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  “White levels are common areas for all, including breeders,” Caledon said and pointed to the row of buttons, one of which he had pushed. “The rest are colored depending on eye color. You already know the breeders with a collar are off limits, but they have a code tattooed on their neck if they’re not claimed. They can be tattooed if claimed, too, but then the collar is the one to pay attention to. You’ll get a list of the feeding codes when we make it to the library.”

  “Okay. Good thing I have a whole year to learn them,” Daniel said, grinning. The doors opened, and they went into a hallway with a lot more people walking around than in any other hallway they had walked earlier. Or any other time once he thought about it. It was like stepping into a mall. There was every eye color there and a lot of naked men and women. So far Daniel had mainly seen men, and he asked why that was.

  “To make housing of the breeders easy, we divide the Cubi into hallways depending on how they feed. You live with Seldon, who only feeds from men, and his areas are mainly regarding men. He also trains women, but you’ve never seen him work. Except that one time.”

  Daniel didn’t need to be reminded of that one. He was still shaken up that Seldon could look and act so cold, but he also thought he understood how his age could have provided the mental distance to what he had to do.

  “So, the ones clothed are Cubi or claimed breeders?”

  “Yes. Except some of the women, wearing a red shirt with a mark on it. It means they have their period. You’ll find men wearing a black shirt with a similar sign on it which means they are unable to be fed from. Like…if they’re sick. The marks will be on the list, too.”

  Female breeders on their period. He hadn’t thought of that very natural cycle.

  “My Lord, what if…what if a female breeder gets pregnant?”

  Caledon stopped and smiled before he turned his attention to Daniel. “You have a lot to learn, cub, one of which is our biology. Short version. Since this is how we feed, procreation has to be willed by both parties when Cubi, and by the Cubus if he or she is with a human.” Caledon put a hand on the small of Daniel’s back to lead him further into the populated hall. “Cubi have a ritual. We blend our doses. A lot of them—it can take a week to get that much. Then we drink the blend and get euphoric. We don’t lose control like we can in a normal dose, but it will stimulate the semen to be procreative and the egg to release. Cubi women don’t have cycles unless it’s forced by the blend. It takes a surrogate when a Cubus decides to breed with a human, too—someone to add to the blend. In this case, it is only the Cubus who has to drink it.”

  Another nifty side of the Cubi evolution.

  As they went, Daniel looked around, finding that the place had a lot of English sentences as well as the markings that made up the Cubi language. With the knowledge, they stemmed from Europe, he thought it could be Greek letters, but having seen those he discarded the idea. But he saw everything from a movie theater, gaming room, a bar, social corners, and a few occupied feeding stalls. He still didn’t know what to do around one of those, because watching some guy or woman fucking a Cubus was still something he didn’t know how to react around. He preferred being at home. Then again, once he had been dosed, he hadn’t cared at all who saw or heard them in Sanitation. But he was pleasantly surprised at this whole place existing.

  “Library is this way. You can come here another time.”

  Yeah, in a year since Seldon was on house arrest and Daniel wasn’t coming back there without him, and definitely not bringing him in a red Fuck-up shirt, marking him as free to be ridiculed. Daniel wasn’t going to air those thoughts to Caledon, though. He was the Lord of their House after all, and he was the one who had dished out the punishment, so Daniel was going to pretend like he agreed or at least respected the man’s decisions.

  The library was huge and looked modern, but some of the books looked ancient.

  Caledon took Daniel to a row and pointed down the aisle. “These are our history books so find one you want to read. But!” Caledon held up a finger and squinted at him. “If I find you coming back with a book with less than one hundred pages, I’ll be the one finding a book for you, and I can promise you it’ll be the longest I can find.”

  “Yes, My Lord,” Daniel said, grinning. “You guessed being a nerd wasn’t me in school, huh?”

  “Go look.” Caledon looked around as if searching for something. “I’ll find you a copy of the list if I can locate a librarian…ah, happy hunting, cub.” Caledon left Daniel to prowl the hundreds of books, and it seemed almost an insurmountable number of books to find one between. Walking the aisle, he skimmed the titles on the spines and hoped one would stand out.

  “Well, well,” someone said and ran a hand from Daniel’s neck to his ass, so he turned swiftly, finding himself face to face with a young man with red eyes.

  “I’m off limits.”

  “Really? Don’t see a collar.”

  “Or a tattoo, I’m a Changeling, and I’m off limits to anyone but our Lord Caledon and Sire Seldon.”

  “The fuck-up who dosed his Untouchable?” the red-eye asked, surprised. Daniel’s anger flared.

  “Listen up, red-eye,” he sneered and stepped close enough for their noses to touch. “You may be granted the right to temporarily ridicule My Sire to his face, but you do not disrespect him to my face, alone, do you understand me?”

  “Problem?”

  Both Daniel and the red-eye turned to find Caledon staring at them with a blank expression.

  “No, My Lord, just…testing the Changeling’s buttons.”

  “Think you found one that works. He’s off limits, go find a breeder if you need to feed.”

  “Yes, My Lord.” The red-eye left, and Daniel sighed heavily to get his heart rate back down.

  “That was quite a display of respect and confidence. You make your Sire proud. I’ll be sure to tell him.”

  “Thank you, My Lord,” Daniel said, feeling his stomach flutter at having done what he just did, and gotten Lord Caledon’s respect from doing it on top of that.

  “Didn’t find a book then?”

  “Didn’t have time.”

  “Let’s look.” Caledon walked the aisle and Daniel followed, once again searching the titles on the spines.

  “Who wrote all these?”

  “Cubi. We have a section on fiction about our race which is pretty…explicit.” Caledon grinned at him, wagging his eyebrows. Daniel sputtered laughter. “Don’t laugh too much, because you have to read some of them as part of your education.”

  “Reading smut is part of my education?”

  “Trust me. Some of these authors have great ideas.” Caledon picked a thick book from the shelf in front of him. “This one is good. It touches upon most things.”

  “How many pages is it?” Daniel tried to hide his smile, but the scowl on Caledon’s face ruined it.

  “Three hundred twenty-one pages.”

  “I’ll trust your recommendations,” Daniel said and reached for the book.

  “Glad to hear it.”

  Daniel looked at the cover, finding the name Caledon and a Cubi scribble on it. “You wrote it?” He looked up, finding Caledon grinning.

  “I did.”

  “Wow, that’s cool.” Daniel leafed through the pages finding more of the scribbles and English. He stopped to read some of it, finding it an explanation of how a symbol made up words.

  “Okay, nerd, let’s go find a better spot to read,” Caledon said and turned Daniel on his heels to get him moving in the right direction. Daniel laughed and closed the book.

  “Do I need like a library card?”

  “You’ll get one, but this time we’ll put it on mine, and I’ll make sure you remember to return it.”

  They exited the aisle and bumped into someone. Daniel’s hunger turned on instantly, and he grabbed the guy’s arm.

  “Hey,” the young man said and stepped closer to stand flush against Daniel.

  “Self-control,” Cale
don said calmly.

  Not for me, not for me, not for fuck he feels…tasty.

  In a fog, Daniel remembered the first time he felt a breeder after his change. The one whose nipples he had licked at Caledon’s place the day after the classification. He wanted to lick this one, too, and he breathed heavily as his focus zeroed in on the areola and the little goosebumps surrounding it.

  “Self-control,” Caledon repeated as calmly as before, but he got the breeders attention. “He’s a new Changeling, and we’re trying out some things. You hungry, Daniel?”

  “Yes,” Daniel said, grabbing his own dick as it throbbed, and he wanted friction. He wanted to run his hands up the naked abs of the breeder, and doing so made his skin go from tingly to almost catching fire where he touched him. This one was gorgeous, and he wanted to lick him. Feel the nipple harden to a little pebble at being flicked by a tongue. He wanted to watch the breeder in climax.

  “Self-control,” Caledon said again, stirring some small part of Daniel’s brain, screaming at him to step back and turn to Caledon. But the man felt so good…he looked up seeing the strangers face looking at him, and Daniel wanted to kiss his lips.

  You are still Untouchable, you are for Seldon and Caledon, only, his mind screamed at him. The breeder ran his hands up Daniel’s flanks setting off a new wave of tingles that spread like wildfire across his skin.

  “Untouchable,” Daniel whispered.

  “I’m not,” the breeder said, cupping Daniel’s face. More heat spread and flowed down his body to his groin, making his dick twitch and ache.

  “Self-control, cub,” Caledon repeated, and Daniel grabbed the breeder’s wrists and held them away from himself.

  “I am…Untouchable,” Daniel whimpered. A pained cry escaped the breeder and Caledon grabbed Daniel’s wrists.

  “Let go, you can hurt him.” Caledon tightened his grip, and Daniel let go, squeezing his eyes shut and shivering from trying to hold back.

  He began a jumbled mantra in the hopes of finding something to help him focus, picking words like “Seldon, Caledon, Untouchable, only them, only for them. Honor, respect…honor the House…Seldon, honor Seldon…” and finally the wildfire of lust coursing through his body dimmed enough for him to recognize his surroundings again. The breeder was gone.

  “Very good, Daniel, very, very good,” Caledon whispered. Daniel turned in his arms and pressed himself flush against the Lord, looking up at him.

  “Please fuck me.”

  “Pick up your book and let’s go get lunch.”

  But Daniel’s hunger was far from down again. He bit his lower lip and moaned when he felt Caledon grow hard against him.

  “You hungry, too?” Daniel snuck his arms around Caledon and drew him closer.

  “Oh, those bedroom greens don’t belong in a library, cub,” Caledon said and cocked his head.

  “Not even in the smutty section?”

  “Oh shit, Daniel.” Caledon’s demeanor still looked pretty relaxed, but his eyes darkened.

  “You said some of these authors have interesting ideas. We could go all hot and nerdy in that aisle.” Daniel leaned in and kissed Caledon on the neck. “Test some of those ideas out.” Another kiss closer to the ear. “We could try one you like.” Daniel kissed his ear. “I’ll even read one of your favorites after we fuck so we can try out more,” Daniel whispered.

  Caledon groaned. “You are a very. Naughty. Little cub.” Caledon pulled back to look at Daniel.

  “Yeah, and you could be a very. Naughty. Author. I can be your muse.” Daniel slid his hands under Caledon’s shirt and up his abs. Caledon’s eyes darkened further, and Daniel felt a bit of control both over his hunger which had cleared up slightly, but it had far from slaked. “We can go all nerdy together after this. I write the essay and read your book, and you write me a smutty fantasy for us to try out. But every author needs inspiration.” Daniel tweaked a nipple, getting another groan in return. “Let’s go see what the smutty section on Cubi has to offer on Lords being seduced by Changelings and ridden hard in that aisle.”

  Caledon shuddered and moaned again, the purple growing so dark his eyes almost looked black. A bruising kiss reignited Daniel, and the tingles rushed to his spine, making him groan into Caledon’s mouth and thrust against the Lord’s hard-on. He felt himself be pushed backward and stumbled to keep up while holding onto Caledon. Moments later the kiss ended, and they both panted while tearing their clothes free and halfway off before Daniel ended up on the floor with Caledon on top of him.

  “Naughty little muse,” Caledon whispered and sat back on his haunches to pull at Daniel’s pants. Oh God, he loved being able to bring Caledon that far out. That look in his eyes.

  “Let’s see what the naughty author has for the naughty muse.”

  “Spit, because we’re not in a designated fuck-area, so no lube handy. But, very practically, a dose is pretty slick, too.” Caledon grabbed Daniel’s legs and pulled them up and back, so Daniel ended up resting on his shoulders, bent almost in half and with his ass in the air. Caledon repeatedly spat onto Daniel’s pucker before he forced a finger in, making Daniel groan awkwardly from having his lungs somewhat compressed in that position. More spitting and another finger that sent a sting of pain through Daniel’s ass, but fuck if Caledon didn’t look hot from that angle, and that turned up both hunger and pleasure.

  From this position, Daniel could see everything Caledon did, and once he shoved a third finger in, Daniel felt alive and desired when a man could dig into him like that and look so fucking excited. Then Caledon’s tongue elongated, and Daniel squirmed from the expectations of pleasure.

  He cried out as the soft warmth finally touched his sensitive puckered skin, and the fingers working his ass felt so good. Then the dose took over and clouded his brain, making him even wilder.

  “Fuck! Fuck me, oh God!”

  Caledon lowered him and pulled him closer, guiding his dick into Daniel who thrashed for something to hold onto, but all he did was scratch at the linoleum. A long and loud groan escaped them both as Caledon slid in to the hilt. He wasted no time and set a hard pace, making Daniel feel hungered for, and he fucking loved it.

  “I wanna ride you. Hard,” Daniel panted, locking eyes with Caledon. “So the naughty author can look and be inspired by his sexy muse.”

  Caledon threw his head back and roared before grabbing Daniel and turning them around. “Show me, little muse.”

  Daniel reached back to reposition Caledon and impaled himself in one hard drive down, tearing another loud moan from the Lord.

  Oh, yeah, he was going to drive Caledon mad, and he stared at him while he tried out what felt good. He then remembered Caledon being fixated on shoulders, ass, and spine, so Daniel pulled his shirt all the way off and got up to turn around and impale himself again. He leaned back a bit, grabbed hold of a shelf, and rotated and lifted his ass as if he was dancing his ass-shaking dance as Caledon called it.

  “Holy fucking shit, that’s hot!” Caledon growled and grabbed hold of Daniel’s hips. Caledon panted hard, and Daniel changed to another hip movement, driving himself down hard only by the movements of his hips. And there was the sweet spot. Daniel cried out and moved faster and harder. Books fell from the shelves, and Caledon’s fingers dug into Daniel’s hips harder while his panting became louder and louder.

  “How do you like my dimples now?”

  A strangled cry escaped Caledon, and Daniel’s ass caught fire. Hard thrusts from beneath sent Daniel reeling from pleasure because Caledon definitely found a good angle.

  “Oh God, fuck those naughty ideas out of me!” Daniel roared and grabbed his dick to stroke it, still holding onto the shelf with the other hand. All the prickling on his skin rushed to his spine and down to his ass, pooled in his balls, and the orgasm ripped through him, making him scream from his system being completely overloaded from the dose and the hard cock driving into him at a brutal pace.

  Caledon went rigid under him, and Daniel’s overs
ensitive body felt the spurts of semen coat his insides and absorb, fulfilling him and draining him of energy at the same time.

  Daniel fell back and collapsed on Caledon, both heaving for air. Caledon seemed a bit more collected, though. Enough to help straighten one of Daniel’s legs before he rolled them onto their sides, Caledon spooning close to Daniel and still with his dick lodged inside Daniel’s hole.

  “Oh, look. A Cubi smut novel. This one is actually a fair read, so my muse gets to read this while I write up the inspiration I just fucked out of you in a fucking library.”

  Daniel couldn’t help a dopy grin at the amused tone. He managed to open an eye to find Caledon holding a book in his hand while he slumped against Daniel and heaved for air. “Man, and I always thought libraries were boring.”

  “Yeah, well, I’d like to see the librarian of this library having tried to shush us.”

  Daniel sputtered laughter. “Oh God, can’t imagine that going well when it’s the Lord of the House himself fucking someone senseless in the smut aisle.”

  Caledon snickered and planted a kiss on the nape of Daniel’s neck before pulling out and turning Daniel onto his back. He then licked the cum from Daniel’s stomach. Daniel relaxed, sprawling amongst the books and clothing items, not giving a shit that he was lying naked in a library.

  “There. We even managed to clean up after ourselves,” Caledon said.

  “Except the books.”

  “Except the books,” Caledon agreed and scrambled to his knees. “Still hungry, cub?”

  “No, I feel like I just had my fill for the day, but I’m a Changeling so what the hell do I know.”

  “Oh, you might just have. I lost a dose when you started ranting about your dimples. Fuck, I love that thing you do with your ass.”

  Daniel snapped to. “You lost a dose?”

  “Yeah,” Caledon said, smiling sheepishly. Holy shit. He made a Lord lose a dose. “You look entirely too proud of yourself knowing that.”

  “Oh, I like it. A lot!”

  “I bet you do, but we better…get up, because even though the librarian hasn’t shushed at us, he is giving us quite the glare right now.”