Chapter 51 Savage
Savage
Ispend the entire next day giddy with excitement.
As expected, the queen of my heart is tired after her nighttime hunting, and she sleeps in until midday.
I wake her up with a grin two inches from her face and warm cheese croissants.
She’s starving and wolfs them all down with cute, happy sounds.
Scythe appears with a bottle of water and electrolyte powder, and Lyle rubs Tiger Balm into her newer knee.
Xander even appears with a lavender-scented heat pack.
We are nothing but supportive mates. And if our regina wants to secretly go out in the middle of the night doing unknown things and then lie about it, then I will happily support the entire business. I’ll get her an ABN number and draw a logo.
Aurelia’s Secret Interesting Organisation. A-S-I-O. Completely unique.
During the day, I wonder about ways I can help her.
My regina is very quiet for her part, and I feel like she’s in pain about something and I don’t think it’s her bone powder.
I discreetly sniff her all over to check for physical injuries, but nothing comes up, so I know it’s either a brain-pain, or a pain of the heart.
My vision goes blurry as I realise her little heart might be hurting.
“You can’t kiss hearts, that’s morbid,” I say out loud as we sit in Raquel’s room where the wolf anim still sleeps.
My regina frowns at me. “Spell morbid.”
“Easy one,” I say. “M-O-R-B-I-D.”
“Good boy.”
I grin at her. She’s so good with me, and it’s because she loves me so much.
I feed her again, and when we take the nimpins for health checks with zookeeper Rick, Blair and Blade and I pluck some flowers from the gardens for our reginas.
The cheetah twins pick some for Raquel and Stacey as well to make sure they’re not left out, and I approve. They are good surrogate mates.
But it’s when it starts to get dark that I notice my regina is glancing up at the sky and to the north. She rubs her arms as if she’s warming up her wings and stretches out her pretty neck. There’s lots of thoughts behind those perfect blue eyes, and I want to know all of them.
“Are you staring at me, wolf man?” she says quietly as we eat dinner in the TV room of our floor. My bond-brothers are in the gym, and she’s been playing with her broccoli for the last minute.
“I can’t help it,” I sigh, sitting my chin on my fists. “You’re far too interesting and beautiful and talented.” She presses her lips together, trying not to smile. “I want to know what it’s like to be you.”
My regina rolls her eyes. “Well, it’s shit half the time and great the other half.”
“I have a lot of questions,” I say, getting out my notebook where I’ve been writing things down about my regina.
“Really?” she asks, cutely trying to read my notes upside down.
I hold the book closer to my chest. “Hey, be careful! My new song is in there.”
“What’s it about?”
“It’s a secret until it’s finished.”
She laughs and scoots her chair back, and I see that she’s more than ready for her secret mission. “Okay, well, you be ready with your questions tomorrow, and we’ll go through them.”
“Thanks,” I say. “Are you going on patrol now?”
“Yep.”
Gods, she lies so prettily. I beam at her. “Okay! See you later, regina.”
She leans in to kiss me gently on the mouth, and I inhale her in, barely staying in my seat.
As soon as her long mane of black hair disappears into the stairwell that’ll take her up to the roof, I leap up from my seat. “Xander, it’s go time.”
We meet outside, under the shadow of the animus dorm.
Xander is watching Lia when I arrive, as she does a lap around the school borders before disappearing into the clouds.
There is a silent sound that presses at my skin and brushes at the loose strands of my hair.
Xanders swears under his breath. “She’s used a phoenix sonic boom. ”
I turn to him. “How fast can you fly?”
“Pretty fucking fast when I want to, you know that. But—” I whip something out of my pocket. Something red and lacey with the supreme, godly scent of my regina’s pussy all over it. Xander swears again. “Let’s go.”
He shifts right on the lawn, and I jog towards his face, holding up the thong to his nose.
“Wait,” he says into my head, tossing his head back. “Take my earphones.”
I grin. “Are you sure?”
“Make sure you put them back in when we get there.”
His earphones come flying out towards me, and I catch both tiny black pieces in one hand. Xander’s glowing eyes turn scary black, and he starts vibrating like the world’s biggest phone. “Here!” I cry, waving the thong like a flag of peace.
His big dragon’s head clocks me, going predator-still.
Nostrils flare as he catches the scent before leaning down and snatching them right out of my fingers.
I cuss really loudly before scrambling up his fat leg and up onto his back.
It’s just in time too, because Xander gives an almighty leap and we’re shooting into the sky like a rocket.
I have just enough time to put Xander’s earphones into my own ears before the breath is snatched from my lungs.
Caribbean Blue – Enya
We charge through the air at an insane speed, all the while this strange song plays in my ears.
I wonder why Xander was listening to it before we left, but it might be a stress management thing he learned from one of our classes since twerking therapy isn’t going to work for him.
My skin is plastered to the bones of my face as we ascend into the chilly night, and I’m crouched low on his back from the G-force, but I refuse to close my eyes.
I don’t want to miss any second of this chase.
Once Xander reaches his favourite height, he sweeps his mighty wings forward and then snaps them back. I get to take a deep breath before a speed I’ve never known takes Xander. We rocket through the sky—
I fly off Xander’s back from the sheer speed but grab his tail at the last second.
With both hands, I grip on for my life, my body horizontal as Xander powers through the air on the scent of his regina’s pussy, all the while this lady is singing a soft, happy melody in my ears.
My heart almost pounds out of my chest because I can’t really breathe and the wind is pulling my pants down, but I think the song is making it better.
Now I know how a footy ball feels when it’s kicked in the backside.
Berserker Xander likes Lia’s pussy, and that’s really good information to have. When I get back home, I’m going to tell everybody. Because if he ever gets tired of wearing the earphones, he could probably—
Xander slows down, tossing his head angrily.
I hope he doesn’t try to launch me off his tail because my hands are getting sweaty now.
I can see the shining lights of the city like little jewels on a dress.
Berserker Xander snorts and growls, likely looking for a fight.
Or I wonder if this works like Scythe’s shark mate drive and there’s not much thought happening in there, just instinct.
He’s scenting her out, and that’s great because my nose is not in a position to work right now as I fight for my life on his tail.
He starts to descend and I let out a groan of relief, thankful the earphones managed to stay in my ears under whatever dragon magics Xander put on them.
Landing a grown-ass dragon in the suburbs is going to be an issue, but Xander scopes out a park and thunks down, shaking the metal playground at the centre of it.
I’m jostled about and have to let go of his stupid tail.
Flying through the air and with no Lyle to cushion my fall, I shift into wolf form and land tumbling across the turf.
Xander has shifted into his human form, panties held up to his face as he storms across the park.
I’ve caught up to him on four legs in an instant, feeling in my heart for my regina’s location.
But then the earphones hurt my ears, so I shift again into human form and take them out, jogging naked after the bastard.
It’s a whole lot easier to let Berserker Xander find our regina until we reach a street with lots of houses and people noisily having dinner.
Xander is growling and snarling loudly at them, so I have no choice but to jump piggyback on him and shove his earphones into place.
Once they’re in, his eyes brighten into golden-white, and he shakes himself.
“I almost died,” I say seriously. “But we’re here now, so it’s fine.”
Xander looks around, still fisting the panties that I’m trying to tug out of his grip. “She’s in the bushes over there,” he says. “It smells like serpent territory.”
I sniff the air, and sure enough, a scaly, slithery scent fills my nose.
Xander crouches down, and quiet as a cat, disappears into the bushes.
Quickly, I scamper to follow. We creep up on Aurelia slowly, doing what we do best as predators stalking prey.
Quiet in the night, softly on our feet, hunching my back to keep low.
Xander climbs a strong tree in someone’s front yard, and I jump up after him.
Aurelia crouches between the bushes and the brick fence of a small unit, staring at the house on the opposite side of the road.
Her invisibility shield is off for some reason.
I want to remind her to put it back on, but then I won’t be able to see her.
From our higher position, I can easily see what she’s looking at.
The big townhouse has a dim light on upstairs.
And just a little ways from the window stands a big beast. I scowl as I recognise him and scowl even more as he takes off his shirt in one clean movement.
My eyes flick back onto our side of the road.
Aurelia’s lips are parted as she stares at him.
Back on the other side, Ghoul rubs a hand down his six-pack before reaching down and tugging his pants off.
What the hell is this!
Xander covers my eyes.
“I want to see!” I whisper-yell.
“Pervert!” he whispers back. But he lets me go all the same.
Ghoul has turned around and is starkers, ass and all. I sit up straight as I stare at Lia watching this display with her mouth open, a hand reaching up for her throat. Xander is grumbling under his breath, a hand shielding his eyes so he doesn’t give us away with their light.
“Lia is perving on Ghoul,” I exclaim into Xander’s mind. “She didn’t have anyone to teach her not to do that!” Scythe taught me this long ago.
“Ghoul is facilitating it,” Xander replies darkly. “He fucking knows she’s watching.”
I squint back at Ghoul, but he’s turned around again, a hand rubbing low down the ripples of his hard stomach. He reaches for his cock, stroking the length of it slowly. “Is it warm tonight?” I say, reaching for my forehead.
“I’m as cold as a corpse,” Xander says with disgust. “I don’t want to look. What’s he doing?”
“He’s jerking off.”
“By the Gods.”
Lia is covering her mouth, and I can’t see where her right hand is. Ghoul now has a hand braced high on the window, showing off his biceps and he’s leaning over, pumping his cock faster and faster.
“I thought this would be something interesting,” Xander says, disappointed. “If I wanted a striptease, I wouldn’t be coming to serpent territory for it.”
“Yes, but Lia wants one. Why has she never asked me— Wait!”
“What is it?” I squint at Ghoul carefully. The basilisk lord is stroking his snake strongly now, gaining speed, his abs tensing. “What?” Xander presses me.
“I actually think his dick might be bigger than yours.”
“Impossible,” Xander says. He risks a glance, narrowing his eyes so the lights are thin crescent moons. We both watch Ghoul, pumping his cock faster and faster until he goes rigid for a moment and—
“Did he just—” Xander chokes.
“He came all over the glass, yeah,” I say, impressed.
A quick glance back at Lia tells me her hands are between her legs.
My mouth drops open into a big O as I salivate and my own cock stiffens.
I want to help her, but then the game would be up.
“Well, at least Lia’s having a good time.
” I tell him reasonably. “That’s the most important thing. ”