“Sweet, holy, mother of…fuck,” Seth gasped, his fingers taking hold of my hair and dragging me closer as I kept a tight grip on his leg with my right hand and splayed my palm against his firm abs to hold him in place with my left.
The rush of blood I got from that throbbing pulse point was enough to make a growl of pure pleasure escape me as I swallowed greedily, the mixture of his blood and the adrenaline rush from the hunt getting me hard as I flexed my fingers against the firm ridges of his six pack.
“Cal…by the stars, Cal, this is so fucking…I can't…holy shit,” Seth garbled and I felt the brush of his cock against my cheek as he got hard too, his fingers still tightly fisted in my hair as my pulse spiked and I froze for a moment, realising exactly where I was biting him and what this might seem like.
But…he was pulling me closer, not pushing me away. And even though I probably should have been pulling back myself, that was the last thing I wanted.
My heart began to race as I sucked on his thigh again, an insane idea occurring to me as my dick chafed against the fabric of my boxers with a need I wasn’t sure I wanted to put a name to and I slowly began to shift my hand down Seth’s abs.
“Caleb, are you sure you want to-” Seth groaned as I sucked harder on his thigh, drawing even more of his delicious blood into my mouth and no doubt making him light-headed as I took more than I knew I should. But I couldn’t help myself. I was becoming addicted to the taste of him and I couldn’t help but be a glutton when it came to feeding from him like this.
I growled in warning as he shifted his weight and he cursed as his cock scraped across my cheek in a demand I felt echoed in my own body. A demand I was starting to seriously think about answering.
A wet drip landed on my cheek and I flinched minutely before a second drip fell on my skin right next to it.
“What the fuck is that?” Seth hissed before a yelp of alarm spilled from his lips and he shoved me back with enough force to make me respond.
I jerked my fangs free of his leg, tilting my head back to look up at him, unsure what I was even going to say or do—
A wet splatter hit my face once more as I found him staring at the roof above us and a curse spilled from my lips as I spotted a body hanging from the rafters. Or what remained of a body anyway. And as I squinted, using my heightened vision to see through the darkness, I spotted the body parts of other victims, whole pieces of them strewn everywhere.
Blood and gore filled the space above our heads and the wide open mouth of a Fae caught in an endless scream stared down at us from above.
“Holy fuck, what the hell did that?” I swore, scrambling to my feet and training my senses on everything around us as I tried to make sure nothing was about to leap out at us from the shadows.
“I think that’s the group of rebels who should have been on guard out here,” Seth said, his hand latching around my arm as he drew me back towards the exit, a shield of air forming around us just in case. “Can you hear anything nearby?”
I strained my hearing to the best of my ability, but if there was anything here it was either concealed within a silencing bubble or it was neither moving nor breathing. Fear crept along my skin at the thought of our enemies being so close to my friends.
“Nothing,” I confirmed, hunting the shadows for any signs of movement and finding nothing there either.
“We should tell the others,” Seth said urgently and I nodded, letting him draw me back towards the exit and leaving the bloodbath behind as my gut knotted and frayed.
“Come on. We need to make sure the others are alright. Are you certain no one passed you while you were waiting for me?” I demanded, my skin prickling with tension as I kept my senses trained on everything that surrounded us.
“I’m pretty sure,” Seth said, looking around too, tilting his head to one side as he no doubt used his Order gifts to survey the surrounding area just like I was. “But I was running and focused on you. I guess there’s a chance that someone fast could have gotten past me. I wasn’t exactly on high alert.”
I nodded. “Then we need to make sure everyone is safe,” I said, fear twisting through me as I grabbed Seth and hoisted him onto my back before shooting towards the farmhouse to find the others.
I had no idea how a bunch of guards could have been massacred without anyone noticing a damn thing, but we needed to figure out what the fuck had happened here.
I lazed on a chair built into the rocks, leaning back against Orion’s bare chest as I watched Xavier, Max and Geraldine playing catch with a ball of water in one of the bubbling pools. Geraldine had decided that the girls’ bathhouse within the royal quarters was required for relaxation for me and Tory this morning - despite my protests – but it was hard to keep complaining when Orion ran his fingers repeatedly through my hair and I practically started purring like a Lion Shifter with how content I was.