Page 17 of Knights of Past

“You want romance, we are in a ballroom full of beds, sweetheart, so hurry up and pick one so as I can romance us enough until we both pass out!” At this she threw her head back and started laughing and the sight was so fucking beautiful, I could wait no longer. Something she knew when I released my wings and flew us both across the room and to a spot I thought was perfect for one reason and one reason only.

It was a cage.

Actually, it was a bed with a gold gilded cage around it, so one made even better in my opinion.

“Lucius!” she shouted my name in shock at my abrupt actions, but I just smirked at the idea of getting her inside that cage and locking the fucking door. In fact, I was quickly starting to see the appeal for Adam whenever he decided he needed to lock up Pip in one.

This time instead of just kicking in the door and rendering the point of the cage useless, I opened the door with a thought. Then once inside, I let her feet find the soft fur floor that surrounded the bed that consisted of a large nest of sunset-colored cushions at the center. The theme of the Harem was clearly a nod back to his origins as it looked like some sex themed ancient Persian temple in here.

Speaking of sex themed…

“Wait, Lucius, we need to talk about what happened… with Kala,” Amelia said the moment I put her on her feet, and she started backing away as I stalked her across the hundreds of cushions. Of course, I knew why she said this, caring for my feelings and wanting to do what was right by needing to see if I wanted to talk first about all that had happened.

However, I most certainly did not.

No, right now, all I wanted to do was make love to my woman like a man obsessed who had been starved of that obsession for way too long.

No, what I needed…

All I needed…

Was her.

CAGED BEAST

AMELIA

Lucius continued to stalk towards me, only stopping once he had backed me all the way up until I felt the bars of the cage at my back. Then he gripped those same bars high above my head and lowered his forehead to mine before whispering my name in a pained way,

“My Amelia.”This was in response to what I had asked him about his time in Heaven, making it clear it was something he didn’t want to talk about. I knew that without him even saying it, as his eyes started to seep into crimson fire before his words followed,

“Not yet… I need you… I just need to be with you…I fucking crave you.”I sucked in a quick breath at the growl of this last statement before he unexpectedly raised up both his hands. I questioned why he did this for a single heartbeat before it suddenly dawned on me. Because I now realized how this was going to be different from all other times before.

“You have no idea how many times I have wished…been near fucking desperate… to get to feel every inch of you with both my hands and now…well now, you get to see just what we have both been missing out on,”he said as he used them to run his leather-free hands down to my own, before shackling my wrists with his fingers and raising them up above me. Just the feel of finally being skin to skin with both of his hands had me shivering in anticipation at the picture he painted in my mind.

I soon found myself glad I had decided to forgo the metal gloves my father had made me. Because well, let’s just say that after the first day wearing them, I couldn’t scratch myself without making it look like I had pissed off a very angry cat.

Which meant my own hands were now free for Lucius to hold above me, entwining his fingers with mine as he lowered his head and purposely kept himself from kissing my lips. I knew he was teasing me, his bad boy smirk said it all, especially when he got what he wanted when I was forced to arch my neck all the way back just so our lips would meet. However, he was clearly still in a mind to tease me. I knew this when he started simply licking the seam of my lips before they opened as if he had just whispered the magic words,open sesame.

I swear I was like some sex-starved hussy by the time he finally gave me mercy, for his tongue was soon dipping inside and dueling with mine. A connection that quickly thrust me into some needy sex realm, like I was suddenly like a bitch in heat trying to get free just so I could bury my fist in his hair. In fact, I knew I was stronger now as I started to push back against his hold, making him pull back and raise a brow down at me.

“Ah but I almost forgot. You are not my breakable little mortal any longer, are you?”

“No, I am not…so what you going to do about it, Vampire?”I challenged, making him grin down at me the same time his eyes flashed an even deadlier shade of red, as if I was now looking into twin moons soaked in blood. That was when his entire body started to change before me, growing in size as well as giving me that unrestrained version of himself, and soon I was faced with…

His Demon.

I sucked in a sharp breath in fright, making him smirk as if my reaction only fed this side of him. My eyes widened as I took in all those rippling muscles that were slowly being revealed as he made his clothes evaporate. Like this, he was even bigger than he usually was and had muscles in places I didn’t even know existed. Lines, groves, and crevices of hard flesh I just wanted to map with my tongue, a thought that had me near panting.

The black network of veins started to pulsate beneath his pale skin, making him look truly Demonic, and I watched in shock as they started to branch out around his blazing red eyes. It was like staring into the darkness and find a single fire burning. He looked sinister and utterly terrifying, and he knew it, as he lowered his head further, challenging me right back when this time, it was his Demon that spoke.

“Scared, little queen?”

At this I decided to show him who it was he was messing with, even though I had to try my best to mask how truly intimidated I was. So, despite still having my wrists held in his Demonic clutches above me, hands that were now tipped with deadly claws and were considerably bigger than what they usually were, I reached up on my tiptoes. Then, as best as I could, I got in his face and showed him what I was made of.

“Bring it, Vampy!”I snarled back, making him grant me a menacing grin, his fangs lengthening at the sight. Then he nudged the side of my cheek with his nose before speaking straight into my cheek.

“Good girl,”he praised before I felt something traveling up his arms and over my skin, like thick, slithering, liquid snakes. I then looked up above me, trying to see what it was he was doing until I felt whatever it was begin to harden over my flesh. Once it was done, he obviously felt free enough to remove his hold on me, clearly assured that I was going nowhere. His dark essence had formed over my hands, encasing them and locking them to the bars above, and it took me back to when he had restrained me the last time when finding me in his Demonic bed chamber. Clearly having me tied up was a big kink for Lucius and well, my only complaint was that, like this, I couldn’t touch him as I craved to do.

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