After that crazy, intense orgasm, I could finally feel the coolness of the room. My senses return to me and I looked at Sage as he straightened himself. He pulled out and I shivered at the pleasure of his cock leaving my hole. My t-shirt had been ripped open, so I used it to wipe myself clean. My pants and underwear were on the floor and I had to bend down to retrieve them, giving Sage a perfect view of my ass. The same ass that he had just pummeled into submission. Quickly, I pulled them both on to regain what little modesty I had left.
“What just happened?” he asked after a few minutes of the most awkward silence I’d ever experienced passed between us.
I looked at him and he was still my wet dream, but I was just as confused as he was. “I…” I shrugged. “I don’t even fucking know. I’ve… I’ve never done anything like that before.”
“Have sex with a guy?” Sage asked, one of his perfect eyebrows arching in his curiosity. Great googly moogly! He had gorgeous gray eyes so mesmerizing they gave his predatory gaze even more intensity. How was I just now noticing them? “So, was this your first time with a guy? You were so beautifully tight.”
When I finally found my senses again, having been momentarily hypnotized by that look he gave me, I shook my head and blushed, because that comment about my ass being tight was bold. “No, I rather enjoy men. I meant, have sex with someone I’d only just met a few minutes ago. I’m not into getting that frisky with strangers, you see. Let alone without a condom.”
He smiled in the most mischievous way, which made him look even sexier. “Well, I can’t tell that lie. As for the condom, don’t need one. Shifter. But, you… you felt it though, right? That connection?” he asked, gesturing to me.
I’d definitely felt something, especially when he entered me. “Look, I don’t know what just happened. It was like… like I couldn’t help myself.”
He nodded. “I was sitting the car, struggling not to come back inside, but as soon as Nadia began to pull the car away, I jumped out and ran back to you. It was like torture being away from you. I felt literal pain and my chest started tightening making it hard for me to breathe. And the heat…” he said as he was staring at me with a frown of complete bewilderment.
I nodded. “Everything you’re describing, I felt it too, but I don’t know why.”
“Was it a spell?”
“Who would have cast it? I mean, until tonight, I didn’t even know who you were,” I pointed out.
Sage shrugged. “I knew of you, but yeah, I didn’t know you. But something crazy just happened and neither of us can explain it.”
Sage was looking around the office at the little mess we’d made in our frenzy to… I guess… connect. He began to tuck himself back into his pants and I felt a little sad by that, because he had a lovely uncut cock. Shape, length, the bulbous head, was all perfection and to top it off, a shaft piercing I felt rubbing my prostate just right. My lord, what had gotten into me? All I wanted to do was fuck him again, preferably in my bed. This was all wrong. I needed to find out what in the hell was going on.
He looked down at his ruined shirt with only three buttons remaining and I couldn’t help but check out his pecs and abs that were so damn chiseled, they looked like they’d been carved from stone. I wanted to run my fingers over each mound of muscle, but felt it best to keep my hands to myself. Still, my eyes drifted back up to his dragon tattoo, because now that I was of sound mind, I knew why it looked so familiar.
“May I?” I asked, stopping Sage from trying his best to conceal his chest by buttoning up what remained of his shirt.
“What?” he asked, but allowed me to reach up to turn his head ever so slightly to the right. “Oh, you like it?”
“A dragon tattoo. It’s beautiful, very unique,” I said, admiring the artwork. I pulled my hand away and he turned to look at me.
“I had a weird birthmark there in the shape of a dragon. I just decided to jazz it up a bit,” Sage explained. “Speaking of weird ass marks, the one on your ass is… interesting. Like an angel or something.”
I nodded. “Maybe I’ll do what you did and get a tattoo of one on it.”
He smiled and looked so damned handsome. But under all that charm, I knew there was a dangerous man standing before me. One who was probably a merciless killer. There was a darkness in his aura, but it was a darkness I was finding myself being drawn to. This was so fucked up.
He stepped up to me, reaching out like he wanted to take me into his embrace, but I just couldn’t get wrapped up in him or this thing between us again. I put my hand up, taking several steps backward. He stopped his approach, lowering his arm.
“Look, tonight has been off the charts and I don’t want to seem rude, but I really need you to leave,” I said. My mind was racing with one thought after another and I needed some alone time to think.
“I’m sorry, not to sound like a broken record, but I normally wouldn’t have ever done anything like that,” Sage said, and the expression on his face held a sense of horror at his actions now that it was clear what had happened.
“Me either, but I don’t think you need to apologize. It’s not like I…,” I paused to give myself time to better phrase my thoughts. “I wanted it too, I just don’t know why.” Sure, it had been six months since I’d been thoroughly dicked down, but that didn’t explain what had happened.
“How do we find out what’s going on?”
That was the problem. I didn’t know where to begin to find the answers. I had a grimoire—correction—half a grimoire that was only a few pages at that. But it was enough to aid in the bit of magic I did know. I would have to study to see if I could learn what magic was at play here. Thing was, it was in my studio apartment in the back and I wanted to be alone when I read it. It was something I didn’t let others see, because a mage’s grimoire was a coveted thing from other mages. You just kept shit like that private. More importantly, the mark on Sage’s neck matched the symbol on the front of my grimoire. I needed to figure out why.
“I’m going to look into it. But in the meantime, you should go,” I said again. I mean, I really didn’t have much to say at that point. I had just had wild, animalistic sex like it was the last day of the world with a complete stranger. To say I was feeling a bit embarrassed and not myself would be the understatement of the year. And by the expression on Sage’s face, I thought he might be feeling the same. We both needed time to think about what we’d just done.
He began to walk toward the door, but stopped. “Shi said you refused the case. May I ask why?”
“Because I think it’s more danger than I want to get involved in.”
“And now?”