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Her eyes don’t leave him. She’s nervous, I can tell. But he watches her with emotion that isn’t fully jealousy.

He comes closer. I’m not sure if it’s anger that burns in his eyes or desire. Maybe a mix of both. He fists his hands into her hair and yanks her head back before claiming her mouth in a kiss as he grips her breasts roughly. She moans and I feel her release almost as powerfully as if it were my own.

Something...happens then... Eilish acts as some sort of conduit between us, cycling power through our being, and IfeelDragan’s yearning for her. The gargoyle pulls away from the kiss and stares into her eyes.

My gaze locks onto them with rampant fascination.

“Do it again, Eilish,” Dragan growls. “I want to see you…”

She begins to ride me at a feverish pace and I thrust up into her, forcing her over the edge as she obeys Dragan’s softly spoken command. That coil of her magic blooms within my chest, and it only grows stronger as he and I whisper, “Beautiful,” in perfect unison.

Dragan releases her and opens the fly of his trousers with the speed of a shooting star. The splash of his seed against her lips triggers my own climax as she drinks him in like a starved creature before a feast. My back arches off the ground and I drench her heat in the evidence of my pleasure. Raw, gasping breaths explode from between my lips.

Dragan disappears into the shadows as Eilish collapses on top of me. I have the strange suspicion that the three of us needed that comfort in the absence of our companion.

Cambionmustreturn.

As much as it pains me to believe it, we can’t complete our mission without him.

CHAPTER TEN

FLUMPH

The Veil

Now I seen some shit I can’t never not see again! My eyes near burned outta their fuckin’ sockets. How dare they start bangin’ their tender parts ‘gainst each other right in the open, like a bunch o’ fuckin’ animals? Savages. Filthy, nasty, savages who only thinks with they dicks.

Well... Pretty ain’t gots one o’ them from what I saw, but it don’t change nothin’. They ‘bout blind Noni like her master. Thank God Masky ain’t able to sees them, else he woulda been scarred for life like Noni an’ me.

I sees the Mother Heifer sneakin’ outta bed every once in a while when the others’re too busy to notice. She don’t cause no problems, but I still don’t likes seein’ her bein’ all creepy-like. The Mother Heifer watchin’ me ‘bout as much as she know I watchin’ her. I don’t gives a flyin’ fuck. She ain’t the boss o’ me. She just a bully with too many secrets. My little legs struggle to keep up as I walks beside her. Noni with me, but the Mother Heifer don’t know that ‘cause Noni be all invisibles an’ shit.

“What is it now, you pest?”

“I ain’t no pest. I’m a sprite.” Don’t she knows nothin’ by now? Fuckin’ twat. “Thought you was sick, anyhow? If youze wantin’ me to find you a way to open The Veil, you gotta stop actin’ all suspicious-like.” I flys up to her face an’ roll my eyes at her.

“You are useless! Cambion found a way out of The Veil, which means there’s more than one portal. You’ve had your chance, Fluff. I’m running out of patience. And you do not wish to find yourself on the wrong side of my anger,” she sneers. “One last time... What have you learned about The Veil, and how do I open it?”

“Nothin’. There ain’ no—” My eyes go dark for a second an’ I feel a sharp burn on my body. I hits the wall hard, feelin’ somethin’ rattlin’ ‘round in there that ain’t ‘pose to be. My poor wing feelin’ real painful an’ I slide down the wall to the floor. Can’t keep my eyes open no more, ‘cause the bitch slap me hard an’ I’m hurtin’.

I wakes up again with Noni starin’ down at me with them freaky-ass eyes o’ hers. She tryin’ to heal me an’ I notice Masky frownin’ at us with a real scary look in him’s eyes.

“What happened, Flumph? Why is Noni healing you?” he ask in that gravelly voice o’ his. He kneel down an’ picks me up. He inspect my wings an’ stuff, makin’ me feel real important-like.

“The fuckin’ Mother Heifer slap me right outta the air an’ I hits the wall real hard-like. Think my ass an’ spleen is broken, not to mention some ribs an’ shit.” My head spinnin’ like nobody business when Masky set me down an’ storm outta the room. Noni climb onto the table an’ keeps healin’ me. “I hope he peel the skin off her body,” I says.

“Oh! No, Mr. Flumph. ‘Member what Noni say about wishing ill on others? It not good for you.” The brownie can does whatever the fuck she feel like, but I ain’t that way. Mother Heifer gonna get what comin’ to her for this. Noni work real hard to get me better, but she ain’t able to heal everythin’. Once I able to walk again, we go back into the room to listen as the giants get into a real nasty fight over me. I feelin’ real fuckin’ special.

Masky stand near the foot o’ the bed while the Mother Heifer sittin’ near the window. He don’t look mad no more, but I know he is. He real protective o’ us little fae.

“Morrigan, you’ve laid a hand on a creature under my protection,” he snarls. “Any act of violence on a fae creature is strictly forbidden in my world.”

“These are indeed serious accusations, Pyre,” she say. “However, you will notice I have marks upon my arms from the creature’s abuse. He attacked me—I was simply defending myself.”

Go ahead an lie, you snivelin’ wench!I thinks ta myself. I wanna slap her right back, but Noni hold my hand an’ keeps me from doin’ it. The Mother Heifer stand up an’ pretend she all high an’ mighty, with her fuckin’ nose in the air.

“Flumph attacked you?” Masky ask.

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