He was kissing her again. Rey's heart pounded, almost beating out of her chest. She felt intoxicated on the air that flowed around him.

She had not expected her first kiss tonight and really had been stunned, but when he pulled away, she had felt bereft. A subconscious voice told her that she wasn't good enough, that she had displeased him. Warned her to try better.

This time she was resolved to do better and mimicked the way he moved his mouth over hers. She wound her arms up around his shoulders. So broad. So strong.

Rey parted her lips a little and the wetness of his tongue slid again hers. A surprised moan that sounded almost scandalous escaped her. A flood of wetness drenched Rey's already ruined breaches, and then it was her turn to pull away as the worst cramp yet rocked her from the inside out.

"Does it hurt? Is this a heat?" The Guard looked down in concern. He eyes were dark, almost black.

"A heat? I'm a beta. I don't have heats." She winced as a minor aftershock hit. "It hurts."

The Guard helped her to a sitting position and joined her. "I hate to break this to you, but you aren't a beta. You see, betas don't have the same pheromones as Alphas and Omegas. I'm an Alpha and I can smell you. It's like nothing else I've ever smelled in my life, and it's driving me crazy."

"I don't understand. Nothing like this has ever happened before. I don't know what's going on."

She looked over to him. The Guard didn't seem so intimidating now. He seemed genuine, concerned, and so very, very close.

But not close enough. In a bold move this time it was Rey's turn to claim his mouth. He eased them both down to a lying position and that inner sense that seemed to have taken over practically sang at how right it felt.

They kissed for minutes, hours, who knew, before a vicious stab threatened to pull her insides out.

"Are you okay?"

Rey wiped little droplets of moisture from the side of her eyes. "It hurts so bad. How can I stop it?"

"There is a way," the Guard blurted before seemingly wishing he had kept those words in. "Forget it. You're not ready. I'm sorry."

"What is it? Please." Another cramp. "Please."

"It involves losing your virginity."

Their eyes met. Rey could see the Guard was hungry but conflicted. He turned his eyes away, then almost made to stand up but Rey grabbed his shirt and pulled him back down.

"Yes." She forced him to return her stare. "Please, make it stop."

He hesitated. She brushed her hand along his jaw line.

"I've never done this either."

"Really?" Rey blurted. "But you look so...I don't know but you look it."

The Guard almost smiled. He had dimples.

An intense moment passed between them, until their mouths met again. This time, the Guard pulled at the hem of Rey's shirt and pulled it over her head. He paused.

"You're a girl."

That felt like a cold bucket of water thrown over her. She was disguised as a boy. He thought...

"Oh. Is—does that change things?" She had disappointed him, her inner voice whispered. She wasn't what he was looking for. He liked boys.

"No. No, actually it makes things a lot more..." He saw the way she was curling in on herself. "I like girls. I just thought with the way you were dressed. You just smelled so good it didn't actually matter if you were a boy or a girl anymore. I want this, okay, if you still do..."

Another cramp. Rey could only nod her head.

He threw her discarded shirt with her hat and coat, then began to trace lines with his fingers, up her rib cage, around her tiny breasts towards her nipples. It felt nice and made Rey shiver.

"Can you take your shirt off too? I want to do the same to you."

He didn't answer with words and just silently went about unfastening his jerkin, which had a number of decorative and complicated fasteners. Underneath he wore a black linen shirt which he pulled off, leaving him in just high waisted black leather pants.

He was the best thing Rey had ever seen. This was a man in his prime. He was wide and muscled, well fed and healthy. And he was looking back at her with equally enamoured eyes.

He pinned her to the ground with another kiss, hands moving over her uncovered skin and Rey allowed herself to do likewise. He was firm and it was an unfamiliar but exciting sensation, to touch another person in this way. Made more exciting by the way he was touching her.

He lowered his head to her chest and began licking and suckling at her nipples. Rey gasped at the warm wetness of his mouth. There seemed to be a direct line of fire from her boobs to her nether regions.

Rey grabbed a handful of his hair. It was soft, so soft. That seemed to do something to him and he scrabbled for the buckle of her breeches. Ungracefully he pulled them down over her thighs, struggled with her boots but somehow managed to untangle her trousers over them.

Rey felt a full body blush as the Guard looked down at her.

"You're so beautiful. I never even imagined how perfect you would be." He ran his fingers from her neck down to her belly button, causing her to catch her breath as he diverted down her thigh, to her knee. His other hand softly caressed her other knee, but before he could part her legs she stopped him with her hand.

"Wait. I'll make a mess." Slick, wasn't that what they called it, was everywhere?

He paused. "I don't care about mess. I just want you. I've waited so long for you."

He had the saddest big brown eyes. How could a man who as glorious as he was even look twice at her, but he was transfixed as if she was the centre of the universe.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Rey. What's yours?"

"Ben."

Rey lifted her hands to his face, kissed him hard, and then focussed on the fastenings to his pants. Again, unnecessarily complicated.

Ben pulled his leather pants down to his knees, and Rey balked at his man part, now it was free. It was pointing right at her. Rey was a country girl, she had seen enough spring mating seasons to know how the mechanics worked, but how was THAT meant to fit inside her.

Ben placed his knees between her thighs. He brushed a strand of hair from her face.

"I'm going to marry you. You're going to be mine and we're going to do this every single night. You're going to have my babies. Loads of them."

Rey breathed hard. "I really hope you do." She didn't say what she really thought, which was yes please, as soon as you can. Take me away from Plutt and all of the shit he puts me through. But if he meant it, if he really did it, she was free.