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“Very,” Phoebe replied, doing her best not to snort.
Xipil watched her closely. He was clearly the smarter of the two men and that wasn’t saying much. The man with white-blond hair and the scar on his arm disappeared, only to reappear directly in front of her. “I visit your sister often, Phoebe. Shall I tell you what I do to her while she’s strapped down?”
Get down! Aland wants in but he’s afraid of hurting you. Whatever that man is saying is driving Aland to a point I’ve never seen him at. Get down now!
The newcomer reached out for her. She knocked his hand away and brought her knee up, coming into direct contact with his groin. He doubled over and she delivered an elbow to the back of his head. He went down fast. Phoebe kicked out again, hitting his groin once more. Her breathing was ragged as she glared down at him. “What have you done to my sister, asshole?”
Xipil clapped. “Well done, Phoebe. Do you have any idea how hard it is to take down a Constellaziogēn even when you are one yourself? I find it nearly impossible to believe one as young as you can do it. Had I not seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed it.”
The man on the floor grabbed her ankle and yanked her foot out from under her. Something wrapped around her. It wasn’t arms. Hell, it wasn’t even there. It was magik. Pure. Simple. Friendly. She couldn’t help but smile. “Thank you,” she whispered.
Don’t thank me. I fully intend on spanking you for this later. I said get down and I meant it, une zeena.
In the blink of an eye, Sirius was there, slamming into Xipil and knocking him back into the wall. Plaster broke, leaving a perfect indent of Xipil’s body. The man on the floor pushed to his feet and Phoebe’s entire body tightened.
Sirius spun around and narrowly missed taking a foot to the head. The man with the scar lashed power out at Sirius and Phoebe reacted instantly, throwing her own power out and over Sirius. Both men appeared shocked. Her gaze flickered to Sirius. “I won’t hurt you. I promise.”
The man with the scar grinned and tapped the force field encompassing him. “I sensed this in you when you were just a child. I knew. I told the others that you and the other girls were more than just human. I bet you’re as sweet to taste as your sister. I bet your—”
A boom sounded, shaking the room as a blast of power shot past Phoebe and struck the man with the scar. He screamed out as a ball of yellow light encompassed him. What should have been horrific was oddly captivating. Phoebe watched in stunned silence as Aland walked out from behind the lockers, his face hard and his nostrils flaring. “What did you do to Sidney?”
The man shook his head. “N-nothing. I-I swear. She doesn’t let anyone near her. S-she’s powerful.”
“You’re lying!” Aland shouted, thrusting additional power at the man. “What the fuck did you do to her? You had no right to look upon her, let alone touch her! No right!”
Sirius tossed power around Xipil’s unconscious form and Phoebe watched as Xipil seemed to be sucked into a long, funnel-shaped white portal that opened directly behind him. Her husband’s gaze landed on her and then flickered to his friend. “Aland, don’t do this. Send him to the King’s dungeons to await trial. Killing him isn’t the answer.”
“He hurt Sidney,” Aland said, his voice barely above a whisper.
“You know my sister?” Phoebe asked, shocked by Aland’s response.
Sirius shook his head and directed his attention at Aland. “You can’t help her if you’re being held on charges by the King.”
Help who?
His mate.
Sirius’ answer shocked her. One, because she’d actually managed to perfect the art of communicating via their mystical link, and two, because she got the distinct impression that the mate her husband was referring to was Sidney.
Aland’s expression softened slightly and a funnel much the same as the one Sirius had created for Xipil appeared behind the man with the scar, carting him away to oblivion for all Phoebe knew.
“These weren’t the only rebels, were they?” Phoebe asked.
Sirius covered the distance between them and wrapped his arms around her. “No, Slatkiska, they are just a drop in the bucket. The rebels are getting more aggressive. Aland, Forest and I will need to visit the King to discuss the matter with him.” He kissed the top of her head and exhaled deeply. It was then Phoebe realized he was shaking. “First, I’m taking you home and giving you the spanking I promised.”
She gulped. Surely he was kidding.
I don’t joke when it comes to your safety, une zeena.
Phoebe would have commented further but she noticed Aland staring up at the television and found a frozen image of a smiling adult Sidney on it. Reaching up, he skimmed his fingers over Sidney’s cheek and closed his eyes. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t know.”
* * * * *
Sirius delivered another swat to Phoebe’s ass cheek and followed it up with kisses as he leaned over her body. She was spread-eagle on his bed, naked and practically oozing cream. His little minx of a wife was enjoying being spanked way more than she should. He’d foolishly thought he’d be teaching her a lesson. The only one being schooled was Sirius in the fine art of how very much Phoebe had him wrapped around her finger.
Phoebe’s skin was flushed and pink in the areas he’d doled out her punishment. He nibbled at the flesh of her ass playfully, loving how warm and welcoming she was. She trusted him fully, as she should.
Spreading her cheeks, he settled between her spread legs and licked the cleft of her ass. Phoebe jolted and tried to move away. He pinned her in place and shook his head while he rimmed the tiny pink rosette before him.
“Sirius!”
He chuckled into her ass, enjoying the knowledge that she was as excited as he about what was transpiring between them. The swollen lips of her pussy were so close that he had to sample them as well. Her sweet taste assailed him, driving him onward, making his already hard cock twitch with the need to sink into his wife any way he could.
Phoebe bucked beneath him and moaned as he slid his hand around to tweak her clit. Sirius used his free hand to give her ass cheek another light swat and she clawed at the sheets.
“Sirius.”
He moved up and slapped her again. She shuddered beneath his touch and the smell of her arousal intensified. “No. Not yet. You were a bad girl. Now you need to learn to behave yourself.” Slipping his finger into her pussy, he pulled it free, bringing with it Phoebe’s natural juices. He trailed a line to her anus and pushed his finger in.
She quivered. “Yes.”
“Yes, what?” Using his free hand, Sirius gave another light swat to the fleshy part of her upper thigh. “Do you want more?”
“Mmm, yes. More.” She shoved her butt upwards, taking his finger deeper.
The second Sirius felt the muscles in her ass contracting and heard Phoebe cry out, he knew an orgasm was strumming throughout her body. Continuing to finger-fuck her ass, Sirius watched as his wife gave in, riding her peak to its finish.
She glanced over her shoulder and a sexy smile graced her lush lips. “For the love of dick, please fuck me!”
Smiling at her interesting twist of phrase, Sirius could do nothing more than what she asked. Inserting his tongue into her cunt, he used it to fuck her while still stimulating her ripe bud. Phoebe rubbed against his fingers as tiny animal noises came from her. It took Sirius a moment to realize he was making just as many noises as she was. She came with a start, clenching his fingers as she screamed out.
“That’s it. Scream for me, une zeena.” He lapped at her pussy, drinking down her sweet cream. “I’m going to fuck this tight little ass of yours and make you scream for me again.”
Rising up and over her, Sirius held tight to his cock as he stared down at his wife’s glistening ass. He didn’t wait. He pushed the head of his cock into her dark channel and nearly came as the muscles of her ass bore down on him.
“Never—” He thrust into her, ramming his balls to the hilt. “—disobe
y me again, Phoebe.”
She cried out below him, clinging to the sheets as she bucked against him, meeting him thrust for thrust. He was trying to teach the woman a lesson and she was getting off on it. Pulling his cock free of her body, he shook his head. He would not stand for this. As he went to make his “stand” he watched her tiny hole. Unable to help himself, Sirius thrust into her ass again, going to the point where he could go no more and growling.
“Mine,” he whispered, reached around her and pinching her nipples. He fucked her long and hard, taking her ass like a possessed man. In many ways, he was. Phoebe owned him now. He had no doubt of that.
Releasing his hold on her nipples, Sirius slapped her ass again and Phoebe dropped lower, taking him with her. “I’m coming, Sirius! I’m coming.”
And she was. The walls of her ass closed in on him even more than normal, clenching down, leaving him no other option but to give in to the pleasure as well. His balls drew up and he shot seed deep into her body, filling her completely.
Kissing her shoulder, he let out a soft chuckle. “Somehow, I think you missed the point of this, Phoebe.”
“No I didn’t,” she said, glancing over her shoulder. The minute her green eyes locked on him, his chest tightened. “You were worried and you love me.”
“Yes, I do. With all my heart.”
“I love you too.” She grinned. “Now, I get to spank you.”
He would have argued but the thought of being at her mercy made his cock stir. Sirius nodded. “First, we shower. Then, you can have your way with me, Slatkiska.”
The End
Somber Resplendence (Zodiac Gatekeepers)
By
Mandy M. Roth
Somber Resplendence (Zodiac Gatekeepers) © Copyright 2009 - 2013, Mandy M. Roth
Cover art by Natalie Winters, © Copyright 2011
Second Electronic Printing June 2011, The Raven Books
First Electronic Printing April 2009
ISBN 9781452486444
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Somber Resplendence (Zodiac Gatekeepers)
By
Mandy M. Roth
Somber Resplendence
Paranormal Romance
The Zodiac Gatekeeper Book Two
Aland Werner is a fierce warrior trained to follow the rules of both his realm and that of the humans. But when news of his mate’s existence reaches him, he’s willing to do anything to get to her and keep her safe.
Tucked away in a mental ward, Sidney Fisher hides behind a façade of crazy to control circumstances as best she can. Drawing the renegade warriors to her means her sister and cousin can live without fear of being captured. But she’s fighting a losing battle, for her destiny is more than intertwined with the star men, especially the devilishly handsome Aland. The Constellaziogēn warrior is ready to claim his mate and nothing—and no one—will come between him and his woman.
Rating: Contains graphic adult material, multiple partner sex, adult language, and explicit sexual content not suitable for sensitive readers.
Dedication
To my readers for sticking with me through thick and thin.
Prologue
Aland flashed into the locker room of the dance studio, Sirius, his best friend and brother-at-arms, near his side. They’d been on the hunt for a group of renegade Constellaziogēn warriors. Men who ignored the rules set in place by their king long ago. The renegades didn’t care that they were hurting, stealing and even killing human women. All that mattered to them was finding a mate, someone to sate their needs and spend their seed in with the hopes of reproducing. Whether or not that female was willing and was truly destined to be theirs was secondary. They hunted for women with psychic gifts, born under the same astrological sign as the legion in which the warrior served. Their actions sickened Aland. While he didn’t exactly believe humans were the be-all and end-all, he did respect their lives and understand their value to the way of things. They were part of the natural order. A balance needed to keep all realms healthy and happy.
The stench of a renegade was all around them. Tainted power and magik almost always accompanied the ones who had grown too bold, who thought themselves untouchable as did the main one they hunted now.
Xipil.
It was the renegades who still worried about being caught who proved the hardest to track. They bothered to cover their energy signature and looked for new ways to sneak paste the Gatekeepers undetected.
Blinding white light from a portal caused them both to lift their hands to shield their faces. Between the smell, the light and the strumming of power in the air around them, it was evident someone had opened an unauthorized portal. Not only that, they’d done so in a location that did not naturally lend itself to one. The physics of their society were far more advanced than that of humans. Even so, a heavy amount of constellation appreciation, knowledge and magik was required. To open a portal in a spot ill-equipped for one meant the person was desperate. They were unstable at best. While they wouldn’t do much in the way of damage to the surrounding area, they weren’t something Aland would willingly pass through—not if he wanted to come out the other side totally intact. This lot apparently didn’t care about safety.
Catching sight of Sirius, Aland reached out, nudging his friend. “Where’s Phoebe?” he asked, concern for his friend’s mate first and foremost on his mind.
The sound of a male voice drifted to them. It was coming from the other side of the locker room. “Tell me, Phoebe, when is the last time you visited your sister?”
“What’s wrong with Sidney?” Phoebe asked, her voice tight.
Sirius reacted first, rushing in the direction of his mate’s voice. Aland followed closely behind. Xipil, the renegade, had betrayed his own kind by trying to take what wasn’t rightfully his—a mate. He and others like him had orchestrated abductions all over the area the media was now dubbing the Zodiac Zone. So far, Xipil was the only renegade stupid enough to make another go at Phoebe.
“Nothing,” Xipil said. “Other than the fact she foolishly separated herself from you on purpose. With no mate present, and two powerful females in one location, you were like a beacon to us. She sensed this.”
Aland and Sirius slowed their pace, using a row of lockers as cover. If Xipil knew they’d arrived, he’d do something rash, like kill Phoebe. Sirius motioned to Aland to move around and flank Xipil from the other side. With a nod, Aland did as instructed, drawing upon his natural-born powers along the way.
“She even managed to keep us at bay,” Xipil said, still talking with Phoebe. Aland was confused as to who the “she” of the matter was but he held his questions for a later date. “There is even word that she managed to reach a Gatekeeper, summoning him forth to aid in protecting you.”
“What do you want from me?” Phoebe demanded. “You have to realize that I’m not about to run off into the sunset with you, and that my husband will kill you when he gets his hands on you.”
Aland slipped into position and let his magik trickle out and through the locker room in search of Sirius. When it found him, he formed a mental link with his long-time friend. It wasn’t something that could be done all the time between males who weren’t blood related but it was something that could be done in short bursts.
Your mate is in my line of fire, he pushed with his mind. Get her to go to the f
loor.
Xipil picked that moment to point at the television in the upper corner of the locker room. It sat just above Aland’s current hiding place. He stepped into the shadows more to get a better look at what the renegade was doing. The channel on the television changed. An image filled the screen, one Aland knew wasn’t being broadcast from anywhere other than Xipil himself. It was something he was determined to show Phoebe.
Three young girls appeared. One he recognized instantly as Phoebe as a child. Another he reasoned to be her cousin Heather. The third was one he’d not yet met but his deductive skills told him it was most likely Sidney, Phoebe’s sister—who now resided in a mental ward.
While too young for him, the girl was breathtakingly beautiful. It was easy to see she would grow up to be stunning. Something about her caused an odd pulling sensation to occur behind Aland’s navel. He tried to rip his gaze from the image of Sidney, but couldn’t.
A dog ran in a circle around the three girls as they played. Sidney bent, helping Phoebe tie her shoes.
“You were destined to be one of us,” Xipil said to Phoebe as she too watched the television screen, seeming as captivated as Aland was.
“The others, the Gatekeepers, do not see what we see,” Xipil continued. “The resistance knows the truth. You and the others like you, Phoebe, are more than connected to us. You’re not human like the others wish to believe. See for yourself.”
The image continued to play out on the screen. The girls all had chalk and were drawing upon the sidewalk. Phoebe near her sister, giving instructions on how best to draw symbols human children should know nothing about.
They were symbols meant for travel between the realms. Symbols used by his people.