Right. That still seemed to be a major factor hanging over her head. “I guess I’d better get back. Time’s running out.” And she had a better understanding of what needed to be done. Like it or not.
“Then I shall escort you.” He held out his arm and she accepted.
“Will I survive this?”
His smile dropped and he became serious. “That is something to ask your uncle, Argathos. Though, I’m uncertain he’d tell you.”
The god of visions. Her mother had at least taught her about the gods when she was little. Zarek was the king and most powerful, but Sabin would lay money that Hades could give his eldest brother a good ass kicking.
“How are you and Zarek getting along these days?” Zarek had been the one to condemn Hades to Hell so there had to be some brotherly discontent.
Hades scoffed. “Better than we used to, but that’s only because I’ve had centuries to vent my anger.”
“Do you think he would betray his people?”
Hades studied her as if searching for the reason behind her questions. To her relief, he didn’t press for answers. “No. Zarek has a reason for everything he does, and while it may be hard to see said reason, it’s for the betterment of his people. There is no reason for him to betray anyone when he can make whatever he wants his will.”
“I see. Shall we go then?”
“As you wish.”
Lucan felt only somewhat better after his walk with the wolf. It wasn’t as if the beast could give him the answers he searched for. Only Lucan himself could find them. If he followed his gut, it told him to mate with Sabin and maybe he would have a life like the rest of his brethren. But there was also the nagging voice of Gwen that said Sabin would betray him. How could she love him then do that? He paced the corridor, now back at the compound where he waited for her to return.
“Lucan?”
He turned to Sabin’s sweet voice. “You’re back.”
“Yes.” She moved closer. “We still have the matter of my virginity and a ticking clock.” She looked around. “Has anyone had contact with Lowan again?”
“No, but we have twenty hours left until the deadline. I don’t think anyone expects to hear from him. What did you learn from Hades?”
“Nothing really. We talked and made amends. Can we leave?”
She held back. He was certain she had learned something, yet wasn’t sharing. He tried to remind himself maybe she felt uncomfortable in the compound and would reveal her secrets once they were alone. “Yes, we can go back to my home in New Orleans.” He reached for her hand and led her down the corridor.
Marcus, Sabin and I are leaving. Contact me if you require anything, but make fucking sure it’s urgent.
Yes, sir! The words were laced with his leader’s sarcasm.
“We’re good to go.” As soon as they were outside, he flashed them back to New Orleans. At least this home wasn’t torn up like his cabin. His barriers and demons were still in place, thankfully. Lucan wasn’t even sure what to do next. It seemed wrong to take Sabin’s virginity like this. He took in a breath then forced the words out before he changed his mind.
“Sabin, I’ve decided we should mate.” There, that wasn’t so difficult.
“Are you sure? What changed your mind?” She stepped closer.
“We belong together. Fate has decided as much.”
“Can we do it with the king gone?”
He lifted a shoulder. “He has to come back sometime. We’ve exchanged blood, a bond has already started. The rest is a formality.”
“Take me to bed.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and he swept her off the floor, carrying her to the bedroom.
“I swear to the gods, if we get interrupted again, I’ll kill whoever it is and not give a damn.”
Sabin laughed and he realized he enjoyed making her happy. Was it possible he might someday have a life of peace with a woman who loved him? He laid her on the bed and ran his hands under her shirt, her skin hot on his fingertips. Deliberately, he pushed the shirt upward and began to kiss her flesh. She tasted sweet like ambrosia and he wanted to get drunk on her essence. It would be difficult to take his time.
Chapter Fourteen
Sabin didn’t want to take things slow. Every time they did, everything seemed to go wrong and she would be damned if that would happen again. They needed to at the very least get the first time over with. After that, hopefully there would be time for exploration, because damn she wanted to examine every inch of his body. Would he allow her the pleasure?
“Lucan, I want you naked. I’m fearful we’re going to get interrupted again.” She reached up and ran her thumb across his mouth. “I need to touch you.” She knew it was asking a lot as he preferred his females restrained, but maybe he would give her this one thing.
He moved off the bed and began to strip. She lay there enjoying the view as her sex grew wet with desire for him. Naked, he was a sight to behold. Ropes of heavy muscle and chiseled perfection. His erection jutted toward her begging for her touch, so she reached for him. Wrapped her fingers around his thickness and tightened her grip. He was like steel and velvet in her hand, a drop of pre-come beaded on the head and she rubbed her thumb across it, slicking the tip of his shaft.
“Sabin,” he growled and launched himself at her.
He quickly finished undressing her and had his mouth on her sex before she could take a breath. His tongue slid in and out of her, then up to swirl around her clit. Within seconds she was cresting then tumbling into a blissful release. When the last cascade of pleasure rippled through her, Lucan kissed and licked his way up her body, stopping to pay special attention to each breast.
“Want you so bad,” he whispered.
“Take me.”
He pressed the tip of his erection to her then slid in a fraction.
“I need all of you.” She couldn’t take much more of his teasing.
He entwined his fingers in hers, then pushed her arms over her head as he claimed her mouth. Inch by slow inch he slid into her. Stretching her. Filling her until she had taken all of him. Unlike mortal women, there was no barrier to break and no pain. Only a slight burn that eased back into heated desire.
She moved her hips, desperately wanting him to slide in and out of her. She both needed and wanted to feel possessed by this man. They had only this moment. Only tonight for if she didn’t die, Lucan would likely never forgive her. Not when he had only begun to trust her.
He moved. His pace increased until he was pounding into her. He broke the kiss and sank his fangs into her neck and she shattered once more. The orgasm ripped through her so hard, colored dots formed in front of her. She swore the sensation would never end and that her muscles would never recover. She would forever be nothing more than a lump of trembling flesh. When Lucan stopped drinking and kissed her wound, it was her turn to strike.
She went straight for the spot between his neck and shoulder. His rich, sweet blood filled her mouth and the seduction of it caused another orgasm to take hold. This time they both toppled over the edge together. Their souls connected somewhere in the spiral. A piece of each other tore apart and reconnected. She held a part of his soul and he a piece of hers. When the orgasm finally ebbed, they looked at each other still tangled in their love making.
“I didn’t think that could happen without the ritual,” he said.
“Me neither.” Somehow, they had completed the binding. It was what she had always wanted, but now that it had happened, she was fearful of how much she would break his heart.
“How do you feel?” she asked.
“Great. Different and terrified.”
Lucan would have pulled free of Sabin except he was still aroused and in dire need of her. However, this thing that had happened between them, it had changed him.
“Why are you terrified?” she asked, worry etched on her brow.
“I’m terrified of anything happening to you. I’m afraid of the feelings that are bombarding me. They are nothing like
I’ve experienced before and I expect they will only get more intense if my brethren are any indicator.” While he and the others were linked together, they didn’t allow much of their personal feelings to filter through.
She touched his face, her smile warm. “Everything will be fine.”
He hoped she was right, but why did he feel like disaster was around the next corner?
“We don’t have to get up yet, do we?”
Sabin pulled him from his dark thoughts and he wondered if he still had access to the shadows. He reached for the link he held with the demon he’d left in charge and found they were still connected. Now he wasn’t sure why he was even concerned.
“Of course not. We can stay here for a few more hours.” Soon though, he would have to meet up with his brethren and figure out a plan to get Ariana and Cassie back. For now, however, he would enjoy the female in his bed.
He latched onto a nipple, laving his tongue over the pink bud until it hardened in his mouth, then he scraped a fang over it causing Sabin to arch into him.
“Lucan, take me hard.” The blue in her eyes darkened into raw desire. “Take me how you want me.”
He understood she was giving him free rein to delve into his darker side and he found his cock growing harder. He pulled free of her, missing the feel of her hot, wet sex wrapped around him.
“You will submit to me?” he questioned.
“I will.” She moved to a kneeling position on the bed and held out her arms. An offering of her wrists to him. Flashes of the many ways he could take her reeled through his mind. He decided to keep it on the lighter side. No sense in diving into the hardcore stuff. Besides, for the first time in many decades he felt something light inside of him. His soul wasn’t entirely submersed in darkness.
He summoned a silk sash and began wrapping it around her wrists until it had four good wraps then he tied it. Next, he pushed her to her back then sucked her nipple before he sank a fang through the hard peak. Next he produced a gold bar which he slid through the puncture then capped with a tiny ball on each end. He repeated the process with the other nipple, making sure to never hurt his mate. The sensations he was receiving from her revealed she enjoyed what he was doing.
Next he produced a small chain which he attached to each bar. His mate looked hot lying there, wrists bound and nipples pierced, a chain between them.
He gave a slight tug on the chain to test his work.
Sabin gasped then moaned. “I would have never expected that to feel so good.”
He moved to stand on the floor then lifted her off the bed and planted her on her feet in front of him. “On your knees.”
She knelt. The sight of her mouth only inches from his now throbbing cock made him groan. “Suck me.” He grabbed the chain and pulled just enough to make her lean closer. She opened and sucked the head of his shaft into her wet mouth. The feeling was incredible and the view of his mate bound and working him in and out of her mouth was a dream become reality for him. She gave absolute trust and he would make certain she experienced his gratitude by making sure her orgasm left her wanting only him. Forever.
“Harder. I’m going to come in your mouth and you will swallow every drop.” He gripped her hair with his free hand, while keeping the chain taught.
She sucked harder, adding a swirl of her tongue over the tip of his cock and it made his head spin. The pressure built and there was nothing he could do to stop it. His release hit like a raging bull. Forceful and near blinding as he jetted his seed into her mouth. The release went on longer than any he’d ever had and when it finally ceased, there was a slight grin on Sabin’s mouth as a trickle of his seed leaked from the corner of her lips.
Gods help them both. He was ready to take her again.
“Are you going to punish me now?” She had intentionally disobeyed by allowing his seed to trickle from her lips, wanting to see how far she could push her mate. The combination of pain and pleasure was much more intense than she ever imagined. Not to mention, her lover was in his element when allowed to let his darker side surface. She loved him and it.
“I am. You disobeyed me so now you have to pay.”
She swore he grew harder at his own words. She was wetter at the prospect of what he would do next. He helped her to her feet then scooped her up and tossed her on the bed. She bounced a couple of times from the force.
“Roll to your stomach.”
She did as he bade and pushed her arms overhead.
“Now, on your hands and knees.”
She struggled a little with getting there and must not have been quick enough for his liking because a leather strap came down across her ass. The sting sent liquid fire to her sex and all she could think about was him getting inside her and fucking her hard. Finally, she was on her hands––or rather elbows––and knees, pushing her ass as high as she could. Lucan moved to the side of the bed, reached under her and pulled her chain making her nipples beg for mercy.
Then he struck her ass again and a third time before he rubbed her flaming cheeks with his palm.
She moaned. Her sex so wet and needy she wasn’t sure how much more she could take. Then his hand smacked her, and she moaned louder.
“Lucan, I need you to fuck me.”
“Not yet, my itov. Your punishment is not fulfilled.”
Then she felt him rubbing something slick onto her anal opening, the sensation caused nerve endings to fire and she pressed closer to him. Her body begged for him to slip his finger inside. Instead, he moved away, and she cried out in frustration. However, he returned and touched something hard to her ass.
“It’s an anal plug. Just relax,” he whispered.
She didn’t think relaxing was possible she was wound so tight, but she tried. The plug pressed against her opening then slid inside. She gasped at the erotic sensation.
“You doing okay?”
His concern touched her, but her body begged for release. Again. “Yes.”
He gave the plug a twist.
“Oh god!” Her entire body quivered.
“No coming until I give permission,” he said and then the strangest sensation took hold of her. Power from her mate slid across her body and she knew what he was doing. He had the power to hold back her release no matter how much she tried to let it come to her. She would never orgasm until he allowed it to happen.
Bastard.
He leaned over and kissed her shoulder. “I won’t make you suffer long.” Then he bit her. Taking deep pulls while he twisted the anal plug.
She climbed. Higher and higher then hung there at his mercy. Her body a trembling mess of pent-up need. She swore after she got her release, she would kill him for this.
Fangs retracted, Lucan kissed her wound then licked his way along her spine. Peppered gentle kisses on her still stinging backside before he moved behind her and pushed her knees further apart. Anticipation hung thick in the air as he moved between her parted thighs and rubbed the head of his shaft along her sex. She tried to push into him which only resulted in a slap across the ass.
“Who is in charge of your pleasure?”
“You are,” she whispered, ready to do anything he asked.
“Then you will stay still unless I say otherwise. Understood?”
“Yes.”
She was rewarded with the tip of his cock at her entrance and she tried so hard not to flinch. It was the right thing to do, because he pushed the head inside her. Sabin hadn’t realized the amount of restraint it would take not to impale herself on him. Sweat beaded on her brow as she fought to remain still.
“You’re doing well. Shall I reward you?”
“Please.”
“You are a quick study and for that I’ll give you a little more.” And that was what she got as he pushed a fraction more inside her.
She wanted to scream at him to fuck her, but didn’t dare. He would probably leave the room or worse, masturbate in front of her. To fire her nerves off further, he reached around and rubbed his thumb over
her clit as he inched in further. So very slow until he was fully seated.
Her body shuddered, and she prayed he didn’t take that as disobedience.
“So hot and tight my mate is. You want to be fucked hard, don’t you?”
“Yes,” she pleaded.
The bastard moved at a slow, leisurely pace in and out of her. God, she would really kill him after this. She clenched her jaw, the sensations in the lower half of her body near mind numbing. Her breathing came in rapid gasps as her sex tightened around his thickness. She kept chanting to herself, do not move. Do. Not. Move! It took more willpower than she had and she pulled forward then pressed back against him.
He smacked her ass causing her to cry out not from pain, but pleasure and frustration. He gripped her hips, digging his fingers into her flesh then began to move faster. Until he was pounding into her so hard the only thing keeping her on her knees was his grip.
“This is what you want, isn’t it?”
“Gods, yes!”
She was wildly meeting every thrust as best she could but her release was still in his control and then came the magic words.
“Come for me, itov.”
Her world shattered into fragments of colored lights as her sex tightened and throbbed around him. It was endless as she screamed her pleasure, swearing anyone within a hundred miles would hear. Lucan joined her. His seed and the swelling of his cock sent her into another tailspin of pleasure. Seconds fell into what seemed like minutes before their bodies were spent. He gently removed the anal plug then untied her before he pulled her into his arms and kissed her. When he broke free, she stared into his eyes.
“No matter what happens, remember that I love you.” She touched his cheek. “Promise you will remember that.”
Chapter Fifteen
“I promise I’ll remember.” He wanted to tell her how he felt, but a dark fear held him back. Guilt riddled him. He could not say the words, but once again she amazed him.
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