No Limits (12 page)

Riley was trembling. “So, let me see if I understand this,” she said. “You’re saying that Luke is a half god?”

Aria nodded. “His father was Ares, the god of war, who is also the father of Queen Hippolyta.”

“But Luke is so young,” Riley protested. “How can he be the queen’s brother?”

“Ares has many children,” Aria said. “That includes recent ones, though Ares hasn’t been seen for the past decade or so, I’m told. Luke disguised his powers to be accepted here.”

“So
… what? It just so happened that we kidnapped a son of Ares who happened to go to my high school? What are the chances of that happening?” Riley asked.

“It could not have happened
merely by chance,” Aria said. “Luke must have enrolled at your high school for the sole purpose of gaining your attention. He would have known all along that you are who you are and planned to seduce you.”

“But he never really even spoke to me,” Riley said. “I just thought he was cute and happened to tell you.”

“Sometimes the most ungettable guys are the most attractive to us,” Aria said. “He paraded himself in front of you and made you think that he didn’t notice you. It worked, didn’t it?”

Riley thought about all the times she had sat in the football stadium and pretended to do homework while she snuck looks at Luke. “It still doesn’t make sense,” she said.
“Why me? Why would he go to all that trouble to seduce me of all the Amazons?”

Aria sighed. “It’s because of your parents,” she said.

“My foster parents?” Riley asked.

“No, your real parents,” Aria said. “You are the daughter of
the Amazon Queen Penthesilea, who was the sister of Queen Hippolyta, and King Agenor, who was a king of the Gargareans. Do you know what that means? By your birthright, you have a claim to one of the nations of Amazons. Should your brother die, your children would have claim to one of the nations of Gargareans.”

Riley was stunned.
“My parents. Are… Are they still alive?”

“Sorry,” Aria said. “Your mother is not. She was killed in battle
. It was a very honorable death, I’m told.”

“I see,” Riley said as disappointment and
feelings of loss welled up within her. She didn’t know why she was having such a strong reaction. She had never met the woman, after all. “And my father?”

“
I’m not sure,” Aria said. “Dead as well, I think. Look, you can worry about that later. I’ll help you look into it, I promise. Here’s the important thing...”

“Ugh, I just realized something,” Riley said, feeling sick. “Luke is sort of my uncle.”

“Focus,” Aria said. “Bloodlines don’t work the same way for divine beings, okay? Just because you’re both descendants of Ares doesn’t mean you have as close of genes as decedents of a human would have. The important thing you need to be thinking about right now is this: Luke’s end goal. He wanted to impregnate you. Your offspring will be the heir to an Amazonian nation and we think Luke intended to use that to gain more power.”

“To what end?” Riley asked.

“We think he meant to have children with you until he had a girl and a boy. Then he would kill you and your brother, making his children heirs to two powerful Amazonian and Gargarean nations,” Aria said. “The children would be too young to effectively rule so that would leave him as the de facto ruler. With two nations under his control, he would seek to conquer the other Amazonian and Gargarean nations. Then, who knows? Perhaps the world. He is the son of the god of war, after all.”

“
Luke is capable of all that?” Riley asked in shock. “But then why did he leave? Why didn’t he stay to impregnate me or, if this child growing inside of me is actually his, impregnate me again?”

“We can only guess at that,” Aria said. “If I had to bet, I’d say that Luke never intended to stay here for long. We would have sensed the power in a child who was born of a half god and an Amazon. Plus, Luke couldn’t have hid his own powers forever. Sooner or later we would have figured it out. I think that he planned to kidnap your child and hold it over you until you went away with him and produced more of his children. See, when a child is born, we let the father hold it. I imagine that he planned to use tha
t moment to steal the child and fight his way out of here. When you told him that he might not be the father, you ruined his plan. If it turned out to be Tyler’s, Luke wouldn’t get a chance to hold the baby. Thus, he wouldn’t be able to steal it. We would have discovered who he was before he managed to impregnate you for your second child.”

“So he’s gone then?” Riley said with
both relief and sadness. “At least we don’t have to fear him anymore.”

“Yeah… It’s not quite that simple,” Aria said. “There’s another way Luke can create children with your bloodline.”

“How?” Riley asked. “Did my real parents have more daughters?”

“As far as we know, you and Chace are the only children of
Penthesilea and Agenor,” Aria said.

“Then how…”

“When potential breeders come to our warehouse, we give the suitable ones a choice,” Aria said. “They can either become breeders or go free. If they choose to go free, however, we don’t let them go free as their old selves. If we did, they could go back home and tell the police about us. Instead, we change them, giving them new identities and making them… uncomfortable about going home. To be more precise, we use a stone of power given to us by Ares that enables us to change males into females.”

“Uh, okay,” Riley said slowly, trying to process that. “I’m not sure what that has to do with…”

“If we have a stone, there might be others out there,” Aria said. “Chace is your sibling. He carries your bloodline. We think Luke is scheming to find Chace and take his manhood from him. We think Luke intends to turn Chace into a woman who will then bear Luke’s children, giving him the heirs he needs to go to war.”

“How are you feeling, darling?” Luke asked.

Chace pulled Luke’s arm tighter around him with one hand and rubbed Luke’s chest with the other hand. He savored Luke’s scent and the feel of his muscled body. “Good,” he said.

In truth, he felt great. The past few days had been amazing. He would get to suck Kyle
’s cock at night and then Drew and Luke would make love to him during different times of the day. Surprisingly, Luke was the most open with his affections, kissing Chace and cuddling with him often. It drove Chace to attempt the same with Drew. At first, Drew rejected him and called him gay. Soon, however, they were kissing and cuddling as well. Only Kyle remained adamant that there be no signs of affection beyond cock sucking. Chace was allowed to kiss and lick Kyle’s lower abs but that was as far as it got.

“It’s too bad we can’t take that cup off,” Luke said wistfully. “It would make things much more… interesting.”

The thought of having Luke suck Chace’s cock immediately make Chace go hard. That was the one problem with Luke; he never jacked Chace off like Drew did. It was like Luke refused to acknowledge that Chace was still a man. Chace would have loved to have made Luke suck his cock. Still, if he lost the cup then Drew wouldn’t have an excuse to keep fucking him, and Chace liked that. He was actually torn about removing the cup. He couldn’t let Luke know that, however. The football stud would look down on him. “Yeah,” Chace said. “I’d give anything to get this thing off.”

“There might be a way, you know,” Luke said.

Chace’s head jerked up to stare at Luke. They were lying in Luke’s bed so Chace had to crane his neck to look at Luke. “What do you mean?” he asked.

“I overheard a conversation yesterday between some of the senior Gargareans,” Luke said. “It seems that King
Telemachus keeps a magic stone in his office that makes whatever sexual changes you want to occur happen. So, if you want the cup to come off, you just need to hold the stone and wish to regain your manhood. The stone gives you whatever you wish for.”

Chace frowned. “Seriously?” he said skeptically. “I’ve never heard of anything like that. How is it magic?”

“They said that the stone was a gift from the god Ares,” Luke said.

“Wasn’t Ares the god of war?” Chace asked, wracking his memory. “Why would the god of war create something to make your sexual fantasies come true? It seems more likely that he’d create something to use on your enemies.”

“Gods are very complicated creatures,” Luke said. “You never really can understand what they intend. Trust me, that’s what I heard. So, what do you think? Do you want to break into King Telemachus’ office with me and steal it?”

“Why would you put yourself at such risk for me?” Chace asked.

“Two reasons,” Luke said. “The first is that I don’t think man should have to live without his cock. The second is that, although we’ve only known each other for a short time, I, um…”

“You’re starting to develop feelings for me?” Chace asked quietly.

“Yes,” Luke said. “Exactly what you said.”

Chace felt a strange heat blossom
through his entire body. He felt excited and nervous all at once. Damn it, he was turning into a giddy little school girl. He told himself to calm down. “Thank you,” he said simply.

“My pleasure,” Luke said. “Now, speaking of pleasure…”

Chace immediately knew what Luke was hinting at. He slid down Luke’s muscular body and slipped the boy’s cock into his mouth. It was still sweaty from Luke’s vigorous love making. Chace liked that. He enjoyed the taste of Luke’s sweat. Chace started to suck.

“Thank you, darling,” Luke said. “I can’t wait until we get that stone. I think that you and I are going to have a very wonderful and fruitful relationship together.”

“I am not training!” Riley said emphatically as Aria shoved her into the training room.

“I told you to be quiet and do what you’re told,” Aria hissed. Her eyes darted around at the other recruits and their trainers. “You’re making a scene. People are watching us.”

“I don’t care,” Riley exclaimed. “My brother is in trouble. I need to go help him.”

“You don’t even know where he is,” Aria said.

“No, but I’m sure many of the
Amazons he do,” Riley said. “He has powers. The Gargareans must have taken him. You can’t tell me that the Amazons don’t know where the Gargareans hide out. You need to tell me now.”

“I need to do nothing,” Aria said angrily. “Do you remember what happened the last t
ime you challenged my authority?”

“I’m not wearing a silver bracelet now,” Riley retorted. “You won’t find me such an easy target.”

Is that so?” Aria said. She held her arm up in the air.

Suddenly, guards emerged from nowhere. They dove at Riley. Riley was able to dodge one of them but not before another one slapped a silver bracelet on her wrist.

“There. Are you feeling a little more obedient now?” Aria asked primly.

Riley was enraged. She hurled herself at Aria.

Aria dodged the attack easily. She brought her elbow crashing down on Riley’s back.

Riley fell to the floor but she rolled to her feet quickly.

“Give up,” Aria warned. “Defiance does not end well for you. Trust me.”

“You cannot keep me here against my will!” Riley yelled. She wrapped her fingers around the silver bracelet and wrenched on it with all her might.

Aria laughed. “Honey, that’s not coming off,” she said. “Give it up.”

Riley wasn’t listening, however. She just redoubled her effort. She thought of Chace and what Luke planned to
do to him. She couldn’t let Chace lose his manhood. It would devastate him. She pulled harder and harder on the bracelet, ignoring the pain of it digging into her arm.

“I told you to
give it up,” Aria said. “You’re just hurting yourself.”

“I am Riley Morgan!” Riley cried. “I am the daughter of an Amazonian queen and a Gargarean king.
My brother is in danger and I will help him, even if it means I have to cut off my own hand to remove this damned bracelet.”

“You’re a fool,” Aria said. “Your punishment this time will be…”

Aria never finished what she was going to say because at that moment Riley screamed and ripped on the bracelet with every fiber of her being. It bent. It twisted. Then it snapped.

Aria’s eyes flew open in shock. Riley heard gasps fill the training room. “But… but that’s impossible!” Aria said. “The bracelets cannot be broken.”

Riley didn’t care about what should or should not have been possible. She took the bracelet in her hand and hurled it at Aria’s head. Aria was so stunned that she did not get out of the way in time. The bracelet struck her on her cheek bone and ricocheted away. Aria clutched her face in pain.

The Amazonian guards were trained to react to any surprise and so they leapt into action immediately.
One guard threw a punch at Riley’s head. Riley felt it coming and pivoted so that the punch went sailing by her. She kicked the woman in the midsection with a backwards kick and then shot the same leg forward, catching the other guard in the stomach with a front kick. Both women went down.

The other Amazonia
n trainers in the room left their charges to run at Riley. Before any of them could reach her, however, there was a deafening crack. Riley spun to see Queen Hippolyta holding a bull whip that she had snatched from one of the training racks.

“So,” Queen Hippolyta said
, staring at Riley. “You have decided to reject our wisdom and assistance after we brought you in and protected you.”

“Protected me?
From what?” Riley asked. “From the fake Gargareans you hired to attack me?”

Riley had no idea if the three men who a
ttacked her were Gargareans or hired by the Amazons to make her think that she needed protection. She didn’t care. From the startled looks on the recruits’ faces, she saw that she was making them think. That challenged Queen Hippolyta’s authority.

The same thought evidently occurred
to Queen Hippolyta. Her face reddened. “Lies,” she seethed. “You’re challenging me. You want my crown. I will not have it. Amazons, I order you…”

“I challenge you, Queen Hippolyta, to a duel,” Riley yelled over the queen. “I am the daughter of Queen
Penthesilea and therefore the rightful heir to one of the nations of Amazons. We are equals and as an equal I challenge you.”

If Queen
Hippolyta’s face was red before it was purple now. “Equals? Equals!” she said with indignation dripping from the word. “I am Hippolyta, queen of Amazons and the daughter of the god Ares. I have lived for thousands of years. I have fought hundreds of battles against legendary foes. I have fought Hercules himself. What are you? A teenage girl who has just discovered her powers. You are a babe in this world. You would not last a fleeting moment against me in a duel.”

This was the ope
ning Riley needed. Admittedly, it wasn’t a large opening. Queen Hippolyta was almost assuredly correct that she would defeat Riley easily. Still, there was no chance Riley could defeat all the Amazonian trainers and the queen together. She needed to lure the queen into a duel. It was her only hope. “I am a girl who needs to protect her brother,” Riley said. “That’s who I am. If you are afraid to fight me then by all means have your trainers do your bidding. It’s what you do, isn’t it? Get people to fight your battles for you?”

“Enough,”
Queen Hippolyta said in a rage. “We will duel here and now. Your vile falsehoods will be dispelled when all here look down upon your lifeless corpse.”