Page 23 of Chaos Demons

I caught him half-dressed, topless, washing his shirt, vest, and jacket, all of which had red stains on them.

“Is that blood?” I asked, worried.

“No, tomato soup. There was a bit of a row over lunch.” He sighed heavily. I could see how tired he was, and I knew he hadn’t been sleeping, working with Melinoe all night long. Any normal man would have passed out from exhaustion long ago, but we daemons could keep going for a while it seemed.

“She needs to go,” I said softly as I drew close to Grey.

With his shirt off and all his gorgeous, tanned, rigid muscles exposed, I couldn’t help myself, I had to touch him.

I ran my hands over his torso, kissing his shoulder. “Melinoe is driving us all mad, and you know it. I know you said you need her to get your void under control. But… is she really helping? Because if she stays another week, I think we’ll all go mad.”

“I’d make better progress if I were rested.” He sighed, shaking his head. “I’m still struggling.”

He turned to me and caught me up in a sudden, heated kiss, his arms tight around me. I responded instantly, my hands continuing to roam his amazing torso as I opened my mouth to his and we lost ourselves in each other for a moment.

He pulled back and whispered, “When you’re with me, near me, everything seems right. I… I don’t want my void. I hate how it feels. But… if I can’t learn to summon it at will, then I wouldn’t be able to protect you or myself if anything were to happen.”

“Do you… need some time… away from me?” I didn’t want that, and I hoped that was clear from how I’d said it.

He shook his head. “No… maybe… I don’t know. I can’t imagine not being close to you anymore. I just need to learn to summon my void when I need it.”

“But… you also don’t want to, because you hate how it feels, and that’s making it hard,” I finished for him, guessing how he felt.

He nodded.

I kissed the rock-hard muscles of his chest. “Well, you need to figure this out, Grey. Because I need you, but I can’t live with Melinoe for much longer.”

“I need you too,” he whispered, lips brushing mine. They continued to brush mine as one of his hands began expertly undoing the buttons of my blouse. The other hand curved over my butt then began bunching up my skirt.

Heat blossomed in my chest, seeping into my limbs and sinking heavily into my core. From my aspect, I could feel Grey’s passion pounding against me, into me, and it sent a shivering rush tingling through me. I’d given up on wearing panties since all it took was the slightest stimulation to get my pussy wet and ready.

I undid Grey’s pants and slid a hand down to grasp his throbbing cock, stroking him gently as he removed my shirt and expertly unhooked my bra. He lifted me effortlessly and I wrapped my legs around him, shifting my hips so his twitching tip brushed my slick folds.

He brought his lips down to a breast, sucking hard on an already rouse nipple, teasing it with his tongue until it was achingly stiff.

I moaned, using my legs to lever myself up then down, dipping his cock into my raging heat.

With a groan, he grabbed my hips and slammed me down on him, driving himself deep inside me, his pent-up passion finally bursting from his control.

His lips found mine in a hungry, devouring kiss as if the damn on all his desire had shattered and he couldn’t get enough of me.

Fuck! We’d forgotten a condom!

But I didn’t want him to stop, not now. So… screw it… literally.

I ground myself against him as he drove into me with hard, short thrusts, seeking to sate our mutual, throbbing lust.

“Get off my brother, you filthy slut!” Melinoe’s voice — and her power — slammed over both of us.

Impossible visions swarmed in my mind: Grey clutching his chest, having a heart attack, screaming as spiders swarmed out of his mouth.

I didn’t know what Grey saw, but we both cried out and threw ourselves off each other. I stumbled and fell on my ass. Grey staggered back and swiped at something that wasn’t there before crashing into a wall. He sank to his knees.

Melinoe ran to him and waved a hand before his face, whispering, “See me as her.” She grabbed his cock, stroking it hard as she pulled Grey’s face to hers for a hard kiss.

Oh-hell-no!That was not going to happen for… so very many reasons.

I rose, my vision still swimming with illusions. But it seemed her focus was on him now and I was mostly able to see the reality around me. I stalked to them, tore her away from Grey, and slapped her as hard as I could.

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