Kai closed her eyes, sorrow overwhelming her. “Not for me, Mitzi. You deserve better. Brenton, I’ll make you a deal. I—”
“No!” Donovan exploded. “I won’t allow it.”
Kai tossed away his hold and whirled on Donovan. “I’m not going to let her throw her life away for me. This is my problem, and I’m going to fix it.”
“Not that way, and that’s final!” Donovan shouted back.
“You don’t own me, Don.”
“Enough!” Brenton roared. “No more deals. I have what or rather who I want. Get your house in order, Donovan. I will protect you here until tomorrow. And then we battle.”
Chapter Nineteen
Kai settled down in the water, a tingle rippling over her flesh when she made contact with Donovan’s hard form behind her. His hands came around to cup her breasts, and she moaned. “Give me a minute to settle myself, lover.” Her attempt at adopting her old casual way sounded flat in her own ears. She hoped he didn’t notice, couldn’t pick on how afraid she still was.
Her world had been turned upside down, and where she had been sassy and flippant most of the time, now, she had to fight not to run and hide somewhere. Still, she was determined that she would go with Donovan and Brenton tomorrow to fight Ove. If her lover was going to die, she would die with him. Besides, she had hope that somehow Brenton and Ove would destroy each other, so she, Donovan and Mitzi would be free.
Donovan pressed his lips to her earlobe and planted a gentle kiss there. “Let us forget everyone at this moment. You and I are the only inhabitants of this little fiberglass world full of soapy bubbles. She smiled at his teasing.
“Yes, my lord.” She chuckled. “And you’re the king of it. My wish is to serve you.”
He shook his head. “Oh no. You are the queen. I’m here to serve you.” He nipped her shoulder. “If I must, I will spend all night long pleasuring you.”
He pinched and tugged at her nipples. Kai arched her back, pushing into his palms. “It’s been so long. I’ve missed you.”
His hands slid lower to cup her mound. With one hand, he parted her pussy lips and slid the fingers of the other hand inside her. “I’ve missed you too. My body is starving for yours. Come, feed me, Kai.” He stroked deep, gliding over her slick come-moistened inner walls. Her muscles clamped around his fingers, trying to draw him deeper.
Kai ached to have an orgasm. She grabbed hold of his wrist and shoved him deeper. Bucking her hips, she rode his hand until she was ready to come. Donovan straightened his fingers, tightened them together in the rough form a small cock. He shoved in deeper and faster. Kai screamed.
Her orgasm slammed into her body, making her shake from head to toe. She would have catapulted into the water, but Donovan tightened his hold around her waist and pulled her back to his chest. She rested her head on his shoulder and shuddered each time he stroked her sensitive clit.
When the waves of bliss eased, she moved her hand to his arm. “Your turn, Donovan. Do you want me to suck you?”
“No.” He didn’t allow her to shift her position. With a gentle nudge, he lifted her up to settle her on his ramrod cock. Angled and broader than she remembered it being, it fit snug in her throbbing pussy. Kai shifted her hips and wiggled to force Donovan farther inside her.
“Ah! Kai!” he groaned. “Was it this good last time? What was I thinking being separated from you, darling? Mm, wait, easy. I don’t think I fit like I did before.”
She laughed, gyrating her hips once again. “You do feel snug, baby, but that adds to the pleasure. I think you might have found my sweet spot. Donovan, drive it in, baby? I need that!”
He had insisted on being gentle because of her injuries, but she convinced him of the desperate need they shared. If he didn’t get off on her soon and let her come for the second time, they’d both lose their minds.
With strength that had Kai panting, Donovan shifted forward and lifted her with one arm. He planted her on her knees, the water sloshing the sides of the tub. “Then hold on, Kai. I’m going to wear your little twat out.”
She grabbed hold of the sides of the tub and gripped hard. Donovan nudged her legs wider and placed his hands on her hips. His cock escaped her tunnel for moment, but he positioned it at her opening again. The rounded head glided lower to bump her clit. She groaned.
“Mm,” he muttered. “Look how wet you are. Your juice is leading me home, Kai.”
“Put it in,” she screeched, a little unsteady. “Don’t tease me, Don.”
He allowed only the head to penetrate her. Kai tried to push back on it, but he held her in a firm grip that didn’t let her move an inch, forward or backward. In slow, cruel teases, he pushed in and out only an inch or two. Kai whined, but Donovan’s thighs quivered behind hers. He wouldn’t be able to go on unless he let loose.
Without warning, he pummeled her pussy, grinding his long, thick shaft all the way in and bringing it out to the tip. His control to both keep from hurting her by driving too hard and not to pull all the way out amazed her. Faster and harder he pounded. He released her hips to rest a hand on her back and one at his waist.
His growls were guttural and desperate. “I can’t hold it, Kai. I’ve got to fill you.”
“Do it, baby. Do it for us both!” she shouted. Her own sensations were building to a second orgasm. Before Donovan let loose, she came screaming, but her body wouldn’t let her rest. On the heels of one climax, she climbed to the next. Donovan’s cock seemed to grow again, swelling and pushing at her passage. Her muscles gripped him and refused to give way. Still he tunneled his way in, demanding more. Tears filled her eyes. Too much. This was too good, the pleasure and pain mingled.
Finally, Donovan shouted, and his come shot up her passage. He didn’t grow softer, but he stayed hard and continued to pump.
“Don . . .” she uttered on a weak breath.
“I can’t stop.” His voice revealed his exhaustion. Still his hips worked. He lay down across her back and wrapped his arms around her. His palms grazed her puckered nipples, and his mouth found hers. Their tongues intertwined. It was a moment before Kai realized she was no longer holding onto the tub, but neither was Donovan holding them up.
She opened her eyes. In a corner, sort of half visible in their realm, Brenton sat on a kingly styled chair with Mitzi on his lap. Both were naked, and Kai gasped to see Brenton’s monstrous cock buried inside her tiny best friend. Mitzi’s eyes were closed, and her head rested on Brenton’s chest, turned away from them.
Kai screamed. Donovan jerked and looked up. His eyes narrowed in anger. “You! What the hell are you doing in here?”
Brenton chuckled. “Enjoying the show.” He wiggled his finger, and Donovan’s hips renewed their thrust of his cock. Kai gasped. The last wild drive they had been on, when they couldn’t stop, like their bodies had complete control, had been orchestrated by Brenton for his pleasure.
“You bastard,” she spat. “Let her go!”
He laughed. “Why should I do that? Mitzi has come several times, haven’t you baby?” He lifted Mitzi’s head and turned her to face them. Kai watched her friend’s eyes open slowly. Mitzi’s cheeks reddened.
To Kai’s own embarrassment, Brenton lifted Mitzi off his cock and it popped free, covered in silky white come. Mitzi groaned, and Brenton massaged the shape-shifter’s little nub with the pad of his thumb. Kai couldn’t turn away. Neither could Donovan it seemed. He grew in Kai with his eyes locked on Brenton’s rough stroke in and out of Mitzi.
“Donovan,” Kai cried out.
“Kai, baby, she likes it.” He turned Kai’s head to face them much like Brenton had done to Mitzi. Kai didn’t want to accept it, but Mitzi was moaning and wiggling on Brenton’s shaft. Her soft pink lips were parted in an O, and her eyes had drifted closed again.
“It’s a spell. He’s forced her, Don,” she told him. “Just like he’s forcing us.”
“And we’re hurting for it how?” He thrust hard inside her. She screamed and came to
Brenton’s rude cheers. A second later Mitzi also cried out when her orgasm hit her. The tables turned. Donovan eased out of Kai, and together they sat in the still warm water, heated from Kai’s fire.
Kai couldn’t stop watching Mitzi and Brenton. She was so small and he strong enough to flip her around and lift her high by her ass and her thighs to his mouth. His loud, greedy eating at her pussy made Kai squirm.
“Oh goodness, that’s hot!” Kai bit her lip, eyes wide, staring.
Brenton’s massive cock extended up to his navel. His body was rock solid, his chest broad. He could rival Donovan in a sexy body. While she enjoyed looking, she loved Donovan and wouldn’t trade him. She glanced up at her lover, and he looked down at her with a wink. She was confident that he felt the same. Mitzi, though sweet and sexy, wasn’t for him.
Not that Brenton would apparently let her go for more than a second. He ate like a man starved. And Mitzi tangled her fingers in his hair, arched her back and shouted each orgasm as it hit. At long last, Brenton let her down to slide along his cock but not allowing himself to go inside her. Mitzi rested on his chest, thoroughly submissive to him. He grinned, catching Kai’s eyes. She knew he wanted more for her to see what he had taken from her and what he wouldn’t return. She turned away.
“Now that we’re all satisfied,” Brenton announced. “We rest. Tomorrow, we fight.”
Chapter Twenty
“So what’s the plan?” Kai asked the next morning when they met in Donovan’s living room. “I assume you’ve been doing something other than fucking all night?”
He laughed. “Like you were?”
She crossed her arms in front of her and looked away. She still hated Brenton for using Mitzi. If he snapped his fingers, her friend acted like she had no choice but to obey. Kai was convinced he had brainwashed her in some way to make her enjoy sex with him. He was a freak of nature with his oversized equipment.
“It’s a simple plan,” he told them. “Mitzi will be our decoy.”
“What!” Kai screamed. Donovan pulled her back to him when she would have launched herself at Brenton.
He went on as if she hadn’t said anything. “She will transform to look like a demon and stroll right into Ove’s compound. I will instruct her on what she’s to do when she gets in there. Meanwhile, the three of us will work together.” He shifted his gaze to Donovan. “It is my belief that your unique gift will allow you to absorb our powers if we submit it to you. In the same way that you can force others to reveal their hand, so to speak, you can take it a step further and cause them to give up those powers to you. At least temporarily.”
Kai’s eyes widened, and she glanced up at her lover. He appeared doubtful but willing to give it a whirl. They had one shot at this. She prayed he could do it and not get hurt. For that matter, she hoped she could give up the limited ability she had to him.
She turned back to Brenton, pinning him with a look of dislike. “How will this help us? And how do we know you won’t betray us. It’s in a demon’s nature to do just that. Just like Ove did to me and my mother.”
“Aww.” He fluttered his lashes rudely at her. “Poor little thing, hurt by her daddy?” He reached out to touch her, but Donovan uttered something that put a block between them.
“Don’t touch her, or you and I will go head to head first, Brenton,” Donovan threatened.
Brenton flared his nostrils, his eyebrows dropping low over his eyes. “Fine.” He flicked a tolerant gaze to Kai after staring long and hard at Donovan. “It will help because, as much as it pains me to admit, Ove is more powerful than I am. It’s why I was forced to leave the underworld after I lost our fight for dominance. I’ve been wanting payback for fucking years. When your pretty boy here absorbs our powers, it will make him the most powerful being in the underworld, bar none.” Again he reiterated to Donovan. “For a limited amount of time! So you damn well better act fast to cast Ove into the abyss.”
Kai gasped. “The abyss? That’s forever. There’s no coming back from that.”
“Right.” He rolled his eyes, no longer interested in Kai’s emotions. Brenton left the house, and Kai and the others took their cue from him, following close behind.
Donovan gripped Kai’s hand to pull her back from the others. “Baby, I don’t know how this will go.” He paused, fear in his eyes. She knew it wasn’t for him, but for her. She hazarded to guess if he thought it would do any good, he would tell her not to come. “If something goes wrong—”
“It won’t.” She stroked his face. “You’ll do it. You’ll banish Ove, and the last hope I entertained of having a father-daughter relationship will go down the drain.” She shrugged. “It’s the way it must be. I understand that. I love you, Don, and I will stand by your side.”
“Then let’s do it.”
* * * *
It had all happened so fast. Kai found herself in a room. At least she thought it was a room. She was all alone, in darkness. The others had turned away from her, even Donovan. No. He wouldn’t. Would he? Doubts swirled in her mind. She pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes and tried hard to focus.
She had given Donovan her power, but that left her open to Ove’s deception. This had to be the result, this nothingness.
“Hello?” she called out. Her voice reverberated off of the unseen walls and taunted her. “Is anyone here? Donovan? Where are you?”
“Tsk, tsk, poor Kai.” She spun around to see Ove standing there. Her heart tightened in her chest. “You were a fool to come against me, Kai. You should have obeyed me, stayed by my side. At least you could have lived out your life. After some time, I would have even allowed you to take a lover or two or ten.” He chuckled.
“Ove! I can’t believe you’re doing this to me. I’m your daughter! Don’t you have any feeling at all?” She was just stalling. It had become abundantly clear the last time they fought and her own father had scorched her skin, disabling the use of one of her arms, that this beast had no feeling in him. He was incapable of love. “Today is the day you come off your throne, Ove.”
He laughed outright, preparing a ball of fire in his hand. “Who will bring me down, Kai? You? Don’t make me laugh. It didn’t work the last time. It won’t work now. You’re weak. All humans are weak.”
He launched the fire at her, but Kai leaped to the side and rolled out of the way. She willed a return shot to form in her hand, but only steam rose. Damn, her powers hadn’t returned. Where the hell was everybody else? She felt like she was in this alone.
“Nothing to say, Kai?” Her father’s hand rose again, but this time no fire formed. He turned his palm to face her, and something told her he was just being dramatic, to add to her fear. This wasn’t a fire attack at all. Too late, she realized it was another illusion. Cords encircled her head and body. A clear jar appeared in front of her with a label on it that said “acid”.
No!
Ove stepped closer. “You know what happens to you if you believe that acid is truly being poured down your throat?”
Her heart pounded, and blood rushed in her ears. Her knees gave, but the cords somehow kept her upright. Kai closed her eyes and concentrated. Maybe she could send the illusion back to her father. She pushed with her mind. During her training, she’d never been able to master the technique to her fullest potential. Brenton had said she was too distracted. How could she not have been with her father and her lover plotting against her at the time?
She tried harder to push the jar away. When she opened her eyes, it had moved to within inches of her father. Hope igniting at what she had done so far, she concentrated with all her strength, and the cords popped and hissed. They dissolved, allowing her to slump to the floor.
Kai sat there gasping for breath. She glanced up in time to see her father wave a finger, and the jar disappeared. It had taken everything in her, and this man hadn’t so much as broken out into a sweat. Kai struggled to her feet. She needed to hold out a little longer. Donovan would come. He had to.
Her fa
ther seemed to read her mind. “Are you waiting for your lover, Donovan?” he taunted. “He won’t be coming. I’ve already tossed him into the abyss.”
“No!” She wept. “You couldn’t have. He’s too powerful.”
“You think I didn’t know about your plan, that you were in league with my enemy, Kai?” He flexed his fingers, and another ball of fire lit them. It grew while she watched, bigger and bigger, until it was larger than a basketball. Still it expanded.
Her heart skittered. She had trouble breathing. This was what happened the last time. A demon should not be able to be burned, but Ove had scorched her skin.
“No,” she pleaded. “Ove, don’t. You’re my father.” Pitifully, she tried to produce her own fire as she had done before. Not even a flicker or steam. Had Donovan tricked them all, took their powers and then abandoned them? With a demon’s ability, even for a short period, he might be able to open the lock on the underworld and escape into another. Would he leave her?
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