Page 68 of Blood of the Sirens
My hands balled into fists at my side. I didn’t want to leave, but it was getting unsafe to stay. One last glance, then.
That’s when the water rippled just slightly, out toward the open ocean. I watched closely, but it didn’t move like a gator. Hustling out of the water, I grabbed an oar just in case, though I knew it was a laughable defense if it was one of theothermers.
Relief flooded my body as Caspian’s head broke the surface of the water, his eyes so dark I could barely see them in the waning light. A grin broke across my face, and I hopped into my kayak. He frowned at it, a question in his eyes. I waved my arm in the universal gesture for ‘follow me,’ then took off down the waterway.
I made it fifty yards before he bumped the back of the kayak, grabbing the back of it with both hands. The front of my kayak lifted out of the water for a moment at the sudden shift of weight, and I held on as he propelled us forward at twice the speed I’d been going.
Memories of Merrick doing the same overwhelmed me.
When my house appeared in the distance, I turned around and tapped Caspian on the head, pointing. He nodded and slowed his pace. Together, we got the kayak tied back up again, and I sat on the edge of the dock.
We stared at each other.
Then he lunged, launching his body at the wooden dock and pinning me to the wood.
TWENTY-TWO
Merrick
Darkness was everywhere.It suffocated me. It bled into my nose and ears, and my mouth. I breathed it in, and it wound around my heart and squeezed.
In my isolation, there was only one point of light. She was there with her beautiful voice and fingertips reaching out. I’d do anything for her. She owned me.
Fingers stroked down my tail provocatively in a way I’d never felt before. I shuddered, eyes snapping open, but there was nothing to see.
All was black.
“Come now. Come to me.”
Jesse didn’t need to ask; she never needed to ask. I would do whatever she wanted. My body floated toward her, the darkness parting just enough for me to see a small pile of glowing orbs on the ocean’s sandy bottom.
“They’re waiting for you,” she purred, fingertips dancing lighting in the water above them, just grazing and not touching them.
I didn’t know what these orbs were, and it didn’t matter. They were obviously important to Jesse, so they would be important to me, too.
“Caspian is too damaged. He couldn’t do it. But you could, couldn’t you? I just have to get you there.” Her voice in my ear was like heaven, her hands stroking down my tail as we hovered above the orbs. I shivered in delight, my body filled with sensations I’d never felt before.
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“That’s it. That feels good, doesn’t it?”
It did. It feltsogood.
She held onto me, the orbs right next to us as my tail gently touched down on the sand. Her strokes increased in intensity, my body twitching and writhing as it built toward something that was coming closer and closer.…
I couldn’t move, I couldn’t breathe, I could only–
“AH!” I cried out in bliss, my entire body releasing in a wave of endorphins and hormones.
“Yes, my precious. Yesss …”
My eyes snapped open, but Jesse wasn’t looking at me. She was fussing over the glowing orbs, which had a small haze settling over them. And she didn’t really look like herself anymore …
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Before it could bother me any further she turned back to me.
