Chapter 17 #2
It took me a minute to find my voice. “The, uh, the palm reader worked for me. So I, uh, came in.”
He narrowed his eyes, then broke the intense stare by turning to get a towel. He wiped the back of his neck, making me go weak in the knees as so many parts of him moved and flexed.
I was supposed to be furious with him. In spite of that, my gaze shamelessly raked down his toned body, my succubus side screaming inside of me to claim and feast.
“That doesn’t tell me what you’re doing here,” he said, his orange eyes flashing up to meet mine. “You’ve been missing for weeks. I assumed you used the Fortune Card. Didn’t expect you to be back after you got a taste of Heaven.”
I didn’t answer him for a long time, as I was currently distracted by the sweat carving a line over his abs.
He cleared his throat and I flinched from the trance.
“I, uh. Yeah. Well, I learned some stuff, and it didn’t Awaken me, but I’m back now.”
He gave me a raised brow.
I wanted to slap myself. I sounded like an idiot.
Trying to salvage my dignity, my brilliant mind came up with a solution to even the score. If I couldn’t speak proper English in front of him when he was shirtless, then I just had to lower him to my level of dumb.
I ripped off my blouse, leaving me only in my skirt and bra, and I propped my hands on my hips. “I’m here to train with you, of course.” I grinned as his towel dropped to the floor and his eyes dipped to my cleavage. “What’s the matter, Hunter, never seen breasts before?”
He choked and tried to cover it up as a cough. “You’re impossible,” he grumbled, but grabbed a stick and tossed it at my face. I caught it and stumbled back. “Show me what I’m working with,” he ordered as he pointed at the dummy.
I gave the mauled thing a raised lip. “I don’t know. I kind of feel sorry for that thing.”
He picked up another stick and hefted it in his grip, drawing my eye back to his incredible body. “Then you’ll fight me.” By the small grin that flashed at the edges of his lips, he was glad to have another chance to go at me, this time without any witnesses.
Well, it seemed I wasn’t the only one who was pissed off.
Dante moved so fast that he almost lopped my head off, but I bent backwards as the weapon went flying over my face. Snapping back, I blocked his next blow and the clash ran all the way up to my elbows, making me wince.
Fuck, he wasn’t holding back, was he?
“Are you trying to evaluate me or kill me?” I bit out.
He yanked his weapon back, then went for my legs.
I jumped before stumbling out of his reach.
“You’re a powerful supernatural,” he reasoned.
“Holding back on you would be an insult, and I don’t intend to insult you.
” He moved again, this time faking with his weapon on the side so that he could barrel into me, crashing me against the wall.
I blocked him as much as I could, holding the stick with both hands against his chest. He pressed in and the weapon gave a crack of protest. Even with my supernatural strength, Dante was a force to be reckoned with when he was angry.
He leaned in, his face just inches from mine. “Good. Glad to see a visit to Heaven hasn’t made you lose your edge.”
The urge to command him, trap him and feed off of him nearly overwhelmed me. I wasn’t used to my succubus side being so strong, but Dante was seriously turning me on right now and pissing me off at the same time. Not a good combination.
“Is that why you’re so pissy?” I asked, shoving him off me before my succubus side had a field day. “Are all my Virtues such fucking hypocrites? You left me for a year, Dante. I just leave you for a few hours, and even if it was weeks on your end of things, that’s nothing to be pissed off about.”
He narrowed his eyes. “That’s the second time you’ve called me your Virtue.”
Oops. Right, we were pretending that elephant in the room didn’t exist. Time to call out his bullshit.
“But you knew you were one of my Virtues, right? Kaito told you all about it?” I asked, not able to hide the venom in my voice. The two of them seemed to have so many secrets they kept from me and it was driving me absolutely insane.
“Kaito,” he said the name like it was a piece of shit he wanted to spit from his mouth. He slammed his stick against the floor, making me jolt as it splintered into pieces. He rushed me, ripping my stick out of my hand and pressing me against the wall, his forearm against my throat.
Even with one hand this guy was fucking scary.
“You want to talk about Kaito? Fine. Let’s talk.
He’s been fucking you behind my back, am I right?
Did you know that he told me we’d reveal our Virtue connection with you together?
” He growled, the feral sound settling in my belly.
“So, yeah, Kaito told me I was a Virtue, but he used that knowledge to keep me away from you so he could have you all to himself.”
“Why would you think that?” I asked, trying not to be too distracted by the way his eyes evaluated me like a lion sizing up its prey.
“Hendrik,” he admitted. “He showed me the footage.”
Damn. “Why?” I asked. “I mean, what would Hendrik gain from that?”
If Dante was surprised I knew about the footage, he didn’t react. “He wanted me to hunt you down. You had disappeared and he didn’t know how you’d gotten away, and I wasn’t about to tell him where you went. But when I saw that footage…”
The seething jealousy coming from Dante surprised me and when he leaned in, the pull of our connection combined with my lust-crazed succubus needs pushed me to make a terrible mistake.
I grabbed him and slammed my mouth against his.
He responded with raw force, thrusting his tongue into my mouth as he lessened the pressure against my throat, letting his hand run down to rip off my bra and expose my breasts.
“This is dangerous,” I warned him when I managed to free myself from his ravaging kiss. I felt out of control and about to give in to a darkness that swelled throughout my entire body.
I wanted to devour Dante whole.
A sickly-sweet scent filtered into the air, a telling sign that my succubus side was about to feed.
He growled as he leaned into my throat and bit down on my neck. I arched into him, thumping my head against the wall as he cupped one of my breasts and squeezed hard. His thighs trapped me between him, pressing his erection into my abdomen.
“I’m not afraid of you,” he said, biting again, this time hard enough to make me whimper. “I saw what Kaito did to you.” He yanked up my skirt and shoved his fingers into me, making me gasp. “I saw you unravel for him. Now you’re going to do it for me.”
I knew I should get away from Dante right this second, but when he slammed his fingers into me again, I clenched around him and fell into the temptation that was burning too hot to resist.
“More,” I breathed, looking longingly at the bulge in his pants. My fingers went to his zipper and I pulled down. His pants slipped off his hips, and when his clothes were out of the way my fingers grazed a beautiful cock that I wanted to taste. When I licked my lips, Dante groaned.
I had barely touched him, yet a glimmer of moisture beaded on the tip as the sweetness in the air amplified.
I felt the wave of my succubus powers stoking his pleasure, ripening his lust for me at a level I could take.
Maybe it was because I was only part succubus, but I couldn’t feed quite yet. I needed to push him farther.
A shiver ran up his body and he shoved me to my knees. “Touch yourself while you taste me,” he commanded.
Running my tongue up his shaft, his hips bucked and he slammed his hand against the wall, cursing what I was doing to him. I knew it wasn’t fair, that I was steering this into dangerous territory, but I couldn’t think rationally.
I needed to feed.
When I wrapped my lips around him and sucked, I drew in his lust and my body exploded with red-hot energy as I drank it all in.
My eyes rolled into the back of my head and I grabbed onto his thighs, pushing him closer to the edge. He groaned as he fucked my mouth, trapped in my web and I tasted his delicious strength and life-force that funneled into me, giving me pleasure beyond anything I had ever experienced.
This was what it meant to be a succubus.
I knew there would be consequences, but in the moment I didn’t care. I latched onto him and took my fill, dosing him with so much lust that he would do anything I asked.
Even die for me.
“Stop!”
Pain burst through my scalp as someone yanked me back from Dante by my hair. I blinked through the haze of my magic-induced lust to find Hendrik gripping me hard, wrenching me back so that my throat was exposed.
Dante roared, swinging his arm for the Dark Mage, but Hendrik was too fast. He held out a hand and the shockwave of a spell sent Dante reeling to the end of the room only to collapse in a heap on the floor.
He grabbed at his rib, which by the sound of it had just broken from the impact, and wheezed with rage burning in his orange eyes as he watched us.
Pain spread through my chest at my feed being interrupted halfway. I choked and grabbed at my throat, wheezing as darkness filtered on the edges of my vision.
Hendrik cursed. “Damn it, Dante. What the fuck?”
I groaned as pain ripped into me, shredding every muscle and weakening my bones. I cried out with a scream that echoed against the closed in walls of my prison.
Was I going to die?
My agony had nowhere to go and my Blood Stone betrayed me, soaking it in and filling to the brim with raw heat. The damn thing was supposed to help me, but it couldn’t resist suffering—even my own.
“She’s a succubus,” Dante wheezed. “I…” He trailed off as he shook his head. “Fuck. I was letting her feed on me.”
Hendrik grabbed my face and forced me to look at him.
“Are you a succubus, too, little pet? That would explain so much.” He ran his tongue over my bottom lip, stemming the worst of my pain.
“If you needed to feed, all you had to do was come to me.” He glanced down at the Blood Stone, his expression pleased.
“You’ve even managed to do what my Mages could not.
I’ve never seen the stone look so beautiful. ”
I stared at him, bewildered and half crazed with the need to fuck Dante right this second, but then I saw the desire in Hendrik’s eyes as he flicked his gaze back up to me. My magic redirected to the new source, running over him in merciless ways until his black eyes blew open at the impact.
“Yes,” he whispered as he released me, letting me sink into him. He kissed me, far more gently than I ever would have imagined him capable of. “Your work is done. End your suffering. Feed from me, pet.”
I didn’t have to be told twice.
With a primal growl I ripped off his robe, my fingers transforming into my demonspawn form. I clawed at him, angry to have been hurt, angry at all my Virtues.
It was time they gave back.
Hendrik ignored the long slash I’d made on his chest and grinned at me, only turned on by my violence as he pulled away the tatters of his underclothes.
His cock was already hard and ready for me and he pinned me to the floor, overpowering me and holding my wrists above my head. “No scratching, little pet.”
I growled at him, incapable of speech as raw need overwhelmed me. He knew what I wanted as my chest heaved and he raked his gaze over my body.
“I should have fucked you when I had you like this before,” he mused, then kicked my thighs apart and slid into me, making me arch as lust and magic filled my core.
I wrapped my legs around his hips, willing him to go deeper as he drove into me. I turned my head only to find Dante watching us with a mesmerized look on his face. My magic still plucked at him, but Hendrik provided my feed.
Yet there was something else we’d kindled.
A Virtue connection that begged to be completed, and with Hendrik here, the mate-circle thrummed to life.
I rolled my hips, going with Hendrik’s movements as I let the wave hit me, falling into an abyss of pleasure as Hendrik followed, filling me to the brim with magic, lust, and life.
I’d completed my first feed… and I’d bonded to a new Virtue.