Chapter 6
Zerachiel
Travis is awake. He is being told not to resist arrest, but I already knew that this human was below normal on the intelligence scale, as he keeps twisting away, screaming about a winged monster.
I catch the deputies rolling their eyes at one another.
Kate flicks a wary glance at him as they haul Travis away in their cars.
She is near the back of the store, giving her statement.
I am not paying attention to the procedures; my eyes are glued on Travis, ensuring that they take him and that he doesn’t manage to run away.
Finally, after what seems like hours, she is allowed to leave.
I follow right behind her, invisible, as she closes the store as best as she can, considering there is a gaping hole in the glass doors.
Two deputies stay behind to help her tape some cardboard over the hole, and then we are free to make our way back upstairs.
I stay close behind her so that no one will know an invisible winged grigori roams the bookstore with her.
The minute the door shuts behind us, I sweep her into my arms and carry her up the stairs, taking them two at a time.
“Zera!” She squeals.
“No one will see,” I reassure her.
Inside, I lay her on the bed and sit beside her, tucking my wings behind me.
“Can I ask you something?” She blurts, breathless.
“Anything, my Kate.”
She props herself up on her elbow. “Earlier, when you said you would obey.” She hesitates. “I don’t even know how to ask my question.”
Her thoughts are conflicted, energy muddled. She picks at invisible fluff from the comforter. “Do you…” She starts and tries again, “Do you like to obey, or only because you are bound to me from the summoning and you have to?”
Minutes tick by as I think about this. “I like to obey the right person,” I say.
“I don’t want to make you uncomfortable.” She bursts, lying back into the pillows in an exasperated huff.
“I do not understand. Is there something you want to tell me to do?”
“I think so? I don’t know.” She sits up again, and I see a red flush creeping up from her neck. She avoids eye contact with me. “You have been a lot of firsts for me, Zera.” She admits.
This takes me aback. “You are a virgin?”
“No! No…but I don’t have a lot of experience. Not a lot of opportunities around here.” She gestures vaguely to the outside world. “And I’ve been alone for a long time.”
I reach out to caress her face, her skin like that of a warmed peach in the sun under my hand. “I will do anything to please you. You need only ask.”
Her mouth opens as though to protest and then shuts.
She shakes her head. “It’s not that simple.
You tell me you’ve been summoned before, by someone so evil that you chose to float through space for centuries.
She took advantage of the bond. I can’t in my right mind be open with you and explore with that hanging over me. ” She pauses. “Over us.” She adds.
I hook my finger under her chin. “Kate, listen to me. Sivora made me do unspeakable things, yes, but she was evil. That was all she knew, all she desired. Her very soul was contaminated. You are not her. I must obey, yes, but with you, I want to obey. I yearn to obey.” Searching her face, I see her softening at my words, her passionate energy returning.
“What does Kate demand of her grigori?” I tease. “After all, we were so rudely interrupted this afternoon.”
Her hand snakes over my arm, sending electrical shocks over my body. “What is a grigori, anyway?” She whispers.
“It means fallen angel.”
Her hand stops. “You’re an angel?”
Shaking my head, I grab her hand before she can pull away again, shortening the distance between us. I can see every golden fleck in her brown eyes. “I was a Watcher. But no longer.”
Her breath quickens, eyes darting to my mouth. “Because of her. Of what she made you do?”
I nod. “Let us not be distracted by our pasts.”
Time seems to pause, as though we are on the edge of a precipice, ready to leap off together or run away in separate directions.
She makes the first move. “I want to see you fall apart. For me.”
I feel my pulse skitter in my neck. Every depraved need I have had since I landed in Kate’s bedroom comes swimming to the surface. I don’t realize I am holding my breath until she speaks, her voice sounding strong and confident.
“Undress me. Then lie on the bed.”
“Yes, my Kate.”
I take my time removing each article of clothing, admiring the way her dark skin shines in the low lamplight, the crevices of where her thick thighs meet her hips. She watches every move I make, her breath coming fast and shallow as I reveal more and more of her body until finally, she is naked.
I lay down on the bed as commanded, eager to obey her every need.
She kneels next to me, eyes roaming over my body as if she can’t decide what to do first. Then, a decision made, she starts to turn around, lifting her legs to straddle my head while she faces my cock, now rock hard and standing at attention.
“I’ve always wanted to try this.” She whispers shyly. “Don’t come. And don’t move until I say.” She warns.
I cannot concentrate on her words when her swollen pussy hovers over me, teasing me.
“Yes, my Kate.” I breathe. As much as I want to press my mouth to her, I will not move until she tells me.
She adjusts herself over me, the tips of her breasts brushing my lower stomach.
I feel her breath against the tip of my cock, the very outer edges of her lips millimeters from my skin.
My grip on her thighs tightens, but I must obey.
No moving. Her hands are resting on my thighs, her nails grazing them.
My hips lift partially, desperate for her mouth, but she tsk-tsks at me.
I feel her hands cupping my balls, and then the agonizing pace of the tip of her tongue exploring the crown.
Then, she lowers herself to my mouth just as she takes the length of me in hers.
I am ravenous for her, immediately slipping my tongue inside as far as it will go.
She is bucking against me, pushing my head into the pillow in time with her suckling of me.
I grab each round ass cheek, not caring if my claws scratch her.
She is moaning onto my cock, and I am engulfed with her as she gyrates on my face.
Her pace is slowing, and she is pushing against my thighs, her orgasm swift and hard.
She’s using her hand now, pumping in time to her contractions, before collapsing limply.
I still want more, so I lick along her folds, enjoying her taste and her moans as I explore.
I find her clit, swollen, and lightly roll it in the fork of my tongue, flicking it every so often.
She pushes her ass in the air, burying her clit in my mouth.
I feel one of my balls in her mouth, her tongue exploring me.
I am fighting to not come and instead focus on her, switching off between suckling her nub and vibrating my tongue against it until her body goes rigid and another wave crashes over her. She lies against me for a moment before lifting herself up and straddling me.
Her hands are behind my head, and she guides my mouth to her breast, and as I start suckling, I feel myself enter her. We groan together as she bounces lightly on me. Her eyes find me, glassy with pupils dilated.
“Do you want to come?” She is breathless with pleasure.
“Yes,” I grunt. I have her waist in my claws, and I watch as her breasts bounce tantalizingly in front of me.
“Not yet,” she breathes. And then she rolls her hips slowly, causing my crown to scrape exquisitely inside her. A hiss escapes me.
“I will not last if you keep doing that, Kate.” I pant.
Her eyes go wide, so innocent. She widens her knees, sits deeper on me, and rolls her hips again and again. “Do what? What am I doing?”
“You are teasing my cock inside you,” I mutter. Her ass is in my hands, and I try to urge her faster, but she is not to be rushed. She continues to slowly roll her hips, grinding her clit into me, rubbing the sensitive spot of my cock inside her over and over.
“Kate,” I plead. “Please, just a little faster.”
She changes course and starts bouncing on me again, but every so lightly.
“No.” She bends her head back, her long throat exposed to me, hand trailing to her own nipples.
I watch as she takes each nipple between her fingers, rolling them.
Her breath comes out in puffs. Now she leans back, hands braced on my thighs.
Her movements on me are near imperceptible, deliberate.
She snakes her hand behind her, cupping my balls in time with those slight movements.
Her neck, breasts, and stomach are all stretched out in front of me as she leans back.
I can see where we meet, my thick cock buried deep inside her, coated with her.
My pulse quickens, breath hot, and I am getting more and more restless with her tiny bounces on me, her teasing me with her moans.
My tail snakes over her thighs, massaging her nub. She cries out, but does not speed up.
I can take it no longer. I snatch her waist back to me, crushing her breasts into my chest, and lift her until I am nearly pulled all the way out, and then slam myself back in.
“Oh!” Her nails dig into my shoulders as I slam into her again. I flip her down onto the bed, spreading her legs wide, each ankle in my hand, and drive into her mercilessly, balls slapping against her ass. I pull her back up to me, crushing her body against mine, our faces close.
“I need you, Kate.” I blurt.
She stops moving, holding her breath, eyes searching my face. “I need you, too.”
We cling to each other, moving in tandem.
“Come with me.” She breathes, hands in my hair, around my neck, she is urging me faster and faster until we cry out.
Her walls grip my cock as I convulse in her.
I lay us back, arranging her on top of me, still inside her.
I play with her hair, listening as she dozes off.
After a while she wakes, resting her head on my chest.
“You’re still in me.” She giggles.
“Yes. It feels nice, being connected.”
“Is that what we are now? Connected?” She studies me, waiting for my response.
I don’t hesitate. “Yes, we are connected.”
“I never thought that would happen to me.” She says with a small smile.
“Because you hide away with your work, or because the male humans of this town need to learn a lot about human women?”
She slaps my chest playfully. “Hey now!” Then she pauses. “Both, if I’m honest.”
I lay a kiss on her nose, and then smack her ass. “Time for shower fun. I want to bathe you.” I lift her from the bed and bring her to the shower. Kate smirks as I try to maneuver my wings in a position that is not going to flood the bathroom with water completely.
“I don’t think human showers were built for you.” She flashes me the smile I have seen in her photos, one of pure joy and mirth. I tilt my head forward, but the water still struggles to hit anything above my chest.
“This amuses you?”
Looking up at me, there is a twinkle in her eye I have not seen before. “Yes, this is downright entertaining, for me at least!”
Before I can reply, we both hear the sounds of her device ringing in the other room. “Stay with me in the shower,” I beg.
She bites her lip, glancing in the direction of the noises, now getting louder with each passing second, before heaving a sigh and stepping out from the water. “It’s so late, Zera, it might be an emergency. There are only a few people with that number.”
I nod glumly, watching her go, but admiring her before she wraps a fluffy white towel around her body.
“Hello?” I hear her answer the call from the doorway of the bathroom.
I am still attempting to get my head wet when I hear, “Shit! Are you serious?”
“Kate, what is wrong?”
She covers the device with her hand for a moment, “Merna says that Travis escaped from jail. One of her Coven sisters got a vision of him hurting me. She thinks he’s on his way here.”
I am stepping out of the shower to join her when we both jump as the sound of a crash comes from the living room.
“Merna, I think Travis just broke in!” Kate’s voice rises in panic.
I hear Merna’s voice, tinny and shrill through the screen, “I’ll be right there!” Then the line is dead.