Chapter 10. Musings
Akane sat on her haunches in the middle of the small office space she had taken for her sleeping chamber. The two desks it held were pushed up against the long wall to make room for the capsule-futon the Prince had given her upon arrival. She didn't like admitting it since it meant giving credit to that lesser bitch he had taken for his main woman, but the capsules were a very ingenious invention. Every morning when they threw one in the corner of their mess hall and a fridge stocked to the hilt with food popped into existence, she was awed. According to the little Princeling there were even capsules that contained whole dwellings. Now The World Trade Organisation might have been technologically advanced, those cunters had never come up with anything quite like that.
Her sleeping chamber was stuffy and still smelled of the mind-blowing coupling of her and her Prince that morning. The window she had thrown open earlier didn't really make the space feel more roomy. She did enjoy the wisps of cool night air flowing in while she hunkered there with her eyes trained on the wall in front of her and her forearms resting on her thighs, her gloved hands dangling in between her legs unoccupied. Anyone walking in on her at that moment might have mistaken her posture for one of easiness, in truth her whole being was bent on a single spot inside the main compound. It was the place where the Prince had been taken for his healing.
It turned out he had to be put into the recuperation tank after all. Akane couldn't say she minded. It gave her at least a little time to come to terms with having to deal with him once he was back on his feet. She didn't think her Prince would be very appreciative of the way she had treated him and she really shouldn't have provoked him like that again, but she hadn't been able to help herself. His dominance had become so fierce that she wanted to draw it out constantly, and even if part of her feared where it might be heading, the other part was finding nothing but pleasure in goading him.
Akane wasn't going to test him further though. It was too dangerous. He had the authority to take away everything from her and he would do it without hesitation if that suited his needs. He had already made it very clear that he didn't approve of her continuing to share her bed with her men. She had ignored that. She had been with both of them. At least until this morning. After he had laid claim to her so thoroughly and she hadn't the time to shower off his scent before the tournament, her men had become too consciously aware of the interest their Prince had taken in her. She hadn't been able to persuade either one of them into having a quicky with her. No, they would not be laying hands on her again.
Akane had done it more out of habit than a genuine desire. And also to further incite her Prince. She had come to find that, able bedmates both her men may be, they could no longer interest her much. Being their Captain made them ever intent on taking orders. They were just too docile. Even Ringo, who at his heart was an alpha like the Prince was, never exercised any control over her. He was too much of a soldier for that. His rank didn't allow him to place himself above her. His power didn't either. He wasn't strong enough to truly subdue her even if he had wanted to. That was why their coupling was usually short, he was always fighting his urge to rule her and of no mind to drag that out longer than necessary.
Akane didn't care that they would not want to couple with her anymore now. She didn't want them anymore either. She wanted to be tamed, overthrown. What she wanted was to be ravished by her Prince and forced into submission by him again.
She remembered the way he had overpowered her that first time. He had simply taken from her what he wanted and he had done it in such a way that she could only yearn for it. Then there was their encounter inside thet gravity tank where he had trashed her in both the literal and the figurative sense before taking her, and somehow made her long for him to do so with every fibre of her. And this morning... The brutal way he had submitted her to his will, those lazy, intoxicating kisses, his deft hands all over her, the insane speed fucking, how he had recaptured her when she tested whether she could break away from him. Desire swept over her in a tidal wave at the recollection.
It was only when she came back to her senses after the coupling that the fear kicked in, the realisation that she had been willing to give away all her power and have him in complete control of her, allowed to do with her whatever he pleased and having her begging for it too. That was the real threat, that he made her not give a fuck about any of this. That was also why she should stop provoking him. Elsewise she might very soon find herself in that position permanently. And why would she want that? Even if he was giving her pleasure beyond her wildest dreams? She had just regained her freedom. She wasn't about to give it up again, and certainly not for her base carnal drives.
If she hadn't questioned his authority to begin with, this might not have happened at all. But she had to. She had to draw him out like she had that morning in the mess hall. She needed to know whether he was worthy of being her Prince, needed to find out if his life away from Vegetasei had changed him too much. She had been aware of him standing outside the room where he could overhear everything she said. Of course she had. His innate stealth might be remarkable, Turles and Ringo's obliviousness to his presense had been proof enough of that, the day had yet to come where anyone, even the Prince of Saiyajins, succeeded in passing under her radar. The knowing sense in her was her foremost ability and it had taken years of gruelling training to master it.
So, more on a whim she had decided to test him and he hadn't failed to rise to the bait, nor to clear up any misconceptions she might have had about him. What she had not taken into account was the posibility that he would also start persueing her sexually. She surely shouldn't have given rise to that. But that powerful body looming over her so close in that chair, those impossible dark eyes swallowing her and all that aggression aimed at her, it had been too enticing to pass up. She simply had to find out if he was as awesome as all of that implied. And he hadn't failed to rise to that either, although his eagerness suggested he had been of a mind to go there anyway, as had the lust she sensed in him. It didn't take much persuasion from her part in any case.
However it had been, it hadn't been a very smart move. It might very well have set something in motion that was beyond her manipulations. If she dared being honest with herself, it kind of already had. Her designs had turned against her and were now manipulating her instead, impelling her to provoke and taunt him to get him to the point where coupling with her for the fun of it wasn't enough for him anymore. He now wanted to own her.
This had gone far beyond him establishing his superiority over her as her Prince and leader. That was what she had originally been after that first time. Before she seduced him. He was meant to assert his power over her. The Saiyajin hierarchical structures demanded it of him. His title might have been his birth right, only his superiority would help him keep it. Even if he had spent most his life away from Vegetasei, this was so ingrained in him that it would probably never leave him. That was what made Kakarot his adversary. Kakarot was a threat to his very legacy. Akane didn't expect the Earth-grown Saiyajin to ever want to try and overthrow their Prince, but he could, and that alone made him Vegeta's enemy.
And why had she chosen to use that against him? Imply that she had an interest in Kakarot when in reality she hadn't given him a second thought. Kakarot was too childlike for her tastes and his looks weren't anything special either: him and Turles were as similar as the two red suns on Vegetasei had been but for the skin tone and the fierce expression on Turles' face. Even so she had suggested she was interested in Kakarot and now she would have to deal with the consequences, whatever may come next.