Pride (Living In Sin #1)

Chapter 43

Pry

Milking Alec’s dick was one of the world’s greatest pleasures. If the human didn’t make me so possessive, I would have insisted some sort of billboard be erected in his honor. Maybe something like ‘Alec, the best cock in the southern hemisphere’. Maybe Chef could help me come up with a better slogan? He was a lot better at selling things than I was.

Post nut brain power was an interesting place to be.

Alec lay on my back; limp and soft. He’d met every demand with more energy than he should have. It had only been a matter of time till he ‘had ejaculated his brains out’.

“I would never have believed it was true.” Des panted, sounding in awe. The thought of my young sibling being overwhelmed with something was a novel experience. Alec brought about more new experiences than anyone who had ever crossed my path. I’m sure it was the same for the other six members of my little family.

Des stepped back. The sound was decadent as they pulled out of Alec’s body and I gripped what parts of him I could reach. It wouldn’t do to have him collapse to the floor after giving me the nicest orgasm of the day.

“This can’t be real.”

Des was panicking. It made sense; the perfect being for our little family, the one who could handle each of our powers and feed into it. And they didn’t take the damage that others had. Being flooded with a particular power rarely ended well for the human involved.

Alec was the exception to that rule. Just the thought of a mortal being immune to the Seven Sins would be overwhelming to anyone, and Des was more in tune with lust than any of them. Des had no way of processing the revelation. With the way their eyes darted around the room, it was only a matter of time before the panic took over.

“It’s not real.”

“Des.” The chair, surprisingly, wasn’t broken and I took my time to move into place. Alec rested against my chest. Right where my heart would be if I were human. The thought soothed me more than I expected it to. The chaos that was about to unfold I would need all the soothing that I could handle. “This is real. Alec is here.”

They shook their head, another step away from the two of us. Lust pulsed through the building, strengthened by the sex that still saturated the space. The lights flickered and for a few moments the building groaned, warping from the thump of power shuddering through the foundations. It was objectively incredible as it was terrifying. Club Midnight was over a hundred and fifty years old. The building itself had been here since colonial days. We had spent that long perfecting the magic imbedded in the structure. In theory, nowhere else on the continent was safer for us than these brick and mortar walls.

Yet, one debauched brunch date pulled at that foundation. I petted absently at Alec’s hair, breathing in his scent. He was truly a magnificent creature, and I couldn’t wait to see what else would happen.

“No!” Des’s eyes widened, the colour blinking neon pink as the panic continued to rise around them. They weren’t ready. I pulled Alec a little closer as their fingers dug into their scalp and Des grew frantic. There was nothing I could do for my sibling. I might have been prepared for Alec’s presence, but it was becoming clear that not all of us might be. Until Des was ready to accept there was one creature meant for us all, there was nothing much any of us could do.

They couldn’t control the power that danced through the air. Des’s hair grew and shortened with every blink, the color cycling through the rainbow. Their clothes were slutty short skirts followed by skin-tight jeans, evening gowns, and snappy suits. I pulled Alec a little closer. Thankfully, he would miss most of this, but I couldn’t be sure what Des’s power would do when it was so potent. They couldn’t compute how much their power had changed with the one interaction. All I could do was protect Alec from the fallout.

With a keening cry, Des’s clothes disappeared, and they were left naked, their demonic visage growing and shaping around their body. Long horns, scales fine along parts of their skin and that tail, which always had a life of its own. Not to mention the Demon of Lust’s cock that hung close to the top of their knees. The thought of watching Alec trying to take that monster made my dick twitch.

They curled around themselves and for a moment everything pulsed a deep pink and then Des was gone. Just another thing that shouldn’t have been possible, but Alec’s effect on their supernatural power just strengthened everything.

“What the fuck was that?”

Chef stood in the doorway, panting. The door was gone, not even broken or open. Just gone. Sometimes the power of Gluttony could be terrifying. I wasn’t even sure where the things Chef ‘ate’ went. Hopefully, I could figure out an excuse before Alec questioned the paperwork.

Envy was standing behind the tall cook, but scowled at the sight of the two of us cuddled up naked in the chair. He stomped off, and I could hear the lighter clicking. Des’s reaction might have been explosive, but Envy’s could be dangerous. The stray thought made me scowl, and I shook my head to rid it of the unpleasantness. Instead, I pulled Alec’s shirt over his body, hiding it from the world. At least for a little while.

“Des is not ready,” I answered simply, standing and moving through the chaos left in lust’s wake. “They have gone away for a while.”

As I moved to step around Chef, his hand gripped my forearm, forcing me to stop in the doorway. His eyes flashed a deep orange as they passed over Alec’s skin, at least what they could see. Pride surged; Alec was a beautiful creature and even if my brethren weren’t sold on it yet, I knew he tied us together. Chef might not realize it yet, but he was closer to the truth than the others.

“Are you sure about this?”

“Never have I been this sure about anyone.” Alec snuggled in, breath ghosting against a nipple. The sensation made me groan and Chef’s eyes widened, his breath catching. He could deny all he wanted, but Alec was winding them all in. I moved past. I’d have to take the back way to the apartments so that no one else would see him. The new emotions were interesting, and I reveled in the spicy feel against my flesh.

Chef snorted and let me go without questions. Though he threw out one last barb before I was gone.

“Crave will be back tomorrow. You should be ready for that.”

A problem for tomorrow. There was no doubt the demon of greed would throw a few spanners into the works. But the magic was already working. There wasn’t much he could do about it.

“What the fuck did you guys do to this office?” Ace’s indignant shout made me laugh, and I used the ensuing rant to take the back door and slip Alec’s sleeping body out of the firing line.