After the birth, Aliana had snuck away as quietly as she could, but Chimera had definitely noticed her departure. The moment that she moved, his gaze was locked on her and he watched her slink out the door. Something within him wanted to go and get her immediately, but Siren needed his attention. The pale beauty had just given birth to his children and it had been rough on her tiny frame. He needed to stay with his sister until she was stable and was able to sleep. Aliana was on his mind all the while, however. Her intoxicating scent was burned into his brain and he wouldn't be satisfied until he had her.

Hours later, once Siren was comfortably asleep and Dalila gave mother and children a clean bill of health, Chimera excused himself, gently peeling his massive frame from around the sleeping woman. He needed to stretch his legs, maybe get something to eat and he needed to find Aliana. He desperately needed to find her. Thanks to the heady scent of the woman's heat, she wasn't difficult to find.

The night was moonlit and the waves lapped softly at the shore. The various sea vessels docked or partially submerged rocked within the undulating sea. Chimera didn't see any of it. His goal was to find his woman and take what was his. Primal, feral urges ruled the man and there was nothing on his mind other than claiming her.

Following his nose, Chimera moved across the island, arriving at one of the many little wooden structures situated near the water. Not wasting time with knocking, Chimera burst through the doorway, his eye adjusting to the darkened space until he spied the resting form of the woman in question."Don't ever try to run from me, Aliana." His tones were rough and filled with anger, but there was also a deep, rich lust within his voice. "I will find you ever time. You belong to me." He reminded her of her own words as he stalked towards her. The scent trapped within the small space was driving him wild and he already was unable to hide the pleasure that it was bringing him.

"Speech"

Aliana hid anxiously in the abandoned cabana beside the shore, listening to the calming lapping of the waves almost in time with her stuttering breaths. The structure was dark, with only hints of silvery moonlight streaming in through broken wooden shutters over the shattered windows. She kept waiting, waiting for Chimera to track her down like a predator in the night. She knew he was a master hunter, capable of finding his prey wherever they may hide, but it was the only hope she had right now. If she was lucky, Siren and the pups would demand all of his attention enough for her scent trail to have dissipated or been masked by the salt air enough that it might buy her some time to make a break for the mainland to find some more contraceptive herbs.

That was what Ali was trying to buy time for. The plants they'd brought from Ibon had lost their flowers and leaves, leaving them with living but barren plants until they took root in the new soil and began producing the medicines she needed. Ali had done all she could to rush the cultivation of the plants, but they hadn't flowered in time before her heat had begun. She had only a couple of days worth of preserved herbs, and knowing how insatiable Chimera's lust was, she knew it wouldn't be nearly enough, not enough to last her until the living plants began producing. She needed more time.

Unfortunately for the clouded fae, time was the one commodity she did not have any more of. She was hiding in the small bedroom when she heard the door to the cabana smash inward, drawing a squeaking yelp from the young woman. Ali nearly tumbled off the old bed, scrambling to the opposite side while Chimera stalked into the old building. The monochrome fae cowered, trying to keep the bed between them for space while she tried to reason with Chimera, hoping that her pheromone-laced perfume hadn't rendered him immune to discussion. "Chimera! C-Chimera, please, wait!" she begged of him, aqua eyes wide with fright and voice quivering. She kept her body low, submissive, ears folded and tail tucked between her legs. "We don't have enough contraceptives grown yet! If you don't stop, you know what will happen!" She would undoubtedly end up pregnant, fat and with a belly full of his pups, just like Siren and Viper. The nightmares she'd had about the slavers returned to her memory, and the screams of Siren in delivery still rang in her ears.

She tried to be diplomatic with the brute, hoping he would have some semblance of sanity still within him. As he drew closer, she waited as he rounded the edge of the bed, then leaped with all her speed and agility she could muster over the bed, diving across it to the other side to keep some barrier between them. "I belong to you! I do, I know it, and I promise you I'm not refusing it! But the pack... We can't handle another litter. I'm begging you to wait a few days, at least until the silphium blooms. Please, think! " Aliana glanced towards the open door. She didn't know if she could outrun Chimera or not, but if she stayed, she knew what outcome would follow. She didn't want to run though. She didn't want to be afraid of Chimera—but her king's new fetish for breeding his faes had her panicked.

Drawing up all the courage she required, Aliana made a bolt for the door. She rushed out of the bedroom, heading for the front door Chimera had smashed open. In the dark, she could only see the moonlight in the door. She didn't see the old rug across the worn floorboards until her scrambling paws got caught up in it. She yelped as she tumbled across the floor, legs scattered in every direction. She tried to recover and get moving again as fast as possible, but would it be quick enough to evade the lecherous brute pursuing her?

"Aliana"

The woman backed away and her fear spurred the lust within the bastard. Aliana made excuses, saying that the pack couldn't handle another litter. A low snarl erupted from the beast as he bared rows of knifelike teeth, his speckled nose wrinkling. "I will say what the pack can and cannot handle." It wasn't her place to say what could be handled. Her place was beneath him and nowhere else. He would remind the woman of that as soon as he had her in his grasp.

As Chimera moved through the room, Aliana bolted, breaking her promise to him. She had promised never to run from him, yet there she was, bolting out the front door. With a roar of fury, the two-toned demon spun, slamming furniture against the walls in his wake. "ALIANA" he bellowed, leaping out the doorway and clearing the stairs all in one go. Doing so afforded him the one up that he needed. The clouded fae had tripped and that moment allowed him to get in front of her. When Ali rose to run again, she smashed straight into a wall of muscled chest. She was his.

Neck arcing downward, the beast sank his teeth into the back of Aliana's ruff. Fortunately for her, the leather collar saved her from most of the damage that he could have caused. Now that she was trapped, Chimera slammed the woman belly first onto the ground. One powerful paw settled beside her to hold himself erect, but the other locked hard around her upper thigh. Claws dug into her flesh as he pulled her against him roughly. The scent of her heat, the scent of her fear, it was driving him mad. Driving him wild. At that moment, he had no idea who he even was. All he knew was that he had to breed this bitch before someone else did.

With his teeth still lodged in the back of the fae's neck and collar, Chimera did what he was designed to do. He bred the bitch beneath him. It was his duty and his right. Whether she liked it or not, she was his.

-faderp-

"Speech"

It was all for naught. All of her careful planning, her preparations, her attempts to distance herself once her heat started, her attempts to hide once she'd been found out... Everything was suddenly undone the moment her paw slipped from beneath her. She'd heard Chimera's of fury, his bellow distorting her name like the cry of a feral demon. It had struck such terror into her heart the likes of which the clouded smoke and snow fae had never experienced before. But that terror paled in comparison to the sheer primal horror she felt when she herself collide with what could have been a boulder had it not been covered in fur and snarling at her. Ali yelped and tried to scramble away, but Chimera had her dead to rights, and in the next instant she felt shark-like teeth sink into her scruff, tearing into flesh and fur and the pristine leather of the collar he'd given her; the collar she'd never taken off and cared for every day.

Aliana yelped and whined as she was thrown to the ground with such force that the breath was knocked from her lungs. Dainty white paws clawed and scraped at the ground, desperate to find some way out. Wide, terrified aquamarine eyes tried to find Chimera's face and plead for mercy, but her king was holding her by the back of the neck so roughly she couldn't even turn her head. She felt his fangs sink through her flesh, warm blood seeping out to stain his teeth and her fur. Ali cried out when she felt his claws rend the flesh of her thigh, pulling her hips back into his and pinning her tail out of the way. She was totally vulnerable, helpless and trapped within his power. There was nothing more Aliana could do to save herself.

"Please, Chimera! I'm sorry!" she cried out, too afraid to try and squirm in his grasp for fear that he'd hurt her worse. "Please don't do this! I'll do anything, anything but this!" Her begging and pleading fell on deaf ears. Chimera was too far gone, and despite her terror and desperation, the chimeric brute did as his instincts demanded and took her. Pinned beneath him with no hope of escape, Aliana screamed.

- edaf -

"Aliana"