Eris (The Lost Goddesses #4)

Chapter 25

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

E ris watched in growing fear and horror as Enzo rose higher into the sky.

"Fucking harpies! You bring him back!" she shouted, amplifying her voice in warning.

Another creature burst out of the water, rocking the sailboat. Eris stopped the boat and dropped the anchor. Fear and fury were turning her eyes black. Her fangs lengthened, and claws stretched from her fingertips. First naiads and now harpies. She was done with people touching what belonged to her.

A shadow spear appeared in her hand, and she threw it at the closest circling harpy. It pierced its chest, and it screamed, the wound spraying black blood as it careened out of the sky.

The other two harpies tossed Enzo between them in the air, and Eris went cold. She had seen them use each other's strength to terrorize and then tear their victims apart. They loved the taste of fear in their meat.

" No ." Eris's power roared out of her, tearing and stretching her body until she was a creature of Tartarus. She didn't register the pain as horned bat-like wings burst from her back, and she shot into the air. Her whole world was narrowed on one thing— Enzo. He was struggling in the harpies' claws. Eris saw the blood seeping through his shirt and lost her mind.

Eris launched spear after spear at the harpies that were now swarming. She landed on one's back and tore its wings off before tossing it aside like the filth it was.

Eris unleashed the true darkness inside her—a gift from her mother—and blacked out the skies around them. The harpies called and screamed, disorientated and unable to see. Eris could see better in the dark than in the light. She summoned a sword and shot through them, slaughtering her path to the leader that had her Enzo.

"Eris!" he called over the noise.

She collided with the harpy holding him.

" Mine ," she snarled and tore into its neck with her fangs.

The harpy dropped Enzo, and he started to plummet toward the waves. Eris tossed aside the dying harpy and dove after him. The darkness vanished, and the blue sea rose up faster and faster. Eris collided with Enzo, catching him and wrapping her arms and wings around him as they hit the water.

The impact snapped something in her right wing, but she didn't let Enzo go until the depths slowed them. She released the hold on him only long enough to untangle her wings. She grabbed him by the shoulders and began to kick back to the surface. They burst through the waves, Enzo coughing and spluttering.

"Eris!" He turned in the water and froze, eyes going wide. "Fuck...Eris, bella , are you in there?"

She couldn't form words, too lost in the power riding her. She grabbed him under the shoulders and started to swim toward the boat.

"I'm not hurt bad. I can swim," Enzo tried to say, but her answering snarl stopped him from arguing.

They reached the boat, and Eris lifted him up so he could grab the edge and haul himself aboard. He reached down for her hand and helped her up. She stood over him, her dress shredded and her wings broken. Enzo climbed to his feet.

"Woah. I didn't know you had wings, baby," he said, his calm voice reaching through to the rational part of her. He cupped her face and kissed her fanged mouth. "Thank you for saving me. It was terrifying, but you are incredible. My goddess. My perfect dark queen."

Eris shook all over, the darkness seeping out of her skin and wrapping around her like a shroud. The claws resting on Enzo's chest retracted and with a sharp stab of pain her broken wings mended and folded back inside of her.

The fury cleared from her eyes, and then she could only see her beautiful Enzo, whom they tried to steal from her. She didn't see any fear in his face as she pulled him to her.

"Mine," she hissed, her teeth not quite back to normal.

Enzo's eyes heated with lust. "Yours, baby. Completely." He kissed her jaw. "Utterly." His mouth moved to her neck, and his kiss turned to a sucking bite that had her grinding herself against his thick thigh. "Without question."

Eris grabbed the tears in his ruined shirt and tore it off his body. He had scratches from the harpy claws but no puncture wounds.

"I'm okay. They are minor," he assured her.

Eris licked one of his bloody scratches, unable to stop the instincts of the creature still riding her. They both groaned, and Enzo hauled her up into his arms to kiss her. Eris couldn't hold back the fear anymore, and tears spilled down her cheeks.

"Don't cry, baby. You got me. You got me," Enzo tried to soothe between kisses.

"Need you," she managed to gasp out and dragged him to the deck of the boat.

"Read my mind." Enzo tore off the tatters of her clothes, which were still stained in harpy blood. Eris stroked his already hard dick through his shorts before shoving them down, only far enough to free him. She wrapped her legs around him, kissing him with all the relief and jagged fear she still felt. Enzo hauled her hips up and thrust inside of her bit by bit until she loosened for him.

Eris dragged her nails down his biceps. "Won't hurt me," she said disjointedly.

Enzo forced his way in until he hit her limit before dragging himself out and thrusting in her again. "Fuck Eris, you are so tight right now."

"Harder. Need you," she demanded and pulled his lips back to hers. Her fingers knotted in his salty locks, and his teeth sank into her lip. It was messy and rough and full of wild desperation that they both needed to get out.

Enzo moved his fingers over her clit in demanding circles. "Come on my cock, my dark goddess. I want your perfect cunt to take what it needs as your reward for saving me. Use me any way you want."

Eris's magic surged up again, and she flipped him onto his back. The transformation happened too quickly for her to have any control over it. Her healed wings shot out behind her, stretching out wide. The darkness fell around them like glittering midnight, and Enzo's eyes went so wide that she momentarily faltered. Her skin was a pale purple-gray in color, and she knew her eyes would be full dark. Unseen power lifted her dark hair, and her claws traced over his chest.

"No, don't stop, Eris. Show me everything. Fuck you are so gorgeous no matter what form you are in," Enzo groaned, his hands moving to grip her full breasts. "Fuck me, baby. Fuck me, please."

"You're so pretty when you beg, mortal," she said, her voice changing to a deeper timbre. Her wings arched up behind her, and she fucked her sweet mortal, just like he asked for. Enzo's fingers went back to her clit, exactly where she wanted them.

Eris lost herself in sensations of fucking in her primordial form. The feeling of him filling her and the burning love in his eyes made her scream when she came for him. She kept riding him, making her pleasure stretch out longer and longer until his own release had him sobbing her name and her thighs dripping with his come.

Enzo ended up spread out on the deck like the delicious sacrifice he was. Her darkness was all over him, and he looked fucked out and perfect.

Eris's form slowly shifted back to human, and she collapsed on top of him. "Mine," she whispered again as exhaustion claimed her.