Sinner’s End (Forgotten Shadow Lords #1)

Chapter Twenty

Loopholes and Lollipops

Mana

“I can’t leave you alone for ten fucking minutes,” I seethe, storming into Lethe’s room, cell, whatever. “You should have been fucking. Or whipping, or sucking each other’s cocks. Or even fighting. But you had to try to get the fucking soul out and you nearly took the wrong one.” I shake my head, shoving Lethe back.

The destitute angel sprawls on his back, staring up at me. His lips part, but nothing comes out.

I snarl. “Fucking pathetic. And you,” I round on Bowen. “You know better.”

He shrugs. “I was curious.”

“Cat. Killed. Curiosity. Those go together. When I wake her, we are having fun with all those things together,” I warn him, letting my true promise enter my tone.

Kaleb, I ignore in his entirety.

Fucking mortals.

“You can bring her back?” Kaleb rises, gripping my shoulder.

I growl. “I was going to ignore you, my friend . Step away.”

His survival instinct kicks in, and he drops his hand. It’ll do.

I kneel on the hard mattress Lethe requested, straddling Addi, pleased when the bedding doesn’t dip. My eyes closing, I listen to the weeping stones. Some of the oldest souls exist here and that helps me locate hers in the overpopulated map of Harken Asylum.

“Come back with me, Addi.” I find her flitting from place to place, and frown. Usually souls cower in one spot, hiding, but she races on, leading me in a dance not so merry. “Where are you going, little toy?”

“Away,” she whispers back, so close.

I open my eyes to find her sitting up, her lips mere millimetres from mine, her eyes wide open, and completely solid blue.

“Fuck,” I snap, the shock ripping the curse from me.

Kaleb yelps and stumbles back, and Addi giggles. “Mortals, am I right?” She winds her body around mine, like a snake slithering out of her skin, only hers is still on—for now. Her limbs are liquid, and her coils are tight, restricting my air.

I swallow back the revulsion of what the thing I thought had left her could do with that sweet body and beautiful mind, how it could torture her, ruin her. I played with her, teased her, fucked about with her and her sister, and pretended not to care while I fell for the mortal girl who I’d give my immortal existence for … and now I don’t know what’s inside her or how to save her.

Addi winds her body around mine like a snake coiling about its dinner, her hands running across my chest in a frenzy. Her mouth fuses to my skin as she writhes and moans, making cooing, inhuman sounds that rip at my heart.

I want my little hell kitten back. But if I touch her, I’ll kill her. Or worse.

“If any of you fuckers have an idea of what to do without hurting her, I’ll take the advice,” I grind out, stopping shy of begging. Just. “Fucking help her .”

Kaleb looks on helplessly, while Lethe tries to untangle Addi from the legs up, but she doesn’t have control of her body and it doesn’t work. Searing patches where her teeth fray my skin away in spots registers, but my pain was the least of my worries.

“Addi, honey, let Mana go. Let us help you,” Kaleb starts, clasping her face and staring into her sightless eyes.

The solid blue that covers her entire eyes freaks him out as much as it does me.

“I don’t want to stop,” she says sweetly as she turns her face to his, her body tightening around mine. Something cracks, and the searing stops being skin deep and hits bone level.

“Fuck,” I whisper, my body arching in an unnatural angle. “I left the underwo—”

Another crack, and I can’t speak, can’t breathe.

“Addi, let him go,” Kaleb says urgently, joining Lethe in tugging at her body, pulling her this way and that as my vision grays, but neither can dislodge her inhuman strength from my body.

“Move,” Bowen snaps. “Fuck me. Mana, you know better than to get in the way of a hungry succubus.” He yanks out his phone and barks into it, snapping his fingers in front of her face three times, then again.

Addi stops.

Her coils loosen as he snaps his fingers again, getting right in her face. “Feeding time, my little friend. Ready?” He grabs her face, rubbing her nose right in his crotch.

Addi fucking coos right into him, her tongue whipping around him like he’s a banana on ice cream day.

“Mmm, maybe if you’re good we can play with that later, pretty fuck thing. But right now, get the fuck out of our girl and into the line down the hall. They’re all yours. But you stay out of this room, and you follow the line all the way to the door. Once you’re out, you’re out. Don’t come back. Here, or her home. Understand?”

Addi pouts. The blue haze leaves her eyes, and she slumps against me. Something giggling bounds about the roof of the room like an imp and out the door. Bowen whirls and locks it from the inside. Moans fill the corridor outside a second later followed by screams until the two are indistinguishable, a cacophony of terror and pleasure mingling.

Bowen smiles. “And that, ladies, is how you deal with a ravenous succubus.”

I close my eyes and hug Addi to my chest as my bones pop back the way they’re supposed to be. My breath comes easier. “Hells, Fallen. Did you empty my entire club?”

“Probably.” He sounds uncaring. “You might need some extra staff, too, come morning. I wouldn’t open the door until then.” He claps his hands, a sly look on his face as he watches her rub against me with a tinge of residual horniness in her body from the possession. “What shall we do until then?”

Something cracks through the air that sounds like a palm hitting a cheek—face, not ass. Miraculously, it’s not mine.

“Someone can spend that time telling me how the fuck that thing got in my house, and into me.”

I laugh and hold Addi tighter, kissing her temples, the pleasure of knowing she’s all right doubling when she doesn’t fight me. “It’s good to have you back, hell kitten.”

“Ditto that.” Kaleb joins us on the bed, snuggling beside me, and pulls her between us.

I don’t argue, but no one else is getting on. “I don’t know how that thing was in your house but I promise we’ll find out.” I open my eyes and find Addi staring between us. “What?”

“When did you two make up?” She frowns.

Kaleb licks his lips. “You don’t remember a lot of what happened in the last hours, do you?” She shakes her head, and his face falls. “Fuck.”

Mortals.

“Then that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”

Kaleb turns his head to face me. “What? No,” he protests.

It’s the most pathetic protest I’ve ever heard.

I smile and reach out for a hand, uncaring whose I get. Bowen gives me his and I place it on Kaleb’s cock, letting the ex- angel help him get it up.

“Nice and gentle now,” I say softly, seductively, while Addi watches, her lips parting. “Our girl’s been through a lot. Don’t you think she needs contact, filling up? Tongues in her mouth and pussy? Doesn’t she deserve some nice, hard cocks to fill her beautiful holes? And your sort of … love, mortal?”

Her breath hitches as she swings to face Kaleb who blushes to the roots of his hair, a fantastic fucking distraction while my heart denies my own feelings that I don’t want or need for her.

Liar, liar, immortal leather pants on fire.

I lean closer to Kaleb, bringing Addi’s mouth to mine, kissing her close enough that his breath brushes my cheek while another man fondles his cock and balls.

He groans as I help Addi straddle us both, spreading her legs wide and giving us all access to her pussy, and pray I haven’t just screwed up. An idea born of madness seeds deep in my mind, taking root and refusing to release me. This night could be hell … or heaven, for all of us. Flipping her dress up, I run my hands over her panties, finding her wet and ready.

“Is this for us, Adreana?” I ask, a hint of sternness entering my voice.

She drops her head, playing the part she knows I need her to play for him. Such a fucking good girl. I’m not sure if she can hear me, but my drug—my blood—is in her body, and even though everything in that gives me an element of control over her, I don’t think the drug will react with her the way it does with everyone else. Tonight will be different. Besides, I want—I need —her to remember this. Us, together.

“Touch her.” I capture Kaleb’s hand, sliding it between her legs to rub her pussy.

She moans, and it’s not just for show as we discover how to play her together. Addi’s mouth finds his, but she surprises me when she pulls me in for a three-way kiss. Kaleb jerks back, but she’s insistent. Our tongues tangle, moans filling the air. Another hand finds my cock and I don’t know who it belongs to.

I ache with the lack of control over the situation, unsure who is in control or if we’re all just riding the wave of intoxication that’s Addi.

After all the teasing, the playing around, the stress of tonight, I’m ready to fuck her into oblivion.

“Suck me,” I say to the disembodied hand working my cock, knowing I can’t kill either of the angels. My magic bodily fluids don’t work on my opposites that way. There’s a second of hesitation that makes me wonder that it’s not Bowen playing with me, and when a gentle touch frees me from my leather and laces and a long tongue strokes my length, I know Lethe finally joined us. I smile when Addi kisses me again. “And lick her,” I murmur, positioning her in place right over me. The mouth hesitates again and I look over at Kaleb. “Do the honors?”

He grins, trailing a lazy hand down Addi’s back to find her panties, bunching them tight and rips them clean from her body. Her gasp at his violence is worth it before Bowen and Lethe go to town on both of us, their mouths licking and sucking as I kiss the shit out of the girl who’s consumed me for far too long. Passing her back and forth with Kaleb has me ready to blow.

“Don’t stop,” I warn the pair of angels licking my balls as I ready myself at her entrance and push inside her. Kaleb watches for a moment, fisting his length before I twist us to one side. I reach around, pulling him closer, and fit him to the same hole. “Together, hellspawn,” I murmur. “Relax, hell kitten. Let us brand you as ours.”

“Yours,” she moans, tipping her head back and seeking Kaleb’s mouth.

I swipe a drop of my pre-cum along her stomach, and when she doesn’t writhe or scream, or blank, my innards scream my victory.

I know something about our girl that you don’t know.

My head sings the little tune while Kaleb hums his approval, notching his cock next to mine and slamming hilt-deep alongside me.

We don’t take it gentle with her, I’m not sure either of us can by then. We’re drawn on by the frenzy of the night. Tongues lick all three of us as we work together, fucking her with one giant cock as she screams her pleasure to the weeping stones. The angels disgrace themselves, unsated and spent in their pants while they serve magnificently from below.

We paint the walls of Harken with our sin while a succubus rampages the halls and feasts in her honor, massacring everything in its path. Tomorrow will be a hell of a cleanup.

Tonight, I’m fucking a mortal I love with a man I hate and having my balls licked by two fallen angels.

Their penance will be pure pleasure and sufferance, and I’ll enjoy their screams at my hands. As I come inside her, taking both Kaleb and Addi with me, I wonder if she will, too.