31. ~Orpheus~

31

~Orpheus~

Talon had discovered a new kink.

He’d claimed that being here for this had been about making sure things didn’t get completely and utterly out of control like last time, but whether he’d realized it at the time or not, it was clearly about more than that.

He was getting off on it.

And I wasn’t gonna lie, it was turning me the fuck on.

As if having Xavier’s fangs buried deep in my throat wasn’t already sparking that need in me as it was.

It didn’t help that it had been a while since any fucking had occurred, so I was a little… strained… where that was concerned.

But Alena wasn’t ready to go there and none of us were going to put any kind of pressure on her, not even allude to it.

And while Talon and I had spent a lot of time fooling around together in the past, that had kind of dried up since Alena had come along.

Until now, apparently.

For all three of us this time, actually including Xavier.

We were all in a state of extreme stress so it shouldn’t really be a surprise.

I couldn’t take my eyes off Talon sitting in the armchair a few feet from the bed, stroking his cock that he’d pulled out of his pants a few minutes ago.

I slicked my tongue over my lips as I saw pre-cum starting to smear his fingers.

A groan escaped me as I sat slumped against my pillows on my bed while X dug his talons into my shoulders as he lounged right beside me, feeding on me.

While he could get good sustenance from the human blood bags Electi Academy now offered, this was about me taking the edge off for him magic-wise. He was doing much better in that regard, but I had noticed him getting antsy and falling quiet, so I’d stopped it right there before it had been able to go any further—unlike last time—and I’d offered him a taste and a little magic to heat his blood for a few hours.

Picking up on the nature of my groan, he eased his fangs free and regarded me with darkened eyes, his features twisted in his demon form. “You want more?”

I nodded. “Hurt me.”

He smirked, then crooked his finger at Tal.

Tal rose to his feet and yanked off his pants, tossing them on the chair, and eyeing X expectantly.

“Work with me. Pleasure with pain. Our Dark Fae Prince needs to relax and take the edge off.”

“Shit, yeah,” Tal uttered, excitedly, scrambling onto the bed, giving away his need.

He grinned at me slyly as he leaned over and roughly opened my belt.

The hungry look in his eyes burned into mine as he popped the button, then eased down my zipper, before he then yanked my pants off me in one go and tossed them across the room.

“No underwear,” he rumbled. “My favorite.”

He reveled in the sight of my hard cock for a few moments, before a snarl came from Xavier who let some more of his demon side loose and fisted the short tufts of Talon’s hair, then used the hold to shove his face down onto my cock.

I bucked on the bed as he made him deep throat me, wrenching his head back and forth, making him choke on me.

It had Tal going crazy, rubbing his cock all over my thigh and growling as he took me, his tongue swirling wildly.

He liked a little bit of rough every now and then.

But not too much.

And as I saw X, hopped up in his demon state, about to slice his back with the talons of his free hand, I snatched his wrist and dragged them over my chest instead, hissing as he carved deep wounds down the length of my torso.

He devoured me then, slathering his tongue all over the blood trickling over my skin, licking and sucking harshly, the erotic pain combined with Talon’s attentions consuming me in a haze of twisted bliss.

“Fuck… Tal… sit on my cock,” I rasped, clawing at the sheets.

I roared as he ripped his mouth off me, using his teeth on the way up.

Fuck, yes!

“He’s right on the edge,” I heard X tell Tal as he lifted his head after licking up every drop of my blood. “Let’s take him over it.”

Tal grinned, then turned around, his ass facing us.

He looked over his shoulder as he ground it against my shaft, before grabbing the base and taking my cock inside his tight little hole.

A sexy groan left him as he bore down on my crown, letting it split him open.

I watched in rapture as he sank down further and tilted slightly to the side so I could see him grasping his cock as he did and fisting it wildly, his hand moving up and down rapid-fire.

“Ah… good boy… yeah,” I rasped as he took me all the way, his tight ass squeezing my cock so deliciously.

I went to thrust my hips instinctively, but a spark of X’s cobalt magic that was now temporarily active, stilled me, effectively pinning my hips to the bed.

“Hard,” X told him. “Make him lose it.”

The thrill of it just added to everything else and as Tal started riding my cock hard, I was already right there, ready to fucking explode.

X’s fangs suddenly sank into the open wound in my throat again.

I roared out into the room, the intensity of it all taking me over.

He tore into my throat, shredding my flesh, and agony smashed up harshly against ecstasy as Tal bounced on my cock like an unleashed thing.

“Fuck… fuck!” I cried.

“Shit, yeah… that’s it,” Tal gasped.

“Oh, wow!” a familiar voice spoke.

I looked out to see Alena had just stepped through my ward and into my chambers.

X stilled, but only for a moment.

He was too far gone to stop before he’d gained full satisfaction.

And that meant making me lose my shit.

I saw Tal grinning out at her and fisting his cock as he eye-fucked her across the room.

Fuck, this wasn’t… it wasn’t supposed to happen.

The urge to stop it all immediately was right there, but then I saw her eyes hood.

She liked it.

She stood there watching for several moments, before sinking into one of my armchairs and leaning back, settling in and rubbing her sexy thighs together in her denim shorts. She even had a stunning jeweled bralette on beneath an open multicolored kimono. It was the first time in weeks that she hadn’t been wearing oversized sweats all the time.

Her gaze locked with mine and a little smirk played on her lips.

And then Tal clenching around my cock had me throwing my hands out and digging my nails into his ass.

“Yeah, Ore, shit!” He smirked at Alena and picked up his pace, going faster and rougher, while X sucked harder and deeper.

“Fuck!” I yelled, pleasure building and building. “Ah, I’m gonna come!”

X released his magical hold on me.

It hit me in a violent rush, tearing through me, taking my mind and body alike, as I came deep in Tal’s ass, thrashing on the bed.

Tal cursed and undulated on me as he spurted into his hand.

“Mmm, yeah,” X moaned as he pulled his fangs free, obviously having felt my orgasm roll through me. According to him, it made the blood all the sweeter.

He looked completely blissed out and collapsed back onto the bed right beside me.

Tal eased off my cock, then climbed between us and wiped his cum over my mouth.

His eyes shone as I licked my lips and took my fill.

As X and I were sprawled out spent, he jumped back off the bed, snatched up his pants, and pulled them on, while looking out happily at Alena. “Glad you caught the tail end, firecracker?”

“It was one hell of a show.”

“An amazing feed,” X murmured. He took my hand and gave it a squeeze as he turned his head and smiled out at me. “Thank you.”

“Any time,” I told him, giving his hand a squeeze back.

His eyes fluttered closed then, his vampiric features retreating.

And then he was out cold.

“Is he all right?” Alena asked, pushing out of the chair.

I climbed off the bed and fixed my pants back on. “It’s my magic settling in his system. He just needs a few minutes and he’ll rouse awake again.”

“The first time made him hyper, this second’s knocking him out,” Tal commented.

“And you?” she asked, walking to me and Tal. She looked at Tal and the shit-eating grin all over his face. “I know you’re more than good.”

“That I am.”

“A little tired, but I’ll be fine,” I assured her.

“You left me alone for a whole hour. I didn’t see you watching in the back of my Herbs, Healing, and Chlorokinesis class at all.”

“I still had eyes on.”

She thought for a moment. “The Professor?”

“That’s right.”

“But you wanted me to think I was there unsupervised?”

I nodded. “To see how you responded, if you’re ready for me to pull back a little.”

“And?”

“ And I didn’t get a call, so it went well. Now we’ll do it a few more times and see how you fare with that.”

“What about Magic in Combat? Marlowe’s not here, but they’ve got another professor subbing.”

“No. Not yet.”

“You know, standing around and just watching you training the army and being unable to participate… it’s not easy. It doesn’t sit well with me.”

“We knew none of this would be easy, Alena.”

She clenched her fists down by her sides.

Her eyes flamed with her golden power and those awful flecks of black that were there now too.

I readied myself in case I had to call my power to defend against an outburst from her.

But then she sucked in a breath and took a step back. “Okay.”

“Yeah?” I asked carefully.

“Yeah. You’re right. I’m not ready for that. Maybe I won’t be all the while this black magic is inside me.”

“No, you will be. We can work through this, control it. My father managed it for years. But there’s an added complication in your case and it’s triggering it, causing more outbursts than it normally would.”

“I know,” she actually admitted, surprising me. She’d told us what had happened when we’d spent that night out in the woods, but she hadn’t said a word about her own feelings concerning it, she’d just told it like a play-by-play, completely unemotionally.

We hadn’t pushed her, because telling us what had happened, what that monster had done to her, had taken a lot for her as it was.

But the problem was, the black magic running through her veins had a penchant for driving that which we tried to bury to the surface. It used unresolved or painful issues as fuel for its twisted brutality.

“I understand if you’re not ready to—”

She grasped my hand.

A choked gasp left Talon just behind me and I couldn’t say I was above it either. Hell, I was just as shocked as he was.

But she didn’t need that reaction from me.

I didn’t move a muscle as she gingerly ran her fingers over mine, before turning my hand over and softly touching my palm.

As she did the same with the other one, she blinked up at me, her eyes swimming with emotion as she uttered on a strained whisper, “You father showed you what the monster did to me, didn’t he?”

I swallowed hard. “Alena—”

She stepped closer and dropped my hands. “The way you’ve been with me… you saw, didn’t you? You already knew before I told you that night?”

I nodded. “Some of it.”

Tears filled her eyes and I wanted to reach out to comfort her more than anything. In my peripheral vision, I saw Talon itching to do so too. And Xavier had awoken sometime during this and he was sitting up ramrod straight on the bed and looking on, pain all over his face.

“I feel so violated, so ashamed, so disgusted.”

“None of it was your fault. None of it,” I ground out, unable to keep the vehemence from my voice. “He’s a centuries-old Vampire Elder, a renowned manipulator who was using a mass amount of black magic to control you. No one would have been able to overcome that and avoid his control. Not even Elliot and your mom. The fact you survived at all is a fucking miracle, the fact you’re standing here with us, that you’re fighting, trying… it’s a true testament to your strength.”

“And to how special you are, beautiful,” Xavier said, pushing off the bed and coming close to my side, but not enough to infringe on her personal space.

“Word’s been all over the Academy about what a warrior you are,” Tal told her.

“I don’t feel like it.”

“I know,” I told her, sadly. “I know, my little angel.”

She shocked us all then as she collapsed into me and buried her face in my chest, trembling as she sobbed and broke down, finally starting to let it all out.

I carefully wrapped my arms around her and held her as she cried, as she took some comfort, that which she’d been denying since she’d been liberated from that madman’s clutches.

“We’ve got you,” I breathed into her hair. “Through anything. Always, Alena.”