The Love Goddess Brands Her Cowboys (3 page)

She sat up in shock. “You can’t do that! You can’t leave me this way!” Her vision was blurred as she watched him stop, turn back around and heard his laughter.  As he came back to her, she felt chills of anticipation. But when she reached him, he pulled her up, under her arms, and, before she could count to three, she was laying across his lap, his dick pulsing against her hip. “What the hell?” she asked, trying to get her bearings.

“You’re such a naughty girl,” he said and she felt and heard a resounding hard slap to her butt…like a spanking! Hell, it
was
a spanking!  Her ass shivered as vibrations of pain-turned-to-pleasure ripples jolted to her aching pussy. Her bones were butter.

“Oh, Gods alive! I loved that!” she shouted.

He was rubbing her ass now. “I know you do, but that’s all for now.”

“Please, please…”

He stood up, taking her in his arms, and placed her neatly on the bed again, spreading her legs.

He’s going to do me now!

Not so fast. He sat beside her, playing with her breasts, a teasing grin on his face. “How much do you want it?”

“I don’t just want it. I
need
it.” Her voice had shaken. How embarrassing. She felt her face heat.

He nodded, touching his cock now. “I’m glad you like my junk.” Suddenly, his eyes flashed and she took in a breath. “I guess it wasn’t good enough for my ex-fiancé. She found somebody better.”

“Oh, she couldn’t have!” she said her eyes worshiping his magnificence.

He shrugged, his face darkening a bit. Then he shook his head and smiled again. “Look at me, Star.”

She locked gazes with him and again felt the magical aura of him. His masculinity lured her like he was in control, but he couldn’t be...

Without a word, he climbed over her and rubbed his cock up and down her slit, as he’d done with his finger. She heard herself mewling. His eyes seemed to burn and the smile left his face as he lifted his hips then thrust inside of her once, claiming her, as she cried out in ecstasy. But he pulled out again.

“No!”

“You’re tight, but it feels damn good. Did you say you were a virgin? I…I can’t remember…anything…”

She was weeping. She was holding onto him with all she had as he looked down at her, their noses almost touching. She couldn’t think straight either. The way he looked at her…it was as if he was in love with her. She knew better, but she didn’t care. “Take me again,” she begged.

He drove into her, this time full force, rocking afterward, his hips plunging in a sexy rhythm with every thrust. She was boneless, she was brainless, and she was floating on air with him, her legs wrapped around his torso as she met him each time he slammed into her.

When she felt his warm tribute exploding inside of her, they both gasped and clutched one another until neither of them could breathe. Star was in tears, knowing she was now safe from Norris and also desperately happy to be in the arms of this wonderful humanoid.

When Chad came to his senses, he was holding the tall, curvy beauty in his arms and breathing hard. Stunned, he pulled back and looked at her peaceful face on his pillow, noticing the slight smile on her lips.

How can I see her? It’s pitch black outside and in this room. Only it isn’t.

“What was that?” he asked, cuddling her sweaty, smooth body. “I mean, damn, that was the best I’ve ever had and I barely remember it. And…why are you glowing? I can see you, but the room is dark.” He felt a magical tingle encircling him. Weirdness surrounding him. Was this minx really some sort of alien from another planet? No, he must be drunk. Or mad.
But how can she glow in the dark?

Her eyes opened, dark, bright and very much alert. She had such a soft look on her face that it took him back. “Yes, that’s why you could and can see me in the dark,” she said, in a soft voice, and kissed him on the forehead. “I’m a love goddess’s daughter so I can make us glow in the dark or anywhere else. Anyone I made love too would glow. But you are my first. My very first.” She broke into a monster grin that lit up her entire face. “I’m protected from Norris for now, and what we just did was better than anything I ever expected. You were magnificent.”

He blinked, trying to remember how this had transpired. Slowly, it came back to him and he felt his stomach lurch. “You do have magic then.” He laughed, but not with mirth. “Either that or I’m going insane.”

“No, it’s true.” She tousled his hair gently as she spoke to him. “Everything I told you was true.”

He believed her. He had seen her glow in the dark and felt as if she had put some kind of love spell on him. What a night this was turning out to be. But he felt a pang of anger now as he pulled away from her and sat up in bed. “You tricked me into this. I don’t like that you did that.” He turned on his nightstand lamp so that he could see the whole room, not just Star. Feeling both wonderful and out-of-sorts, he got up and walked to his dresser. After putting on a new pair of boxers, he tossed her a t-shirt that was big enough to cover her past her butt. “Sorry,” he said, shortly. “I don’t have women’s clothes here.”

“Chad, look at me, please.”

He did and watched her put on his tee-shirt. It looked really nice on her, its whiteness showing off her butterscotch skin. Her hair was mussed, falling over her forehead. Hell, she was hotter than hell, but he didn’t like being tricked. On the other hand…

“I could have stopped at any time, right?” he asked, turning to her, still sounding brisk. “I mean…you put some kind of spell on me to make me unable to resist you, but, if I really hadn’t wanted to do it, I could have stopped myself. Am I right?” This was something he really needed to know because he felt a strange connection to her that made no sense. He barely knew her, except for their fabulous sex.

She looked up at him from under her mussed up hair. “I can make a human desire me, but I can’t force him to make love to me if he really doesn’t want to. So, yes, if you’d wished to stop, you could have.” Her forehead wrinkled. “I understand that I’m nothing to look at, and perhaps you’re disappointed now that you are seeing me in the full light, but you did want me when it happened or it couldn’t have.” She stood up, trying to smooth down her semi-wild hair. “I--I don’t need to stay here anymore. Our lovemaking will seal me from Norris for at least an earth month or two. I can think of what else to do by then.” She stared at him boldly. “You’ve done enough for me and I thank you.”

“Wait.” Chad felt strange, like he couldn’t let her go. When two wings appeared on her shoulders, he ran to her and grabbed her arms, stopping her. “What the hell? You can fly?”

She pulled away and turned her back on him. “I can. My mother, the Love Goddess, will guide me to another save haven, honest…”

“No.” The word came out strong and she turned, her eyebrows high.

God, she is a lovely thing. How can she not know it?

“No what?” She looked hesitant.

“Don’t go. You can stay here. I found my girlfriend cheating today so I’ll enjoy the female company, at least until you are ready to go.” He felt a weakness in his belly when she broke into a wide-eyed smile. “I’ll show you around the ranch and…you can maybe help me out. I’m alone a lot of the time.”

“You?”  Her eyebrows sprung upwards as her wings melted back into her arms.

Damn the liquor! Lowering his gaze, he mumbled, “Well…I don’t hang out much with most of the guys who work here…they think of me as their boss and don’t accept me…except for Diego, and he’s always out partying or on dates. I love him like a brother, but I’ve never been one to go to parties or bars. Seems like the local women are always after my money.” He was still talking too much so it surprised him when he felt her hand grabbing his.

“I understand,” she said, gently. “I feel that way when I’m at home. Men want me for my power and women are jealous of my position. So I stick around my mother and the other Love Goddesses…”

He had no idea why he believed her so much, but it rang true. Maybe seeing Bella with Raymond had addled his brain. Suddenly he remembered she’d be assaulted and his body tensed. “Who’s the son-of-a-bitch who hurt you, Star?”

Star took in a deep breath, her eyes darkening. “Norris is my third cousin and a real rogue. He will have me and my powers any way he can get them, even through trickery that makes me want him. It’s pretty much rape.” She frowned. “I fear I’ll be running from him until I find a proper mate…yet I’m not like the other Love Goddesses.” Her voice grew quiet and she turned her gaze from him.

He gently stroked under her chin, making her look into his gaze. Cripes, she had a beautiful, deep stare. Inhaling her feminine scent, he asked in a quiet voice, “Why are you not like them, sugar?”

Now she didn’t flinch. “I already told you. I know I’m not pretty. I’m too tall and have big hips…”

“Stop that.” He pinched her chin, widening his stance as he stared down at her. “You
are
beautiful,” he said, making sure she was watching him. “I don’t want to hear that you aren’t pretty again. It’s a lie.”

Her cheeks grew crimson and he pulled her into him for another kiss, a tingle racing through his body at the thought of keeping her for a while longer. She would leave him, they all did, but didn’t want her to go yet.

Norris Pratt slouched on a leather chair in his father’s brown leather decorated sitting room. His stomach clenched, as he watched the older man pace back and forth while spewing the normal venom at him. Norris rolled his eyes, thinking about how much this sucked, sitting here being ragged at again. He felt chastised, like a child, but angry at the same time. The old man wouldn’t give him a break. Ever.

Norris tried to think of something else, but the words of his tall, slim, silver haired father were impossible to block out. Watching his father reminded him of his brothers, which only made him angrier. His father and younger brothers were all tall and athletic with dark, smooth skin, huge brown eyes, and were undisputable babe magnets. Of course, they were heroic knights too. Norris would have spat if his father could not see. He had never earned a knighthood and was unattractive…washed out brown colored skin with pockmarks and not even tall…short and pudgy.

His father’s loud voice seemed to echo against the walls and hit Norris hard, right in the heart.

“I can’t
believe
you! I can’t
believe
you, Norris! The Love Goddess is furious that you tried to rape her daughter, and I’ve never been this ashamed of you! None of my sons have ever had trouble wooing a woman the normal way except for you. You’re a pervert!”

“Damn it!” Norris stood up, his jowls and large belly shaking as he did. “I did
not
try to rape her. I told you, I smelled her love scent and I know she wanted me!”

Shaden Pratt stopped walking and turned to his son, his eyebrows slashing downward. “Does slapping your face seem like desire?”

“She was just playing hard to get,” he said, sulking. To him, who had never smelled a woman in heat before, he had honestly thought he’d finally gotten that special scent to mate him. Obviously he had been wrong. Well, if he couldn’t get her powers the normal way, why not force the issue? Although he had never been handsome or suave like his brothers, he was just as ambitious and he wanted to mate a love princess and gain her powers. “I will have her,” he said, staring his father in his bulging brown eyes. “In fact, I sense her scent on earth.”

Shaden smirked. “Earth. Smart of her. If she beds a human, you will lose track of her. Yet they are too primitive to hold a bond with one of us. She will find a human to use…and you will not be able to locate her.”

Norris felt all the anger inside of him exploding. “Oh, yes I will. See if I don’t. And your loser son will suddenly be a Love God with powers enough to punish you and all my perfect brothers.” He laughed meanly.

“Love Gods do not use evil magic!”

“I can change the trend.”

As Norris watched his father shake his head, he felt self-satisfaction.

“You started out with so much promise,” Shaden mumbled. “My biggest sire…my most handsome of all. And smartest. Yet you return to our primitive roots, eat like a savage human, refuse to work out, and, worse, adapt a vile character.”

“Fuck all that!”  Norris wanted to punch him. One day, he would. “We evolved from humans and are much like them in body function. I do have a human’s appetite, but so what? I don’t have to be handsome or slim to get what I want. If I mate with Star, I am immortal.” He lowered his eyebrows. “Nobody can stop me, old man.”

“Star can stop you. She’s smarter than you!” Shaden shot at him.

Norris laughed, although he was hardly in the mood for mirth. His adrenalin was rushing through his body. “I’m going to visit earth now.” He snapped his fingers and a red and gold flying carpet appeared before him, swaying back and forth. “You’ll see. I’ll find her and succeed this time. And you know what? I still think she wanted me. I am not into forcing myself on women who don’t!”  Of course, he was a virgin. No woman had wanted him, but he had to believe that Star really was sending him her sex scent and that she had just chickened out at the last moment. Some women, especially the various goddesses on the Golden Planet, sent mixed signals. They wanted sex yet didn’t want to ruin their virtue unless they were sure…

Well, he’d pour on the charm to make her sure, with a love trick or two.

“Norris, please, don’t do this,” Shaden said, in a quiet voice.

Norris jumped on his magic carpet, sitting Indian style, his fat thighs making it hard. “See you later, pops!” he said. Then he snapped his fingers again and his magic carpet took off, faster than the speed of sound, whizzing through the darkness of the universe in no time.