Playing Their Parts

But her partner was not taking well to the porn they were viewing—not at all. What they were seeing on the laptop was affecting him in ways that not even the most exciting car chase or tense action-packed blockbuster could.

She supposed she had gotten used to thinking of the big Kindred as though he was a living machine—Stone was extremely smart, exceptionally strong, and coldly logical. But now his face was set in a grimace of angry distaste, as though he couldn’t decide if he wanted to shout at the screen or get sick to his stomach.

All-in-all, her partner had showed more emotion tonight than Cassie had seen from him during their entire partnership.

And she wasn’t sure if that was a good thing.

“The son-of-a bitch,” he said thickly, pointing to the laptop screen. “He is hurting her!”

Indeed, the girl on the screen—a petite blonde with her hair in pigtails to make her look even younger than she probably was—was grimacing and gasping as The Beast attempted to fit his mammoth cock into the tiny, tight mouth of her shaved pussy.

“That’s part of this, uh, type of porn, I think,” Cassie tried to reassure him. “It’s the idea that his dick is so big and manly that the girl can’t take it.”

“But why?” Stone demanded angrily. “Why would humans want to watch a male hurt a female like this?”

“I think it’s mostly human men who like it,” Cassie told him. It certainly didn’t do anything for her. “Not all of them, of course. But the ones that do, they live vicariously through it. When they’re watching this scene, they can pretend that it’s them that has the massive dick, so big a girl can’t take it.”

“I don’t understand—why would that be a good thing?” Stone shook his head. “If a couple was so physically mismatched, it would be very difficult for them to make love. How could a male give his female pleasure if every time he tried to enter her, he gave her pain instead?”

“Look, I don’t fully understand it either,” Cassie said flatly. “But you can’t tell me this isn’t a problem your people run up against on a regular basis—especially if you’re mating with human women. I mean, The Beast is massive, but aren’t most of you Kindred warriors supposed to be, uh, on the large side?”

They were getting into territory they’d never talked about before—mostly because it seemed wrong to ask such personal questions, Cassie thought. But this case seemed to have skewed everything. All bets were off and everything was on the table so screw it—she was going to ask. Especially after Stone had made her admit to playing hanky-spanky with her ex.

“Yes, we are big—much bigger than human males—though I do not know many males as large as that.” Stone indicated the screen with distaste, where the girl was moaning and gasping as the massive shaft pushed slowly into her.

“So what do you do about it?” Cassie wanted to know. “Since the idea of just plowing your way in clearly upsets you.”

“We make certain the female is ready to receive us, to start with,” Stone growled. “This ‘Beast’ didn’t even attempt to make her ready. He didn’t taste her or pleasure her to orgasm even once—he simply started forcing his way inside her!”

“And is that something most, uh, Kindred would do?” Cassie raised an eyebrow at him. “’Taste’ their female first?”

“Of course.” He frowned. “Any Kindred male would want to taste his lover and prepare her for his shaft before making love.”

“It sounds like that’s really important to you. Is it…is it something you really like to do?” Cassie squirmed a little in her seat. She couldn’t help imagining Stone down on his knees, with his face between someone’s thighs…

Your thighs, whispered a little voice in her head. But she pushed it away—she didn’t think of her partner that way. Or she tried not to, anyway.

“Tasting a female isn’t just something we Kindred ‘like’ to do,” Stone told her, seriously. “It’s a biological need.”

“Wait—so you’re telling me you need to go down on a woman?”

Cassie couldn’t help sounding skeptical. She hadn’t been with a ton of guys, but most of them, including her ex, didn’t seem to feel any need—or even much of a desire—to give a woman oral. It was hard to believe the Kindred were that different from human men. They were, after all, still male.

But Stone was nodding his head emphatically.

“It helps us bond our mate to us more tightly. It brings us closer to her both emotionally and physically. If I am ever privaleged to Claim the female the Goddess has destined for me, I will spend hours between her thighs, learning her secret flavor and pleasuring her with my tongue until she comes again and again for me.”

He was looking Cassie in the eyes as he said this and his pale gaze was so intense she didn’t know what to say. Her partner had never spoken so erotically before to her. In fact, Stone rarely said anything to do with sex at all. And now he was basically telling her how much he loved to go down on a woman, not to mention the way he was looking at her while he said it…