Hell's Revenge (5 page)

Nefertiti smiled, a slow, sensuous thing that made her large doe like eyes glow.

“When I work at the castle, I don’t like others to be distracted, so I wear my true age. But at home, with my lovers, I prefer to revert back to my youth.”

“It’s a good look. But could you put some clothes on.” Nefertiti laughed. “Considering whose daughter you are and the type of magic we share, you’re awfully prudish.”

I just glared at her and tapped my foot.

Nefertiti snapped her fingers and the half-naked dude who’d answered the door came running to drape a silken robe around her lush body, hiding her assets. As for my men who’d stared at her instead of poking out their own eyes? I stomped on Auric’s foot and kicked David in the shin.

I’d punish them more later.

Robe belted, Nefertiti turned and with a wiggle that made me glower at my men in warning, led us to a table being hastily set by the fountain.

We sat down and I opened my mouth to speak, but a sharp look from our hostess made me snap it shut. She poured out some hot liquid which I prayed was tea into some fine china cups and then offered us a platter of desserts which I took without protest. I had a sweet tooth and biting into the creamy confection, I almost swooned.

“That’s good,” I moaned.

“It should be. Frederick makes them from scratch with the freshest blend of
cream
.” The way she said cream made me choke and I gulped down the hot tea laced with some kind of mint undertone.

Nefertiti laughed as I scowled at her through watering eyes.

“Ah, Muriel. You are so entertaining. The cream you fear would never be wasted on guests.”

I refused to feel sheepish but I did allow relief to loosen the tension in my shoulders.

“Can we cut out the bullshit? I need some help.”

“How obvious. Did you need some more tips on creating potent magic? I can tell just by looking at you that you’ve yet to allow your men to truly fuck you. Why do you hesitate?”

I knew what she spoke of. A true sandwich where one got my pussy and the other my ass. Call me old fashioned, but in my book, asses were out holes, not in. “Our sex life is doing perfectly fine, thank you. I’m here about something else. My mother showed up and she kind of dropped a bomb.”

“Your mother?” Neferiti nodded. “Yes, your father mentioned it when he called. He also told me that this Gaia person claimed you were pregnant by both your lovers.”

“That’s impossible, right?” My anxiety sounded crystal clear even to me.

“Auric. David. Please leave me alone with Muriel for a moment.” I really expected Auric to tell her in no certain terms, no fucking way. But as if under a spell, he and David both stood. At my panicked look, Auric leaned down and brushed my lips. “I won’t be far.”

I wanted to scream at him to come back and hold my hand, but that would be admitting I feared the truth.
I am not scared of anything. Anymore that is.
Now that the curse that had made me live in terror was gone, I’d promised myself to face life head on, whether I liked it or not.

Annoyed, I drummed my fingers on the table. “Care to tell me why you had to make them leave before you tell me what the fuck is going on?”

“First off, I need to examine you. Stand, please, and lift your shirt.” I arched a brow.

Nefertiti sighed and snapped her fingers. A curtain rose up around us, not a fabric one, more of a swirling mist, but it served as a privacy barrier. I stood and raised my shirt. The witch walked around me while I stared up at the ceiling feeling like an idiot. I flinched when she placed her hands on my abdomen, not out of fear but because they were like freaking ice cubes.

“Holy fuck! Wear some gloves next time, would you?” Nefertiti just clucked her tongue and continued to grope my tummy. Her hands slid up and cupped my boobs which made me blush. Men touched me, not women, usually.

“Nice tits,” she remarked with a smirk and a tweak to my nipples. She stepped back and returned to her seat

“Pervert,” I murmured. I waited for her to speak, but she just gave me an implacable stare. “So?”

“So what? You’re pregnant. But you’d already figured that out.” I clenched my fists and reminded myself not to punch the woman with answers.

“Whose baby is it?”

The smile came slowly and mirth danced in her eyes. “Both, of course, and growing much more rapidly than a human one would. Congrats,
mommy.
” I laid my head down on the table; it was that or swoon and fall off my chair.

“Impossible. I mean, how the fuck can I be pregnant by two men? What are there like twins in there or something?”

“One child. A female.”

A daughter? I didn’t say anything for a moment as the knowledge sank in. “What’s different about this baby other than the fact it’s growing faster than normal?”

“Power. I’d thought you were the most powerful child I’d ever met, but even though it is the size of your thumb, the child you carry is already immensely powerful.” Well, that explained why my mother, the cow, wanted her. What I still didn’t get was for what. “What should I do?” I mused the words aloud, not really expecting an answer, so when it came, it took me a minute to absorb.

“Kill it. Kill it before it destroys us all,” hissed Nefertiti.

I raised my head and gaped at her. “Abortion? Are you nuts? I mean, I’m not like religious or anything, but still you’re talking about my baby here.” Sorrow darkened Nefertiti’s eyes. “A child with the potential to rend the world apart.

Why do you think I sent the father’s away? Right now, you have the option to end this right now. I can remove the fetus from your womb and give you something to prevent any future accidents. This is too momentous to allow men and their pride to decide. The choice needs to be yours alone.”

“You really think it would be that bad?”

“My power doesn’t lie in foretelling the future, but even I can sense the danger. This child could destroy us. Destroy you.”

“Could? You keep saying could, so this isn’t a concrete thing. There’s a possibility you’re wrong.”

Nefertiti grudgingly nodded.

“So I raise her to be a good girl who learns that destroying the world is bad. In other words, teach her the difference between right and wrong.” The irony of my words didn’t escape either of us and I blamed stress for my hysterical laughter.

“You’ve asked my opinion. What you do now is up to you but keep in mind, once this child is born, there will be no turning back. Are you prepared to fight to keep her safe? And, if she treads down a path of darkness, to see her destroy everything you love?” A truly maternal mother would have instantly said yes, but foreboding, dark and cold, settled on me and I knew to speak those words would somehow affect the course of the future. A future I didn’t yet understand or foresee.

I avoided answering—for now I’d stick my head in the sand like an ostrich and face this dilemma once I’d had time to mull it over.

Nefertiti sighed. “Fool. If you change your mind, come see me but don’t wait too long. At the rate this child is growing, you may not have as much time as you think.” Great, I had a ticking time bomb in my stomach and I wondered if that meant I’d start craving really weird pregnant shit like pickles and ice cream, plutonium and gunpowder. My imagination ran wild in an attempt to make me smile, but nothing about this situation was amusing.

Nefertiti dropped the privacy curtain and instead of finding my men close by, anxiously waiting for the verdict, I saw them off in a huddle with several of Nefertiti’s lovers.

“Do you seriously bang all these guys?” I asked in curiosity. I mean, we were talking about a lot of men here.

“Well, I can take three at a time, and sometimes, if I’m feeling particularly drained, I’ll have those taking me being fucked themselves.” The mental image was disturbing. I liked my two men, but somehow I didn’t think I’d ever be comfortable with them touching each other.
In my world, it’s all about me. “
I think I’ll stick to my vanilla fun.”

“Party pooper. You haven’t had a true threesome until you’ve been sandwiched. You really should try it sometime.”

Yeah, when hell freezes over.
Oops. That had already happened. I really needed to come up with a new expression.

My men, seeing me tapping my foot impatiently, finally broke from their confab with the naked men and strode over to me. I wanted to go home, like right this instance, but lacked the magic to call a portal. Not that I could have in Nefertiti’s tower. She had some kick ass shields in place, almost as good as my dad’s.

I linked my arm into those of both my men and between them, we left. I could feel their curiosity, but with the information spinning in my head, I was glad they didn’t ask me anything. I needed to figure out how much to tell them.

Auric will expect me to be 100% honest.
The problem was I didn’t know what he’d think of Nefertiti’s advice to abort. As a fallen angel, my first thought was he’d say no way. Some habits died hard, and even though I didn’t go to church or read the Bible, and while I’d never actually met him, I knew my uncle God didn’t approve of abortion at all.

But given the troubles my dad had with God’s religious zealots when that human woman conceived my brother, the anti-Christ, I also realized apparently, in certain situations, the rules could sometimes be bent.

On the flip side, given Auric’s propensity to want to save the world, I couldn’t actually be sure he wouldn’t agree with Nefertiti that the babe needed to go.

And then there was David. Once upon a time, he was such a docile kitty, but now that he’d taken up permanent residence in my life and heart, the jerk had grown a backbone. Who knew what he’d want.

Selfish or not, I didn’t know if I wanted them making the decision for me. This was, after all, my body, my baby and in my view, my choice. The real question was would I let them argue their case before I decided?

We made it back home and I still hadn’t come any closer to an answer. I could smell an interrogation coming just by looking into Auric’s eyes, but I didn’t want to speak yet, not with words anyways. I threw myself in his arms and raised my lips for a kiss. I wanted, make that needed, skin to skin contact like yesterday.

I loved the way they both read my mood, or smelled my desire, for only moments later we toppled into our really large bed, naked. David pressed in from the back, his mouth latching onto my neck and sucking, while his cock pulsed against my backside.

Auric claimed my front, his lips melded to mine while his cock pressed between us hard and hot against my lower belly.

David raised my hips and lowered me onto Auric’s cock. I threw my head back enjoying the feel of him inside me. I rocked on him while David nibbled on my neck from behind, his large hands cupping my breasts and tweaking my nipples. David pushed me down and Auric’s lips caught mine in a sweet kiss that made me forget everything but the pleasure invading my body. David kissed his way down my back to my buttocks. His hands spread my cheeks and he continued to lick his way down the crevice of my ass until he reached my rosette. I tore my mouth from Auric’s and tried to turn to see him and ask him what the fuck he thought he was doing, but Auric grabbed my face and forced me back.

David licked my out hole, a strange sensation for sure that made me squirm, which in turn drove Auric’s cock deeper into me. Auric kept trying to distract me with his tongue, but it wasn’t until David’s odd licking stopped that I relaxed, only to tense up a moment later when a finger probed at my anus. Auric kept my face locked to his mouth so I couldn’t mouth my protest. David pushed at my tight ring with his finger, but made little headway. So the jerk changed tactics. He brought his other hand around to my front and pinched my clit.

I bucked and he used that moment to penetrate my back hole with his digit. The strange sensation mixed with his pinching and rubbing of my clit sent me into a roaring climax that had all my vaginal muscles squeezing deliciously, forcing Auric to jet his cream into me with a grunt.

My orgasmic waves hadn’t stopped when I found myself flipped onto my back, my legs spread wide so that David could take his turn plowing me. The renewed fucking stimulated my still quivering channel and thrust me into a second orgasm that milked David dry.

Magic replenished, I laid there for a moment recuperating, my body smooshed on either side by my lovers.

Then I let them have it. I jumped up from between them and stood over them like some glorious fifty foot tall naked woman “What the hell do you think you were doing?” I asked with a glare.

David shrugged. “We were talking to Nefertiti’s lovers about some new stuff to try in the bedroom.”

I admit that admission stole my tongue for a moment. “You what?” I sputtered.
Oh
fuck, what kind of perverted shit did they convince my boys to do?

Auric tucked his hands behind his head and grinned at me unabashedly. “You can stop acting all indignant. I know you liked it. The proof is drying on my cock.” He kicked my legs out from under me and ensured I landed on his body.

With his arms wrapped around me, I found it hard to hold onto my anger. “A little bit of warning next time,” I grumbled good-naturedly. Staying pissed seemed counterproductive given their goal to pleasure me in new and wonderful ways.

“So you going to tell us what the old witch told you?” Auric asked.

I caught a whiff of brimstone, sweat and utter ick. “I need a shower first.” I admit, I stalled. I wanted more time to think over what I’d learned. After the shower, I faked fatigue, not entirely untrue given I’d sneaked out before getting some sleep. But I knew I couldn’t avoid the questions forever, even if I was prepared to run from the answers.

I woke late in the afternoon to the sound of the boys cooking breakfast—lucky me—

and listening to Sportsnet. Although the smoky scent of bacon tempted me, I stayed hidden under the covers, not ready to deal with them and their inevitable curiosity. I expected, make that knew, Auric would press me for details. I just didn’t know how much to tell him. I needed to plan my next move and decide how I felt about everything that had occurred in the last twenty four hours. My emotions were on the roller coaster of life, and the dips and rushing speed were starting to make me nauseous. I wondered if I could avoid the inevitable a little longer by playing possum until it was time to go to work.