Ch. 5.3

"I know. I got you. First the egg, then the rest. I understand priorities. I'm not a monkey. But give me something to hold on to. It's just something humans do."

"I don't want you to leave. Ever."

Riordan opened his mouth and then closed it. That was something that needed proper pondering over.

"You know that's not possible," he said. "I'm not the one making the rules."

"You won't leave," Xana said stubbornly.

"Alright, mister I'm so cold blooded I can turn the house into a fridge. You're a bit head over heels here. Have you never been infatuated? After fucking so many humans-"

"I told you such rules don't apply to us," Xana said sternly.

"Why don't you want me gone then? Explain," Riordan demanded.

"I need you here."

"To fuck. This is all we do. We fuck."

"I enjoy fucking you."

"Oh, and that's news," Riordan said wryly. "Come on, there's plenty of human booty around. You'll find a lot of ways to entertain yourself. And you fucked like hundreds of dudes from Earth. How am I special?"

"You are," Xana snapped.

"Oh, yeah? Maybe just because I didn't worship you the second I saw you."

"Maybe."

"What are other bearers like?" he asked, all of a sudden.

"Definitely more versed in the proper etiquette than you. They don't jump to offer a hot orifice the moment they come through the door."

"My bad." Riordan shrugged. "But aren't you the horny ones? Why shouldn't bearers be trained to act like absolute sluts the moment, as you say, they come through the door?"

"Because bearers are supposed to have more decorum than brothel sluts."

"That sounds like a self-defeating purpose. You drown your bearers in cum and slime, making them addicts."

"It's not my species' fault you fall so easily to addiction."

"So everyone's a whore anyway." Riordan shrugged. "Your kind is a strange lot. What do you want exactly?"

"What I want," Xana began talking slowly, making Riordan's mind suddenly drowsy, "is my whore of a bearer to be with me always. To fill you up, until you're almost bursting, then tease you and fill you again. I want to push egg after egg inside you until you're nothing but an extension of my being. I want to see you with all my offspring around you, telling them strange stories about Earth. I want every day to come back to you and be inside you until the sun is up again."

Riordan stared at his owner, jaw-slacked.

"I'll be damned," he whispered. "You are infatuated."

"Nonsense. Everything I want is clear. Not whatever your mushy Earthian brains tell you love is. I want you in my house, in my bed, impaled on my cock and tail."

"There's no point in fighting you. So what are you going to do once I deliver the egg, and Social Services, or whatever the substitute is here, come to get me?"

"No one will come and get you." Xana frowned. "And I know exactly what I'll do. See? No irrational emotions here."

"Ah, let's hear it. Your big plan."

"I will let your body recover and then I will put another egg inside you."

"So you want to destroy my body with multiple pregnancies?" Riordan stared at his owner in disbelief. "I'm not sure if my body can handle one."

"You're strong. You will."

"Has any other bearer gone through this kind of thing?" Riordan watched Xana carefully.

"No. But I see no reason why you would not be able to carry another egg. The seth will heal your body and make it as good as new."

"And you didn't think about asking me if I agree to this stuff." Riordan felt his anger rising.

"What say have you on the matter? You're my bearer and you handed yourself over to me until I tire of you."

"Oh, so this is how it goes. It's not enough that you're a weird alien, you're an asshole, too."

There was bitterness in his voice.

"Insult me all you want. It's music to my ears."

"Oh yeah? So about this? You're a piece of shit, Xana! Do you want to fuck me senseless and use me like a breeding mare? What if I say no? What if I don't want to?"

The tail uncoiled from his lower body and this time Xana was the one to get out of the water. The alien loomed over the edge of the pool.

"You don't have a choice. If you leave, I'll make sure there's only death for you on the other side of the door. Do you think I'll allow others to copulate with you?"

This time, the water was getting too warm. Riordan hurried out of the water.

"So you're bent on killing me if I don't do what you say?" he spat as he looked up at the snakeman.

"Without a doubt. As any human, your coward nature compels you to yield."

Riordan began walking away.

"My bad for thinking you could be a half decent alien," he murmured on his way out.

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