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  “Yes, but there is something I will show you if you keep it a secret, as I would like to experience one of yours,” Dubois said as he stood, offering me a hand.

  He smirked in challenge, and I took it, exchanging a look with Apollo it was okay. He brought me to the dining hall, and I felt my eyes go wide when I saw huge boards all over the place with pictures and lines drawn to others connecting people together. They had huge murder boards for outlining the groups.

  “As Igor’s bloodline can mummify a person if they drank them fully, mine has the talent of getting information from those they feed from,” he explained. “One of my teams has been working the coven for information before the bad ones are put to death.”

  “Damn, that really just helped my day,” I whispered, studying it all. “And you’re recording it all? I need it all for files and paperwork so we can handle the human end too.”

  “Yes, we are and pulling information on those people, Mistress,” one of the guys working assured me. “There is a reason we are normally called in to clean up a bad coven and handle all the ripples.”

  “Thanks, that’s awesome. It’s awesome to have the help instead of more problems,” I admitted, feeling lighter as I pushed my hair away from my face. “Thanks.” I turned to Dubois, not even hiding how nervous I was. “What will this cost me? I get you guys would do this normally and it’s sort of your role or whatever, but you’re letting me in on this, so you said you wanted something?”

  “I am not Igor,” he said firmly, understanding my fear. “But you know I am not a nice man either. I do however keep my promises, and I promised Apollo to behave and not upset you.”

  I gave a slow nod. “What did you want to ask for then?”

  “I wish to experience what I have not,” he murmured, moving closer. It took everything I had not to step away, but that was the same as announcing I was afraid of him. We both knew I was, but I wouldn’t act it. He seemed impressed I held my ground though. “Feed me power as you have Apollo.”

  “Oh, I think you’re powerful enough,” I breathed, knowing he had Apollo beat and me though I might be able to take him in a fight. “How about experiencing when I feed?”

  He moved closer and boxed me in against the table. “I want to feel what Apollo spoke of.”

  “Remind me to spank him for telling secrets,” I grumbled, staring at his chest and swallowing loudly. “Can I take it back later?”

  He didn’t answer for a moment. “Why?”

  “Because if I give you power, what you did with that power would weigh on my conscience, and we both know you do things I wouldn’t approve of. I don’t mean this as a judgement but a fact, and it would bother me.”

  “Yes, but if my people do an exquisite job, I would hope you’d offer me a taste of you before we leave.” He chuckled when I met his gaze, not hiding my shock well. “From your neck. I’m not poaching on my friend’s interests. I wish a sip from your neck, just a taste, not a feed as you are not food.”

  “Privately?” I checked, not wanting to be alone with him, but I really didn’t want him to make a show of it.

  “If you wish, yes.”

  “Okay.”

  He leaned in and brushed his lips against my ear. “Your fear is intoxicating. You are so very terrified of me, and I wish nothing more than to enjoy that as I ravage your enchanting body.”

  “I think my therapist wouldn’t recommend that,” I whispered, trying to keep the squeak out of my voice. I felt it and like the mouse caught, but I was trying my best not to show it.

  “Maybe another visit when you’ve healed more, because as much as I enjoy your fear, I do not wish another man on the mind of those I am with. Even dead, Igor haunts you. I would wait for that time to pass.”

  “That might be a while,” I drawled, hating he did haunt me.

  “We have forever,” he chuckled, leaning back and then bringing his lips to mine. He moaned as I fed him power, shivering against me as he kept his hands on the table instead of touching me. This was a man all about control and keeping his monster contained. Shit, the images I got from him made it clear he was the ultimate Dom.

  And he wanted me as his sub forever.

  “That won’t ever happen,” I warned him. “To each their own and good for anyone who rolls that way, wants that, but for you to ever have me that way, you would break me.”

  “And then you wouldn’t be you anymore,” he murmured, understanding what I was getting at. “Yes, it would ruin you if you were broken. Half of your draw is your wildness. I cannot help it is what I will fantasize about.”

  “I know. I just prefer I’m clear with people.” I cleared my throat, saying I wanted to move, but he just chuckled.

  “Did you not want to take that power back?”

  “I think maybe later once you’ve cooled off a bit.”

  “I am in full control, I promise.”

  I met his gaze then and gave him the win he wanted. “You are fucking terrifying, and I feel what you really want simmering just under the surface. I like to play, but I’m not stupid, and there are some people you should not play with if you want to survive. I want to survive and go home after this. So I’ll wait until you’re not simmering.”

  “Or you want to say ‘fuck it’ and let me keep the power, as it wasn’t much.”

  “No, I still couldn’t do that,” I admitted. “No matter the cost to me, I couldn’t. It would haunt me.”

  “I believe I will haunt you no matter what, Seraphine.”

  Oh, that was the truth. I got enough images of me bleeding on the table, him bathing in my blood as he fucked me, keeping me right on the edge of dying and bringing me back to do it again and again. Yeah, I had a whole bevy of new nightmares now.

  He let me go at least, and it took every ounce of strength I had not to run out of the room and away from him. He knew it too, taking my arm and leading me back. The others noted how shaken I seemed, even Apollo who gave his friend a hard look.

  “I kept your rules. What she saw is not my fault,” he defended.

  “But you did it knowing I would see it,” I purred, rolling my eyes when he gave me a shocked look. “You guys underestimate women and shifters too often. One or the other, but you do tend to.”

  He simply shrugged. “Most shifters treat us like walking corpses without a brain or sharks that react to blood and can’t control ourselves.”

  I frowned. “I don’t know any who act like that.”

  “You are young, and this is a new age of tolerance,” Apollo cut in. “Do I get my kiss?”

  Fuck yeah he did because he gave me every excuse to pull away from Dubois, and one of my new life goals was not to touch or be too close to that man.

  By then my half an hour rest was long over and Jonik was standing in front of me. I decided to share a bit of the darkness I’d been soaking up and looked over to Carter. “Call Alok. Someone said him or Tasar timed my sex with Dain at fairy court. Let’s see if Jonik can beat the first time of the only other fairy I’ve been with.

  Carter nodded. “Dain also called and had a NDA appear for Jonik to sign. He said Jonik will get a lot off of you since you don’t block people who you take to your bed, and while he trusts Jonik, his family isn’t to be trusted.”

  “I signed it, as I agree with him,” Jonik muttered. “And you must be protected. My family would absolutely try and make this into an issue or a play for power. I figured I would be ignored like normal as the third son, but this might make me finally valuable to them.”

  “I can pick someone else,” I murmured, studying him and not sure how to take it. He sounded upset and I knew at his family, but that was still something I wouldn’t want to be put in the middle of.

  “No, I wish to be with you,” he assured me, moving closer and putting his hand on my hip. “I would rather ask my queen for a position away from my family if that’s what happens than miss the chance to be with you.”

  I nodded, undoing the clasp of his court cloak, watching a
s it moved along his thick arms, giving me the full view of his toned pecs and eight pack abs. As I untied his pants, he did the same to my robe.

  “May I undress you fully?” he asked when the robe was off. “I wish you fully bare to me.” He chuckled when I shivered, nodding for him to go ahead. He picked me up and carried me over to the bed, taking off the heels and everything else, staring at me as if he’d never seen anything or anyone as beautiful as I flushed from his gaze. He hurried to take off his pants and boots before leaning over and giving me a quick kiss. “Can we start?”

  “Yes, and I have both times,” Carter said, not saying what they were though, which led me to think Dain had beaten Apollo.

  He had me roll onto my knees at the edge of the bed and molded his body to my back as he teased me with his dick. The clock started as soon as he pushed in me, and we both moaned, though mine was a bit of a hiss.

  “I need a minute,” I admitted. “The break was enough for me to tighten back up.”

  “And he got you out of the mood,” he said under his breath. He flinched as he saw everything I was thinking about what happened with Dubois. “That would never happen. None of us would ever allow that to happen.”

  “What were you thinking about?” Apollo demanded. “I can smell her fear from here.”

  “Only part of it did I think on purpose,” Dubois muttered. “The other part was—I did not mean for her to see that. I would never want someone to see that much.”

  I felt better knowing that at least. I could understand vampires having super dark blood filled fantasies even if I didn’t get the draw to blood, but I was glad he didn’t want people to know he thought of such things. I relaxed a bit but still wasn’t in the mood.

  “Restart the clock after she’s back in the mood,” Jonik said before pulling out of me. He pushed me back to the bed and crawled over me. “I cannot have sex with you unless you want me too. You did before. Please want me again.”

  “It’s not you,” I promised, glad when he nodded he understood.

  He kissed me gently once, twice, and then we stared at each other a moment before I yanked his head down to mine and his tongue explored every inch of my mouth. We kissed and moved against each other a while, but then he licked my nipples and attacked my breasts. I mean, attacked them like he’d never been allowed to touch breasts before and had always longed to.

  But then I saw he sort of hadn’t. In all of his centuries he’d never been with anyone other than fairies and they were more… Compact in the breast area. He’d never been with someone who had full, big boobs and he’d always wanted to. Jonik was actually a huge tits guy, and I didn’t mean size.

  Though that too.

  Then he kissed down my body and gave me two amazing orgasms as he ate me out and stretched me. He begged to let me touch him, to be inside of me, and I nodded, both of us way too wound up to be in a challenge or hold out. Well, technically he had to hold out, but we weren’t looking good at the moment since the clock hadn’t even started. I kissed him and fed, taking the edge off his orgasm.

  He moved my leg between us and pushed inside of me, bending it back against my body as he leaned in. I gasped at how deep he went then, staring into his eyes when he surrounded me with his larger frame and cupped my face.

  “Never in my six hundred years have I felt anything so heavenly as becoming one with you,” he whispered against my lips.

  He kissed me deeply as he started moving, taking me on a ride I wasn’t ready for. It was different than my first time with Dain, and I pushed the thoughts of him away. Just because it was another fairy didn’t mean they would be anything alike.

  “He hurt you so deeply,” he breathed, his eyes showing his shock. He kissed my neck when I looked away. “I’m sorry. I found it surprising, as he’s so in love with you. The elf hurt you too. I did not know.”

  “It’s not Luca’s fault,” I grumbled, not wanting to talk about it when we’d been having fun and it was my full moon. “I wasn’t giving him what he needed.”

  “Yes, but he could have waited longer than a month before giving up,” he growled. He was angry when I looked at him, and it healed me a bit. He said what I felt. I was worth more than that. “He shouldn’t have made so many declarations and promises. I would bet anything it was his youth and not anything you did. We are all confused when young.”

  “I know.”

  “But you’re still afraid of history repeating itself,” he muttered. I turned to give him a nasty look but saw he was focused on Eugene.

  “Hey, are we having sex or trying to start crap in my life?” I bitched, shoving at him to get off of me.

  He looked at me, and his eyes went wide. “I’m sorry. Sometimes it’s hard not to react. You feel in the middle of it like when you see dreams and think they are yours.”

  “Fine, but I don’t want to play anymore,” I grumbled, pushing at his chest. “I just wanted to have fun during the crazy, and now I’ve got new nightmares and you’re starting shit I’ll have to handle.”

  “I’m sorry,” he whimpered before kissing me again. The longer he kissed me, the less I pushed at his chest, his emotions and desire vibrating through me, melting me. “Come for me, Sera. I want to feel your orgasm.”

  It took a bit more coaxing, but I finished, digging my nails into his back as I moved with his body. I cried out in pleasure, his emotions swarming me as I rode my climax. I felt his joy, his desire, his pure need for me as my body went crazy.

  “What was that?” I panted as I stared up at him. His eyes flashed shock, and it was his turn to look away. I grabbed his chin and rolled us so I was sitting on him. “What was that?”

  “An emotional flair,” he answered. “It’s like an emotional orgasm during sex. During the crest of your climax, you opened yourself to my aura, if you want. I felt yours as you felt mine.” He gave me a worried look, and I understood why.

  I’d never had that with Dain.

  “Have I failed him?” I rasped, realizing what he said about how I opened myself up.

  “No, no, Sera,” he promised as he sat up and wrapped his arms around me, moving us together and kissing me. “No. Dain has been closed off after centuries at court. He might not have let that side out during sex so as to not scare you. I felt you get scared for a second that it was your powers and not mine. It’s not your failing. It could be a level to reach for him. I’m used to it, needing it to have a real connection with someone.”

  “Pause the time,” Apollo called over. “What are you talking about? You orgasmed?”

  I glanced over my shoulder at him and wiped up my tears I didn’t know had fallen. “No, I mean, I did. He didn’t. It was like… We switched. I felt what he was feeling, and he I guess felt all I was. It was like I was him. During the waves of the orgasm, I felt what he did as if I was him. Not just images or getting the feeling like a shifter, even what my siren gets. I was in his shoes or whatever.”

  “That doesn’t happen with a shifter,” one of the other fairies interjected. “I’ve never heard of that happening with another species not fae.”

  “I’ve never had sex with a non-fae,” Jonik admitted. “That explains why you’ve not done it with Dain. He might not know you could.”

  “She shouldn’t be able to,” that same guy pushed. “It doesn’t happen.”

  “Well, it just did, so she’s just that special,” Jonik snapped. “I will tell Dain. No one else needs to know. Got it?”

  “Yes, of course, and yes, she is special. I’m sorry. My shock made me rude, Princess. I have been with shifters and have longed to share that with them. I didn’t mean to insult you.”

  “Got it. Can we time in?” I asked, giving Apollo a look that things were getting awkward.

  “Yes, yes, have your life altering sex.”

  “You’re too old to pout,” I drawled, amusing several people there. I focused back on Jonik. “You want to—”

  “Yes,” he growled, wrapping his arms around me tighter so I was smoos
hed against him as we ground our hips together. “Yes, I want you to come again and again, Sera. Let me make love to you until you pass out and then again when you wake.”

  He didn’t wait for me to answer, taking me on a crazy ride that left him swallowing the screams from my next orgasm while I fed from him to take off his edge. We did it again, and I was overwhelmed with his need to have me in every way possible, to know me deeply and not just physically.

  We moved again, and I was back to kneeling on the edge of the bed as he stood, moving his body over mine and moaning when he felt how much I liked that position and with him. My body was still shaking from the last climax as he slammed into me as hard as he could, taking his sweet time before doing it again.

  He bit my ear as he fisted my breasts. “Never have I been jealous of another fairy before. I am so, so envious of Dain. He has mated you, made you his wife.” He didn’t say “wife” though but that fairy word that I still couldn’t pronounce. “I wish you to siren me too, Sera.”

  I snorted. “Say that after you know me better. I’m a pain in the fucking ass.” I folded myself down to the bed, clearly saying I didn’t want to talk about that anymore and wanted fun instead. I decided to be a bit evil and let my siren out to play. “You are so excited to let everyone see you mount a princess, aren’t you?”

  “Yes, you know I am,” he hissed, letting out some of his dark side as he bit my shoulder and moved faster. “I’m mounting my friend’s wife, and I cannot feel anything other than desire for more, to do it again and again.”

  Again, he used that fae word as he moved faster and faster, making my joints rattle he took me so hard. My siren egged him on more and more, each orgasm of mine driving up our emotions higher and higher, rutting and grunting and screaming from the fun, screaming like animals or a fairy letting out his dark side it seemed.

  By the time he finally finished, every inch of me was sated and sore. I could barely keep my eyes open, my whole body feeling heavy.