:Please,:Mehen panted in our bond.:Someday. Let me fuck you as Leviathan.:
Before I could answer, Rik said,:No, absolutely not. You’re too big. You’ll damage her body. It would not be pleasure for you, my queen.:
:Let me fuck the wyvern then. Or even the cobra queen. The knight did until Xin cut off his head.:
Rik laughed.:Good fucking luck.:
:I can take it.:
I wasn’t sure if he meant he thought he could take on my cobra queen—or take whatever punishment she—I—dished out. I couldn’t remember much when I shifted to my other forms, especially the cobra queen, but snippets of past transformations fluttered through my mind like jagged pieces of paper. Stained in blood and venom. Damaged walls and floors. My beloved Blood tossed about like broken dolls.
I shuddered.:Not tonight. I don’t want to risk opening that door until my reserves are well and truly full.:
:Not tonight.:He agreed as he ceased rolling us in the water—so he could get inside me.:This is for me. Not Leviathan. Though I’d love for you to take a bite out of me and hold it inside you too.:
Normally the idea of chewing off an actual hunk of fleshfrom one of my Blood would’ve repulsed me. Before Vore. Before Leviathan. Now they both held a piece of me inside them. Proudly. A special, secret key, adding more magic to their already magnificent beasts.
I loved to bite. I loved the pressure on my fangs. The taste of skin and blood on my tongue. Muscle and flesh in my mouth. If I could slide a piece of him somewhere inside me, where would I put it?
:Any fucking place you want. Take a bite of me, Shara, my queen. Keep it inside you forever.:
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SHARA
My hunger rose like the towering tsunami the Skolos Triune had generated in the Gulf of Mexico. His request only threw fuel on an already raging inferno. My fangs throbbed with anticipation. But once I bit him, he’d be done, and my desire burned just as hot.
Rik straightened against the wall. For a moment, I thought he would step in. Since those early days when I couldn’t feed myself because I didn’t have fangs, he hated it when I denied myself.
Picking up on my alpha’s attention, Mehen tore open his own arm before my alpha intervened, laying the skin open down his entire forearm. He pressed the gaping wound to my lips, filling my mouth with his blood. Too much for me to swallow quickly enough, so it spilled down my chin and breasts. On his back beneath me, he rolled his hips in a wave. Rocking up into me. Sloshing bloody water everywhere. The tub was big enough we both could almost go under the water.
The way he moved reminded me of a great beast swimming through the water. Leviathan, King of the Depths.
As soon as I thought it, we were back at the bottom of thesea. Only instead of the Skolos Triune table, it was just him and me. No delicate coral and glass bubble. Large shapes loomed around us in the dark water. Sharks? Or had we accidentally popped into Undina’s nest and some of her merpeople were swimming around us?
But no scales flashed in the murk. The shapes didn’t even move, yet silent danger lurked around us. Something didn’t want us here.
I didn’t think we’d traveled into the water, since I could still breathe. More of a vision. A future promise. In a dark place of sea water, where only the King of the Depths dared go. Not even my kraken could follow. I would need Leviathan at my side.
Pleasure poured through me, breaking the vision. Entwined together, feeding on each other. He clutched me against him, his teeth in my throat. I licked the jagged wound in his arm, prodding deeper with my tongue. Giving him pain mixed with pleasure.
:Please,:he roared. Of all my Blood, he could make a plea sound like a demand. His body tightened, every muscle coiled. Desperate.:Take a bite of me!:
I sank my fangs into his forearm—and tore. Deliberately gripping his flesh in my teeth. Pulling a bite out of his arm.
Thrashing against me, he lost his hold on my throat. He screamed with release, his body convulsing beneath me. Head back, eyes closed, I savored the taste of his blood. His skin. I would know the smell of him anywhere. One drop of blood, and I’d know exactly whose it was. Where to find him. How to reach him, no matter where he might be.
I swallowed his flesh. His blood. His cum spurted inside me and I absorbed it too. Feeding on all his essences. Emerald fire surged through our bond, a firestorm of magic cascading like fiery sparks through my system. So much power, spilling over into the rest of my Blood bonds. Filling up my reserves,stacking energy deep in their bodies. Along their spines. Their bones.
Vore, my newest Blood, stood outside in my nest, his head tipped back to the shimmering moon, his arms stretched wide, smiling, welcoming the flow of power into his beast. Such joy on his face. So different compared to how I’d first seen him. Heavily chained. Muzzled. Feared. Trapped to walk as a monster his entire house feared.
He’d eaten a dozen or more thralls just an hour ago, but his stomach wasn’t full or uncomfortable. Not like when Leviathan had helped clean up the dead when we took Skye Tower. All of the bodies Vore had eaten were already broken down and absorbed by his ushi-oni.
His beast was bigger, badder than ever.
I shifted my focus back to my own stomach, searching for the bite I’d just swallowed, but I’d already absorbed Mehen’s flesh too. It’d dissolved into my system. Not digested. I could still taste him. Feel him. Everywhere at once.
Sensing my touch in his bond, Vore reached for me. Even though he was outside the house, I could feel his palms on my cheeks. The firm pressure of his fingers against my skin.:I wish for my queen to take a bite of me as well. Please.:
