I felt it when she disappeared. Like a string that went from her heart to mine had been cut with a sharp pair of scissors. She was gone.Pushing through the guys, I rushed through the doors between the infirmary and the small conference room."Kiema!" I yelled, even knowing she wouldn't be there.The sound of running feet and other yells began before the last syllable of her name left my mouth."Where is she? What happened?" Ransom asked as he pushed by me."Where did she go? Did someone take her?" Saint asked.Ten pushed to the surface. He grabbed me by the shoulders. "What has happened to our Mate, guardian?"I shook him off. "I don't know. I wouldn't be standing around here with a thumb up my ass if I knew where she was, now would I? Back off, Ten."Saint's eyes reappeared. "How did you know she was gone?""I don't know, man. She just was." I explained the sensation.Everyone looked at each other."Tracker. Pull it up," Taryk said.I pulled my phone from my p
"Aw fuuuuck meeeee." My back arched as my dick almost burst from my pants. The fastest hard on in my entire life had me panting like I was trying to put out a bonfire with my breath."Luk? You okay, man?" Aeron asked, my hand still wrapped around his lower leg."You don't feel that?" I said as I panted. It felt like someone was pouring lust down my throat, dousing my body in it.He looked at me oddly. "No, but I can see what it's doing to you. Are you going to share?" He licked his lips."Your body can't handl - " My words cut off with a hiss. Magic lips and teeth nibbled at every inch of me, simultaneously. I have to get out of here. Have to find somewhere away from people.I shook my head. Stuffing my hands in my now too tight pants so I didn't climb the man's body like it was a tree, I was almost out the doors before my body stopped listening to my commands."I can handle anything you want to dish out, mate." I could hear the hunger in his voice.Against my will, I was
"Saint?" Kiema asked, her delicious ass pointed up into the air, her head near my lower back as we rushed across the street to the warehouse."Yeah, honey?""You have a seriously fantastic ass. I'm going to bite it one of these days."Ransom laughed behind us. I felt her wiggle, brace herself on her hands that were on my hip bones. "Yours, too, Ransom."His laugh turned to smoke. "Anytime, anywhere."Next thing I know, Kiema is snaking her hands under my shirt, down my pants. Her nails dug into the muscles of my ass.I spanked her, the sound loud as we passed through the back entrance of our home. "No touching."Her hand disappeared. "Sorry. I need your skin. I need it against mine. Hurry, Saint."We pushed into the elevator. Ransom stabbed the button for my fifth-floor home. Pulling Kiema from my shoulder, I lowered her to her feet. She sank to her knees, hands searching out my zipper as her breathing grew ragged and her eyes flickered with heat and lust. My h
"Too fucking right, pet," I said as I hit the release for the guardrail on his table. I climbed up on the platform as the obstacle dropped to the side. "Anything off limits?" I asked, barely able to enunciate the words."No tickling," he said as he dropped my flesh. With both hands, he grabbed the hem of my shirt and ripped it from my body. "And leave my feet alone." He jackknifed up on the table, pulling me towards him. "Other than that, no." He ran his tongue from my belly to my neck, nibbled on my collar bone.My head tipped back as I fought to keep the fog of lust at bay long enough to listen. "Shit, luv.""Your list?" he asked as his fingers slid through my hair.The feel of his fingers in my hair and his mouth against my body had the words evaporating before I could get them off my lips.His hands tightened in my hair, angling my head back. He leaned up as he pulled my head down. "Luk, pay attention. Anything off limits for you?"I blinked the haze of lust clear. I sw
I shut the connection before they could yell at me. Ransom's chin dipped ever so slightly. He looked at me. I thought I knew every expression that could possibly wash over my brother's face. I had been wrong. I just hoped my own ferocious agony wasn't written as clearly on my own features. "We've got to hold off long enough for the others to get here," I said mentally.Kiema's hair swished as Heppni moved their shared head. Heppni glared at the room. "What is this infernal buzzing? Do you have insects in your home? Are all humans so filthy?"Almost crying in relief that Heppni couldn't hear our mental thoughts, Ransom and I hatched a hasty plan to keep the entity occupied. I swallowed the bile that crept up my throat at what we both had to do. "I have no idea what you're talking about, Heppni. I do know that Kiema, our Mate, says that she feels phantom sensations in her scalp at times. They've been medically examined. She's fine. There is probably something wrong with h
We all padded up the stairs in our animal forms. Lukas and Aeron were in front, opening doors for us as needed. I had no idea what the situation was, but I could feel the swarm of sick magic sweeping through the warehouse. My panther batted at it, unhappy with the way it felt against his pelt. "We're here, Saint," I said through the mental network. We waited just outside his fifth-level door. Nothing but groans and moans slithered from beyond the door. "C-c-come in," the voice said over our network. I didn't recognize it."Saint?" I asked again. "Th..." It sounded like static was washing out the signal. But that couldn't fucking be. I turned to look at Xander. His spirit tiger was restless, his teeth bared as he pulled magical scents in through his mouth. "I don't know what's blocking the signal, T. Everything should be fine," Xander said through the mental network. His physical body was still on his level.The screeching wail of a signal tuner blared through my h
Hate and rage burned in my soul. If I thought I would be unable to hate anyone as much as I hated my fake parents, I was sadly mistaken. The deity who'd taken refuge in my body was making the men in my life do things they would never have done before. She was hurting them. Through me. Calling on all of the magic I'd linked and bound us together with, I fought like a demon to wrest control from her deranged hands. She fought back, her laughter a taunt that I accepted. I breathed it in, pulled it into my lungs, let it burn in my heart. "You can't beat me, human. You are helpless in the face of my power.""You won't win. They are mine. You have no right to them," I bit back. "Your power comes from me. The power you assume is yours originates from me.""Then I guess you better get used to living without it, bitch, because I own it now." I dug in that sticky place where my magic lived. All of the pieces of my magic were there and whole once again. Then, out of the c
"What the fuck is happening to her, Atlas?" Ransom barked.Xander finally joined us. We were all in human form again. Standing around naked as the day we were born, huddled over the bed where Kiema was laying. Saint and Ransom had already removed the cuffs and restraints from her body.Cuts and bruises bloomed on her cheeks and face. "I don't know, Ransom. I have no idea what's going on," Dr. Atlas sounded pissed. "What the fuck was happening in here, anyway? Why did you call us?" Xander asked as he glared at Taryk. "We're going to have words, you and me."Taryk nodded, looking unmoved by the threat. "Some new goddess...deity...thing was inside Kiema. Said her name was Heppni. She's equal to a Prime. Also said that Azica has a lot more power than Earth when Ten questioned her. I'll fill you in later. I need Kiema back. Now." Ransom ran his hands through his hair. "We all need her back, Ransom," Saint said, a growl in his voice. "She belongs to all of us. Not just you.