Demon's Embrace (6 page)

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Ronan eyed his friend warily. He and Alex had known each other for a long time, yet right at this moment he had no idea what the fire demon was thinking.

“Are you going to be all right with this?”

“Of course,” Ronan said, feeling a little bit confused.

“So I don’t need to disable the weapons you own that could hurt me,” Alex said with his usual grin.

“No,” Ronan said with a quick laugh. “Well, not unless you plan on hurting Kali. Then you might want to run.”

“I have no plans to hurt her, but you already know that.” Alex tilted his head slightly to the side and looked at Ronan as if he were considering whether to say something else or not.

“Spit it out, Alex. You’ve known me long enough to know I don’t need sugar coating.”

“I was just wondering if you realize you’re the only human in this relationship.” Ronan ground his teeth together and nodded. He wasn’t sure Kali even realized she could do it, but seeing her coffee cup move by itself to slide into her hand several times over the last couple days certainly seemed to be a skill typical to some paranormals. He wasn’t aware of any humans who actually had telekinetic abilities. There were a lot of con artists and illusionists, but none had proven genuine telekinetic ability.

“You think she’s the Oracle’s receptacle?” Ronan asked quietly.

“Not really,” Alex answered slowly, managing to confuse Ronan even more. “The Oracles only possess knowledge. I’m not sure where Kali’s skill is coming from.” He glanced at the bathroom door and lowered his voice even more. “But it certainly isn’t a skill I would associate with a full-blood human.”

“Are you saying paranormals and humans can interbreed?”

“Some species, yes.”

“Fire demons?”

“Not sure,” Alex answered with a shrug. “I don’t know any other fire demons who’ve taken a human as their mate.”

It was finally beginning to dawn on Ronan that they hadn’t used condoms. Could Kali be conceiving a child even now? Unexpectedly, the thought filled him with a type of joy, an excitement he couldn’t quite explain, rather than the dread he would have felt had it been someone else.

He glanced up to see Kali watching them from the bedroom door.

“Kali,” he said with grim determination to ’fess up, “I’m sorry, baby.”

“What for?” she asked, looking really worried. He felt like a complete jackass. They were supposed to be protecting her, and instead he’d managed to put her at risk of an unplanned pregnancy.

“We didn’t use contraception,” Alex said, looking as concerned by Kali’s reaction as Ronan felt.

Kali smiled with obvious relief. “It’s okay. I have an IUD, so you don’t need to worry about babies or—what do you call baby demons?” She shook her head and continued without waiting for an answer. “I…was actually…um…” She took a deep breath and frowned at them both. “You don’t think I’m human?”

“We don’t know anything for sure, but the fact that you can move things using telekinesis would suggest something is different.”

“I can do what?”

Alex smiled, lifted a coffee cup from the sink, and placed it in the middle of the table. “Just reach for the cup.”

Kali looked skeptical, but she leaned over to grab the cup, jumping back in surprise when it slid toward her hand.

“I don’t understand,” she said, shaking her head, obviously not believing her own eyes. She closed them for a moment, rubbed her forehead, and whispered, “I’m pretty sure I’ve never been able to do that before. Shit! You know how I said before that I just sort of know things. I feel like I should know where this skill comes from, but…” She made that funny face again that Ronan was beginning to realize was her version of frustration. “It’s kind of like having a book with no index. I think the information is in there. I just can’t find it.”

“So you are the Oracle’s receptacle?” Alex asked, looking confused.

Kali shrugged. “From everything you’ve told me about the Oracles, I would have to say no. But then it doesn’t explain what’s happening to me, and it sure as hell doesn’t explain why it’s happening now.”

“Does anyone else in your family have unusual skills?” Alex asked. “Any psychics, or ghost hunters, or other kooky ancestors? Maybe one of them was a paranormal.”

“I had a great-uncle nobody talked about, but I don’t really know why.”

“Would your brother know?”

She shrugged. “Probably not.”

Ronan smiled at the way Alex moved to hold her. They seemed so natural together. He probably should have felt some sort of jealousy, but he only felt honored to know he was a part of their happiness. He didn’t feel left out. For the first time in a long time he felt part of a family. Kali saw his smile, blew him a soft kiss, and winked slowly. Ronan couldn’t help but grin even wider. Only a handful of days ago he would have been appalled by the sappy emotions coursing through him, but right now all he could do was smile.

But of course, their unusual relationship wasn’t going to go anywhere if they didn’t figure out who was trying to kill Kali and find a way to stop them.

“I’m going to drive into town and call Dave again. He might be able to dig up some family skeletons and answer a question or two.”

“Get him to contact one of my brothers,” Alex added. “My family should be able to make some discreet inquiries from the paranormal side. If you do have a nonhuman relative, they might have more chance to track them down. I doubt human records would keep information like that.”

Ronan nodded, grabbed his keys and some coins for the phone, and pressed a quick kiss to Kali’s lips. “Don’t have too much fun without me,” he said with a wink and then turned and left the cabin quickly. As much as he hated leaving her behind, he was suddenly impatient to get some answers so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

* * * *

As Alex locked the door and reset the alarm, he realized that at least part of Ronan’s reason for going in to town was to give him and Kali some time alone together. “Do you think he’s okay?” he asked Kali.

“I think so,” she answered with a smile.

“So this ‘knowing things’ skill,” he said with a wicked grin as he pulled her back into his embrace and ran a hand over her hip, caressing her through the damp towel. “Can you tell what I’m thinking now?”

She laughed, the lyrical sound filling the room. “Well…my skill doesn’t seem to be mindreading as such, but I’m guessing that your thinking has something to do with sex.”

“You can feel my horniness?”

Kali pressed a kiss to his lips and then snuggled deeper into his arms. “Well, I doubt it’s a paranormal skill,” she said with an almost laugh, “but the hard cock pressed against my stomach gave me a pretty
solid
clue.”

He mock growled and ran his hands all over her ass, slipping the material aside so that he could squeeze and caress her soft flesh. He slid one of his hands around to her front, wedging it between them, his finger delving into her folds, sliding along her slippery flesh before pushing up inside of her pussy.

“I think maybe I’m developing some ‘knowing’ skills of my own,” he said with what he hoped was the right amount of humor, “because I do believe you’re feeling the same things.”

She giggled, stepped from his arms, and gave him a very serious look. His heart nearly stopped beating when she dropped the towel to the ground. “Do you think,” she said, biting her lip in a blatantly sexual tease, “that if I ran into the bedroom, you might follow?”

“I might actually beat you there,” he said with a wide grin.

“Good to know,” she said calmly. And then, with a gleeful laugh her only warning, she turned and ran.

Kali ran into the bedroom, giggling as she almost made it to the bed before Alex caught up with her. His momentum took them down onto the mattress, but it was the way he tickled her that had her writhing with uncontrollable laughter.

“Uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle,” she managed to force out between giggles.

“Hmm,” he said, pretending to consider her plea. “This must be some of that human code that we demons have not yet been able to decipher.” It was quite obvious that he was teasing, but when his tickles turned to sensual strokes, Kali could barely breathe for a whole different reason.

“Do you think,” she asked breathlessly, “that you might have enough warning to take your clothes off this time?”

He laughed, kissing her ear before sucking the lobe into his mouth and tickling the flesh with his tongue. “It could be a possibility.” He slid down the mattress, sucking her neck as his clever fingers found her taut nipples and squeezed gently. “Although, if you keep moaning like that it might be touch and go.”

She giggled again, amazed to realize just how much fun she was having with him. Alex groaned, rolled off the bed, and onto his feet in one fluid movement. He dragged his clothes off, but she noticed that he pulled a small remote control from his pants pocket and kept it in his palm.

“What’s that?” she asked curiously.

“The remote to turn off the wards.” When she gave him a curious look, he added, “You might prefer to call them a type of force field. They basically stop any supernatural creature from entering the building via slip travel. Trouble is that it also keeps us in. If we need to slip quickly, I can hit the remote, turn off the wards, and transport you and Ronan, if I can reach him, to somewhere safe.”

“You’d leave Ronan behind?” The irony to her question was that she could feel Alex’s determination to keep them both safe but got the impression that Ronan didn’t really need his protection.

“Trust me. The big guy is one of the most feared humans in the paranormal world.”

“Seriously?” How weird was it that she somehow knew he was telling the truth but expressed disbelief anyway? It seemed
knowing
stuff didn’t stop her from
saying
stupid stuff.

But then Alex moved back onto the bed and Kali was suddenly completely distracted by the fact that the man was naked. He truly was a delicious specimen. Handsome features, sculpted muscles, hard in all the right places. Kali reached for the hard part that interested her the most, and he moaned even as he tried to inch away.

“I’m not sure that’s such a good decision, beautiful.”

“Why not?” she asked with an impish smile as she slid lower on the bed and pressed her mouth to the head of his cock.

“I…I have no idea,” he said with a dramatic sigh. She laughed again, enjoying the playfulness of her demon lover. But he gave up all pretense of humor when she slid her mouth lower, swirling her tongue around the head of his cock before suctioning her lips around him and sucking hard. He groaned and threaded his fingers through her hair, massaging her scalp as he lifted up to thrust gently into her mouth. She wrapped her fist around the base of his cock, pumping and squeezing as she sucked harder.

But then his fingers tightened in her hair, pulling her away from his erection. She broke the suction reluctantly but moaned in appreciation when he climbed over her, threaded his hands under her knees, and drove his cock into her hard and fast.

Alex plunged into her pussy several times, thrusting forward quickly, pulling away slowly. He slid his hands up her legs, cupping her ass, angling her to the position he wanted. Kali could feel her orgasm spinning closer, her need for this man breathtaking.

But then he froze.

The sound of the front door opening sent terror pounding through her until they heard Ronan’s deep voice. Alex fell forward and pressed a kiss to her lips, his body thrusting into hers over and over as Ronan came into the bedroom.

“Roll over,” Ronan said on a low growl. She didn’t even think of denying him. Alex held her close as he rolled onto his back, taking her with him so that she lay sprawled over his body. “Now that is a pretty sight.” Ronan’s hands caressed her ass, his fingers dipping between her crease as Alex continued to thrust up into her pussy. “Have you ever had a man in your ass?”

“N–No,” she whispered. A wicked thrill wound through her as Alex grabbed her knees, pulling her legs higher up his body, opening her ass cheeks to Ronan’s touch even more.

“Tell me you bought lube,” Alex demanded as he plowed harder into her pussy.

Ronan chuckled quietly. “I bought lube.” He caressed her spine, his warm hands a soothing counterpoint to Alex’s hard thrusts. “But it’s Kali’s choice. Will you let us take you together?”

“Together?” she managed to ask even though her climax was so close she felt like she could fly into a million pieces at any moment.

“Me in your pussy. Ronan in your ass,” Alex whispered. “Just imagine, you’ll be stuffed full of cock, so overwhelmed with pleasure that you won’t know where you end and we begin.”

She nodded, gasping for air as they wound their sensual promises through her mind. “Yes,” she said by way of a plea. She wanted this with them, wanted the closeness, the feeling of being complete, of being one with both of her men.

Alex stilled, holding her pressed hard against him as he kissed her ferociously. She whimpered into his mouth as she heard the squirt of lube a moment before Ronan’s slippery finger pressed against her virgin hole. “Easy, baby,” Ronan crooned as he circled the tight ring of muscle without pushing inside. “We’ll take this slowly.”

She made a noise that she hoped sounded like agreement and then moaned into Alex’s mouth as he threaded his fingers through her hair and deepened their kiss. She felt his cock pulse inside her, Ronan’s finger slowly pressing into her ass making the fit seem tighter.

The second finger stung more than she expected, and she squirmed away from Ronan’s touch. But he pressed a hand against her lower spine, trapping her against Alex. “It’s okay, baby,” he said as he added more lube and gently opened her tight muscles. “Relax.”

Uh-huh
. Relaxing didn’t seem to be part of her makeup at the moment. Even now with the sting in her ass almost unbearable she was on the verge of orgasm. She shifted, trying to do as Ronan ordered but only managing to make Alex groan with her.

Alex broke their kiss and grabbed her hips, lifting her high enough to pull his cock from her pussy. She whimpered at the loss but groaned as he found her clit with his fingers and rubbed the hard nub gently.

“That’s it, baby,” Ronan said as he added yet another finger to her ass. She started to push back against him, the strange sensation no longer painful but enticingly erotic. She heard him squirt more lube a moment before the head of his cock replaced his fingers. The spongy, slippery head of his dick felt completely different, and she moaned as it stretched her even wider.

He slid unhurriedly into her back passage, his movement gentle, undemanding as she gradually adjusted to his possession. He pulled from her ass slowly before sliding back in, thrusting just a little harder, just a little faster, just a little more urgently with each stroke. She gasped, the unexpected pleasure burning through her as Ronan took her to heights of arousal she’d never thought possible.

Alex continued to play with her clit even when Ronan lifted her up so that Alex could slide back into her pussy. The fit was tight, the sensation overwhelming as they worked together, building a rhythm, one thrusting in as the other slid out. Over and over they fucked her.

And then, just as she started to shake all over, her orgasm winding tighter, spiraling higher, leaving her breathless, out of her mind, balancing on the edge of desire, a loud shrieking noise filled the air. Climax slammed her, the world tilting off its axis, her body vibrating as her release pounded through her.