Page 22 of Reign of The Beast (Immortal Passions #2)

My heart was jackhammering in my chest.

The last time I remembered being so insanely on edge was the night I’d first shifted into wolf form.

All my emotions felt heightened.

My thoughts were scrambled to hell.

I was moments away from undergoing some heavy shit.

We all were.

For me, though, there was a whole extra level of intensity because of the claiming.

I was excited, nervous, anxious, a whole load of things all fighting for top billing.

Impatience was thrumming through me, making my skin itch with it, as the four of us stood around Mia’s room listening as she briefed us on what was about to happen.

“This joining is the first of its kind. Unchartered territory. It means we have no way of knowing what side effects may occur as a result. What I do know, from logic and a couple of lifetimes practicing magic, is that it will take a lot out of all of us, meaning we’ll be weak for a little while afterward, vulnerable. Fortunately, the wards are up protecting us and Draco is currently incapacitated. I’ll take Ryker first. It will be the easiest fusion because of our established history and the fact that we’re both magical beings. Lucian will follow.” She eyed me intensely. “You’ll be last so we can savor the claiming. I owe you that at the very least.”

I gave a chin lift, accepting the plan of action.

The other two voiced their agreement as well.

“All right then,” Mia said. “Here goes nothing.”

She untied her silky robe, a partial view of her naked body beneath coming into view.

We took her cue, the three of us stripping off our shirts and tossing them in the corner.

Lucian popped the fly of his dress pants, using his vamp speed to do the rest until he was standing naked and stroking his cock leisurely.

Ryker shucked off his designer jeans, the things so deliciously tight, they took his boxers with them as he pulled them off.

I followed suit, tearing off my ripped, well-worn jeans in a burst of wolf speed.

Mia shoved her robe off her shoulders until she was standing before us bold and beautiful in all her naked glory.

A low growl rumbled in my throat at the sight of her pussy already glistening with need.

She held out her hand to Ryker.

He took it and slid his other into her hair, leaning in and kissing her softly.

She rose to it, kissing him back, and sank into the sweet sensuality of it, as he walked her back toward the bed.

As she jarred against it, he grasped her thighs, wrapping them around him, then lifted her onto the bed. He laid her down softly on the mattress, his body covering hers, as he took her in another sensual kiss.

“My love,” she gasped against his mouth, reaching up and looping her hands around his neck to hold him close to her.

The endearment did something to him and ignited an intensity in him that had him rolling his hips, grinding his cock against her, making her feel every hard inch of him.

She moaned into his mouth and let her legs fall wide open.

The scent of her heightening arousal hit me right in the cock.

That and the sight of Ryker’s hot, tight ass grinding up and down was too much erotic torment to handle.

I caught Lucian’s eye and he gave a chin lift, making it clear he was on the same page as me.

In a combined burst of speed, we were both at the foot of the bed.

Lucian fisted his hand in Ryker’s hair and used his grip to yank his head back, forcing his mouth from Mia’s. He kissed him deeply, his tongue dancing leisurely with his.

Pulling away with a satisfied snarl, he took hold of Ryker’s shoulders and eased him down the bed, settling him between Mia’s legs, bringing his ass right into my waiting hands.

He jolted at my contact and shot a look over his shoulder.

Lucian gripped his hair again and shoved his face into Mia’s wet pussy. “The fantasy we spoke of months ago is here.”

Ryker shuddered.

Must’ve been one hell of a fantasy.

Then Lucian spelled it out, grinding Ryker’s face all over Mia’s pussy, making her moan and buck on the bed. “ Eat her out until she begs for a reprieve. Then keep going. Don’t stop. No mercy. Not until Jaxon’s done fucking your delectable ass.” He eyed me. “When you’re close, rip him from Mia and make him swallow your cum.”

Walking to Mia’s head, he held his cock in his hand and trailed it over her cheek.

She trembled with anticipation. “Lucian,” she breathed.

He smiled slyly. “Open wide, beauty.”

She did as he said and he grasped the back of her head, holding her steady, as he thrust his cock into her mouth, hitting deep and making her gag. His eyes rolled back in his head and he eased up a little, starting off with an easy, gentle rhythm, sliding his cock in and out of her sweet mouth.

I saw her tongue peek out, swirling around his shaft as she worked him over enthusiastically with her throat. “Good girl. That’s it, worship my cock. I’ll mark your breathtaking breasts with my cum and Ryker will clean up every drop.”

Her eyes glazed over with lust at his dirty words and she groaned around his cock, making him shudder and grin with satisfaction.

Goddamn, he was good.

He was fucking well firing me up.

I spread Ryker’s ass cheeks apart and swirled my tongue around his tight little hole.

He moaned into Mia’s pussy as I rimmed his asshole, drenching it with my saliva, teasing him and dipping my finger inside every now and then, just the tip.

He pushed back against me all needy and desperate.

Just how I wanted him.

Dominating him and making him need it, beg for me, was a hell of a rush. He awakened a craving in me that I’d forced myself to bury for so long. The fact that he was so powerful and I was able to own him, to bring somebody of his might to his knees was a thrill unlike any other.

And he wanted it so bad. He wanted to be pushed to that headspace, to a place where all that existed was desire and a desperate need to be filled and used until he was completely spent.

Grasping my hard cock, I rubbed it up and down between his ass cheeks and he clenched them around me, gripping me as hard as he could, trying to keep me there and make the most of the teasing friction.

I reached around him and dragged my fingers through Mia’s wet pussy.

Her heavy-lidded gaze shot to mine.

I held her gaze and shoved two fingers deep inside her even as Ryker continued to tongue her like a ravenous animal. His tongue licked my fingers, dousing them, as I finger-fucked her pussy, then pulled out suddenly making her gasp.

I grinned and held up my fingers drenched in her juices. “This is going in his ass. Going to coat his walls with it and slide my cock in nice and deep.”

She mewled, her eyes widening.

Ryker reacted to my dirty words too, ferociously sucking her clit into his mouth.

It set her off and she came, bucking wildly, cumming all over Ryker’s face. Her screams were muffled by Lucian’s cock lodged down her throat and he squeezed his eyes shut at the pleasure of the vibrations around his shaft.

He tightened his grip on her hair to the roots and stilled her, jerking her head in my direction. “Watch,” he commanded.

I angled Ryker without pulling him from her pussy so she could see enough and imagine the rest, as I slid two of my drenched fingers into his ass. Real nice and slow, driving deeper and deeper until I brushed his prostate. He roared in pleasure and slammed his fist down onto the mattress, rocking the bed.

“Is this what you want, lovely?” I taunted, curling my fingers and teasing his sweet spot.

“Yes!” he cried, lifting his head from Mia. “Fuck, Jax! Do it!”

Hell, yeah.

I pulled my fingers free, then rammed my cock home in one sudden thrust that had him screaming into Mia’s pussy. He raked his fingers down her breasts and the bite of pain set her off once more, drenching Ryker in her juices all over again.

Lucian let himself go this time as she screamed around his cock. He pulled out quick, grasped the base, then painted her sweet tits with his cum with spurt after violent spurt.

Mia’s back arched and the dirty act set off yet another orgasm.

She grabbed at the headboard, trying to inch away from Ryker’s mouth.

“I can’t. It’s too much,” she cried.

Lucian slapped his hands to her shoulders using his strength to hold her in place so she couldn’t escape Ryker’s torment.

Fuck, watching her take it, and come over and over was a hell of a thing. My cock was painfully hard. I needed release real fucking bad.

Bringing my wolf speed into play, I jackhammered into Ryker’s tight little ass, concentrating on his sweet spot, mashing his prostate with my cock over and over and over.

“Ah, fuck!” he yelled.

“Do not come!” Lucian ordered him. “You’ll swallow his seed, then you’ll come inside Mia. Not before.” He shifted his confining grip on Mia to one hand and used the other to wrap around Ryker’s shaft like a makeshift cock ring, forcibly preventing him from coming.

My nails dug into his hips, as I fully unleashed my fury on his ass, fucking him without mercy over and over, drawing it out until I was right on the edge.

I pulled out, grasped his jaw and jerked him toward me. “Swallow it down like a good little whore,” I commanded as I forced my cock deep down his throat and let myself go, filling him up with my cum.

He choked and gagged, struggling to swallow it all down. But I didn’t let up, holding him steady until he drank up every drop.

I eased out and held my cock right in front of his face. “Lick me clean. Taste your ass all over my shaft.”

Lucian squeezed his cock, urging him on.

He gasped and stuck out his tongue and began licking all over my shaft until it was glistening from a good tongue cleaning.

“Good boy,” I said, patting him on the head.

Lucian smiled and released his cock.

Ryker took the cue, grasped Mia’s hips, then thrust deep inside her.

He rose up, caging her in.

She wrapped her arms around him and moved in time to his deep, grinding thrusts.

“Been too long, sweetness,” he ground out, his eyes rolling back in his head at the sweet feel of her that I knew all too well.

Hands sliding down my back all of a sudden caught me off guard and I looked over my shoulder to see Lucian feeling me up.

I hesitated, considering pulling away for a moment .

But the dark look in his eyes stopped me.

A light tap to either thigh had me complying without thinking and widening my stance.

In the next beat, he was spreading my ass cheeks and licking my untouched hole.

I choked and grabbed at the bed to steady myself, bending over in the process and increasing his access.

Pleasure surged as he reached under me and glided two hands up and down my cock, swirling his fingers all over the place even as his tongue teased me.

“Ancient,” I groaned.

“Alpha,” he returned.

Being pleasured by Lucian while watching Mia and Ryker get it on was a whole other level of intensity.

And then I watched Ryker’s hands slide up her stomach and spark with his green fire. He slid them higher, skating over her breasts, her throat, her face, until he tangled his fingers with hers. Her blue fire came into play then and I looked on in awe as the flames fused, then erupted in a powerful wave of power that enveloped the two of them completely.

Mia screamed out in ecstasy and Ryker was right behind her as they orgasmed together.

The magic snuffed out and Mia collapsed onto the bed panting and looking high as all hell.

Ryker rolled off her and lay sprawled out at the foot of the bed, spent.

Mia had been right about the ritual taking a lot out of us then.

I felt Lucian tense, noticing Ryker’s exhaustion.

In a sudden move that shocked the hell out of me, he thrust two fingers deep into my ass and finger-fucked me like a madman, getting right down to it, and trying to make me lose it. I roared out at the sweet agony .

His vampire speed took over and I lost it. It was so fucking intense, I couldn’t hold it, and I came. Lucian was there, sealing his lips over my cock and swallowing every drop of my cum.

He eased off, licked my tip, then stared at me intensely.

He couldn’t believe what had happened.

Neither could I.

On the surface, it looked like we’d just gotten caught up in the moment.

But, fuck, it was more than that.

There really was a thin line between love and hate.

“Clearly, it was a mistake to forgo sampling a wolf in all my years,” he said with a wry smirk as he rose to his feet.

“Right back at you.” He was my first vampire too. He wasn’t like the rest, though. There was something… special about him.

As he went to Ryker and stroked his hair, whispering comforting words in his ear, it hit me.

It was his compassion.

It was so blatant whenever he was around Ryker. His capacity to love was what set him apart from the rest of his kind.

His eyes flicked to Mia.

She was crooking her finger at him, signaling that it was his turn to do his part of the ritual.

With a kiss to Ryker’s forehead, he pulled away and asked me, “Will you?”

I lifted my chin and as Lucian went to Mia, I sat with Ryker, easing him against my chest, stroking him reassuringly as he murmured peacefully, out of it and wracked with weakness.

Lucian climbed onto the bed and gathered Mia into his arms so that she straddled his lap .

“Your turn,” she said with a lazy smile.

“My turn,” Lucian rumbled, as he thrust inside her.

She bucked and he held still to give her time to adjust.

She was shuddering all over, way over sensitized from the little game we’d played.

But she was all too ready to rise to the occasion and, in the next moment, she rose up on Lucian, digging her nails into his scalp, then slamming back down onto his cock, as she rode him like a woman possessed.

He smiled at her reaction and held her through it, allowing her to take control. Warmth lit his eyes and he kissed her all over reverently, getting lost in his bond to her, just like Ryker had with his magic. He was making love to her, rolling his hips sensually as she took him deep, losing herself to it.

“Ready, beauty?” he breathed against her breasts.

She fisted her hands in his hair, slowing her thrusts, as she gasped, “Yes.”

In the next moment, Lucian snarled, his features contorting, his eyes flaming, as he vamped out. His talons dropped and he loosened his grip on her so as not to hurt her with them.

He brought his wrist to his glistening fangs and tore into it. “Drink,” he urged, offering it to her.

She dipped her head and her tongue darted out tentatively tasting his blood.

It did something to her and then she was grabbing his wrist and feeding in a frenzy.

He threw his head back and savored it.

I winced.

Sure, I’d come a long way when it came to him. But actually witnessing this was a lot to take. A low growl rumbled from me and I saw Lucian register it. He eased Mia off his wrist .

My growl deepened when she brushed her long black hair off the side of her neck, offering it to him.

Lucian shook his head.

I frowned.

What was he doing?

He stilled her with a single hand to her left hip.

Then, with his right, he swept a talon lightly across the tops of her breasts, drawing a shallow wound.

I watched his eyes flash, his entire body tense.

His hands started shaking.

He was fighting the bloodlust as her Immortal blood wafted into the air.

I was a split-second away from starting forward, when his eyes calmed, his body relaxing, and he regained control.

Just like before.

He leaned in and gently suckled at the wound.

“God!” Mia cried out in bliss, and began riding him hard again.

He groaned and drew a little deeper.

The room began to reverberate.

A couple of the motel art paintings fell off the walls, the frames smashing onto the floor.

A rush of warm air tore through the room, real creepy and otherworldly.

Mia screamed out in ecstasy.

Lucian pulled his mouth from her chest and snarled as he followed her over the edge.

Then he fell back and collapsed beside Ryker.

Mia struggled to her knees, weakened, but not as much as the other two.

A smile tugged at her lips as she looked out at me.

My turn.

I eased Ryker off me and laid him against Lucian .

Then I climbed onto the bed and made my way to her.

Grasping her ankles, I pulled her legs out from under her and her back hit the bed, a small cry of surprising coming from her.

Holding her gaze, my eyes burning deeply into hers, I crawled up her body until I had her covered, completely caging her in.

I cupped her face and breathed her in.

The potent cocktail of sex and blood hit me, along with Lucian and Ryker. But that sweet scent of strawberries and coconut came through the strongest and I held onto it as I took her mouth in a searing kiss.

I groaned as her hands roamed all over me, feeling every inch of me, exploring, reveling.

I slid my cock inside her.

Goddamn.

She was so fucking slick, a mixture of her own juices, and Ryker and Lucian’s cum filling her.

I thought it would disturb me and sully the moment between us, that I’d just have to push through it, but it didn’t. It actually turned me on. It had the whole time I’d watched her being pleasured and played with. If it had been with anybody else, I wouldn’t have stood for it or accepted it, even liked it. But, with our group, this Covenant, it changed everything. We were connected in a way that went beyond everything. I wanted to see her pleasured and fulfilled. By all three of us.

More than anything right now, though, I needed to cement our mating bond.

It had been clawing at me something fierce to be fulfilled. I knew it had for her too. But as wolf, with my highly-attuned instincts, it was far worse for me, far more intense and overpowering.

Once we completed the claiming, it would settle. The need would be there still, but it wouldn’t be desperate and an agonizing pull. It would be loving, sure, and powerful. We’d be content and at peace in one another.

She groaned as I angled my cock and drove deeper, hitting her sweet spot dead on.

“Shit!” she cried, throwing her head back.

I licked her throat like the animal that I was and she trembled all over, loving it.

“I want the wolf,” she gasped.

When I hesitated, she clawed at my back, making me hiss, trying to coax it out.

I snagged her hands and slammed them into the bed either side of her head.

Excitement shone in her eyes, thinking I was taking it there.

Like I hell I could.

I couldn’t actually go full wolf with her, a non-wolf.

But I could get close and unleash all over her.

Just not now.

Not during the claiming.

I leaned into her and whispered at her ear, “Just relax. Feel me moving inside you, my cock hard as steel for you, stretching you wide, opening you to me. Feel my body on yours.” She closed her eyes, savoring my words. “Feel me all over you. Smell me. Taste me. Feel us . Connecting, joining, becoming one.”

I slipped my hand between us and strummed her clit.

Her lips parted in an ‘O’ and a delicious hum sounded from her, sending a thrill through me.

She rocked with me, getting lost in the moment.

And so was I, losing myself in her.

My blood heated.

My eyes burned.

I could feel it coming .

Things were snapping into place between us.

Pleasure was engulfing us.

My wolf was calling out to her, my eyes glowing gold and burning into hers, urging her to connect.

And she did.

They flamed the same vibrant-blue as her magic.

Neither of us could look away.

The claiming was taking hold of us.

“I love you.”

The words poured out of me, unable to be contained.

Tears glistened in her eyes. She melted and choked back at me, “I love you .”

Adoration bled from the both of us.

I let my wolf teeth drop.

We needed to bleed for real now.

I scraped them across my right wrist.

Remembering what I’d taught her, she lapped at my wound, tasting me.

Brushing her hair off her shoulder, I leaned in.

She didn’t even tense as my teeth scraped her skin.

She was fully accepting, wanting, just as I was.

And that was why, as my teeth sank deep into her shoulder, her blood filling my mouth, the only cries emanating from her were ones of absolute ecstasy.

There was no pain in a true claiming bite.

Pleasure surged through me and I gave myself over to it, coming deep inside her.

She spasmed around my cock violently, over and over again, as she came and came and fucking came.

A bright golden glimmer erupted around us, surrounding the two of us.

I tensed, easing my teeth from her shoulder, and pulling out of her.

It wasn’t a part of the claiming .

Was it the sign that the Covenant was fulfilled?

I looked down at Mia to ask, but I found her eyes closed in sleep.

It had finally taken its toll on her. She was spent.

I leaned in to kiss my newly claimed mate, but I was stopped as my throat began to burn all the way down.

I felt an ice-cold sensation traveling through my body, painful as all fuck.

I grunted and as a gasp escaped me an awful taste filled my mouth.

Tar-like, it seemed.

I tried to spit it out, but it wouldn’t come.

The pain intensified, debilitating me.

I couldn’t hold my own body up.

I looked out at Ryker and Lucian, but they were out cold like Mia.

I collapsed.

And then everything went dark.

To be continued in FALLEN ANGEL