Page 47 of Hers to Rule

There was a moment of resistance, and once she pulled back the first layer of magic that protected them, she realized that these wards hadn’t been made by her father at all. This power was as ancient as the land under her feet. It writhed and seethed at her touch. She moaned as she felt the vastness of it rushing around her. It wanted, the same way she did.

Mari stroked her clit to the beat of the magic around her. She had no idea how long it went on because time no longer had meaning. Nothing did except the sensation and the wanting. She felt the wards stretch toward her and crest, and she had no choice but to let the magic take her. Her whole body shuddered with the force of her orgasm.

Whatever nameless force had made these wards was what the city of Las Vegas had been built to contain, to harness, the same way this house had been built to contain her. She had been feeding them for nearly twenty years and had never been aware of their presence, they were buried so deep. But oh, how they craved her touch, her essence, even though they weren’t truly aware of her.

The rumbling purr of Cisco’s approval warned her an instant before he started to turn her chair. She opened her eyes and saw him standing above her, wanting her, the same way whatever was in the wards did. She spread her thighs, and he was on his knees before she could take another breath. He lifted one leg over his shoulder, taking a moment to kiss the spot on her inner thigh where his mark was as he dragged her hips closer.

He devoured her, utterly and completely, his clever tongue leaving her a gasping, quivering mess as she came over and over again. She held on to his horns for dear life and rode his face until there was nothing left to give him, until she was so spent she couldn’t move, could scarcely breathe.

He nuzzled her once more to make sure she was done and, when she didn’t respond, settled his head on her thigh with a satisfied sigh. “I don’t know what that was, except that it wasn’t about me at all.”

Mari took a long slow breath. “I finally got inside the wards. I had to seduce them, I guess.”

“Seduce who? Not that I’m complaining. That was a hell of a ride.” He grinned and bit her thigh gently.

“There’s something under the city, like inside the Earth. It’s why they built all this here, I think. They could feel the well of power, even if they weren’t really aware of it.”

“That sounds ominous.”

She ran one hand through his hair, catching her fingers in his curls. “I honestly don’t know if it is or not. My power is hooked into them, and I’ve been feeding them, but I’m not sure what would happen if I stopped or what feeding them does.”

“So we get to keep having lots of hot sex indefinitely to feed an ancient entity we know nothing about.” He chuckled. “That seems fine.”

She laughed with him for a few seconds. “Well, hopefully, the sex witch Esmé hooked us up with will be able to help me figure it out. I can get inside now, but I still really have no idea what I’m doing.”

“By the way, whatever you were doing with whatever that is made the whole house vibrate.”

“Fuck. Really?”

“You were really putting out the sexy vibes too. Felt them in my office through the spell barrier.”

Mari sighed, utterly mortified. “Well, that’s embarrassing.”

“Perils of living with a sex witch.” Cisco shrugged. “Not sure how much farther it would have traveled. We’ll just stay in here for a while and give everyone else a chance to work it out if they want to.”

“Guess that means no one will probably come by to bother us for a while.” She reached to caress his horn. “In case you have something you want to work out.”

“Maybe.” He rubbed his cheek against her thigh. “Tell me what you were thinking about when you made the house shake.”

“Rio. I started thinking about how he makes me feel when he’s kissing me.”

“Mmm. One of my top two favorite mouths, for sure.” He stood slowly, lifting her out of her chair as he went and sitting her on the edge of the desk. Cisco leaned to kiss Rio’s mark where her neck met her shoulder. “What else?”

“How he likes to touch me when he’s kissing me. How he makes me feel undone, like I can’t take another minute of his mouth but I don’t want him to stop either.” She felt warm thinking about it again, especially with Cisco watching her with so much desire in his expression.

“The first time I kissed him, I knew he would be mine.” Cisco reached under her skirt and pulled down her panties, sliding them all the way down her legs slowly. “Felt that way about you too.”

She blushed, enjoying the way her skin heated in response to his praise. “I kissed people before you, but none of them ever made me feel the way you do. Like you’re possessing me.”

He smiled as he pulled the straps of her camisole down so that her tits came free. “Flatterer.” He put one hand on each of her knees and pushed them wide, exposing her completely. “Stay there.”

Mari leaned back on her hands so she could keep the position easier, knowing that offered her tits to him in a way he liked. He palmed them with both hands, stroking his thumbs much too softly over her nipples and teasing the piercings with the lightest touch.

She arched up into him, trying to tempt him into increasing the intensity. “I love it when Rio touches my tits. There’s so much reverence in his caress.”

Cisco grinned enough to show his fangs and ran his thumbs over her nipples again, harder this time, flicking the piercings with his claws. “Sometimes, I bounce you around a lot just to watch him watching them.”

“I’ve noticed.” When he hooked his talons into the rings in her nipples and pulled gently, she moaned and had to concentrate not to squirm. “It makes me so hot when you do things to me because you know he likes it.”

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