by D. R. Rosier
That’s when she heard a gasp. She turned her head and saw Penny there. She had a look of surprise on her face. Jezebel reached out a tendril seeing Penny with her ring on, expecting to find curiosity and lust, but her power found nothing to lock onto at all…
Penny’s face turned from surprise to a betrayed and horrified look, she tore the ring off her finger and through it at Jezebel, hitting her side hard. She was frozen and Alanzo was still pounding away in her quickly drying center. She reached in and stopped his lust cold then pushed him back. She just waited for it, she knew it was coming.
She had forgotten, she had let the inner succubus have free reign like she hadn’t in years, and she went too far. Now she had hurt this woman that she respected, that she was truly proud to know, and she felt like dirt.
Penny said her voice shaking with confusion, hurt and anger, “Is that what those gifts were? A way to add us to your fuck list, demon? Take your pet Witch and all her magic and get the fuck out of my territory. You are not welcome in Europe any longer, ever.”
Jezebel said, “I’m sorry, but there were no strings attached to the magic of the rings. I didn’t even think that you might be… Attached to each other exclusively. The truth is it was his lust that sparked it in me. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
Penny snorted in disgust. “Have you looked in the mirror? Any woman that looked like you would stir the lust in most men, but a normal human woman would be spurned by a faithful man. They don’t have that option with you unless you give it, and quite obviously you didn’t and just stuck your ass up in the air.
“Do you not see that? Surely you aren’t stupid are you? Lust does not mean go. Fucking demon, just get out. Thank god I am not attracted to woman in the least, or I would surely be sitting with your face between my legs, a victim of your twisted magic.”
Jezebel had known that. That’s why she restricted her succubus so much. This has happened in the past, a lot, when she was eighteen and nineteen. The stress of the council and the encouragement of Sandy had brought it out of her, she had forgotten in the seeking of relief and quite frankly the fun and freedom of it. She had been very stupid.
And it had come back on her as it always did, causing pain to another and twisting her up inside because of it. Maybe she was a slut. Was three Mates plus Eric, Patricia, Rose, and Gina not enough? Plus she could always call Steve or Scott, head down to visit Bobby the demon in Jamaica. Or fuck, with her body just go to a bar using no magic at all and wait for the men to hit on her?
Did she really need to have Penny? Which of course never would have happened. Even if she went about it the right way Penny doesn’t like woman at all. Shit, she really was stupid. It finally hit her, the smile. Penny’s good mood. That wasn’t because Gregor was gone, it was because she had a soul mate and was already getting good sex. And she had just been fucking him.
Jezebel nodded in acquiescence but said, “I will go but you should let them stay, at least until you get the Intel. This was not their fault, and they are not my pets. Keep your anger where it belongs on me. Don’t let the anger drive you to a mistake. Don’t make my stupidity drive you to some of your own. I am truly sorry.”
She saw the angry retort freeze on Penny’s lips and then Penny nodded once violently.
Full of shame, Jezebel went back to the bedroom to ask Sandy to send her home. She also insisted that Sandy wasn’t to defend her if Penny bitched about her, it was all her fault.
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Sandy tried to apologize to Jezebel as it was she that put her up to it. She didn’t look deep enough at the reasons for Jezebel’s conservative body and dress, assuming it was just to be taken seriously. And Jezebel didn’t think of it either, because it had been five years since the last time. Still, Jezebel wouldn’t have done that, let go to get rid of the stress and have fun. Too much fun it turns out, if Sandy hadn’t pushed her into it.
Sandy was the one that pushed her with her looks and flirting into staying in body bimbo mode and having fun with it. Because for her mates and the people that cared for her that was fun. But introduce others in the mix and disaster was obvious. She had missed it, her, who knew how dangerous magic was intimately and she had Jezebel flaunting hers around and she loved watching it.
She tracked down Penny and totally ignoring Jezebel’s orders, since she wasn’t obliged to listen to them, tried to make it right. Or at least mitigate it.
Fifteen minutes later as she walked out, her ears burning, she decided Jezebel was right. Crap! She should have kept her mouth shut. Now they both had an enemy in Penny, instead of a good ally. Penny was right of course. Both she and Jezebel had tried to lay the blame on their own head only to spare the other.
They were both to blame though and Penny pointed out quite well the flaws of her reasoning. All she had accomplished was undoing Jezebel’s efforts at making her not guilty by keeping her side off the board.
She waited in the room with Daniel until she was contacted by Cat, who of course picked right up on all her thoughts and turmoil.
Cat sent, “I am disappointed, but don’t beat yourself up to hard, both of you are so young, mid twenties. You will make other mistakes, and others may forgive. The thing with Penny though is she was under Gregor’s disgusting thumb for over a hundred years. All she saw in what happened was someone else trying to take her will.
“What was done was wrong, but much worse in Penny’s eyes than it actually was. Enough of that. Let it go child. Learn from it, don’t make the same mistake, but let it go lest you make new mistakes in some misguided attempt to make up for it. Much like you just did with Penny by telling her your involvement.”
Sandy acknowledged her advice and received the Intel then typed it all out on her laptop as fast as she could. There were only 5 countries in the know and only 2 that needed to be addressed. She put a copy of the data on a zip drive and without a word gave it to Penny, collected Daniel and got out of there with her tail between her legs.
Chapter 9
Penny was beyond angry, the more she thought about that bitch Jezebel… She needed to get some revenge. She really didn’t want to kill her, she was necessary. Her anger wouldn’t drive her to commit murder or political suicide. But she had a need to get even. She thought she had a way but she had been hesitating to do it.
About three days ago she had gotten an email from an unknown mail source which her IT people had been unable to backtrack, the source was good whoever they were. It was a report on a demon named Niklis. Jezebel had brought him to justice for the council and the Weres specifically. Interesting thing was the demons in Portland all worshipped the guy.
So she was thinking of leaking the info back to the Portland demon community about a demon traitor that got their hero killed. She knew Jezebel probably wouldn’t die from any attacks, but it would be worth it to get back at the bitch, and at least cause her a little trouble if not a whole shit storm of it.
She didn’t want to be back traced but wasn’t confident about her ability to electronically pull that off. So she printed out five copies of the report and put them in five packages to demon clubs that were in the email she was sent. Then she sent it all in one package to an Elf she was paying in Oregon who would mail the 5 envelopes and destroy the packaging leading back to her.
She thought about it a little more and had a twinge of conscious, yes she was a demon, and a succubus who fucked with her mate. Jezebel essentially took away his will by using his lust. On purpose or not didn’t matter. But she was also the Arch of North America and a council member. Not to mention Jezebel could order her to eat shit if she wanted and did not do that.
She growled in annoyance at her twinge and handed the thick package to America to a servant and ordered it mailed out. She just hoped doing this and getting some revenge would make her feel better. She hadn’t shared her soul with her chosen mate since his cock had been in the bitch and she was miserable about it. Damn that Witch and her rings as well.
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Jezebel was walking alone. In the cold brisk air of winter and trying to clear her head. It had been two weeks since Italy and she had not been able to have physical sex yet. Every time she got in the mood for one of her lovers she would see Penny’s face of betrayal, rage and pain. Hear the word slut, demon, stupid in her head. She was not hurting on energy as she was still with Daniel.
Soul sharing was pure. Her inner succubus was not involved. It was her only moment away from the guilt. How could she not have remembered? How could she not have seen the love between Penny and her mate and the betrayal she caused? She had been to intent on getting the voluptuous blonde in her bed, that’s how.
So she had taken to wearing her clothes that covered her up, her breasts were once again a C cup. If you could even call that conservative, but she was too used to that size to change it now. She had forgotten that draining all the life energy and killing someone in pleasure was not the only evil she could do as a succubus. She was also the ultimate seductress.
She forgave Sandy a week ago, but she was pretty mad at her for a while for not listening. People who are betrayed do not forgive easily or quickly, and they don’t shift blame they spread it. She understood the motive was love of her though, and had let it go. Just another thing that was her fault.
She knew she had to end this circle of depression and self flagellation but she was having trouble getting there, so she was out walking, alone. Trying to find peace with within herself. Cat had contacted her and shared what she told Sandy, and to an extent she was right. Jezebel was young and it wouldn’t be her last mistake. However that didn’t make her feel one bit better about herself.
She didn’t doubt for a moment the love of her mates was true, and she needed to get over it in a major way. If only for their sake, she knew they missed her touch, but were patient and wouldn’t ask until she was ready. If only she were the same. Not so quick to spread her damn legs.
She heard the loud screeching sound of tires, then a large bang and glass breaking. Then she felt the fire with her power from about a block over. She ran in that direction. If there was a crowd she couldn’t do anything, but maybe…
Nope, she saw a crowd. But she also saw a little girl about 6 in the back seat of a car, her mother knocked out in the front seat. The car was upside down and on fire. Shit. The crowd wasn’t that big, maybe if she didn’t put out the fire…
She reached out and controlled the fire, keeping it from the gas line and gas tank, but otherwise letting it burn as she raced over and broke the back window. She pulled the little girl out and pointed her to the people watching and said, “Go wait over there by the nice people. I’m getting your mom now.”
The child was terrified but did as she was told, maybe too scared to disobey or question. She turned back to the car and climbed in grabbing the mother out of the front and dragged her out. She let the fire go free from her power when they were fifteen feet away. It took another fifteen seconds or so, the car exploded as they reached the crowd.
Jezebel said, “Did someone call 911?”
No one answered her but a few seconds later she heard sirens coming. The mother had a mild concussion and was knocked out, but she should be okay. She was glad because she couldn’t use her healing power in front of all these people.
When the ambulance got there she slunk away from the scene, most of the people looking at the EMT’s and the hurt people. One person did call after her but she ignored it and broke into a jog…
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Shit, was it beat up on Jezebel day and she hadn’t got the memo? Actually considering all what’s going on maybe it’s beat up on Jezebel month. Sandy listened as the rest of the council lit into her.
Tony said, “I love you Jezebel but damn, that was stupid. Some guy recorded you. Attractive woman, kicks in a rearview window with nothing but her foot and a set of boots? Then sets the kid free and carries the mother back to the crowd showing no effort at all on your face from lifting that dead weight? I know you’ve been upset lately but you need to think.
“All you had to do too save them was control the fire and have it burn out really slowly from the sidelines. Everyone would not know it was you, or even anything was done. It would have looked like the fire just burned itself out without finding the fuel. Even if someone figured it out later there would have been no one that saw you specifically, the fire department could have gotten them out at that point with the explosion danger passed.”
Sandy winced. On top of everything else Jezebel had Tony who she loved as family and looked up to, chewing on her ass now. What the hell? She listened as Patricia, Katrina, Amy and Thomas gave her basically the same speech. Of course Amy or Thomas would have let them burn and had a damn barbeque. Damn Weres were getting on her nerves. That’s when the spiral started, that fucking order to pick up Niklis.
Of course they were blowing it out of proportion, if the news stations hadn’t been running it constantly for days, until they found her identity. Probably a student at the college recognized Jezebel. Now they had tons of calls on the apartment answering machine wanting her to come on the news and tell them all about it. Why, how etc…
The problem of course was Jezebel was beautiful young woman and a hero, it meant the ratings would be higher if they could get her on. It was a sad fact but true, beautiful heroes or victims get better ratings. She had even caught some photographers following her around, not a good thing when you led a secret life.
“ENOUGH!” sandy had enough of listening to it.
“The five of you just gave the same fucking speech, and now you’re trying to repeat yourselves too. If you have nothing constructive to say that might… I don’t know, actually help the situation then shut up. You are blaming her for being young and thoughtless yet you are acting like 2 year olds, cut it out. And Tony, I fucking quit, I can’t believe you threw in with these Angelic blowhards.
“They have been trying to undercut and demean Jezebel for months so they can claw and scrape more power for the council and hence themselves. The first actual mistake Jezebel makes you can’t cut her some slack? She saved a kid and her mother, what the hell! You act like she started glowing in grand central station or something. You jump on their screw over Jezebel wagon. Screw you Tony.”
Sandy knew she went too far, she just couldn’t stand it anymore. It’s not like she’s the one that broke council decorum though, they had been making a mockery of it all morning. She read Jezebel all the time, and the pain Tony had caused her lover just flipped her out. Jezebel had felt guilt from the rest of them too, but only for the stupid action. She had gotten used to ignoring their innuendos about her incompetence a long time ago.
She got up and walked out when the thought of disintegrating her protection charms off the lot of them came into her mind. Let them duck a damn bullet. But that brought her up short, she didn’t want them dead after all, she was just too pissed off right now and had to go. She could feel Jezebel was worried about her, but Jezebel also felt a little better at the vehement defense.
Jezebel was right, they were way too young and too idealistic to be on this council, something would break soon. Sandy was going to make damn sure it wasn’t her and Jezebel that did…
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Jezebel wasn’t sure what just happened but she felt a little better about things, although she was mad at Tony now. She couldn’t believe he sided with them any more than Sandy did. Everyone looked to be shocked and surprised at Sandy’s outburst, no one was talking. She stood up.
She said, “Good time to end the meeting I think, before we do something stupid and irretrievable. Good day.”
She started to walk out and felt relief as she heard all the chairs being pushed back as people got up. She knew Tony thought of her as family and had probably meant that as a ‘you’re a dumb ass’ lecture from a family member. But the forum he did it in, instead of in private, was inexcusable.
Why did she want to stop the pur
ge again? Ugh, ugly thoughts filled her mind. She needed to get out of here. One other thing Sandy’s speech did though. She was so hot for Sandy right now she wanted to chase her down and rip off her clothes… She also felt the lust coming off of Daniel and Natalie. Apparently she wasn’t the only one who thought Sandy’s impassioned speech in her defense was hot as hell…
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Sandy felt Jezebel’s intentions right before she walked in the door. She smiled softly at the look of lust in Jezebel’s eyes that she had missed dearly in the last two weeks. Maybe her stupid speech was worth it after all. Then she caught the feelings of her other two mates as they walked in and she grinned. She started to pull her clothes off as Jezebel pulled her into a passion filled kiss.
Usually the three Angels let her be the dominant one in the foursome directing things so to speak. But today they were all descending on her with purpose and she just let it all go with a giggle at their focus. She was surrounded by three Angels determined to pleasure her, what could she do but relax and enjoy it?
She felt Daniel helping her undress from behind, kissing and sucking on the back and side of her neck while Jezebel continued to claim her mouth with her soft succulent pliant lips. Natalie was helping everyone undress, and she heard soft moans as Nat squeezed a nipple, ass cheek or brushed by someone’s pleasure zone.
Sandy moaned softly and remembered to lock down her magic, already being overwhelmed by all the pleasure she felt from her mates as well as the feel of their hands and lips on her young nubile body. Her nipples were erect and tingling, her center moist and tight. They picked her up and carried her to the bed naked before shucking the remainder of their clothes and joining her on the bed.
She got so turned on when sweet submissive Natalie sat up against the headboard and put her on her hands and knees.
Natalie pulled Sandy’s head into her warm tasty center and demanded lustily, “Eat me.”