His fangs sunk into the flesh of her neck and pleasure like she’d never known ran through her body. She climaxed once more, stars exploding in her vision as her muscles spasmed around him.
Her legs wrapped around his hips as she tried to hold on, letting him fuck her as wild and savage as the beast in him demanded. It wasn’t enough, even as it brought her the brink once more. Vareck released his hold on her neck. “Need. More,” he groaned, barely forming the words. He rolled their bodies, quickly sitting up to face her. Mara straddled her king, riding him and chasing another release. She ground against him, sliding up and down his cock.
“What do you need?” she purred, the Harpy in her coming to the forefront to please its mate.
“Bite me.”
His hands gripped her upper thighs as she leaned in and licked up the column of his neck. Unable to help himself, Vareck dragged her forcefully up and down his thickness. “Bite me,” he growled again.
Playful as she might feel now that her own need had been sated, Mara’s fangs skimmed the surface of his skin before sinking into it.
Blood exploded in her mouth; the potent aphrodisiac she’d never known existed, coating her tongue in ecstasy.
Vareck shuddered beneath her, shallowly moving her up and down his cock. She felt the shaft inside her stiffen further before wet heat flooded into her. Vareck reached between their bodies, and rubbed her clit in fevered circles. Mara rocked into him, her talons digging into his back as she felt the rush through her body. She came once more, a shuddering mess around him.
She sat atop him; arms wrapped around him until her breathing steadied. When the last of the euphoria drained away, Mara let out a contented sigh.
“I feel it now,” she whispered.
“The bond?” he asked, his wandering hands already touching those sensitive places on her wings that made her wet for him.
“Yeah,” she answered weakly. Heat was already starting to stir in her once more.
“Good,” Vareck answered. “That means you like it when I do this . . .”
He leaned over and bit the other side of her neck.
Mara ran her clawed hands down his back, and she felt him harden inside her in answer to their unspoken questions. She tilted her head back as he scraped his fangs over her skin, grinding her hips against him. She fully intended to indulge in this for the rest of night.
Vareck
Vareck walked through the forest feeling content for the first time in the past of six hundred years. He had his mate. Their bond was cemented. The curse would surely begin to unravel.
Everything was going well.
Apart from the fact that they were still in one of the many existing planes of hell. That was still a problem.
Vareck wondered if they should continue moving through the landscape, or if they should stay in one place for a few days. It might make it easier for Corvo to find them. And with the Okalri dead, it wasn’t the worst idea. Wouldn’t his nephew love to hear that. Staying in one place for safety. He’d never hear the end of it.
He gripped Mara’s fingers between his own as they walked. They were just nearing the edge of the clearing when a bit of gray fluff caught his eye. On one of the flat rocks, Corvo laid there, swatting at flies.
“What up, V?” he mused.
“Well it’s about fucking time you came back,” Vareck said as Mara’s hand slipped from his. The giant white wolf came bounding toward them from the other side of the forest. Corvo rounded, peering at the creature and did a backflip in his great attempts to flee. A hissing, spitting sound escaped him and all Vareck could do was let out a small laugh. While his mate embraced her familiar, a flash of light exploded across the clearing.
It was early morning, just before dawn, and as the suns began to peek over the horizon, a portal came into fruition. The wispy red magic formed a circle with no indication of where it led.
Kaia stepped out. With the leprechaun thief, Lou.
“Vareck!” his old friend cried. She ran from the portal, seemingly unaware of the tenseness in the man beside her. Letting all notions of court behaviors and decorum fall to the wayside, she threw her arms around Vareck’s shoulders and he embraced her in return, even as he noted how Lou’s eyes boldly drilled into him.
“Please tell me that portal leads to somewhere—anywhere—out of this shithole,” Sebastian said as he approached them.
“I’m with the pussy on this one,” Sadie added, and Sebastian glared at her.
“Well, you’ll be happy to know it leads to earth,” Lou said, still watching Kaia intently.
“Took you long enough,” Vareck said to Corvo. The cat was inching around Mara and her familiar, his ears flattened and the fur lining the ridge of his back was up on end.
“You seem to have managed,” Corvo replied stiffly, his tail flicking side to side. “I suppose it would be too much to ask for a ‘thank you’.”
“Ah, Vareck, I’ve missed you,” Kaia said, releasing him to step away. Lou relaxed a bit and Vareck gave them a curious look. He would have to follow up on this new development.
“I’ve missed showering,” Sebastian said. “So if you don’t mind . . .” He stepped around Lou and walked through the portal.
Behind him Sadie shrugged and looked at Mara. “You coming, sis?”
His mate looked up from her familiar to him and then smiled. “Let’s go.”
“Who’s this?” Kaia asked, looking down at the wolf.
“Rigby,” Mara said brightly. “She’s my familiar.”
“To think that you found your familiar here. In a hellscape of all places,” Kaia mused.
“Imagine that,” Lou mumbled. “The portal can only stay open so long, so if we can, uh . . .” He made a scooching motion with his hands and Kaia nodded.
“Right.” She gave them a tight smile.
Vareck touched Mara at the base of her back. “Ready to go home?” he asked her.
“More than ready,” she said.
He watched as she and Rigby walked through the portal and a sadness filled him, though he didn’t let it show. Sadie went next.
“You claimed her didn’t you?” Kaia asked softly.
“I did,” he replied, not wanting to say more. He used the excuse to enter the portal even as Corvo let out a groan.
The human world materialized around him. They were standing in an alleyway. The air was chilled, but not cold as Faerie. The cement ground was broken up in places and the rusted pipe beside them leaked. He couldn’t be happier to see the shitty human realm simply because it beat being in a hell realm any day.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Corvo complained as he rematerialized right beside him. “You can’t tell me you’re bringing that dog to the castle.” He squinted his eyes at the wolf as he sat and curled his tail around himself.
Rigby barked loudly once, the sound reverberating off the alley walls. Corvo nearly jumped out of his skin, claws out and hissing, before bouncing himself off a trash can and managing to land on his feet.
Vareck hid his smile behind a hand, and Mara laughed loudly with the others. “Sorry, Corvo,” she said, clearly not very sorry at all. “If Vareck will still take me . . .” She turned to him.