Chapter 8
The blazing heat of his kiss incinerated every other thought I had.
My heart pounded as I kissed him back.
His snakes were everywhere, twining around my waist, wrapping around my thighs, coiling around my breasts, burying their fangs in me over and over again, sending heat surging through me. “Wh-what are they doing?”
They’d nipped me before, but it had never felt like this.
Like molten lava was flowing through my veins.
“Loving you,” Vorzak growled as he swept me up and tossed me onto the bed. He peeled his shirt off, making my breath catch as he revealed so much gorgeous skin covered in stunning tattoos.
Before I could admire them fully, he came down on top of me, pressing me into the mattress in the most delicious of ways.
His snakes immediately began exploring again, one diving beneath my blouse to coil around my breasts, while two more twined around my thighs, pulling them further apart, so that Vorzak could settle there deeper, pressing himself where I desperately needed him to be.
I clutched his shoulders as he dipped his head and kissed me voraciously.
His snakes began biting me again, heat bursting through me with every nip.
I hissed at the repeated stings, then groaned as they morphed into a delicious pleasure.
“Vorzak,” I moaned, writhing beneath him, clutching his shoulders, desperate for something, anything, just more.
My clothes, the only things keeping me from being skin-to-skin with Vorzak, disintegrated all at once, and then his chest was pressed to mine, his rougher skin causing my nipples to bead and me to cry out.
Then, an instant later, his pants disintegrated as well and suddenly, he was right there.
“Vorzak!” I gasped.
He groaned as he lifted away from me, settling back on his haunches.
He was so big, the rigid length of his cock still pressed against the core of me, making me ache.
“Fuck, Hissies.”
“What? What happened?” I grit my teeth against the ravenous hunger.
“They used their venom to destroy our clothes.”
I chuckled. “Good job, Hissies.” The last word came out sounding very much like a hiss as one of his snakes slithered into the space Vorzak had created between us and nuzzled my clit, then struck.
My cry of pain morphed into an unending wail of pleasure as I shuddered my way through the longest, most intense orgasm of my life.
My pussy clenched again and again around nothing, achingly empty.
“Vorzak, please,” I wailed.
“Hissies,” he groaned. “This isn’t right.”
“What do you mean it isn’t right?” I snarled, furious that he might still be denying me.
“Taken,” he gasped. “Shadow Realm. Vulnerable.”
I let out a noise of pure frustration. “I’m not vulnerable. I know what I want and I’ve always wanted you, Vorzak.” I lifted onto my elbows to glare at him as I emphasized, “It’s always been you.”
His pupils constricted like that of his snakes’ and he let out a snarl as he clearly grappled with his control. “Are you sure?”
“Yes! Please, Vorzak!"
As if that was all he needed to hear, his control broke. He grabbed my thighs and pulled me closer, slowly impaling me.
My eyes widened as his impossibly wide cock stretched me to the point of pain and beyond, before somehow morphing into an endless, shuddering pleasure.
I writhed and whimpered as the ridges and bumps that covered his cock dragged against my walls, forging deeper and deeper still.
“Vorzak!” I wailed as somehow, just the slow, inexorable slide of his cock made everything in me clench hard, then break and break and break in my second climax of the night.
It went on and on and on, with my core rippling around his cock, squeezing it tight, then releasing it over and over and over again. By the time the ripples ceased, I’d collapsed back onto the bed, exhausted and gasping for breath.
As aftershocks rippled through me, all I could think was that he’d utterly destroyed me.
“Again,” Vorzak gritted, then pressed forward once more.
Again? Dear goddess.
My breath caught as I realized he’d stopped all movement when I’d begun to climax, which meant he wasn’t fully inside me yet.
I felt overly stuffed and yet, somehow he kept tunneling forward, creating more space inside me, more space than I’d ever believed possible.
My ears were ringing by the time he finally bottomed out.
It took me several long moments before I became aware that his snakes had retracted while he’d been forging his place inside me.
They were now hovering around his head like a cloud, all of them staring at me, all of them waiting.
The moment I saw them, truly saw them, and made eye contact, they swarmed.
Two swallowed my nipples, fangs embedded right above them.
A third swallowed my clit, fangs embedded to either side of it.
The other two launched at my neck and every erogenous zone in my body went supernova.
I began climaxing again, my pussy clenching around Vorzak’s cock again and again and again.
Just as the shudders of ecstasy began to fade, Vorzak pulled back, then surged forward again, the ridges of his cock raking across my walls.
At the same time, his five snakes detached, then clamped down again, their fangs sending another wave of heat through my body and making me see stars as ecstasy pounded through me again.
I lost track of how many orgasms I had, of how many times Vorzak’s snakes bit me, and of how many times he sent me spiraling from just the feel of his cock moving inside me.
The night passed in a blur of hedonistic pleasure until sometime in the early hours before dawn, Vorzak finally emptied himself inside me with a deafening roar.
I barely registered the sting of his snakes striking again, for my attention was caught by the much greater stabbing pain, followed by searing waves of heat, that came from Vorzak sinking his fangs deep into the swell of my breast, finally claiming me as his own.
* * *
Though we eventually fell asleep in each other’s arms, exhaustion winning out, my sleep was restless, filled with hazy dreams of people being thrown into endless shadows.
Shadows whose whispers echoed through my dreams.
He cannot be defeated.
He’s coming. You must fight.
He will always win.
He’s coming. You must fight.
You will always fail.
He’s coming. You must fight.
You’ve already lost.
It’s time to fight.
Yield to him.
Fight!
I woke with a start, heart pounding, then subsiding as I realized for once, I wasn’t waking alone.
Vorzak still had me wrapped in his arms, and his snakes, though their eyes were closed, were gently petting me as if they’d felt my agitation even in their sleep.
A glance at the bedside clock told me we’d only been asleep a couple hours.
Vorzak stirred behind me. “Mate,” he rumbled, then rolled me over and kissed me.
Heat barreled through me and the shadowy dreams faded as I sank into the bliss of being with my mate once more.
Sweet.
Mate.
Love.
Kisses.
More.
I pulled back from the scorching heat of Vorzak’s kisses to murmur against his lips, “What did you say?”
He shook his head and captured my lips again with his.
Sexy.
Mate.
Give.
Love.
Kisses.
I pulled away from Vorzak again. “No, seriously. What are you telling me?”
He shook his head. “I didn’t say anything, mate. I was too busy kissing you.”
I saw no twinkle in his eyes, no indication that he was teasing me, so I pulled him back down for another kiss. This time I kept my eyes open.
Pretty. One of The Hissies darted to the right of us, hovering at my right temple.
Mate. Another Hissy at my left temple.
Loves. A Hissy came over my shoulder to nudge my chin on the right.
Hissies. Another did the same to my chin on the left.
Kissies. The final Hissy slid over the top of Vorzak’s head to drop down between us, where he hovered right in front of our eyes.
I burst into laughter.
Vorzak’s eyes flew open, offense written all over him.
“Your snakes are hilarious,” I told him.
Hissies.
Want.
Kissies.
Too.
Please.
Oh, my goddess, they were adorable.
“Well, come here, then,” I told them and as they darted in between Vorzak and me, I dropped a trio of kisses on each adorable head.
Apparently, that wasn’t enough kissies for them, though, because once I’d kissed all five, they just started darting in for another round.
They were about to come in for a third round, but Vorzak’s hand snapped out and he caught the first Hissy in his grasp. “That’s enough kisses for you lot,” he said. “It’s my turn, now.”
With that, he released The Hissy and dragged me close to kiss me ravenously again.
Long, delicious moments swept by as we rolled across the bed, kissing and loving the morning away.
After an intense bout of lovemaking that left me utterly satiated and completely breathless, I gasped, “You didn’t tell me that would happen.”
“What?” Vorzak rasped. “That we’d be practically combustible? I think that’s a given between mates.”
“Not that,” I said impatiently. “That I’d be able to hear The Hissies once we were mated.” I was so thrilled, I couldn’t stop petting them.
Their soft rumbles of contentment that continuously rolled through my mind had me so happy, I could barely contain myself.
Vorzak shot up to a sitting position and stared down at me.
The Hissies earned their name, hissing their displeasure at the way his sudden movement had dislodged them from where they’d been petting me.
“What?” I asked, startled at the incredulous expression on his face.
He just stared at me for a long moment, then exploded, “Why do The Hissies continually talk to the women in my life, but not me?”
“What?” I lunged to my feet, causing another round of hisses as his snakes were dislodged once more. I glared down at him. “What other women are in your life?” Even as I demanded the question, I knew.
The woman I’d seen on the pier. Bracing myself to have my heart broken, yet again, I was startled when Vorzak just grinned at me.
“You think this is funny?” I hissed.
“Of course not, love. I just like that you’re as possessive of me as I am of you.”