Page 96 of Her Psycho Beasts

On some primitive instinct, I bend down and pick her up, my hands cupping her hips. On her own instinct, her legs wrap around my waist, her hands coming around my shoulders.

Without warning, she rips out the dart and slams her mouth over my neck. I let out a groan, completely involuntary and wanton. Aurelia’s lips against my skin are velvet and soft, yet the pressure she’s applying is deliciously firm and determined. My hands slip around to cup her ass, giving her a seat and keeping her core close to me.

I know how well she can suck. Know how well she likes to suckme, and even here, with poison threatening my life, I can only think of her lips, her tongue, the movement of her thumbs around my neck, stroking our mating mark as if to reassure me. Her power bleeds through her mouth, oozing into my skin and penetrating the muscle, the vessels. It neutralises the poison and brings with it a pleasant sensation that goes right to my cock. My eyes flutter shut and I sway a little before slamming a hand against the wall and righting myself, keeping us upright. Her pussy pulses against my lower stomach, her heart rate jack-hammering against my chest.

Aurelia groans, her legs tightening around my hips, and I squeeze her flush against me.

“Let’s go,” Lyle says, suddenly striding past, the faint smell of blood lingering behind him.

“It won’t hurt her to swallow that?” Savage asks, stopping to peer at us.

“I’m immune to all venom,”Aurelia says into our minds.

“Okay, well…walk and suck,” Savage says, prodding me in the shoulder.

I tighten my arms around Aurelia and start walking, blinking hard to bring the world back into focus. My cock is hard and straining. Without the zipper of my regular business pants, obviously so.

“Almost done.”Her voice is husky in my mind.

A pang of disappointment syphons through my core as I follow my brothers down the corridor.

I can tell the exact moment that the venom is gone, but Aurelia doesn’t stop sucking. She’s consuming a little bit of my blood now, tasting it in the same way I’d once tasted her.

And although the shark in me thrashes, begging to take over, begging to make me mindless and empty our balls into her against this very stone wall, I ask quietly, “Are you a vampire now?”

She releases her vacuum on my neck with a slight pop, and when I turn to look at her, those perfect lips are wet, swollen and bright pink. A thing of dreams. A thing of nightmares.

Slowly, so slowly, I lower her down to the floor. “Thank you,” I say, suddenly unable to resist and kissing her lightly on the lips.

Her cheeks bloom pink before she whirls around and hurries after my brothers, my eyes tracking every movement of the parts of her body that I’d so reluctantly let go.

Her invisibility shield falling around our group feels like a warm blanket settling around my back. I’m still amazed by her ability to do this so effortlessly. The fact that she’d been doing it for years under her father’s instruction to do his work for him.

Now she’s using these very skills against his entire institution. I wonder if that angers him. Because not only is she using them, but she’s using them well. Xander has always thought of Aurelia as clumsy, but the truth is that she wields her power with the grace of the Wild Goddess herself. It’s clear she’s had a handle on it for some time, and clearer still that it came about from being under constant duress.

“I’m sniffing out the sciency stuff,”Savage says from ahead. Eugene is on his shoulder, his tiny beak raised, sniffing the air too.

“What is sciency stuff exactly?”Lyle asks. It’s funny how, not that long ago, he and Savage hated each other.

“You know, plastics and medicines and lab coats. Hand sanitiser. Blood.”

“Good bet,”Aurelia says.“Which way?”

We’ve come to a space with a staircase leading down on the right and a corridor leading left.

Savage heads down the stairs without another word.

None of us like this. The further down we go, the more difficult it will be to extract ourselves and Athena Boneweaver back out.

Lyle lets me pass him so he once again takes the rear as we’d planned, subtly sniffing me as if to check for the presence of poison. An air of satisfaction appears in his aura when he can’t find any of the offending substance.

We’re about halfway down this set of stairs when we hear low voices up ahead. Even with Aurelia’s scent shield surrounding us, the scent of serpent has been thick this entire time, so we knew there were people down here, attending to their prescribed nefarious duties.

Because nothing good ever happened in a beast’s home that had to be hidden in the dark, and these serpents are careful.

In our surveillance of the Naga mansion, it had taken us months to identify the employees coming in and out. Marduk and I realised that Mace had his peopleliving down here for extended periods of time. They came in and out of black vans, the same staff on a rotating roster that varied between one and six weeks. That told me Mace was paranoid. He knows the possibility of people watching him is high, and so he keeps the movements of his staff unpredictable.

Thus, we expected to come across staff workspaces.

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