17. Hadi

Chapter 17

Hadi

T here was something infuriating about having a physical body while my companions behaved as though they were in heat.

There was little that separated us nocs from our fully animal counterparts, and I used to thrive on that. In my palace, there had been room for any behavior, even copious fucking. I had an entire wing for that. Just as I had a dungeon relegated to torture, I had rooms set aside for sex. It was just part of our nature, and I liked that part of us that lived for pleasure.

Over the years, Bracken had been somewhat obsessed with his little pet, Clem, dragging him along everywhere with him. I had taken whoever I wanted when the mood struck, whereas Kiar had been pickier.

We had always taken the time to enjoy ourselves and it had never been an issue.

But I could not wrap my head around how this had happened.

Sun, the human, practically owned the other three. I did not know if they saw it the way that I did, but it was sickening.

They were wrapped around his finger so tightly that I could not imagine them ever coming loose. I had been watching from the shadows in the prison, I had seen it all develop, but I did not understand.

What was this hold he had over them?

Would it fade when the tether was broken? Or would I be forced to kill the only servants who had fought for me?

Frowning, I watched Bracken kneel down for Sun to use his knee as a stool. The terrain was rockier now and growing steeper with every hour. Sun stepped onto it like it was his god given right and reached up to the ledge above to hoist himself the rest of the way.

I snorted.

He was weak. Clem had insisted that Sun’s stamina and strength was being drained to keep us alive–hence the need for fuel, or mana as he called it, but I wasn’t sure if I believed that.

Regardless of how tired and weak he currently felt, any noc could climb the mountain unassisted. I did not understand what was so special about Batu Sun. Was it his dark, piercing eyes that seemed to see straight through you, sometimes glinting green from our power and bond with growing frequency? Or was it his sensuous body? One that was so open to any pleasures offered to it.

At the top, Sun reached down, gripping Kiar’s hand to help him climb up next.

How absolutely ridiculous. Especially since Kiar grabbed it, allowing the assistance.

“Watching you pretend you cannot scale a hill is the most pathetic sight I have ever seen,” I couldn’t help but announce.

Kiar glowered but would not look at me.

“Are you so desperate for any touch from the noc killer. ” I emphasized the words in case they had forgotten.

I was sick and tired of watching them all cuddle and fuck as though there was nothing more important at hand. Unless… Were they making the most of the time they still had together? How laughably sentimental.

Sun glared down at me.

“Don’t be so jealous,” he said, smirking.

My brows lowered.

“I hope you are joking,” I sneered. “What reason would I have to be jealous of someone who will give their body to anyone .”

“Anyone but you,” he retorted.

I drew back as though I had been slapped.

The easy comeback hit me hard for some baseless reason. I didn’t want Batu Sun’s affections. I did not want to share his body with my subordinates. I wasn’t interested.

Yet his words made me fume.

Clenching my fists, I leaped into the air, landing on the ledge beyond him.

“If you were really worthy of your title, you would not need the assistance of the very beings you claim to be stronger than, just to climb a hill.”

I saw the moment my words hit him. The way his eyes darkened and fury filled him was more satisfying than anything I had experienced since coming back to the physical plain.

Getting a reaction from the human was somehow even more satisfying than tearing Kovit, limb from limb.

“Come on Sun,” I heard Clem say behind me. I did not look back, but the pace slowed, and I knew that Batu Sun was no longer accepting help. My words had bothered him. Glee filled me. I could not wipe the smirk from my face.

When I finally looked back, Batu Sun was indeed climbing on his own, avoiding any assistance. His jaw was clenched, and a sheen of sweat clung to his skin.

The moment he felt my gaze, he glared up at me.

My grin grew but the amusement I felt from finding a way to get under Batu Sun’s skin faded by evening. The blood moon was in three nights, but our group was too tired to carry on.

I could have continued and believed that Kiar and Bracken would have as well, but the human and the mothian shivered as the temperature began to drop with our ascension into the mountainous region.

It was cold, but I was not too bothered by it. We had been given surprisingly temperate weather over the last few days after the initial snap of winter cold. I hadn’t felt it then since I’d yet to have my body, but I had watched the others shivering and shaking from the cold.

“What are you doing?” Sun suddenly demanded.

I glanced at them to find him glowering at Clem who shifted awkwardly.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Clem said, not meeting his gaze. What a terrible liar.

“You are keeping me warm with magic, aren’t you?” Sun demanded, furious.

“I just want you to be comfortable,” he said weakly.

“It’s draining you,” Sun snapped. “Don’t do it again. I’m fine. ”

Huffing, he walked away, looking annoyed by his moth’s desire to care for him. Like he was Sun’s master…

Hm… what an interesting idea.

They were all so ridiculous together. It was like watching rats trying to organize. And they had no respect for my opinions which was a disgusting fact in itself.

I knew that moving would be the best thing to battle the cold, but the others seemed to think that bundling up together was a better option.

Then I remembered that they had other ways to keep warm.

Tonight, Batu Sun climbed onto Kiar as though he owned him, and I knew that he did . I watched from the ledge above as he slowly lowered himself onto the naga’s cock.

My lip curled in distaste, but I watched despite myself. He enjoyed sex so much that it was like he needed it to live. His passion for more was limitless.

My gaze fixed on Batu Sun’s body as he moved.

He rolled his hips back and forth, as fluid as waves in water. His head fell back, and lips parted as he gasped for air.

After a minute, he lifted onto his knees and then, when he went down again, it was to take both of Kiar’s cocks inside him.

They both cried out in pleasure.

Were all humans like this? Was it only Sun? Or was it only because it was a noc that he was fucking? Did he enjoy how wrong it was? There were those who delighted in doing things they shouldn’t. Perhaps Sun was one of them. Perhaps he had fucked as many nocs as he had killed over the years.

I could not imagine other humans being so reckless with where they sought their pleasure. I had never heard of our kinds mixing before.

Kiar’s hands tangled in Sun’s long hair, and he groaned, releasing inside his human lover–so quickly. I would have taken my time. I would have made it unbearable for Sun before reaching my release–

I shook the thought away. What was I thinking? I was not like them. I would not partake in blurring the lines between us and our enemies.

Squeezing my eyes shut, I turned my face away, determined to ignore them, but a shout from Sun made them snap open again.

He was bent down on his knees now, and Bracken was inside him.

I swallowed as saliva suddenly pooled in my mouth.

I hadn’t seen this yet. How could Sun’s small hole take such a large cock? He was stretched wide, but his face was flushed and his cries as the brute banged against his hole was full of nothing but pleasure.

It took me a moment to notice Clem wiggling to get underneath him.

He positioned his own cock under Sun’s face and from what I could see, took Sun’s neglected cock into his mouth.

Sun gasped raggedly and his eyes flew open.

Suddenly, it was like I had been placed into a trap without knowing it because his face lifted, and gaze landed on me as though he’d known I was watching all along.

With a sly smile, Sun licked the length of Clem’s cock and then took it into his mouth.

I was shaking, anger and arousal pumping through my veins because he had done this on purpose! That dirty bastard. He’d wanted to make a show about all the things he would do with the others. As though to say, look at what you cannot have.

I wanted to march away in anger, but I couldn’t bring myself to look away.

My body flushed with desire, my cock growing so hard and so large that I could not stop myself from gripping it in two fists and pumping.

Liquid seeped from the shiny black tip, slicking my length as I added another hand, squeezing tight as I watched Sun’s hole stretch around Bracken’s dark purple cock.

He could take me. His small body would feel so good impaled upon me. I would make him scream. I would punish him with my cock.

I took a shuddering breath, imagining Sun screaming my name.

His voice echoed over the valley as he ejaculated into Clem’s willing mouth and in my head, it was me that had brought him there.

Cum splashed from my tip. I bit my tongue hard to remain silent as tremors of pleasure ran through my body. It was the first release I’d had since awakening from my shadow form, brought on by the fantasy of a human. The very one I planned to kill as soon as I could.

It would have been pathetic but the way my body tingled with satisfaction made it hard to be annoyed.

I chanced a glance back down to find them all disentangling enough only to sleep, and a strange feeling washed over me.

Betrayed and insignificant. Both were emotions that I was unfamiliar with yet faced with ever since my revival.

Resentment was more familiar and that is what settled over me next. Batu Sun deserved to die, for who he was and for betraying his people by lying willingly with nocs.

But perhaps before I killed him, I could fuck him too. Maybe I could dangle him wrapped up in my webs where he could not get away.

The thought of having the brazen human man tied up so he could not move, unable to fight my cock sliding into him made me rumble with a fresh wave of desire.

I swallowed it down, suddenly realizing that thoughts like these made me no different from Bracken, Kiar or Clem. If I kept thinking with my cock, soon I would be bent to Sun’s will just like the rest of them.

I shut my eyes, pushing the conflicting thoughts down.

Focusing on getting the stone, as I always had, was the best way forward. When the bond between us was broken, then all of us would be free of this desire for Sun.

At least, that was what I hoped.