[Pyla]As I approached Forrest’s house, I slowed down and took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. I didn’t want him to see me looking so wild and scared. I wanted to show him that I was strong, that I could handle myself.The porch light was on and I could see light in the windows. I went to his door and knocked. It only took a few minutes before the door opened. Forrest was standing in the doorway, wearing only a loincloth, and looking surprised to see me. His eyes widened slightly as he took in my disheveled appearance, and I realized how crazy I must look. My heart sank a little, but I pushed the feeling aside. I had come too far to back down now.“Hey,” I said, trying to steady my voice. “Can I come in?”He nodded slowly, stepping back to let me into his house. The warmth of the air hit me as I stepped inside, and I felt myself relax a little. Forrest closed the door behind us, turning to face me.“What’s going on?” he asked. “I fought with my mother and her mate tonight. It was just words with her, but he got physical. He grabbed my wrist and told me I wasn’t allowed to leave,” I replied, wrapping my hand around my aching wrist. Forrest took my hand and looked at it. There was a deep rumble that started in his chest. I looked at my wrist. My mother’s mate had been holding me hard enough that it ripped some scales off of my skin. No wonder it hurt so bad. His skin was much rougher than Forrest’s and he had been holding my wrist very tightly. I was surprised he didn’t rip right through my skin. There were some perks to being half troll, my hide was tougher than a normal lizard person’s. “I’ll kill him,” he growled. “No! Don’t do that,” I said, grabbing his shoulder. “Don’t worry about it. I’m fine.”“If he tries to hurt you again, I’ll tear him apart,” Forrest said, looking at me with a fierce expression.“Please don’t,” I said.He looked at me for a long moment, his expression softening. “If he ever hurts you again, I will kill him,” he said. “I’ll protect you.”“Forrest.... I love that you want to protect me and if you were my true mate, attacking him would be your right. If you’re not, though.... I don’t want you to get in trouble with Queen Maeve over me. For now, can I stay here? I don’t think it would be a good idea to go back after all that. I kicked him to get away and he might be pretty mad about that.” “You can stay for as long as you like. Stay until after my coming of age, if you need to. Even if you’re not my true mate, I want to protect you. I’ll still want to be your friend.” His voice was so earnest and sweet. I felt my heart overflow with love for him. Forrest was a good man and if I couldn’t have him for a mate, I definitely wanted him for a friend. I nodded. “Come eat something then I’ll show you to your room. We can get your things tomorrow. I’ll take my friends along to make sure he doesn’t try to keep them away from us,” Forrest said. He helped me take my layers off and chuckled about the scarves on my tail. I knew how much he loved my tail. Forrest told me a lot how cute it was. We went into the dining room. He grabbed another plate from the kitchen then split his dinner with me. I tried to argue, but he wouldn’t hear it. He insisted on me eating. After dinner, Forrest went to his room and came out with sweatpants on. I was a little relieved, but also sad. He was handsome and the loincloth look was really hot. “I realized halfway through dinner that I was barely dressed. I hope I didn’t make you uncomfortable. That’s what I wear around the house, but I’ll wear sweats instead while you’re here,” Forrest told me. “It’s no problem. If you’re more comfortable that way, then I’m fine with it....” “Oh?” he asked with a smile. “So you want to see me barely dressed? I don’t know… you might get ideas and try to have your wicked way with me. How could I ever fight back against a lizard warrior?” I giggled. Forrest’s sense of humor was infectious. It felt good to laugh after the stressful evening I had. I blushed at his teasing, feeling a warmth spread across my cheeks.“Don’t worry,” I said, trying to sound confident. “I promise not to take advantage of you.”Forrest grinned, his eyes twinkling with mischief. “You promise?”I rolled my eyes, feeling a smile tug at the corners of my lips. “Yes, I promise.”Forrest led me to a spacious bedroom, with a large bed covered in a plush duvet. The walls were painted in a calming shade of blue, and there was a big window that let in the moonlight. It was the same room he put me in when I fell asleep in his living room back in September. “This is your room. I’m on the other side of the house, if you do get any dirty ideas, or if you need me for anything else. I’ll go get you one of my shirts to sleep in. It would be better than sleeping in your clothes,” he offered as I walked into the room. “Oh, I don’t normally sleep in anything. I suppose that will have to change if I’m sharing space with you....” His breath caught in his throat and there was another rumble from him, this one had a different sound to it. I looked over at him and there was a strange heat in his eyes. Then I realized I told him I slept naked and I blushed, hiding my face in my hands. “That was not my intention. That was a stupid thing to say,” I said, feeling mortified for a moment.“No, no, it’s all right, Pyla,” he said, his voice sounding strange. “I like the idea of you sleeping naked.”“Don’t get the wrong idea. It’s just that it’s uncomfortable to sleep in clothes. It feels... annoying....”“I can imagine,” he rumbled as he came closer.I felt his fingers brush my hands away from my face then he tilted my chin up, catching my lips with his own. My hands landed on his bare chest and I whimpered, not a sound I was used to making, but something about Forrest encouraged all the sounds I never made before. My tail raised as he held me closer. Goddess, his kisses were better than before I left. Was I just imagining it, or was it really feeling right to be in his arms, enjoying his kisses?Forrest walked me backward to the bed, his hands sliding up my arms, stroking over my scales before he reached behind me. The touch of his fingers on my tail made me shiver in delight. His lips were warm, his kiss gentle and delicate.I wanted to press against him, to feel his heat, to feel him against me and in me. I pressed my hips into his and gasped as I felt his ardor rise to meet mine. He pulled me against him, tighter and I whimpered.I loved the feeling of him against me. I wrapped my arms around him, burying my face in his chest. He smelled so good. When his hands slid down my back, over my scales, I shivered. His fingers slid over my tail, down to my hips. My breath caught in my throat as he started to lift my shirt up and over my head. I was not afraid. I wanted this, though a small part of me wondered if I was doing the wrong thing.Forrest felt so good against my bare skin. He was warm and his body was tight, mine felt so small compared to his. His skin felt rough in places where I was smooth and it was such an amazing contrast.He kissed down the side of my neck, to my shoulder, then down to my chest. I held my breath as he leaned over my breasts, his hot breath blowing over my skin. Then his wet tongue licked across one of my nіpples, teasing it to a taut peak. I squirmed as my heart raced.His mouth closed over my hard nіpple and I moaned, as he suckled softly. His fingers slid down my back, over my hip and to my thigh, where they rested. He squeezed my leg and my muscles clenched in response. “W-wait, Forrest. We were waiting for your coming of age, remember?” I panted, secretly hating myself for bringing it up. His mouth came back up to mine and he kissed me fiercely. Then he just looked at me for the longest time, before he spoke. I wrapped my arms around his neck and our bare chests pressed together. There was something strangely erotic about the contact. Bare flesh against bare flesh. “You’re right, Pyla. I let myself get carried away. This is the longest I’ve ever gone without ѕex and it’s fuсking with my mind. The plus side, though, is that we don’t have to have ѕex to feel good. Do you want me to make you feel good, Pyla? Do you want me to make you scream and shake?” he purred. I shivered and moaned at his words. He was going to make me feel good? I was sure he was going to make me feel wonderful. The implications of that statement made my mind whirl. Pleasure. He wanted to make me feel pleasure.“Yes, Forrest, I want you to make me feel good,” I replied. And Goddess, did I mean it.He growled in my ear and I whimpered, anticipating what was to come. I could feel his fingers play with the waistband of my pants, and in one quick motion, they were down. He left my panties on though, as he got up to pull my pants all the way off. Forrest grabbed my legs and rolled me onto my stomach. I gripped the blankets as he pulled my hips up and positioned me on my knees with my tail in the air. I could feel myself getting wet. This was the position most lizard people made love in. I wasn’t built like them, but it was something I had seen a few times in my life. He felt around, probing and prodding with his fingers on one hand while his other hand stroked my tail sensually. When he found my nub, he rubbed his finger around it, making me squeak. He gripped my tail and used it to stop me from moving away from him. Normally, I didn’t like feeling trapped, but there was something right about it with Forrest. I didn’t feel like I was threatened. I felt like I was desired. I moaned when I felt his lips against my ass. He kisses my cheeks, tongue flicking out to taste me. I shivered and gripped the blankets tighter. His hands gripped my hips and I felt his tongue slide over my tail and up to the tip, which he sucked into his mouth and teased at with his tongue. My entire body clenched. No one had ever done that to my tail before. My legs started to quiver at the feeling of his warm, wet tongue teasing the tip of my tail. His hands came to rest on my hips and I felt his bulge pressing against me. The thin material of my panties were the only thing keeping him from being inside me. I could tell because in one of his slides against me, he slipped to the side and I felt his bare cоck against my thigh. He adjusted himself, not stopping with my tail for even a moment. I could barely breathe for the pleasure he was giving to me. Forrest started rubbing his cоck against my clit, mimicking taking me from behind as he sucked and nibbled my tail. I threw back my head in pleasure and cried out. Forrest gripped my tail still harder and thrust against me faster. I didn’t know how much more of this I could take. I was on fire and my entire body was tingling from head to toe. I was so close to сumming that I could feel it in my toes.My legs clenched and I moaned loudly as pleasure crashed through me. I shook and shivered, panting as I came down from my оrgasm. Forrest’s movements slowed. He went from thrusting against my clit, to grinding against my opening. In the heat of the moment, I mimicked his movements. I liked how it felt and I wanted to feel more. Something in me said the next step was to have him in me, to feel the strength of him deep inside me with every stroke. “Goddess, you’re beautiful, Pyla,” Forrest groaned as he ground himself against me. I whimpered, desperate for more.“Please, Forrest, please,” I pled as I tried to move against him.“Yes,” he hissed in my ear, “you want it. I know you do, but I’m going to make you wait, Pyla. When you know for a fact that I’m your true mate, then I’m going to give you everything you thought you wanted and more.”“Oh Goddess, Forrest,” I moaned as I felt his cоck slide along my entrance. I craved him inside me. I needed him to fill me up and make me feel whole.“I know, Pyla,” Forrest groaned as he continued to tease me, “but you’ll have to control yourself for just a little longer.”“Forrest, please,” I whimpered.“You’re not ready for it, Pyla, not yet,” he whispered in my ear as he continued to grind against me.My heart dropped into my stomach. I had been ready for him. This was the worst idea, now that I knew what I was missing. I wanted it. It was so much easier to deny myself before. Forrest stroked my tail a few times, then got off the bed and pulled up his sweatpants. I looked behind me and saw him looking me over. My tail was straight up in the air and my panties were soaked from my оrgasm. I blushed and he groaned. “Don’t tempt me with your cuteness. I’ll go get you a shirt to sleep in. If you’re a good girl, we can do it again tomorrow night,” Forrest said with a wink. With that, he left the room. I sank onto the bed. Dear goddess, he was so good at that. No wonder the other troll women were mad at me. If he was that good just messing around, then how good would he be when he could do everything and not have to stop. I felt my body tense up at the idea of it.“Goddess, please let him be my true mate,” I whispered as I waited for Forrest to return. He wasn’t much longer. I accepted the shirt and pulled it over my bare chest, then slipped my panties off. I needed to wash them if they were going to be worn the next day. Forrest was gone from the room before I did that, so I didn’t have to deal with him being more amorous. I rinsed my panties out in the sink in the bathroom and hung them up. Living with Forrest was going to be an adventure. I hoped my heart could take it.