Page 41 of Monster's Obsession

“Fuck yeah,” Tempest snarled.

“I’m game.” Steele grinned.

“Let’s prepare you a hot bath first,” Creed said softly, and somehow we all disentangled from one another, slick and cum running down my inner legs. I’d need another quick shower before the bath. I might have liked cum inside me, but I didn’t fancy it floating in my bath.

“Do you think it worked?” I asked. “That we fed everyone?”

“I really hope so, but I’ll go find out for sure.” My king collected me into his arms and kissed my lips. “Rest, and I'll get a tub brought up to your room.”

When he climbed off the bed, I grabbed a pillow, hugging it to my chest. Tempest was collecting his clothes off the floor and offered me a lopsided smile. “Well, I’m off then.” The distance bothered me, and you’d think after all this time of him pulling away, I’d be used to it. Except, lately, he confused me with the conflicted look always on his face, something that made no sense to me.

Once Tempest wandered out of the room, I pushed myself to the edge of the bed. “Can Steele and I talk for a bit privately? Can you give us some time?”

“I think it’s time,” Steele admitted, heartfelt emotions whirling behind his eyes. He moved toward me, and my heart fluttered because I had a million questions for him. Things I needed to understand that only he could answer.

But Creed already grabbed him by the arm, dragging him to the door. “Maybe later,” was all he said before hauling him out the door.

I got to my feet. “Creed, that’s not fair,” I called out. “I need to know what’s going on. Please.”

But he didn’t seem to hear me, or perhaps he chose not to, because they were gone in a flash, and the door shut behind him with a bang.

What the hell was that about? I screamed out of pure frustration.

I was getting really fucking tired of being kept in the dark, and I rushed to the door, wrenching it open to find the hall completely empty. Not even a sound to let me know which direction they’d gone.

Fuck!

CHAPTER 10

BLAKE

Later never came.

Instead, I awoke abruptly to someone shaking my shoulder. Opening my eyes, I stared at a woman with the palest face and what appeared to be white tentacles flowing from her head as though they were dreadlocks. My initial impression was that she was a cross between Medusa and a ghoul.

“Do I know you?” I asked croakily, slightly alarmed. Monsters in the Shadowburn realm never went about anything in a way I’d consider common sense. So there had to be a reason for her being in my face and in my room.

“Girl, you must get up, the carriage is waiting for you outside.” She spoke in a sing-song way that sounded almost soothing, and maybe that was why I felt calmer than I should.

I blinked at this beautiful monster with golden eyes, my mind and heart racing. “What carriage? What’s going on?”

Before she responded, I shoved the blankets aside and scrambled out of bed, realizing very quickly I was completely nude. So with one of Creed’s shirts still discarded on the floor, I grabbed it and slipped it on as I hurried to the window that overlooked the front of the castle. His musky, sexy scent from the shirt overwhelmed me, and it also reminded me that I was still pissed at him for dragging Steele out of my room when I begged him to let us talk.

From my window, I spotted an old-fashioned carriage in front of the castle. Black as the night, it had spear-like decorations protruding upward from around the roof, and in front of it, four oversized beasts beat their hooves into the stone floor. They were stocky and the size of water buffaloes, their pelts the color of a stormy sky.

Twisting back around, I quickly noticed there were actually two women in my room, both identical, and they had no legs that I could see. Only dozens of white tentacles that they stood on, while others moved across their bodies like slithering snakes, and every now and then I caught a glimpse of something flesh pink underneath. The taller woman slinked across the room and pushed open the bathroom door.

“I hear humans have a need to relieve their bowels after waking. I suggest you hurry up as you may not get the chance to once we leave.”

My head spun with too many questions, while fear zipped down my spine. “Where am I going? Where’s Creed?” For all I knew, I was about to be kidnapped by angry Wyld monsters for not feeding them enough. Except, would they really care about me using the toilet first?

“It’s the Red Battle, human girl,” the smaller woman said, sounding slightly disgruntled. “It begins shortly, and many in the city are rushing to the Cliffs of Doom to find out if he’s guilty or not.”

“The what? Who’s guilty?" My gaze swung between them and landed on the woman holding the bathroom door open, one of her tentacles tapping the floor impatiently. “Hurry into the bathroom and I’ll tell you,” she said with exasperation.

I took the chance and moved fast into the bathroom. I didn’t need a shower, considering I’d had a bath right before I went to sleep. But I would brush my teeth and, as the monster put it, “relieve my bowels”.

As I went about my morning routine super quickly, I listened to the woman’s musical voice from the door she hadn’t fully shut.

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