Tegan's Power (The Ultimate Power Series #4) (29 page)

I ignore her conjecture
about Theodore’s age and focus in on the aphrodisiac part.

“Is that so? What about
you?” I ask with a grin.

“What about me?”

“What do you find an
aphrodisiac?”

“Finn,” she mutters and
looks away. I squeeze her arm and chuckle, bringing my mouth to her earlobe and
sucking. She gasps.

“I love it when you
make that noise,” I whisper and move her so that she’s lying flat down on the
bed. We could spend the next several hours discussing what we saw in her
vision, and yeah, we should probably tell the others, but right now I just want
to be with her. Everything seems so vital, almost like we only have so much
time left.

It always feels like
that in this city. There’s this constant anxiety that your next breath could be
your last, which is kind of an occupational hazard when your job is slaying
vampires.

I capture her mouth in
a kiss, cradling her face in my hands.

“Finn,” she says my
name again in protest but I choose to ignore it. My hand drifts down between
her legs.

“Open for me,” I murmur
into her mouth and her thighs which were squeezed tight fall instantly apart.
That’s my girl.

“Finn.”

“Stop worrying, baby,
I’ll take good care of you,” I say, my breaths speeding up when I cup her in my
hand. She whimpers and I apply pressure to her clit. I shove her T-shirt up and
off over her head before swiftly discarding with her bra. Then her beautiful
tits are bared to me and I groan aloud. She’s too fucking perfect. I trail my
hand down her side, revelling in how her hips jut out lavishly from her small
waist.

“Finn, I’ve never done
this before,” she finally confesses and I pause.

Okay, so I kind of
already knew that. With some women you can just tell, and Allora projects her
innocence like it’s scrawled across a billboard.

“That’s alright.” I
reassure her, meeting her pretty gold eyes. “Do you want me?”

“Yes, so much. God, so
much.” Her gaze drifts down my chest with need and I smile, obliging her by
removing my shirt so that she can look her fill.

She shyly reaches out a
hand and feels down my abdomen, my muscles jumping at her touch. I close my
eyes and enjoy the sensation of her fingers as they explore me.

“Hey,” I say opening
them. “You want to get on top?”

She chews on her lip
and nods. I flip her deftly and my back hits the mattress as I let her straddle
my thighs. Her hands continue to move over my bare chest before fumbling with
my belt buckle and undoing the fly of my jeans. I’m so busy staring at how
incredible her tits look from this angle that I don’t immediately notice her
tugging down my pants.

I chuckle and help her
get them off. Then I’m completely bare arse naked and she’s almost naked. The
last item of clothing she has on are those white knickers that I’m just itching
to tear off.

Gripping the back of
her neck, I pull her mouth down to mine, kissing her hard and possessive. She
moans as she grinds herself into my erection and I swear I almost blow my load.
Both our chests are rising and falling as our arousal builds. I hook my fingers
under her knickers and ease them down an inch.

Her mouth moves to my
neck and I can’t take it any longer. I have to be in her now. Her underwear is
off seconds later and I continue to kiss her as I reach over to the nightstand
where I stashed a few condoms the other day…not like I was planning this or
anything. Ha, yeah right.

She breaks the kiss to
watch me tear open the foil and roll on the johnny. Her eyes are wide, taking
everything in. Once it’s on I pull her under me and spread her legs wider. I
let my hand drift over her wet folds for a while, and then I start rubbing
circles into her clit. I want her to come first, that way she’ll be less tense
when I enter her.

She orgasms with a
strangled cry and a rosy blush colours her cheeks. Wow. I don’t think I’ll ever
get tired of doing that to her.

“That feel good, baby?”
I ask, my voice low. It’s taking every ounce of willpower I have not to plunge
into her hard and fast. She’s too fragile. She needs me to be slow. For now.

“So good,” she sighs
and I nudge my tip at her opening. “Oh, God, please,” she begs. “I want to feel
you, Finn.”

“I want to feel you
too,” I groan and bring my mouth to her ear, licking along the shell and
sucking. I enter her just the slightest bit and she whimpers.

“Jesus, you’re fucking
tight, babe,” I practically growl.

“Please,” she continues
to beg.

I push in a bit more
and she clamps her thighs around me tight, her legs locking around my waist. I
try to focus on keeping this slow and steady, but damn, she feels amazing. I
know this has to be hurting her. She’s still moaning but once I push through
that thin barrier of skin she goes incredibly quiet. I brace myself on my hands
to see her face and her eyes are squeezed shut.

“I know it’s sore,
baby. Tell me if you want me to stop,” I say gently, watching her intently.

She must be biting on
her lip hard enough to draw blood right now. Finally, she opens her eyes and
answers, “No, keep going, I want you to.”

I rock my hips back
slowly and then in, never breaking eye contact with her.

“You’re so beautiful,
so gorgeous,” I whisper and continue to utter sweet things to her as I lose
myself in the sensation. Our slow rhythm allows me to feel every inch of her
around me. Her muscles clenching on my dick are almost too much to take.

“Finn, God,” she moans.

I quicken my thrusts
just a little and her mouth falls open in response. I think this might feel
better for her now that she’s gotten used to me. I’ve never actually been with
a virgin before. The kind of places a fella like me frequents doesn’t really
make for meeting a lot of untouched women. The fact that I know I’m her first
awakens something primal inside me. I feel like I could kill if another man
ever tried to touch her.

Moving my hand to her
clit and my mouth to her breast, I’m determined to make her come a second time.
Her muscles clench around me exquisitely when I touch the tiny bundle of
nerves. Her thighs lock around me tighter as I feel her orgasm building.

“Yes,” I rasp. “God,
you feel so good.”

I know I shouldn’t but
I’m too frenzied to stop myself, and I start to fuck her now. She lets out a
loud cry of pleasure and I know I’m going to come soon. I wait until I bring
her to the edge to let go, and just as she shatters in pleasure beneath me I
spurt into her with a strangled groan.

“I love you,” I think I
hear her whisper so quietly that I can’t be sure she actually said it.

I roll us so that I’m
cradling her body in my arms. I hesitate, unsure whether to ask her to repeat
herself.

A minute later I
finally summon up the courage. “Allora, what did you just say?”

There’s no response and
when I pull her around to that I can see her face I find her breathing deeply
and her eyes are closed. She’s fallen asleep.

I try to fall asleep
too, but I can’t seem to manage it. I just keep thinking about her words,
thinking about whether or not she actually said them.

Nope, not going to be
getting some shut eye any time soon.

Making sure not to wake
her, I roll over and off the bed, pulling on my jeans and shirt. I decide a
quick bite to eat might make me sleepy so I go down to the kitchen to see
what’s on offer. Gabriel, Alvie and Tegan are sitting at the expensive chrome
looking table drinking tea and talking.

“What has you all up so
late?” I ask taking a seat beside them.

“Oh, you know, we’re
just hashing things over, trying to see if there are any holes in Roman’s plan,”
says Gabriel.

“And…are there?”

Alvie sighs. “Aren’t
there always.”

I can’t argue with
that. Looking between the three of them, I decide to tell them about what
happened with Allora and what we both saw in her visions.

“Jeez, talk about a
spurned lover. I never thought anyone would actually be crazy enough to kill
their partner because they caught them cheating,” says Tegan. “Though it does
explain how determined he is to destroy the vampires in this city.”

“You know, I’m kind of
disappointed,” says Alvie with a grin. “I mean, I just expected his reason to
be bigger than a simple case of wounded pride.”

“People are pretty
simplistic when you look beneath the surface,” Gabriel adds. “Even sorcerers.”

“There’s only one more
day until Theodore lets the chaos free,” says Tegan and we all go quiet,
thinking about it. She looks at me. “Finn, when you were in the vision with
Allora, did it feel like the people were dead when the chaos got into them, or
did it feel like it was Roman’s spell taking effect?”

“Honestly Petal, I have
no idea.”

She lets out a long
breath, a crease forming on her brow. “There must be an easier way of doing
this. I don’t see why we can’t just find Theodore and kill him before he even
releases the chaos.”

“Well, we don’t know
where he is for a start,” says Gabriel. “He won’t have stayed in the house
Roman found him in for long. It’s too risky.”

“I guess.”

She clasps her hands
together and a thoughtful expression comes over her, but she doesn’t say anything
more. If I didn’t know any better I’d say she was concocting something that’s
going to get her into trouble. But no, she’s not that stupid.

At least I hope she
isn’t.

With these thoughts in
my head, I’m not so hungry anymore. I return to my room and climb into bed
beside Allora. I wrap my arms around her, making the most of the time we have
left, because if Theodore gets his way we’ll all be done for soon enough.

Shut Your Mouth and
Fight Me

Tegan

I can’t stop thinking about how the
All-Knowing Tome showed me what it takes to kill a sorcerer. I have this innate
feeling that it told me because it’s my responsibility to put an end to
Theodore.

Cut off his head.

Burn his body.

I can do that, right? I
was the one who killed Eliza when she’d been intent on my death. Theodore might
be a little trickier, but it’s…doable. There is that one little obstacle of
having to find him first, but I have a plan.

There’s a scarf among
my things that belongs to Rita. I borrowed it and forgot to return it, which is
lucky because now I can use it to cast a location spell. If I find where Rita
is I’ll also find where Theodore is.

Bob’s your uncle and
Fanny’s your Aunt.

Yeah, I know it’s not
going to be so simple, but I have to try. I just want the waiting to be over. I’ve
never had the patience for, well, patience. I don’t want the others to discover
what I’m up to. So, very early in the morning when Ethan’s out of the house, I
get Amanda and Rebecca to sit in on the location spell with me as it requires three
people. Neither of them knows much about magic. In other words, they accept my
excuse that I’m casting the spell to protect the house from Theodore. Little do
they know, Roman has already completed that particular task.

I cut off a piece of the
scarf and place it under the glass on the map I’ve spread out the floor. With
bated breath I watch as it moves along the paper and finally lands on a spot
close to where Emilia’s barrier is. I recognise the area, but as far as I know
there’s nothing there, no buildings to hide inside anyway. Huh.

I tell Amanda and
Rebecca they can go and then I steel myself to talk to Emilia. I’ve been
putting the conversation off since she was brought here, but now I really need
to get it over and done with. I find her sitting on the bed in her room, her
legs crossed and her hands in her lap. Always so prim and proper.

She doesn’t say anything
to me as I enter. I lean back against a wall and study her. “So, I guess you
know why I’m here.”

“You want to save
yourself,” she answers with the tiniest hint of venom.

“I want to save myself
and my baby, Emilia. Can you tell me how to do that?”

She glances down at her
hands and then back to me. “If I do this will you instruct your vampire to set
me free?”

“If you agree to leave
Rebecca alone, yes. But not before then and not before I see that your method
works.”

Her eyebrows shoot up
as she lets out a hard laugh. “So I will have to wait here confined in this
room until you give birth?”

I sigh and slide down
the wall until I’m sitting on the floor. “I don’t see any other way right now.”

Her eyes narrow as she
watches me, a million thoughts flashing in her gaze. A couple of minutes of
absolute quiet pass before she says, “Go and get a pen and paper, you will need
to take down a list of ingredients.”

“For?”