Taboo Kisses (21 page)

“Goddamn. Goddamn.” Gabriel twisted her hair until her scalp stung. He made tiny jabs
into her throat, but never
left
the depth of her mouth.

Maximus ran his fingers along the lump in her neck.

“
S
top touching us there, Maximus. Feels too good to come just yet.”

The vampyr used his thumb to stroke the outline of Gabriel’s cock on her neck.
“Hum, Sameya.”

Excited by Gabriel’s loss of control, Sameya stared at the tiger and hummed. A strangled
noise left his throat
,
and the white Bengal tiger imprinted over his skin for a flash of a second. His grip
on her hair
intensified
as he palmed the back of her head. Gabriel lost control and fucked her mouth and
throat, driving her face into his abdomen with the strength of his thrusts.
The frenzy
couldn’t have lasted longer than a
minute when he
came;
pulling back to fill her mouth with cum rather than shoot it down her throat.

“Don’t swallow.” His voice sounded guttural, as he made small jabbing motions into
her mouth.

When he
exited
from her, Maximus slammed
his
lips
over hers
. Their wet, cum-sloppy kiss had her grinding down on his cock. Tongues meeting and
tangling, one of the
men
removed the apparatus off her clit. Sameya moaned as the first small wave of
rapture
deluged her body. The vibrations in her ass increased
as if it’d been punched to high speed.
Maximus
groaned
into her mouth
, she guessed he felt the dildo’s higher speed
,
also
.

The vampyr jerked his head back to lean against the back of the chair. With their
eyes
locked, he released
her hands. “Rub your clit
if you want to come with me.”

Sameya positioned one hand on the chair beside his head and the other over her
nub
. She flattened her feet on the floor and lifted herself up and dropped down on his
length without any control to her descent. Each drop jabbed his
Apadravya
against her G-spot. Finge
rs circling fast along her clitoris
, her breathing escalated, as did
his
.

Suddenly she didn’t want
any of their lovemaking
to end, but knew he’d come without her if she didn’t join him. The feel
of
him inside her pussy and the dildo in her ass, stuffed her so full, she never wanted
this to end.

Maximus came, his cock jerking inside her, the hot spurt of liquid filling her. “Don’t
stop
!” He gasped. “T
ake your pleasure
,
”
t
he words were barely more than grunts
.

Whimpers left her lips like desperate pleas to the climax goddess. Gabriel knelt and
fucked her with the dildo as she
rode
Maximus. The third thrust of the object in her ass did it for her. Throwing her head
back, she came with a scream, riding
Maximus
through
the radical bliss
. Nearing the end, Gabriel shoved the vibrator into her and she came again, harder
this time.

Maximus captured her face between his hands
.
“Yes! So perfect.”

A s
tarburst of light overcame her vision
,
and he
r
brain ceased to process anything but
the ecstasy
.

“Shit!” She heard Gabriel snarl.
And she didn’t think it was in a good way
. Sameya tried to focus her body off the
climax
, but her brain refused to fire-up.

A heavy thump hit the floor followed by more snarling.

Maximus tensed beneath her, his hands tightening on her hips.
“Motherfucker—”
H
e twitch
ed
beneath her.

Sameya dragged in a labored
breath;
her body
shivered
with
short-circuits of
convulsions, reminding her body of the intense bliss it’d experienced
moments before
. Even though a
sense of dread overcame her
, she couldn’t get her
brain
to cooperate
.

In tiger form,
she caught sight of Gabriel leaping
at a man she didn’t recognize. A female held a blade to Maximus’
s
neck
, a thin line of blood already trickling down his
skin
. Whatever the chick had used on him, he was out.

“Think of mind-fucking me and I’ll slice his throat
.
”
T
he unknown female
offered her a sick and twisted smile
.

Yanked off Maximus
from behind,
she hit the marble floor, her elbows
and knees
protesting the violence. The pain
unimportant as she tried to serenade them, but not even a small warble emerged as
she tried to push her magic out of her over-stimulated
brain
.

She blinked up into
the
smiling face
of a male she’d never seen before
. “Got you, bitch.”

He sprayed something into her face. Sameya cried
out and swatted at her
stinging eyes
.
S
he reacted with a serenade
that worked this time
.
But i
nstead of
the song controlling them
,
it
echoed in her head
.
Pain shot through her limbs, overriding all
enjoyment
. Grasping her temples
Sameya
curled into a fetal position
.

M
oments later
velvety
blackness
overrode all
of her
senses
.

Chapter
Seventeen

In his tiger skin
, Gabriel paced a small path in front of the locked steel door.
Too angry to shift, he
issued random growls of fury
. His right shoulder
continued to
bl
e
ed
, but it’d heal soon
. While the
ache
was
tolerable in shifter form
,
and h
e’d endured worse injuries
, he worried about his mates
.

Maximus
remained unconscious
,
sprawled on the concrete floor. They’d taken him quickly
,
and rather easily
,
with a knick of wormwood to the throat.
Wormwood was next to impossible to find
,
and he’d never seen any himself—until tonight. Many believed the worms that burrowed
through and lived in the wood excreted a substance that was toxic to vampyrs and not
the timber itself. Legend revealed the only place it could be found was in Atlantis.
That
particular wood was the one thing guaranteed to take a vampyr down.

M
anacles
made of the lumber circled Maximus’s
wrists and neck
, preventing
him
from rousing
.
Gabriel hoped his spouse
awakened
before
dying
.

He had no idea where Sameya was located. Gabriel had tried to get to her when he spied
Tyrone Gryphon, but the bastard had subdued her with ease by spraying something in
her face. And she’d been practically
depleted
from the orgasms they’d forced on her. She’d said they weakened her
,
and he’d arrogantly thought they were safe in their magically locked-tight home
.

Gabriel snarled. They
forced danger on her
every time
they made love to her.
The idea of what Gryphon could do to her turned his stomach sour.
Anger leached
through
his tiger
,
and
he
heaved
himself against the door with a roar. The barrier didn’t dent.
Had it been anything but steel
—his weakness—
he’d have tor
n
down the barrier.

“Gabriel?”
At the sound of
Maximus’
s
scratchy voice
, he swung
about.
“What the hell happened?”

Maximus pushed up into a seated position and slouched against the wall.
Breathing shallow
,
and
his
skin
pallid
, the vampyr’s predicament was gloom
y
.
Chuffing
t
wo heavy breaths, neither calming
Gabriel
, he shifted, w
incing
as he
altered
into his human
skin
.
Injuries always hurt worse in
mortal
form.

“Tyron Gryphon happened.” Gabriel put his hand through his hair and related the
events,
as he knew them. He’d taken down
ten
of Gryphon’s minions
. Ripped the throats out of
two of them
. T
he
remaining
bastards
had managed to restrain him.
His only consolation was that they all
wore various lacerations. None of them had come away from the scuffle unscathed. “I
don’t know what he used on Sameya, but she went down quickly after he sprayed it in
her face.” He turned and rammed his fist
against
the door. Knuckles splitting, they dripped blood on the floor. “We’ve got to find
a way out of her
e
. She’s
alone without us to—”

“Stop.” Maximus curled his fingers around the wormwood collar. Seeing his
mate’s
flesh bubble around the restraint, Gabriel fisted his hands
as his claws burst through his fingertips
.
He ignored the punctures they created in his palm, focusing instead on what his lover
said.
“Sameya’s strong and smart. Don’t count her out.”

“I’m not.” Gabriel prowled back to Maximus and knelt in front of him. “Thinking of
the things Gryphon could do to her without us there to protect her…it drives my cat
crazy.”

“I know.” Maximus scratched at the flesh blistered on his wrists.

“I already tried to remove these.” Gabriel indicated the wormwood restraints
encircling
Maximus’
s
wrists and neck.

The vampyr nodded, but changed the subject. “What about Kat?”

“I have no idea.” He hadn’t even thought of her. What type of friend did that make
him? “The last
time
I saw her was when I left the kitchen to ge
t the box of toys. She was
playing the X-box
,
and I
cautioned
her to stay out of the kitchen
unless she wanted an eyeful
.”

“
Gryphon
obviously knows our
vulnerabilities
.” Maximus tapped a finger against a wrist restraint and motioned to the steel cage
they were housed inside. Steel was the only thing that
could
contain a shifter. “How did he learn Sameya’s
weakness
?
We don’t know what he sprayed in her face.
How did he even know she was with us?”

“I don’t know.” Not liking Maximus’
s
labored breaths
, Gabriel sat down and pulled him against his chest. “My best guess is he had the
house bugged.” He ran his fingers through the chocolate strands of
his mate’s
shoulder length hair. “I’m going to kill him, Maximus.”

“If he’s left a single mark on Sameya, he suffers first.”

Gabriel could get on board with that. They sat for a while in silence. Maximus lying
on his side, with his head reclined on Gabriel’s legs.

“You think we pushed her too hard in the kitchen, Maximus?” He couldn’t stop thinking
about the things they
’d
done to her. The things she’d allowed them to do to her. Nary a complaint from her
,
and he’d sensed her reticence with the butt plug. He’d also tasted the spice of her
excitement.

“
S
he needed to know what we’re about if she’s going to make an informed decision whether
to remain with us.” Maximus
went into a coughing fit that racked him harder than a grand-mal seizure. W
ormwood sickness
worked
rapidly
and w
as
lethal ninety percent of the time if not countered almost immediately. Gabriel prayed
for a miracle from every god he knew about
. “We can’t pretend to be something we’re not.”

He wanted to tell Maximus to conserve his energy and stop talking, but that felt like
giving up.
“But we could’ve taken it slow. We don’t have to fuck her together before the month’s
out.”

“Don’t go soft, Gabriel.”
The vampyr
squeezed
his
thigh
, his grip so slight
it was obvious his strength waned
.
Panic clogged
Gabriel’s
chest with a hard knot, but Maximus continued to talk.
“
The monsters in us need to take her that way to make her ours. She needs to know what
it’s like, to determine if it’s something she can handle.”
A weary sigh rattled from
his mate’s
lungs
and
Gabriel
resisted embracing him tighter
, as if that’d dampen the danger of the wormwood
. “We both know not all women are capable of
accepting our demands
in the bedroom without the double penetration. Sameya seemed to handle us fine.
Better than fine. That woman gives as good as she takes.
”

“Maybe. I don’t know.” He trailed his fingertips over Maximus’
s
cool brow.
His lowering body temperature a
bad symptom
.
“She was scared of us in the beginning.”

“I wouldn’t have classified her as scared.” Maximus licked parched lips that were
cracking as Gabriel watched. His long-time mate was losing strength
fast
er than he’d like
. “She was determined to remain alone and have nothing to do with us. But scared….”

“She was scared, Maximus. We forced ourselves on her.”
Y
et he felt no regret about that. Probably because
coercing
a mate was a common denominator among the mystics
and shifters
.

“
She was
frightened that we’re her mates
, but not
afraid of us
.”

Gabriel nodded.
Maximus spoke true.
S
ure of her capabilities, Sameya was too arrogant to be f
earful
of anyone. Which brought to mind the predicament they were in.
“
We
didn’t
even protect her when she’s at her weakest, why would
she
remain
with us?
I wouldn’t.
”

“I…don’t know. We can hire security and get Kat’s coven to drench the house in wards.”

“If Kat’s alive.” Gabriel grimaced
over those
words. To give the thought life
unsettled him
.

“Before we can worry about any of that, we have to get out of here.”
Maximus
’s
eye
lid
s drooped
,
and his mouth sagged to one side.

“You okay?” Gabriel nudged his shoulder.

“Feel wi—wa—weird.”
His vampyr smacked his lips. “T
ung…pheel…phat.”

Tongue feel fat, Gabriel interpreted Maximus’
s
slurred words.
At least that’s what he thought he said.

Maximus went into a
very real grand-mal
seizure
, eyes rolling into his head, foaming at the mouth and his entire body jerking
.

Gabriel went feral, his cat roaring their grief.

***

Sameya’s head pounded like a heavy metal drummer resided within. Throat dry
, ears ringing
,
and eyes scratchy, she blinked several times before finally elevating her eyelids
enough to peer about.
The
over bright
room
caused
her
to
cringe and
made
her head hurt worse
.

Where
the hell
was she?