Page 11 of Midnight Kingdom

“It’s not my manner to question a blessing, so let's keep moving,” Cambion says as he then turns to Eilish. “You’ll soon need to act the part of maid and gain access to the North Tower.”

She simply nods and gives him a smile that says she’s ready for her role.

CHAPTER THREE

EILISH

The Castle in the Sky

The heels of my boots click on the marble floors of the palace that lead to the entry to the North Tower where we should find the Midnight Queen. I steel my courage and glance down at my maid’s uniform as I smooth the apron in place and remind myself that I can do this.

Patrolling the Midnight Queen’s prison are two soldiers. They aren’t gargoyles, but they appear to be demons—owing to their long and curving horns. Regardless, Pyre’s enchantment clearly hasn’t worked on them.

I can only hope my Succubus powers of persuasion will. If I can defeat these two soldiers, I can gain access to the keys one of them wears around his waist. Then I’ll be able to unlock the door and allow the others access to the North Tower, where the Midnight Queen is imprisoned.

Up ahead, the two demon guards sniff the air and cast their gazes toward me. The Succubus is already swirling through me and she fills the room with the scent of my need. The soldiers are quick to respond.

One licks his lips while the other noses me on the air, at the same time he reaches for his weapon.

Succubus,I say to myself.Now’s your time to shine.

I feel something strong, proud and powerful rising within me and I smile inwardly.

I raise my hands high in a motion of supplication, lifting my breasts as I sashay towards them. “No need to worry,” I say in a voice that sounds foreign. My tone is syrupy sweet, flirtatious, and unlike my voice. “I’ve just come to clean the bed linens.”

My eyelashes flutter against the highpoints of my cheeks and the flush on my face causes their arousal to grow thick in their trousers. As much as they can smell my need, I can also smell theirs. It takes everything within me to focus on my task at hand. If the Succubus had her way, I’d be sitting on top of each of them, taking turns filling myself with their seed.

I cast my gaze down to the sizeable bulges in their pants and feel sweat glistening on my skin like dew on the leaves at dawn.

Be strong,I tell myself.Focus on freeing Morrigan, Eilish.

It’s not an easy order because the Succubus wants these men as much as they want her. But, I have to contain that need—for the time being. And I make that promise to her. She will have her time to feed but now is not right. Now, we have a mission and it’s an important one.

“What do you want?” one of them growls in a low voice. Clearly, he wasn’t paying attention when I said I was here to change out the bed linens.

“What doyouwant?” I return the question and pull the hemline of my skirt up my thighs so they can see the tops of my milky skin and the garter belts that attach to my stockings.

I hear a low growl as I walk closer to the two mountainous soldiers. Their large, curling horns are perfect to grip and as one of them grabs me, pulling me into his erection, I do just that—wrap my hands around his horns as he lifts me and pushes his hips forward, grinding against me. I wrap my legs around him while I hold onto his horns.

“Naughty soldier,” I say as I shake my head and smile up at him. The words aren’t mine—they belong to the Succubus and she’s fully in charge. And that’s just as well, because were this duty left to the angel within me, she would surely fail it.

A pained moan escapes the demon guard as he cups my rear and further grinds against me. He squeezes my ass and I gasp as the second demon pulls me away from the first and then shoves me against the wall, gripping each of my ankles as he lifts my legs and then spreads them, pushing his wide hips between them. They disgust me, yes, but my body needs pleasure. It needs to feel the thick length of their cocks sliding into me in a painful yet delicious…

Blood sprays across my face as one of the guards’ heads rolls onto the ground. The other demon’s eyes go wide in shock as he looks down and sees a blade jutting out from his chest. The tip of the blade is maybe an inch from my sternum. He drops to his knees as Dragan places his foot on the demon’s shoulder and kicks him off the end of his sword.

Then he faces me with a fury in his eyes I’ve never seen before. “You looked like you were ready to fuck them right here,” he growls at me as he grips me around the upper arm and yanks me forward.

“I was supposed to play the part and I did,” I argue, still shocked by his anger and the massacre I just witnessed.

“You weren’t supposed to enjoy playing the part,” he spits back at me as he faces the door before us. Before I can respond and defend myself, he opens his mouth as he scents me in the air. “Control it,” he barks as he turns his furious eyes back to me. “Fucking control it!”

“I can’t,” I respond while I feel the Succubus rising up within me once again. She wants Dragan and she wants him right here and right now.

Cambion walks up behind Dragan and takes his sword, wiping the blood of the first demon from it as he curls his lip at me. “Well done,” he says and I can see the tension in his words as he fights against the seductive aura coming off me in waves.

I struggle to gain control over my body, over the Succubus, but the hunger is like a fever, a fire beneath my skin that causes every nerve to itch. Flumph hands me his water canteen and I gulp down the cool liquid until some of the fire dwindles a bit. “Breathe, Pretty, ya gotta breathe!”

I close my eyes and nod as I take his advice to heart and breathe in deeply for a count of three and then breathe out again. When I open my eyes, Flumph grabs my face and studies me.

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