Craving Red: Paranormal Erotic Retelling of Red Riding Hood (Erotic Kingdom) (7 page)

T
he day of
the mating had arrived.  Tonight Kaia would surrender her virginity.  Give
herself to six men.

Just prior to evening meal time Astrid, the beta
female, came.  As she unlocked her cage, she explained, “Because you are to be
mated to the pack, you will eat with the women tonight, and every night
thereafter.”

Kaia didn’t know what to think of this.  On one
hand, since she had eaten virtually every meal for the past ten days within the
confines of her cage, she was relieved to be treated like a human again.  On
the other hand, she didn’t quite know how to interact with these women who had
not only contributed to treating her in such a manner, but were also nothing
like the usual women with whom she had socialized in her real life. 

Her life before being brought to
this
place by
them
. 

Funny, it is already beginning to fade away, as
though it had been merely a dream.  Is this what happens when one is ripped
away from everything they ever knew only to have a completely altered life
forced upon them?

Kaia stepped up out of the cage, grateful for
the chance to stretch out her legs, her knees aching from being bent so long. 

“Don’t worry,” Astrid began, “that is the last
you’ll see of that cage.  That is, if you are obedient for the mating tonight. 
Which I am sure you will be,
right
?”

What other choice do I have?
  Kaia
looked at her and nodded slowly. 

“Good girl,” Astrid responded with a smile,
placing her hand upon the small of Kaia’s back.  “That always makes it so much
easier on everyone involved.”

Astrid urged her forwards through the camp.  Kaia
did not see any of the men.  She supposed they were occupied with their own
pre-mating ritual.  Though, only God knows what they would do at such an
occasion.

The other three women were all gathered about a
camp fire, a slab of meat roasting over it.  The aroma filled Kaia with an
intense hunger.  She had eaten so scantily since she had been here.

“Welcome, sister Kaia,” chimed Gisli and Lilja
together.  As usual, Synnove, the alpha female, ignored her.  Kaia didn’t take
it personally.  She supposed she had seen her share of human women come in and
out of their camp.  Likely she didn’t feel the need to get to know them until
it seemed they were actually going to make it through for the long haul.

Gisli rose up and gathered some food.  When she
walked over and handed Kaia the cloth filled with a generous portion of meat
and warm bread, Kaia truly was grateful.

“Thank you, Gisli.”

Gisli smiled.  “Sure.”  Kaia thought she was
really a very pretty girl, with her curly red hair and green eyes.  They had to
be about the same age. 

Hungrier than she had ever been in her life,
Kaia scarfed the food down, listening as they talked.

“Kaia,” Astrid began, “I know you are scared and
feeling a bit resistant.  But keep in mind that this will all go much better if
you do not resist, but rather embrace it as the true honour it is.  It is our
place to do what we can to help you learn how to do this, just as it was Dane’s
during this past week.  Soon, we will begin the preparation ritual for the
mating.  Please open yourself to the process.”

At the mere mention of
his
name, Kaia
stopped listening.  She felt her body respond, her mind floating off somewhere
else.  She couldn’t deny that she was more than a little anxious to see him
again, even if it had to be under these circumstances.  It had been a long two
days without a single glimpse of him.  She wondered if he had been thinking of her,
too.  But then her mind replayed his last words to her and she bristled against
her foolish thoughts.

I am nothing more than just another female to
him to which he was assigned to carry out his duty.  He said as much himself.  He
fulfilled it and now he is done with me until duty calls again.  In a matter of
weeks, he will be assigned to woo yet another scared, young captive female.  I
must rid myself of these feelings I foolishly believe I have for him. 

Snapping Kaia out of her trance, Lilja told her,
“Here, smoke this.”  She placed a roll of something between her lips. “It will
help you relax.”

She took a short puff off it and choked. 

“Breathe it in slow and deep,” Astrid
instructed.  “Let the essence of the herbs flow through you so that they may be
of benefit to you.  Soon you will be feeling so good, you won’t care about
anything else.  I promise.”

Kaia tried again, taking it in with a slow, deep
breath.  She instantly noticed the difference, as the foreign substance filled
her chest and head.  After a few more puffs, it was working its way through her
entire body.  And just like Astrid had said, she was filled with a sense of
relaxation.  She took another puff and then another.  Before long, she felt as
if she hadn’t a care in the world. 

Astrid stood and announced to the small group of
women, “It is time for the cleansing ritual.”

Kaia giggled.  Mostly because of the silly sound
of what the beta female had said.  Suddenly, she felt as though she were in a
dream. 
A really bizarre dream.
  She decided right then to go along with
it and make the most of whatever else happened in this crazy dream.

“I’m pleased to see you are more relaxed,”
Astrid remarked, leading her by the arm to a vat of water.  She twisted Kaia’s
hair into a crude chignon atop her head and secured it with a couple of twigs.

“Step into the water, Kaia,” Astrid instructed.

Kaia attempted to do as she was told, though she
found she was so relaxed she had trouble even lifting her leg.  Of course, her
weakened condition at having been half starved and locked up for the past ten
days might have also had something to do with it.  Gisli reached down and
assisted her, lifting her legs one by one, and guiding it over the side. 

Kaia sighed out in contentment when she was in
the water, the warmth of it soothing her.  It immediately brought to mind how
being up against Dane’s warm body had made her feel.  She forced the thought
away.

Surrounded her, the three women began to pour
cupfuls of the warm water over her, careful not to get her hair wet, lest she
catch a chill.  Kaia let her eyes fall closed at the pleasant sensation.  Then
she felt three pairs of hands on her, gliding over her body as they doted upon
her, washing her.  Just the feel of it already had her pulse quickening, the
newly familiar ache beginning to build in her groin. 

While Astrid set about cleansing Kaia thoroughly
between her legs, Gisli and Lilja placed their mouths upon her nipples and
began suckling.  Endeavouring not to think about Dane and how much she loved it
when he suckled her, Kaia moaned out in pleasure, allowing herself to delight
in the novelty of the beautiful feminine faces at her breasts.  Diligent in her
quest to assure the virgin’s cleanliness, Astrid worked her fingers through
every crevice and fold, swiftly exasperating Kaia’s condition. 

She did not bother to hold back the soft moan
which voiced itself as her finger slid down her slit. 

“I am glad to hear you are deriving pleasure
from this,” Astrid said.  “Your first mating experience will be so much better now
that you are relaxed and receptive.  I believe you may even find you will relish
it.” 

Kaia doubted that.  But then she reminded
herself how she had determined to do just that.  To show Dane he meant nothing
to her just as he had suggested to her.

Taking further liberties, Astrid’s thumb began
stroking against the swelling nub at the uppermost of Kaia’s sex, her other
fingers locating the opening and tracing it teasingly before pushing up into
her sex just a little.  She moaned louder, trying to push against them, but Astrid
held them low as she wiggled them within her enticingly, and Kaia understood it
was for want of not penetrating her too deeply so as to puncture the thin veil
of flesh that was the privilege of the Alpha male.

Entirely prepared to climax for them, Kaia was
disappointed when Astrid’s fingers abruptly abandoned her.  “I believe she is
ready,” she pronounced.

Locking eyes with her pleadingly, Kaia whimpered
out her frustration.  “I know, sister” Astrid responded almost sympathetically. 
“It is only our duty to prepare you to receive them.  But worry not, in mere
moments, the males shall bestow you with more pleasure than you will know how
to handle.”

The two girls lifted their heads from her
breasts.   Gisli smiled and kissed Kaia full upon the mouth, stunning her. 
When Lilja followed suit, Kaia was prepared for it and kissed her back eagerly,
allowing her tongue to enter the girl’s mouth.   She loved the feel of her
full, soft feminine lips against her own.  It was certainly different from what
she imagined kissing a man to be like.  Not that she would know.  Kaia had
never been kissed by a man. 

If only Dane had kissed me the other day…  No,
stop thinking of him in that way.  Just allow yourself to enjoy all the pleasures
the others offer you.

With that, they carefully stepped her out of the
water, the cold night air instantly biting at her damp skin and began rubbing her
dry.  Satisfied, they pulled the twigs from her blonde hair letting it fall
down all around her beautifully.  Then, with Astrid leading the way, Gisli and Lilja
took her by the hand and they led her to the clearing of the camp where the six
man-wolf males awaited her.  Dane included.  But Kaia strove not to look at
him.  She would pretend he wasn’t even there.  After all, they had nothing
special.

Upon beholding her come into view, all six pairs
of eyes roved over her hungrily as though never had they seen a nude woman
before.  In her drug enhanced state, Kaia couldn’t help but be affected by the
sight of all the naked male bodies, the way their muscles gleamed in the glow
of the firelight.

“She looks so scrumptious, I think I’ll have to
taste her,” howled Thorin with a wicked laugh.

“Yeah, me too!” chimed in several other men.

Not entirely sure what they could mean combined
with the residual fear from the first night they had happened upon her in the
wood, the ever present dread reared back up within Kaia causing her to stiffen. 
After all, she still did not know the entirety of their intentions for her. 
How long would it be before they did decide to eat her?  The next full moon
when they transformed into wolves once more?  The thought rendered her motionless.

“Get over here, female!” snarled Thorin
impatiently. 

Kaia was pulled towards them by the other
women.  Suddenly determined to delay the inevitable for as long as possible,
she dragged her feet.

Having satisfied their duty, the three women
turned to go.  Thorin grabbed hold of Gisli’s shoulder, stopping them.  “Not so
fast.  First, we want to watch
you
taste her.”

The waiting men stood gathered about a raised
wooden platform.  When Kaia finally reached to them, Thorin pointed to it and commanded,
“Lie there upon your back, female!”

Unwillingly, Kaia did as she was ordered, their
covetous eyes feeling as though they were piercing right through her.  She said
a silent prayer that this would all be over quickly.

The wood was coarse against her bare skin as she
laid back upon it, feeling more vulnerable than she had since her arrival
there.  Kaia could only imagine how many splinters she would have in her back
when this was over.  Completely exposed to the frigid night air as she was, a
shiver racked through her. 

“Looks like the female is excited to have us,”
Thorin sneered upon noting her nipples stiffen in response.

Thorin reached down and forced her legs apart,
exposing her sex to all there.  Then he bent his head down and inhaled of her,
his icy eyes rolling back into his head as though intoxicated by the scent. 

“Ahh, yes,” he breathed out gruffly.  “She is
positively ripe for us.”  With that, he brought his hand to her sex and parted
the flesh of her folds, impelling his finger inside her and wiggling it about. 
Kaia gasped, though whether it was in shock or pleasure, she could not decide.