His mouth tensed. “I won’t be touching any woman but you from now on. That’s my offer to you and it is a generous one that you should deeply appreciate, Shanna. I have a high sex demand and I am very limited with you because I can’t mount you. I am still willing to offer this to you because I find immense pleasure touching you and in you touching me.”

She cocked her head, staring up at him, frowning. It was the way he’d said it that didn’t sit well with her, something about it made her inner alarm go off. It clicked.

“You can’t mount your house helpers either so why point that out?” He blinked, frowning. “I mount them.”

Staring up at him, she tried to figure it out but she was lost. “Maybe we’re getting our wires crossed. Mount means fucking, right? The actual act of you putting…” Her eyes lowered to his cock and then rose to his face. “Inside a woman, right? That’s mounting? I thought you said it was.”

He nodded, crossing his arms over his chest. “That is mounting.” Shock tore through her. “You mount them but you said you couldn’t mount me. I thought you couldn’t actually enter a woman that way because you were already bound to someone.”

“Alluwn’s punishment to me is I can’t release my seed inside a woman I am not bound to so I will never again know the pleasure of spilling my seed into a woman’s body and bringing life forth from her body with more sons or daughters.” It all sank in. Berrr fucked his house helpers but he hadn’t fucked her and that stung. She spun, walking the rest of the way to the bed. “Leave, Hyvin. Go mount your house helpers and leave me the hell alone.”

“You are angry with me again because I didn’t mount you?” He sounded shocked.

She refused to even look at him as she tore the comforter down and got into bed.

“Leave, Hyvin. I’m exhausted and tomorrow will be a big day for me. I’m going to marry Oval or some other alien guy who doesn’t have house helpers.” A snarl sounded loudly in the room. She ignored him as she settled on the bed under the covers. She’d learned this nifty trick from her ex-husband, how it was near impossible to argue with someone who refused to speak and who just went to bed, him having done that to her plenty of times. Closing her eyes, she took steady, deep breaths and tried to calm down. Berrr isn’t worth getting this upset about. He can take his six harem women, fuck them until he drops, and I’m leaving tomorrow.

She heard a door open and relief swept through her, knowing he was leaving to go back to his women, but pain struck her too. She’d really been attracted to Berrr but hoped she’d get along with Oval better, regretted not giving Oval a chance. She’d been scared, upset, and she’d clung to Berrr because he had protected her and made her feel safe.

Tears burned behind her eyelids while pain sliced through her as she tried to push it back. So what if I’d been falling for the guy? Men are assholes, I know that or at least I should by now. I was stupid to let my guard down, stupid to think he was different, stupid to let myself feel so much for him, she told herself.

The door opened, startling Shanna enough to make her lift her head and look toward her door. Hyvin Berrr stormed naked into the bedroom, slammed the door behind him, and held something in his hands that resembled a few thin material belts.

As he stormed right for her bed, Shanna just stared at the furious Zorn.

“I told them to not come in here and to move to another room in the morning so it is done.” He climbed up on the bed. “I know you are angry but you will get past it once you realize that I can be just with you like your human honor demands from a male and I will be that male. I am going to sleep with just you every night.”

“The hell you are.” Shanna sat up. “If you are sleeping in the bed then I’ll sleep on the floor. I refuse to—”

Shanna screamed out in fury as Berrr lunged, grabbing her, and twisted her flat on her back as his leg lifted, coming down on the other side of her hip. He sat on her without putting all of his weight down, only enough to pin her, and seized one of her arms just under the bandage he’d put on her earlier.

“What are you doing? Get the hell off me and let me go!” Berrr lifted the hand not gripping her, opened his mouth to close over one of the belts and jerked his head back to hold it out of the way. The sound of him growling at her was loud in the room as she continued to struggle.

Shanna tried to buck the big bastard off her when she realized what he was going to do but he had her trapped, his ass on the top of her thighs pinning her legs flat so she couldn’t use them in a fight as he proceeded to tie her wrists to the headboard.

“Let me go, you alien bastard!”

Berrr lowered over her, leaning forward until inches separated their faces. He growled, showing white sharp teeth as he snarled at her.

“I did not mount you because you are small and I am not, Shanna. I can barely get my thumb inside your tight body without feeling you squeezing me so I didn’t want to harm you. In time I am hoping to get you accustomed to a few of my fingers so you can take me without pain and you will take me eventually since I will not let you go. I will know what it is like to be buried deep inside your body, to know what it feels like to mount you, ride you and completely enjoy your body with mine.” She shook her head, staring up at him shock. “That is never going to happen because I’m leaving, Hyvin.”

His lips twisted into a grimace. “You won’t be leaving me, Shanna. I decree that you are mine and you will remain mine.”

“You can go fuck yourself.”

His eyebrows arched. “You are angry so I will allow you to sleep but tomorrow after I return from my meetings we will start conditioning your body to take mine. The only thing I want to fuck is you, Shanna.” His face lowered more until they were almost nose to nose. “I will make sure you will enjoy it as much as I will.” He’d moved then, climbing off her body to lie down next to her. Shanna turned her head, jerking on the belts that secured her to the headboard, but she couldn’t break free.

Berrr was on his side with his back to her. He shifted, getting comfortable on top of the comforter, then stayed put.

“You’re not sleeping with me, damn it. Let me go, you big bully.” He had the audacity to chuckle. “Rest much, Shanna. You will need it.” She grit her teeth together tightly to bite back the scream of rage that was building.