by D. R. Rosier
I left the house and raced home fast enough most humans wouldn’t even register my presence. When I got home I practiced what I had just done. It was much harder without the anger. It took a lot of focus and concentration to turn my shield so dark. Wrapping my hand in what I was starting to think of as the void of death was even harder, but I was able to do it.
It was definitely a combination of the amount I was channeling, plus how focused my mind was. As I cooled down I wondered how smart it would be to hunt them. Self defense was one thing, but actively going after them was quite another. Perhaps I would just have my new human pets keep an eye on them. I think I’d have an easier time with killing them if they were attacking someone else at the time. Even at my most angry years ago I didn’t go looking for people to kill, I wasn’t about to change that.
One thing was for sure, I didn’t feel depressed anymore. Reluctantly almost I returned to my own body. I felt that same thankfulness from Allie, apparently her and Gina had been close friends at one time. I told her via our link she could go visit if she wanted to.
I tried again with the magic, and it was a little easier in my own body, but of course I was physically slower and weaker, so unless someone found me or cornered me in some way, I wouldn’t be fighting with my own body.
I could shoot the necromantic energy from me of course, but I could only achieve a darker black aura with that, the magic I could focus around my hand wouldn’t extend very far from my body before it lost that tight cohesion. It made me sad for a moment; I wished my parents were still alive so I could ask about it.
I told Celane all about it, even though she had probably been aware of it all as it happened. I was probably more excited about it than I should be. But it felt good to have something to focus on outside of these walls. It would be just a matter of time before I acted again now that I had eyes on some of them.
Celane said softly, “Good. Just be careful, try not to start a war with all humans as you fight against these rabid hunters.”
I nodded slowly. I considered the idea of just defending my city, keeping them out of here and screw the rest of the world. What did I really owe them anyway? I was tolerated at best, at worst thought to be a threat that should be dealt with. No, not even that good, at worst I was something they tried to kill. They say though that the best defense is a good offense. It wasn’t as if the human authorities could really do anything about it. Most of the world was hovering on the edge of anarchy; the governments didn’t have nearly as much power as they once held.
“I’ll do my best to stay safe,” I promised, “But safe is relative.”
I opened my mouth to ask why she would care. She was stuck here, unable to move on, until I died. I could easily live another hundred and thirty years if no one kills me first. Why would she want to be stuck here so long, or care about the person who enslaved her very soul?
I closed my mouth, I wasn’t really sure if I wanted that answer or not…
Chapter 5 – Jeremy
I smiled as I woke up. Five times… It had been so much better than I ever imagined, for more reasons than one. I loved her but she’d also been my best friend for years, I was happy to note that I didn’t feel awkward about things at all, it just felt right.
I felt her legs entwined with mine, had she lain here the whole time as I slept? I turned my head and saw her looking down at her kindle. She was still nude and I took a moment to admire her beauty before I said anything. Okay, perhaps a little longer than one moment.
I finally asked, “How long was I out?”
Bell looked up and smiled, “Just about fourteen hours. It’s close to noon. Your soul is healing fast as well. I think we don’t have to worry much about things unless we go overboard. Would you like to go down to the beach?”
I waggled my brows, “Of course, how else can I get you in a bikini.”
She snorted and raised an eyebrow before she said suggestively, “I have other outfits in mind I think you’d like a lot more.”
I slapped her ass playfully, “Bad demon, no sexy lingerie until I’m recovered. That would be torture, and probably a violation of the Geneva convention.”
She smiled at my goofy joke, which must mean she really loved me, “Yes dear.”
I was starved. I got up, bent over the bed for a lingering kiss, then took a shower and got ready. We got some lunch and ate out on the beach. It was a perfectly clear day, and close to eighty degrees. I enjoyed our time together as usual, but I couldn’t help but think about Katrina on and off all day.
Bell was probably right, we couldn’t trust her. But it was tempting to take a chance and make sure that was true. I was tired of always running. Survival seemed to be our only focus, and as a result I felt like a leech on society for the most part. I didn’t do anything productive, more often than not stealing from those that we killed in self defense. What if she could hide us, help us fight back? Maybe even put it behind us one day.
I frowned. Even if she could be trusted it would just turn into a nightmare like Chicago had. Someone else would die trying to keep me safe. If I really wanted to stand and fight I could always go back to Hope and Vince for help. On the other hand, as far as I knew they didn’t have a way to hide me from the human hunter’s sight as Katrina had claimed she could. That would be a huge advantage.
I tried to push it all down, and I half managed to do it and have fun with Bell. She looked really amazing in her white bikini.
I noticed that the men on the beach hardly gave Bell a second look, but some of the women were freely checking her out. I smiled a bit at that, she was clearly doing it for my benefit, changing her vibes, pheromones, or whatever it was that made her so irresistible to other men.
That night was probably still too soon for any fun, but she still joined me in bed and cuddled her body against mine. I fell asleep that night knowing she would watch over me as she usually did. Sleep was a vulnerable time where she couldn’t really leave me; the humans didn’t sleep anymore at all, which wasn’t a good thing for my life expectancy if I was alone.
Regardless, as I held her close, the scent and feel of her skin against me was both comforting and tempting. I considered we should probably limit ourselves to twice in the future, I think that way we wouldn’t have to skip days and I wouldn’t be so worn out. Despite the temptation, I was tired from our day and didn’t have trouble finding rest…
I woke extremely hard. My length was cradled in the velvety smooth skin of her ass crack and she was pushing back, wiggling, and squeezing her cheeks together. I couldn’t imagine it was easy what she was doing, all three things were done in perfect concert and it felt like she was jacking me off with her ass.
“Good morning,” she said sultrily.
I moaned and kiss the back of her neck and across her shoulder before muttering, “Hell of a wakeup call.”
She turned her head and reached her hand back, pulling me into a seriously hot and lingering kiss. I moved my hand from her flat stomach up to her breasts and tweaked her nipples one at a time before breaking our kiss. I started to move down her body with my lips, slowly working my body above hers as I went down. I continued to play with her breasts, getting a little rougher as I pulled her nipples and twisted slightly drawing a gasp from her mouth.
She said demandingly, “Where are you going, I want you in me now.”
I slapped her ass lightly and teased her entrance with my fingertips before sliding them in. I couldn’t wait to taste her. I slid two fingers in and curled them, searching for her g-spot as licked up her labia. Her taste shot a feeling of raw lust through me and I dove in eagerly, determined to bring her to orgasm before taking her.
Besides never having tasted her essence before, it was plain to me that we were limited by my orgasms, not hers.
She gasped, “God, don’t stop, bite me!”
I sucked in her clit and bit down. Her legs locked around my head and squeezed as she pulled my hair and ground up into my face. She was frozen, trembling; m
y head was locked in position between her powerful legs as I lapped up my reward. Her liquid ecstasy was so good I couldn’t stop. I brought her to bliss two more times before crawling back up her body. I took her hard and fast at that point, her core was even more pleasurable around me than I had remembered from two nights ago. I lasted just long enough to bring her one more orgasm before I filled her with my essence.
She looked completely sated and the way she looked at me said it all. She knew why I’d gone down on her for so long. I knew I’d be down there a lot more in the future. Just because I couldn’t cum more than twice a day didn’t mean I couldn’t rock her world with the help of a lot of foreplay. It didn’t help that I couldn’t last long either, when we joined it was just too good, when she hit her bliss and her core milked me holding back was virtually impossible. We kissed and held each other for while before reluctantly getting up when my stomach growled.
We showered together and got dressed before going down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.
Bell asked, “Do you know where we’re going next? They should be here soon, if they haven’t already taken an overnight flight.”
I shrugged, “I’m not sure, maybe Australia? Or…” I said softly, “I was thinking maybe we could give Katrina a chance. If she could…”
I trailed off at her frown.
She echoed my thoughts of yesterday as she said, “It would be nice to stop running if she could really shield us. But I don’t trust her. I don’t like the way she looked at you.”
I raised an eyebrow and teased her, “I know she checked me out but… what are you thinking, she wants to enslave me? And here I just thought I was attractive…”
I winked at her amused look.
Bell didn’t look to sure but said, “I don’t know for sure, maybe she just thought you were hot. But it isn’t worth the risk. We’ve protected each other for a while now… I wish we knew who was behind all this though.”
I shook my head, “Aren’t they all?”
Bell nodded, “But they can’t all be independently wealthy to afford to do nothing but chase us and others like us around the world. Constant plane tickets and hotels take money; someone must be bankrolling the group. If we could stop that person the others would have no choice but to give up and get a damn job, but I don’t see how we could do that.”
I shrugged, “Katrina might be able to help us with that. Something to keep in mind, we don’t have to decide right now. I just want us safe, and to have a semi-normal life. Outside of the couple of years in Chicago my life has been nothing but running.”
She took my hand, “Should we go now?”
I shrugged, “Probably, but is there anything you want to do here? There are some tours we could try. It might be fun, and they won’t attack us in a huge crowd. We could skip out tonight.”
She looked considering for a moment but I saw her smile. She loved that kind of stuff and I was in the mood to spoil her. I didn’t think it was all that big a risk either.
She said teasingly, “Alright, but you were getting lucky again later anyway.”
We did a couple of tours, one of a fortress, another to a rain forest. All day long she teased me with her ideas of overcoming the two shot limit I was under. I had to admit I was intrigued with some of them. Especially joining her in the hunt like when we first started. She wasn’t jealous at all of the idea of sharing a target with me, and me getting off a couple of times with another woman as Bell fed from our temporary partner’s orgasms before we ended the night by me filling her up had my libido going.
She got quite graphic about it as she talked to me mind to mind through our link and by the end of the day I was ready to tear her clothes off and take her in public. She had absolutely no shame and she knew me so well she had me crazy by the end of the tours. That wasn’t to say she wouldn’t be jealous of my heart and mind if I fell for someone else, but not so much pleasure and sex. It was how she was built.
She wouldn’t have given a second thought to lying with another man either, but she would not do that for my sake. It felt a little hypocritical as I fantasized about our future threesomes as she filled my mind with her naughty thoughts, but not enough to change my mind. I had to make her mine in that way, or I knew it would all fall apart due to jealousy.
She also made it clear to me she was open to being taken in more than one place. I considered her sexy ass and liked the idea. This part of our relationship was new and I wanted to lock us in a room for a month until we’d tried everything we could think of, multiple times, and then surfed the internet for more ideas… but I knew I’d have to be patient given the limitations. The good side of that was our sex life wouldn’t ever get boring.
She grinned at me, “Have I driven you crazy yet? I still seem to have all of my clothes on.”
I frowned, “We’ll find a hotel room as soon as we get to Sydney. I don’t want to risk being separated from the other humans longer than grabbing our stuff and checking out.”
She took my hand, “You’re right of course, I wasn’t thinking. Well, not past my desires anyway. I love you Jeremy, I have for a long time. Mixed in with my own desire I just want to please you.”
I winked, “I won’t argue with that, as long as I get to do the same.”
She kissed me softly on the elevator, then the way she held herself changed. She may have been soft and loving with me, but she was a demon and I could tell she’d gone all business. We walked out of the elevator with shadows pooled around our feet, almost caressing as they obeyed her will. They grew and shot in front of us as we neared the door, sliding underneath the space between the door and the floor.
I asked, “Anything?”
She concentrated a few more seconds and said, “No, no traps and I don’t feel any magic.”
“I don’t feel anything either.”
She relaxed a little, “Just being cautious, I don’t want to walk into another containment circle, or a trap.”
I nodded, “We should have left this morning, but we had fun today.”
We went into the room and I used the automated checkout as Bell packed our stuff into our bag. I heard a click as she picked up the bag, and saw a small grenade roll a few inches. I yelled a one word incantation and the grenade flew across the room as Bell’s shadows encased us. I saw the explosion as we disappeared and reappeared in Australia.
I had been protected from their minds and TK with my amulets, but it appears they were changing their tactics. Bell’s and my search for magic wouldn’t find technology, or normal explosives. It was a close thing. I turned to her in alarm as she collapsed to the floor. I could see the blood spreading and a few humans gasped and gathered around.
Ignoring them I pulled out my healing amulet. I still had the energy stored from when I sacrificed that asshole in the warehouse in Germany. I knelt by her and using the command word I felt the healing energy fill her body, and close the wound right below her chest. We’d need to be careful, I couldn’t heal again, not until another sacrifice anyway.
“Are you okay love?”
She nodded but looked groggy. I knew she would recover quickly, and in the future we would be adding explosives to our list. I picked her up and moved her to a couch while I went to check in. The humans didn’t give us another look as I picked her up and carried her up to our room. I was hardly in the mood, I was scared. She could have easily shielded us from the blast, but it had caught us both off guard.
But I knew she needed the energy to heal faster, so I gently undressed her after which I disregarded all her kinky and rough ideas of the day, and proceeded to make love to her gently. She wasn’t very responsive at first, but I could see in her eyes how much she loved me. When we reached completion together she looked much better and mostly recovered as she came down.
She whispered, “I’m sorry.”
I held her tighter against me, “No love. They changed tactics. We’ll be more aware next time, it wasn’t your fault.”
She frowned and
said, “I need to keep you safe.”
I smiled, “You did, it wasn’t me that got hurt love.”
She burrowed her face into my neck and kissed me. I held her close and played with her hair and her back as we talked.
“I think I need to work on the physical protection amulet. What if they decide to use a sniper rifle next? It will take a few days of almost constant work. We should stay indoors until I’m done.”
The next week I focused on the amulet as much as I could during the day. It was very boring but exacting work as I cast spells over it and carved the symbols that defined its function.
At night I focused on the many ideas Bell had for bedroom games. We skipped to a new town every afternoon to ensure they wouldn’t catch up and didn’t go outside at all, instead ordering room service. It took a little longer than I thought it would for a few reasons.
The first was Bell refused to leave me, the attack had shaken her more than she admitted. So I became her food source for that week, which was fine with me, but it left me a little tired. Ironically however I had more than enough magic to fill myself, and all of my protection amulets from the energy she shared feeding on my soul. It was definitely one of the benefits to our new relationship. Neither of us lacked for power.
The only amulet I couldn’t charge of course was the healing. But by the end of the week I had physical protection along with TK and mental. I also had my emergency reserve magical amulet full, it held as much magic as my body did. The added bonus to this is I didn’t have to worry about shielding at all now, unless we came up against a non-human enemy I could dedicate my magic to offensive spells.
I wasn’t shielded from the magic of other races, but I really didn’t think we needed to be. If I was attacked by a witch or sorcerer I was more than powerful enough to shield and between the two of us we’d tear them apart, in theory.
Bell was brimming with power as well; apparently I was enough to satisfy. She still wanted to pick up women in the future though, I wasn’t at a hundred percent stamina wise as my soul healed and the less she needed to feed from me the better. I was sure we would eventually find the right balance.
