by Erin R Flynn
“Not this time. Goran’s not here,” I threw right back. “Yes, I can have extras come play whereas you can’t, but if he’s not here, we both know I wouldn’t push that line.”
“True. Yes, deal.” He kissed me again, ramping up the level of it. “And a third match? What would be the tie breaker should we find ourselves at a draw?”
My siren answered for me. “Who can give who the better sex. If I can make you admit I’m the best sex you’ve had in some way—with a shifter or best while the woman’s on top—I win. If you can give me the best sex, you win.”
“Or we both win, as you are not anywhere as experienced as I am,” he murmured as his hands moved to my ass. “Deal. Yes, deal. It won’t all be tonight, but let us play this full moon and while I’m in town and there’s much to handle.”
“Are we locking up all the bad vampires that all the distracting hate is coming from?” I checked, not sure how I would enjoy much of anything with that going on.
“Yes, I simply wanted all of them to see how I treat you,” he answered, kissing my neck. “Weaken them, lock them down, and bring out the buffet and drinks we prepared for Seraphine and her party.”
“Of course you’ve turned this into a huge party,” I chuckled, shaking my head.
He simply shrugged. “I had to show you such hospitality after you did when I visited you.”
I snickered. “I did this time too. You haven’t seen what Carter picked out that I’m wearing under this dress.”
“He was always one of my favorites,” he groaned, giving me another quick kiss before letting me go. He turned and started giving more specific orders to his people and the coven.
I went over to Axel, pulling his head down for another kiss but really as the cover to do what I wanted. “Are you against making another Sera sandwich but letting Apollo bite you? Carter said your blood is wild and rare, right?”
He didn’t answer me right away, and I was worried I went too far, but then he pressed his lips against my ear. “He gave Noah that estate for training when you won, right?” He waited until I nodded. “Okay, I’ll play. I very rarely give blood and never to men like I’m a meal. Only during sex, but I guess it’s the same if I’m playing with you.”
“Thank you, and thank you for what you said earlier. It really meant a lot to me.”
“Eugene said it so why do I feel like you’re more touched with me than him?” he asked carefully. He flinched at whatever he caught from me. “Do you not like Eugene?”
“It’s complicated,” I muttered, pulling away and shaking my head when he looked like he might ask more. It wasn’t the time or place, and I wasn’t sure it was his business. They were friends, and I really didn’t owe them answers. I went over to Brian, giving him a hug even as I wanted to throttle him. “You’re an idiot.”
“Maybe, but it’s also hard being the only one you exclude at times because I’m human like I’m a fragile baby.”
“You are when it comes to this stuff, Bri. I don’t mean to be like that, but your safety is more important than ruffling your feathers.”
“I love you too, Sera,” he murmured, kissing that spot just below my ear. “Any chance you’ll let me get a vote on who you’re with?”
“I don’t think I can refer to you as a boy scout anymore,” I chuckled, shaking my head. “Sure, let’s go see who Apollo wants to fuck me while everyone watches, you perv.”
“Yeah, because you’re not excited to play too,” he teased me. “Just don’t push it tonight. I know it’s the first night of the lunar cycle, but we’ve got a ton to get done. We’ve only scratched the surface.”
“I know, but with this amount of backup, I’m not as worried.”
“And all three of you want to play.”
“Yeah, all three of us do,” I promised, knowing he was really asking that my wolf or siren weren’t dragging me into something.
Or something more really.
My stomach and I were happy when platters of appetizers were brought out and I practically attacked them. I simply shrugged as I popped a salmon puff in my mouth. “Full moon.” I moaned and went back for another one. “Fuck, those are really good.”
“I love watching you eat,” Brian chuckled, kissing my shoulder.
I rolled my eyes and inhaled a couple dozen more options while feeding Brian as well.
“You are different from any siren or female shifter leader I’ve met,” Councilman Dubois commented from across the table. I opened my mouth to reply but then closed it. “Go ahead. I poked you in a way.”
I nodded, acknowledging that. “I’m not really. I just don’t curb how I act around you or Apollo because you’re council. We’re about to all get really personal and have fun. I don’t care that you’re council. I don’t need to put on airs. I’ve seen enough to know most who do aren’t as powerful as they act.” I gestured to Brian. “He’s human.
“I was human. You were human. You both have penises, and I don’t. So what? In the end we’re all just people and we share this planet. Yes, there is a time and place to acknowledge your status and authority, just like ours given we’re high ranking law enforcement, or I’m Alpha and a Dorcus. But if that’s the only way people act towards you, that’s all people see of you, and I’m very certain there are more layers to you than that.”
“You are not wrong.” He frowned as he picked up something for his plate. “You are blunt though which I normally find rude and unrefined.”
“It’s the Chicagoan in us,” Brian replied easily, whereas I might have gotten a bit ruffled at the comment. “It’s a Chicago—and sometimes Midwest—mindset that it’s polite to be blunt, as your time is valuable so not to waste it. Some people take that as not having certain manners, but it’s just the opposite. If I do a song and dance for you when I probably don’t mean it, it’s not any more polite than just respecting you’re busy and spitting it out.”
“Interesting.” He turned and walked away, which was sort of rude too.
We both shrugged him off. Honestly, I was glad he was trying if he was a councilman who played the bad games, but he was not someone I wanted to get closer to. There were monsters in the world that had nothing to do with species and everything to do with the darkness in a person, and I saw that in his eyes when I looked in them.
And those were the people I tried to stay far away from.
Once everything was in place, Apollo made a show of revealing his ten choices.
“Jonik,” Brian immediately voted before I could even look at them all. He chuckled when I gave him a shocked look. “He was the only fairy who looked at you with interest that looked for the right reasons only. The others looked for a way to get close to you and elevate their own status or favor with Queen Laila, as your friendship isn’t a secret.
“Jonik looked at you like a pretty woman and with respect at how you handled today. Plus, I saw how you looked at him.” He kissed my shoulder as if apologizing he announced that. “You liked to look at him. I can’t smell or see what you do, but even I can see he wants you, and a fairy would treat you well.”
I flinched, thinking of the only other fairy I’d been with. “Dain and I haven’t discussed if he’s okay with a fairy. I mean, I know he believes as fairies do that the more love someone receives the more love they can give, but that’s not the same as this.”
“I already spoke with Dain,” Carter interjected. “He was fine with the choices and named a few he would not be okay with because he would not trust them that close to you.”
“Of course you did,” I drawled. “When did you become so…”
“So into games? Always, Sera.”
Yeah, that was pretty accurate.
I moved over to Jonik, searching his pretty, light lilac eyes for some sort of hint as to why he would want to do this, do me really. He reached out and took my hand, rubbing his thumb over my skin as we stared at each other.
The answer wasn’t simple, which made me feel better, and honestly, it confused him t
hat he wanted to as well. He wasn’t good with being the center of attention and was used to being glossed over a lot as the third son and sort of backup in case something happened to the first two. But he’d talked with Dain a few times since he’d met me, and it made him curious as to what sort of wolf would make his friend fall head over heels.
But he understood after seeing me in action. He was in awe of not only how hard I worked and had my act together, but my sassy side and how protective I was of Brian, how fierce I’d been to help the foxes. I was gorgeous to him, and he was intrigued, and he felt like he would regret it the rest of his life if he didn’t take the chance to be with me no matter the circumstances or how much the games seemed too close to fairy court stuff he hated.
I didn’t even realize I was leaning in until my lips touched his. His other hand came up and cupped my head as he deepened the kiss. I fed from him, taking the edge off without cheating, and I felt a thrill go through him at how the dry orgasm he had was better than the last several years of sex he’d had and gotten bored with.
Crap, he was going to be fun. Why couldn’t I just have sex and not get invested?
Brian wrapped his arms around me and pulled me away from Jonik. “I think we need to talk rules before you get started.”
“Fast because I’m ready for full moon fun,” I muttered, licking my lips as I stared at Jonik like my next meal. “What rules?”
“Carter keeps time,” he answered. “He’s yours, but he was Apollo’s and wouldn’t cheat on something fun like this.”
“Agreed,” Apollo called over. “Who goes first? The second one will have a harder time to hold out after watching such fun.”
“True, but the first has to get her ready, as I doubt either of you are small,” he replied, sounding very PC on that one.
I snorted. “Are we going to have a coin toss who gets to fuck me first?”
We did. Even with me being a smart ass, there really wasn’t a better way to decide what was fair, so we had a coin toss, which Jonik won and got me first.
And Apollo had a bed brought out from the guest room that he put in the middle of the ballroom.
“Oh how you guys scar me,” I sighed, shaking my head. “Fuck a duck.”
6
“Princess, I would spend hours pleasing you before finding heaven inside of you if we were not playing this game,” Jonik murmured as he moved behind me. He brushed my hair to the side and kissed my neck as his hand massaged my hip. “I apologize that my attentions won’t be befitting of you.”
I glanced at him over my shoulder, lost in his gorgeous eyes. Something was different with them, like ripples in water made the colors dance. That was what his eyes reminded me of. “If you last longer than Apollo, I’ll be your moon mate and we can play with him instead of him be my moon mate and you get to play with me.”
“That is not nice, Seraphine,” Apollo complained. “I don’t mind losing to you, but I might if he steals your attentions.”
I glanced back at him and rolled my eyes. “We’ve outlined at least three times having sex. I do have work too. I’ll count as long as I’m here as being my moon mate instead of the three nights.”
“Fine,” he grumbled. “Let’s begin. He has to bring you two orgasms from preparing you, and you get a half an hour rest between us.”
“Princess, I—”
“Sera,” I corrected Jonik. “You’re not having sex with my rank or title, right? You’re having sex with the woman before you?”
“Oh yes,” he moaned as his hand moved to the hem of my dress and lifted it.
“Stop, stop,” Apollo called out. “I’m pulling rank. I go first.” He rolled his eyes when I bit back a laugh. “Yes, yes, I have no patience. You said Carter picked what you wore for me. I wish to unwrap you. The fairy can try to outdo my time.”
I swallowed a flinch as I got images from Jonik that he’d moved and touched me that way in hopes to stir up Apollo even more. He kissed my neck when he realized I knew. “I will see you soon, Sera.”
“Yes you will,” I murmured, licking my lips as I watched him move away. Damn, he was fine. I waved Carter over and fed heavily from him before turning to Apollo with a smirk. “Fine, unwrap your present.”
He moved closer and pushed the dress off my shoulders, groaning deeply when he saw I was in deep blue garters that matched my shelf bra and tiny thong. He smirked at me as he ran his hands along my body and then tore the thong off of me.
I shrugged. “You always replace what you rip with doubles. I have several who owe me numerous sets of undergarments. You should have taught your vampires the same manners.”
“I keep forgetting,” Emilio grumbled, a few others echoing him.
Which made a lot of us laugh.
“I apologize for their rudeness,” he muttered as he kissed down my body until he was kneeling before me. My wolf and siren loved it, and I was just happy because I knew what was coming next. He teased me with his fingers until my knees were shaking and I locked eyes with the other councilman as I orgasmed, the desire I saw in his eyes disconcerting given I could see the monster lurking inside of him.
When Apollo bit me for the second orgasm, I couldn’t stand anymore, leaning against him when he stood. “Lose your clothes or the claws might come out and help.” I swallowed a flinch at remembering something similar with Igor, but Apollo was so different from him it was like night and day.
“You like when the man is dressed though,” he teased me.
“I do, but I want you naked, and you want what I’m plotting.”
“I always do,” he agreed, getting naked in record time. He smiled when I shoved him onto the bed. I knelt on it and leaned over, giving his dick a long lick as I moved up his body. “That was just mean.”
“Would you prefer I’d not done it?” I purred, knowing the answer.
His response was to sit up and pull me onto him. I mewled as I rocked my hips and mashed my mouth to his. I fed him the power I’d taken from Carter, and he shook under me as I moved faster and faster. Then I pressed my lips to his ear and proceeded to tell him every dirty thing I’d done that he’d missed, including my first time playing with women on Valentine’s Day.
To push him over the edge, I moved off of him and got onto all fours, pushing up my ass as an offer. He growled and thrust in me hard enough to make me finish.
Which backfired because he did as well.
“You are so evil it drives me insane,” he hissed when he was done, careful not to let his full weight drop on me.
“I’m nice too.”
“Yes, which also drives me insane,” he admitted.
I flinched when I heard a loud laugh and glanced over at Dubois who looked like he was going to fall off his chair. Apollo moved off of me, and shock rocked me when Jonik was there to help me off the bed, a robe for me in his hand. I thanked him and slid it on, asking where the bathroom was. He escorted me as Dubois finally calmed down.
“You are thousands of years old and a pup can make you blow your load like that?”
“You have not been inside of her,” Apollo defended. “It’s not just her perfect body but the mouth on her, and she knows exactly what to do and when. She’s partially clairvoyant, Enzo.”
“She knows the moment you want tighter or faster, or whatever your body needs she can see it most times and not just that, but gives it to you,” Brian praised. “That’s what makes Sera so special. It’s not that she knows but she does it. It’s all about her partner when she’s with someone no matter how good she feels or lost in the fun she is. Every inch of her has sex for her partner, and that’s what she enjoys. I’ve never met a woman like her.”
“Nor I and I am thousands of years old.”
I felt a bit faint, my face was so hot hearing all of that. I used the washroom and cleaned up before heading back to the fun and plopping right onto Brian’s lap.
“You heard what I said, didn’t you?” he chuckled.
“Yes, but you said it thinking
I was out of ear shot, which is why it was so nice,” I muttered, snuggling with him. “Where are we at?”
“You’re fine with him checking his phone while you were engaged in carnal activities?” Dubois asked, not hiding his shock.
I thanked Carter when he brought me a plate of nummies and sports drink before answering. “He’d get smacked if he checked while having sex with me, but we’ve both had to pause fun because of work calls. That’s the job. It’s not the nice part, but yeah, it’s the job. Just checking emails while having sex or playing is bad, but you take the call when it comes.”
“And if I wasn’t keeping up with the investigations while she was playing, she’d feel guilty that we were both out of the loop with this many problems and issues.”
I tapped my nose that he nailed it and looked at Axel and Eugene that I wanted updates.
“Councilwoman Haton called when the first plane arrived, and the second has as well,” Eugene told me. “Interrogations have already started, and they will be sent to your office along with summaries as before. She knows the fox is first, and Agent Davis confirmed the other foxes arrived in Chicago and are being guarded at your apartment building where they started the interviews.”
“Good. Tomorrow your teams along with the fairies and FBI team from DC will handle the non-human FBI branch here. Lock it down, get all phones, and keep everyone from contacting anyone. I’m going with Brian, his teams, and all my FBI people to the regular office. And we should send a team now to get the division chief of the non-human office.”
“He is here,” Apollo cut in. “We made sure of it.”
“You have all the vampires in the area locked down?” I checked, smiling at him when he nodded. “Well, that just made life easier.”
“Do I get a kiss for it before you have sex with the fairy who’s dying to have you?”
“Yes.” I didn’t move off Brian’s lap though, much to the amusement of everyone. “Once we get that office locked down, I’m going with the fairies and the council teams to start getting the other humans we’re sending to the council.” I smiled a very wolfish grin at the councilmen. “Feel like having some fun hunting if your people can hold the fort here?”
