Alex bucked against him, writhing on the bed, but he had no trouble holding her in place. His fingers dug into the firm globes of her ass, working her closer to his greedy mouth. She jerked in surprise when he traced the opening of her ass with a rough finger tip, sliding in and out of the tight ring of her anus in sync with his teasing tongue in her pussy.
She came right then and there, arching her back and pushing herself at him as her sharp cries rang out in the room. Throughout her climax, he licked and tongued her, soothing her swollen, aching flesh with gentle lashes and strokes. When the spasms faded, he rose above her with fierce determination in his eyes.
“I love the taste of you Alexis,” he whispered. “You will be another curse for me. I will crave you as a starving man craves food, water.”
With a soft growl, he slipped the heavy shaft of his cock easily into her wet channel, moving slowly at first to allow her body to adjust to the size of him. He filled her, stretched her. Alex lifted her legs to wrap them about his waist, pressing her heels into the small of his back to encourage him to thrust harder faster.
“Patience, fair one.” His voice was low next to her ear as he settled over her. “We have the entire night.”
Yet she wanted more, craved more. Her pussy walls clenched around him hard as he found his rhythm, the glide of his cock inside her hard and deep. Alex raised her hips higher to give him better access to her. When his balls began to slap against her, she felt her body tightening as the feverish heat threatened to consume her.
Alex was sobbing now, begging him for more between the harsh rasps of her breath. Over and over he slammed into her tight cunt as she bucked beneath him, clawing at his back and chest. She welcomed the raw blend of incredible pleasure and slight pain, wondering if she would survive it. Her heart beat so strong that it felt like it would burst through her ribs as his thrusts came harder, faster.
His control appeared to be slipping and Alex sucked in her breath as his fingers dug further into her hips, his eyes now wild with lust. He looked like a fallen angel with the dark strands of his hair framing his face in a sweaty tangle. His sensual lips were parted, his breath a jagged cadence that matched hers.
“Ardeth!” Her voice was a harsh cry as another fierce orgasm tore through her body. He joined her this time, climaxing hard and fast and filling her pussy with his hot seed over and over again. Wave after wave of incredible sensation shook her to her core until there was nothing left but the weight of his body on hers, fighting through his own release with thrust after thrust.
Alex was shaking when he eased himself off of her and rolled to one side. She burrowed into his warmth, her ear pressed against his chest so that the thundering of his heart filled her ear. Ardeth swept the long, tangled strands of her hair back from her face, caressing her back in long, gentle strokes.
“Our life will be good, fair one,” he whispered. “You will see. And you have a friend here.”
Alex had barely recovered her breath enough to speak. “Carson?”
“Yes.”
“Why is she here? Did the minions try to get her too?”
There was a pause, the motion of his hand stopped on her back. “Carson is cursed just as we are now. Just as you are. She was not a victim of the dark riders. Sopdet gave her his curse to keep her from dying.”
“She is alive. Can I see her?” Alex’s heart sped up. And Hunter. Had he survived the creatures’ attack at the hotel? Could they reunite him with his daughter? She felt so badly that he was looking for her and his daughter now.
If she was cursed, that meant Carson couldn’t leave Egypt either. What would they tell Hunter?
Shit, for that matter, what would she tell her family?
If what Ardeth said was true. Alex had reason to believe parts of the story she’d been given. Yet she couldn’t get her mind around this curse. Immortality? Being trapped in Egypt?
“Ardeth?”
“Hmmm?”
“You said I am becoming cursed and once that’s done, I’ll be safe from those guys. How long will that take?”
His arms tightened about her at that. “I cannot say. But there are ways to speed the transformation. Very pleasant ways.”
“You mean this?” She laughed.
“Yes.”
The motion of his hands on her body resumed, less gentle and more adventurous now. He turned on his side to face her, the heated length of his cock, hard again, was a hot brand against her inner thigh.
“One more thing.” Because once they started making love again, all reason, everything but him, would be swept away. “Once I am cursed, can I die? Or am I…”
“You will also be immortal.”
The thought was staggering. She couldn’t leave Egypt and she’d never die. What would happen to the life she’d known? What would she do with herself now?
Well, there was this. He moved down the bed to take one of her nipples between his lips and it beaded hard. Ardeth felt so good. It felt so right to be here in bed with him. An eternity of this wouldn’t be a bad thing at all.
But she had to know one thing before she could ever begin to accept this.
She had to prove to herself that she couldn’t leave Egypt.
Later.
As his tongue began to worry the tight little peak of her breast, Alex gasped, surrendering to the pleasure he was building in her once again.
Chapter 7
When Ardeth awakened from a rare sleep the next morning to find Alexis gone, he hadn’t been totally surprised. It still didn’t please him. Didn’t she realize what sort of danger she was in without his protection? Especially after they’d dared go after her in Cairo yesterday in plain sight of the humans.
Ardeth stepped out of his home, the early morning sun bathing his face in warmth. Had she gone back to the men she’d came with? Did she think to try and leave Egypt?
Yes, he was almost certain that’s what she’d try to do.
Reaching out with his senses, he felt the stirrings of the dark riders. He needed to reach her first. Summoning the sand to transform him into the sphinx, Ardeth groaned as his limbs shifted and changed. Stretching out his wings and preparing for flight, Ardeth steeled himself for the confrontation to come. He wasn’t sure what he dreaded most. Dealing with the Set’s minions or dealing with Alexis.
She was his mate, like it or not, and it wasn’t pleasant to sense her fear and mistrust of him. In his bed, she came alive with passion and desire for him. When they weren’t making love, her mind churned with doubt and worry. It would be a hard obstacle for him to overcome. Yet somehow he had to make her believe in him and the possibility of their spending a happy eternity together. He had to convince her that he could keep her safe, protect her.
Well, he couldn’t do that with her taking off for Cairo, could he?
“Ardeth?”
Before he could leave the ground, the voice of Sopdet’s mate, Carson, stopped him.
“Kahma told us that there is a woman with you,” Carson said slowly. “It’s Alexis, isn’t it?”
Ardeth nodded. He knew the women were friends.
“Can I see her?”
“You can when I bring her back here.”
Fear widened Carson’s pretty, hazel eyes. “Oh, my God! Where is she?”
“Cairo.” That’s what his senses told him anyway.
“I’ll go with you!”
“No, stay here,” Ardeth instructed her. “She is my responsibility.”
“I’m responsible for her too!”
“Not any longer. She is mine, Carson.”
The woman cared for Alexis and that was good. Carson could be very helpful in getting Alexis through this transition. Carson would need Alexis as well. Carson’s father was here in Egypt. Alexis had told him that. It would be difficult for Sopdet’s mate to deal with.
He decided not to say anything at the moment. Carson had enough to deal with in her worry for Alexis. A worry he shared.
“You may see her when I return
. Tell the others to be ready. The dark riders went into Cairo for her yesterday. They are particularly aggressive at the moment.”
Carson nodded, watching him as he flew into the air and headed for Cairo as fast as his wings would carry him.
* * *
He found Alexis sitting on a bench in one of the airport terminals, looking pale and shaken. It was just as well she’d discovered on her own that she couldn’t leave his country, that the curse he’d unwittingly passed on to her was quite real.
“Alexis?”
Her soft, green eyes were round with fear as they searched his face. She was dressed in the garments he recognized as belonging to one of the women who took care of his home.
“Ardeth?”
He didn’t say anything. He just stared at her as he tried to gain control over his emotions. When he thought about what could have happened to her, what could have happened to them all, it had made him fearful. Fear was an emotion that Ardeth didn’t care for at all. The fact that she hadn’t trusted him, unreasonable as it was, angered him also.
“How did you get here?” he asked, calmly.
“I ran most of the way, if you can believe that.”
Ardeth could believe that. He could run with remarkable speed when he chose to but he much preferred to fly. Once she learned how, she would as well.
At the moment, however, he wasn’t worried about her learning to fly. He wanted her to listen to what he told her.
“And?” he prompted her.
“And I was able to make it back to my hotel room for my passport, credit cards, and airline ticket. I always hide them well when I travel and they were still there. I wanted to let Carson’s father know I was okay but I was afraid to stop. I made it to the airport, got a flight on standby -- I was amazed at how quickly that happened -- and then I got on the jet. It took off…”
He wanted to feel sympathetic to her plight and was certain he would later. At the moment, he could barely control his anger at her foolishness. His relief to see that she was unharmed, well, that was powerful too.
Grabbing her roughly by the arm and hauling her up from the bench, he glared down into her startled face.
“Tell me what happened when you got on the airplane, Alexis. Tell me, did you experience a moment of incredible pain before you found yourself back on the ground?”
“Yes, that’s exactly what happened. One moment I was on the plane and on my way home, and suddenly I felt like someone had thrown me into a wood chipper. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground and I hurt like hell. I didn’t know where I was. God only knows what the other passengers thought --”
His grip on her tightened and she twisted against it.
Her full lips fell open and she twisted in his grip. “Let me go.”
He wouldn’t let her go. Pulling her behind him, he searched for a private place. His eyes scanned the hallway wildly until he spotted an open door. Marching toward it, he pulled Alexis behind him with an unrelenting grip. She didn’t put up much of a fight.
Once inside, he locked the door, then turned another bolt on the door.
“This is someone’s office,” she said.
“Silence!”
Ardeth’s balls knotted with the overwhelming need to take her here and now. To demonstrate his dominance over her because he could. She was unharmed from her foolish venture. By all the gods, he didn’t care what the room was! His cock was throbbing, engorged with a need that swept through every fiber of his being.
“I’m sorry,” she said quietly.
“If they had gotten to you first, you would have been very sorry, fair one.”
Before she had time to protest, he gripped her waist with a tight hand, pushing her back to the wall by the door and pressing her against it.
Her little moan almost caused him to fall on her like a rutting beast, but somehow he kept control. She was ready for him. It was evident in the way she stood waiting, the way her eyes moved over him with desire. She cried out when he began to shove up the cotton skirt. As he revealed the bare flesh of her loins, a shudder passed through her body.
Smoothing his hand over her hip, Ardeth felt her muscles clench in response. He wanted to taste her, to lose himself in her even as angry as he was with her.
He lowered his head until his lips rested near her ear.
“You will not disobey me again,” he told her.
There was a pause. He almost anticipated some argument from her, but after several seconds he realized that none was forthcoming. Neither was an answer.
When he pressed his fingers between her thighs, he drew a response from her. Alexis cried out, jerking in his arms as his fingers searched the slick, hot dampness he found there, coating the light brown curls and the swollen lips of her pussy.
His fingers began to circle the small entrance to her pussy and her mewling cries filled the room. Her wet heat scorched his fingers as they gathered it to slide back to the tight, closed ring of her ass.
Alexis was panting now, clawing at his arms as he lightly probed that tiny hole.
“You have so much to learn, fair one. So much to learn about life. So much to learn about your own body.” Growling, he pushed his fingertip just inside her anus. “I will enjoy taking an eternity to teach you.”
The opening fluttered around his finger, untried. She’d never been taken there, he could sense it. He couldn’t wait to take her there, couldn’t wait to do many things with her.
Right now he needed her desperately. Clutching her bare thighs in his hands, he pulled them around his waist. He pinned her to the wall, supporting her as he fought with his robe to free himself. It was so easy to slide his cock up into her hot, little passage until he was deep inside her. She moaned, her hands spearing into his hair as the walls of her cunt tightened around his shaft.
“Oh, please, fuck me!”
Ardeth knew that term. And he was more than happy to give her what she wanted. His hips pumped up into her desperately as she gasped and cried out. Never, not even when he’d been a living man, had he ever wanted a woman with such eagerness and desire. He wanted her to come and bathe him in her juices. He wanted to watch her face when she found her release.
As he thrust his cock into her again and again, Ardeth lost himself in the incredible pleasure she gave him, this slender, white woman. He was ready to spend all eternity making her crave him each waking moment. He wanted her to long for him with every part of her body and soul.
He wanted her… to feel as he did.
His balls tightened more, pulsing with the need for release. Reaching between their bodies, his fingers found her clit, stroking it gently in time with the thrusting of his cock and he knew he had her on the edge of ecstasy.
Her scream as she came caused him to explode within her. Long aching pulses ran through him as his seed spurted wildly into Alexis. Her body spasmed around him over and over, her pussy milking his shaft greedily.
Their cries echoed in the small room and she hung onto him as he gently lowered her to the floor.
“Come, we must return,” he told her when he managed to catch his breath.
A loud pounding on the door had her jumping in his arms. It startled him too but he didn’t sense the presence of Set’s minions outside that door.
Adjusting her clothing to cover her up as the pounding continued, Ardeth reached for the lock and threw the door open with so much force it was torn from its hinges. The startled man on the other side stared at him, his eyes filled with terror behind his spectacles. He didn’t move as Ardeth led Alexis out of the office.
Chapter 8
When they reached the outskirts of Cairo, Ardeth stopped. His grip on her hand tightened until it was nearly painful.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
Ardeth’s eyes squeezed shut as he stood there motionlessly. “The dark riders. We have to hurry.”
Panic squeezed her heart in her chest. “Where are they?”
“Back at my home.” Turning to face her, h
e gripped her shoulders and lowered his head until he was eye level with her. “Alexis, we must fly to get there. I will fly us back. You might as well see the truth about me. Very soon it will be your reality.”
Now her heart was slamming in his chest. Hadn’t he told her that Set had turned him into some creature of darkness? Was she about to find out what that meant?
Pulling her behind an abandoned building at the edge of the sand, Ardeth backed away several steps, his gaze never leaving her. All at once, the sand at his feet began to rise and swirl until it was flying wildly all about him like a miniature sandstorm. Alex shielded her eyes from the grains until, just as quickly as it had started, it stopped.
The sight before her eyes when she opened them nearly ripped a scream from her throat. A creature with Ardeth’s face and head stood staring at her. Only in the place of his body, which she normally liked a lot, was the body of enormous cat. He stood on his rear paws and he had the long, sleek tail of a lion. Great wings unfolded and spread out to form an incredible span.
Suddenly it occurred to Alex what he was. She’d seen the image a few times in books throughout her life. She’d also seen creatures like him in the cave that night, fighting the creatures who had held her prisoner.
What he was.
“You’re a… a sphinx!”
“Yes.”
Okay, he could still talk. That was good.
“Trust me,” he bid her.
Snatching her up in his great paws, he lifted them into the air and they were flying. Flying! Alex watched the city shrink as they started to cross the vast desert.
She’d never had any liking for heights. Yet within seconds any fear she felt about hanging suspended hundreds of feet in the air by a mythical creature vanished as she enjoyed the beauty of the scene below. She could see the precincts from up here. The ancient ruins looked so small. The view was incredible and they were traveling so fast! Yet the speed was probably necessary because he couldn’t take the risk of being spotted or worse, photographed. Then he’d have more than the dark riders to worry about.
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