by Cara Wylde
The blond kissed and bit his neck, his sharp canines sinking into the delicious flesh until he was sure everyone would know the gorgeous man who was whispering his name belonged to him. He finally let go of his wrists so he could grab the hem of his white T-shirt and pull it up over Alexi’s head in a swift motion. He stared at his lover’s muscular chest for a long minute, then his hands reached for the belt. The second he got the belt and buttons open, Kain shoved both the jeans and boxers down Alexi’s legs and took hold of his throbbing cock.
“Oh yes,” whispered Alexi. He closed his eyes at the feel of the blond’s rough hand on him. He couldn’t believe how good it felt.
Kain wasn’t as careful and gentle as Sophie. He knew exactly what a man liked, so he gave it to Alexi as best as he could. He massaged his heavy sack with one hand while stroking the length of his cock fast. The thick rod was already well lubricated, and Kain had to force himself to look away from the dark pink head and the glistening beads which were gathering at the slit. He would have loved to taste his lover, but he knew Alexi wouldn’t last long. Without bothering to help him step out of his jeans, Kain turned his lover around and forced him to bend over the edge of the bed.
Alexi winced when he almost tripped over his own clothes, but didn’t protest. When he felt Kain’s hot palm on the small of his back, he let his knees rest on the edge of the bed, while he supported the upper part of his body on his arms, his hands squeezing at the sheets for dear life. He heard Kain fumble with his own belt and pants, and pure, unapologetic lust coiled in his stomach. The blond cambion’s aura was still filling the air, and Alexi was so entranced by it that he didn’t feel the demon mark anymore. It was there, he knew it, but it didn’t burn as badly. In fact, if he focused well enough, he could feel his own cambion sigil on his shoulder pulse in time with the erratic rhythm of his heart.
“You’ve no idea how hot you are in this position,” Kain whispered. He had his T-shirt on, but his leather pants were pooling around his ankles. He was stroking himself lightly, spreading the pre-cum down his length as he circled Alexi’s tight ring of muscles with the tip of his finger. He could barely resist the need to slam himself inside his lover. He had to take a deep breath and step back to clear his head and remember where they kept the lube.
Alexi smiled and wiggled his hips when he heard Kain step away. “Well, what are you waiting for?” He knew what the blond was looking for, but he wanted to make him move faster. He gave a sigh of pleasure when he felt two slippery fingers press against the entrance of his passage. He relaxed his muscles and allowed Kain to slip them inside. “Right there,” he moaned when the blond curled his fingers upwards and hit a particularly good spot. “If you keep that up…”
Kain didn’t need to hear the rest of that sentence. He pushed the two fingers up to the knuckles, pumped a few more times, then removed them and replaced them with the tip of his cock. He didn’t need to tell Alexi to relax. His partner knew exactly what he had to do to make everything enjoyable for the both of them. Kain slipped in effortlessly and stopped when his sack came to rest against Alexi’s smooth skin. He leaned in to sneak his right hand around the cambion’s hips and take hold of his cock. The member was harder and ever more engorged than before, telling the blond Alexi was very close. He pulled out and pushed back in gently, all the while his fingers massaging the length of his lover’s cock.
“Faster,” Alexi whispered. He took a deep breath when Kain’s manhood slipped out of his passage almost completely, and released it sharply when the blond pushed back in full force, hitting that delicious bundle of nerves he had grazed earlier with his fingers. “Oh yes! Right there! Don’t stop!”
Kain had no intention of stopping. With each fast, deep thrust he was getting closer to orgasm. He made sure to pump Alexi’s cock in time with the rhythmic movement of his hips, and his lover started moaning louder and louder. He grunted and clenched his teeth, trying to last just a few minutes longer without slowing down.
“So tight,” he growled. He pressed his left hand against Alexi’s back, forcing him to lower his head and torso even more, which gave Kain better access to his firm ass. The blond squeezed a round, smooth globe possessively, and drove his cock harder and deeper into his lover’s passage. Even though the lube had made it incredibly slippery, it was still much too tight for Kain to be able to control his desire to pour himself inside Alexi right then and there. His balls tightened and the head of his cock became even more swollen, hitting Alexi in just the right place every time Kain plunged inside.
“Faster, please…” Alexi supported all his weight on one arm and reached for his own cock, slapping Kain’s hand away. His lover was too far gone to be able to focus on two things at once, and Alexi needed to come right then, otherwise he felt like he would explode.
“So close, so close…” whispered Kain. He moaned, his thrusts becoming erratic. He grabbed onto Alexi’s hips to support himself as he closed his eyes and finally let go, allowing pure ecstasy to wash over him. His muscles tensed and long streams of milky seed filled the tight cavern which clenched and unclenched around his length with such force that it almost pushed him out.
“Oh yes… mmm… yes…” Alexi came onto the sheets, his hand moving up and down his cock in a quick motion until he was done. He could feel Kain inside him, his impressive girth still filling him quite nicely, even though the blond’s cock was slowly softening. He inhaled and exhaled a couple of times and waited for his heartbeat to fall back into a steady rhythm before he moved. Kain slipped out, and he felt a thin stream of seed trickling down his inner thigh.
“Well, that was… intense,” Kain said. He fell on the bed, careful to avoid the mess his lover had made. “We should do it more often, you know?”
Alexi smiled and snuggled by his side. When the blond threw an arm around his shoulders and squeezed him tightly, he sighed and closed his eyes. “This is nice.”
“You bet it is. And to think you were about to throw it all out the window…”
Alexi didn’t say anything for a long time. The mark on his back didn’t burn anymore. It was barely visible, the harsh lines having started to retreat under his skin when Kain’s aura had taken over and stimulated Alexi’s cambion sigil. The warmth of their embrace, the thin sheen of sweat on their skin, the hard muscles and rough edges of Kain’s athletic body… it all felt right to Alexi.
♥
“I understand what Sophie is going through.”
“How can you? I’ve tried… I’ve gone through enough shit myself, but the truth is… if I ever killed a demon by mistake, I wouldn’t know how to deal with the guilt. So… how can you understand her?”
Kain kissed the top of his lover’s head, then went back to staring at the ceiling. They had been lying in bed, half naked, their legs and arms entwined, for what felt like hours. The conversation had come naturally.
“You’re so different,” he whispered. “So kind and forgiving… It always baffled me how you studied each case carefully, learned all there was to know about the type of demon you were going to face. You always do your job with such calm and professionalism, you close your cases in such a clean, uncomplicated way… I did analyze your MO, you know.” He stroked Alexi’s dark hair, smoothing it down only for random strands to stick back up stubbornly.
“Why? I never took you for a calculated guy who actually cared about how other cambions did it.”
“Because I envy you?”
Alexi raised his head just enough to shoot Kain a confused look. “Bullshit.”
The blond laughed half-heartedly. “Now that I know about Gremory and what he did to you, I find your MO even more surprising. How can you hold back when one of these creatures hurt you so much?”
“The answer is in your question. One of these creatures, not all of them. The demons we hunt down and bring to Lure all have their own sins, but that doesn’t concern me. I mean, it doesn’t concern me personally. I see no reason to make them suffer for something that Gremory
and Gremory alone did to me.”
“Fair, I guess.” Kain made a long pause to gather his thoughts. He had never thought there would come a day when he’d willingly tell someone what he was about to tell Alexi, but he knew he had to. Maybe he couldn’t help Sophie right now because her wound was too fresh, but he could guide Alexi through his pain. “I understand what Sophie feels because I’ve been there a long, long time ago.”
Alexi’s ears perked in curiosity.
“It was before Lure Academy. Before I even knew what I was.”
When Alexi didn’t say anything, Kain continued. In fact, he was glad his lover wasn’t interrupting him with questions. It was going to be easier to simply get it all out in a single breath. Metaphorically speaking, because the story was quite long.
“I was around 20 and I met this guy… He was gorgeous! But, not only was he sex on legs, he was also fascinating as a person. Well-read, interested in everything and anything, from philosophy and literature to history, geography, science… Damn, when he spoke I was entranced. You could swear he had read my father’s entire library, and then some. Of course, I was stupid and horny back then, I had no idea there were such things as demons, succubi, incubi, or cambions. I kept wondering when this guy had had time to read about all those things, since he didn’t seem to be older than me. Yeah, you got that right… he was a demon.” Kain felt Alexi tense, and he rubbed his shoulder to reassure him. “One of the lesser ones, nothing fancy. I was lucky, I guess. He could have never compared to your Duke. Maybe that’s why it was so easy for me to figure it all out. My powers were just starting to surface. I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in my chest. In the morning, I would see small lines and circles, weird symbols fading slowly into my skin. I had no idea what it was, of course. All I knew was that something was changing. Every time I was with him, I could finally fight the attraction, I could clear my mind and find it within me to stop him when I didn’t want something, ask him to slow down, and sometimes, even to leave me alone. I loved him. I was so sure that I loved him. Even if there were times when he did things I didn’t particularly enjoy, I still felt incredibly attached to him. That was until he noticed what I was doing and he upped his game. He wouldn’t let me use my cambion aura against him anymore. Every time I tried, he would just push harder and overwhelm me with his aura to the point when I would pass out for hours. That was when it struck me and I started thinking… it wasn’t right. What was happening wasn’t right, and the relationship we had wasn’t healthy.” Another pause, shorter this time. “My father was a librarian, have I ever told you that? Not my real human father Satene screwed so Mikal would have the necessary seed to impregnate my human mother. My mother’s husband, more exactly. Anyway, his name was Boris.”
“No.”
“Well, we lived in a small town in Croatia. Only the two of us.”
“Where was your mother?”
A small crease appeared on Kain’s forehead, but Alexi had no way to see it. The blond bit the inside of his lip before answering. “She died when she gave birth to me. Maria. Maria was my mother’s name.”
“I’m sorry…”
Kain gave a short laugh. “It’s okay. She was only the first one to die because of me. I got used to it with time.”
“Don’t say that!” Alexi sat up to look into Kain’s eyes. “It wasn’t your fault.”
“Yeah, well… Boris never quite forgave me for that. Maybe he felt something. Maybe he knew, deep down, that I wasn’t his son. Anyway, it doesn’t matter now. He was a small town librarian who struggled all his life to raise me with very little money. For that, I will always be thankful. So, when my gut told me there was something off about the guy I was seeing…”
“You never mentioned his name.”
“And I never will. His name is not important. He’s just an old, sad memory.” Kain’s voice did catch a bit at the last words. “I went through the Occultism section in my dad’s library for the first time in my life,” he continued his story. “That’s how I found out about succubi, incubi, and their offspring. I didn’t believe any of it, of course, but I couldn’t ignore that the pain in my chest was getting stronger and that the strange lines and circles on my skin often didn’t disappear in the morning. They were beginning to form some sort of tattoo. And then I came across a book with pictures of various demon and cambion sigils. That was how I learned the difference between them: demon sigils are bigger, with harsher lines and sharper edges, while cambion sigils are always smaller and have circles or curves, something that demon sigils never have.”
“I can’t believe you found out you were a cambion way before Lure Academy came to recruit you! That’s… How did you even manage to deal with it?”
“I killed my demon lover, that’s how I managed.”
Alexi was looking at him with wide eyes, but Kain couldn’t tell what he was thinking. His heart ached when he realized that his lover might judge him for what he had done. Might hate him. After all, how could a kind and gentle man like Alexi still want to be around a cold-blooded murdered like Kain?
“My sigil was not fully formed and I didn’t know how to control my aura as to direct it to do what I wanted, but I was determined to give my gorgeous, perfect lover a taste of his own medicine. I don’t know what I was thinking, really. I mean… I knew he was a demon. I had figured it out by reading those books, so I was absolutely sure. I didn’t exactly want to hurt him. I guess I just wanted to show him that I wasn’t a simple mortal either, that I could keep up with him, that I was a good match for him. I wanted him to see me as an equal. Needless to say it didn’t end well.”
Alexi was still towering over him, and the position was making Kain feel a bit uncomfortable. He couldn’t look him in the eyes and tell him the last part of his story. He just couldn’t. He sat up, swung his legs over the edge of the bed, and finally got rid of his leather pants and boots before resuming the story.
“The next time we met, I fought him harder than ever. I remember that I did want to hurt him just a little bit, to teach him a lesson, but my intention was to stop after a while, tell him that I knew what he was and I was fine with it, laugh it off and start a new life.”
“But you didn’t stop…”
“No, I did. It was too late, though. I had already drained him of all his energy. There was nothing left. Nothing. I couldn’t believe it. My cambion sigil was completely formed, my aura was everywhere, filling the room, spreading that intoxicating smell of poppies I’m sure you’re already very familiar with, and the demon… my gorgeous, smart, selfish, jackass of a demon was dead. And there I was… alone, confused… guilt slowly creeping into my bones, turning me numb… Hebe came the next day and brought me to Lure Academy. If she had been a day later… well… I don’t know…” Kain smiled to himself.
“Shit.” Alexi couldn’t come up with something smarter to say. His brain was still processing Kain’s story, trying to decide what to do with it.
“Yeah. Shit.” The blond cambion finally turned to his lover. His eyes were like the calm blue sea, and his whole body was relaxed. He felt better now that he had told Alexi everything. Even if his partner changed his mind about him, at least now he knew he wasn’t alone. Kain too had loved a demon once, and things had ended much worse than in Alexi’s case. “Now you know,” he said. “And Sophie will know too, because I intend to tell her. But I need your help, I can’t do it alone. I need you to pull yourself together, go face Gremory once and for all, let him know that you could end his miserable life, but you won’t. You’re better than him.”
Alexi shook his head. “It’s not that. I don’t think I ever wanted to kill him, really. For a very long time I wanted to find him in hopes that he would give me a second chance, that he would tell me what had gone wrong, what had made him leave me, so I could make it all better. Even now, I’m afraid that… that one glance will be enough to give him power over me.”
Kain grabbed his shoulders and squeezed them firm
ly. “Listen to me: you’re not who you used to be. You’re not that abandoned teenager anymore. You’re not that lonely child whom no one wants around because he involuntarily drains them of energy. Gremory has no power over you now. You know why? Because you have me and Sophie. You have Lure Academy and thousands of people out there who are alive and well thanks to you and the work you do here. Remember Leila? Remember how happy her father was when she came back home? Remember how he gave her and Petro his blessing and they were married the very next day? That was because of us, Alexander, and there wouldn’t be an ‘us’ if you weren’t here, if you weren’t part of this.”
Alexi lost himself in Kain’s pale blue eyes for a long moment. The thin scars reminded him how his lover and partner had gone through so much more than what he had just confessed to him. He now understood why they were so different and why those differences made them work so great together. Kain was right. It was time for him to face his past so they could help Sophie face hers.
“Will you come with me to Oriens?”
Kain’s only answer was a bright smile.
CHAPTER THREE
Anahit’s room was small, but incredibly open and bright. The succubus loved natural light, so her curtains were open from early morning until the sky turned dark. She was standing by the window, her back turned to the door. Ke-sar entered quietly, but decided to keep close to the door. He had no intention to spend more than a couple of minutes here.
“You wanted to see me. Make it quick.”
Anahit turned around and held the incubus’ golden gaze. She didn’t like his tone, but she swallowed down her anger thinking that she might have deserved it just a tiny bit.
“I needed to talk to you before I made a decision.”