by Eve Newton
His eyes fly open. He grabs my upper arms. “Whatever comes next, I know we can fight it.”
I nod, disappointed that he didn’t crush his mouth to mine. I lower my gaze and the spell is broken. I sigh and ask, “Lloyd? Did you figure out the spell?”
“Yes,” he says, coming to me again and taking my hand.
I avoid Axl’s intense stare for a moment, focusing just on Lloyd. “We’re good to go?”
He nods. “Yes, there is just one slight problem…well, two really…” He bites his lip, looking all sexy while he does it.
“What?” I ask when his eyes go to Axl.
“What, mate?” Axl asks. “You saying I’m the problem?”
“Sort of,” Lloyd mutters, pulling away from me and digging in his back pocket for something.
I watch with interest as he presents the Vampire with a ring.
Axl snorts. “A proposal? No offense, Warlock, but you aren’t my type.”
Lloyds cheeks blush furiously. It’s freaking adorable. I hide my smile, full of curiosity about what the ring is for.
“It’s to allow you to move about during daylight,” Lloyd mutters. “Ember and I concocted it, using her blood.”
My eyebrows shoot up in surprise. Mom never said anything about this.
Axl’s baby blues land on me. “Mommy dearest didn’t tell you?”
I shake my head. “Nope. She is devious as fuck.”
All three men snort in amusement, but then Axl takes the ring from Lloyd and slips it on the middle finger of his left hand. He flexes his hand and glares at it. “Can’t test it out, yet. Do I trust you enough, though? That’s the question.”
I breathe in sharply.
“I can assure you it works,” Lloyd says. “Well, as much as I can be,” he adds with a soft smirk that Axl responds to with one of his own.
“I’ll hold off on the thanks until I don’t burn up in the morning light dappling through the curtains,” he says.
“Fair enough,” Lloyd says, and then sighs. “The other problem is also you.”
Axl rolls his eyes. “Feeling a bit picked on, mate. Go and find a problem with the Wolf, already.”
“Oh, he has his issues,” Lloyds mutters, startling me. “But we need to perform the spell on sacred ground. Are you able?”
“Oh, come on,” Axl whines. “It’s a myth, people! I can walk in churches and do a merry jig in a temple. I’m good.”
“Okay, good,” Lloyd says in relief. “Unfortunately, the only sacred ground round here is a few miles away at the abandoned church your parents used for this spell. Seeing as we need to keep you safe, behind the gates, I’ve asked Frank to come in and do something with the patch of land near the hot spring.”
“Who is Frank?” Mason asks before anyone else can.
“He is the Head of the largest Druid Coven in this part of the country. Frank will perform a Pagan ritual to prepare the land for our spell. He will be here tomorrow morning…” Lloyd shoots Axl a big beam, “…bright and early! We’ll perform the spell at noon when the sun is at its highest.”
I nod, suddenly getting an attack of nerves. “Okay,” I say, licking my lips. “Do we need to do anything?”
“Just show up,” Lloyd says. “I’ve got this.”
His confidence gives me a little thrill. He seemed unsure of himself before, but now he is completely doubt-free.
I walk over to the windows and stare out over the dark grounds towards the enormous iron gates.
I get lost in my thoughts, wondering how I’m supposed to tell them what I’ve come to realize after the last dream with the Head Hunter.
“We need to talk about Philip,” Mason’s deep voice interrupts my thoughts.
I blink but don’t turn around. “Yes, we do.”
“I know about your dreams,” Mason says quietly. “Now that the magick is inside me, I’m connected to him, the same way you were.”
I hesitate but then spin around, ready to defend myself.
I stop when I see the look of understanding on his face. He isn’t accusing me of anything, he’s just informing me what he knows.
“You saw what I dreamed earlier?” I ask to be sure. This might make my next words easier for him to accept.
“Yes,” he says, rubbing his hand over his face.
“Then you know that he only goes after the evil,” I state, folding my arms across my chest.
“He told you that?” Axl expostulates with such incredulity, I feel a bit foolish. “Fuck’s sake, Lilith.”
“Axl!” Lloyd snaps at him. “Let her talk. Lilith? What do you mean?”
“The Wolf he strung up was a rapist and murderer according to him. I believe him. I had control in the dream, he had to answer me, he had to tell me the truth. He didn’t want to. I could see it all over his face.”
“So?” Axl grits out. “Are you saying that what he did is justified? That hunting me and all those other scared fuckers downstairs was acceptable?”
I swallow. I knew he would be angry. I’m doing this all wrong. I was forced into this conversation before I was ready by Mason’s revelation.
I reach out and place my hand on his chest. It calms his pounding heart a little. He grips my fingers, begging me with his soulful eyes to explain. “I mean this with all the love in my heart, but you are a killer. So are you,” I turn to Mason. “His wife, no less.” I look at Lloyd. “We know that Covens exist where they practice dark magick, that which borders on evil. I’m not saying that he is right. I’m saying that maybe he has a point. The human justice system isn’t built for supernaturals. We can escape paying for our crimes because that is who we are. That doesn’t mean we are above right and wrong. I’m a Vampire. Queen of the Vampires. I have never killed a human or supernatural. I get that Vampires have that urge in them but it’s a choice, isn’t it? The choice to feed and walk away, or the choice to feed and kill? Right and wrong. We are not the same as humans, but they know the difference. So should we. We have no laws to prevent supernaturals from doing wrong. That’s why vigilantes come in and persecute us. We invite it by not keeping control.”
“You’re saying this is all our fault?” Axl asks quietly.
“No, of course not. The Hunters are a bunch of bigoted assholes with false righteousness fueling them. We have made it easy for them to take a hold.”
“I get that,” Mason says.
I couldn’t be more thankful for his support.
“I don’t get what you are saying,” he adds.
“I’m saying that we should use his misguided sense of morality to our benefit.”
“How?” Lloyd asks.
Fixing him with a steady stare, I open my mouth to speak, but Mason interrupts me.
“Philip isn’t the head of this snake,” he says. “There is someone else, someone bigger, someone who doesn’t share his beliefs that only the evil should pay.”
I bite my lip. “I know. Whoever the boss is, we need to get to them and the best way to do that is through Philip. We continue with our plan, we join forces to become more powerful than the Hunters, and we teach those fuckers just who they are dealing with. Philip…” I smile slowly before I continue my impassioned speech. “Philip, whether or not he knows it yet, is going to be our ultimate weapon to bring them down.”
Chapter 32
Lilith
I wait for a response.
Nothing except three concerned expressions turned towards me.
“Are you sure about this?” Lloyd asks eventually, probably only to break the uneasy silence that fell.
“Yes,” I state, without a shred of doubt tinging my voice. “I can turn him with the right motivation.”
“Which is?” Mason croaks.
“Giving him the power to do what he’s doing but under your supervision,” Axl says sarcastically, clearly still very sore about all of this.
“In a manner, yes. I won’t condone torture and murder,” I spit out.
Axl presses his lips together in what
appears to be a massive effort not to say something that he will probably regret.
I shift my eyes back to Mason.
He is glowering at me, his face completely unreadable. The man can do stony better than anyone I have ever come across, even my dad.
“I—I need to…” he stammers suddenly.
I immediately go to him and take his hand. “Are you okay?” I ask quietly, realizing that the magick has hit him hard.
“I’m fine,” he growls, shaking me off.
He spins on his heel and lunges towards the door, yanking it open and striding off down the hall.
“Mason!” I call out, but Lloyd’s hand on my shoulder stops me.
“Leave him a minute. We don’t know how stable he is right now,” he says quietly.
“All the more reason for me to go to him and see,” I point out harshly. “He did this for me.”
“Give him a minute to cool down,” Lloyd insists.
I’m about to protest again when Axl sidles up behind me. He runs his cool hands down my bare arms. My nipples pucker against my tight t-shirt at his touch. Lloyd’s gaze drops to my chest before he pulls his hand off my shoulder.
“I need you, Strawberries,” Axl murmurs in my ear. He scrapes his fangs lightly over the skin of my neck, making me shiver.
“Bite me,” I rasp, forgetting temporarily about Mason. I’ll make sure to catch up with him later on. “Don’t look away,” I order Lloyd, who was about to turn away.
His eyes widen behind his glasses but watches as Axl slowly bites into me. I hiss with the sting, but as soon as he suckles, I go damp with the pleasure of it.
I let my head fall back against Axl’s shoulder as he drinks from me, which draws Lloyd closer. He reaches out, gripping the back of my head. He positions himself to the side so that he can kiss me, sweeping his tongue over my lips until I open up and swish my tongue against his.
“I love you,” Lloyd murmurs against my lips.
“I love you,” I reply, sucking in a deep breath when Axl extracts his fangs from my neck.
In a swift move, Lloyd pulls my t-shirt over my head. Axl unclasps my bra, letting my heavy tits fall free of the black lace. Lloyds pops the button on my black jeans and lowers the zipper, pushing them down around my hips. I help him undress me, dragging my panties down as well, needing them to see me.
“You are so beautiful,” Lloyd mutters, his eyes lasering over me.
“So, so beautiful,” Axl agrees.
I beam at them, enjoying this flattery from both of them. I reach out to Lloyd and drag his t-shirt over his head, knocking his glasses askew. We laugh quietly when we untangle them from his t-shirt and discard them both on the nearby armchair. I run my hands down his rock-hard chest, with teasing touches that make him pant. When I reach his pants, I undo them and help him lose them so that his cock can spring free. Axl watches us silently, not interfering.
I drop to my knees and take Lloyd’s huge, stiff cock in my mouth, grazing my teeth down his length, then wrapping my tongue around him to slide back up to his tip. I plunge my mouth over him, taking him in as my hands cups his balls.
“Fuck, Lily,” he rasps, sliding his hand into my hair. “That feels so good.”
I use my tongue, hands and lips to bring him to the brink of an orgasm, hearing Axl undress next to us and then start to jerk off as he watches. I decide suddenly that I want him in my mouth.
I pull away from Lloyd, who gives me a frustrated groan. I crawl over to Axl and take him in my hand, stroking him when he lets go of his enormous cock.
“Mm,” I murmur, licking my lips and then his tip.
He groans and thrusts his hips forward, fisting his hand tightly in my hair. His cock pushes through my lips. Increasing the pressure on his grip, he thrusts again, forcing himself further into my mouth.
“That’s it, sweetheart,” he whispers. “Let me fuck your mouth.”
I gaze up at him and stay still. He thrusts deep into my mouth with a loud groan, deep throating me, making me gag slightly. He fucks my mouth hard and fast until I decide that I don’t like the lack of control and pull away from him.
He growls but doesn’t make a move. “Little tease,” he murmurs.
I giggle and climb onto the massive bed. I crawl into the middle and flip onto my back, opening my legs wide. “My turn,” I purr.
They waste no time in diving onto the bed with me, Lloyd nestling in between my legs. He drops his mouth to my pussy and licks me all the way up, flicking his tongue over my clit a few times, making me squirm.
“Oh, yes,” I cry out.
Axl latches onto one of my nipples, grinding his teeth gently down. I buck on the bed, arching my back high as the pleasure races through me. He pulls back and drops his fangs, returning to scrape them over the sensitive flesh.
Lloyd plunges his fingers inside me, his tongue working over my clit until the climax thunders over me, sweeping me up in its vortex and throwing me over the cliff of ecstasy with a heat that makes the sweat break out on my upper lip.
“Fuck!” I roar at the same time that Axl bites down around my nipple to suckle from my breast in a move so erotic, my climax doubles up and grips me again, forcing me along as the dying embers flame to life again. My pussy clenches around Lloyd’s fingers, then he adds his tongue, thrusting inside me, tongue fucking me like he was born to do it.
He rears back as soon as my orgasm dies down and with his cock in his hand, he drives it into my slippery pussy, right up to the hilt.
“Ooh, yes,” he groans. “You feel fucking fantastic, Lily.”
Axl raises his head from biting around my nipple, placing his lips firmly on mine to give me a kiss tasting of my own blood.
I shudder as Lloyd pounds into me, feeling Axl trail his hand down to play with my clit.
“More,” I pant, arching my back again. “More!”
Axl rubs my clit with his Vampire speed, which sends rockets of lust sparking through me. I milk Lloyd until he bursts his banks inside me with a grunt that sounds so feral, I thought it came from Axl.
“Fuck,” he pants. “Fuck, Lily.”
He drains himself before he withdraws and collapses next to me on the bed, breathing heavily.
“You out already?” Axl asks with a laugh.
“Give me a fucking minute,” Lloyd pants.
I giggle and get to my knees, sweating and with cum sliding down my inner thighs. I shove Axl back to the bed and mount him, guiding his hard cock inside me and grinding my hips down.
“Christ,” he mutters. “You do feel fucking fantastic.”
“Told you,” Lloyd murmurs, rolling over onto his side to watch us.
I enjoy the act of voyeurism. Axl was right in the forest the other night. It gets me off.
A lot.
More than I ever thought possible. I put on a show for them both, slowly rotating my hips as I play with my nipples, biting my bottom lip enticingly.
“That’s it, baby,” Axl rasps, growing even harder as I fuck him so slowly. “Ride me slow.”
With a wicked smile, I speed up, making him choke out a laugh.
“That works too,” he says, grabbing my hips to keep me steady.
My toes tingle as another orgasm gets ready to explode through me. I feel it building and so does Axl. He groans as I get wetter and slicker, riding him faster and faster. I use my Vampire speed on him knowing that Lloyd is watching this mouth agape, practically drooling.
“Fuck!” Axl roars when my pussy clutches him desperately, tightening around him so hard I think I might break his dick in half. “Jesus, fuck!”
He thrusts high into me and then he emits a long, loud groan as he pumps his cum inside me, flooding me, drenching me.
I shudder one last time on top of him and go still, panting with my exertion.
“No one has ever fucked me as good,” Axl says, his eyes dark and hooded. “You’re going to make it hard for a fella to think straight around you.”
“That’s the idea
,” I say, and climb off him.
He sits up quickly and pushes me forwards towards Lloyd. I lick my lips and take him in my mouth again. His cock is hard, sticky and tastes like my cum.
“Mm, delicious,” I purr when I reach his tip before I engulf his entire cock with my mouth.
Axl’s fingers find their way inside me, twisting and thrusting quickly before he pulls them out and drags them over my rear hole. He hears my muffled gasp and pauses.
“You never done this before, love?”
I shake my head, Lloyd’s dick still in my mouth.
“Do you want to?” Axl asks slyly.
I nod.
He slowly inserts his lubed-up finger into my ass. I clench automatically.
“Relax,” he murmurs and continues to thrust gently, stretching me.
“Oh, you are a filthy little whore, aren’t you?”
I start when Philip’s voice echoes around my head. How can he connect to me while I’m awake? Is the force of the magick that still resides in me that strong? Or it is something else.
“Wrong,” I reply in my head. “I’m a woman lucky enough to have more than one man love me.”
“Dirty girlie,” Philip hisses.
“Jealous?” I goad.
“You wish,” he snarls.
“I know what we’ve been doing in my dreams. You want this with me in person.”
I gasp as Axl’s cock pushes against my rear hole. I relax and smile to myself, sucking on Lloyd’s cock like a fucking lollipop.
Axl thrusts and busts my anal cherry with a triumphant roar.
“You are just a dirty slut, I wouldn’t touch you if you were the last female on earth,” Philip insults me.
“We’ll see about that,” I reply.
“That Wolf won’t want you all used up like an old whore.”
Knowing what he says isn’t true, I use my own power to force him out of my head, tasting Lloyd’s cum hit my tongue when he detonates in my mouth.
Mason does want me; he is just skittish. I will wait as long as it takes to be with him, and in the meantime…I have this.
I pop my mouth off Lloyd and swallow like a good girl, gripping the bedcovers in my fists as Axl rides my ass and Lloyd’s fingers find my clit.
