Immortal Fire (11 page)

Chapter Nineteen

Kai settled down in the water, a
tingle rippling over her flesh when she made contact with Donovan’s hard form
behind her. His hands came around to cup her breasts, and she moaned. “Give me
a minute to settle myself, lover.” Her attempt at adopting her old casual way
sounded flat in her own ears. She hoped he didn’t notice, couldn’t pick on how
afraid she still was.

Her world had been turned upside
down, and where she had been sassy and flippant most of the time, now, she had
to fight not to run and hide somewhere. Still, she was determined that she
would go with Donovan and
Brenton
tomorrow to fight
Ove
. If her lover was going to die, she would die with him.
Besides, she had hope that somehow
Brenton
and
Ove
would destroy each other, so she, Donovan and Mitzi
would be free.

Donovan pressed his lips to her
earlobe and planted a gentle kiss there. “Let us forget everyone at this
moment. You and I are the only inhabitants of this little fiberglass world full
of soapy bubbles. She smiled at his teasing.

“Yes, my lord.” She chuckled.
“And you’re the king of it. My wish is to serve you.”

He shook his head. “Oh no. You
are the queen. I’m here to serve
you
.”
He nipped her shoulder. “If I must, I will spend all night long pleasuring
you.”

He pinched and tugged at her
nipples. Kai arched her back, pushing into his palms. “It’s been so long. I’ve
missed you.”

His hands slid lower to cup her
mound. With one hand, he parted her pussy lips and slid the fingers of the
other hand inside her. “I’ve missed you too. My body is starving for yours.
Come, feed me, Kai.” He stroked deep, gliding over her slick come-moistened
inner walls. Her muscles clamped around his fingers, trying to draw him deeper.

Kai ached to have an orgasm. She
grabbed hold of his wrist and shoved him deeper. Bucking her hips, she rode his
hand until she was ready to come. Donovan straightened his fingers, tightened
them together in the rough form a small cock. He shoved in deeper and faster.
Kai screamed.

Her orgasm slammed into her body,
making her shake from head to toe. She would have catapulted into the water,
but Donovan tightened his hold around her waist and pulled her back to his
chest. She rested her head on his shoulder and shuddered each time he stroked
her sensitive clit.

When the waves of bliss eased,
she moved her hand to his arm. “Your turn, Donovan. Do you want me to suck
you?”

“No.” He didn’t allow her to
shift her position. With a gentle nudge, he lifted her up to settle her on his
ramrod cock. Angled and broader than she remembered it being, it fit snug in
her throbbing pussy. Kai shifted her hips and wiggled to force Donovan farther
inside her.

“Ah! Kai!” he groaned. “Was it
this good last time? What was I thinking being separated from you, darling? Mm,
wait, easy. I don’t think I fit like I did before.”

She laughed,
gyrating
her hips once again. “You do feel snug, baby, but that adds to the pleasure. I
think you might have found my sweet spot. Donovan, drive it in, baby? I need
that!”

He had insisted on being gentle
because of her injuries, but she convinced him of the desperate need they
shared. If he didn’t get off on her soon and let her come for the second time,
they’d both lose their minds.

With strength that had Kai
panting, Donovan shifted forward and lifted her with one arm. He planted her on
her knees, the water sloshing the sides of the tub. “Then hold on, Kai. I’m
going to wear your little twat out.”

She grabbed hold of the sides of
the tub and gripped hard. Donovan nudged her legs wider and placed his hands on
her hips. His cock escaped her tunnel for moment, but he positioned it at her
opening again. The rounded head glided lower to bump her clit. She groaned.

“Mm,” he muttered. “Look how wet
you are. Your juice is leading me home, Kai.”

“Put it in,” she screeched, a
little unsteady. “Don’t tease me, Don.”

He allowed only the head to
penetrate her. Kai tried to push back on it, but he held her in a firm grip
that didn’t let her move an inch, forward or backward. In slow, cruel teases,
he pushed in and out only an inch or two. Kai whined, but Donovan’s thighs
quivered behind hers. He wouldn’t be able to go on unless he let loose.

Without warning, he pummeled her
pussy, grinding his long, thick shaft all the way in and bringing it out to the
tip. His control to both keep from hurting her by driving too hard and not to
pull all the way out amazed her. Faster and harder he pounded. He released her
hips to rest a hand on her back and one at his waist.

His growls were guttural and
desperate. “I can’t hold it, Kai. I’ve got to fill you.”

“Do it, baby. Do it for us both!”
she shouted. Her own sensations were building to a second orgasm. Before
Donovan let loose, she came screaming, but her body wouldn’t let her rest. On
the heels of one climax, she climbed to the next. Donovan’s cock seemed to grow
again, swelling and pushing at her passage. Her muscles gripped him and refused
to give way. Still he tunneled his way in, demanding more. Tears filled her
eyes. Too much. This was too good, the pleasure and pain mingled.

Finally, Donovan shouted, and his
come shot up her passage. He didn’t grow softer, but he stayed hard and
continued to pump.

“Don . . .” she uttered on a weak
breath.

“I can’t stop.” His voice
revealed his exhaustion. Still his hips worked. He lay down across her back and
wrapped his arms around her. His palms grazed her puckered nipples, and his
mouth found hers. Their tongues intertwined. It was a moment before Kai
realized she was no longer holding onto the tub, but neither was Donovan
holding them up.

She opened her eyes. In a corner,
sort of half visible in their realm,
Brenton
sat on a
kingly styled chair with Mitzi on his lap. Both were naked, and Kai gasped to
see
Brenton’s
monstrous cock buried inside her tiny
best friend. Mitzi’s eyes were closed, and her head rested on
Brenton’s
chest, turned away from them.

Kai screamed. Donovan jerked and
looked up. His eyes narrowed in anger. “You! What the hell are you doing in
here?”

Brenton
chuckled. “Enjoying the show.” He wiggled his finger, and Donovan’s hips
renewed their thrust of his cock. Kai gasped. The last wild drive they had been
on, when they couldn’t stop, like their bodies had complete control, had been
orchestrated by
Brenton
for his pleasure.

“You bastard,” she spat. “Let her
go!”

He laughed. “Why should I do
that? Mitzi has come several times, haven’t you baby?” He lifted Mitzi’s head
and turned her to face them. Kai watched her friend’s eyes open slowly. Mitzi’s
cheeks reddened.

To Kai’s own embarrassment,
Brenton
lifted Mitzi off his cock and it popped free,
covered in silky white come. Mitzi groaned, and
Brenton
massaged the shape-shifter’s little nub with the pad of his thumb. Kai couldn’t
turn away. Neither could Donovan it seemed. He grew in Kai with his eyes locked
on
Brenton’s
rough stroke in and out of Mitzi.

“Donovan,” Kai cried out.

“Kai, baby, she likes it.” He
turned Kai’s head to face them much like
Brenton
had
done to Mitzi. Kai didn’t want to accept it, but Mitzi was moaning and wiggling
on
Brenton’s
shaft. Her soft pink lips were parted in
an O, and her eyes had drifted closed again.

“It’s a spell. He’s forced her,
Don,” she told him. “Just like he’s forcing us.”

“And we’re hurting for it how?”
He thrust hard inside her. She screamed and came to
Brenton’s
rude cheers. A second later Mitzi also cried out when her orgasm hit her. The
tables turned. Donovan eased out of Kai, and together they sat in the still
warm water, heated from Kai’s fire.

Kai couldn’t stop watching Mitzi
and
Brenton
. She was so small and he strong enough to
flip her around and lift her high by her ass and her thighs to his mouth. His
loud, greedy eating at her pussy made Kai squirm.

“Oh goodness, that’s hot!” Kai bit
her lip, eyes wide, staring.

Brenton’s
massive cock extended up to his navel. His body was rock solid, his chest
broad. He could rival Donovan in a sexy body. While she enjoyed looking, she
loved Donovan and wouldn’t trade him. She glanced up at her lover, and he
looked down at her with a wink. She was confident that he felt the same. Mitzi,
though sweet and sexy, wasn’t for him.

Not that
Brenton
would apparently let her go for more than a second. He ate like a man starved.
And Mitzi tangled her fingers in his hair, arched her back and shouted each
orgasm as it hit. At long last,
Brenton
let her down
to slide along his cock but not allowing himself to go inside her. Mitzi rested
on his chest, thoroughly submissive to him. He grinned, catching Kai’s eyes.
She knew he wanted more for her to see what he had taken from her and what he
wouldn’t return. She turned away.

“Now that we’re all satisfied,”
Brenton
announced. “We rest. Tomorrow, we fight.”

Chapter Twenty

“So what’s the plan?” Kai asked
the next morning when they met in Donovan’s living room. “I assume you’ve been
doing something other than fucking all night?”

He laughed. “Like you were?”

She crossed her arms in front of
her and looked away. She still hated
Brenton
for
using Mitzi. If he snapped his fingers, her friend acted like she had no choice
but to obey. Kai was convinced he had brainwashed her in some way to make her
enjoy sex with him. He was a freak of nature with his oversized equipment.

“It’s a simple plan,” he told
them. “Mitzi will be our decoy.”

“What!” Kai screamed. Donovan
pulled her back to him when she would have launched herself at
Brenton
.

He went on as if she hadn’t said
anything. “She will transform to look like a demon and stroll right into
Ove’s
compound. I will instruct her on what she’s to do
when she gets in there. Meanwhile, the three of us will work together.” He
shifted his gaze to Donovan. “It is my belief that your unique gift will allow
you to absorb our powers if we submit it to you. In the same way that you can
force others to reveal their hand, so to speak, you can take it a step further
and cause them to give up those powers to you. At least temporarily.”

Kai’s eyes
widened,
and she glanced up at her lover. He appeared doubtful but willing to give it a
whirl. They had one shot at this. She prayed he could do it and not get hurt.
For that matter, she hoped she could give up the limited ability she had to
him.

She turned back to
Brenton
, pinning him with a look of dislike. “How will this
help us? And how do we know you won’t betray us. It’s in a demon’s nature to do
just that. Just like
Ove
did to me and my mother.”

“
Aww
.”
He fluttered his lashes rudely at her. “Poor little thing, hurt by her daddy?”
He reached out to touch her, but Donovan uttered something that put a block
between them.

“Don’t touch her, or you and I
will go head to head first,
Brenton
,” Donovan
threatened.

Brenton
flared his nostrils, his eyebrows dropping low over his eyes. “Fine.” He
flicked a tolerant gaze to Kai after staring long and hard at Donovan. “It will
help because, as much as it pains me to admit,
Ove
is
more powerful than I am. It’s why I was forced to leave the underworld after I
lost our fight for dominance. I’ve
been wanting
payback for fucking years. When your pretty boy here absorbs our powers, it
will make him the most powerful being in the underworld, bar none.” Again he
reiterated to Donovan. “For a limited amount of time! So you damn well better
act fast to cast
Ove
into the abyss.”

Kai gasped. “The abyss? That’s
forever. There’s no coming back from that.”

“Right.” He rolled his eyes, no
longer interested in Kai’s emotions.
Brenton
left the
house, and Kai and the others took their cue from him, following close behind.

Donovan gripped Kai’s hand to
pull her back from the others. “Baby, I don’t know how this will go.” He
paused, fear in his eyes. She knew it wasn’t for him, but for her. She hazarded
to guess if he thought it would do any good, he would tell her not to come. “If
something goes wrong—”

“It won’t.” She stroked his face.
“You’ll do it. You’ll banish
Ove
, and the last hope I
entertained of having a father-daughter relationship will go down the drain.”
She shrugged. “It’s the way it must be. I understand that. I love you, Don, and
I will stand by your side.”

“Then let’s do it.”

* * * *

It had all happened so fast. Kai
found herself in a room. At least she thought it was a room. She was all alone,
in darkness. The others had turned away from her, even Donovan. No. He
wouldn’t. Would he? Doubts swirled in her mind. She pressed the heels of her
hands into her eyes and tried hard to focus.

She had given Donovan her power,
but that left her open to
Ove’s
deception. This had
to be the result, this nothingness.

“Hello?” she called out. Her
voice reverberated off of the unseen walls and taunted her. “Is anyone here?
Donovan? Where are you?”

“
Tsk
,
tsk
, poor Kai.” She spun around to see
Ove
standing there. Her heart tightened in her chest. “You were a fool to come
against me, Kai. You should have obeyed me, stayed by my side. At least you
could have lived out your life. After some time, I would have even allowed you
to take a lover or two or ten.” He chuckled.

“
Ove
! I
can’t believe you’re doing this to me. I’m your daughter! Don’t you have any
feeling at all?” She was just stalling. It had become abundantly clear the last
time they fought and her own father had scorched her skin, disabling the use of
one of her arms, that this beast had no feeling in him. He was incapable of
love. “Today is the day you come off your throne,
Ove
.”

He laughed outright, preparing a
ball of fire in his hand. “Who will bring me down, Kai? You? Don’t make me
laugh. It didn’t work the last time. It won’t work now. You’re weak. All humans
are weak.”

He launched the fire at her, but
Kai leaped to the side and rolled out of the way. She willed a return shot to
form in her hand, but only steam rose. Damn, her powers hadn’t returned. Where
the hell was everybody else? She felt like she was in this alone.

“Nothing to say, Kai?” Her
father’s hand rose again, but this time no fire formed. He turned his palm to
face her, and something told her he was just being dramatic, to add to her
fear. This wasn’t a fire attack at all. Too late, she realized it was another
illusion. Cords encircled her head and body. A clear jar appeared in front of
her with a label on it that said “acid”.

No!

Ove
stepped closer. “You know what happens to you if you believe that acid is truly
being poured down your throat?”

Her heart pounded, and blood
rushed in her ears. Her knees gave, but the cords somehow kept her upright. Kai
closed her eyes and concentrated. Maybe she could send the illusion back to her
father. She pushed with her mind. During her training, she’d never been able to
master the technique to her fullest potential.
Brenton
had said she was too distracted. How could she not have been with her father
and her lover plotting against her at the time?

She tried harder to push the jar
away. When she opened her eyes, it had moved to within inches of her father.
Hope igniting at what she had done so far, she concentrated with all her
strength, and the cords popped and hissed. They dissolved, allowing her to
slump to the floor.

Kai sat there gasping for breath.
She glanced up in time to see her father wave a
finger,
and the jar disappeared. It had taken everything in her, and this man hadn’t so
much as broken out into a sweat. Kai struggled to her feet. She needed to hold
out a little longer. Donovan would come. He had to.

Her father seemed to read her
mind. “Are you waiting for your lover, Donovan?” he taunted. “He won’t be
coming. I’ve already tossed him into the abyss.”

“No!” She wept. “You couldn’t
have. He’s too powerful.”

“You think I didn’t know about
your plan, that you were in league with my enemy, Kai?” He flexed his fingers,
and another ball of fire lit them. It grew while she watched, bigger and
bigger, until it was larger than a basketball. Still it expanded.

Her heart skittered. She had
trouble breathing. This was what happened the last time. A demon should not be
able to be burned, but
Ove
had scorched her skin.

“No,” she pleaded. “
Ove
, don’t. You’re my father.” Pitifully, she tried to
produce her own fire as she had done before. Not even a flicker or steam. Had
Donovan tricked them all, took their powers and then abandoned them? With a
demon’s ability, even for a short period, he might be able to open the lock on
the underworld and escape into another. Would he leave her?

“I hear your thoughts, Kai,”
Ove
teased. “You doubt him. Now, what kind of relationship
is that?”

“You don’t know shit about a
relationship!” she screamed. “You left me. You cheated on my mother.”

He waved the ball of fire back
and forth. “It’s who I am.” He stood there smug, in his natural form, red skin,
chest bared and tail twitching behind him. His horns had extended high from his
head and curved toward the back. She thought he was disgusting, but knew if she
ever let the darkness inside her take over, she wouldn’t look too different.

“That’s it. I’m done with you!”
She told him. “I don’t care what happens to you from here on out. I have no
father.”

His voice turned sarcastic. “You
break my heart, Kai.” He hurled the fire at her. She tried to dodge out of the
way, but it was too big. This time, she would die. The heat reached her before
the fire. She waited for the pain she’d experienced the last time, but the heat
lessened, and the light from the fire soon followed.

The darkness receded, and like an
avenging angel, Donovan stood there in front of her. He too held fire in his
hands, both of them. It expanded. Just past him, Kai saw her father’s shocked
face. Donovan had never commanded fire, but he did now with
Brenton’s
power and hers. He opened the black hole behind
Ove
with a thought. The death, the stench in there choked Kai. She covered her
mouth and watched her father.

“Impossible!” her father
exploded. “You look like . . . No, that’s not . . . How?”

Donovan chuckled and looked to
his left. “This ball here is compliments of Kai, the love of my life.” He
looked to the right. “And this one is from an old friend of yours.”

“What are you talking about?”
Ove’s
words were defiant, but he was nervous. Kai noted the
beads of sweat on his forehead, and he had trouble maintaining the fire he had ignited
on his arms and torso.

Kai looked up to Donovan’s face.
His handsome features shifted into that of
Brenton’s
,
and that same cruel smile that the demon liked to wear spread across Donovan’s
face. She shivered seeing it.

Donovan wasn’t one for delaying
and making long speeches. He didn’t seem to need to push at
Ove
,
building his fear and tormenting him like he had done to so many others. A
sudden wind kicked up, and
Ove’s
feet slid back
toward the roaring abyss. Kai wrapped her arms around Donovan.

“For your crimes against humanity
and the citizens of the underworld,
Ove
,” Donovan
announced, “die!” Donovan hurled the balls of fire at her father, scorching his
chest, his face.

To his credit, her father didn’t
cry out begging for his life. He roared in anger as he disappeared into a black
void, and the portal closed. The wind died down. The illusion that
Ove
had created to make her feel like she was in a void of
his making disappeared. They were still in
Ove’s
office where she had confronted him.

When Donovan dropped to the floor
and pulled Kai onto his lap, she felt her power returning. Heat suffused her
body, and despite how she had fought it for so long, it was comforting. She
hooked her arms around the back of Donovan’s neck and met his warm lips. “Now
what?”

He grinned. “Now we get married.”

Her eyes widened. “Excuse me?”

Lifting her, he chuckled and
strolled over to a gigantic black leather couch gracing an entire wall. The
thing might as well be a bed. Donovan dropped down on it with her stretched out
in front of him. “Well, that’s my plan anyway. Right after I sleep for the next
three months and then make love to you.”

She grumbled. “In that order?”

“Using and then losing the amount
of power I just did takes a lot out of a man.” His eyes drifted closed.

Kai pushed him on his back and
climbed atop him. She unbelted his pants. “Don’t worry. I’ll take care of you.
And I’ll beat off the creatures
who
will break down
the door to get us to lift the barrier holding them here.”

His eyes popped open. “Oh, I
forgot about that.”

“Already taken care of.”