Not now.
Dawn needed them to be stable around her. He withdrew, dropping a kiss on her nose. “Baby, I’m never repulsed by you. I’m curious about what’s happened in your life.”
“Surely you can’t feel too much of a burn.”
He licked his lips, wondering what to say. “No, Dawn. I can’t stick my finger into steaming coffee without it hurting. Last night, I bit down on your ni**les pretty hard. Did you feel it?” he asked.
“It was nice. My br**sts are sensitive.”
Daniel moved his hands down to cup her br**sts. He saw the outline of the bruises. On her dark skin it was harder to see the bruises, but they were there. He ran a thumb over the tips, and she gasped.
“Sensitive, Sir,” she said.
Nodding, Daniel sat back and stared at her body. He needed to talk with a professional, and the only person he knew was a doctor.
“Go into the sitting room. I’m going to finish cleaning the dishes. I want you to kneel beside the coffee table and present to me.” She got to her feet, and he caught her wrist before she could leave. “This is not a punishment, Dawn.” He pressed her hand to his cock. “I want you. I’m not repulsed by you, but I’m concerned like any other mate would be.”
“There’s nothing to be concerned about, Sir.” She dropped her head showing her submission.
“Let me be the judge of that.” He placed a kiss to her head, inhaling her scent.
Daniel watched her leave, pulling out his cell phone. He left the house, going out the door that led into the garden. Dialing Jake’s number, he waited for his friend to answer his call.
“Hello,” Jake said, groaning.
“It’s nearly eight. Why are you still in bed?”
“Well, my alpha kicked my ass out of the house and I don’t need to worry about getting up early.”
He laughed. “I need you to get the Doc here.”
“What did you do?” Jake asked. All the sounds of sleep disappeared from his voice. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.” He looked through the kitchen. “Dawn’s not okay, and no, I didn’t do anything. I think something happened to her during the transition.”
“What?”
“Dawn can’t feel pain.”
“How is that possible?” Jake asked. “You’ve been spanking her for the last year. Surely you would have seen something by now.”
He heard sounds over the line and imagined his friend moving around. “I missed this. I don’t know how it happened, but I gave her a coffee this morning. It was steaming, Jake, and she drank it down as if it was cold. When I asked her about it she told me she always drank hot liquids.”
“That’s not so strange.”
“She put her finger inside the cup. Her skin burned, and not a sound came from her. She looked like she’d put it in body temperature water. Also, last night, I caused a lot of pain, and she only gasped and cried out. Not once were any of her moans coming from the ability to feel pain. She also doesn’t look shocked by her lack of pain. Dawn is scared of me being repulsed by her.”
“Alpha, this is bad.”
“I know it’s bad, but I need you to get the Doc here and to make sure no one knows the truth.”
Jake was silent.
“What do you want to tell me?” Daniel asked.
“I heard some guys talking at the club last night. They were talking about some kind of dog fight or some shit. There’s a guy who can’t feel pain and is taking on dogs in the ring. I don’t know if it was true or if they were bullshitting. Do you think it can be a wolf with this same problem?”
Daniel cursed. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. I’m not having anyone putting Dawn in danger because she can’t feel. Check out the gossip and get back to me. In the meantime, get the Doc here. I want him to talk to him and see what I can find out.”
“What if she can’t be fixed?” Jake asked.
“I don’t need her to be fixed. I just need to keep her safe.”
Jake hung up letting him know that he wouldn’t talk about Dawn’s problem. Entering the house, Daniel placed the phone back on the kitchen counter. He ran his fingers through his hair trying to focus on Dawn rather than the fear of what her condition could mean. If she was trying to find someone to give her pain then she could have encountered all kinds of sick f**ks. There were men, like him, who liked to cause a little pain, sadists, but they trained hard not to push too hard.
Some men and women, however, didn’t care how much they pushed. They didn’t believe in any boundary and simply pushed.
In her quest to find a sadist had she found this kind of men?
The very thought sickened him. Something had happened to her, but he didn’t know what it was.
He walked toward the sitting room, finding her in the nearest one. She was kneeling on the floor with her dark thighs spread open for him to see the na**d lips of her sex. Her head was bowed in submission. Daniel wanted to touch her body. Her dark skin called to him, leaving him in need to feel her, to taste.
“You please me, pet,” he said, entering the room. He pushed the coffee table out of the way and circled her body. She released a little gasp as he moved the table with ease. Stroking her head, he stared at the curves of her body. She was perfect. He took a seat on the sofa. “Move to face me.”
She shuffled on the floor, her head still bowed, but she settled between his thighs. Her naked, curvy body was on display for him to touch.
She’s not ours yet.
He cupped her chin and forced her to look at him. “You can’t feel pain, Dawn.”
The change inside her was instant. He held her chin even as she made to pull away from him.
“You don’t know that. It will happen soon.”
“Sticking your finger into a steaming cup of liquid tells me all I need to know. You didn’t make a sound. Last night, you didn’t respond to my bites. I turned you on, but I didn’t cause you pain.”
“I like a lot of pain.”
He stared at her, seeing the denial within her depths, and the lies spilling from her mouth.
“I don’t know what you like to feel. If you can’t feel pain then in certain cases, the person starts to feel like they need pain. You’re not craving pain, Dawn. You’re hunting for it because the idea of not feeling it scares you.” She stared at him with tears in her eyes. He released her face and reached down to haul her up into his lap.