Author's Note: This chapter is a bit short, but I needed to just get it done and out and off my back. Hopefully I will have chapter 11 done next week, and we'll find out what happened to Cindy, Frederick, Thomas, and Turogg.
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Susannah shuddered as she felt Declan's cock throb inside her, spewing his load deep into her body. The brutish thug continued to thrust for a few moments longer, roughly slamming his hips into hers as he sought to drive himself as far as he could go. Finally he stopped, and pulled his cock from between her thighs, a string of cum momentarily connecting them still before it snapped and splattered down on her sweaty flesh.
"Great as always Duchess. And don't be trying to tell me you didn't like it, I felt you shudder beneath me like a wild mare. Ya just needed a bit of taming is all." Declan chuckled darkly. "I bet you're right thankful that I opened up them legs to the rest of us; now you get all the cock you need isn't that right?"
Declan laughed again and left the tent, not even bothering to wait for an answer. Susannah watched him go, and then slumped onto her sleeping mat. Her thighs ached, and as she reached down to rub them she winced in pain. Servicing all the men in the camp was wreaking havoc on her body, and being pregnant besides was making it even worse.
Hopefully Tristan will be back soon, she thought. He had ridden out the day prior to search for the Queen's army. Word had reached them that she had won a great victory at the Lyskean Pass. Their band had been ambushing and raiding the retreating Hestens for days and the arrival of the royal forces were expected imminently.
Susannah couldn't wait to see her friend again. All the misery of the past few months, along with the many humiliations and degradations she endured would melt away when she rejoined Jeanette. I shouldn't have hid the truth about Bodak and Braden from her, she reflected. She could have put things to right much sooner, and then maybe we wouldn't have ended up here.
With a sigh she wiped away the semen dripping down her thighs. The remaining men in camp would want breakfast soon, and it was better to have it cooked before they asked for it. The last thing she needed was them all gathered around her while she tried to cook. A shudder ran down her spine as she remembered the last time that happened.
The crisp morning air stung her flushed face as she left the crude tent that had been erected for her. Crowns of gold and brown rested atop the trees of the forest. Autumn had come, and Jeanette would have to move quickly if she hoped to end the war before winter. The smell of pine burning over the fire made her think of the estate in Shropfordshire, and a mix of regret, fear, and homesickness beset her.
With a groan, Susannah knelt by the fire, one hand holding the small of her back while the other rested on her knee. Even bending over had become a chore as her belly swelled larger and larger. Before she could begin to cook, a cry of alarm rang out from one of the sentries surrounding the camp. They're here! Susannah pushed off the ground, heart soaring as she looked through the trees to try and see where they were coming from.
A large, hulking figure materialized from the early morning fog. A massive orc riding atop an even larger horse rode into camp. "Greetings." The orc's words were low and clipped. "I am Rothok. I have received the message to meet here. Are we not welcome?"
We, she wondered? At first she thought he misspoke, but then more shapes rode in through the fog. The orc had brought a warband with him, she realized. Did he come from the Queen? No, she thought as her heart sank, if he had he wouldn't have ridden in with Tristan.
"Aye, yer welcome enough. We're all in this one together, Rothok. I'm Declan, our chief Tristan ain't here right now. He rode off to find the main army that's marching up north from Zentara."
"Then Turogg has made it through the Pass? Finally we shall see real battle and send the northern humans fleeing." Rothok flashed his teeth and grinned nastily at the thought.
"Ain't heard nothing about the king. It's the Queen who's leading the army, from what we've heard." Declan spit onto the ground, though whether it was out of derision for Jeanette, or just his own disgusting habit, Susannah wasn't sure.
Rothok growled lowly at that. "The Queen? Women cannot lead orcs into war. She will get us all killed."
"Her Highness already defeated the Hestens at the Pass and sent them retreating to the north. Next time will see an end to them for good, I'm sure!" Susannah immediately regretted speaking out of turn when Rothok looked to her, seemingly noticing her for the first time. His eyes lit up with a predatory gleam as they swept over her body.
"What is this? Your chief keeps a camp whore? He must be a very great chief to have such a thing." Rothok leered at her, and in just a few short steps he was looming over her. "With strong seed to plant a child in your stomach."
"I carry the child of your Duke, the King's own brother, Bodak!"
Rothok's eyes widened in surprise, and he shot Declan a sharp look. "Is that true?"
"Aye, she's the Duchess alright. Course that don't stop her from spreading her legs for us, does it?" Declan laughed, and soon the other men joined in as she flushed with shame.
Susannah didn't like the crafty, speculative look in Rothok's eyes when he surveyed her again. "That's correct. I am the Duchess of Braden, your liege lord." She tried to stand tall and project more confidence than she felt, but she didn't think she was altogether successful.
The orc burst into laughter. "The chief of this band has thought to claim the mate of Bodak? I think not."
"No one has claimed me, Sir. I am my own woman."
Rothok ignored her. "Only the strongest warriors may claim the mate of the old chief. To claim the chief's mate is the claim the chief's band. I, Rothok, claim you, Susannah. You and Bodak's child shall be mine, as will all the lands and peoples he commanded."
"Hey now, orc, this here is our girl and we ain't sharing with a bunch of you dirty pigs!" As Declan strode up to Rothok the orc suddenly struck out and smashed his face with an iron-like fist, sending the human man falling to the earth.
Rothok's men advanced around the leader of their warband, and for the first time Susannah was acutely aware of how many there were; or rather, how badly they would be outnumbered by the orcs until Tristan returned with the rest of the men. As the orc advanced upon her, she looked up at him and studied him closely for the first time.
He was handsomer than Bodak, as far as orcs went. His face lacked the long jagged scar that marred her former husband's. He wasn't as large as Bodak, but he was still much larger than Tristan, and he positively towered over her, adding weight to the possessive stare that bored down into her.
"You cannot claim me! I am the mother of the next Duke of Braden. I am not, will not, be yours or anyone else's. I do not care what, what customs you may have followed in the March, but that is not how it works here."
"That may be how it works in the soft lands, but here is where orcs rule, and I say you are mine. Does any man object?" Rothok laughed and looked around for any objectors, which there were none. "Unless you think you can stop me, little one? Will you fight me and take my band?" Rothok laughed again, and reached out to squeeze Susannah's breast through her shirt, groping it roughly as he brought his fingertips down to the nipple.
"A-ah!" Susannah gasped sharply as she felt the sensitive nub being squeezed. As her pregnancy progressed they were getting increasingly sensitive, and now to have them so roughly pinched made it feel like they were being hammered on a blacksmith's anvil. Her knees buckled as the fiery pain shot through her body, until finally her knees buckled and she cried out. "Ah! Please! Stop!"
The pressure suddenly released from her nipples as Rothok moved his hands to her ass to pull her tightly against his rock hard body. "Then it is agreed? You're mine now." Rothok grinned down at Susannah as he kneaded her bottom, stroking the cheeks and pushing them together beneath her leather pants.
Susannah shuddered as she felt the large rough hands cover her ass and grope them eagerly. Her rounded belly brushed against Rothok's cock as she trembled in his grasp, and a moan of despair escaped her lips as she felt it stiffen in his pants. "It isn't like that. The Queen will not allow it. Things are going to change here, the orc laws will no longer-" Susannah's protest was cut off as Rothok yanked her pants down, baring her ass to the other orcs who began to hoot appreciatively.
"The Queen? Hah! She will be too busy sucking Turogg's cock to object!" More laughter erupted from the orcs. "Shall I show you?" Rothok forced Susannah down to her knees, her pants still twisted at her ankles. With his other hand he reached into his britches and pulled out a thick slab of grey orc cock. "After I stuff your gob with this I doubt you'll do much objecting either!"