Cult of the Hexad (Afterlife saga Book 6)

by Stephanie Hudson

  It was obvious that Draven was less than happy about this, if the shouting and swearing was anything to go by I could hear from the next room. Okay, yes so I was shamefully listening to it all but it wasn’t like I had an empty glass up against the wall, just more like casually standing next to it looking at my feet.

  Draven told Lucius that he wanted them to be interrogated and I shuddered when it was obvious through Draven’s reply of ‘Good’ that this had already begun. Also his response of ‘Make it like old times’ gave me a strong sense that Lucius himself was the one doing the torturous deed. I listened for more but Lucius must have been talking because it went quiet on Draven’s end.

  “I can confirm they are still there.” I screamed and turned round to see Draven right there behind me…oh and he was grinning.

  “You nearly gave me a heart attack!”

  “I’m sorry but I didn’t want to disturb your in depth study.”

  “Uh?” He looked down at my bare feet and I realised what he meant.

  “Oh, that.”

  “Yes, that.” He smirked.

  “The light was better over here.” I said slipping past him so he wouldn’t see my lie.

  “Did you forget what they looked like or something?” He asked and I hid my smile with my back to him.

  “No, I just thought I’d picked up a splinter, or something.” I said, with this last part repeating his words, mocking him. The next thing I knew I was being swooped up over his shoulder and I squealed out in surprise.

  “What are you doing?”

  “It could be fatal. I need to do a full examination. Now hold still.” He said as I wiggled to get free. He gave my bum a little tap and I huffed making him laugh.

  “Put me down!” I shouted playfully.

  “As you command, my Queen!” I quickly found myself being turned back upright and plonked down on the sofa. Then he sat down, picked up my feet and started tickling me.

  “No! No, no stop, that tickles…please!” I begged in between snorting laughter.

  “I’m sorry but it could be serious, I need to make sure infection hasn’t spread.” He teased again and using his arm to hold me down he tickled in between my toes and I was almost in tears at this.

  “Oh no!”

  “What? What is it?” I said sitting up quick at his serious tone.

  “Keira, its more serious than I thought, this looks like it could be a rare disease called Sockitis. See here, it starts with the fluff in between the toes…” He said actually picking out a bit of fluff and showing me. I thought I would die of shame but then I quickly forgot about it when he carried on with,

  “…then comes the next symptom called the ‘snorts’ and after that you pee yourself!” Then he started tickling me even more and he was right, if he carried on any longer I would have wet myself.

  “It sounds like you are wrestling a pig in here!” Sophia said saving me by walking into Draven’s suite.

  “Oi!” I said and she smiled before saying,

  “Shouldn’t that be Oink?”

  “Ha ha!” And actually it was pretty funny.

  “Did I happen to mention a very pretty pig.” I tried to hide my smile and be serious when I crossed my arms and said,

  “That’s better.”

  “Anyway I can see that you’re busy so…” I snatched my legs off Draven’s lap and said,

  “Oh no we’re not!” And this made Draven roar with laughter.

  “I just wanted to inform you that we were back.”

  “Good. Any problems?”

  “None.”

  “And were you successful?” I frowned at them both wondering what they were up to.

  “I was.” Draven nodded looking relieved.

  “I could just leave if you want as it would save all the cryptic stuff.”

  “But where would the fun in that be.” She said winking at me before leaving the room.

  “So are you going to tell me what that was about?” I asked following him when he got off the sofa.

  “Nope but I do have a surprise for you.” My eyes widened in anticipation and I quickly lost interest in what Draven and Sophia had been secretly talking about. Then I closed my eyes and held my hands out making him laugh. He took my hands in his, gave me a quick pull and then kissed my nose when I fell into him.

  “It’s not here but come with me and I will show you.” He told me and I had to rein in my girly shriek of excitement.

  “Let me just get my shoes on and…” once again I cried out as I was lifted into his arms, only this time it was Knight in shining armour style, which I had to say was a little bit more romantic than a fireman’s lift. Although, it had to be said that a fireman’s lift definitely had its sex appeal as it was more rough and ready!

  “You know I do still have the use of my legs.” I told him grinning.

  “Yes but then I wouldn’t be able to do this…” He suddenly threw me into the air making me scream and then promptly lifted me up to his lips so he could kiss me.

  “Well you certainly give the saying ‘making a girl’s head spin’ a whole new meaning.” I told him making him chuckle.

  “So where did you say we were going?” I asked after we came to yet another corridor.

  “Nice try, sweetheart.” Well you couldn’t blame a girl for trying.

  “Not much farther now.” He told me after I did one of those dramatic huffs.

  “You’re so cute when you sulk like that, you make me just want to bite you.” His velvet, seductive voice painting that image had me suddenly wishing we were back in his room.

  “You like that idea don’t you?” He said and I tried to hide my blush.

  “I know you do because I just heard your heartbeat quicken. I wonder, does it make you ache for me to be nestled in between your thighs, thrusting into you as far as you can take it?” I sucked in a sharp breath, instantly feeling myself getting damp just from hearing his dirty, delicious words.

  “I can’t wait to have you again. I want to taste you, feasting upon your intimate flesh, sucking the blood to the surface and making you more sensitive against my tongue. Then I am going to take what’s mine.” He growled this last part and the vibrations rippled all the way down my back and to my core. I let my head fall back wishing he would just stop us right here and take me up against the stone wall like some wild beast of a man that just couldn’t wait.

  “We are here.” He whispered and I didn’t care anymore just so long as it had a place where he could push me up against. Or he could just take me standing, either worked for me right now because if he didn’t follow through with his words then I would end up stir crazed, out of my mind, jump on him and attack, type of insane.

  He used the power of his mind on the massive set of doors and it took me a minute to recognise where we were.

  “I wanted to keep my promise.” He told me as he walked us through the great library that had now been transformed. Pure white church candles were everywhere and on every available surface transforming the room into the most romantic setting I could ever have imagined. He walked further into the room and I could see dinner was set up for two with plates covered in silver domes. White flowers of all different kinds, too many to mention in fact, were also scattered around the room and the white was a stark contrast against all the dark carved wood. But with the soft candle light gently flickering against all the petals, well the effect was astonishingly beautiful.

  “Did you…?”

  “I had this arranged, yes.”

  “You’re a romantic!” I said utterly shocked.

  “You sound surprised, believe it or not I am familiar with the concept.” He said grinning and lowering me to the ground.

  “Nice touch.” I said looking to the main attraction of the room, or at least I hoped after the way he had shamefully teased my body on the way over here. Because there, right in front of the enormous fireplace, was a makeshift bed with piles of white cushions, throws, comforters, and every other soft, luxurious
comfort that was made to surround your naked body in bed.

  “I thought you might like that part in particular.” He whispered in my ear before walking past me down the centre of the vast room. I followed him, chanting in my head, ‘Go to the bed, go to the bed, go to the bed’ but it didn’t work as he went straight to the table that had been laid for us. He then pulled out a seat for me like a perfect gentleman.

  I couldn’t help smile as I approached, knowing how lucky I was that I had found this perfect man, demon bits and all.

  “Thank you.” I told him sweetly and before I sat down I reached up on my tip toes and started kissing his neck. It was only supposed to be a little peck, but I just couldn’t seem to pull away. I lifted my hand to his neck to hold him to me and then before I knew it I was sucking and biting and kissing my way up to his lips. His groans and moans told me he didn’t want me to stop either but it was only when our lips touched that passion exploded between us.

  “Fuck romance, I need to have you and now!” He gritted out the last word as he swept his arm out, smashing everything to the floor. I was shocked for the half a second it took him to yank me roughly to him and then lift me by my cheeks onto the table. Then the wild demonic side of Draven that I had hoped for earlier suddenly appeared and he was breathing heavy with need.

  I was near frantic trying to get my clothes off and doing so whilst lying on a round table wasn’t easy with my legs dangling off the side. Draven could see me fumbling with my top and in the end simplified it for me by ripping it into two pieces that just slipped down my arms. I yelped when I felt the pull against my skin as he did the same with everything else I wore, including the lace I had covering what he wanted to see the most. It tore easily but he made a show of doing it slowly, unlike the rest of my clothes. He just slipped one finger in the waistline and I held my breath as he looked up at me, keeping eye contact and teasing me with his eyes. The material tore away like it had been made from tissue paper and without saying a word he raised up my legs and spread them, placing my feet flat on the table’s edge.

  “Draven I can’t do…” He cut me off with one look when I tried to close them, feeling far too exposed this way. But that one look had me rethinking my decision and I submitted to his command, with trepidation quickly seeping into a greater need. The whole thing was such a turn on I felt that if I didn’t do as he asked I would regret it for the rest of my life.

  “Good girl.” I felt my heart soar when he praised me like this but then swallowed hard when he added,

  “Now lie back and let me enjoy my meal.” I looked down watching as he swung a chair round in one swift move so that he could sit comfortably whilst…well, enjoying me.

  In fact, by the time he actually started touching me I could barely stop my legs from shaking. I looked to him to see he was grinning and there was nothing kind or gentle about it. It was bad to the demonic bone. First he ran his fingertips down my inner thigh, caressing them slowly and feather light, making me tremble even more.

  “I adore the way you respond to my touch. The way your delicate pale skin blushes in that tantalising way that teases me with the promise of your blood. Do you know how much I crave you?” I bit my lip at what his words did to me.

  “How much I crave your scent, the pheromones your body emits only for me, makes my mouth water at the thought of tasting you. Bringing you to your peak, soaking your thighs and getting you ready to take me when gentle just isn’t an option. When I know that once I get inside you that nothing could stop me from taking you hard. That’s what you do to me…” He paused from stroking the crease of my leg, where the top of the inside of my thigh meets the most intimate part of me. He also paused his words, bringing his head closer to my most sensitive part and when he continued the feel of his breath against my clit made me moan for him.

  “…And that’s what I am going to do to you.” I abruptly cried out after he said this as his mouth descended to claim me, sucking in my clit and rolling his teeth around it. My back arched and I thought I would fly straight off the table. He became relentless and after only a minute I was ready to come. But the first time I got to this point something would happen and the feeling would fade back to how it felt in the beginning. At first I thought there was something wrong with me but then it happened again, and then a third time until I was soon begging the man responsible.

  “Please, oh Draven please!”

  “You will come when I am ready for you to come.” He informed me and went back to his meal like it was the most civilised thing for a gentleman of high stature to do. I think I could actually feel tears running down into my hair line I was that mad with need.

  “So you want to come little bird of mine?”

  “Yes, yes, yes, Oh god yes!” I said out of my mind.

  “Lucky for you then that I am thirsty for it.” And that was my only warning. Because it came to me like lightening was striking my body…no, not my body, just my clit. Because Draven had suddenly bit down, driving his fangs into me and plunged two fingers inside me at the same time, making me go off like a firework, exploding into a star of colours. With each draw on my blood I jerked, tugging at his fingers again and again, trying to keep him there.

  I had never come so hard before that the intensity of it had me reaching out to him. He knew what I needed and he didn’t disappoint as he pulled me up into his arms off the table. I clung on to him as he walked me over to the bed and I knew he wasn’t finished with me yet. I panted into his shoulder, with both my arms and my legs locked around him, soaking his now naked stomach with the evidence of what he had just done to me.

  “I’m sorry, I can’t wait.” He ground out just before he lifted me up and impaled me on the length of him. I threw my head back and cried out at both the pain and the pleasure. His strength was remarkable and when he erupted into his demon form the sight sent me wild against him. I raked my nails up his back and across his shoulders as I gripped on for dear wonderful life!

  He continued to lift me up and down as if I weighed nothing at all and once more the orgasm he gave me was mind shattering. I felt like I was floating and my mind was elsewhere. Even as Draven found his release, pumping his seed deep within me, he was brought to his knees with the force of it. He roared up at the ceiling with his wings outstretched and he had never looked more magnificent.

  I felt myself being laid down and even after Draven left me to fetch something and then came back I hadn’t been able to move. I felt him cleaning me and I sucked in the air at the first touch of my now, overly sensitive female area. Once he had finished he lay down next to me and I felt pieces of my hair being pulled from my forehead that were now soaked from sweat. I had a feeling that this new work out was going to mean aching stomach and inner thigh muscles for me tomorrow and I could only hope I didn’t walk like I couldn’t catch a pig in an alley way!

  “Are you alright, are you in any pain?” He asked me running the backs of two fingers down my flushed, rosy cheeks.

  “Wow, when you keep your promises you really keep them!” I opened my eyes finally to see that what I had said must have meant something else to him and I was about to ask but then I stopped myself. I knew when to pick my times in trying to get him to open up and this wasn’t one of them.

  “You were incredible my love.” He told me and I beamed at the compliment.

  “Really?” I asked enthusiastically and he laughed,

  “Trust me, it is not every day a woman can bring a man to his knees after he finds his release. So yes, you were perfect.” Again this had me smiling.

  “Here drink this.” He leaned back and brought a goblet to my lips.

  “What is it?”

  “It’s just water. I don’t want you to get dehydrated and I am not finished with you yet.” He told me winking and my heart skipped a beat…which I knew he had heard from his cocky grin.

  After this we talked, we laughed and exchanged parts of our lives, which must have been hard for Draven knowing that most of what I said ha
d never happened, which is why I tried to keep most of it from the last eight months. Ari’s and my antics amused him, especially when I told him how many times we cleaned the toilets using Celina’s and Aurora’s toothbrushes.

  Draven even managed to salvage some of the bread rolls that had been discarded from the table, as one of them had flown over to one of the Chesterfields and the other I found on a shelf between The History of Politics and Tactics of War. I thought having those two books together was very practical.

  After we had both picked at our recovered baked bounty Draven started to kiss me softly and then tenderly made love to me this time. The whole night was perfect and it was only when I was being carried back to our suite that I realised I must have fallen asleep straight after we came together.

  Everything about it was perfect and in the end, for one of us it turned out to be the most perfect way…

  To say goodbye.

  Draven

  Chapter 47

  Roll of the Dice

  After lowering my Chosen One to our bed I needed to leave. I just needed to get out of here for a time to think. Her comment about keeping promises was as though she had pulled a thread on my heart and it was unravelling fast. Just looking at her right now caused me pain and I didn’t know which was harder, to stay or to leave.

  So in the end I left. I was thankful that our time together had exhausted her enough to sleep heavily, as I didn’t want her waking to find I wasn’t with her. I brushed the shorter parts of her hair back from her forehead and leant down to kiss her soft skin, inhaling her scent once more before I left.

  Everything about her was perfect but the parts I had failed to get her back and the thought of that tore me up inside. What was the point of having all this power and influence in my world if I couldn’t stop things like this from happening? And more importantly what was the point having a damn Oracle when she caused half of the problems set against us. It still played on my mind how both Keira and I had been played like royals on a chess board. Ones used simply to gain other pieces for the game…the game named The Prophecy.