Land of Monsters (Savage Lands #8)

Chapter 13

Magic hummed around us, her chant sinking into me. My cum was still pumping into her pussy when I felt her lock around my cock so tightly my vision went black. My mouth opened, but no sound came out.

The sensation went beyond anything I had ever experienced in my very long, long life. Thousands of lovers dissolved away into one. She was all I saw in the past and future, like this whole time, I had been waiting and searching for her.

The base of my cock swelled, pushing against her walls, bracing me even tighter into her until there was no line between pain and bliss. They were one and the same, and I let myself fall into them.

It was a moment, descending into another plane, where I was surrounded by Raven, the dweller, and her obscurer, each one pleasuring me until I felt them sink into my bones. Making me so content, everything before felt subpar.

“Mine .”

I could’ve said it, or she did… I didn’t know. Every thought and feeling felt like my own and hers.

“Fuck, yessss.” I pushed into her harder, desperate to mark her with my seed, causing us to cry out, my final surge scorching into her as I fell back to Earth. My body collapsed over hers, air knocking from my lungs, and I blacked out for a few seconds.

I gasped for oxygen, my lids flying open to peer down at her, not knowing how long I had been out.

Chests heaving, our bodies trembled at the abundance of magic and sensations rocking through our systems. Her lids lifted to mine, bright green eyes searching mine, her form back to normal, but I could feel her beast rumbling around the perimeter. Still deep inside her, my cock twitched as her pussy started to loosen around me.

“What the fuck?” I croaked out, lifting my weight off her. My cock stirred, not wanting to move from its current location. She swallowed roughly, feeling me harden inside her as if my dick was searching for that high again, not caring about anything else. Grinding my teeth, I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. But pulling out of her, seeing my cum spilling down her thighs and my cock covered in our climax, did just the opposite.

Heat scored down my shoulders, a rumble starting in my lungs as I watched my seed leak from her, dampening someone else’s sheets.

Another man’s bed.

I reached down, scooping some up and pushing it back inside her with a possessive growl. Somewhere in the back of my brain, my response startled me. Kek used to tease me about bringing someone else in, and I never even blinked an eye. I would have been fine with it. With Raven, the idea of merely another man’s sheets pissed me off. Like he was getting to share her too. I either wanted to rip them off and burn them or fuck her even more to make sure they were stained with us.

Raven opened her legs, her head curving into the pillow, whimpering as I drove my fingers inside her, rubbing cum over her clit and back in her. Her breathy moans instantly hardened my dick, and a frantic need to take her again, be sure my claim was branded into her bones, overpowered every warning nipping in the back of my head. Deep in my brain, I understood being inside her again would only cement whatever was happening.

“Ash.” She rolled into my touch, her teeth nipping into her bottom lip.

“Fuck.” My voice was harsh; I was too far gone. I twisted her hips to me, my mouth covering hers, as I pushed into her again at an angle. A shuddered breath escaped her lungs as I broke away from her soft lips, driving in and out in long, slow strokes. I huffed out my nose, my weakened arms doing their best to hold me up as I gripped her thigh and tilted into her. With every stroke, her eyes flickered back, a low, carnal groan vibrating the air, only pushing me to go deeper. “Why can’t I stop?” I grunted. “And why does this feel so fucking different?”

Her breasts jiggled as I drove her deeper into the pillows, keeping the steady pace, watching her claw at the already destroyed bed. Her lids squeezing shut like an even bigger orgasm was taking hold of her.

“Eyes on me.” I snapped my hips, my back teeth grinding, already feeling her clench around me. “Watch me fuck you.”

She lowered her gaze to where we connected, observing my engorged dick, covered in her, thrusting in and out of her heat. Lust brightened her green eyes, flames starting to dance in them. Her nipples hardened, her pussy fluttering, getting even more turned on watching us. Obscene sounds echoed in the room as I pushed her leg higher. “Watch me fuck deeper into you.”

She gasped, her hips snapping up to meet mine with the same intensity, our pace increasing. “Gods… Ash!”

I was so hungry for her I couldn’t see straight. I knew I was going down. Something was shifting again between us, magic thick in the air.

Leaning over, I took her breast into my mouth, flicking her nipple with my tongue before my lips moved up, nipping at the sensitive part of her neck. “ We are the monsters, dziubu?. The only thing you need to bow to is me .” I bit down on the nerve in her neck in dominance, jerking her body. Her pussy clamped around me, a howl penetrating the air, bleeding far out into the night. Tree limbs cracked and hit the window outside, and dogs howled down the street. Everything came to a pinpoint.

Latin burst from her again, wrapping around my cock like a leash, tugging. It felt like she was everywhere. Not an inch of my skin wasn’t roaring in pleasure, my dick swelling, her pussy strangling me. Grunting, I rutted into her until I bottomed out. Not able to move, she knotted around my swollen cock as I released inside of her.

Holy. Fuck.

This time, our orgasm arrived like a bomb, exploding us into particles, scattering us into the ether. We existed everywhere and nowhere, floating in some other plane.

This isn’t possible. This isn’t possible…

Yet I felt her embedding into my soul as I succumbed to the darkness.

?

“I don’t think licking his skin for mushroom remnants is gonna work.”

Chirp!

“I am not judging you!”

Chirp! Chirp!

“Don’t turn this around on me! I did not lick his fungi earlier!”

Voices came in, disrupting my sleep, pulling me from the peace I’d surrendered to.

My lids flickered open, threads of slumber clinging to me, wanting to pull me back down. Sleep had so wholly claimed me that it took a moment to recall where I was. The glow of morning light slipped through the boards across the window, giving the room some definition. Although I didn’t need to see to know who my body was wrapped around.

I could feel her in every fiber, every pump of my heart.

Raven’s dark hair was spread out over the pillow we shared, her back pressed to my chest, our legs tangled, and my hard cock pressing into her entrance like it was trying to sneak back in without anyone knowing. Stay in her tight heat.

Sound asleep, her muscles relaxed into me as if she was home. Safe.

Even with Kek and Lukas, I didn’t stick around in the mornings. It was my time to stroll through nature, absorb the quiet peace, and regain whatever energy I had depleted the night before. Except this morning, I vibrated with energy. My dick was sore, my muscles ached, but I felt anything but depleted.

Like she filled me with energy instead of taking it.

Chirp!

“How dare you bring it up again!” The sharp exclamation drew me fully to consciousness. “That was an experimental time.”

Chirp! Chirp!

“And that next time was a total misunderstanding.”

Rubbing my eyes, I exhaled, fully opening my eyes, my brain slow to register the brownie and imp sitting on my thigh, a thin sheet barely covering us. Bruises and scruff burns swathed Raven’s skin, while mine was covered in nail and bite marks.

We looked like we had been through battle.

With a grunt, I grabbed the sheet, covering Raven’s naked body, frowning at the two.

Chirp! The imp flipped me off.

“Right? Like we haven’t been up close and personal with his giant wild mushroom before.” Opie rolled his eyes. “And when I say giant… I mean the titan… the king Trumpet—”

“What the fuck are you wearing?” I cut him off, my voice raw and croaky, my vocals strained from last night.

“Do you like?” Opie’s attention was instantly taken to his outfit as he twirled around. His ass cheeks peeked out of two small circles in the short shorts.

I forced my lids shut with a groan, hoping I was seeing wrong, but when I reopened my eyes, he was still in the cut-up leather.

“Fuck.” I massaged my temples.

His nipples and belly button were circled in red lipstick, the same color as Daciana‘s. He wore black leathers, most likely from a member’s jacket, in the style of crotchless lederhosen, with a biker patch covering up his crotch. Barbed wire twirled through his red-tipped mohawk. My eyes instantly darted to the wall where the weapons were on display.

“Opie…” I groaned, noting the barbed wire whip was gone.

“Like you can talk, tree fairy,” he huffed, motioning back to the ground. “I know what you did with those brass knuckles.”

“I used them, I didn’t destroy property.”

“D-destroy property?” He gasped, his hands patting down over the biker patch. “I made these average items a work of art! I mean, it’s not my best work, granted, but it is a huge improvement!”

“I don’t even want to know whose member jacket you destroyed, but if anyone catches you, you’re dead.”

“Catches me?” He laughed, his hands going to his hips, wiggling them back and forth. “I’m like lightning! In and out with high-velocity perfection.”

Chirp!

“I was told so.”

Chirp. Chirp!

“It doesn’t matter by who. I have more friends than just you, you know.”

Chiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrp! What sounded like a crackled laugh came from Bitzy, her fingers flying in the air.

Raven stirred next to me, our voices drawing her from the rest she needed. What she had been through the last week had to be a nightmare, plus what I put her through last night.

Putting my finger to my lips, I slowly inched away from her.

“She won’t wake.” Opie hopped off my leg to the end of the bed as Bitzy climbed up his back to her backpack. “Bitzy has been licking the residue of drugs coming off her skin for a long time, and she didn’t even budge.”

Chirp!

“You asked me to try it!” Opie shot back at her.

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

“You did too!”

“Stop licking her.” I put my feet on the ground, rubbing my face and running my fingers through my hair. I needed a shower badly.

“Look who’s talking!” Opie poked at my hip. “Someone is getting all possessive. Never thought I’d see that with you, fairy.”

His tease hit harder than I was expecting, the awareness that others saw what I wanted to deny. It was not possible. My kind didn’t have just one person.

We. Did. Not. Get. Possessive.

I had flashes of Kek and Lukas’s faces, the memory of waking up next to them, leaving them asleep, tangled in sheets, drenched in cum and sweat. My face was full of smiles, my chest warm, but not once could I say I felt possessive.

If I had walked back to them fucking, or adding someone, I would have grinned and joined in. The thought of walking in and seeing Raven with someone else hummed an incensed noise up my throat.

Fear reared through my chest like a toddler running with a knife. Cutting and slicing without consideration of the damage.

Seeing the brass knuckles left on the floor where I dropped them, still coated in her, awareness prickled over my skin, like I could feel her heartbeat within me, sense her clinging to my soul. It’s not possible . Taking in a breath, I peered over my shoulder at her. Her stunning face was at peace, surrounded by the wreckage we inflicted. The bedframe splintered, the mattress and sheets shredded from her claws. Magic still oozed, the bedding no longer smelling like the man who lived here, but of sex. Of us.

My lungs seized and my stomach knotted because all I wanted to do was curl back around her, push inside her, and wake her up with an orgasm.

Stay inside her all day.

Just her .

A rush of adrenaline shot me to my feet. The need to flee, to breathe, hurried me to the door. Swinging it open, I found clothes folded at the threshold. Grabbing my boots, pants, and a shirt, I tossed the girl’s clothes inside before rushing down the hall to the shower, not caring I was naked.

Emotion waited on the cusp, wanting to soak into my bones along with the water. I never let my mind settle as I showered and got dressed, ignoring every mark on my body, every claim of her teeth and nails.

Because her claim went much deeper.

It rattled me, scared the fuck out of me, because I felt calmness deep inside. Peace. And I wanted to tear it out of my soul. I shouldn’t feel anything but pain and anger. I couldn’t give up on them, couldn’t forget why I was here.

Dressed in camo pants and a t-shirt, my wet hair slicked back, I hightailed it out of the clubhouse, the downstairs bar lively with people chatting and eating. Cutting out the side door, I heaved in air, smelling the stench of city life. A park across the street drew me, crossing over rail tracks, the morning gloom making the graffiti area even more depressing and worn.

Cold air stabbed at my lungs, prodding my skin. My jacket was back in the room… where she slept. Where she would wake up. Alone.

Gritting my teeth, I grabbed the nearest tree, trying to pull energy I didn’t need from it, like it would heal whatever I was feeling, take away the confusion.

The problem was I knew the truth; I just couldn’t accept it.

A wail came from my throat, and I bashed my knuckles into the trunk, needing to cause both of us pain. I was on the last step before the cliff crumbled underfoot, before I dropped into the void, lost forever. And I clung to the ground, clung to Kek and Lukas…

Blood spurted from my hands, my cries burning up my sore throat.

“Stop that, pretty boy.” Kek’s voice felt like it was right in my ear. “ Those hands are way too skilled to be damaging them like that.”

“I can’t,” I whispered hoarsely. “I feel like I’m losing you guys.”

“You can’t ever lose us,” Kek retorted. “We were way too remarkable in bed to ever be forgotten.”

I scoffed at the comment, which sounded so much like Kek.

“You like her.” It was as if Lukas was standing on my other side, his soothing, low voice in my ear, hiccupping grief in my heart. “She’s different from anyone you’ve ever met before. That doesn’t make us any less. And all we want is for you to be happy.”

“Though, I’m still hotter,” Kek teased, bubbling up another crazed laugh from my chest.

“We don’t want your revenge, Ash. It’s not who you are,” Lukas said. “Kill for love, kill to protect your family, but never revenge.”

“Speak for yourself. I say kill those assholes.” Kek grinned, playing with her blue braid.

“I failed you both.” My head dropped, finally saying it aloud. Owning it. “I am so sorry.”

“Don’t think so highly of yourself.” Kek snickered, crossing her arms. “Like I would’ve let your pretty fairy ass fight for me. I am a demon. I fight my own battles.”

“There was nothing you could’ve done.” Lukas picked up after her. “ There is no blame to take, Ash. It was not something you could’ve stopped. You don’t have a say in our ends, but you have a say in the life you want to live after our deaths.”

“Always the responsible, kumbaya one. So annoying.” Kek rolled her eyes. “But what he said.”

“It’s why we needed him.” I grinned at Kek. “You and I were too fucked up and dark.”

“Why you need her.” Luca’s voice was quiet and serious, speaking about Raven. And I felt him drifting away once again.

“So don’t fuck this up, fairy boy. We’re rooting for you two.” Kek’s image dimmed, but I could still see her snarky smile. “And we are rooting for more sex like last night, so we can voyeuristically watch. You guys were so fucking hot.”

A sob huffed through my nose as I felt them dissipate, easing a slight weight off my chest. Their permission was something I didn’t know I needed. Their forgiveness and approval. Even if it was in my own head.

I only wished I could do the same for myself.