Tears of Tungsten: A Reverse Harem Sci Fi Bully Romance (Chimera Academy Book 2)

by Eva Brandt

  Knox didn’t look reassured. “So you think the lessons will fail?”

  “I don’t know what to think. I’m going to do my best. But my priority is and will always be the Grand Chimera Unit.”

  The drone finished combing my hair and I deactivated it. I knew I should be reaching for my uniform too, but instead, I went back to bed and climbed on top of Knox.

  Even upset by my comment, he had an erection. It tented the blanket, making my mouth water and my body grow wet. I rubbed his thick cock through the material, my pussy throbbing with the need to take him inside me.

  I hadn’t bothered getting dressed, so it would be very easy to return to last night’s activities. It was silly, but despite all our problems, I intended to do exactly that. “Do you want me to show you what I mean?”

  Just like that, Knox forgot all about our argument. He threw the blanket off himself, revealing his naked body. “Yeah. Come on, little Terran. Suck my cock.”

  I instantly complied, crawling down his legs and gripping his dick in my hand. I’d come a long way since the shy virgin I’d been when I’d joined the academy. Having four demanding lovers had done wonders for my sexuality. I wasn’t as bold as I’d have liked, but I knew how to use my body, what I wanted and what my lovers craved. Even so, I had trouble sucking down his massive shaft.

  I did my best, taking as much as I could in my mouth and using my hands on the base and on his sac. I’d have liked to tease him a little, to fully enjoy the weight of him on my tongue. But Knox never had the patience for elaborated foreplay, especially not when we were alone together.

  He gripped my hair in a hold so painful I was almost afraid he’d tear it out of my scalp. As he forced my head down over and over, I thought that it had been very stupid of me to do any kind of grooming before I engaged in oral sex with Knox Alexander.

  I surrendered to his domination, and I had to admit there were real advantages in skipping foreplay and getting down to business. His girth and forcefulness made my jaw ache. My eyes watered and I had trouble breathing. I loved every second of it.

  The only problem was that, in the whirlwind of lust he’d unleashed upon me, I lost all coherence and the ability to move in any other way. As much as I was enjoying the cock sucking, I couldn’t come just from giving head. Like this, I couldn’t even touch myself.

  I should’ve known better than to worry. Less than a minute later, I heard the door slide open. A familiar voice echoed through the air, sliding over my skin like a physical caress. “Oh my,” Brendan murmured. “Are we interrupting anything?”

  “A little bit, yeah,” Knox answered gruffly. He didn’t loosen his hold on me, though. “You’re free to join us. This bitch has holes that need to be fucked.”

  He didn’t sound very surprised at their arrival. I wondered if he’d known they were coming. He might have if he’d been in contact with Cerberus. In any case, I couldn’t be bothered to care about that. I was too busy confirming what he’d just said.

  I wriggled my ass in invitation, pointing out exactly where I wanted to be touched. Because of the angle I was in, I couldn’t see them, but I didn’t need to. I felt them—and I knew they would be following Knox’s unsubtle advice soon.

  Behind me, August let out a groan. “Fucking hell, Selene. You’re really something.”

  He walked up to the bed and swept his hand over my bare buttocks. His fingers traveled over the swell of my ass, then zeroed in on the apex of my thighs, sliding over my slick folds.

  “Knox is so right,” he said as he thrust one of his digits into my body. “You’re just begging for cock.”

  On some level, I realized that after everything I’d seen since coming to Tartarus Base, I should’ve maybe taken a different approach in our relationship. I should’ve been offended at Knox and August’s words. But I wasn’t, because I knew they didn’t mean it in a dismissive way. None of them looked down on me for having sexual needs. They were here for me as much as I was here for them.

  August was right. My body ached for them, desperately needed to be claimed. My muscles instinctively tightened around August’s finger, and although the teasing caress wasn’t enough to satisfy me, I still loved it.

  Brendan and Pollux didn’t hesitate to join us. “Tartarus help me,” Brendan whispered, “you’re fucking perfect. Let her up, Knox.”

  One of the things I liked most about being with my lovers were the moments when I could make them lose control. Brendan, in particular, tended to be colder and more aloof, a consequence of his royal upbringing. As a rule, he didn’t use a lot of profanity, and he only ever swore when he got angry or upset. We hadn’t done much this morning, but the curse word made my belly flutter with anticipation. We were heading in the right direction.

  I was so distracted by this that I didn’t register Brendan’s command to Knox until he obeyed it. He pulled my mouth off his cock, releasing me from his hold, but at the same time, denying me my prize.

  “W-What…?” I stammered. “Didn’t you… Didn’t you enjoy that?”

  “Don’t fish for compliments now, little Terran. You know I love fucking your mouth. But I think my prince has something else in mind, doesn’t he?”

  It was a rhetorical question since he didn’t wait to see what Brendan actually wanted. Instead, he pulled me upright, onto him, and impaled me on his dick in one, single smooth thrust.

  My flesh eagerly parted for his invasion and I tried to grind down against him, to ride his prick and take him deeper. Brendan had other ideas. He shoved me down against Knox’s chest and positioned his dick against my pussy.

  It didn’t take a genius to realize what he intended but I couldn’t have fought him off if I’d tried. I was their prisoner, their willing slave, and even if I didn’t think I could take two dicks inside me like this, I didn’t tell him ‘no’,

  Knox held onto me, keeping me steady while Brendan took what he wanted. And impossibly, they made it work. Brendan’s cock slid alongside Knox’s into my pussy, stretching me, burning me, overwhelming me with sensation.

  “Fuck, princess,” he murmured, sounding wrecked, almost lost. “You’re so tight.”

  If I could have spoken, I would have pointed out that hell yes, of course I was tight. I had two dicks inside me. But my chances to say anything had vanished the moment Knox’s cock had entered me. In this kind of situation, I didn’t need my voice anyway. It was better to communicate with my body.

  Brendan’s hands were cold, and his breath was like ice. Considering the power he wielded, it was a little strange, but I didn’t mind it. Maybe it was just an illusion because Knox’s skin seemed so much hotter. I felt like I was melting and freezing from the inside, and they’d only just started to fuck me.

  “What’s wrong, Selene?” Brendan whispered in my ear. “Where’s all that fire now? That defiance? What happened to the tamer of the Sphinx? Not so cocky now, are you?”

  He was barely moving inside me, and yet, my brain had taken a complete vacation. And then, August and Pollux decided to climb onto the bed as well, and things got even more interesting than they’d already been.

  I had no idea at what point they’d all taken their clothes off. They must have done it while I was still busy sucking Knox’s dick. I couldn’t have been happier about their talent, because it meant we could get on with it. I could see them, feel them, claim them, just like they could claim me.

  But like Brendan, they had other ideas. When August reached out to touch me, his motions were lazy, unrushed, like he had all the time in the world. He rubbed his thumb over my lower lip and murmured, “You have the most fuckable mouth. Some days, I wonder why you even use it for anything except that.”

  Pollux watched us with hooded eyes, slowly jacking himself off. “She needs a voice to scream for us, August. Remember?”

  “Details.” August scoffed. “I wouldn’t mind plugging all her holes.”

  Because of Brendan’s position, August and Pollux couldn’t reach my ass and accomplish that
goal. But my mouth was, like they had so clearly pointed out, at their disposal.

  Knox reached down from below me and fondled my breasts. At the same time, he and Brendan slowly glided in and out of my hungry pussy. I moaned, and Pollux took advantage of the occasion to grab my hair and thrust his cock into my mouth.

  He wasn’t gentle, but I didn’t want him to be. I wanted them all to shower me with this passion that burned as brightly as Tartarus’s fire. I was the only one who could accept the deepest, darkest sides of their natures. In turn, they branded me with a pleasure unlike anything I’d ever deemed possible. They unveiled a dark side of me I hadn’t been aware of, one I happily embraced.

  August decided to not physically touch me at all. Instead, he extended his powers, allowing his gift to flow over me.

  As the tachyon emissions surrounded and invaded my body, I cried out around Pollux’s cock. There was an intensity in August’s fire that hadn’t been there before, one that reminded me of how close we’d come to lose everything.

  I should have been terrified of it, of the heat building up more and more inside me. On some level, I acknowledged that tachyon overload was dangerous. But even so, I was not afraid. I knew my lovers would protect me. They could drain every drop of blood and life from my veins, but they’d also bring it back. We’d become one—a single unit, in every possible way.

  I didn’t know what finally made me orgasm. Maybe it wasn’t anything in particular, just a combination of factors, the layers of sensation coming together to shove me over the edge. Knox and Brendan moved together inside me, in complete sync. The weight and taste of Pollux’s cock on my tongue made my head spin like it was the world’s most powerful aphrodisiac. August stirred an all-encompassing blaze within me using a power that was primarily meant for destruction. How could I hope to resist all that?

  I embraced the pleasure and seduction they offered and found my peak, exploding into a supernova as bright as a Tartarus diamond core.

  My body tightened around the cocks inside me and as I surrendered to the unavoidable, I dragged them all over the edge with me. We tumbled deeper into the abyss of pleasure, and my senses surged to encompass them, to drag not just their bodies, but also their souls into mine. They followed my call, enveloping me in their heat and affection.

  The experience went beyond the carnal, into the spiritual. And when I drifted back into awareness, I felt cleansed, in a way that seriously clashed with the amount of semen I was covered in.

  As my lovers slid out of me, I smiled at them and rubbed some of the cooling spunk all over my bare breasts. Knox’s eyes flashed and he let out a pained groan. “I feel like you should come with an overload warning too, Selene.”

  “Really?” I drawled, still breathless after the amazing orgasm they’d given me. “You’re the ones ganging up on me.”

  “And it’s a good thing there’s four of us,” Brendan pointed out. “Otherwise, we would never be able to keep up with you.”

  “You might be right about that, Your Highness,” I teased him. It wasn’t that I considered myself a great seductress, but I just felt that the five of us were a team. It went beyond the sex. We fit together like pieces of the same puzzle and our intimate relationship echoed that.

  When I lay there, between them, it was so easy to chase my nightmares away. It was so easy to not worry about what was waiting for me outside these doors, the countless challenges I’d have to face. It was so easy to find new strength for myself in theirs.

  I’d have liked us to revel in it for a while longer, but unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. My time was not my own and I was due to leave to Terra to see my mother.

  I tore myself away from their arms with great regret. “Be careful while I’m away. Don’t find yourself another crazy Terran.”

  “As if that would happen.” August snorted. “We already have the best one.”

  I believed him. I believed them all. And when I boarded the shuttle toward Terra, half an hour later, I carried their kisses and promises in my heart.

  I might not know what was waiting for me back home, but I did have a certainty—the fact that for my lovers’ sake, I needed to find out.

  Scorched Grass

  Selene

  Returning to New Washington felt surreal. I’d only been away for less than half a year, but I’d already changed so much. I didn’t know how I’d feel about my family and my home now that I was back.

  As our shuttle descended from the sky, I caught my first glimpse of the city. It had been snowing and a green-tinged powdery substance covered most of the buildings. With a pang of melancholy, I remembered one of my mother’s most outlandish stories. She’d said that before the war with the Sun-Dwellers, the snow had been white, as bright and pure as our hopes for the future. It had turned blue-green when Gaia had awakened and the priestesses had started to use her magic to fix everything that had gone wrong.

  I’d have liked to think their efforts had paid off, but after what I’d seen at Tartarus Base, I couldn’t cling to that naive illusion any longer.

  “You’ll be fine, Selene,” Sphinx murmured at the back of my mind. “Yes, things are bad now, but you’re on your way to improving them.”

  Her words drew a small smile out of me. I wanted to thank her but refrained. I’d been forced to leave her behind at the academy and my mind could barely sustain a one-sided conversation. Sphinx had pledged that she’d monitor me silently and wouldn’t interfere unless I absolutely needed her to. She must’ve felt some encouragement was necessary, and she’d been right.

  The simple two sentences gave me a bad headache, but they also cheered me up. Sphinx was right. I was Acting Pilot Renard now, and while it might not have seemed like much, it was still a step forward, a change. I’d keep pushing, forcing them to acknowledge the problem that existed in our society.

  As that decision settled in my heart, the shuttle dropped me in the landing bay next to The Great Temple of Gaia. Unlike most constructions created by The Grand Judiciary, this temple—like every other similar structure in the world—was crafted entirely out of wood. According to my mother, the trees had just grown there with no input whatsoever from human priestesses. That, I believed with no issue. I’d seen what Gaia’s power could do with my own eyes. Creating a shelter for her servants was an easy task.

  The pilot of the shuttle opened the gate without notifying me we’d landed. The seatbelt undid itself on its own, and I took this as my cue that it was time to disembark. I didn’t know the man, and I had no interested in fixing that. The faster we went our separate ways, the better.

  It didn’t take me long to change my mind about that.

  When I emerged from the shuttle, my mother was already waiting for me on the tarmac. As a rule, she was perfectly composed, honoring her service to Gaia through a state of serenity and respect. But today, there was no sign of that calm.

  She rushed toward me with uncharacteristic enthusiasm and enveloped me in a warm hug. “Selene!” she sobbed as she held me close to her chest. “Oh, Gaia, I can’t believe it. I can’t believe you’re back.”

  I couldn’t believe it either. After so many months spent around hostile people, my mother’s affection made my heart clench painfully in my chest. My fellow Chimera Warriors loved me, but their affection for me was different and we’d had so many ups and downs. My mother’s presence was so familiar, so steadying.

  I hugged her back just as fiercely. “Hello, Mother. I’ve missed you.”

  “Of course you have, dear. Oh, I’m so glad The Grand Judiciary abandoned that nonsense about you being a chimera pilot.”

  Just like that, the illusion I’d accidentally weaved around myself dissipated. Sphinx hissed in anger. “What did she just say?”

  She sounded disbelieving, and I completely empathized. I also couldn’t repeat the question, because Sphinx’s outburst made a very real spike of pain course through me.

  Sphinx must have noticed because she retreated so quickly I almost fell over
. My mother’s embrace helped me stay upright. I’d have been grateful had she not decided to add, “You belong here, with your family, not with metallic monsters.”

  I broke away from her, already tasting dread in my mouth. As I struggled to recover my composure, I noticed my mother was alone on the landing strip. Why hadn’t I seen that when I’d first arrived?

  It was time to get some answers. “Mother? Where is everyone? Why didn’t Louise and Father come to see me?”

  I’d actually expected other priestesses of Gaia to be here too since they’d always liked me. But I wasn’t arrogant enough to think their lives rotated around me. Maybe they were busy terra-forming and that was why they hadn’t come. My father could also be away since he didn’t live in New Washington. Like the priestesses, he had his duties. But even so, it seemed unlikely that my mother would go anywhere at all with no entourage and no guards. Between that and Louise’s conspicuous absence, I had a bad feeling. “Is something wrong?”

  My mother’s smile melted away like flesh when faced with Tartarus fire. “Louise’s mother felt it was inappropriate for you to meet with her daughter again,” she said carefully. “And your father is away on business. He’s not very happy about what’s been going on either.”

  What the fuck was she talking about? If anything, I’d expected my father to be proud of me. I’d participated in the Grand Tartarus Tournament. I hadn’t won or gotten any significant prize, but it still counted. I’d reached the final stage and I would’ve had a real chance if not for the attack on August. “I don’t understand,” I said, befuddled. “Why are they angry? What have I done that is so inappropriate and foul?”

  My mother met my eyes, and something in her gaze unsettled me. “There have been some rumors, about you starting a certain relationship with the members of your unit.”