A girl has to cover all of her bases, after all! Nutmeg was like catnip to Werebears, some girls would wear nutmeg perfume to call a werebear to them. I never did, because I was never really interested in a werebear, until this one came along. And he likes me all on my own!
How riveting is it that he’s so interested in the girl I am! Not who I could be, not anything but who I am. He never mentioned how my stomach is too big and I still have baby fat and I have stretch marks that look like I was bitten by a shark!
With a pep in my step, I practically skipped all the way to the building he worked at. He really loves me, and as soon as I can see for myself what he’s doing and my curiosity is sated, everything will be absolutely perfect.
We’ll one day get married, maybe have a couple kids. I never really thought about kids until I met him, but I find that I really want one. I want to raise a child with the greatest man on the planet.
With that thought fueling all my most pleasant fantasies, I pushed open the door to the building. It was small. I imagined this huge skyscraper, not a building that was not even half the size of a Walmart!
My hands tighten on the Tupperware container in my hand as the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Calm down, Clarissa. Everything is fine. Damian is your husband to be. Not some shady creep.
The building was well lit and covered in things that looked expensive. In the center of the room, which I supposed was just the front room, were 12 members of a… I guess a committee. Sitting at a round table.
They looked like well-dressed knights giving their advice to my King Damian. I had half a name to ask if anyone here was named Lancelot. But that would be childish, and I am not childish. I’m not!
One guy with blue eyes and blonde hair stood out like a sore thumb. He had this green bowler hat and a reddish suit, looking like he stepped out of a Batman comic book.
Man, that guy looks like he would be fun. I should hang out with him sometime. He’s not the kind of guy I’d bring home to mama or even one I’d kiss. But he definitely looks like he would be super fun at parties. He was eye-catching and seemed to draw all the attention of everyone around him.
Every other occupant in the room looked like they stepped off the cover of a magazine in which they are a model. Suits tailored perfectly to their bodies, the fabric clinging in a way that would make any woman drool. Not just me. Not that I drooled. Well, I wiped it off my face before any of them saw! So, it doesn’t count. It doesn’t.
Each man in the room froze, and I felt a centimeter tall. Not just because all of them were tall and well built. They just stared at me like… like some insignificant bug who only gets in the way of business and just ruined everything.
Bowler hat guy smirked. “Aww. You came to visit your man.” He had a Scottish accent and his smirk was far too lewd for me to be comfortable in any way. I could just see the dirty thoughts painted all over his face. I kind of wanted to break his face. “Well now. Give us a kiss, Love!” Grr. I changed my mind. This guy sucked.
On the other hand, I know what’s probably going to happen. I winced, sure he would get an ass kicking right now. My boyfriend is many things; a patient man is definitely not one of them. He was as understanding as he possibly could be and he tried hard. Werebear instincts, however, are nature. And it is so hard to control your baser urges.
Honestly, he deserved a medal just for making a genuine attempt.
My hands tightened on the Tupperware container of brownies, the plastic shaking against the strain. My eyes met his.
Oh no. Oh no. I fucked up. This whole thing was a mistake.
There was a rage simmering in those beautiful eyes that I usually love with all my heart. It was like he was betrayed. For the first time since the day I met him, I felt frightened.
His fist moved without him even taking his gaze off of me. He gave Bowler-Hat-Guy a swift punch in the jaw. Bowler-Hat-Guy groaned in pain, rubbing his jaw. “Ugh. You dick.” He whined, drawing the attention once again.
I gasped out loud. “Damian!” I shrieked, purposefully ignoring the other snickering men in the room.
“Out.” He hissed, coming right up to me. He stared down at me, an intense scowl marring his beautiful face.
“I just… I just wanted to bring you…uh… these… uh….” I gestured vaguely to the box of brownies in my arms. My mind had shut off and I completely forgot the word. “You know!”
“I asked you one thing.” Hissed Damian. “Stay away from my work. And you couldn’t do one single thing. How is it so hard to listen for once? Are you so stupid that you lack the mental capacity to follow the most basic of orders?”
“Shut up!” I barked out angrily, feeling tears sting my eyes. My vision began to blur as my body trembled with more rage than my body could contain.
“Leave me alone with my work. That’s all I want from you.” He snapped.
“Why can’t you just tell me!” I screeched.
“Why do you need to know?!” He roared back.
Chapter 8
I wish I could say that was the end of all of it. We realized we were being silly and the whole thing blew over in a matter of minutes. That would be a lie. A pretty lie, but a lie nonetheless. I’ve realize, however; neither of us are that kind of person. We are both overly petty and have vile tempers and we have to learn to accept the bad parts of each other.
He closed the company down early so he could walk me to my house. Early may have been an exaggeration. It was almost midnight. That was weird because it seemed like midday when I left the house.
The worst part? We continued to scream and hurl abuse at one another. It wasn’t as bad as one would think though. We still had boundaries and things we wouldn’t say to each other no matter how angry we got because we love each other deeply. I wanted us to stop, talk it out like adults. It was like I couldn’t stop. No matter how much I hated fighting with him it’s like I just physically couldn’t stop myself from screaming and raging at every bad awful thing about him.
Gah!
“Fine. If this is the way you want it.” The words were hissed in my ear and I almost felt threatened. Like he would get violent and hit me. That is until I realized we had made our way to the apartment and he just dropped me like a sack of potatoes onto the itchy rug. Not even to my couch.
He began angrily undoing his tie.
“And what do you think you’re doing?” I barked out angrily.
“Exactly what you want me to do.” He hissed possessively. “Take off your clothes.”
He actually hesitated for a moment, looking at me for confirmation. He wanted to be sure this is what I wanted. No matter how angry he got he would never force me to do anything I didn’t want to do, even if I normally want nothing more than that. My heart just melted and I felt like a pile of goo. No matter how angry he is, he is still focused on making me feel comfortable. He loves me, I know that.
Most of my anger quelled as I nodded, before the fury built back up as he mumbled under his breath about how dirty my apartment is while stripping down. Gah. What is wrong with him? Elitist asshole. I stripped off my clothes hastily, moving to get up and move to the couch.
“Stay.” He ordered, pushing me back to the carpet. Was he going to take me on the floor? Oh god. That shouldn’t excite me the way it did. I should be disgusted, but I don’t think anything could make me disgusted when it’s with him.
I pretended my blush was due to anger, not because I finally got my first complete view of his nude body. He was beautiful. His form was perfectly sculpted, lean but muscled. His abs were well defined and I wanted to lick sweat that glistened on them. His entire body was like a perfectly build machine. Even his cock was larger than I expected, (I honestly thought his personality might be overcompensating for a moment and was proven 100% wrong.) with a pink tip and a bit of white liquid spilling out of the tip.
Heh. And we haven’t even started yet. I feel empowered by the fact that he was so turned on he was already leaking pre-cum.
I wasn’t upset, only because that glorious cock of his was pushed inside of me roughly. Oh god. It was harsh and rough. My nails clawed roughly at his back with a snarl ripping from my throat. This was nothing like our first time together when he was gentle as possible.
He showed me the animal he has hidden inside as he pounded me into my rug. Rude as it is, I didn’t actually think he had it inside him. I mean, I always knew he had it in him. But I doubted he’d let me see that side of him.
He was a beautiful man, but that didn’t cancel out his beast. He is a werebear. It’s like saying he’s smart or he’s brave. It’s just some part of him. And the werebear part, at its root, is an intense, dominate, and extremely powerful being. More than anything else, it wants me to submit to it. Oh god, he’s so beautiful! Every part of him made me feel intensely beautiful just because he liked me. Like I was always what he wanted me to be.
I hissed and tried to thrust against him as his huge cock thrust into me over and over. It felt so good and I saw stars when I closed my eyes like every nerve ending was on fire. I’d surely have rug burn by the time is done with how my naked back was being fucked into the ground. I wish I could bring myself to care, but I don’t.
Any consequence is fine. As long as this never stops, I don’t care about anything else. The pleasure made me come in an embarrassingly short amount of time. The pleasure built up so quickly that my orgasm brought tears to my eyes.
It was too fast to enjoy it the way I liked and now he was going to stop and-
He’s not stopping. He hasn’t come yet. He’s twisted my body around until I was on my hands and knees, he got behind me and plastered his body to mine. Doggy style while I was overstimulated. Oh god.
This man is going to just be the death of me, I just know it. I panted and hissed, his hands went to my hips to hold them steady at his brutal pace.
“If you want me to stop.” He purred. “Tell me.”
I said nothing because stopping is the last thing I wanted him to do. I wanted him to keep this up forever. But I couldn’t bring myself to confirm that verbally. It would be like admitting defeat to him.
My entire world went inside out upon my next orgasm. I screamed his name loud enough that I heard my neighbors complain. One of his hands went to my hair and pulled my head back to kiss me roughly as his movements started to get erratic. He finally came inside of me, with a soft moan.
“So beautiful.” His arms wrapped around me, lying down next to me so he didn’t suffocate me with his weight. “You are the most beautiful, amazing thing in my life.” He stroked my cheek with one of his fingers. It was such a gentle touch, the opposite of the primal passion he just gave me a physical demonstration of.
I was mesmerized by the love that shined in his beautiful eyes. Those glittering sapphire’s that sparkled with all of his emotions, that were locked away for everyone but me. Nobody else got to experience Damian in all his beauty. I am the only one with the right to see how emotional vulnerability makes him look so much more beautiful than anything else.
It’s like breaking open a diamond, and inside, you see exposed a pink star diamond. Somehow even more beautiful, though you believed it to be impossible. He would be a geode, but the outside layer is beautiful too, and it wasn’t even fair.
“I love you.” I blurted out, ruining the peace of the moment, by not letting a moment just be. My voice was hoarse and it sounded like the squawk of a bird.
Despite all of this, the gentlest smile that I have ever had the pleasure to see curled his lips upwards. “I just wanted to protect you.” He whispered to me. “Because I love you more than life itself.”
“Take me. I want you.” I purred in his ear.
He looked shocked at my forwardness, before snorting with laughter. I pouted at him. That just made him laugh all the harder. His laugh is beautiful as the rest of him, reminding me he is just human. (Well, Werebear. But still, the principle stands.)
“Of all the things I expected you to say!” He wheezed. “Didn’t we just do that too?” He teased, snickering.
I pouted at him. He went back to his playful jerky personality that I pretended to hate. I can’t help it. This is how he acts when he’s happiest and him being happy canceled out any smidgen of annoyance I felt. I just physically could not be mad at him. It isn’t even in my nature to be.
I should be able to be angrier with him. Rage and pout and yell and all that, but I just can’t.
“You’re a dork.” I teased.
He put his hand on his heart in mock-offense. “How dare my own girlfriend, betray me like this!”
I stuck my tongue out at him. “How dare my own boyfriend be such a dork?” I teased.
“A dork who rocked your world babe.” He gave me this exaggerated wink and playful wiggle of his eyebrows that just made me laugh.
This dork.
How is it I love him so much?
I guess the real question I should ask is, can you really blame me?
Chapter 9
This whole situation is bizarre, honestly. I don’t know which way is up and which way is down with this man. So volatile and beautiful and passionate. Sometimes I can compare him to Ares, that mercurial yet beautiful god of war. Other times, he’s more like how I imagine Hephaestus would be, kindness that proceeds basic physical attraction. A warmth and an inner beauty that made up for any outside imperfection, despite the fact that Damian has a flawless form.
Where was I going with this again? I had a point! I’m sure I did...
Ah, yes. The bizarreness of waking up in your bed with a nude Human-Adonis nuzzling your stomach. It’s so odd to wake up with a handsome man rubbing his nose on my stomach. It kind of tickles too.
I pretended to still be asleep to prolong this moment of peace. Beautiful, comforting tranquility. It isn’t that it’s rare to have peace with him but… Okay, I will admit it. It’s somewhat rare to have moments of peace with him.
We are both too passionate for anything else. Passionate and fiery and we both care too deeply for the peace to be a default.
“I can tell you are awake.” He said airily as if he was speaking of the weather. Grr. I hate when he just knows everything. “Your breathing changes.” The words vibrated against my belly as he didn’t bother to move his head away from me in order to say the words.
It seemed as if he simply had no intention of doing it. He seemed perfectly comfortable to merely continue to nuzzle my stomach.
My face turned bright red at being caught. I made a noise in the back of my throat that was supposed to be an argument, but as he was right, it wasn’t a very convincing one. He snickered at my predicament and my childish response.
“What are you doing?” I asked him, lower lip sticking out in a pout. Jerk.
“Smelling the scent of our child in you.” He said it so nonchalantly! Like he didn’t even care. Like this doesn’t have the ability to RUIN OUR LIVES! What?! How?! I mean, I know how. But also, HOW?! What?!
“WHAT?! HOW ARE YOU SO CALM ABOUT THIS? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!” I don’t care that I’m shouting right now and made a whole scene. I need to understand just what the fuck is going on and it seems that my ‘loving boyfriend’ has zero intention of explaining this to me.
“Well, babe.” He was using that infuriating tone as if I were an idiot, giving me a look as if I am the biggest moron the earth has ever known. Give me a break! I just woke up and he dropped this bomb on me like a complete dickhead. “When a man and woman have sexual urges for each other, they often engage in.”
I smacked him across the face. “Not funny!” I shrieked.
“I deserved that.” He commented after a moment of rubbing the side
of his face as if I actually hurt him. His bottom lip stuck out in a childish pout that I couldn’t help but find endearing. “Chill. Your stress is bad for the baby.”
I smacked him again. He deserved it and much more. “Start making sense! How am I pregnant? Aren’t you a werebear? I thought Werebears can’t physically procreate with the child of someone who isn’t a werebear?”
“Well, it isn’t unheard of. It’s just extremely rare.” He shrugged as if he didn’t care too much about the logistics of this. “It must have been meant to be.”
He doesn’t care? Well, I care god damn it! I care!
“Don’t give me any ‘fate’ bullshit!” I snapped. “How are we supposed to deal with this? I can’t be pregnant. I have a whole life to live!”
“Oh sure.” He was clearly offended now; his upper lip was curled upwards in a snarl at how abhorrent the thought of giving birth to our child would be. “Work full time in a job you hate, create art you sell online for barely anything, and live in this dingy old apartment building. Such a horrible waste to think of doing anything else with your life, like child rearing.”
I growled at him. “This is who I am! If you don’t like it then leave!”
“I think you can be better than what you are!” He snarled.
“Then date someone who is better!”
“Because you refuse to even put an effort into bettering yourself?” He laughed without a hint of humor, it was cold and bitter in a way that just made my blood boil.
“I don’t even want the stupid child!”
“Well, I DO!” He yelled right in my face.
I was taken aback. Those… those were tears in his bright blue eyes. Is he crying? Actually crying? He shouldn’t be crying! It doesn’t look right on his face. As I panted for breath, being overly worked up by this argument, I noticed how he shook just the slightest bit, how his breathing was rough and he was wiping tears away.
He really… He actually cared that much?
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