by Rae Magdon
Eva ignored her. She began running back, and as soon as Lilith was within reach, she slid a steadying arm beneath her shoulder, helping her scramble up onto dry land. Lady Godiva offered Lilith one of her hands, hauling her up the bank and taking some of her weight. Eva turned just in time to see Cerberus barreling through the mire, water spraying all around him as four of his six red eyes fixed directly on Lilith. He stopped short at the edge of the freezing lake, trying to lunge onto the shore, but an invisible leash held him back. He paced the shoreline instead, snarling his frustration.
“Told you,” Lilith panted, wiping her face with her ruined sleeve. It was covered in something black and foul-smelling, but Eva noticed another trickle streaming from Lilith’s side in red rivulets, soaking through her clothes. Cerberus’s teeth hadn’t just injured her wing. “He can’t leave the Third Circle.”
Cerberus stiffened, and a great shudder racked his giant frame. He bayed in distress, all three heads thrashing, but finally, he went still. His jaws fell open, and his red, glowing eyes seemed to flash even brighter as blood dripped down his stringy muzzle.
‘Lilith. My first child.’ Cerberus’s giant maws did not move to form the words as the multi-layered voice poured out of all three of its heads. It was neither male nor female. Instead, it seemed to be a thousand voices speaking at once. “Why do you continue to resist? You are one of my creatures. Do not fight your way to Judecca.”
“I am not your child,” Lilith spat, her chest heaving in the ripped remains of her shirt. “Not your mate, not your servant, not your slave. I’ve broken free of you.”
The voice coming from Cerberus laughed, a wicked, cruel noise that pierced Eva’s ears. It was even more terrifying than any of the sounds the great dog had made while it was trying to hunt them. “Really? Then why are you imitating me, casting your spell over your little human pet? Is it really so different than when you served me?”
Lilith faltered, the glow in her eyes softening. She threatened to take a step back until Eva wrapped a warm, reassuring hand around her waist. “I want to be with you,” she whispered. “My choice, remember?”
“You don’t need your soul, Lilith,” the multi-layered voice continued. It slid into Eva’s ears, curling inside her head, and she knew that Lilith had to feel the pull even more strongly. “Give yourself to me. Remember how freeing it was to belong to someone else. I’ll even let you keep your new toy.”
“You might still be holding it, but my soul does not belong to you anymore.” Lilith pulled closer to her side. “It belongs to me, and it belongs to her. I’ll dig my way through your disgusting pit and fight through every Circle of Sheol to get it back if I have to, but you do not control me.”
“Try, then. Try to survive all the way to the Ninth Circle. And if you do, I will have the honor of destroying my first creation myself.”
The spirit left Cerberus as soon as it finished speaking, spilling from the creature’s three mouths in clouds of choking black smoke. It reminded Eva of how Cleopatra had seemed to breathe a column of whirling black fire before collapsing onto the ground.
“That was him, wasn’t it?” she asked softly, even though she already knew the answer. She swung her pack off of her shoulder, holding it in her hands.
“Yes, that was Shaitan. But I’m not stopping. Not for Him, not for anything. As soon as you help me heal, we’re going on to the Fourth Circle.”
Canto VIII:
Said, to encourage me: “Let not thy fear
Harm thee; for any power that he may have
Shall not prevent thy going down this crag.”
“There, you’re all done,” Eva said, wiping away the last of the blood and grime from Lilith’s face. She had sacrificed a quarter-canteen of precious water and several strips of cloth to do it, but the worst of Lilith’s wounds were clean. “Do you feel all right now?”
Lilith nodded. “Mostly. The bandages should hold my torso well enough. I’m more concerned about this...” She tried to extend her crumpled wing, but one of Cerberus’s tusks had torn a large gash in the sail.
Eva winced. The injury looked even worse up close, and the rip was ringed with fresh blood. “Do you need me to take care of that for you?”
“If I want to fly again, yes.”
“All right. We’ll need to make sure we’re alone first...” She scanned the area around them. They had stopped on the path between the Third and Fourth Circles, and Lady Godiva had left to dry herself off behind a rocky outcropping, leaving them with a fair amount of privacy. “Relatively alone, I mean.”
Lilith laughed and leaned a little closer, near enough to share body heat. “Worried about getting caught again?”
She allowed her eyes to linger on Lilith’s bare torso. Her dirty, torn shirt had been discarded, but they had yet to replace it with a new one from the pack. She was not wearing anything at all above the waist, and Eva bit her lower lip as the deep red tips of Lilith’s breasts hardened. “Maybe. But you really should feed…” She glanced over at the last place she had seen Lady Godiva. There was no sign of her, and she suspected that their guide was purposely offering them space so that she could take care of Lilith’s injuries.
Lilith lifted her chin with the side of one claw, forcing her to look up and make eye contact. “Convince me.”
A warm blush colored Eva’s face, starting at the points of her cheeks and spreading all the way down her neck. “Convince you? You’re the one who needs me to feed you.”
“Yes, I have to feed from you, but you need me just as much.” Eva shuddered as the tip of Lilith’s claw trailed down along the vulnerable column of her throat. She knew that Lilith was right. Her body was already responding. Thick, syrupy warmth began to spread over her skin, and she gasped when it settled between her legs. “So, you’re going to tell me exactly what you need,” Lilith continued. “If you beg prettily enough, I might indulge you.”
Eva’s heart pumped faster. Sometimes it was difficult for her to ask for the things she wanted, but Lilith knew exactly how to coax it out of her. “I want you to touch me.” She stepped closer, tracing one hand along the muscles in Lilith’s arm. “I want you to kiss me.” Her eyes fixed on Lilith’s lips. “I want… everything you can give me.”
“You’ll have to be more specific than that.” Lilith pulled her closer, leaning down to whisper in her ear. “What do you need from me?”
Knowing that she still had to provide an answer, Eva buried her face in the curve of Lilith’s shoulder to hide her blush. In her mind, she pictured Lilith trapping her against the face of the cliff, pressing her back into the uneven wall of stone. One of her legs would curl around Lilith’s waist, and her arms would be trapped above her head as Lilith’s cock pushed inside...
“I want to feel you inside me,” she confessed. She wanted to make her mental image a reality as quickly as possible.
“Here?” She flinched at the sound of ripping fabric as Lilith tore through the dirty, soaked pants blocking the way, popping off the front button. It skittered somewhere further along the path, lost to the darkness. She made a noise of protest, but Lilith only narrowed her eyes. “What? They’re ruined anyway, and you have another pair in your bag.” Lilith made quick work of her underwear as well, tracing over it before slitting through the sides. They fluttered to the ground to join the pants, and she toed off her shoes, stepping out of the pool of fabric. “You didn’t answer my question. Is this how you wanted to feel me inside of you?”
“No,” Eva whispered. She began backing up toward the face of the cliff, and Lilith stepped forward to follow her. “I – I want to feel your cock.” She reached up, threading her fingers through Lilith’s dark hair and capturing her lips in a fierce kiss. Lilith growled with hunger, and Eva could feel the vibration against her mouth as she was pinned against the unyielding stone.
Lilith’s lips broke away from hers, but only so that she co
uld shift her weight to one arm and reach down to undo her pants. She did not even bother pulling them off. Instead, she leaned forward, bracing herself against the cliff with her elbow. A familiar look of concentration tightened her face, and Eva watched with rapidly growing desire as she began to shift. The bud of Lilith’s clit pulsed visibly, then started to swell. Soon, the thick shaft of a cock stood out from her open fly instead.
Eva tugged her lower lip between her teeth. A drop of sweat trickled down the groove of her spine. She desperately wanted to take Lilith inside of her, to feel the thick shaft stretch her open and fill her, but she knew that Lilith would not give her anything until she asked for it. “Lilith,” she said, stumbling over the words, “Please, just…”
“Just what?” Lilith bent down, nipping at the flesh of her neck and sucking hard enough to leave a bruise. She yelped, but Lilith’s teeth held fast before letting go. “There,” she hummed, kissing the place she had just bitten. “I marked you. Is that what you wanted?”
Eva flinched, unable to decide whether she preferred the gentle touch of Lilith’s lips or the sting of her teeth. “Yes. I mean, no…” She stared up at Lilith through the tangled, messy curtain of her hair. “God, I want you to feed. I want you to fuck me.”
Lilith leaned forward, trapping her wrists above her head with a powerful forearm. Her other hand stroked along her cock, and Eva licked her lips as Lilith’s thumb ran over the broad tip. Her fingers twitched. As much as she loved watching Lilith touch herself, she wanted to be the one bringing her pleasure. She struggled against her grip, hoping that she could work one of her arms free and wrap her fingers around the glistening length, but it was no use. Lilith had her trapped.
Hoping that she would not need to embarrass herself with any more words, Eva lifted one of her legs instead, hooking her knee around Lilith’s waist and dragging their bodies together. She only partially succeeded. Lilith allowed her to rub along the ridged shaft, but refused to give her any penetration. “Tell me how.” The black fork of Lilith’s tongue flicked out, teasing the edge of her ear. “I want specifics.”
Eva tossed her head back against the cliff and arched as best she could with her arms pinned, offering Lilith her throat and the bare expanse of her chest to bite and lick. “I… I want to feel you stretch me, to feel you push inside...” She whimpered as the head of the cock lined up with her entrance, but the small noise became a shout as Lilith’s hips jerked forward, slamming half the length inside of her without any warning. The sudden, brutal fullness was everything she wanted. She rocked forward, trying to find a rhythm, but Lilith drew back again, pulling out until only the head was left inside of her.
At first, Eva did not understand why she had stopped, but her face burned when she realized that Lilith was waiting for her to keep talking. She swallowed to loosen her throat. “I need to feel you move...” As soon as she said the words, Lilith began thrusting into her again. The friction was maddening, and even though she did not want it to stop, her muscles squeezed down instinctively.
“And?”
Eva’s shoulders pulled tight, but there was no escaping Lilith’s grip. “Please…” She let her words pour out in an embarrassed, desperate flood of want, too aroused to care how they sounded. “I need... I need you to fuck me until it aches. Please, feed from me.”
Lilith stared down at her, eyes glossed over with shining light. Then, the feeding began. Need coiled around her, pulling and tightening, searing into every inch of her flesh. It stripped her naked, drawing out every fantasy and every secret desire she had ever dreamed of. She bucked desperately and curled her knee higher around Lilith’s waist, losing herself in the ecstasy she saw promised in her eyes.
But instead of pleasure, she was given only disappointment. Lilith stopped thrusting into her and fell forward, resting her forehead against the face of the cliff. Eva’s muscles clutched down around Lilith’s cock, trying to keep her inside for as long as possible, but Lilith ignored her whimpers of protest and pulled out. She wrapped her fingers around the dripping length instead and began a quick pumping motion.
Eva stared down helplessly. Lilith’s thick, ridged shaft glistened in her fist, twitching with need, and pressure pounded along its length, turning the swollen head an even deeper shade of red. She pushed her hips forward, desperate to take it back inside, but even with her leg hooked around Lilith’s waist, she still did not have enough control. Without the blissful stretch of Lilith inside of her, the emptiness was almost unbearable.
“Fuck, so close,” Lilith whispered against her cheek. “You want me to fill you, don’t you? To come inside you?” Eva closed her eyes, and her chest rose and fell with sharp breaths. Lilith’s voice nearly coaxed her body into spasms all by itself. “But you also want me to cover you. Mark you, and prove that your body belongs to me.”
The last of her willpower snapped. She arched, offering herself up and letting Lilith feed from her surrender. Her submission was enough. A hard stream shot from the head of Lilith’s cock and splashed across her stomach. Her hips bucked forward, searching for contact as slick trails slid down her abdomen, and her inner muscles spasmed with jealousy.
Eventually, Lilith took pity on her. She cried out as the tip of Lilith’s cock slid back between her legs. The rest of Lilith’s release washed over the aching bud of her clit, running down through her folds, and the slippery heat finally pushed her over the edge. Tears leaked from her eyes, and her inner muscles squeezed tight around nothing, shuddering wildly as some of the pressure inside of her finally spilled out in a flood of wetness.
But it wasn’t enough. She was still aching, still desperate to be filled, and she could not help feeling cheated as Lilith’s orgasm dripped from her stomach and thighs. She struggled against Lilith’s hold with all of her strength, seizing just enough freedom to sink back down onto her shaft. It pushed inside of her effortlessly, and she groaned with relief. “I didn’t give you permission for that,” Lilith panted, but her actions made it clear that she did not mind.
Eva’s breath caught as Lilith began pumping in and out of her, driving her back into the stone cliff and splitting her apart. With each aching thrust, each swell of desire that Lilith drank from her heart, the line between pleasure and pain blurred. She had everything she wanted, but the only thing she needed still hovered just out of reach. The ridged shaft inside of her began to pulse a second time, and she squeezed tighter around it, praying that the pressure and strain would spill over and fill her. “God, I want to feel you come.”
“Going to,” Lilith growled. She drew out one last time, further than usual.
A spike of fear pierced Eva’s heart. If Lilith did not fill her this time, she would collapse into a broken, tearful mess all over again. Her toes curled, and she dug her heel in to Lilith’s back. “No, no, no… please, inside...”
Lilith paused for just a moment, half in and half out of her, and Eva knew that she was feasting on the desperation her threat had caused. But it must have been enough to satisfy her hunger, because she slammed back inside, sealing their bodies together. Eva sobbed, and tears ran down her cheeks as a powerful swell of heat finally spilled into her. The entire length of Lilith’s cock throbbed, and each spurt of wetness that sprayed from the tip made her knee pull tighter around Lilith’s hip.
At last, the unbearable fullness inside of her ripped open in a rush of warmth. Her hands flexed helplessly beneath Lilith’s forearm as she did her best to ride through the contractions. Her stomach muscles tensed, and her inner walls fluttered as a scream lit up the sides of her throat. The bud of her clit twitched, and she bucked her hips wildly, straining to grind it against the base of Lilith’s rippling shaft. She came until Lilith had fed from every gush, every sob, every shudder of her release and there was nothing left to give.
Lilith fucked her through the last of her aftershocks, only stopping the motion of her hips when she went limp against the cliff and dro
pped her foot back to the ground. She glanced down between their bodies, and a hot flush crawled across her face. Both of them were a mess. As much as she wanted Lilith to continue and drive them over into another release, she knew that the middle of Hell was not the best place for an orgasm. They were already pushing their luck, and they still had six more Circles to travel through.
“How’s your wing?” she asked, blinking the spots from her eyes.
“Better.” Lilith pressed a kiss to the top of her forehead. “What about you? I wasn’t exactly gentle.”
She let out a happy sigh, nuzzling into the warmth of Lilith’s shoulder. “I’m perfect. Although if you hadn’t come inside me that second time…” She gasped when Lilith finally pulled out of her, and she cupped one of her hands between her legs as some of their shared orgasm seeped over her fingers. She took some reassurance in the fact that most of Lilith’s release was still deep inside of her as she reached for her pack to start cleaning up.
“Are you sure you want to waste that?” Lilith asked as she wetted a strip of cloth with water from her canteen.
“You’re the one who decided to come on my stomach.”
Lilith only grinned down at her. “Sorry. I was hungry, and you always taste so good when you’re desperate.”
Eva rolled her eyes and refused to answer, but her cheeks heated up at the compliment. She finished wiping her skin clean and started digging in the pack for a fresh set of clothes. “Here, you’d better take a new shirt,” she said, passing one into Lilith’s hands. “You still have one left.”
“Are you all right to continue?” Lilith asked, her voice slightly muffled as she pulled the shirt over her head. Her muscles tensed, and Eva let out a disappointed sigh as the shaft of her cock began to pull back, unsure whether she was sad because she wanted it back inside of her, or because the slick, smooth red flesh between Lilith’s legs was tempting her all over again without it. She swallowed, trying not to think too hard about running her tongue over Lilith’s clit. Now wasn’t the right time.