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  “The feeling is even stronger than before.” Kneus gasped. Then two thrusts later he shouted her name.

  Gwen had never been pounded so thoroughly. Her head was spinning and the stars danced in her vision just before she climaxed. This was a new experience for her and if she didn’t know better she would have sworn she was going to have a stroke. She was panting, trying to catch her breath when Kneus collapsed on top of her. Now she really was seeing stars and out of breath.

  “Kneus.” She rasped. “Can’t...breath.”

  Kneus rolled over instantly, pulling her to his side. “Gwen I am so sorry.” His voice was filled with worry, “Did I hurt you?”

  “No.” Gwen laughed breathlessly, still trying to recover. “I’m okay.” Looking into her lovers face she sighed, “Better than okay really.” Groaning at her sore muscles when she tried to move into his side she asked, “How about a nice hot soak?”

  The idea of a nice bath to ease her muscles, and get rid of some of the sweat and musk appealed to her.

  “A bath my lady wants.” Kneus pulled her into his arms and moved toward the bathroom without breaking stride or groaning over her weight. “A bath my lady shall get.” Gwen looked into his eyes and wanted to groan. The way his eyes were flashing told her this bath might not be as relaxing as she had planned. Who was she to complain? They had already wasted the last few weeks. She was all for making up for lost time!

  *~*~*

  Kneus was holding Gwen in his arms. Her warm body pulled flush with his. What a nice way to wake up, he thought. How about a little bed play to get things going?

  Rolling her onto her stomach slowly so she wouldn’t wake, he then moved down her body until his face was between her spread thighs. If he pressed forward he could reach the sweet nub he was looking for. His tongue shot out again and again to taste her sweet essence. He knew she was waking when with a moan of pleasure she pressed back against his mouth. Encouraged that he was doing it right, Kneus opened his mouth and sucked harder. Gwen was suddenly awake and on her hands and knees. “Kneus...” she was breathless and sleepy. He took the opportunity to move onto his back between her legs looking up.

  “Yes, my love.” He gently pushed until she was on just her knees, then pulled her forward until his mouth covered her again. His tongue lashing at her sensitive skin. “You were saying.”

  “Kneus...” she tried again, then couldn’t continue when he sucked hard. Instead of talking she started moving against his mouth. Grabbing handfuls of the generous globes of her butt, Kneus pulled her hard against his mouth.

  “Yes.” He pushed his tongue into her warmth. “You were saying?” He used his tongue against her. Along her wetness, then spearing into her.

  She just shuddered against him and he moved fast. Taking to his knees behind her he thrust his rigid shaft into her as hard as he could. She gasped at the entry but he didn’t care, he went a little wild. Holding her in place he pushed again as deep as he could. She bounced away at his thrust, but he pulled her back. Holding her in place he pounded against her again and again. When she whimpered at the unceasing invasion of his steely shaft, he bent over her flexing his hips madly. Taking her nipple in his fingers he pinched lightly, causing another moan to break from her lips. Taking that as a sign of encouragement he pinched and rolled her nipple again, harder this time.

  “No more Kneus.” She pleaded, “I can’t take anymore.” He was pulling out and driving into her with savage force.

  “...not so hard please.” He heard Gwen whisper. Her fingers were suddenly on his wrists. “Kneus!” She tugged at him in vain. “Kneus...” she gasped out again. She was thrashing in bed now.

  Chapter Twenty

  Something woke Gwen just before dawn. Kneus was muttering and thrashing around in his sleep. She quietly rolled over and moved to get out of bed, it was best to let Kneus wake in his own time. Gwen stretched and smiled over the faint soreness she felt. A nice hot shower would ease her aching muscles and get her day started. Just as she was about to put her legs onto the side of the bed she was grabbed from behind and rolled face-down on the mattress. Kneus was sitting on her butt, his knees on either side of her waist. She could feel his arousal along her lower back. She wasn’t alarmed at his sudden interest in sex, she was certainly a willing participant in helping him of out his aroused state.

  “Good morning to you too.” She whispered half-laughingly. Then groaned when his hands came down to her shoulders to rub the muscles. “That does feel good.” When he started to rub harder Gwen stiffened a little. “I was never into deep tissue massage Kneus, not so hard please.” She gasped when instead of easing up as she had expected, his hands moved to the back of her neck and squeezed. His long fingers were under her chin, at her throat and there wasn’t anything she could do. Her hands flew up to his wrists, her fingers digging in helplessly.

  “Kneus!” She tugged at him in vain. “Kneus...” she gasped out again. She was thrashing in bed now. Trying to get him off her backside or break his grip or both. All of a sudden the pressure on her throat stopped and she drew in great lungfuls of air. Scrambling out from under him, and swinging to stand by the bed she glared at Kneus.

  “What the hell! I am not into BDSM!” Rubbing her sore neck and throat she seethed, “If you want to try that kind of thing you are supposed to ask first and make safe words and things like that! Not to mention you are supposed to stop when asked!”

  Gwen waited for Kneus to say something and when he just sat there with a confused look on his face she snapped. “Are you going to say something? An apology would be a good start!”

  “Gwen?” Kneus seemed to come out of it, his dazed eyes locked onto her hands rubbing her neck. “My god Gwen. Did I hurt you?” He sounded and looked horrified.

  His obvious confusion and distress calmed her more than an apology would have. “Kneus do you remember anything that just happened?” She asked.

  “I only recall the last few seconds, you standing by the bed yelling. The last thing I recall was holding you in my arms last night. I was going over the things I would like to do when we woke up. Then I fell asleep.” He jumped out of the bed and grabbing her arms turned her in front of him. “Did I make those marks on your back and neck?”

  Turning to face him again Gwen grabbed his face, inspecting his pupils, which were dilated a bit out of the normal range. “Kneus, you don’t remember grabbing me?”

  Kneus took hold of great fistfuls of his hair, “I made those marks on you? I did that?”

  “You were muttering and thrashing in your sleep. When I went to get out of bed, you grabbed me. Do you remember dreaming or having a nightmare?” Gwen pulled him back to the bed to sit down.

  “I don’t think...” Kneus stopped in mid-sentence. “Wait, I was having another nightmare.”

  “Have you had a nightmare like this before?” Gwen asked. When Kneus hesitated to answer she placed herself in front of him. “You have to be honest with me! If what we have means anything to you, then don’t lie to me!” She couldn’t stop the tears from pooling in her eyes.

  “Don’t cry sweet Gwen, please don’t.” Kneus’ voice crackled with emotion, “Yes. I have had this type of nightmare before.” When she looked at him accusingly he stressed, “I didn’t want to tell you for fear of the look you are giving me right now. That I am some kind of freak that I dream about strangling you.”

  Gwen picked up on the ‘you’ part of his confession and had to ask, “You have nightmares about strangling women in general, or just me?”

  “I only had the sexually charged nightmare one other time. It was the night of the twins’ birth and it was you in the nightmare. When I came into the dome that next morning, you were there and I was acting strange...do you remember?”

  “That was the day you agreed to talk with me about your nightmares. We did the scan and found nothing seriously wrong with you.” Gwen was beginning to see why Kneus had been acting so strange that day.

  “Yes.” Kneus sighed runn
ing his hands through his hair, “I haven’t had the nightmares for a few weeks now. I thought it was because I was getting the appropriate amount of sun and water...not to mention my happiness at being with you.”

  Gwen’s anger melted at his words. Something strange was going on with Kneus, but his feelings were easy to read. He was horrified by what had happened.

  Putting her arms around his waist and pulling him close Gwen tucked her head under his chin and squeezed. “We are going to figure out what is happening to you.” She promised. “I know you are a good person...”

  “How can you say that after what I just did to you?” Kneus tried to pull away, “I am a danger to you. I need to inform the male council. I should be incarcerated for your safety and that of the community.”

  “We don’t know that you are a danger to anyone for certain.” Gwen insisted. “I want to do a sleep study on you.”

  “We already ran tests.” He protested, “They didn’t show anything except that I was dehydrated. I can’t keep pretending that everything is fine, when it’s not.”

  “A sleep study will show what your brain is doing while you sleep. Unless you haven’t been completely honest, the only times you have these feelings of violence is during sleep. I should have thought of it before, but I thought the extra water and sun were helping.”

  Kneus looked skeptical, “I have told you the truth. I have only had the dream about you twice, the others are all the way I described before. Do you really think it will help to study me while sleeping?”

  Gwen cleared her throat and headed for the bathroom intending on getting some water, “It certainly couldn’t hurt.” She smiled weakly at Kneus as he followed her.

  “I will try anything you think will end these nightmares before someone I care about gets injured even worse.” He pulled her close, “I couldn’t bear it if I do something like this again.”

  Gwen looked into his anguished face and vowed she would end the misery he was under or die trying. “Kneus I want you to promise me that you will let this go. Don’t torture yourself with the events of this morning.” She framed his face with her hands, her thumbs brushing along his cheekbones. She held his gaze and hoped that he could see the sincerity in her eyes. “We are going to find out what is wrong, and fix it.”

  Chapter Twenty One

  Kneus was all tucked into the medical unit. Gwen was ready to administer the sleep study to see what his brain looked like while sleeping. She had helped him with the programming of the computer, so the results would hopefully be what she needed. They hadn’t informed his brothers or the female council that he had another nightmare, and attacked her in the process. They were hoping that the results from the scan would shed some light on what was actually going on, before they went to the councils with an update.

  “There all set.” Gwen smiled at him. “I will stay here in this bed with you until you fall asleep. Then I will move to the other medical bed.” Her words hit home, she was afraid of him...even if she didn’t want to admit it. “Don’t look at me like that either!” She hit him playfully on the shoulder, “I am not afraid of you. I am moving to the other bed to ‘monitor’ you! It is the reason I am here remember...to get your results.”

  Kneus couldn’t help but doubt himself, “What if there isn’t anything medically wrong?” There he had just admitted his worst fear.

  “You mean what if it is psychological? That deep down you enjoy hurting me?” she asked. When he just nodded she replied, “You only had the dream with me in it twice. If hurting me turned you on why haven’t you had the nightmare in all these weeks? It just doesn’t make sense.” Gwen puzzled it around in her mind for a minute and came up with nothing. “We will work things out, one step at a time. We’ll do the sleep study first. If there is nothing wrong and subconsciously you are turned on by pain, then we will find a way to make that work too. If the idea is abhorrent to you and you still feel something is off we will resolve to fix that. I will not give up on you.”

  Kneus knew he could do no less than fight to find a solution with her. If she was willing to stand by him and figure this out, he could give all he had as well.

  “We will figure this out together then.” Kneus pulled Gwen into his arms and waited for sleep to take him. As he lay there with her against his side, the feather light touch of Gwen’s fingers traced circles on his chest, he had to say it. “When I am free of the nightmares, would you consider moving in with me? We don’t have to declare mate status right away by moving to New Haven if you don’t want. I would just like to have you near me, in my dome, or your dome, or our dome.”

  He must have stunned her speechless, when he looked down into her face she was looking at him quizzically. “Are you sure this is something you want?”

  “Yes.” He answered without hesitation, “Yes I am sure. You are perfect, your sense of humor, intelligence, loyalty...everything about you makes me strive to be a better person.”

  Gwen’s eyes misted and she said, happily he hoped, “Then yes. I will move into a dome with you after this is resolved. We can live in Terraneu, New Haven or even McPhersonville. Though I imagine you would like to be close to your brothers in New Haven.”

  Kneus could feel contentment making him drowsy, “Yes, we are family. I would like to be close to the others with my mate, with you Gwen.” He hugged her more fiercely, he would have the happiness his brothers had. He just had to hold on for a little longer.

  Chapter Twenty Two

  Gwen moved quietly around the medical dome. Kneus had fallen asleep and so far the readings were all within normal limits. There was a slight increase in the activity of the hippocampus but that was to be expected. As she watched the rates in various areas of his brain started to spike and ebb. She looked down and saw that he was muttering and thrashing in the bed. Looking back at the scan she was amazed to see how fast every area of Kneus’ brain became active, with elevated readings. She went to hit a button that would sedate him these reading were too dangerous. Just as her fingers were reaching out the scan went silent, and an iron grip wrapped around her wrist.

  “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”

  Gwen bit back a startled scream, “Kneus.” She looked into his eyes and tried to hide her fear. “You should be in bed, the scan hasn’t completed yet.”

  “We are done here.” He looked around the dome, and then his gaze fell back on her. She recoiled at the icy blankness.

  “Please, just get back into bed.” Gwen stalled for time maybe he would wake up like he had before if she talked long enough. “I am trying—"

  “You want me in bed?” He interrupted her and let his gaze rake over her body. “You are not my normal type, but you might do.” With his hand still gripping her wrist he twisted to push her over on the medical bed.

  “No, that isn’t what I meant.” She struggled to get her wrist freed, digging in her heels, twisting and pulling backward as hard as she could. She gasped when he picked her up and dropped her as if she weighed nothing. “Kneus, you need to wake up! You don’t want to do this!” Gwen was starting to panic. If she couldn’t reach him, it was about to get really bad for her.

  “I’m astounded that you think you know what I want.” His cold voice sent chills down her spine. With one last pull, he had her on the edge of the bed.

  Gwen decided that a new tactic was in order. Struggling seemed to amuse him, so she went still. Forcing her body to relax she went as calm as she could make herself, considering she was shaking like a leaf and her heart was trying to pound itself out of her chest. “I trust you Kneus. You would never hurt me on purpose. You care for me, and I care for you. We are in this together.” She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pressed her trembling lips against his.

  “Mmphh.” He had been about to say something, but Gwen was too busy trying to distract him with the kiss to worry about what he would have said. His hands came up to her shoulder and with a hard grip went to pull her back. She clung even tighter trying to reach some p
art of the man she loved. Panic set in again when she felt his hands leave her shoulders and reach for her throat.

  “Kneus, I know you are in there somewhere.” She gasped out as his fingers grabbed for her, “I love you...and I know you love me. You won’t let this happen.” She didn’t try to stop his hands since she knew it was futile.

  Kneus seemed to shudder then the fingers on her neck went slack. “Gwen.” She looked at Kneus, tears spiking her lashes making him appear blurry. “Run!” He was shaking and his face was contorted. “Kniam!”

  Gwen didn’t have to be told twice. She jumped off the medical bed and ran for the medical doors as fast as she could. When she got to the opening she sprinted for New Haven, screaming for Kniam.

  She didn’t have to run very far. The males of Terraneu were very connected. The first male who saw her had Kniam running for Terraneu. When she saw him she collapsed onto the ground, “Kniam.” She gasped out. “Kneus.” Before he could run off blindly she stopped him. “No! Wait.” She caught her breath and quickly composed herself. “Get the others. Knaleg and Knollig! You need to hurry.”

  “They are already on the way.” Kniam put his hands on her bruised shoulders and she flinched at the pain. He saw the look and examined the black and blue marks. “Kneus?” He rasped out the question.

  “Yes.” Gwen hurried to add. “I will tell you the details when everyone gets here.” She looked toward New Haven and wasn’t surprised to see Knaleg and Knollig running toward them. They skidded to a stop, dirt flying up at their feet. Gwen didn’t wait for them to catch their breath she just relayed the events of the night. “I was doing a sleep study on Kneus. He had a nightmare and I was trying to see what his brain waves were like during sleep.” She started to hurry back to the medical dome, the males followed closely. “There were strange readings, and he stopped me when I went to sedate him.” They were almost to the Square of Four and she didn’t know what they would find. The brothers needed to be prepared. What they were facing wasn’t their brother, she just didn’t know what it was.