by Reagan Hawk
Table of Contents
Securing Sara (The Beast Masters Series)
Securing Sara (The Beast Masters Series) © Copyright 2013 by Reagan Hawk
The Beast Masters Series
The Beast Masters Series
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
About the Author
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Reagan Hawk
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The Beast Masters Series
Securing Sara
Reagan Hawk
The Beast Masters Series, Book 2
Jaston and Malock were once as close as brothers. War and the scars it left behind changed that. It’s not until a woman, charged with a crime, arrives on their planet in need of sanctuary, that they’re able to set aside their differences. Problem is, she’s not quite as willing to submit as they’d like her to be. In fact, she’s as spirited as they come. The males of Ralen are naturally dominant and the need to reproduce is upon them. If they don’t do it soon they risk The Heat overtaking them.
Sara isn’t one to bend to anyone’s whim, let alone two hunky alpha males who want to not only pleasure her but collar her for life as well. She doesn’t want to admit she has feelings for both men and worse yet, she wants to submit to them. She wants them to dominate her right into an orgasmic frenzy. Too stubborn to admit as much to them, she finds herself agreeing to live a life of servitude in a House of Pleasure rather than simply stating the truth—she wants them both.
Warning: Novella contains graphic language, light BDSM play/themes, extreme alpha male shifters who cannot wait to get a collar on their female to brand her as theirs for life, women willing to submit, and scorching hot sex scenes. If you don’t like strong men who take control in the bedroom and sometimes out, or if you’re in the market for long, drawn-out plots, this isn’t the series for you. This novella is hot and dirty and won’t apologize for that fact.
Disclaimer: This book is a work of fiction and is not meant to be a how-to book or a manual to the BDSM/fetish lifestyle. It is merely meant to be read and provide a mental escape for your enjoyment. Always practice safe sex and never enter into BDSM play without proper knowledge and understanding of the lifestyle and a trained, trusted practitioner to guide you through it all. Serious injury or death could result from improper BDSM/fetish play. Safe, sane and consensual (SSC) is a must. The Raven Books and its authors, owners and operators are not responsible for any injuries or death that may occur from improper use of techniques or information found within this document.
The Beast Masters Series
Trading Teon
Securing Sara
Rescuing Reya
Capturing Clara
Binding Bree
* * *
Chapter One
Jaston of Ralen tossed his gaming pieces onto the Bayabin board and laughed as a series of disgruntled grunts and groans sounded from the guards he oversaw on a daily basis. The others had lost at Bayabin to him—again. He’d always been good at the game that was part strategy, part skill and part luck. He collected his winnings and stood, stretching fully after having sat too long in one place.
He liked to be moving, not sitting, but the guards under his command liked it when he joined in their downtime. He only did so rarely.
Malock, a rival who at one point Jaston had considered a close friend, approached and clapped contemptuously. There was no mistaking the mocking look upon his face. He lifted one brow, showing off one of the visible scars he’d gotten during the Battle of Tasieni. A battle they’d fought in side by side. One that had marked the start of Malock’s descent.
Innocent people died during the battle, and Malock still held the guilt of it close to his chest, though nothing he could have done would have prevented the tragedy. All the men had thought the woman who entered the building was nonthreatening, that she sought refuge as had many of the villagers of the area. The men had assumed what she was holding was a bundled baby.
How wrong they’d been.
Jaston closed his eyes for a split second, remembering the horror of it all—when they’d realized their error. Malock had tried to tackle the woman sent to kill so many, only to be thrown back by the blast. He wore the scars of the ordeal both on his flesh and deep within. The scar on his face, running from his forehead down his right cheek, was the most visible.
The man’s long, brown hair touched his broad shoulders. For the past several cycles Malock had worn it pulled back at the nape of his neck, hardening his appearance even more than it already was. It was unusual to see his hair down now. Something was off with him—even more than normal. He puffed out his chest and put a hand on his hip. “Does the great Jaston best you all yet again? Notice he does not play me. He knows me a worthy adversary, so he hides with his tail between his legs among the young.”
Jaston growled. Gone were the days when he’d do his best to ignore Malock’s slights. They came too frequently anymore. Jaston knew Malock suffered with the loss of so many lives. That the man he used to call friend had given so much of himself during the battle and left much of him behind upon that planet. Even with the knowledge, it grew harder and harder to blindly accept Malock’s increasingly destructive behavior.
The men under Jaston’s command said little, but their gazes said it all. They were awaiting a fight between the alpha males. One had been brewing for some time. As of late, Malock had been pushing more and more, doing his best to cause a fight of some sort. Now wasn’t a wise time. Already Jaston’s beast was on the brink of pushing free. It was closer to The Heat than he was willing to admit, and should he let go of it, he feared he could kill another, possibly even Malock.
Malock’s gaze lit with amusement as if he sensed how close to the edge Jaston was. It would be just like Malock to not care. To push harder. To attempt to drag others into his world of darkness and despair. To leave Jaston no choice but to go over the edge and into the abyss.
Aladore, a guard under Jaston, neared him and shared a long look with him. Aladore was younger than Jaston by fifty cycles, but already showed signs of leadership possibility. He was able to smooth over most rifts among the men. This wasn’t one he’d had a lot of luck with. Still he tried. Aladore’s clan was known for their peacekeeping skills. Sadly, they did nothing for the tension between Malock and Jaston.
“Shift,” he said in a low voice to Jaston. His hair was so blond it bordered on white. A trait that came from his family. There had never been any mistaking what clan of
the beast Aladore belonged to. “Be one with the beast. It needs to be free. We are during downtime now. Use it to run off the rage.”
With the nod of his head, Jaston walked past Malock, purposely hitting him shoulder to shoulder. Malock merely laughed and the sound grated on Jaston’s nerves.
“See, he leaves rather than face a true opponent,” mocked Malock.
Jaston bolted into the tree line. The fast-growing forests of Ralen often changed so quickly that it proved hard to find the way around if one was not vigilant. Already the deep blue of the leaves of the talium tree showed yellow on the ends. It marked the end of the warm season and the start of the cold. Temperatures on the planet had started to fluctuate and would soon become frigid. With the cold came The Heat—seasonal for younger males but older ones fought it all year round, more so in the cold. Despite its name, it was far from welcome regardless the climate.
With a roar, Jaston flung off his loincloth and leapt into the air. He allowed his beast to take over, morphing his body from that of a man to a predator. The change was relatively painless. His paws landed with nearly no sound on the forest floor. He kept going, kept running full force, allowing nature to surround him. He needed to burn off energy and the desire to level Malock.
He ran until the beast was soothed and then strolled to the edge of a small stream. Dipping his head, he calmed and then began to lap cool, fresh water from the stream. When he’d had enough, he backed away from the edge and shifted back into his base form, that of a man. He stood naked near the water, his muscles aching with overuse, but he was content because the run had been much needed.
He bent before the stream and scooped up a handful of cool water. He put it on the back of his neck and rubbed it around the front of his chest. His body temperature always ran hotter after a full shift. He gathered more water and allowed it to pour down his torso. As it dripped down to his exposed cock, he took his shaft in his hand and knew the time had come to ease the other burning—the sexual one.
Houses of Pleasure held no appeal to him anymore, when at one time they had been his everything. He’d once gone twice a day for nearly five straight cycles. They’d fed his carnal desires to a point but left him empty at the end of it all. He’d not seen it then—a sign of the impending Heat. He’d fucked his fill of the women who resided in the Houses of Pleasure. A couple had become favorites of his, liking it when he tied them up, flogged them and then took them from behind—his preferred position. It appealed to his beast side greatly and he did not have to look upon their faces.
He stroked his cock as he thought back to his last visit to a House of Pleasure. A tiny slip of a female had sucked his cock for hours, unable to make him come. His focus had not been on the task, nor her gifted mouth. It had been far away in thought, burning with the need to locate the one for him. A woman to bond to him for eternity. To be collared. A woman to chase away what he did not want to admit out loud was upon him.
He pumped his long shaft, his gaze moving to the other side of the stream where a yalenise flower bloomed. They were rare and only bloomed late in the season. The red of their bloom was impressive and had always appealed to him. The center was a pale creamy white—a sharp contrast to the petals. Jaston’s gaze glassed over as he pulled at his cock, drawing it out with his hand, doing what needed to be done to allow himself release.
He pumped it faster and gritted his teeth as his balls drew up. Seed shot forth from him, landing in the stream and washing away quickly. He refocused on the yalenise flower and let out a long, shaky breath.
For now his body would be sated from the run in beast form and from the tension being eased in his cock. The relief would be short-lived. It always was anymore.
He rinsed his hand and turned to walk back to the guard tower. He cared not that he was naked. Ralenium was known for its festivals that amounted to nothing more than public orgies. Nudity wasn’t really a factor for shifters. It was outsiders who had the issue with it.
His wrap was near the edge of the woods and he caught its scent. He followed the scent, finding his way through the dense forest with ease. There was still work to be done and his shift was not over for another few hours.
If he did not find a female to bond with soon, nothing would matter.
* * *
Chapter Two
Jaston kept an eye on the sky as the tiny dot they already speculated was a trader vessel approached. He’d been back on his shift less than an hour when the issue arose. Thankfully, Malock had disappeared by the time Jaston returned from his beast run.
A craft had been reported on radar, yet none were scheduled for arrival. Suspicions piqued. Planet Ralen had strict protocols in regards to entry to both their orbit and planet, and they weren’t known to go easy on those who disobeyed them. They were a proud, fierce race known to be quick to level an approaching vessel rather than bother making contact with it. A race respected for their fighting skills throughout the galaxy.
Males on Ralen outnumbered females. It was a hard truth. The men had gone to great lengths to try to make venturing to their planet appealing to females. They’d hosted events on various planets. They’d strategically placed ads throughout the galaxy. They’d competed in contests. They’d even offered payment. So far, nothing had really worked. Illegal and frowned-upon methods of obtaining shipments of women were what they’d turned to. A pride-filled race, it saddened them to know they had to go to such extremes. But women were vital to their survival.
Getting his hopes up that the approaching vessel held women wasn’t an option, but if the vessel did not contain females, then Ralen would have many of its males enter The Heat. His gaze flickered downwards only momentarily as he remembered what The Heat had done to his older brother. There wasn’t a day that went by that Jaston didn’t think about Jayton and miss him greatly. Jayton had been a fine warrior and a leader among their people, but The Heat had been too powerful for him to overcome.
Jaston could still vividly remember the day his brother gave in to the beast. The day the horn had sounded, alerting the hunters that another male had fallen into the state of no return. Jaston was a skilled hunter, a Ralenium male trained additionally for situations such as the one with his brother—taught to track those who had lost touch with the man side of themselves. Jaston had led one of the four hunting parties that had gone in search of his brother. For weeks they followed leads, often becoming the hunted instead of the hunters—Jayton was that powerful. In previous hunts, Jaston and the others had found and ended the life of the afflicted. This hunt had gone awry. Many had been injured trying to capture and kill Jayton. In the end Jaston had thrown the spear that pierced his brother’s chest. Though no body was ever found, there was little doubt in Jaston’s mind that he’d delivered the killing blow. That his brother, in beast form, had wandered off, mortally wounded, deeper into the forests to die and become one with the land once more. The outlands of Ralen weren’t kind and the wildlife that resided there was lethal, as were many of the plants that inhabited the area. It wasn’t unheard of for someone to vanish without a trace.
Garon, Jaston’s direct commanding officer, approached and looked to him. Jaston didn’t need to be told to go to the main control tower to oversee the vessel’s entrance to landing platform two and assure the vessel was locked down, its ability to fire weapons rendered useless. Pivoting, he hurried into the main control center and moved aside one of the younger warriors stationed there. Jaston took over initiating lockdown protocols. Security teams were in place should the vessel not have women upon it but rather looters, raiders or salvagers on the run. Ralen was too far out on the edges of the galaxy for the Galactic Guards to much care about enforcing their laws. Plus, the Galactic Guards had healthy fear of the Ralenium males—as they should.
Lorne, a fellow warrior who ranked on the same level as Jaston, entered the control center. He surveyed the situation, on hand to help should Jaston require it. Signal relays from the outer towers beeped in, streaming data to the scr
eens. Jaston permitted the younger warrior to retake his seat and aid in monitoring the chatter.
Jaston glanced at Lorne. “Does Garon have orders? Has he initiated the planet-to-air defense team?”
Lorne was slow to respond. “He does and no, not yet. Be prepared with your men and ready to greet our visitors.”
“Of course.” Jaston tapped the shoulder of the young warrior nearest him and the signals were sent to all relay towers. Jaston moved across the main control center room to Lorne.
“Traders with females?” he asked, his voice low.
“Garon thinks perhaps it might be.”
This was good and bad. At the thought of females, The Heat quickened within Jaston, now closer than he wanted to admit. He could harm a female if not careful. But if he didn’t take one as his own, he too could face the same fate as his eldest brother. With a nod, he stepped away from Lorne. Taking up arms, Jaston and Lorne left the center, padded down the stairs and directly to the edge of the landing pads. They were prepared for whatever may come.
Let it be women, thought Jaston.
Lorne touched his shoulder. The Gods will see to our needs. They will be just and good.
Jaston flinched. He’d not meant to let his thoughts slip down the mental path all Ralenium males shared. It had been many moon cycles since they’d had a shipment of women. They were in dire need.
Standing at the ready, he watched as the vessel descended. Markings on the underside of it became visible and he knew then the ship belonged to the Voxenites. His loathing of them was well-known but they were a necessary evil, one he had to overcome his hate of in order to ensure females were brought to Ralen. His lip curled in disgust and the guard nearest him cleared his throat.
“Sir,” the young guard said. It was all the warning Jaston needed.