Sebastian (Bowen Boys) (11 page)

He slammed into her hard
, and each time she pressed back against him. Grabbing a handful of her hair, he pulled her up so he could lick along her shoulder. She tasted like heat, her body ready to receive his. As soon as his balls began to fill and tighten, he reached to her clit and pinched hard. She screamed and bit his arm that he held her with. His canines burned for her; his cat snarled as he bit her. Her hot-spiced blood filled his mouth at the same time he roared out his release.

Panting
, he held her. She lay across the lid of the trunk and smiled at him. He kissed her where he’d bitten her and licked the wound closed. Her heavy sigh made him nuzzle her neck.

“You’re a very
impatient man. We might have made this last a little longer if you’d gotten me to the bed first.” He chuckled, knowing that she’d needed him as badly as he had her. “Next time you know I’m in heat, you should let me know in a less public place. I know everyone in that room knew where we were going.”

“I’m sure they did.”
He kissed her shoulder, then stood up. He looked down at his ruined pants. “You’re very hard on my clothing, my lady. I should just learn to wear jogging pants everywhere we go.”

“Why do you think I wear skirts now?
I swear the last time I wore a pair of jeans out, you tore them off me so badly that I had to go home nearly naked.” He smiled at that memory. He’d feasted on her twice before they got home. She slapped him on the arm.

“What? I was thinking about how poorly I treat you.”
She snorted and moved away from him. “Monica, I want you again. But if you want to wait, I can take us closer to home.”

She laughed and got into the car. He moved to the driver’s side
, both sad and happy that they’d driven themselves. Had they come in the limo, he could have had her again in the back seat. Oh well, he’d just have to find a place for them to play on the way home.

“Do you think they’ll be all right, Khan?
Ama and Sebastian, do you think that this demon will be defeated by them?” He nodded. “I hope so. But I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen to them after. Do you think that they’ll have to go somewhere to rule or something?”

“I was thinking the same thing tonight. I hope not.
Walker and Caitlynne will be coming home for good soon, and I’d hate to lose another brother so soon after that. I want them all around us.” She nodded but looked sad. “You like her, don’t you?”

“I do.
She’s very brilliant. So are the others. Caitlynne is amazing, and her plan to take care of Anderson in the morning is great. Jack is such a mouthy woman, but there is something about her that makes you want to smack her one minute and hug her the next. And Jonny? She’s just simply amazing. I love her and her wit so much.”

He waited for her to say more
, and when she didn’t, he glanced over at her. “What is it, Monica? You’re very sad all of the sudden.”

“She’s very special. I don’t mean the faerie part
, just herself. Sebastian loves her very much.” He nodded, waiting. “I wonder if he knows just how lucky he is.”

Khan was pretty sure he knew.
The man was besotted with his mate. Taking Monica’s hand in his, he kissed it. When she smiled at him, he felt like the king of the world and told her so.

“You’re just trying to butter me up so you can tie me to the bed again. Well
, I got news for you. It’s my turn, and I’m looking forward to strapping you down and taking my time tasting every inch of you.”

He nearly drove them off the road.
He looked over at her, hoping she wasn’t kidding when she winked at him. He pressed a little harder on the gas pedal, no longer looking for a nice place to pull over. When they parked, he leapt out of his side and around to hers and jerked her out of the car. As she giggled at him, he threw her over his shoulder and ran up the stairs to their room. He nearly snarled when he saw that his son and daughter were sleeping in their big bed.

“They missed us.”
He growled low, and she laughed. “Come on and help me put them to bed. They’ll be more comfortable there anyway.”

Khan knew he would be as well. His daughter had a
habit of sleeping on his head for some reason, and he had to peel her off every time she ended up with them. Carrying their son to his room, he tucked him into the bed and kissed him, then did the same for his sister. She yawned and looked up at him.

“Daddy
?” She was getting better at saying it all the time. “Lub yous.” She rolled over and he froze into place. When Monica touched his arm, he looked at her.

“She said she loves me.” Monica
smiled at him. “Please don’t tell me that’s not what she said. She said it.”

“Well
, I should hope so; I’ve been teaching it to them for weeks. Khanny can say it as well, but she never would. I think she gets her stubbornness from you.”

He took her hand as she
led them from the nursery. His daughter loved him. He smiled when he thought of all the time he’d been spending trying to get Khanny to say that he loved his mom, and realized that together he and Monica were trying to make them talk. He took her to their bedroom and pulled her into his arms.

“I love you very much
, my wife.”

She snuggled against him.
“And I love you very much, my husband. Now get your ass naked and spread out on that bed. I’m going to show you just how much I do love you.” His cock nearly hurt him when she ordered him like that. And who was he to argue?

Chapter 1
1

Wanera noticed the changes immediately. There were more beings saying hello to him than ever before. And they had taken to wearing name tags, names like “Tom,” “James,” and “Ken.” He no longer called them beings unless he hadn’t figured out their name yet.

He also noticed that
he was sleeping better. He didn’t want to say it was the new mattress, but he was sure that was part of it. He also had silk sheets, something he’d never had before, as well as a television. He smiled when he thought of the last two evenings with Bill. They had been together every night since they’d gone to get the computers together.

He went into the epicenter
, which was what they called the room with the computer, and sat down on one of the many chairs to see what they had loaded this time for his amusement. He was beginning to enjoy the station called YouTube. He especially liked the shows that involved dogs and their tricks.

“My lord, the faerie has not been to the pizza place for many days. Do you think
that she has been terminated?” It took him several seconds to realize that Bill had meant fired, not killed. “She is mostly in the computer place where we have been.”

He nodded. “Perhaps she just took another job to be closer to her mate.
I would if I were her. It’s comforting to have someone you know close by.”

Bill flushed when Wanera winked at him.
He wasn’t sure what possessed him to do something like that, but he enjoyed the man’s company a great deal and was learning a great deal from him.

When the door slammed open behind them
, Wanera stood and pushed Bill behind him.

“She comes
, my lord. Mistress comes.”

Wanera looked down the hall and could see his boss coming toward him. He looked at Bill.

“You have to hide. You know that she doesn’t like you.”
Most of the beings disappeared just as his boss, Lady Darkness, came through the door.

“What the fuck
is going on around here? I’m gone for a few decades and it looks like you’ve made changes to everything I liked. And what the hell is up with all these name tags? They mean nothing to me. Get rid of them.” Five beings ran from the room and he watched them with his eyes, wishing he could go with them. “Aren’t you going to offer me a seat, Wanera? And a drink?”

He pushed the computer chair he’d been sitting in moments before
to her and then went to find someone to get him a bottle of something for her to drink. Bill usually took care of this and he’d sent him away. The moment he stepped through the doorway to see what he could find, he heard a whisper of his name. Bill was standing there with a large glass in his hand.

“Thank you.”
Bill nodded. “Find the others and tell them I’m sorry. Then all of you stay hidden. Hide in my room if you must.” He turned back to the epicenter and handed her the glass, then sat in the other chair across from her as she sipped.

“You’ve been busy spending money
, I see.” He looked at the computer she was glaring at. “What on earth do you need something like this for? Does it kill things from here?”

“No
, mistress, it does not.” He nearly told her about the videos they’d been looking at when he realized she would find no humor in them. “I’ve been using it to find information on…on bad guys.”

“And what have you found?”
She leaned forward in her chair, and he was sickened by her odor. “There has to be something if you’ve spent all this money.”

At random he clicked on one of the icon
s that he’d asked Bill about yesterday. He thought this one was the database to the police station. He was glad when he saw that when it opened, it was just that. He showed her how they were able to follow the most heinous crimes without leaving the room.

“Some humans have no regard for the law
, and that’s just….” He’d just caught himself from saying that was just horrible. He let her think whatever she wanted as he clicked on other parts of the page.

When had he
changed? He knew that he had and wasn’t unhappy with it. He wasn’t lonely anymore, and he laughed. He tried to remember, before he’d gone to see the male faerie, when he’d slept so well and had been so…well, he was happy. He realized she was speaking to him and turned back to her.

“I asked you if you’d found a bride to breed with.
Last time I was here you were saying that you were looking. Well?” Wanera decided at that very second that he didn’t want a bride that he didn’t know to come there. “Well, asshole, I’m speaking to you.”

“No. I’ve been looking
, but there doesn’t seem to be many brides out there that would come to live in this realm with me.” Sad but true. “I’ve decided that I might retire before my time is up.”

She stood so quickly that the pain in his chest was secondary to the shock of her advancing on him. He lay there with his chest bleeding
, wondering what had happened. She jerked him up by his throat, and he was glad for once that he didn’t need to breath.

“You listen to me
, you fucking poor excuse for a demon. You find you a bride and bring her here. I want you to bring several of them so that one of the fucking bitches will breed and live long enough to sire you a child. I will not be thwarted on this, do you understand me?” He tried to nod but couldn’t, but she must have seen something. “You’ll do this or so help me, I’ll kill you myself by peeling every inch of skin off you an inch at a time.”

He was thrown across the room and hit the crates that were being loaded with the older computer and things that they no longer had use
s for. When she came toward him again, he curled into a ball, afraid that she was going to start now on killing him.

“If you do not have a bride here within a month
, I’m coming back here and killing you. And when I do, I’m going to kill each and every one of your little beings until I get to that little cock sucker that I hate more than I do humans.” She kicked him again. “Don’t think that I don’t know that you hid them away.”

He didn’t move but lay there as she kicked him half a dozen more times.
By the time she left the room, he was hurting so badly that he almost wished for death. He looked up when Bill and a couple of others came into the room.

“Don’t let her find you.” Bill said she was gone.
“I have only a month to find a bride or she’s coming back to kill us all.”

“We will find you one.”
Nodding, the men helped him to stand and then walk down the hallway to his room. Bill helped him try to get onto his bed, but Wanera hurt so badly that he ended up in a chair to rest.

“I
can’t do this,” he told Bill after the others left. “I don’t want to be here anymore. And I don’t want a bride that I don’t know. She’ll hate it here. She’ll die.”

“What will you do
, my lord? There is very little left that you can do but to do as she wishes.” Wanera nodded. “If I can find you a suitable being, would that help?”

“No. I need a faerie.
She would be the only being that could survive me. I need someone strong so that our coupling doesn’t kill her.” He closed his eyes, depressed. “I wish I could go and live with the humans. I know now that they aren’t nearly as bad as we are taught they are.”

Wanera
sat there for several minutes before he heard Bill and some others return. They helped him get to his bed, saying he’d be more comfortable. Some of the others had his television from the sitting room with them. With him lying against the headboard of his bed, they turned it on and then settled around the room to watch it with him. Soon someone shouted “popcorn” and they began putting cupfuls of it in a bowl and heating it with their breath. There was enough popcorn in his carpet alone to feed a great army.

By the
time they were all asleep, Wanera had made a decision. He was going to save as many of them as he could, starting with Bill. He closed his eyes again as the television went black, and tried to think how one got beings like his to a safe place.

~~~

The knock at the door startled Ama. Sebastian had left an hour ago and she was getting dressed to go and have a day with Monica and the other women of the household. When she bid the cook to come in, she was worried at once something had happened.

“Oh no
, miss, I’m fine. Right as rain, but there’s a…well, miss I’m not sure what he is. He said to tell you he comes in peace. I don’t rightly know what he means by that, but he held up his four fingers in a sign that I don’t understand.”

After making sure
the cook was all right, she went to the kitchen where…well, she wasn’t sure what he was either.

“Hello.”
The little man jumped down off the chair and lay on the floor. She wasn’t sure what to do, so she asked him to stand. He was making her nervous. She heard a car pull into the drive just as she got him to stand.

“I’m Bill.”
He grinned at her. “You’re much prettier than a white blip on the computer. And a whole lot bigger, too.”

“Thank you, I think. Why don’t you have a seat and tell me what you need from me
?” He nodded and climbed up onto the seat. She wanted to just pick him up and put him there like she’d seen Khan do with his children, but felt that it would more than likely hurt his feelings. She realized then that he was in a suit. A tiny little three-piece suit.

“My master is in grave trouble.”
She nodded and sat down. “I have come to ask you for your help in this matter before he’s killed.”

The door to the kitchen opened and Corrine and Monica walked in. They must have been forewarned about the little man
, because neither of them seemed too surprised to see him. She introduced him to them.

“He was just telling me that his master needs my help.
Do you mind?” Corrine started to say something, but she only closed her mouth and shook her head. Monica smiled and sat down across from her.

“The
Lady Darkness has said that he needs a bride within the month, and if he does not have one, she will peel his skin from him an inch at a time. I do believe she will do this. She was most upset with him when she left.” The little man looked around the room. “Would it be possible to have a cup of something hot? It is very chilly in here.”

A shiver of something akin to fear rolled over her.
“Chilly? I think it’s about seventy in here. Just how hot do you like it?” He didn’t answer but nodded when she asked him if he wanted hot tea.

“You’re a demon servant
, aren’t you? A minion?” Ama nearly dropped the cup she’d just taken from the cabinet when Corrine asked him. “I’ve seen your kind in books. You serve a demon or a lesser demon.”

“I do
, mistress. I am servant to Lord Wanera.” He took the tea bag from her as she stood with it, nearly to the table. “But I believe he is becoming my friend as well.”

“Does he know that you’re here?” Monica looked at her
, then took the tea kettle away from her and sat in the chair. Ama was still trying to absorb the fact that the man who wanted to breed with her had sent one of his minions.

“No
, he does not.” The little man stared at her, then looked away. “He does not want you to come to the underworld, my lady. He has had a change of heart.”

“Why?”
He looked at her strangely. “What’s changed his heart? A few days ago he came to my mate’s place of business and offered to buy me from him. What would have made him not want me now?”

“The
Lady Darkness. She came to visit him yesterday and beat him badly. And when she gave him that order to find a bride, he said that he would rather live with the humans than to subject one to live as he does. She has given him one month. If he has no one, she will kill him.” He took the cup from Monica and smiled at her. “I have never had hot tea before. Is it good?”

“I suppose. I don’t care for it myself.
Why does he need a bride? I’ve heard that he needs a child so he can continue with his job. If he doesn’t find one, then he’s killed?”

Bill
nodded and frowned. “Not entirely true. He will die, but it will be over the period of time he has reigned as lord. For my lord that would be about…seven thousand of your years. She will take that long to kill him. He heals, you see. Not quickly as you do, but he heals. She will wait until he is healed enough. Then she will begin again. I can only imagine what horrors she has in store for me. As I have said, she dislikes me a great deal.”

“And now you come here hoping we’ll help you?”
Monica shook her head. “I don’t know why you think we’d raise a hand to help a demon, but I have to give you credit for trying.”

“You love him.”
Corrine startled them all by speaking. “You’re in love with him and you’re here to save him. That’s right, isn’t it? You’re in love with your boss.”

“I have been for many years.
It has only been recently that he has come to be my friend. I do not wish to lose him so soon after he has made such changes in our lives.” Bill took a sip of the tea and smiled. “This is very good. So sweet, too. May I have the recipe? I believe my lord will enjoy this as well.”