Chapter 19 #2
I glanced at Cassius and the look of total confusion on his face was enough to let me know he had no fucking idea what was happening either, which I was willing to bet didn’t bode well for us.
We backed up as an unnatural wind twisted around us, the smoke swirling in a thick vortex which had us struggling to remain on our feet and my grip tightening on my dagger.
Just as I became certain that we would be wrenched into the maelstrom and dashed against the rocky walls of the cavern, the wind dropped and the smoke scattered into nothing on the breeze, leaving an utterly breath-taking, beautiful girl standing in its place.
My eyes widened as I stared at her, golden runes glowing all over her skin impossibly brightly, and for a moment I could have sworn I saw wings protruding from her back too.
But as the glow faded and the runes sank into her flesh, the vision of them disappeared, leaving her standing naked before us without so much as a blemish on her bare skin.
The girl was unlike anyone I had ever seen before with long, purple hair which skimmed the backs of her thighs and bright eyes which shone like liquid gold and stood out against her stunning features.
She had skin which shimmered as if it was actually made of metal, and I couldn’t help but drop my gaze to her full breasts and the hard peaks of her nipples as she stood there utterly naked before us.
But as she gasped and her full lips parted, my gaze snapped back to her face.
An iron choker inlaid with a white stone was clasped around her neck, an ethereal glow seeming to resonate from it which drew my attention just as a thin, golden chain ran from the choker and snaked out towards me like it was a living entity of its own.
I jerked backwards but I wasn’t fast enough to avoid it as it snared my right hand and wrapped around my wrist, locking tight and immobilising my arm.
The touch of it was impossibly warm and felt more like liquid than metal and as I looked at it with concern, it seemed to sink beneath my skin until nothing was left of it on show at all, though I had the lingering sensation that it remained.
I looked back up at the girl and her lips parted in wonder as she tilted her head back and stared at everything around her as if she’d never seen any of it before.
She gazed up at the hole in the roof of the cave where the sunlight spilled down upon her like it was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen while I just stared at her, swallowing the lump in my throat as I devoured the sight of her just as keenly.
She was…hell, I had no idea what she was, a goddess perhaps?
Something unlike anything I’d ever even heard tales of, that was for sure.
If she was a deity then she wasn’t one that I could easily place, her features not seeming to fit any of the effigies, paintings or descriptions I’d ever seen in the temples or in the homes of those who still prayed to the long-lost gods.
Not that I had ever been particularly pious or pushed myself to study the old religions.
But I had spent months in my own personal hell with only a book of the gods to look upon, and not one of them seemed to fit the utterly devastating beauty of this creature before me.
“Fuck me,” I breathed, not knowing what the hell else to say.
“Is that a command?” she asked, her golden eyes snapping to me with the power of a thunderstorm writhing within them and holding me captive in her gaze, forcing my breath to seize in my lungs.
“Because it’s pretty vague and I wouldn’t want to get it wrong.
Like do you mean, right this moment? Or at some future moment?
And you said me, but there’s two of you standing there staring at me, so is this a you, me and him type situation?
I don’t think I’ve ever had two men at once before, so it might take me a few minutes to figure out the mechanics of that – especially if we’re talking about me taking you both at once.
Though if oral is acceptable then I guess that’s a little easier to orchestrate.
And I should warn you that while I’m more than willing to do whatever you command, I really am out of practice when it comes to…
well, everything actually. And with a face like yours I’d imagine you could have your pick of girls.
..unless it’s just been so long that I can’t remember what attractive looks like?
Maybe you’re pig-ugly now I come to think of it.
..” She clapped a hand to her mouth. “I’m so sorry, I shouldn’t have pointed out how ugly you are just like that to your face.
I’m sure you already know. I’m so sorry for your.
..face,” her voice dropped to a whisper. “Please don’t put me back in the coin.”
I took a step away, leaving Cassius closer to this thing which writhed with power in case it was about to attack.
I didn’t know if it was a god or a girl or something altogether unknown but whatever the fuck it was, the power it held was making my skin prickle like static was filling the air and my blood was humming in a way that definitely wasn’t natural.
Silence hung heavily as the girl watched me like she was expecting something from me, her unnaturally purple hair spilling over her shoulder to cover one of those perfect breasts and helping me to think a little straighter as I tried to decipher what the fuck she was saying to me.
“On second thoughts,” she went on when my silence stretched, her eyes brightening with whatever idea had just occurred to her.
“Why don’t you just command me to make you not ugly anymore?
I can fix your face, you don’t have to live with that curse.
” She pouted at me with genuine pity in her eyes and I bristled at the insinuation she was making.
Cassius released a breath of laughter and I frowned at this strange creature as her focus remained utterly fixed on me.
“There’s nothing wrong with my face,” I protested, though my voice didn’t come out as sharply as I’d wanted it to because, well, what the fuck was she?
Where the fuck had she come from? And why the hell was she discussing the way my face looked thirty seconds after suggesting me and Cassius both fuck her?
I was dreaming. Had to be, because this shit was too insane for any form of reality I knew.
“Oh, good. Because here I am thinking how pretty the two of you are and wondering when dresses went out of fashion and getting myself totally fixated on how I was going to fix your nose, when it’s really quite difficult for me to remember what a nose should even look like.
I was thinking I could just flip it around so the nostrils pointed up, but then despite how great that would look, you’d be put into quite the situation when it rained. ..I’m assuming rain still falls down?”
“Men don’t tend to wear dresses,” Cassius muttered, hooking onto that one slightly less insane thought that had spilled from her all too enticing lips.
“You’re men?” she gasped, eyeing the two of us like she couldn’t see it and irritation trickled through me. “But why are you so dainty?”
“I’m twice the size of you,” I growled, taking a step forward before realising the insanity of that and halting again.
I may have been bigger physically but I was no fool, and I could feel the power she held crackling through the air.
There was no doubt which of us was stronger if it came down to some kind of altercation.
But that did little to stop the slap of her words from riling me.
Dainty? What the fuck?
“Are you?” She moved closer to me and the grass by her bare feet seemed to pulse beneath her power as she advanced on me, the stalks growing and twisting around her bare toes.
I forced myself to hold my ground as she came to a halt right before me and I looked down at her purple hair which was moving in a breeze I couldn’t feel.
She was barely an inch from me and the space between our bodies burned with some strange energy that she was giving off.
It made my body tense, and my heart was now pounding so fast that it was making my breath catch. Or maybe that was all her.
She was more than a head shorter than me and was all feminine curves and sexuality, like this perfect form of temptation dipped in molten metal and designed to lure me in, but she didn’t seem to be aware of that fact.
Or more likely she was using it to disarm me on purpose and trying to distract me with her body.
I couldn’t deny that it was working if that was her plan.
She tilted her head to look up at me and I was captured by her golden eyes as I fought the urge to step back.
I wasn’t going to show this creature how disconcerting I found her or how alluring either, and I gritted my jaw as I fought to keep my emotions from my face.
I’d been playing that game for long enough to keep it up even in front of a creature as unnerving as this one, covering everything I felt beneath a layer of bullshit so thick that it was utterly impenetrable.
I got the distinct impression that she was trying to read me, but I’d be damned if I’d allow that to work, even if she was a goddess.
She tiptoed up, leaning in close to me and running her nose up the length of my neck, a breath away from touching me as she inhaled deeply, her nipples so damn close to brushing against my bare chest that my body reacted despite myself, my britches growing tighter and my fingers twitching with the desire to reach out and touch her.
“You smell nice,” she whispered in a low, seductive tone as she inched away to look me in the eyes again.
I opened my mouth to respond to that, but no words came out as my gaze fell to her naked body and my cock hardened further. By the fucking Fallen, what was this creature?
“Do you think I should be a man too?” she asked suddenly.