Page 6 of Centaur Bolt

Aurora didn’t even glance at him. She pushed her hood back and scanned me. “Isobel is looking for you.”

I gazed into her alluring face, and my heart twisted. She’d been with me as I explored my new powers. Taught me everything. How much had she known about this?

“I wanted to take a walk,” I said. No point in pretending that this wasn’t odd for me because she already knew I’d been upset as of late.

“Next time, take me with you,” she said. “It’s dangerous out here.”

“Yeah. Just found a body,” I said. Deliberately did not add that he had been alive until I’d touched him. “Why does Isobel want me?”

Aurora straightened, eyeing me. “She got Marcus. Brock’s gone to pick him up.”

My heart stuttered.No.However, all I said was, “How did she manage that?”

“Nabbed his daddy,” Finn smirked. “His life for Marcus’s.”

So that’s what she’d been up to. She’d been secretive as of late, no longer telling me these things. It took everything I had to keep the rage buried. Now that I knew the truth, I saw Isobel and her coven for what they truly were.

Evil.

Now she’d reclaimed Marcus.

“She’ll want you to help control him once Brock brings him back,” Aurora said.

“Why didn’t she just knock him out?” I asked. It seemed foolhardy, bringing him in fully aware.

“It might only knock the human part out of the equation and release what is inside him.”

Okay, good point. I knew what was inside Marcus. We didn’t want it running free without his human at the helm.

Aurora sidled up to me. “Why haven’t you fed? Your essence is sadly depleted.”

I had fed twice tonight, but not on the usual fodder. There was nothing left because I had used what I’d accumulated to kill.

I sensed her gathering the bloodpower within her, and my inner beast rose eagerly. So when she pressed her body to mine, and her hands slipped up beneath my cloak to stroke me, I let it slip free. My pheromones permeated the night air.

“Be quick.” Her voice was hoarse with lust.

It wasn’t just lust that drove me this time. The rage rose within me, and to my horror, I transferred it to Aurora. I had no control over my actions as I grabbed her by the throat, lifting her and slamming her against the damp brick in the alley.

Instead of wincing, her eyes lit with an inner fire. Her lips opened as I wrenched her cloak up, and then the gown beneath it.

Even pinned as she was, her fingers scrabbled at my laces, releasing me with a long, squeezing stroke. She lifted her legs around my waist, and I shoved my hips up beneath her, finding the heat I sought and taking her with a single, piercing thrust.

Aurora cried out, but her lips curled into a smile as my fingers tightened around her creamy throat. She pulled her gown to the side, exposing the swell of her full breast, and then used my hair to yank my lips down to it. I sank my teeth into her flesh as I rutted her like a wild animal, there in that disgusting alley.

Finn’s eyes glowed crimson as he watched, one hand busy at his crotch. My inner Satyr drank deeper with every vicious thrust, feeding from both her and him. The lust was so entwined with the bloodmagic that it fogged my brain in hues of red.

Aurora uttered little moans, lost in my power. Behind us, Finn groaned, “Yeah, that’s it. Fuck her hard.”

My Satyr had crossed a line I didn’t want to contemplate. Aurora moaned and twisted as she tightened around me, and then cried out as I let it all go. Finn yelled as he sprayed the wall beside us. Bathed in the waves of ecstasy that coursed through both of them, I sucked every iota of the power so freely offered.

I opened my eyes and met hers. Consumed by lust, her lips still curled into a smile. As I slid free from her, I fought a wave of nausea. The bloodpower coursed through me. I would need it, for whatever was to come.

I released her, and turned away to lace up my breeches.

“Niiice,” drawled Finn, rearranging his own clothing.

I ignored him and led the way out of the alley. Aurora hurried to catch up, taking my arm and pushing her body into my space as we walked. Once out on the street, Finn eyed the town residents with a hunger that twisted my gut.

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