by Tay T
Xavier ripped the dagger out of her arm and flung it into the wall with a sickening thunk, causing red droplets to splatter everywhere on the ground and up on the wall.
In response to the searing pain, a hiss seeped from the little sorceress’s lips and her pretty face wrinkled.
Xavier’s frown deepened as he used his aura to cover her wound and aid in its healing.
Even though the urge to taste her blood constantly assailed him, he temporarily needed to keep himself from doing so, needed to stay as sober as possible in order not to hurt her when they rut.
He feared he would enter bloodlust and lose his logical side to his beast. If it weren’t for his self-control, he would’ve hurt her already. And that was not what he intended to do.
The vein on Xavier’s neck bulged from restraint while his beast roared loudly to suck her dry and dominate her little body, to viciously rut her until his seed leaked from between her thighs and scent covered her entire form.
His hands shook, and an image of his pretty little sorceress lying underneath him with her long legs wide open, welcoming him into her body as they fulfilled the ritual’s last step, filled his mind.
The Cardinal Alpha swallowed thickly at the imagery and took a deep breath to calm himself, ignoring his beast’s calls from within his mind.
He dug the sharp points of his claws into the palm of his hand to draw fresh blood to the surface. As red dots beaded and gradually spilled over his outstretched hand, he raised it to Maya’s mouth.
She immediately parted her pouty lips and suckled fervidly on the flesh of his palm, lapping at the closing wound in wild abandon.
Xavier could hear the sounds of her swallowing his life fluid, of her wet little tongue sliding on the surface of his skin to ease the needy ache inside her body. Soon enough, that ache would not be satisfied with just the taste of his blood. His little sorceress would need something else to fill her, something only he could fill her with.
Citrine-colored eyes narrowed as he sharply inhaled the overwhelming and intoxicating scent of her sweet arousal.
He could smell it seeping from the apex of her thighs, weaving through the air in a mixture of spring blossoms and spider lily. The addictive scent made his blood boil with heat and his mouth become increasingly dry.
Xavier harshly swallowed down the urge to dominate her.
He tucked his hand under her lithe thighs and lifted her into his strong arms as the arousing sparks gathered on his flesh from where their bare skin met.
A barely audible sigh left Xavier’s mouth.
He briefly looked down at his little sorceress and noticed the pebbles indented into the skin of her bare feet. The jagged rocks had cut open her soles and left a trail of dried blood on the soft flesh.
The solemn thought of her hurt, of her disregarding her own health, even if it was to come to him, didn’t settle well with the brooding Alpha.
“Why didn’t you wear shoes before coming here, Maya?” he asked, lips pinched into a thin, displeased line.
Maya licked off the droplets of blood smeared on her lips in a kitten-like way and gave him a sharp, dignified glance from the corner of her eyes. She didn’t reply, probably because she was too high off of his blood to hear a word he said.
This caused Xavier to chuckle under his breath. He carried her bridal style down the long winding hall and hugged her delicate body against his hard chest.
Maya was too preoccupied with the magnetic energy circling between the two of them to care about anything else. Though she had chosen not to fight, the bond still wrapped tighter and tighter around her, almost like a long invisible rope wound several times up and down and around her body.
Sometimes, she felt as if it were cutting into her skin, like the thorns of a rose, and burning the flesh with an invisible heat of a fire. Yet there were no seeable wounds.
As the seconds trickled by, Maya found it harder and harder to keep her thoughts together.
Her luminous green eyes glazed over, and she was pulled into the haze created by his blood.
All was lost to her.
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When the dark sorceress came to her senses again, she found herself inside a fancy bathroom with creamy white walls. There was a sink stationed on top of the white cabinets and a giant mirror that reflected the bathtub just a couple of yards away.
Though the light in the room was dimmed, Maya could clearly see her reflection through the mist circulating around her.
Her vibrant red hair was matted on one shoulder and hanging in wet tendrils down the sides of her flushed face. Her bare shoulders and rounded breasts peeked out from under the water. And her body was in between the Alpha’s spread legs, leaning against his hard chest as they sat inside a bubbling bathtub.
Vaguely, Maya realized he was equally as naked as she was because she felt a certain body part of his poke dauntingly at her lower back. This made her mouth become exceedingly dry and her breathing labored.
The handsome Alpha’s sinewy arms were wrapped around her and his long, bare legs were extended out of the water. He had his eyes downcast and head slightly bent forward as he removed the last of the pebbles from her feet and cleaned off the dirt and blood from the sole.
The soft lighting in the bathroom glistened on his regal cheekbones and highlighted his strong jawline, along with the unruly strands of dark blonde hanging from his temple. As he breathed, his hot breath whispered along her ear and the back of her neck, fluttering against her hair ever so lightly.
Maya shivered, goosebumps erupting on her arms and legs.
The Alpha’s long, nimble fingers trailed back up her legs and slowly danced across her sensitive breasts. Then, he palmed the rounded globes and lingered on the hardened peaks as he washed the remnants of green tea off her skin.
For some reason, his touch left a series of pleasurable sparks in its wake. It tingled and heated her body with unimaginable desire, causing her to feel needy and desperate for more.
As she squirmed in unrest, Xavier’s eyes gleamed and lips curled into a small, knowing smile.
At this very moment, he wanted his prey cleaned and ready to be eaten.
CHAPTER 13
Darkened gold shimmered in the light as Xavier glanced down at Maya’s quivering lashes and passion-filled face.
His voracious gaze trailed from the corner of her dainty brows to the tip of her tall nose before settling hungrily onto her pretty little mouth.
The red petals of her soft lips glistened in a riveting way, and her stimulating scent beckoned him to taste her very essence, to temporarily douse his thirst for her with one simple kiss.
Almost immediately, the instinctive urge to seal his mouth over hers blossomed inside him like a thriving conflagration raging through a green forest.
Xavier’s breathing deepened.
With one hand settled behind the back of her neck, he slightly turned her head to gain access to her fragrant lips.
As his handsome face enlarged in her vision, Maya’s dainty brows furrowed and luminous eyes flickered to his citrine-colored ones in faint trepidation. Even though her instincts told her to move—to do anything—she found herself unable to.
Maya was spellbound by him.
Her arms remained by her sides and her body would not listen to her commands. She was frozen in place, waiting for his next move like a doe in the headlights. Her breathing fluctuated and her heart hammered erratically in a wild rhythm, as his short puffs of air fluttered on her blushed cheeks.
These strange feelings had been magnified tenfold due to the magic of the dark ritual. Its magnetic energy moved like the waves of the ocean and scattered mindlessly on her sensitive skin in a foray of numbing sensations.
Maya had never felt this way before, not that she had ever let anyone close enough to strip her naked and have their way with her.
Xavier Thaeos was the first and only one.
His lingering touch lit her body on fire, and his smoldering gaze made her skin t
ingle warmly in an uncontrollable way. No matter how hard she’d tried to keep her composure, he’d managed to bring down every fortified wall built around her.
As she became lost in her thoughts, Xavier’s hot lips firmly pressed against her plump ones, and the sparks immediately gathered in her vision like shooting stars in the night sky.
It momentarily blinded her with its feverish intensity.
Even the bond surrounding them tightened with prolific force, constricting her airflow like an anaconda would its innocent prey.
All the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end and goosebumps cascaded down her arms and legs in massive amounts.
The Cardinal Alpha slowly, sensually rubbed their lips together. His wet tongue greedily prodded at the seams of her lips before plundering into the depths of her mouth, licking across the surface of her tongue and cheek in wet, spark-filled patterns.
It felt as if he were slowly savoring the taste of her, as if she were some sort of fine delicacy worth his time and effort.
In response to his sensual kiss, her entire body quivered and liquid fire built within the pit of her belly, collecting moist heat between her trembling legs.
Maya’s breath held in her throat. She unknowingly leaned into his mouth and parted her lips wider to allow his tongue passage.
With cheeks flushed red from desire, burning hotter and hotter with every minute that passed, Maya’s mind was completely consumed by the pleasure of his kiss. And she’d found herself unable to awaken from the dream-like state caused by the high of his touch.
“Your breasts are beautiful, Maya. They fit so perfectly in my hands,” he praised, voice husky with need and desire. “Like they were made for me to worship.”
To prove his point, his large hands cupped her heavy breasts again, massaging the supple flesh in a slow and torturous manner, and caused shudders to ripple up and down her spine.
Maya couldn’t control the instinctive urge to arch into his hands, to make him fill the emptiness inside her with everything he had.
“See?” he hummed against her ear, kneading and molding the rounded globes together with moderate pressure so that his little sorceress would feel nothing more than intense pleasure.
He ran the sharp point of his canines along her fragile neck, and his fingers stroked delicately across her lips and chin, cleaning their combined saliva off her warm flesh.
Maya sharply gasped for air and struggled to catch her breath. The stimulating sensation threatened to consume her as it ignited in the pit of her stomach, ready to combust in her face at any given moment.
She writhed and squirmed within his embrace, clenching her thighs together to alleviate the uncomfortable ache that seemed to become worse with each teasing touch.
After swallowing down a breathy moan, she bit down hard on her bottom lip to keep the strange and unwarranted noises from leaving her mouth.
“Don’t bite yourself. I want to hear you,” Xavier huskily murmured against her neck. His lips briefly, teasingly rubbed against the pale column of her throat as he rescued her bottom lip from her teeth.
Xavier continued to massage her perky breasts and firm peaks. Each time his thumb rubbed across her hardened nipple, her lower stomach would clench and pleasure would color her vision various shades of white.
Maya gritted her teeth defiantly and held down any sound that might leave her lips. But the cunning Alpha did not relent.
He placed an open-mouthed kiss on her ear and traced the delicate appendage with his lips before dipping the tip of his hot tongue into the shell. At the same time, his long fingers rubbed and pulled her erect nipples, rolling the firm peaks between index and thumb.
The pleasurable sensations made her toes curl and head fall back.
“Aa-hh,” Maya moaned weakly. Her dainty fingers curled feebly around his forearm as he continued to fondle and tweak her hard nipples.
“Good girl,” he chuckled in approval, abandoning her neck to nibble on the silken skin of her sweet lips.
As his tongue dipped into her mouth, his right hand slowly traveled from her ribs down past her belly button to the area between her legs, leaving a trail of tingling sparks on her flushed skin.
When his thick fingers finally reached her sopping core, Maya felt as if she had been hit by lightning. Those scary sparks scattered all over the apex of her thighs and pushed her closer towards the edge of an imaginary cliff. Something in her stomach bubbled with unimaginable pleasure and heat.
With a sharp gasp, Maya turned her head away from his heated kiss, and a soft whimper purged itself from her swollen lips.
“Wet?” the sly Alpha inquired wickedly, running his middle finger against her lower lips in a back and forth motion. He then dipped his finger in between her slick folds to find her sensitive clit. Once he felt the slight protrusion, the pad of his finger rubbed the slippery nub in a circular pattern, feeling her entire body tense and shudder in response.
He soon hoisted the little sorceress up onto his lap and tilted her hips forward until the length of his swollen shaft rested only inches from her bottom. As he spread her long legs and splayed them over his muscular thighs, her sheath was left completely open to him.
He fingered her dripping slit in different patterns and occasionally inserted the tip of his middle finger into her wet and hot entrance.
“Feels good when I touch you here, doesn’t it?” he breathed against her neck.
Maya wanted to reply with a scathing comment but found herself at a loss for words. Her thoughts scattered, and she could only focus on what was happening between her trembling legs.
When his fingers squeezed her clit with moderate pressure and pulled the delicate nub upward, the overwhelming feeling caused a whining cry to escape from her throat and more slick juices to trickle out.
Maya dug her blunt nails into his forearm and clenched her thighs as if to close them, but couldn’t. Her legs were currently outstretched over the Alpha’s bent legs and would require too much effort to remove.
Xavier chuckled hoarsely, feeling her lower mouth suckle around the tip of his finger. He kissed her jaw and listened to the sensual moans and gasping cries leaving her swollen lips.
Although his thick cock was throbbing painfully with need, he ignored his own desires to appease hers, knowing then that the wait would be worthwhile.
The Southern Lord teasingly inserted his finger until his first knuckle disappeared within her hot, slippery depths, aided by the water surrounding them and the slickness of her juices.
Upon entry, the ring of muscles tightened around his thick digit and stopped his movement in an act of defense against his invasion.
“You’re so damned tight, Maya,” he murmured huskily. “I can just imagine how you will feel wrapped around my cock as I fuck you long and hard.”
Maya swallowed the lump in her throat, finding it hard to speak through the onslaught of pleasure. Instead, she turned her head away as the burning sensation of being stretched by his long and thick fingers made her stomach clench in retaliation. Yet she couldn’t get herself to pull away.
“You can imagine it too, can’t you?” Xavier asked, kissing her red ears delicately. He slowly removed his finger only to shove the entire length back inside, starting a slow and pleasurable rhythm.
Maya’s inner walls encircled his finger like a thousand mouths, suckling his thick digit as if to keep him inside her body, and salivated as if hungry for more.
Gradually, her legs fell open as his finger thrust deeper into her and the palm of his hand ground against her swollen clit. While one of his hands was in between her legs, the other hand was pinching and tugging her left nipple with just the right amount of pressure.
Maya’s body bowed and hips instinctively undulated against his fingers, unconsciously asking him to fill her up deeper and harder. Her head fell back on his shoulders and her lips parted in a silent moan.
Xavier slanted his mouth over hers as his hot tongue mimicked the actions of his fi
ngers, thrusting in and out of her mouth until their saliva wet her chin.
The maddening feelings curled in Maya’s belly like a brewing storm, waiting for the one chance to strike.
When the Alpha inserted another finger and quickened the pace, frantically pumping the thick digits, Maya choked out a loud cry and her slick walls clenched repeatedly in a telltale sign of her oncoming climax.
But he did not stop. He curled his fingers and reached further into her body, feeling her tremble uncontrollably against him.
When his fingers rubbed against a certain spot, the little sorceress gasped for breath and writhed to get away from him, tears sparkling on the end of her lashes, as the sensations became overwhelming.
Maya cried out. Her silken walls tightened and sweet juices gushed down the tips of his fingers.
At the notion of his discovery, the Alpha’s lips curled upward into a devious smirk, fingers striking against her G-spot over and over again.
Before long, a trembling moan left the little sorceress’s lips. Her lower abdomen clenched tightly, repeatedly as her first orgasm hit like a terrifying tsunami on the distant shore.
CHAPTER 14
Maya’s entrance was tight around his two fingers. The ring of muscles clenched and unclenched as she came down from her climax and stilled against him.
But Xavier continued to finger her opening, teasingly sliding his two fingers inside before quickly removing them to prolong the ecstatic feelings bubbling up inside her. His palm repeatedly rubbed her clit in circles while his fingers kneaded her breasts comfortingly.
In mere seconds, Maya melted against his sturdy body in a mass of fragrant skin, glazed eyes, and flushed pink cheeks.
Now that she had orgasmed, every single touch was magnified on her over-sensitized flesh, making her squirm in unrest to get away from his touch.
Just when she thought she couldn’t handle anymore, the tall male lifted her out of the water with one hand on her naked bottom and the other around her shoulder.
His abrupt actions caused the warm water to slosh violently around them, splashing on the tiled floor in wet puddles all around the tub.
