“Are you alright, angel?” he whispers in my ear.
I moan in reply and cast out a request to the ether.
And I get a reply.
Chapter 101
Ghoul
If hate were a person, it would be me, as I feel my regina in the hands of her pack, that soul bondpulsingbetween us. But a yearning request petitions me. Even with the attention of the others, she seeks me out, here as I travel towards her in the back of this military vehicle, locked in like a beast, to ‘conserve my energy’, my so-called reptilian guards sitting around me.
I will grant any request of my regina’s I’m capable of, but those opportunities have been so few and far between. I yearn for her gaze. And so I go. I sink into a meditation on the floor of the rumbling truck and leave my body at her request, as I’d done so many months ago for the first time on one fateful night.
Deep in the bowels of Animus Academy, I find them in each other’s arms, writhing around each other, the scent of their arousal saturating the air. My regina is in the centre, vibrating as she holds four hard cocks in her body. She feels me as I come upon them, ominous and dark. The bringer of death, bringer of annihilation. And still, when she casts that gaze on me, her pupils glowing ultraviolet just for a moment, I don’t get the urge to destroy the world quite so badly.
Time itself seems to stop as her eyes bore into mine, the cavern buzzing with their combined powers while I stand alone. Then her eyes start burning and I feel her command on my being, and the urge to obey is suddenly overwhelming. It’s all I’ve ever wanted. To be with her, to beinher in more ways than one.
“Come to me, my basilisk,” she commands me in a low, purring hiss that makes me want to fall to my knees. The others go still.
“You would welcome annihilation, snakelet?” I hiss back as my boots move forward.
Her head tilts downward, predatory and disapproving. “I welcome a mate. You are bound to me. To all of us.”
I don’t look at the others, fully knowing I would kill them for the attention they steal. I end up next to Savage, who growls and snaps at me. So I step around him and over the dragon, one foot on either side of his chest so I’m in front of my regina. I drop to my knees, and even though I feel the dragon’s light-filled eyes burning through my uniform and his growls rumbling through his chest, I take my regina’s face in my hands and kiss her mouth. Her hands are for her shark and wolf, but her eyes and mouth are mine because she doesn’t close those shining jewels as I claim her mouth.
And they widen when I send my power into her, black and almighty. Suddenly, fang scrapes against fang, and I can’t help but smirk over her tongue as she cries out, feeling all five powers at the same time.
She hums with power, breathless and making sounds of utmost pleasure and pressure. I reach for her clit and, finding it wet and swollen, hiss into her mouth. Suddenly, it’s too much, and she screams in orgasm, jerking around the five of us. I chase her mouth, swallowing her screams as Lyle comes into her, followed by Xander, heaving under me, his hips bucking,fingernails scraping at the concrete because he can’t reach her while I’m blocking him.
Savage grunts and I allow her to take his cum into her mouth, my own cock tight and hard in my pants. I stand up then, still over the dragon as Scythe comes next, and as she takes him, I unzip my pants and run my hand over the length of my own shaft, pulsing with arousal and annoyance.
Scythe wipes the side of her mouth, and she finally turns to me. I almost come just by looking at her, lips wet and pink, eyes heavy-lidded as she drags her gaze up my form. She opens that heavenly mouth and drags her pink tongue over my head. My balls draw tight in anticipation and she devours me all too eagerly.
The arm attached to the hand that squeezes the base of my shaft catches my eye. Her own blood, her own venom. The scent is intoxicating and powerful, and I tug at the hand so I can see the mark better. It does something to me to see that vow cut brutally into her. Something I can’t explain. Something that shudders with primal rage and anticipation. My eyes burn as I brush a thumb against the marking, an ancient language that I too studied as she had when she was young. Something we share just between the two of us.
My regina’s mouth sucks at my cock, her eyes burning into mine with feral promise, holding me captive, easing away every awful power within me. It’s not until I feel the scrape of a fang against my shaft that I come, emptying myself into her, cradling her face and pulling up her upper lip to expose the sharp white fang that draws blood and cum from me like she is?—
“I was made for this,”she hisses into my mind. A challenge, a final plea.
And I was made for destruction.
Chapter 102
Aurelia
My skin feels like fire, and my blood like light itself. The tremble across my body is not fear, but power. Ghoul arrived and left like a dream, giving me what I wanted, his eyes red and haunted by the knowledge of what is to come, and a tint of…jealousy. I nap for two hours after receiving all five of my mates. When I wake, Scythe’s lips flutter across my pulse, and I stretch out like a cat.
Xander is dressing off to my left, and so is Lyle. None of us need to say anything. Only a glance from Scythe asks me to get up. “Don’t shower,” Savage says, inspecting his nails from a shadowy corner, where he sits cross-legged observing us all. “It’s best to fight dirty.”
There is something in his eyes I’ve not seen in waking memory for a while. A cruel gleam I’ve seen in memories and that one time when they’d held court in the animus Rec room and he’d gouged out the belly of a beast for disobedience. It’s cold and harsh. He looks away from me and down at the concrete floor, ruminating on something I can’t know.
Lyle must notice my observation, and he brushes my now frizzy hair with his fingers, tying it into a secure bun.“Savagetrained for this, regina. He’ll be in his element. It may be something you’re not used to seeing.”
“I want to know all of him,”I reply.“I’m not scared.”
Lyle turns me to face him, and his face is kind of sad.“I’ve seen all your sides, regina, and I love you for every inch. I will be there when you hold your father accountable for his crimes.”
We leave the cavern and make for the dining hall for something to eat. It’s sadly vacant, the air usually still when it should be buzzing with noise during lunchtime. To my surprise, my counsellor Theresa is on duty, overseeing the empty buffet line as we fill our plates with light foods. Lyle startles when he sees her, and the cassowary anima steps forward with a wry smile.
