Page 44 of Vampire Sins
I glanced at her, taking note that her short hair stuck out at the ends as if she’d been pulling at it. She was scared. Fuck, I was too numb to even be scared. I wanted to have Nate, Xavier, Luke, and Jet out in the open and in my arms. I wanted their strength and their reassurance, but all I had with me was their power. The sooner we reached the lowest level of hell, the sooner I could see them again.
“I don’t want to get free,” I told her as I continued through the drifting shadows. Black wisps wrapped around my ankles and a deep cold ran up my legs. The sensation of wanting to curl into a ball and fall asleep sleep prickled at me the farther we walked into this domain, but I drew on the warmth of my Blood Stone and the power of my runes to fend it off. When Sarah staggered, I reached out to her and squeezed her hand, sending warmth up her arm in a flash of red. She blinked at me, then smiled.
“Don’t tell me you like it here?” Sarah joked, her voice coming out scratchy. Her smile fell as quickly as it had appeared as she rubbed at her throat. She accepted Vikki’s hand as we kept walking.
Jealousy surged in me again, not because I wanted Sarah all to myself. I had four amazing guys who loved me for exactly who and what I was. It was just that Sarah and I had so much history and pain. I hated that someone like Vikki was who she turned to. Her sin of sloth wasn’t one of laziness, but of a siren’s unwillingness to resolve pain. She wallowed in her misery and she always would. That was a siren’s way, and she’d only bring Sarah down with her.
I felt those sins as if they were my own, a curse from my bond. The sooner we got to that witch, the better.
“We have one more sin to pick up,” I reminded them as I continued to trek on through the shadows. It’d most definitely gotten darker the farther we’d gone. The sensation to stop and lie down made my eyelids feel heavy.
Vikki stifled a yawn, but she managed to keep up with me. “Right,” she said. “What sin would that be, then?”
I paused, because I heard it before I saw it. Moans of women lost in the best sin of all. My lips ticked up in a grin.
“Lust, and I think we’ve found him.”
Lust
Sonya
It shouldn’t have surprisedme that Derek would be completely at home in hell surrounded by his unforgivable sin. He pawed at a hoard of naked girls who draped over him, seemingly undisturbed by the slight horns that protruded from their foreheads. When he spotted me, his eyes lit up with ruby power and he grinned.
“Sonya, darling. You’ve come to join us?” He threaded his fingers behind his head and leaned back on the pile of cushions, sighing as women greedily bent down to stroke and lick. He didn’t take his gaze off of me as they pleasured him.
Vikki and Sonya squeaked in shocked surprise behind me, but I wasn’t put off by the display. I was a succubus and I knew lust better than anyone. I couldn’t feed off of women, but Derek’s lust scented the air and was more potent than a drug. Thankfully, the resistant his wife had given me kept its own and I was still under my own power, even under the full impact of the naked Incubus King.
I took a step closer and then stiffened when I realized that I, in fact,couldfeel the lust from the women. I’d heard that angels could take different forms, which included fallen angels. The girls giggling at me batted eyelashes over ruby-gleaming eyes. I buckled over when a fresh wave of their lust hit me.
Derek laughed with delight. “Dear, don’t fight it.” He sighed and leaned back further, stroking his fingers through a demon-girl’s hair and lowered her mouth over his massive cock. “Just come and play,” he added, his voice growling with need.
“Youcannotgo over there,” Sarah hissed at me insistently.
Vikki nodded violently with her emphatic agreement. “You’re a succubus. If you get all wrapped up in lust, you’re never going to get out of here.”
My eyelids drooped with the power that clawed through me. I’d never felt so much lust that was thick enough in the air to make my thighs clench. I curled my fingers over my stomach and drew on the heat from my runes, calling on my mates to push away the overpowering lust and remind me why I was here.
“Derek,” I snapped, biting his name off my teeth like an unpleasant morsel. “I can’t save you from your lust, but you can save me from an ancient curse that’s gone on for too long.” I pointed to a cleaning red staircase in the distance that spiraled down into the floor. Red light glowed from it in low, pulsing tones, leaving no doubt of where it led.
Derek rolled his head back and made a sound of complaint. “Sonya. I’m dead. Let me enjoy my eternal damnation in peace.”
I blinked at him and staggered closer. He was right. He wasn’t flesh and blood. He was a soul and he glittered with the telltale signs of the dead that was forever trapped in hell. “Derek!” I shrieked. “How did you die? I saw Hades spare you.”
Derek grinned, because I’d come too close, and grabbed my wrist. He yanked me down over him and spanked my ass. The pain zipped through me with malicious pleasure. Before he let me recover, he stroked his fingers over my thin underwear and lust wrapped around me until I found my mouth parting with a moan.
“Hades killed me when you weren’t around to judge him,” Derek said, his words growling low in his throat as he stroked me. He ran his thumb over my clit with violent pressure, punishing me for abandoning him to his fate. I moved to push off him, but he used his free hand to keep both wrists pinned to my back. He was so big that his one grip could hold me down while he relentlessly punished me. He pulled my underwear aside and slipped two fingers into me, making me cry out.
Just before the lust took me under and I would be beyond saving, Sarah pushed a demon-woman aside and cupped my face. “Sonya. Don’t let him get to you. The bastard just wants you to stay with him. Don’t give him the satisfaction.”
My eyelids fluttered as I fought the lust that sank its teeth into me. Heat spiraled up my legs and my runes blazed as my mates sensed my distress, but it wasn’t enough to fight what came so naturally to me. The demon-women kissed each other and added the crushing weight of sin to the symphony of pleasure.
Then Sarah did something unexpected. She brushed her lips over mine. I grazed my tongue over the sea salt that had dried on her plump lips before indulging in the kiss. She and I had never shared lust. It had always been something more that had drawn us together, and it was enough to bring me out of the Incubus King’s control.
Freeing myself from Derek’s grip, I twisted and kicked him in the balls. He might just be a spirit, but he could still feel that. He groaned and doubled over as he held himself. The demon-women eased away in a small semi-circle and giggled behind their hands.
“The fuck, Sonya,” Derek complained as he gulped in fresh breaths. “That seems uncalled for. I was just trying to give you a good time.”
“No,” I snapped and flared red heat through my body, burning the lust free of me with the power of my mate bonds. They were the ones who deserved my lust. Not this creep. “You were trying to trap me here,” I said. “Now come on. Unless you want me to kick you in the balls again, you’re going to do me one last favor.”
