Fountain of Beauty

by Meraki P. Lyhne

  Roardon was finally located, shivering and screaming.

  “Lord Roardon located, poisoned!”

  Elakdon dropped down next to Roardon, and Daniel bit his lip to not cry. He bit it hard enough to draw blood.

  “What does poisoned mean?” he finally asked once he’d gotten his pain and urge to cry under control.

  “Raped energy,” Caledon croaked and cleared his throat. Fury raced through Daniel, and he began to shake.

  “Changeling, located.”

  “Perimeter secured.”

  More and more reported back that their zone was secured while two screens still showed fighting.

  And then everything went quiet. “Structure secured. Move the Royals.”

  “Let’s go,” Caledon said.

  “And Seldon? My dad?”

  “They’re being moved to where we’re going,” Neardon said. “Come on, we have to hurry. Several things move at the same time to hide their extraction.”

  Nil-Sundin kept looking at Daniel, and when he looked at her, she smiled and winked. Such a confident smile, and it helped Daniel focus. He was going to see Seldon and his dad soon. They were all alive.

  They filed into the huge double rotor chopper. Daniel looked around. “Where’s my Fountain and Untouchable?”

  “On the row in front of us.”

  Daniel stretched to see, and he finally recognized Marcadon’s profile as he turned his head. The chopper set off, and Daniel once again reached to squeeze Caledon’s hand. “How is the military not going to see a big-ass chopper and shoot us out of the sky?”

  “Because it’s borrowed,” Neardon said. “They don’t know we’re on it. See that guy?” Neardon pointed to a human who looked uncomfortable. “He’s a Canadian official who has just attended a wedding in Utah.” Neardon made quotation marks with his fingers.

  Daniel nodded, impressed. That had to be a good cover since they’d closed off the lodge under the cover of a wedding.

  “Why does he look so nervous?”

  “He’s never met us face to face.”

  “He’s kinda hot.”

  Neardon laughed, and the official glanced at Daniel.

  “Oh, shit, he heard that,” Daniel mumbled. Caledon joined in the laughing, and it cleared the air a bit.

  Daniel spent the trip thinking about what he’d seen on the screens—the efficiency with which the Guard Lords and Ladies had stormed a military compound and taken back their prisoners.

  His heart ached when remembering Seldon lying naked, bruised, and unconscious in the corner of a bare room and when thinking about Geodin screaming. And his dad.

  He’d see them soon, and that calmed him. But as soon as they landed, he’d have to dose Marcadon. He would be overdue by the time they made it that far. So would he, he expected.

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  S eldon floated in and out of consciousness as pain from his body being moved insisted on keeping him out of the blissful void. People talked in Cubi around him, but he could barely hear what they said over the noise of an engine. But the fact that they spoke Cubi and didn’t beat him made him relax a bit. It was difficult to overhear Roardon’s pained screams, though. He sounded like Seldon had.

  The question whether they’d gotten Elakdon and Geodin, too, floated through the nausea, dizziness, and pain, and he tried to raise his head.

  Concerned purple eyes hovered above his face while hands held him down. “Relax, Grand Sire, you’re on your way to the Great House of Beaudon,” the Lady said.

  The name of his boy made Seldon smile, but the thought persisted. Plus he still had no idea whether everyone else made it away. “Where is he?”

  “On his way there, too. He’ll be waiting for you.”

  “Elakdon?”

  “My King is in route, too.”

  “Geodin?”

  “In route.”

  “My son.”

  “That depends on where he was. Grand Sire, I need you to relax.”

  “He’s…he has to be with Beaudon. He’s…Daniel has to dose him. Beaudon has to dose him often.”

  “Your son’s a Fountain?” Unease laced her tone.

  Seldon managed a nod which provoked a headache. The nausea got worse. He heard the Lady speak with someone, demanding answers. An eternity seemed to go by before her hand softly landed on Seldon’s shoulder again. It provoked hunger, and he whimpered.

  “Marcadon is with the Prince and Ilkil-Nol. Safe and well fed.”

  Seldon smiled and relaxed, yet the hunger had awoken at her powerful presence. “Feed…soon,” he managed.

  Darkness swallowed him up.

  Everything had changed when he opened his eyes again. He was in what looked like an ambulance. He’d never been in one, but he’d seen the inside of them on TV. Next to him sat a human man in his forties in a dark-blue shirt with a logo on his shoulder. A purple-eyed Lady sat next to him.

  “Where are we?” Seldon croaked and tried to cough, but his throat felt parched.

  The man turned and smiled at Seldon. “Hi, good you’re awake again. I’ll get you some water.” The man brought a sippy cup to Seldon’s lips, but the physical contact caused lust to race through Seldon, and he gasped.

  “Stand back!” the Lady said, sitting forward.

  “I need to tend to him.”

  “Then drop your pants and fuck him because this is hunger.”

  “Please,” Seldon mumbled, trying to discern how long it had been, but he hadn’t fasted since Daniel’s fit of jealousy and he’d since then been heavily dosed by a King. It could be as little as twelve hours since he’d fed, and if he didn’t feed soon, he’d start having the Cubi cold.

  The symptoms came back to him as the Lady held the sippy cup to his lips, and he drank from it. Shaking, nausea, headache, sore muscles, itchy eyes and throat, oh yeah, he had them all. He’d thought or rather hoped it was just from the silicone bullets and beatings.

  “How far out are we?” the Lady called to the driver.

  Seldon’s eyes kept going to the attractive silver fox. He was pretty well built for a forty-something, and Seldon actually liked the gray stripes. “Can I suck you off? I’m very good at that.”

  The Lady smiled, glancing at the blushing human. It was almost funny, but a tremor tore through Seldon’s battered and sore body, making him whimper and cramp in on himself.

  “No, no, no…fuck, I don’t know how to help your kind. Any medicine that works?”

  “A stiff cock in his mouth would,” the Lady said.

  “Jesus!”

  “This is a Cubi cold. He’s sick because his body is crashing from high doses. He’s been starved. Now, if you can enjoy a blowjob, think of it as you administrating medicine, drop trou, and shove it in there!”

  The man grumbled something before he stood. “You keep your eyes on the road!”

  Seldon’s mouth watered as the man unpacked his goods, and Seldon finally understood the whole point of nurse fantasies. But then the guy stopped moving and stared at Seldon.

  “How…”

  “Straddle his head,” the Lady said. Seldon opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, groaning. Gingerly, the man held onto the interior of the ambulance and kicked a leg free from his pants. He then lifted his leg to plant his knee on the opposite side of Seldon’s shoulder, and Seldon sucked and licked all he could reach. The cock was still flaccid, but Seldon hoped he could please the human enough to forget where he was and thus let go enough to enjoy it.

  Finally, the cock was directed into his mouth, and he groaned around it, sucking and licking, using his long tongue to heighten the man’s experience.

  “Oh, fuck, you are good at that,” he whispered, and the cock grew in Seldon’s mouth. He tried to bob his head, but it just made his head hurt more. He then tried to grab the man’s ass to shove him in deeper, but he couldn’t in the tight space. Finally, the man pulled out, and Seldon groaned in frustration. “You okay?” the man asked.

  “Yes, fuck my m
outh, come on, please!”

  Oh, that was lust he saw on the man’s face, and Seldon squirmed in the excitement of getting pure energy.

  The man shoved his cock back into Seldon’s mouth and set a rhythm. Oh, heaven. Seldon groaned around the cock in his mouth, and the energy rushing toward his spine was fantastic. He tried to reach his own cock which was straining for attention, and he hated being incapable of controlling the feeding, but the guy sure knew how to enjoy his mouth, and that pure energy alone eased his frustrations.

  The silver fox breathed heavier and sped up a bit, so Seldon sucked more enthusiastically. So close, he was so close to getting a mouthful. And finally, the man groaned and shuddered, pumping his hips erratically, and then Seldon felt the cock swell and pump the semen into his mouth. He came, too, and kept licking until the man drew back.

  “You’re right, you are good at that.”

  “And you’re delicious. Tell me if you want to try that again. Or something else, I’m open to something else, too.”

  The guy snorted in disbelief. “Uhm…thanks. Feeling better?”

  “Not a lot, no. I’m going to need a lot of doses, but this took the edge off.”

  “Then see if you can sleep again. We have another half hour or so ahead of us,” the Lady said.

  Seldon wondered what her name was, but instead, he fell asleep.

  * * * *

  Daniel barely had time to take in the huge structure that he and the others strode toward. The chopper powered down and even the Canadian official, whose name Daniel hadn’t gotten yet, followed them inside. A blue-eye waited for them, and he immediately came to Daniel and knelt.

  “Thank you,” Daniel said, putting a hand on his shoulder. He finally recognized him. He was the doctor who had taken care of Alex’s broken arm. “Rise.”

  The blue-eye did. “I figured you’d like to see Grand Sire Seldon immediately?”

  “And my dad, the King, and Great Lady Geodin, yes.”

  “I’m sorry, of course. Please, follow me.”

  Caledon, Marcadon, and Aaron followed, and Daniel stopped at noticing Levidon stayed behind. “Levidon, Marca will be dosed right after seeing Seldon.”

  “Yes, My Prince!” Levidon ran to them and followed to the medical wing. Still, Daniel’s thoughts were everywhere else than on the layout and interior of his House.

  “Tell me how they are,” Daniel said.

  “Yes, My Prince. They’re all hurt, some more than others, but they’ll pull through without lasting damage, I think.”

  “You think? Who’s hurt the worst?”

  “Lord Roardon.”

  “Fuck,” Daniel muttered, grateful when both Caledon and Marcadon took each of his hands.

  “Lord Roardon is Daniel’s father,” Caledon said.

  “Oh, I’m sorry for sounding so insensitive,” the doctor said.

  “Don’t be,” Daniel said. “I asked for a fact, you gave it.”

  “Has the poison been countered?” Caledon asked.

  “Yes, Elakdon dosed him, and a Guard Lady helped clear his system. But he was left with it for a while. It’ll take some time. Elakdon is in his room to help with doses.” The blue-eye turned a corner, and a big sign said Hospital. Thank God, they’d be there, soon.

  “Grand Sire Seldon is suffering from the Cubi cold, and he hadn’t fed for almost a day when we got to him. He’d been dosed heavily by Elakdon until then. Elakdon said he would leave him to you and take care of your father.”

  Daniel was so grateful for the King. “What about Grand Lady Geodin?”

  “She’s also suffering the Cubi cold, and her system has been cleared of the rape. It appears once they learned of its effect on Grand Sire Seldon—”

  Daniel almost tripped, while Marcadon growled menacingly.

  “—they used it as a weapon against them and let Elakdon clear it. He even ran out of dose at some point which is why Roardon is worse for wear.”

  “If he needs extra doses, I’ll provide what I can,” Caledon said.

  “Me, too,” Daniel said.

  “Mine are the strongest, and I’ll gladly give what I have,” Levidon said.

  “Has my father been cleared from the poison?” Marcadon asked.

  “Yes, he was the first to be raped.”

  “And the Changeling? What did they do to him?”

  “Nothing,” the doctor said incredulously. He held out his arm, and they took another turn. They finally stopped by a room. “Grand Sire Seldon.”

  “Marca, you go be with your dad, I’ll go check on mine.”

  “My Prince, Lord Roardon is feeding with Grand Lady Geodin and Nol-Elakdon to get their strength up.” The doctor opened the door, and Daniel stood back to let Marcadon go in first. He all but threw open the door and strode to the side of the bed. Caledon grabbed Daniel and almost lifted him off the floor to get them both inside. So much for family first.

  “Dad?” Marcadon asked, perching on the side of the bed. “Dad?”

  “Marca?” Seldon asked, sounding weak. Daniel could barely see him from where he stood. “Are you okay?”

  “Yeah, I’m fine. I got away with Caledon. Levidon took care of Daniel. We’re okay.”

  “Daniel?”

  Marcadon turned and waved Daniel closer. Caledon put an arm around Daniel and led him around the bed so the three of them crowded Seldon. And now Daniel could finally see him. He looked way worse than after he’d spent the night in jail, and Daniel fought to keep back tears. He hadn’t worn makeup since they’d fled, and as a tear escaped his eye, he was happy he wasn’t wearing it.

  “You’re shaking,” Marcadon said, his voice cracking.

  “The guy in the ambulance let me suck him off, and the doctor fed me twice, but I need higher doses, especially after only feeding from Elakdon.” Seldon reached out a shaky hand to take Daniel’s. Caledon stroked Seldon’s forehead, and it looked like Seldon had a fever.

  “And I’m sorry, I don’t have more now.” Elakdon looked terrible as he stood leaning against the doorframe in a robe. “I spent it all on your dad. He’s pulled through. The pain in his muscles will take a while so the doctor put him under.”

  “Thank you,” Daniel said.

  “May I suggest that I dose Seldon for the two of you to properly feed,” Levidon said. “In the meantime, I’ll suck Daniel’s doses out of Marca in an empty room down the hall.”

  “Next room is empty,” the doctor said.

  “What’s your body capable of handling?” Daniel asked Seldon.

  “Not much. Nothing…sinfully acrobatic,” Seldon said, grinning tiredly at Daniel who laughed at remembering Seldon’s explanation about why they’d been called demons who fed on sex.

  “So we’ll just take turns riding you?” Caledon asked.

  “But please wash me first. I stink, and I…” Seldon looked ashamed, and Daniel’s heart ached when Seldon squeezed his eyes shut and his chin wobbled. Oh no, his strong and beautiful Seldon was broken.

  “We’ll wash you. Spoil you. You deserve that,” Daniel whispered and kissed Seldon’s forehead. He did have a fever.

  “You can spoil me when we get home. Have you seen your place?”

  “Our place.” Daniel included Caledon by taking his hand. “And no, we just got off the chopper and came directly here. But we’ll spoil you when we can take you home, right?” Daniel looked at Caledon, and his brave face had crumbled. He nodded, offering Seldon the everything’s going to be alright smile.

  “Looking forward to it,” Seldon said. “What will you be doing until then?”

  Daniel didn’t know, and he thought about the answer while looking at Seldon’s hand in his, stroking a bruised finger gently. “All the Royals arrived.”

  “All of them? What’s going to happen?” Seldon asked.

  “I’m not sure.”

  “The humans took me, and that’s a breach of every treaty made with any shared nation,” Elakdon said, sauntering closer with less elegance than usual. �
�No Royal may ever be taken by either a shared or another nation. All Kingdoms are bound by law to come together in such a situation because we’re the very bloodline of our people. Taking one of us is a direct attack on every single Cubus in that Kingdom. So we’re all here, and all Kingdoms will be defending this one. But before we can do that, Daniel must be crowned. As soon as you’re up, Seldon, Daniel will be crowned King, and you and Caledon will take your places by his side as agreed upon with the other Royals.”

  “Guess I better get out of bed fast,” Seldon said.

  “Take your time and be sure you’re over this first. Your Prince will need you at your best when all Royals meet to discuss how we’re going to react to a shared nation attacking a Royal.”

  “Yes, Nol.” Seldon then looked at Levidon. “I’d appreciate a dose, then, Guard Lord.”

  Author Bio

  Meraki P. Lyhne is a Danish author who mainly writes contemporary paranormal MM and MMM, some with a HEA, some with a HFN, and some with white-knuckling cliffhangers.

  To learn more:

  www.merakiplyhne.com

  Other books by

  Meraki P. Lyhne

  Chronicles of an Earned

  Anchored in Stone #1

  Two Sides of a Coin #2

  Marked by Shadow #3

  Saving Starfish #4

  Blood of the Past #5

  Gargoyle Rising #6

  Seedlings of Lilith #7 (Coming Soon)

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