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His eyes had darkened, his pupils almost fully blown now.

He lifted me up in one easy motion, setting my ass on the edge of his desk and pressing himself between my legs.

Tingles and vibrations erupted across my body at the way he handled me.

I tightened my legs around him and ran my hands down the front of his shirt, feeling every ridge that lay in wait beneath the dark-colored fabric.

Feeling his voice through the bond for the first time in what felt like ages, made my insides tremble with desire.

It was incomprehensible to be so thoroughly possessed by a man like Mendax.

I bit my lip, praying it would calm my insides.

I didn’t want him to see what a gushing fool he made me.

“I can’t control my dreams, and maybe not everything is about your wishes.”

I pushed back and waited for his reaction.

There was a delicious push and pull that I had come to crave between us.

The air in the near-empty office was filled with heat.

The sharp ridge of the desk cut into the meat of my ass, but I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing me adjust, and also I was afraid he’d freak out somehow about the baby being uncomfortable.

His face was close to mine as he bent down to look down at me.

His tongue dipped out for the briefest of seconds before it pulled his lower lip into his mouth.

“I wish you’d stop pretending that you don’t want me to fill you with every hardened inch of me on top of this desk right now.”

His hand slowly grazed over my hot skin as he pulled the waistband of my pants and underwear out and slid his large hand over me. His breathing had grown heavier, causing his chest to rise and fall, tempting me even further. I tightened my legs around his waist and pulled him closer into me.

“Then stop playing around and do it”, I challenged.

His hands roamed over me before he pushed two fingers inside of me. I had to grab ahold of his shoulders as the intense tingling pleasure sent a shiver over my skin .

“So vicious. As always, my pet, I’ll do whatever I want to your body, whenever I want.”

Even though we were speaking through the bond, he let out a low, threatening growl. I nearly purred.

“ Fuck, Malum,” I crooned through the bond as he hit all the right places with his glorious fingers. His dark eyes bore through me with a look that would terrify anyone else, but for me it meant that things were about to get really, really fun.

His jaw muscle feathered again as he put his other hand on my sternum and ever so gently pushed me back, keeping his eyes locked to mine until I was lying on his desk.

With a slight tug, my pants were on the floor.

I heard his rough exhale as he looked me over, appreciating my body before his fingers slid into me again.

“If you don’t replace those fingers with your cock in the next three seconds…

” I was practically feral—no. I was feral.

These hormones made me downright animalistic when it came to him.

If I wasn’t crying or vomiting or trying to kill someone, I was trying to get Mendax to fuck me, which luckily was quite easy.

This child was making me a terror. Thankfully Mendax not only tolerated it, but he loved it.

It didn’t matter how intense I was—he would arrive like a matching storm and give me exactly what I needed.

I think he needed it too. We needed each other.

“What will you do, love? Hmm? Tell me?” Smoke had filled the space around us in slow coils.

I began to reach for my SunTamer abilities, fully prepared to light his clothes on fire when his finger slid out of me and over my backside hole, causing me to suck in all the air in the room.

“What are you doing?” I practically leaped off the desk as he began to work my clit over with his thumb and lightly rub my back exit with his other fingers.

“I told you. Whatever I want.” His dark eyes bore down on me intensely as he continued.

“Oh my suns, Malum. Agh, oh my…fuck. Fuck, yes. Oh!” I was shocked at how good it felt, but to be honest, I wasn’t sure if it was the exploration of a new hole or the fact that he was bossing me around.

He pushed inside of me with one finger in each hole and I’d never felt more full and satisfied in my life.

The foreign invasion from the back was a strange power move that I never knew I needed.

“Oh dear gods. Put that thick cock inside of me while you fill all my holes at the same time. “I writhed against him like an animal in heat. “I like you in my back hole, Mendax. I?—”

“AAGGGHHH! STOP IT! STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR BUTTHOLE!”

I bolted upright, smashing my head into Mendax’s chest. “What was that?” I yelled.

“Gods! Calypso? Mendax? Is that you? Ugghhh! Stop what you are doing right now!”

Mendax spun around and I fell off the desk, landing on my butt. “OH MY GODS. Eli? Eli, is that you? Can you hear me?” I bellowed.

Mendax turned to me with eyes as wide as the sun. “I can hear him.”

“Eli!” I leaped off the floor feeling like all the butterflies and moths that had followed us into the room were in my stomach. “Aurelius! Can you hear me?”

“It’s the bond…or the tie. I can hear him too,” Mendax said looking frazzled, something I had never seen before.

I realized I had been shouting the words, not sending them through the bond or the tie.

“Eli? Eli! Is that you? Can you hear me?”

Silence. I felt every nerve in my body stand at attention as I waited, filled with anticipation and hope.

Nothing. But then…

“Cal? It is you! I knew it—I fucking knew it! Can you hear me?Are you okay?”

I melted at the sound of his voice, though I suppose it was the feeling of his voice more than anything, but it didn’t matter. I could feel him. I could feel his excitement and nervousness and something else really strong as well. Fear? I wasn’t sure .

“Son of a bitch!”

I startled for a second at the angry, rumbling voice before I realized it was Mendax talking through the bond. He could hear him too!

“Ha-ha! Smoke-Show!” Eli laughed and a torrent of emotions flooded me.

“Wait, you can hear him?” I asked Eli.

“Yes,” both men said in unison, which caused Mendax to swear and grumble next to me as he threw himself into the nearest seat like a child throwing a temper tantrum.

“How is this possible?” I thought.

“I have no clue,” Eli answered.

“The fucking Fates,” Mendax grumbled.

“What?” I mentally shouted.

“Ha-ha! Fucker!” Eli gloated. “This is what happens when you are nice and help people.”

“You get to annoy people with your presence even after you die?” Mendax growled.

My laughter fluttered throughout the room, filling all the tiny crevices of my brain. “I can’t believe this is happening!”Suddenly a little bit of sunshine had poured back into my life. “What is it like? Are you all right? Have you found Adrianna yet?”

“Umm, well, Tartarus is awful. Everyone is drugged out or trying to steal something from you. They all are evil heathens only concerned with partying, pleasure, and gambling.”

“Don’t threaten me with a good time. I can’t return until I die,”Mendax added, still doubled over on the chair holding his head.

Eli continued, ignoring Mendax. “I’m fine, though I would comfortably say I’ve been better, and um, yes, I’ve met Adrianna, or Anna, as they call her.

She’s not a child at all; she’s a full-grown, dangerous, evil, stunning woman.

Actually, I will have to chat with you all about it later, especially about the use of this channel for sex and butthole talk, if I don’t die in the next twenty minutes.

I will reach out soon if my soul doesn’t evaporate. I’m about to play a game.”

Mendax’s head snapped up. “Of course she’s not a child; you thought she quit aging in Tartarus? Wait, you said a game? ”

“What game? She’s not a child? You mean, she’s all grown up?” I asked as I felt the anxiousness flood from Mendax. The thought of Adrianna being in Tartarus as a woman and not a child was more comforting than I could have imagined.

“Yes, the red keys, apparently against your sister. Talk soon— maybe. Hopefully.”

Mendax and I stared at one another in complete bafflement. “What are the red keys? I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe we can both talk to him,” I mumbled out loud after feeling the presence of Eli disappear.

Mendax’s gaze lingered on the floor, sitting motionless for a few seconds, before he rose to stand in front of me.

“One of Kaohs’s favorite pastimes—a gruesome and entertaining game where an army of men fights to the death until only one man and his red key remains, taking with him the memento of each kill.

I dislike disappointing you, but this is the last time you will remember your friend.

Once the loser falls from their stallion to the grounds of the field, their soul evaporates as well as the memories attached to it.

You will not remember Eli. He will be a shadow of a thought after he plays in the red keys.

” His mouth pulled up in a grin. “I win again, only this time my victory is that he will not plague my wife with feelings or memories of loss or sadness. He will be nothing to us and we can go on as if he never existed.”

“What about my sister? The Fates won’t let her die.” I gripped the edges of the desk, suddenly feeling light-headed and nauseous.

“I’m sorry, my pet. From the sounds of it, neither one of them—” Mendax lurched forward to steady me. “Wait, did he say Anna?” He let out a huff of breath. His icy eyes held shock before eventually looking pleased.

“Yes, why?” I nearly shouted. What was going on?

He looked off into the distance before laughing so hard he had to bend down.

“What is so fucking funny?” I yelled, growing more and more pissed off by the second .

“It can’t be possible, but it makes complete sense. If it’s the same Anna, she’s…”

“She’s what?” I shouted.

“She came to him years ago. She’s his protégé. Your sister is taking over the Underworld.”

“I need to lie down.”