by Cara Wylde
“Yeah!” said Kain. “You were bad-ass! I’ve no idea how you did it, but you absorbed his energy and drained him completely in seconds!”
“I… I don’t know how I did it. I was so angry.”
Alexi found her hand and squeezed it. He was sitting on the right side of her bed, while Kain was on the left side. Sophie’s brown eyes went from one mentor to the other, her mind still not quite able to wrap around the fact that these two gorgeous men were actually here, trying to take care of her. She must have died and gone to Heaven.
“Leraje is quite a piece of work,” explained Kain. “Did you think we’d give you someone easy to deal with? Even though it was your first training session, it would have been a shame if we chose a lesser demon.”
“Are you serious?” Sophie couldn’t believe her ears. “He had complete control over me. In a matter of minutes, he managed to turn me into an obedient puppy!”
“And you fought him. You figured out his trick and broke free,” said Alexi. “You were incredible! Few cambions are able to resist Leraje and his power. He’s smart and sneaky… you’ve no idea how many young cambions fall into his trap even after dozens of training sessions.”
Sophie looked at him reluctantly. She really didn’t feel like she had done that well in the glass cell. She could still feel the overwhelming sensation of being controlled, of being at the mercy of a creature who could have asked anything from her. Anything. And she would have gladly provided. She remembered the demon’s black, unmoving eyes and a violent shudder shook her whole body. Kain reached out to rub her bare arms. She was still dressed in her black tank top and tight jeans. They had only taken off her boots before laying her in bed.
“I feel like crap,” she said.
“You’re a bit shaken, but that’s normal,” Alexi reassured her. “You need a good night’s rest.”
“Will it always be like this?”
“No.” Kain tucked a brown strand of hair behind her small ear. “Every demon has his or her own strategy. Some of them are subtle, like in Leraje’s case, others are more direct. You can handle them all, trust me.”
She sighed. Right then, all she wanted was to stay as far away from demons as possible.
“This was just the beginning,” said Alexi. “You’ll train a lot in the following weeks, and we’ll help you learn how to hold back when you attack. You’re a very powerful cambion, Sophie. It seems that our private sessions managed to unleash something we didn’t know was there. It’s great that you can render a high demon unconscious in such a short time, but knocking yourself out in the process is not ideal. We’ll work on that.”
Sophie took a deep breath and released it slowly, steadily.
“Okay…”
She had never thought her own powers would come to terrify her.
♥
The next couple of weeks were harsh. Training session after training session… Another Marquis, a Count, a couple of Earls… Each demon had his own strategy, his own plan of attack. Sophie had to keep her mind open, her senses sharp, and her instinct close.
On her third session, she learned a gut feeling could save her life. On her fourth session, she almost knocked herself unconscious again. The scorching burn of her demon sigil was too much to handle sometimes. She would double back and dig her fingernails into the soft skin of her stomach at the end of the training sessions, cursing the stupid tattoo that tormented her so much. However, she pushed on. She didn’t want to disappoint her mentors.
Kain Svjetlo and Alexi Volkov, the two Lure legends, wouldn’t talk about anything else but her, their genius apprentice. Soon, the entire Academy whispered her name in awe, senior and junior cambions asking themselves if she was, indeed, more powerful than her mentors themselves.
After her fifth training session, Sophie started going to Erah’s office once a week. Not because this whole thing had become too overwhelming for her. Not at all.
CHAPTER FOUR
The second they stepped into Lilith’s office, Kain and Alexi knew something was terribly wrong. When Hebe had told them about the meeting an hour ago, they both thought the headmistress wanted to ask them about Sophie and her training sessions. They hadn’t even considered the possibility of a case. They had never worked together, so why would the Pantheon pair them now? But the presence of Ke-sar and Nyame in the office said it all: it was about a case. A serious case. Crazy Nyame only got involved when old, almost ancient demons resurfaced. Otherwise, her job was to make sure there was no shortage of baby cambions in the world. There was nothing she liked more than to seduce mortal men, and she was pretty damn good at it. Sex kept her paranoia and psycho tendencies at bay.
“Kain, Alexi… sit down.” The headmistress threw them an annoyed look. They could have moved their asses faster and got to Meridies half an hour ago. Were her two best soldiers growing soft, or did they just enjoy pissing her off?
They took the empty seats at her desk. Ke-sar barely nodded his head in their direction, and Nyame gave Kain a lascivious smile. Kain smiled back. No, he had no intention to ever hook up with the succubus. She did have beautiful, round curves, which he happened to appreciate in a woman, but her olive skin and dark purple hair didn’t do it for him. He hated everything that was artificial, and he honestly didn’t understand why some of the incubi and succubi went for the artificial look. They could change their appearance as they pleased, so why the bad choices? Also, Nyame was too dangerous even for him.
“I’m sorry,” started Alexi. “Hebe didn’t mention this was about a case.” He eyed the files on the desk, and Lilith pushed them towards him and Kain.
The headmistress sighed and chose not to comment on it. There was no point in wasting even more time. “Casimir D’Argyle, Ke’let demon. The Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine.”
Kain leaned over the file and his brows furrowed in concentration. “Ke’let?” He read through the first page, too impatient to pay attention to the details. He’d get them later. “Man, that sucks.”
Ke-sar smiled. He knew Kain wasn’t taking the situation lightly and that he was playing it cool to annoy Lilith who, in all fairness, was a bit of a drama queen.
“I thought there were no Ke’let demons left,” said Alexi. His voice was low and well-measured. “Didn’t Lure crush them 500 years ago?”
“Apparently, D’Argyle was sneaky enough to escape and go into hiding,” said Ke-sar. “Even now, we discovered him by mistake.”
“These Ke’let bitches are hard to track down,” intervened Nyame. Her high-pitched voice made Alexi groan. “Their magic is powerful and ancient, and they play a lot with hypnosis. Oh, how they like to confuse their victims…”
“If you read the files carefully,” Lilith looked at Kain and stressed the last word, “you’ll see that Casimir D’Argyle has a comfy little nest up in the mountains, and ‘recruits’ his victims from the nearby villages. He is calculated, however, and aside from the fact that he has these villages under a nasty spell, he makes sure he doesn’t abuse his power so as to raise suspicion. He only kidnaps young men and women once a year, when he organizes this fancy party for his friends. Demons from all over the world gather at his mansion for a couple of days, and when the party is over they each go on their merry way, leaving a trail of bodies behind.”
“And no one has ever reported the missing people…” Kain couldn’t believe his ears. What age did these people live in when young men and women could go missing without a trace and no one even gave it a second thought?
“D’Argyle is very careful,” answered Ke-sar. “Our guess is that he hypnotizes them into believing there’s a story behind each disappearance. This boy ran away from home, that girl went to work in the city… Harmless ideas no one would ever become suspicious of.”
“So, how did we discover him?” asked Alexi.
Lilith leaned back in her chair and fixed the two cambions with her bright, absinthe eyes. “A month ago, Tengu was contacted by a shaman. It seems the old man had been in a mystic
trance for the past 100 years, and he woke up when one of his magic items was stolen. He went looking for it, came across a small, isolated village, and noticed something wasn’t right. He felt the demon’s powerful aura floating above the people, keeping them in a sort of blissful haze. He knew Lure was his safest bet.”
“What magic item?” Alexi had always been interested in the humans’ ways of using magic. Words of power, potions, enchanted items they could barely understand and manipulate. It was fascinating how they never gave up even when the magic they toyed with consumed them from within.
“A phial. The shaman says it contains dead water and living water, which are very rare. It’s hard to believe anyone in the world has these two in their possession today, but since Tengu and Nyame brought clear evidence that Casimir D’Argyle is, indeed, a Ke’let demon, nothing surprises me anymore.”
“I… I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t follow,” said Kain. “What do they even do? Dead water and living water, I mean.”
“There are legends about them,” said Alexi. “More like fairy tales. It’s said that dead water has the ability to completely regenerate a dead, broken body. You use it to heal wounds and put limbs back together. Then, living water brings the person back to life.”
“Don’t tell me it also makes them immortal.”
“No, but they do live a long life.” Alexi smiled at Kain’s surprised expression. The blond was so cute when he was confused.
“Well, did the shaman get his phial back?”
“No,” said Lilith. “We’ll help him get it back, and he’ll help us bring down Casimir D’Argyle. Tengu is still in Ukraine, trying to gather more information, but you know he can’t go near the demon’s mansion. The bastard would smell him from miles away. This is a serious situation. That’s why we asked you both here. It’s time the two of you worked together. I believe you had more than enough time to get used to each other in the past month, all with sharing the same room and mentoring the same apprentice.”
Kain and Alexi didn’t say anything. Neither of them was sure this was such a good idea. They still didn’t agree on most things they had to do together. They even bickered over which demons to throw in the glass cell for Sophie to train on.
“Now, the good news is that the demon is currently ‘recruiting’ young men and women for his annual party. This should make your infiltration much easier.”
“And the bad news?” asked Kain.
“It seems that the spots for the male ‘entertainers’ have been filled. He’s only looking for women now. I know I want you two on this case and this is why I called this meeting, but I think it’s only fair to let you choose the female cambion you want to work with.”
The two exchanged a quick glance, then Alexi spoke for the both of them: “Sophie.”
“Out of the question,” Lilith cut him.
“She’s good,” insisted Kain. “Hasn’t Erah showed you the weekly reports? She’s good and she’s getting better and better.”
“I’m not going to let a new cambion with no experience on the field work on such a complicated case. Choose someone else.”
“Look,” Alexi leaned forward in his chair, catching Lilith’s gaze and holding it. “You want us to work together even though you’re aware neither of us has ever been a team player. Sophie is the only reason we were able to find some common ground. Take her out of the picture, and we’re just two cambions with different skills and completely different strategies that are very likely to clash. We’ve been working alone for too long. I hope you didn’t think that forcing us to share a room and interact on a daily basis was going to turn us in the best partners in a month.”
Lilith bit the inside of her cheek, unsure what to say.
Kain slapped the file close, the unexpected noise startling everyone in the office. “Sophie is ready, and she has to start somewhere. So, why not here, why not now? When you have a new cambion with such potential, you don’t give her a simple case, you challenge her. Oh, and Alexi is right. Everything goes to shit when it’s just the two of us. But Sophie’s aura… it has a weird way of creating a sort of balance between ours.”
Heavy silence enveloped the room for a couple of minutes. Lilith stole a glance at Nyame, but the purple-haired succubus only shook her head as if to say it wasn’t her job to make a decision. Ke-sar shrugged his shoulders, and Lilith knew his answer was the same. She sighed, removed her fake glasses, and pinched the bridge of her nose.
“All right. You can take Sophie with you. But make damn sure she is ready and she knows all the case details. Don’t forget to mention you will be using her as bait. If she’s smart, she’ll walk away rather than encourage you two idiots and your insane plan.”
“Hey!” Alexi’s green eyes shot daggers at the headmistress. “Why did you choose us for this case?”
“Because you’re our best cambions and I trust you’ll do a good job.”
“Awesome. That must mean you believe we know what we’re doing.”
“I believe you knew what you were doing on your past cases.”
Kain felt his partner’s anger grow, and decided to intervene. Sometimes, Alexi took things too seriously. “We’ve never let the Academy down, and we don’t intend to do it know. We will take care of everything and you won’t be disappointed.”
Lilith was still reluctant, but nodded her approval. She tried to relax. These were Kain Svjetlo and Alexander Volkov. Everything was going to be fine.
♥
Sophie moaned against Alexi’s lips and squirmed under Kain’s heavy weight. The blond was deep inside her, moving slowly, teasingly, his cock stroking her tight passage in all the right places. She had her head turned towards her other mentor, who was lying beside her, devouring her mouth while stroking his own erection. Sophie couldn’t have enough of them. She wanted them both at the same time. She wanted to touch them, kiss them, have them claim her body in every way they could. Kain gave a particularly hard thrust, and she bit down on Alexi’s bottom lip.
Alexi’s hand moved from his cock to her clit, and started massaging it lightly. Kain felt her walls squeeze around him, and it was all he could do not to start pounding her into the mattress until he shot his load deep inside her pussy. But the three of them had had enough fast, rough sex. He and Alexi wanted to fuck her slowly tonight. After all, it was their last night at the Academy. They had already packed their suitcases, and in the morning a car would come to take them to the airport. Sophie had agreed to help them with the case, so they had spent the evening packing and filling her in on the details. Then, they had decided to join the two beds in their shared bedroom and give her the time of her life.
“Please…” she whispered. Alexi’s fingers didn’t apply enough pressure on her throbbing nub to send her over the edge, and Kain’s cock wasn’t moving fast enough inside her.
“Patience, my dear,” said Alexi. “The more you wait, the better it gets.”
Kain leaned in for a kiss now that her mouth was free. Sophie hooked her legs around his hips, trapping Alexi’s hand between her and the blond’s crotch. They kissed for long minutes, Kain fucking her slowly, pulling out almost completely, then pushing himself back in, as deep as he could.
“I want you both inside me,” she said when they broke the kiss enough for her to turn towards Alexi. The lust she saw in his eyes went straight to her stuffed pussy.
He kissed her forehead and moved in a kneeling position, his thick cock bouncing and making her lick her lips in hunger. “Anything you wish, baby.”
Kain rolled them over, so he ended on his back and she was now straddling him. Finally, she had some control, so she took advantage of the new position and started riding him fast. The blond moaned and grabbed her hips, trying to stop her.
“Sweetie, if you do that, I won’t last long.”
She clenched her walls around him and smiled mischievously, but slowed down her pace. “Okay, but just so you know, that gorgeous cock of yours belongs to me, so I can ride it anyt
ime I want.”
“Hey now… let’s not get too possessive.” Alexi moved behind her and placed his hand on her back, letting her know he wanted her to lean forward. She did, and his hand went down to her ass. He knew she had never done this before, so he tried to be as gentle as possible. He massaged the puckered entrance slowly, then reached for the bottle of lube on the bedside table. He poured a generous amount on his fingers, then started working her hole, pushing one finger in, then two.
Sophie tensed at first, then she realized how good it felt. How sinful and forbidden. Kain moved slowly inside her, his cock distracting her from the slight discomfort Alexi’s fingers were causing. Soon, she was so turned on that she didn’t care anymore. She just wanted Alexi to claim her tight, virgin passage and give her the best fuck she had ever had.
“Enough,” she said. “I’m ready. Give it to me, baby.”
He removed his fingers and leaned in to kiss her shoulder before he positioned the engorged head of his cock at her entrance. He pushed in slowly, enjoying the way her muscles gave in under pressure, her ass welcoming the invasion.
Sophie closed her eyes and sighed in relief. It felt so good. Just as Alexi slid in completely, Kain pulled her down on his chest and kept her there. She didn’t have to support her weight on her trembling arms anymore, and now her hips were up in the air, giving both her mentors perfect access. The three of them stayed like that for a long minute, Kain and Alexi waiting for her to get used to having two cocks inside her, Sophie savoring the feeling of being stuffed so full.
“Move,” she demanded.
And they complied. Oh, how they both complied. Alexi pulled out almost completely, then slammed back in, marveling at how easily she could take his length up to the hilt. Kain followed his partner’s lead, making sure he did the exact opposite, pulling out when Alexi pushed in, and pushing in when he pulled out. They built a nice rhythm, going faster and faster with every thrust, all three aware they couldn’t last long at all.
