Immortal Fire (7 page)

Chapter Twelve

She felt incredible, warm and
soft beneath his fingertips. She didn’t know it, and would deny it if she
could, but she was his.
All
his. He
savored their time together, hoping the warm water would last. Then again, he
could open up his gift and let it influence her. She’d heat it with her
internal furnace and produce enough hot steam for them to stay in there all
night.

His cock twitched to be in her,
but he held back. One orgasm? She must be insane. From the first time they were
together, he’d learned quickly that her desires matched his. He kissed her
shoulder and then worked his way lower, stroking her body while his mouth
trailed kisses down her back. When he reached her plump ass, he leaned back to
take in the sight of it. Damn, she was curvy. A man could feast for days on her
and never once get tired.

He squirted more body wash onto
his hands and then ran them over her backside, down between her legs and
massaged her clit. She whimpered.

“You like that, baby?” He leaned around
to see her face while she held onto the wall, holding herself up. He’d have
those knees buckling soon enough.

“Yes, lover. You know how I like
it,” she teased. “Take me up.”

He shook his head. “Not yet. You
must suffer first.”

“For?”

He chuckled. “For daring to deny
me even one second.” He allowed the soap to rinse off his fingers and then
threaded one into her slick pussy. A low howl sounded in her throat. “You’ll
come when I say you can come,” he told her.

She didn’t answer so he slipped
in another finger. A gasp was all she gave into. He stroked in and out and
moved his come coated fingers up to her clit to play there. Licking his lips in
anticipation of her tangy flavor, he dipped under her legs and moved in front of
her. With a trembling hand, she angled the water away from his head.

Burying his tongue in her tunnel,
he moaned.
So good. I can’t get enough.
He lapped at her and sucked hard. She cried out, but he pulled back before she
could release.

“Don’t stop!”

“Uh huh. Not finished with the
punishment.” He slipped out from between her legs and stood. Backing her
against the wall, he rested a hand on either side of her head. “Tell me, Kai,
do you like how I look?”

An eyebrow went up. “What do you
mean?”

At will, he grew out a thin
mustache and goatee. His hair grew down long until it reached his waist and
darkened. “Maybe you want a man like this to fuck you?” he questioned her.

She caught her breath. He stepped
closer and let the head of his shaft touch her belly. Sliding it over her navel,
he let it too thicken before her eyes. She crowed.

“Oh yes!” With the boldness he
had come to expect from her, she wrapped both hands around his cock in a sort
of reverence. “Didn’t I tell Mitzi you are a perfect
lover!
”

He chuckled. “You described me?”

She smirked. “I tried to, but the
wench wouldn’t let me.” She leaned forward and kissed his chest. “Want me to
suck your big dick, lover?”

Yes!
He didn’t answer her. Rather he pressed two fingers up inside
her again and made sure they were good and soaked. Then he pulled out and
reached behind her. Parting her ass cheeks, he found her opening and pushed
into the tight hole. Kai fell into his arms.

“Donovan.” She gasped.

“Hmm?”

“What are you doing?” she
stuttered.

“Sealing the deal.” He stuck a second
finger in and a third. She clung to him, shaking and angling her ass higher so
he could go as far as he needed to. He squeezed her ass with one hand while
stroking in and out of it with the other. “You’ll know when I’m done not to
threaten me with withholding your body. Not now, not ever.”

Without pausing in his thrusts,
he lifted her higher and placed her on his cock. She was so wet, he slid home.
This time, he grunted and almost lost control. His orgasm neared, but he fought
it. After he had driven her out of her mind, he’d allow himself release.

He pumped harder in the front and
the back. Raising her up to the head of his cock and letting her fall to the
hilt had her screaming, holding onto the wall and rocking. She pleaded for
more, promised him she’d obey if he didn’t stop. Donovan chuckled. Yeah, he had
sealed her to him all right.

Soon her vaginal muscles began to
tighten around him. Her thighs quivered. He almost begged her to hold on a
little longer, but clamped his mouth shut. He considered pulling out to let her
cool down, but couldn’t bring himself to stop his wild thrusts. Growing his
cock thicker had created an amazing tight fit. Her pussy seemed to suck him,
demand that he fill it. He held on, his willpower fading.

Kai threw her head back. “Oh,
Donovan, I’m going to come. Please, please let me come. I need it,” she cried
out.

He nodded although she couldn’t
see him. Her eyes were closed, her pink bottom lip caught between her teeth.
Her big sexy breasts bounced in front of his face. He was slipping as well.

“Come, baby,” he demanded. “Come
now for me.”

Her screams filled the small
space around them while her hot cream flowed all around his cock. His balls
tightened, and he clenched his jaw, sucking in deep breaths to relax himself.
He rode the sensations out until she calmed but held onto his to keep from
climaxing himself. Afterward, he lifted her off of him and set her down.

Unsteady, she held onto his
shoulders. “You didn’t come.”

“Not yet.” Retrieving the body
wash, he soaped his hands, rinsed, and soaped them again. With gentle strokes,
he washed her body, savoring the point when he let his thumbs pluck over her
ripe nipples. She moaned. “You want to come again, Kai?”

“Not if you don’t.”

He laughed and handed her the
strawberry liquid. “Here. Wash you r master.”

She snorted. “Go to hell.”

He caught her beneath her chin
and lifted it so that she had to look him in the eyes. He let his features
return to his natural appearance, knowing that his eye color had darkened in
the process to almost black. “Kai, wash me. Now.”

* * * *

She stared up at him considering
whether to tell him where he could stuff the command bullshit. Having never
once allowed a man the upper hand, she wasn’t so sure she liked it now or would
tolerate it from Donovan. He had a lot of nerve thinking he could tell her what
to do or when to do it.

For long moments, they stood
there staring into each other’s eyes. She had to consider what he would do to
make her obey him. Spank her? Although never having experienced that either,
the thought of it from Donovan appealed somewhat. Even his commanding tone,
gentle but firm, made her wet between her legs. But at what cost to give into
him?

Coming to decision to risk it,
she squeezed the soapy pink liquid into her palm and set the bottle down. She
rubbed her palms together and dipped them beneath the water to get some suds
going and then ran her hands over his broad chest. His muscles contracted and
flexed, and his jaw went slack. He darted his tongue out to lick his lips. He
had thought to control her with his command, but Kai was an old pro at seducing
men. She would bring him to his knees with her touch and with her mouth. She
grinned up at him before lowering her eyes to hide her secret.

“Why do I have the feeling I’ve
just given up the advantage,” he breathed out.

She shrugged and made a noise of
noncommittal.

Trailing her hands down over his
taut body, his abs in perfect condition, his cock caught her attention. It
stood thick and stiff against his lower belly, extending almost to his navel.
She squeezed her legs together and began kissing her way down to meet his
member. Opening her mouth, she stuck out her tongue to lap up the
precome
goodness on his tip. Donovan growled low in his
throat. He was hers to command.

“Want me to suck you, Donovan?”
She gave him another swipe.

“Yes. Damn it, yes!” He tried to
grasp the back of her head, but she moved and shoved his hand away.

“Just let me work you, lover.”
She trailed down his cock, giving light nips at intervals. When she reached his
balls, she coaxed one into her warm mouth and sucked. Donovan howled. She
stroked his hard thighs and reached around behind him to push his ass toward
her.

“Ah, Kai, what are you doing to
me?” he groaned. “I’m going to come.”

She released his sensitive sack
and returned to his shaft. Letting it slide deep into her mouth and down a
little into her throat, she thrilled at his groans. His thigh muscles quivered.
He pushed his hips forward to pump against her face, and they moved into a slow
rhythm.

When Donovan fell forward with
his hands on the wall, she knew he’d lost the fight for control. His knees
buckled, but she followed him down to the floor of the tub, drawing on his cock
until he suddenly filled her mouth with his precious seed. Kai greedily drank
it down, sucking for more. When she had drained him, she released him and
lifted her head to look into his half-closed eyes.

“Well?” she challenged him.

He didn’t speak, but tugged her
onto his lap and wrapped his arms around her waist. The water dropped in
temperature. Something inside Kai warmed, and steam rose from her skin.

“Woman, you are hot!” Donovan
chuckled.

She snorted. “You better believe
it!”

Chapter Thirteen

Kai squirted catsup on her fries,
slapping the bottle with the palm of one hand while she watched Donovan frown
over the map he studied. “Where are we going?”

“Might as well be going to the
moon for all the sense I can make of this map,” he grumbled. He tossed the
crumpled paper aside and followed her movements instead. “What is that?”

She laughed. “You’re kidding,
right? I don’t allow myself to eat this kind of food often, but when I do, it’s
heavenly. You can’t tell me you’ve lived in Boise all this time and never had a
french
fry.”

“I’ve been here a few months.”

She stuffed a few fries in her
mouth and slid the plate across to him. “Try them. Where are you from?”

His eyebrow went up. “The
underworld, remember?”

“Oh.” She couldn’t imagine anyone
choosing to live down there, or wherever it was in relation to the physical
world. She’d always felt oppressed when she died and had to check in with her
father. Maybe that was why his people wanted out.

She suppressed a laugh as he
first smelled the fry and then took a tentative bite. His sexy eyes widened in
delight, and then he reached down, took a huge clump and stuffed them all into
his mouth. Kai burst out laughing.

“Next best thing to sex, isn’t
it?” She giggled.

He winked. “
Nothing
comes close to what we did in the shower all night long,
baby.”

A rush of warm feelings ran over
her, and she looked away to hide it from him.

“But yes, it’s incredible. What I
have been missing down there is astounding. I never knew.” He muttered to
himself, cleaned her plate and raised his hand to order more. “We can’t stay
here long.
Gethin
will be hot on our trail. I need to
have you trained before we face him.”

“Is he more powerful than you
are?” she wondered aloud.

“Not exactly.” He retrieved the
map while he waited for his order and studied it again. “We have different abilities.
He wields magic like I said. The spells can slow me down, but not kill me. I am
a true immortal just as you are. However, there is someone more powerful than
you, someone who can defeat you and cast you into the abyss.” He seemed to
hesitate.

“My father?”

He nodded after some time. “I
know you don’t want to believe me, but—”

“Oh, it’s not that I don’t want
to believe you. I already know what my father is like.” She sighed. “What I
find confusing is how you tell me my father is the one that hired you and
Gethin
to what, control me? But for what purpose? I’m no
one. He’s more powerful than I am. And he assigned Bevin to protect me.”

“The weakest of the demons.”

She defended her bodyguard. “He’s
good.”

“He’s weak. The fools that have
come after you were losers to begin with. They had no real chance of
overthrowing
Ove’s
power even if they did succeed in
getting you banished to the abyss. Only a demon could do that, and they should
have realized no matter how many times they killed you, you’d only regenerate.”
He shook his head. “No,
Ove
kept you ‘protected’ up
until now, the right time.”

She sighed, feeling lost.
Somewhere deep inside, she had always hoped that
Ove
could have some love for her, that they would develop a real father-daughter
relationship. Donovan hadn’t given her any proof of her father’s involvement,
but she couldn’t rule it out either. “What’s so special about now?”

“Me.”

She smirked. “Confident aren’t
you?”

He grinned. “Always.” He reached over
the table and stroked a thumb across her lips. Her body had just an hour ago
healed of their night’s activities, and she was revved for more. He could meet
her need, and she could meet his. She kissed his thumb then drew it in between
her lips. Sucking lightly, she was amused at his sharp intake of breath. She’d
bet anything he was hard beneath the table.

“Our mission?” she reminded him
when she drew back.

He sighed. “Yes, we need to meet
with someone,
Brenton
. He is a demon, cast out of the
underworld. Although I can’t imagine anyone preferring to live there. Except
the demons, of course. They rule there, are more powerful in that world.
Ove
cast
Brenton
out when he
ousted him from his position as the most powerful demon centuries ago. I am
counting on
Brenton
to train you to take full possession
of your powers.”

“I thought you were going to do
that.”

He shook his head. “I can bring
them out, but only a demon can teach you to be a demon, so to speak.”

She grunted. “I don’t want to be
a demon. I’ve only ever wanted to be human, to live a normal life. Sometimes
I’ve even resented my mother for ever getting involved with
Ove
in the first place.”

He grasped her hands in his, and
she stared down at them. Her fingers were red. She breathed deeply as he had
instructed her before to calm down. If she didn’t, the whole diner they sat in
might go up in flames. It seemed the more she made love with Donovan, the more
her dark side came out. The night before they’d both been consumed in the fire
that she produced naturally while they made love. Nothing in her life had
matched it.

She glanced over at him and knew
he was remembering the same thing. A fire wren, he’d said he descended from. He
was the perfect lover for a half demon.

“Tell me about your parents,” he
instructed her.

“I don’t want to—”

“Don’t you?”

She closed her eyes, sucking in
several deep breaths. “She met him at one of her functions. You know demons.
One of their strengths is to seduce. My mother never had a chance against him.
In his way, my father is handsome. I think he chose a human form when he went
to her. She fell in love and they married here. But he never once stopped with
his lovers. Can you imagine growing up having female demons pop into your home
demanding that your mother stay away from her man?” She rolled her eyes. “Drama
of the immortal kind.”

Amusement lit his dark eyes. “I
can imagine.”

“My mother grew tired of crying
over him, and she broke it off with
Ove
. I remember
the day he left our world for good. He had never asked her to live in the
underworld with him, had kept us both here. He would come and go. I know now
that he only wanted to hide his lifestyle there, how evil he was, how depraved.
I ran behind him, begging him to stay.”

Donovan squeezed her fingers. She
held on, tamping down the old raw emotions, feelings she’d thought she had
dealt with long ago. Foolish of her to love him. That was the human side of
her, the side she thanked her mother for.

“He said he had no need of me,
that I was hers to keep.” Tears filled Kai’s eyes. A flame ignited at the joining
of their hands. Donovan smothered it quickly and gathered their things before
guiding her outside the diner.

They strolled along beneath the
moonlight, Kai fighting with her emotions. Donovan said nothing, allowing her
to work through it before they spoke again. Calmer after several minutes, she
continued.

“That all changed a few years ago
when I came under attack several times. It was seriously disconcerting to find
out that I can regenerate, that my physical body will never die. I do separate
from it when I pass to the underworld, but only for a little while until I gain
strength. Then I return. Sometimes, I’m afraid of what will happen if someone
steals my body and does something to keep me out of it. That’s why I have Mitzi
guard it. Anyway, now
Ove
has assigned me a
bodyguard. I don’t know what made him change his mind about me.”

Donovan pulled her close to his
side and stroked her hip. She laid her head on his shoulder and then he moved.
She stumbled. “Hey!”

His entire body had gone stiff.
Following the direction he stared, she spotted someone near a tree on the trail
up ahead. Her heart skipped a beat. “Kai, get behind me,” he instructed.” She
ignored him.

“Who is that?” She swallowed and
took a step in the direction of the stranger. His eyes glowed red in the
darkness. “Is it
Gethin
?”

Donovan shook his head. “No.” He
pointed to a spot nearby where they stood. “Stay here. I’ll be right back.”

“What?” She grabbed his arm. “I’m
not staying right here. Who is he? What’s going on, Donovan?”

“Trust me, damn it. Kai, wait
right here.”

“Trust you!” she screeched.
“You’re the one who plotted to seduce me. You were in league with
Gethin
until you screwed him over. Why should I believe
you? You still haven’t proven a thing about what you’ve been telling me!”

He grumbled, looked back at the
stranger and then at her. “Fine. Come with me, but keep your mouth shut. There
are . . . creatures
who
if they knew who you are and
what
Ove
wants with you, would stop at nothing to get
you as a bargaining chip. I can’t fight off the entire world of immortals to keep
you safe.”

She scoffed and shuffled off
ahead of him, calling back over her shoulder, “I’ve remained safe all this time
without your help. I’m sure I can manage.”

The creature—for she realized
that’s exactly what it was when its wings spread—jumped up off the ground,
flapped its midnight black wings and then nosedived toward her. Donovan
shouted, “Duck, Kai!”

The thing flew into the light for
a second, revealing mottled greasy feathers and a black-skinned body before the
shadows hid its ugliness. The speed and impact when it hit knocked her off her
feet. She hit the ground and rolled, the wind knocked out of her. Something wet
her lip, and she tasted the metallic flavor of blood. Her side ached. Unless
she missed her guess, that creature had broken a few of her ribs.

Tears spilled down her cheeks,
but she bit off a cry of pain. She didn’t want to give Donovan the satisfaction
of saying I told you so. Donovan reached her, hooked a hand under her arm and
dragged her up to lean against a tree.

“Now stay put like I told you,
stubborn woman!” he shouted.

Before he could move, the
creature flew up into the air, turned and dove again. Donovan put his hands up
to ward off the blow. The creature pounded him, driving his hard body back into
hers. This time, she screamed.

“Donovan, do something!”

He reached out and caught the
clawed feet before they could attack again. Donovan and the creature wrestled
over the ground. Their attacker might have looked scrawny, but even with
Donovan’s bulky muscles flexed, he had a time gaining the upper hand.

The creature looked over at her,
its eyes narrowing, but it didn’t focus on Kai long as Donovan sent a blow to
its jaw, sending it flying backward. “Give her to me,” it demanded when it
righted itself. “Give me
Ove’s
daughter.”

“Not on your fucking life,”
Donovan responded.

Kai had sunk to the ground,
holding her side. She struggled again to her feet. “What do you want with me?”

“
Ove
sent me,” it grumbled. “To take you back to hell.”

Kai didn’t miss the look that
Donovan gave her. “Now do you believe me?”

She nodded saying nothing. She’d
give anything to have Bevin again, but suspected
Ove
had called him off when she skipped town with Donovan.
Ove
wanted her captured, although if she had planned this whole situation, she
would have used those closest to Kai to get her trust. She watched Donovan as
he fought. Could
Ove
bribe him again? Had Donovan
really left
Ove’s
employ so quickly to protect her?
Sex between them was fantastic, but to turn one’s back on one’s family? He had
to be getting something out of this other than the obvious.

The creature sent Donovan sliding
backward, and he bumped his head hard on the ground. Even from her vantage
point, Kai could see he was bleeding. She was helpless to assist him. Glancing
around for something to crack over the creature’s head, she spotted a stick and
moved to get it.

“Kai, no!” Donovan cried out, his
voice weak.