Chapter 15
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
MICHAEL
With title of Supracelestia comes new hungers. The guilt of my past has been lifted by the power that courses through me, and this body…This wonderous body must be fed.
The human I’ve chosen to pleasure me has long, dark hair and large gray eyes. Her body is soft and supple, not as toned as I’d like. Not as athletic, but it will do. Yes, it will do.
She stares up at me in awe and wonder, her mouth parted in ecstasy as I fill her again and again, each thrust deeper, harder, until she’s crying out incoherently.
I cover her face with my palm, focusing on her body, on her breasts as they bounce with every penetration.
“Yes, Michael, yes. I want you.” Her voice is breathless and wanton. “It’s always been you.”
“Yes, Rue, you want this. You’ve always wanted it. I saw how you looked at me. The way you touched me. But you were afraid of him, of what he’d say or do. But he’s gone now. He’s gone, and you can be mine.”
“Yes, I want you. It’s always been you,” she repeats.
Light swells between us, but I pull it back into myself, body shuddering with a release that is all too mortal. A pleasure I’ve missed.
The woman’s thighs quiver with her own release, hot wetness blooming between us as she proves how much she’s enjoyed our interaction.
But she has no idea how close she’s come to being obliterated by my light. Only a bonded female can withstand the light of celestial procreation.
She moans softly. “Did I do good?”
“Yes. Yes, you did.” I slide my hand down her face to her collarbones and then lower, trailing my fingers down her abdomen.
How was this wonder left in the mixer for so long? I’m glad I claimed her before they could mark her as a Potential.
I might make her mine. Now that my connection to Bee is dead, I’m free to form another.
I smooth her hair back from her face. A face, that on prolonged consideration, looks less and less like Rue.
She whimpers softly in protest as I pull out of her.
“Please…more.” She grabs at my wrists.
My aura is strong, my power unmatched, and this female is bedazzled by it even though we are not bonded.
She rolls her hips. “Please.”
I click my fingers, and she falls back onto the bed, asleep. Like this, in this light, at that angle, she does look like Rue. I might keep her. For now. But once the Dominion’s plan is complete and I have the leave to do so, I will find Rue. I will find her, and I will bring her home.
Until then…I run my hand up the woman’s flank, and she shivers beneath my touch. “Yes, until then this will do just fine.”
There’s a knock at the main doors to my quarters. I close the bedchamber and cross the polished wooden floor to answer it.
A sentinel stands outside looking nervous. I remember this look. The awe, the fear. How I’ve missed it. “What?”
“Supracelestia, the scout team has sent a message that they have found a church which was not there previously, and within the church there is a conjunction.”
“What do you mean the church wasn’t there previously?”
“The sentinels who have flown over the area many times have said that it was never visible before.”
A church hidden from celestial eyes until now…It had to be sitting on a crossing, which would explain the conjunction and the ward around it that rendered it invisible to certain eyes… “Go on…”
“There is evidence that humans may have been living there, but they are gone now. We believe that they found the conjunction. We believe it leads to Gehenna.”
“You think the humans went through?”
“If they did, then they will be dead.”
“Then check. Send a party through.” I don’t bother to mask my irritation.
“They are unable to pass. The conjunction is locked to them.”
“Is that all?”
He inclines his head. “They await your instructions.”
I’m tempted to ignore the Dominion’s orders and go after them.
To scout the surrounding area for the humans.
If I thought Rue might be among them, I might, but if there is a conjunction in the church, then my bet is that Rue has gone through it, which means she’s discovered more about Gehenna than she should.
“Tell them to set a watch on the conjunction and to alert me if anyone comes through. I’ll brief the Dominion.”
He inclines his head, backing up a few steps before turning on his heel and hurrying away.
I head back to the bedchamber and don my armor.
I should wake the woman and send her back to the nest with all the other human females yet unclaimed, but I doubt I’ll be with the Dominion for long, and the nights can be lonely.
She’s safer here with me than in the mixer or in the nest. Not all the celestials are as gentle as I am.
I close the door softly and leave her to her slumber. I have business to attend to. Playtime will have to wait.