I cast a blazing glance back at him. “What about it?” I snapped. His aura was completely red now, without a hint of silver, and pulsed with a steady beat that mimicked the throbbing sensation between my legs. When my gaze dropped to his groin, he hooked his thumbs in his boxers and tugged them down, allowing his magnificent cock to spring free. It stood rock hard and weeping, and he gave it one long, slow stroke, gathering the moisture at the flared head and rubbing it around until he glistened. He was more than ready, so why wasn’t he inside me?
“My aura’s completely red, isn’t it?”
“Completely. Is mine like yours?”
“Nothing like it. Yours expands, whenever I touch you, the red increases, but the green glows brighter too.”
He grazed his fingertips down the crack of my ass and worked two fingers into my pussy, pushing deep and stretching me enough to make my head spin. Then he stroked, twisting his fingers and thrusting in and out until I rocked back and forth to the same rhythm, the pleasure swelling through my body to the point of bursting. Just when I thought he’d finally let me have relief, he stopped.
“Fuck! Why are you doing this? Am I just some experiment to you?”
“No, baby, I think you’re everything. I think you might just be the perfect woman.”
That was rich. Now he was making excuses to get me to allow for more torture. This crazy bastard evidently got off on edging, but it really wasn’t my thing.
Frustrated and annoyed, I dropped my hand between my legs and started rubbing my clit, desperate for some relief from the building need. My entire body throbbed with it. I couldn’t see my own aura no matter how much I tried, but I could absolutely feel the magic gathered around me like a heavy blanket now, slipping over my hypersensitive skin.
“April, just a little longer,” Gray said, grabbing my wrist and pulling my hand back up, pressing it flat to the counter and covering both my hands with his to hold them down. His cock brushed against the crease of my ass, and I pushed back against him.
“Just let me feel you inside me,” I begged. “I need that big cock inside me.”
He’d turned me into some kind of nympho. The need became a living thing, like an enormous balloon between my legs, stretched to the point of breaking but somehow still growing beyond my ability to comprehend. The world had gone red, my vision clouding and my breathing ragged. My thighs were drenched with my arousal, and the weight of his cock pressed against my ass didn’t help. He slid his length slowly down my crease and back up, growling as he pulled me back against him. But he still didn’t push inside.
“Fuck, I can’t wait any longer,” he muttered, and I had just enough presence of mind to mentally rejoice.
Rather than shove into me, he pulled me up and spun me to face him. His mouth crashed down onto mine as he hooked his hands behind my thighs and hoisted me up. I wrapped both arms around his neck and my legs around his waist, but he did the rest of the work. He angled his cock to my entrance as he braced me against the counter, then my world split apart in a blast of ecstasy as he finally, finally, slammed home.
I arched back with a rapturous cry, twisting my hips on his cock as he jacked hard into me. With a cock that huge, there should have been some discomfort with how hard he fucked, but it all felt perfect.
His hand slipped up my back to cup the back of my head, and his mouth worked over my jaw, down my neck and back up. His eyes were fevered orbs of white fire, and his teeth clenched in a grimace of utter pleasure. He fucked me with frantic, fast thrusts, each one filling and stretching me so perfectly I was caught between marveling at the sheer pleasure and simply feeling it. I’d already been close to coming, but I forced myself to hold back, to wait, because I wanted us to lose ourselves together.
When his expression broke and his mouth fell open with a rough yell, his aura followed suit, exploding in a cascade of red light. The magic seemed to flood straight into me so fast I was momentarily struck senseless, hovering at the edge for a split second before my orgasm took hold. My voice joined his as I flew over, body shuddering in his arms, hips bucking violently.
He held me through several minutes of tremors, his gaze never leaving my face. When I finally had the self-awareness again to return to reality, I gave him a satisfied grin, but it faded when his attention shifted behind me, and his tender smile disappeared.
Gray’s jaw clenched spasmodically, and his eyes suddenly blazed with anger. My skin prickled uncomfortably with awareness of a familiar, unpleasant energy that had filled the studio.
Footsteps approached, and shattering sounds reached my ears from the annealers and the shelves as all our work from the day self-destructed. Not even the afterglow of the most amazing orgasm I’d ever had could overcome the certainty that something was very, very wrong.
“Graziano, it’s been a while.” The voice had an unpleasant, reverberating pitch that made my skin prickle uncomfortably.
“I don’t work for Chaos anymore,” Gray said, clutching me tighter to him. “So what the fuck are you doing here, Vesh?”
7
Gray
April tensed in my arms and shivered, clinging to me. Her mind was still open and filled with a rambling stream of inner thoughts. One thought stood out among the rest: “Not again.” I glanced down at her with a frown.
“Has he bothered you before?”
She twisted to look over her shoulder at the tall, black-suited man who’d appeared out of thin air in the middle of her studio. She shook her head. “No, but that feeling…” She shivered again and grimaced. “I’ve felt it before. A couple days ago. It’s what threw me off my schedule. Now I have to start over again.”
“I’m not here for you, Gray. I’m here for her. Give her to me, and you can go,” Vesh said in his deep monotone, his voice seemingly dredged from the depths of an abyss. April trembled again.
“If I’m here, it damn well does concern me. She’s mine. Whatever Chaos wants with her, he’ll have to take up with me, in person.”
Vesh’s heavy brows tilted inward, and dark veins erupted around his eyes. “I obey his orders, not yours. Don’t make this harder on yourself. If you don’t give her to me now, you’ll have my brothers to contend with too.”
The uncomfortable crackle of chaos magic grew around me, accompanied by the dissonant sounds of wrenching metal and shattering glass. The windows behind me blasted out into the night, and cold, wet wind flowed in over my bare skin.
I gritted my teeth, allowing some of my human form to fade. The scales April had only been able to feel earlier became visible as silvery ripples across my skin. April inhaled sharply, her eyes widening.
“Vesh,” I warned in a voice deepened by my guardian power. “You are no match for me, and you know it. What do you want with her?”
The shoulders of his dark trench coat lifted, and he sneered at me. “Andrew Vincent is a thief and a liar. He owes Chaos millions, and managed to slip away before we could catch him. He continues to elude us. But I see his daughter is the real treasure. Chaos has been searching for a creature with a mix of power that strong. He will gladly take her as settlement of Vincent’s debt.”
I looked down at April, worried she’d make a desperate choice. But the flash in her eyes and the clench of her jaw told me otherwise. She pushed me back a step and slipped off the counter, turning to face our visitor