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I was about to roar with laughter when another throbbing wave hit me and sent me to my knees. I blinked up at Remnant, my entire being overwhelmed with uncontrollable lust.

What. The. Goddess. Fuck.

Remnant paid no attention to me, watching the cheering and moaning crowd with unease.

“Yes. That’s exactly what this is. But you are right about one thing, shifter, Kira cannot be trusted.

There is death here when there shouldn’t be.

This is a celebration of life but it is tainted—by what I am unsure of.

I’ve never seen anything like it.” Worried emerald green eyes settled back on me just as I forced myself upright.

Her words should have alarmed me but all they did was add to the seductive pleasure of the vibrating water.

Another soft caress, this time by strong hands, forced a gasp from my parted lips and I leaned into the touch.

My eyes hooded with desire and a snarl ripped from me when they became bolder, gripping my ass hard from behind.

It was wrong and unwanted but felt way too damn good for me to fight against the rampage of lust flaring to life inside me.

Remnant’s beautiful face blurred in my vision but I could tell her eyes were wide abhorrence. It didn’t matter, all that did were the continuous fondling touches, and scraping of scales rubbing against me. Instead of being repelled, I wanted more. So much more.

“Goddess don’t stop touching me like that.” I slurred.

“Get your hands off him!” Remnant snarled and I groaned as the vicious sound caressed my scales more. My arms opened wide as she came rushing forward, my heart pounding with excitement in my chest. My soulmate, finally in my arms. My beautiful soulmate—.

Suddenly I was spinning in the water, away from the erotic touches and I whimpered at the loss.

“He is an unclaimed male.”

The silky siren voice ran a shiver of pleasure down my spine.

“Will you not allow us to pleasure him?”

Peering over Remnant, I saw a pod of violet haired water fae. Their leader purred seductively at me. I licked my lips and brushed up against Remnant’s back.

Dipping my mouth to her cheek, I kissed it softly and growled low to her. “Let us join them. Share me. While they pleasure me, I can pleasure you.”

Remnant tilted her head to me and she hissed. “Too dangerous, now shut up and follow my lead.” She snarled back at the pod of females moving erotically in the water, beckoning us. “He was mine first. I claim him.”

My head dropped to Remnant’s shoulder at her proclamation, bringing a moment of clarity back into me and I sighed heavily. Both joy and sadness warmed my heart. Remnant had no idea what she had just done. Fae could not lie.

“ Cat? ” I called out desperately. The lust had already taken hold of me again.

“ I am here. I know what you ask of me. It will be harder to mask your bond now that she has accepted it. ” He snarled. Then I felt the void where our connection had already been dimmed completely snuff out to darkness. “ It is done. ”

My lips trailed over the scales of her shoulder, my lucidity already gone the moment her exotic taste burst to life on my lips. “ Thank you. ”

“ You’re an idiot, fairy boy. I will enjoy your misery once you fully comprehend your own stupidity this night. ”

I groaned out again as another heavy wave hit us. Whatever biting remark I had was lost by the fast paced vibration generating an undulating rhythm. A rhythm I could not help but move with even when Remnant stiffened against me.

“Are you sure?” The water fae pressured, her gaze dropping down to my crotch with hunger. “You have no pod and he is a male that will require more than one lover by the looks of him.”

“Fuck.” I groaned, seeing what the others now saw—my fully engorged dick protruding proudly from my scales, eagerly awaiting a partner.

Remnant snarled viciously, baring her needle teeth at the pod of yearning females that all leaned in to get a better look. “He. Is. Mine. And I don’t share. I’ll not repeat it again.”

“As you wish. There are plenty of other fish in the sea.” The violet siren scowled back, her entire pod turning and moving in unison together.

I whimpered, feeling their abandonment just as much as the waters throbbing around my exposed cock.

“Need–I need.” I gasped against Remnant’s scales, humping into the water and gripping her tightly. “You feel so good, little umbra.”

Remnant’s hand grabbed mine and with a swift move twisted it hard as she spun to face me. The only awareness I had of the splintering of bones in my wrist was the sickening sound of it snapping. The absolute lust masking any pain it may have caused.

“Goddess damn it, shifter, you drank the ambrosia, didn’t you? What is wrong with you?” Remnant cursed in my face.

I licked my lips and my non-broken hand dropped to my shaft. “So…beautiful…when angry.” I groaned, stroking my cock in front of her.

Her gaze dropped to my movement before shaking her head hard and releasing even more colorful curses.

“Yes. Keep talking dirty to me.” I said lewdly while inside I roared against my lack of control .

“Are you really this daft! Those pearls are aphrodisiacs! I assumed the very name would have tipped you off. How could you not see me toss mine? You’re a shifter for goddess sake!”

The beast chuckled in my head. “ She is growing on me, this soulmate of yours. ”

I could not comprehend her words. I was a slave to the erotic water music pounding all around me. Her anger and dark beauty only added to the thrall.

I needed her…needed her to fucking feel alive.

I barely saw her webbed foot swing outwards as it made crushing contact with my dick and fractured my other wrist.

My beast roared with laughter.

I roared shrilly from pain and it radiated up my spine and keeled me over onto the rippling white sand. Vomit ripped violently upwards from my stomach and I spewed out whatever remained of the grotesque ambrosia pearls.

I clawed at the sands, despite my broken wrists like a wild beast, the only outlet I had to the wracking pain caused by my crushed member retreating back up inside me.

Gulping oxygen back into my system, I blinked up at my soulmate through watery eyes, and ignored the continuous laughter of my cat inside my head.

“I can’t—” I gasped. Then shook my head hard before growling out. “I can’t fucking believe you did that.”

Several of the sex enthralled water fae who had been watching our display moved further away, disgusted by the vomit floating towards them.

“It was necessary.” She said dryly, crossing her arms and looking pointedly down on me with the same disgust as the water fae who just left us. “Are you done now?”

“It was not necessary.” I snarled. The cat’s roaring laughter was reaching new heights inside my head to the point that I could barely hear myself speak.

Remnant snorted hard and her emerald eyes blazed. “Do you still feel the need to fuck anything and everything in sight?” She watched me grimace and snorted again. “That’s what I thought.”

“How did you know that would work?” I groaned out, bracing on my hands and knees to gain some composure.

She shrugged and extended her hand. “I didn't. ”

I released a stream of curses that would have had my father fucking blushing, and begrudgingly accepted her assistance to stand.

Remnant snickered and patted my shoulder with mock sympathy. “There there, shifter. You are stronger now for it, little pet.”

I barely paid her jab any attention, assessing the water fae around us with astonishment. “Just to be clear, I am seeing this correctly…this isn’t still the pearls working?”

Remnant followed my gaze to a grouping of painted sapphic water fae erotically pleasuring one another. The subservient male of their pod was being shared in a frenzy of lust while being sodomized at the hands of his female counterparts.

Everywhere I looked, water fae were succumbing to the pleasures of flesh, gyrating to the hypnotic beat in an all out orgy.

Remnant’s lips pursed with amusement. “Welcome to the Three Moon Festival. That,” she pointed to a lone poor male humping at anything he could find, “was exactly what you looked like a short while ago.”

I ran my webbed hands through my hair. “Thanks for sparing me the shameful act, but I had better still have a functioning dick when we get the Sheol out of here.”

Remnant smirked before shaking her head. “I still don’t understand why in the goddess you drank it, shifter.”

I gave her a glare. “Because I thought you had!” I growled and shook my head. “I wanted to make sure that—” I stopped myself. “Forget it. What exactly is your plan here?”

Ignoring my question, her eyes narrowed on me. “You wanted to make sure of what exactly?”

“Yes, what did you want to make sure, fairy boy? That you were as stupid as we all thought?” The cat chuckled, his laughter now subdued to smug amusement.

I ran my webbed hand through my hair again, irritated as fuck. “To give you my trust.” I snarled at my open confession before sighing. “You don’t have to do any of this alone. I will always be here for you, little umbra.”

The cat’s amusement died and was replaced by something I never felt from him before. Sympathy. My hands fisted at my side, I didn’t fucking need him to feel sorry for me.

My confession, however, had the opposite effect on Remnant .

“You!” She seethed and pointed her webbed finger at me. “You don’t get to say those words to me! Ever! I barely know who you are, Emon! ”

My chest puffed indignantly and I seethed back at her. “I can tell you that I’m not your fucking enemy. I am on your side, unlike that water fae bitch, and I am not leaving you in this place to go at it alone!”

Remnant bared her razor sharp teeth at me. “You don’t get to decide that for me.”

My head snapped back as if she had slapped me. Her words sliced deeper than I thought was even possible. The whole reason why I hid our bond was for her to have a choice. A choice to choose me…regardless of some bond.

She snarled at the broken expression I failed to hide and pushed off of me to swim up and over the raging orgy surrounding us.

Unprepared, I tumbled backwards in the water, unable to stop my momentum until I landed into a group of moaning painted females. They latched onto me like starved piranhas.

I pushed away from them frantically, reaching up towards Remnant who was swimming further away from me. “Wait! Please. Wait!” I called out.

When a water fae licked up my chest, I swore and shoved her aside. Looking back up I saw nothing but the glow of the moonlight mocking me.

Remnant was gone.

Growling I disentangled myself from the humping females and darted upwards.

“Fuck!” I growled and spun in the water sniffing out her scent. With so much sex in the air and the continued smell of death there was no way of me tracking her.

“This is becoming a habit.” The cat growled. “Can’t we just put a leash on her and be done with it.”

I snarled. “We have to find her.”

“I’m afraid I can’t allow that, little pet.”

I stiffened and I turned to find myself confronted by armed guards. Their weapons were drawn and one of them sported orange hair with matching fiery eyes.

Cyrus. And with him, the gaudy rainbow water fae leader.

“Kira.” I growled, ignoring the guards circling around me .

“Emon.” Kira grinned and twirled a pink braid around her finger coyly.

I narrowed my eyes on her.

“What is the meaning of this?” I growled.

Kira smiled sweetly and waved her free hand in the water.

“This–” she closed her fist and immediately my gills slammed shut.

My supply of oxygen effectively cut off.

“This is me playing the game and winning, little pet.” She released her other hand from her pink braids and waved it around her, my legs and arms shot backwards by a forceful rush of water, binding me thoroughly.

“Child's play.” I hissed between my lips.

Kira’s rose colored eyes regarded me with sadistic mirth. “I’d save whatever precious oxygen you have left Emon. Suffocation, I have always felt, would be the worst way to die.”

“Original.” I wheezed back.

Tinkling laughter made me want to claw out her throat so that she could never make that sound again. “Don’t worry, shifter. I am not going to kill you. Someone else has reserved that right.”

A deep rumble of laughter emanated from my gut.

“Must piss you off.” I gasped, using the last of my air to antagonize her more.

“A pawn in your own game, someone else calling shots.” I tilted my head to the side and my eyes narrowed against the black spots dotting my vision. “You haven’t won anything.”

Kira hissed through her razored teeth and for a moment I thought she was going to attack me. Instead, she waved her hand and my gills opened once more. Beautiful oxygen filtered through me as I greedily sucked it in.

Kira pouted. “I thought I would at least get to see you humbled as you fucked one of my fae. I knew Solaire would be too smart to fall for my tricks, but you…you are so easily distracted by a pair of tits, and you are desperate to prove yourself. Here’s a tip, shifter, you’ll never be able to prove yourself to Solaire, no one can. ”

Another dark chuckle. “So that’s what this is about. Tit jealousy. A secret yearning for a fae that wants nothing to do with you.”

The cat groaned inside of me and rolled his eyes. “You are definitely going to get us killed this time, fairy boy.”

Kira smiled wide but her pink eyes blazed with fury. “I am going to enjoy serving you to your death, golden one .” She snapped at Cyrus. “Get him up and moving. We have a timeline we must stick to and I need this filth taken care of before then. ”

I kept quiet this time, I may have had a death wish, as my cat had so lovingly reminded me, but I also had a very good reason to live.

I scented the air one more time, but there was no smell of lilies anywhere, nor was their any sight of my soulmate.

The only thing I could see were the water fae fucking.

Like captivated starving beasts, they thrusted steadily to the pulsating beat of the waters while their queen looked on with greedy pleasure.