

“She isn’t a whore. She’s a victim of unfortunate circumstances. That’s not to say her circumstances are about to become less unfortunate.”

“Give her to me.”

I snarled and bared my teeth. “You believe I am incapable of handling one human female.”

“I fear for your life. You’ve stashed her right next to your sleeping quarters. That’s how some of the paired beasts died. In their sleep.”

“I stashed her there because the room is watched.” And because I couldn’t part from my prey, not while she was mine.

A thud sounded.

We snapped our heads to the screen.

The mouse was jumping on the bed. Then she twisted, bounced, and hopped on the footboard. She landed with her arms spread open and balanced across the thin metal footboard. On her toes, she twisted and walked back.

“Interesting,” I said.

The mouse walked back and forth for a good while, and even with her eyes closed, she didn’t lose her balance.

Then she fell on the bed and sighed. Her legs parted. After she’d taken off her pants, only a thin pair of panties hid her pussy. She snuck a hand between her legs.

I shut the screen off.

“Booooo!” Lore threw a bag of chips at my head.

I swiped it with a hand. “Bring her to me.”

After Lore left, I propped my feet up and turned the screen back on.

Under her white panties, her fingers circled. When little moans escaped her lips, I squeezed my cock hard and winced from the pain, regretting that I’d sent Lore for her. I should’ve gone myself, if only to ask if she needed a finger up her ass too. A perfect opportunity to introduce myself as her master. And her savior, if she was smart enough to battle the years of profound brainwashing with the zealots. Alpha Nie, Jamie’s father, had brainwashed an entire population into thinking he was some sort of relative to Zivot Maka, our Holy Mother Beast. People believed it was true and had surrendered their lands at his feet.

One ruler, he’d said, would unite all the Tineyan tribes and bring the beasts together. What he meant was to rule any way he pleased. When Alpha Nie came with his army and demanded my father hand over his lands, my father refused. He didn’t believe Nie was holy, and so he died. With my father’s death, our entire culture died. Scriptures were burned, homes crumbled, females were taken away. My tribe went from a wealthy farm life to living in tents as nomads and then to Earth. But that was so long ago.

We had now.

The mouse on my screen startled and leapt to her feet.

By the time Lore walked into the room, she’d fixed herself up to receive him. You’d think she stood there just waiting for him. She smiled like the innocent sunshine she wasn’t. Lore, the asshole, turned to the camera and winked at me. Next, he touched her hair and said something stupid at which she giggled and blushed. As he led her out of the room, he gave me the middle finger of one hand while his left hand rested on the small of her back. I’d kill him next for touching her.