Page 106 of Lifebound

“I know this is difficult for you but try not to pay attention. The more aroused you are, the better control of you they have. That’s their magic,” he said, and again—his voice was so low and alluring. So fucking sexy I wished it could be a person so I could fuckit,too.

That’s how messed up in the head this place had made me.

Enough, Nilah. Enough.

I closed my eyes, took in a deep breath and said, “Talk to me. Just talk to me.” Because it was still better to focus on him rather than on what was going on around me. All the sex and the laughter and the moaning. These people looked like the happiest, most relaxed people I had ever laid eyes on in my life, both on Earth and in Verenthia, and it was perfectly natural to want tobe likethem…wasn’t it?

“They are succubi and incubi, and they’re very powerful. They have active magic, and lust and sexual pleasure of any kind of being is their fuel. The more they please a person, the more power they get. The more pleased that person, the easier for them to take it to the next level. Do you see those Seelie fae?”

Meanwhile, I was looking at him with my lips parted and my tongue basically hanging out like a damn dog, second away from drooling.

Now Ireallywanted to look around me and not at him because I wasthisclose to jumping on his lap and kissing him, to hell with everything. It was an itching, a craving, anacheinside me that was going to drive me insane if I didn’t get my release.

And I felt it just the same when I looked at the two fae Rune was talking about. The incubi with the long dark hair were now on their knees between their legs, pleasing them with their mouths.

Fuck,how was this not illegal?!

“Look at the color of their skin. Look howspentthey are,” Rune whispered, and every inch of my skin rose in goose bumps. I looked, but I didn’t see what he was talking about at first. “Yes, the succubi can please better than anything on the continent, but the price you pay is your body’s energy. Watch…”

Ididwatch. I watchedcloselyhow those women were sucking off the fae, and I wanted to do that, too—to Rune—and I was driving myself crazy sitting here.

My eyes closed. “Rune, we have to get out of here.” Because I wasn’t sure how much longer I had before I lost my mind for real.

“It’s not the right time yet. Breathe, Wildcat. Breathe,” he whispered, and it wasn’t helping me at all, but I breathed. “It’s completely natural to want them, but?—”

“I don’t want them!” I hissed. I didn’t want any of them—I wantedhim. This fucking guy sitting right here with me!

“You don’t?” He obviously didn’t believe me, and his arched brow said so.

“Look, I can’t handle this for much longer—I’m only human, okay?”

His wide eyes were a little bloodshot, which I hadn’t really noticed until now because of my own feelings. And when he came closer and looked at my lips like that, God Himself must have sent divine intervention to hold me back from jumping his bones.

“Give me a few more minutes,” he finally said, closing his eyes as he got himself together—much easier than I ever could. “We’re going to get out of here soon.”

So, I did.

I gave him a few more minutes that seemed like an eternity to me. I kept my eyes closed most of the time, because every time I opened them, an incubus would be there, fucking a woman from behind slowly while she stood on the couch on all fours—while a succubus lay underneath her and sucked on her nipples.

Or a guy would be there, sliding his cock between the boobs of a gorgeous orange-haired sccubus, while the woman next to him was getting choked by the cock of the incubus standing in front of her—and that wasn’t even everything.

Then…

“Get up and walk outside slowly. Keep your head down and try to hide in the crowd,” Rune said.

About fucking time.

This time, I did exactly as he asked. This time, I kept my head down and I walked slowly, even if it was torture for me. My view spun every now and again, and I barely saw the bodies of the people outside—they weren’t having sex, just mingling and talking and laughing and dancing to the music coming from that one-man band I no longer even heard.

I wasnotokay.

But I did as Rune asked, turned when he told me to turn, stopped when he told me to stop, and I thought we would make it. We were so close to the front of the yard, the darkness where we’d come from calling my name, promising to hide me if I only made it all the way to it.

Then suddenly, someone stepped right in front of us.

“I thought I told you not to move. Where do you think you’re going?”

It was Rogue, the hot incubus with the tattoos on his arms, and more of them were slowly surrounding us.

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