Page 5 of Wicked Bonds
“Did this happen to me?” Stas asked her parents.
“No,” her father, Sethios, murmured. “But your situation was different.”
“Seraphim souls can’t perish,” Caro said, echoing what Balthazar had already discovered in Leela’s mind. “The body can die, but it’ll regenerate.”
Something Balthazar saw happening right now in Leela’s arms.
He cast a swirl of reassurance over his best friend, urging him to comfort his wife, and Jayson started whispering soft words to Lizzie as a result. Jayson likely knew this was Balthazar’s doing, an act he might comment on later, but he was helpless to obey Balthazar’s emotional control.
It was what made him so deadly—he could read minds and manipulate the feelings of others. A combination of gifts that could yield lethal results, but Balthazar rarely engaged in his secondary skill. Reading minds was natural and not easy to turn off, whereas toying in others’ emotions required thought and intent.
Stop exploring, little one.It’s time for you to meet your parents in a corporeal state.
Balthazar fought the urge to smile at Leela’s mental tones. She sounded so motherly, which he supposed was appropriate, considering her Seraphim lineage.
A fertility goddess, he mused.I wonder what else you can do.
They’d discuss it once she finished saving the child.
They would also have a long conversation about what had actually happened in Brazil. He wanted to know how many times he’d made her come.
What she’d tasted like.
What positions she’d favored.
How she’d sounded in the throes of passion.
What her eyes had looked like during orgasm.
How tight she’d felt wrapped around his shaft.
There were so many unknowns, both exciting and infuriating him. Because she’d messed with his mind, something he might never forgive her for.
Unless she apologized and explained why.
He also might be persuaded by her plump mouth wrapped around—
Come on, sweetheart, she cooed, distracting his sensual mind.I feel you nearby. Find yourself and show me those pretty brown eyes.
Apparently, Leela had seen those brown eyes prior to the soul departing the body. Balthazar took that as a healthy sign that the child would return.
He threaded that reassurance through his gifts, touching Lizzie and Jayson with a soothing caress. They hugged each other on the bed, Lizzie’s dark red hair matching the bloodstains throughout the room.
Balthazar almost asked the others to help clean up, but he sensed in Jayson’s and Lizzie’s thoughts that they didn’t care about the mess. All they wanted was their child.
There you are, Leela whispered a few minutes later.Show me those eyes, sweet girl.
It seemed the child couldn’t exactly hear Leela, just feel her comfort and the warmth of her fertility essence. He picked up that fact in Leela’s mind, followed by her intimate thoughts regarding her specialization in birth and fertilization… andsex.
Mmm, tell me more, he nearly said. But she was already thinking about satisfaction and how she didn’t require it for survival—which would have likened her to a succubus—so much as she merely liked to fuck.
Which made him snort.
Because who didn’t enjoy a good fuck?
Well, Seraphim, apparently. They were notoriously stoic and known not to feel a damn thing.
But Leela clearly defied those expectations.
