85. Aurelia

Chapter 85

Aurelia

S avage is still in me as I withdraw from Lyle's cock, swallowing down the last drop of his sweet masculine taste.

Scythe drops to his knees two steps away from us, a pained whisper leaving his lips.

"Scythe?" I say in alarm.

He has his head in his hands and is shaking it from side to side. Lyle goes to him, reaching out a hand to touch Scythe's tattooed shoulder, right over the image of an octopus.

But Scythe leaps to his feet and turns away from us, striding into the dark, a determined beast.

Something flashes through my own mind, a fell, grating scream, the image of infinite darkness…

Nausea floods my stomach, screeching up my throat. I clamber to my feet.

"Leave him, regina," Savage says. "He needs?—"

"I know what he needs!" I snap, whirling around to glare at Savage. "I'm his regina."

Savage levels me a cool look and I immediately regret my words, rushing over to him and wrapping my arms around his neck. Kneeling before me, his face meets my chest as I kiss him on the forehead. "I'm sorry."

My wolf's face brightens immediately. "It's okay, regina."

But that dark feeling still resides in me until Ghoul says from within his shadows, "Interesting."

"Asshole," I shoot at him. "Asshole blob."

Savage snorts between my breasts. "He is a blob."

"Come here and say that, snakelet," Ghoul says, immediately withdrawing his shadows and revealing his towering, lethal form once again.

"Get out of here," I say. I have a bad feeling and Ghoul is making it worse.

The basilisk lord swaggers over to me, making Savage leap up and bare his teeth threateningly. Ghoul makes a shooing motion towards him with one hand, before leaning towards me and saying in a low voice. "You still owe me, regina. And I'll be sure to come calling on that debt." With that, his shadows gather around him and his shape changes into a hulking mass that disappears into the trees.

Goosebumps erupt all over me.

Lyle, from where he was threateningly standing behind me, soothingly rubs my bare arms. I've never forgotten the favour I'd asked Ghoul months ago, when I'd found a serpent tied up and tortured by my mates and hidden in our suite. Natalia had been responsible for kidnapping me, but I'd still asked for her release. It seems hardly fair now, that she was no doubt already known to and allied with Ghoul, but it can't be helped. I agreed to this, and at some stage, he would come calling.

A siren goes off in the distance, telling us that our hour of fun is up. Scythe is likely making his way back already, so Lyle and Savage bundle me between them, leading me through the forest towards one of the many exits that line the field.