by Erin R Flynn
Branko snorted. “We’re all hard for you, Inez.” He groaned when I flushed.
“Take it out and stroke it for her,” Kristof told him, chuckling when I shivered at seeing Branko’s fat, fat dick that was completely hard for me. “Naughty princess.”
“I am, I’m so naughty,” I agreed, egging him into spanking me more, which he loved. I mean, he totally loved it, going more and more. “Write it. Write it on me, Kristof.”
“I’m so glad I can now,” he whispered. “I love you, Inez.”
“I love you too,” I moaned as he wrote “Mine” in his blood on me. Then he even wrote “Love” and I about lost my mind. “Please, please, rub it on your cock and fuck me.”
He groaned loud enough it echoed in the quiet night, and then did just that. He hesitated when my body was wet but not stretched enough for him, but I knew he also loved that, so I begged for him to still take me. He did, but gently, even if I whimpered for more. It ached but it was a good ache, perfectly between the line of pain and pleasure without going over.
“Nora is not prettier than you,” he told me firmly as he pulled me up and moved my arms around his neck. “You are perfection. She is gorgeous, no one would deny that, but not more than you.”
“She’s refined elegance that only the most confident can have with age and experience,” Moon added. “You are a raw and wild beauty that I agree is perfection.”
I tried to hide how that made me flush and turned to see Kristof. “Did she feel as good as I do?”
“I never touched her, my jealous princess,” he chuckled.
“Did you taste her?” I purred, angling my head so he had my throat. “Would she trust you like this? Give herself to you like I do?”
“No, no, and never,” he whispered. His fangs came out and he nicked me, not drinking but letting it drip down.
I shivered as their nostrils all flared and they reacted to the smell of my blood in the best way. I swirled my hips, gasping when he thrust at a different angle and I liked it. “There, please, there.”
“Shit, you liked that for sure,” he groaned. He cut his fingers on my fangs and touched my clit, lifting my leg so they could see better as he kept thrusting. “Scream for me, Inez. Come nice and hard on me.”
I did. Fuck, I came so hard my body sagged against him as he kept going. It was so delicious and naughty that I loved it. I licked my lips and stared at Branko as he stroked his dick. “More. Give me more.”
Kristof lifted me under my legs and slammed into me as I held on, spread out for them to watch. He brought me again and I all I wanted was more.
“Come for me, now,” I ordered Branko, butterflies going crazy in my stomach when his eyes went wide and he did. I felt Kristof about to do the same and moved so his dick pulled out of me. “On me, not in me. I want you to mark me for them.”
He growled in approval and set me on my feet, finishing on my ass and lower back. Then he hugged me to him so it actually rubbed on both of us, but he didn’t seem to care. “Let them all have a taste, my love.”
I flinched, but then enough blood returned to my brain to understand. “Like I did Branko?” I waited until he nodded and went over to Branko first. I ran my finger through his spunk and tried it, his eyes full of fire when I did. “You taste like you’ll be mine.”
“I really fucking hope so,” he groaned. He leaned in and I met him halfway, giving him a soft kiss.
I turned and went to Moon. “Is Moon really your name?”
He nodded. “It means something else in ancient Mayan, not the moon in the sky. I am Moon of house Pacal, Princess, and it is my greatest honor to meet Aether’s champion.”
I frowned. “But not me?”
“No, I would want to meet you even if you weren’t, I promise,” he murmured, giving me a curious look, as if he didn’t understand why I didn’t wear that badge with honor or something.
I ignored it, running my fingers through my wetness and offering them to him, his eyes filling with heat and shock before leaning in and licking them. “I’m just Inez. That’s all I want people to see, not the labels.” He nodded and reached for me, but I backed away. “Just a taste, sorry.” I nodded to Branko. “We’re having an affair.”
Kristof snorted. “She’s never had that sort of illicit fun, so they play, but we know as she would never cheat on us. None are allowed to touch her unless we all agree.”
“Truly?” Moon asked, his eyes wide when we nodded. “Why would you allow that?”
I smiled at him. “Shouldn’t I care for their feelings? They love me. I would die if they touched another woman. Shouldn’t they at least have input if they allow another man to touch me?” I glanced at Kristof. “They made sure he would be good to me. Isn’t that what you want?”
“Yes, and they were valid in their concerns,” he admitted. “I would have the same, and want to know better any man you let in your bed or court you.”
“May I taste?” the noble next to him asked.
I nodded and touched myself again before meeting his pretty hazel eyes. I held out my fingers and studied his eyes. One minute, they seemed more blue in the moonlight, but then it was green before more brown. They were seriously astounding.
He gave a long lick of my fingers. “You are deliciously sweet, Princess. I would feast on you for hours if I was allowed the privilege.” He smirked when I shivered. “I am Sisay of house Eze. It is an honor to meet you.”
“Because I’m Aether’s champion?” I asked, my tone making it clear I didn’t want that to be the answer.
“No, because you are a princess I have longed to ever find,” he whispered, licking my fingers again.
I went to answer, but then realized I was itching and hard. I turned to Kristof and frowned. “Your blood is too charged. I want to play more. A lot more.”
He nodded and pulled me in his arms. “Take more though as there is much you can do tonight and then we will have all the fun you want.”
“Whatever I want?” I teased him, shivering when he nodded. I dropped my knees and sank my fangs in his upper thigh, drinking from him there as I stroked him. I stopped a moment and stared up into his shocked eyes. “Come for your princess, the woman you love.” He did when I bit him again, drinking a few mouthfuls of his power charged blood.
“Fuck, it’s all in your hair and I love it,” he groaned as I stood. “Shit, Inez, do that to me again and again.”
“Yes please,” I purred even as I started itching again. “Shit, so unsexy.”
“Water,” he muttered and caught a bottle. He quickly got his spunk out of my hair, which told me we were going around others. Then he fixed his jeans and pulled his sweater on me, which was big enough to be a dress. “Join us.”
I didn’t even get to know what he meant before he blurred us off.
And I still hadn’t gotten any whiskey. Damnit.
He brought us to a group that seemed up to something, but one thing caught my attention. The moment Kristof set me on my feet, I hurried over to Cerdic, careful of the rocks, and jumped on his back.
“Aren’t you already grounded?” I hissed in his ear before nipping it. “What are you doing over here off to the side chatting up another princess?”
“It wasn’t like that, My Princess,” he promised as he glanced at me over his shoulder. “I made it perfectly clear who I belonged to.”
“Why did you need to?”
She chuckled and answered, Cerdic translating for her. “Any woman with a pulse would try for a shot with him and most courts would try for an alliance with the house of Wessex. He respectfully and clearly turned me down and we were talking business.”
“I think someone else can translate for her,” I growled as I kept her gaze. I kissed his neck, smirking when he shivered. “Should we show her, love?”
“Always. Feed from me, Inez,” he groaned.
I sank my fangs in his neck, my eyes locked on hers as I drank. I licked the bite and then his ear. “I’m naked under Kristof’s swea
ter. Do you want to show your princess how much you desire her?”
“Yes, fuck, yes,” he growled, snaking his arm behind him and yanking me around to his front. “I wasn’t invited to the fun it seems.”
“It wasn’t my party, but going forward, don’t exclude people, Kristof,” I replied.
“Yes, My Princess,” he replied. “That wasn’t my intent. I heard the others had plans and I didn’t want to tease them when they were making progress.”
I nodded I heard him, kissing Cerdic’s nose. “What progress were you making, my fiancé?”
His eyes locked on me itching my neck and he frowned. “Trust me to answer after?”
“Always.”
He brought me over to a bunch of engines and rail cars. “Fix a few engines, we need flat rail cars and the freezer cars for your deal.”
I nodded and he set me on my feet. I let out the energy and turned them all to beads besides five engines, fixing those and making the rest of what was needed. I thought of something else and glanced at the princess.
“We can get you a phone with Google Translator, but Cerdic’s a bit busy the rest of the night.”
She dipped her head to me with a smirk. Yeah, yeah, I was being a brat and jealous.
Cerdic swooped me up and carried me off, letting me know there was more to the plans. Kristof and the others followed, and I was alone in a building with six sexy nobles and no idea what the scheme was.
“Can you take more blood? We’ve got a lot planned for fast if you can handle it,” Cerdic muttered as he sat me on a counter.
I nodded, willing to do whatever they needed. I yanked off the sweater and crooked my finger at Branko. “Want to feed me while holding me and Cerdic fucks me?”
“Yes. Yes and yes,” he groaned as he came over to me. He kissed me deeply, and then turned me around and held me with his hands under my ass while I twisted and sank my fangs in his neck. Cerdic didn’t hesitate, helping the fire that was roaring in me.
Apparently Cerdic had been wound up as well, because he finished when I did and looked a bit shocked. He shook his head when I gave him a questioning look. “She didn’t turn me on. You did. I was distracted thinking of what Kristof might be doing to you.”
“You’re still grounded, but I won’t add time,” I muttered, smiling when he took me from Branko and snuggled me to him. “Do you want me again, Cerdic? Do you want to make me scream?”
“Yes, and I want to know why your ass is so red,” he growled. “Did I miss you getting spanked?”
“Finish whatever you were plotting to help her and I’m sure she’ll let you spank her too,” Kristof cut in. “She’s already itching again.”
“Damnit,” I grumbled, realizing he was right. Why did reality and craziness always have to poke into my fun?
8
“Fix the building and we’ll handle the last parts,” Cerdic said as he found me some towels to clean up.
Parts? I raised an eyebrow at that but nodded, realizing we were at some sort of industrial place when I felt all the appliances and more get fixed. Then we went to the electric, water, and wastewater companies, and they weren’t big so I figured the town wasn’t either.
Finally we were at a Sam’s Club, the tire and battery section. Huh?
Cerdic nodded to Matilda, Jacob, and Hanna, who were there as well. “Mother had an idea that if you can convert other vehicles into electric semis—”
“Car batteries to industrial ones,” I muttered, staring at the wall. “Crap, I think we were tossing them.” I moved closer and studied one, feeling the energy of it. “No, not enough.” I turned and jogged towards the main store, knowing what was needed. Kristof met me at the door and opened it for me.
“Tell me what you need,” he said.
“Lithium,” I answered. “Those batteries don’t have enough to be the right levels for industrial recharging ones instead of the engine doing whatever. I don’t get the engineering, just the feeling of like compound differences.”
“So phones, electronics with batteries, and even the little ones?” he checked.
“Yes.” I blinked and there was a huge box of them in front of the other display. “Thanks.” I went back over to it and turned it all into energy beads before focusing on the industrial batteries I’d done the same to just to remake some damaged ones. I was able to make a few pallets of them before I was out of either juice or what I needed. “Woah.”
“Too much in one day,” Cerdic worried as I swayed on my feet. “Sorry, love.”
I opened my mouth to tell him I was fine, but closed it and leaned against the display. “Need a minute.”
“I sort of thought you’d just make one to see if you could, not a bunch and charge them.”
“I assumed we needed them,” I sighed. “Um, I think I need sugar and water. It’s that dehydrated and down on the tank feeling. Sorry.”
“Guard her,” Kristof ordered Cerdic and I assumed he took off.
“I’m sorry we pushed but it is good to know you can do it,” Matilda said. “You’re so powerful, it’s easy to forget you’re just a babe.”
I nodded. “There was a lot of posturing and a sort of power growth spurt after I planted the tree and got it going so, yeah, nothing’s ever easy.” I thanked Kristof when he came back with a bottle of water and some ginger cookies I liked when I was a bit all over the place. Something about the ginger helped, I think.
I swore I’d heard drinking ginger ale was like that too.
“So what did I just all do and why?” I asked Cerdic in between cookies.
We went back to the train yard where the others were—including Princess Leonor from Porto, Portugal, who spoke Portuguese, not French. Jacob explained that the rail lines from there—which was Grand Forks that straddled the North Dakota and Minnesota border—to Seattle were great, but any further east and they were messed up and badly.
“What the other princesses won’t say but we all know is the meat situation is really bad,” Matilda explained. “Our covens are in trouble and what you offered is an amazing gift they all are jumping on.”
“So we’re doing this now and fast?” I surmised, nodding when she did. “Okay, so this is hunting central?”
Cerdic confirmed that and told me that first place was a huge wild game processing and butchering facility. Everything was already there and now fixed. Water and everything needed was getting back online now that I’d fixed it and even the batteries I charged could be hooked up.
“Our coven took huge damage from bombs aiming at Berlin, taking out a chunk of our buildings and supplies,” Hanna told me. “Rebuilding and trying to replace has been hard. We were blessed that we didn’t lose people, but we’ve had problems with survivors and more, so we have a lot of needs.”
I nodded, waiting for them to spell it out for me as I kept snacking.
“I take this friendship to heart,” Princess Leonor said, her pronunciation as bad as I would think my Portuguese would be, since I didn’t know any, but I appreciated the effort.
Luckily Matilda also knew Portuguese and took over translating, shooting Cerdic an amused look.
“My mother died in the attack on Lisbon as she was visiting there to enlist help,” she told us. “I took over and at only four hundred, you can imagine the pressure on me and other courts trying to use that to their advantage. You’re not only offering me what my coven desperately needs but friends, as others have frozen me out or backed away from our alliances because others have pressured them to.”
I sighed. “Someone wants to adopt you and others won’t stand up to them.”
“Several,” Matilda answered for her. “Eddie’s mother for one. I’ve known of this but we weren’t close friends with her mother or their coven and well, we’ve all had our own troubles.”
Again, I just nodded, waiting for them to connect the dots or make the offer. They didn’t though and I realized something I forgot earlier. I walked over to Branko and sliced my finger, drawing a triangle wi
th my blood on him. Then I drew hearts on Kristof and Cerdic before going back to Kristof and wrapping his arm around me to snuggle.
“You’re going to have to spell it out, Matilda,” he told her. “Her power fries her when she overuses it. You’re waiting for her decision and she’s waiting for you to spit it out.”
I nodded, getting that was the holdup. “Plus, I don’t want to keep poking the Olivia wound, but I’m learning to make sure everyone spells it all out from their own mouths. I also didn’t get my nap.” I chuckled when Kristof kiss my neck. “Are you going to tuck in me soon?”
“You meant tuck you in.”
“No, I didn’t,” I purred, biting back a giggle when he moaned.
“The three of us would like to team up on your project,” Matilda explained, her eyes dancing with mirth. “Yes, we will send teams to help for what you said earlier and we want what you offered.”
“You want to send extras like Nora and Sebastian have,” I caught on, wrapping Kristof’s other arm around me and swaying to music that wasn’t playing.
“Yes, a team to handle the gift you’re giving and fast as people could use it,” Hanna told me. “We do it now and we can make the ship that’s almost ready to head back to Nora. We would also like to load up some crates tonight full of weapons like you gave Nora. We don’t have all the options you do so, even if you gave us a gun store or two we could clear a lot of area of corrupted.”
Now I really was thinking. “So we send the plane to Matilda where we know there’s a safe place, you give your people weapons and send them back with the plane to hit several fronts to accomplish a lot.” I slowly nodded after they did. “I assume your teaming up would mean you would be allies as well, and would make that clear to others, yes?”
I wasn’t shocked when they gave me surprised looks, Leonor’s mouth falling open even.
“That’s my fiancée,” Cerdic purred, coming over and pulling me away from Kristof. He dipped me and brushed his lips over mine. “I love you. I could never want another princess.”
