Chapter 44 #2
More daemons and hunters move in on her. If I am not fast, she is going to kill them all. Lexus might be happy to do so, but I know if she kills a non-supernatural Ari, she won’t recover.
“My lord?” Leah comes up behind me, her voice full of concern. “What do we do?”
“Go back to Illis. Trelor will not need anyone for this.”
She nods but looks a little skeptical.
“It’ll be fine,” I reassure her before shimmering to the side of the river.
A loud gut-wrenching scream echoes in the night. Lexus lifts a daemon into the air, holding him in place with her powers before she spins him around so fast that his body knots in on itself. She is killing them with the glee of a child playing with their toys.
When he goes silent and the spinning stops, his dead body lies limp, hanging in the air like a wet flag in a breeze. Using her powers, Lexus lifts her hands and moves him over to a pile of other dead daemons.
Next, she aims her powers at a human hunter. Knowing this is going to get worse, I take a breath, relax my hold on this reality, and let Trelor shift forward, taking over my body.
Trelor
I lift my head and sniff the air. Fuck, my mate smells so sweet.
No wonder they all found her so quickly.
“Enough!” I boom loudly. Lexus jumps a little, startled. She lifts her head to look at me, her face turning curious as she sees that my daemon body is almost the same as hers; I’m just bigger. Shaking my head slowly from side to side, I command: “Lexus, leave them alone.”
Lexus smirks before giggling. “You gonna stop me?” She dares, her eyes surveying the scene around us. She’s making it known she’s fully aware of her surroundings and the people gathered here, and ready to attack if she needs to.
She may sound brave and act like a fighter, but I sense her nerves.
If she wants to play this game, then I will gladly play with her, but I will win. And she will be screaming my name by the end of this moon. She is mine, and I will fuck that into her until she understands.
I continue to walk closer to her, my tail dragging on the ground behind me, leaving a trail as I go. She narrows her eyes as she turns entirely to me, my gaze drifting over her naked body.
Fuck she is so stunning, her white skin looks luminous in the reflection of the moonlight. My cock hardens. I need this little playing around to go faster; I need to bury myself in her. Now.
I lift my hand, my powers sparking, and glowing white sparks travel between my fingers, getting brighter until a ball of lightning forms in my palm.
With a flick of my wrist, I send a low-power lightning bolt at her; it bobs through the air softly to her, like a beach ball floating on the surface of the ocean on a stormy night.
Lexus smiles a little too sweetly as she holds her hand up and stops it just before it hits her shoulder. Balling her hand into a fist, she sends the bolt back toward me.
Lexus-Rose wants to be naughty,
Taking a step forward, I smack into some kind of invisible wall. Lifting my hand, I hit the space in front of me and am met with something hard that rattles like glass. My nostrils flare, knowing that I am not going to be able to pass. My mates’ powers are too strong for me to break.
Lifting my eyes, a growl rumbles in my chest. Lexus has now skipped to the other side of the glass, so close that it teases me when I can’t reach out and touch her. She tilts her head to the side, studying me. “What are you?” She asks me, making me frown.
“I like you, daemon,” I inform her.
She blinks a few times, then steps back slowly and whispers. “We are not the same.”
A fireball comes out of nowhere, almost hitting Lexus in the head.
An evil, hot-as-fucking-hell smile creeps over her face before she turns slowly.
She snarls at the group of daemons that have just shimmered in.
At lightning speed, she rushes toward them, slicing through each body like butter on a warm day.
Her gold claws are covered in blood and guts, and my chest heaves with my need to go and help her, to make sure she is safe.
I lift my fist and pound on the invisible wall, but it only makes the ground shake; the glass stays in place.
When Lexus meets my eyes again, she looks at me with a mix of fear and lust in her glowing gaze. She holds a daemon around her neck and squeezes it tightly before shimmering from sight.
“Nice work.” Gaelan scolds sarcastically in my head. I ignore him; the tiny daemon has no idea how to handle a mate.
I turn again and cast my eyes over the mess Lexus left. Dead bodies and blood splashed everywhere. I need to find her before they send another hunting party after her. I don’t want to kill everyone, but I will if I have to.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath; I align my senses and try to reconnect our mating bond.
Even though I have not marked Lexus, I’ve marked Ari, meaning there will be a link of some kind.
My mind rushes through darkness until it sees a tiny gold spark, a light at the end of a never-ending tunnel.
A feeling of warmth washes over me, and my eyes snap open.
“She has gone home.”
“Her safe place,” Gaelan answers.
Power radiates from the small house’s gate as I stride up to it.
There are old wards around this place, and for a second, I wonder if they will let me in.
By the gods, a moment later, the gate swings open, allowing me to walk through.
I can feel the light caress of power over my skin; even though it has opened for me, it is ensuring I am not here to cause harm.
The front door is next; it swings open and hits the wall, almost breaking off its hinges. I step into the dark cottage.
It’s dead silent.
A light in the kitchen ahead flicks on, casting an orange glow in the room. Walking toward it, I pause when a blood-curdling scream comes from the backyard.
“Why did you throw a dagger at me?” Lexus demands; she must have been bringing some of her killings back here.
There are more dead than I first thought.
My little killer is perfect. Deadly.
I want to beat my chest with pride, but Gaelan growls low in my head, reminding me what I am here to do.
Whoever she screams out again, followed by a loud hiss from my mate, that makes my cock harder. Gaelan held me back for much longer than he should have.
He has Ari-Rose; Lexus-Rose is mine.
Hearing another scream echo into the night, followed by the sound of blood hitting the windows, I shimmer into the backyard and stand away from her.
She’s enjoying the pain she inflicts on this daemon, but she jerks her head up as if sensing my presence.
She growls low and dangerously, warning me to stay back.
She has no idea how much this makes me want to fuck her even more.
Female daemons always play hard to get, but Lexus isn’t just a low-level daemon. She is like me, a lady of Hell. So, she will play this game trickier.
I can’t wait to show her who she belongs to.
Her eyes are intense, staring at me like she is ready to rip my head off.
She throws the daemon to the side, and he hits the wall hard and groans out loud in more pain.
I lift my hand and send a bolt of blue electricity at him—bored that he is here, needing him gone so that we can play our games.
His body ignites in blue flames, his screams even louder now as his body burns.
My eyes remain locked on hers, daring my beautiful daemon again. She gives me a devilish smile as she begins to shimmer. I move fast, wrapping around her so our shimmers merge. I fight for control of it; she is strong but new, so it is easy for me to win.
For now.
We need to go somewhere that no other daemons go to; she smells too sweet for them to leave us alone.
I shimmer us to the marshes in the Underworld.
It’s dark, and no one is around for miles.
I’m also hoping that the smell from the plant life here will block out the sweet and delicious scent of my mate.
As soon as our feet hit the wet grass of the marsh, she pushes away from me. She lowers to the ground and rolls into a crouch, low and ready to pounce. Seeing her like this, my cock aches with the need to pound into her.
The moons are both high in the sky. Nights like this are fleeting, lasting only a few seconds before they shift, bringing in a new night.
The silver aurora in the sky is the only light cast across the land.
I watch as it relaxes off the gold marking on Lexus’s body, making it look like they are made of sun rays; her white skin appears to glow, absorbing the energy from the moon somehow.
Fuck, she is stunning.
Lexus is panting, her top lip curls back, and she growls at me. I’ve pissed her off. I do like the chase of mating; I’ve seen lords of the past take part in chases, and it excites me.
Lexus snaps her teeth at me, bringing me out of my thoughts, if my Lexus-Rose wants to fight me. Then she will get her wish.
She'll need taming before she becomes a mate, which is another part of daemon mating that I look forward to. The thought of her writhing under me while I fuck her is enough to bring me to my knees.
“Be easy with her, she is new.” I hear Gaelan warning me about my thoughts. I huff at him and ignore his words; he knows what Ari-Rose needs.
I know what Lexus-Rose needs.
I step forward and puff out my chest. My black markings darken over my body, pulsing with the need to connect. I slowly lower to the ground, facing her, ready to take any fight that she wishes to give me. Her submission is what I crave.
Lexus narrows her eyes at me before she backflips and sends a shot of gold at me. I roll to the side, stopping it from hitting my body. She threw a spell at me. Which one, I have no idea.
“Careful, I would like to live forever, Trelor.” Gaelan’s angry voice pierces my brain.
I chuckle at him. “Tiny daemon, don’t worry.”