Maximus arched a dark eyebrow. “As in the tiny species that enjoys cleaning one’s
house.”
“Yes. More or less. She does many other things than just clean. I keep her well stocked
with liquor. Tequila’s her favorite.”
Gabriel chuckled. “A drunk fairy. That must be entertaining.”
Sameya shrugged. She’d never seen Dart intoxicated, so she had no idea if the brownie
could become inebriated.
Maximus yanked on her pants
,
and she stumbled into him. A hand to the back of her neck steadied her
,
and he massaged her flesh. “I want these off. Now.”
“N-now isn’t the best time for…
p-play
.”
But by the goddess her belly burned in anticipation. “After our meeting with E’Neskha
is the best time. You’ll have as long as you n-need.” Maybe it was
best to get it over with fast.
“How considerate. She’s thinking of our timeframe, Gabriel.” He shot the other man
an ironic glance.
“I believe she’s a little nervous
, Maximus
.”
Of course she was nervous. Her vampyr had detailed what he’d do to her later for collaring
him.
Her tiger moved in behind her, his palms landing on her shoulders to glide down her
arms and circle her wrists. He pulled them behind her back and held them imprisoned
at
the base of
her
spine
. “I probably would be
,
too
,
with the way your vampyr is gazing at her.
Like you might eat her.” She didn’t think Gabriel meant the
sexual
variety. “
Maybe you should clarify why she deserves discipline.”
Discipline? Wait a minute! That she wouldn’t tolerate.
“I’m not a child. I’m an adult who has the free
dom
to do as I please.
If being mated means I have to answer to either of you, you’re dead wrong!
”
“I’m angry with
you.
”
Maximus
knelt in front of her and quickly pulled off a boot.
“What have you to be angry about?”
For the life of her she couldn’t figure out why he would be mad.
The second shoe followed the first
,
and he rose before her. His thumbs hooked between her flesh and pants on either side.
“The hostility in that room was tangible. Thick. More than one want
s your Empress out of her seat.
And you can bet your ass you are the hot focus of an assassination attempt.
”
“Felt like half the congregation had a death wish for her,” Gabriel added
against her ear
.
“As a shifter
,
I sense things like that more acutely. I pinpointed at least two dozen
who
followed you out of the Hall with hatred
in their eyes
.”
“
Want to tell me why they’d make a go at you if your Empress is the best siren?” Talking
around his fangs seemed a touch difficult,
and Maximus’s
words
were
over accentuated.
“
S
he might be the best
at sleep serenades
, but she’s not the most powerful.”
Gabriel pushed her hair over her shoulder and nipped her earlobe. “Let me guess, you
are the most powerful.”
“Yes,” she whispered as he sucked her lobe into his mouth.
“Which makes you the most likely siren to take your Empress’ seat should something
happen to her.” She should’ve known a shifter would be good at strategy. “And the
first they want to remove from the equation in such an event.”
“Yes, but I don’t want it.”
“
Either way t
hat
puts
you in severe danger.”
Maximus
dragged her pants off quickly. “
That you willingly endanger
your life so casually pisses me
the fuck
off.”
“And me.” Although the serenity of Gabriel’s voice could’ve
deceived
her.
Maximus surprised her when he ripped her corset off. “Maximus!”
His hand clamped around her throat, pressing her head against Gabriel’s chest.
“
F
oolishness
, Sameya.
My
vampyr won’t permit me to let that go without some
form of repercussions
. Maybe if I make you beg and scream
, I’ll satisfy my beast.
I have no idea.
”
“I haven’t granted you permission to punish me in any
way. I do what I must for my Empress.
You would do the same.
”
A
s she was getting good and worked up, Gabriel palmed her mouth, silencing her.
Maximus tightened his hold on her neck, garnering her full attention. “Your loyalty
to your Empress is commendable, but we’re convinced she’s not worth you dying for.”
A m
oment
after her vampyr’s final word
, her tiger demonstrated how big a brute he could be.
In
a
series of effortless moves, h
e
spun
her
around
, and tossed her over his shoulder. The impact against her belly
startled her for a moment
.
“Put me down! Damn you—” Her tiger smacked her ass. “Ow!”
In retaliation,
Sameya swa
t
ted
his back
side
. A lot of good it did her because her
revenge
made them both chuckle.
Upside down she twisted enough
to catch
sight of Maximus opening her bedroom door.
J
ust
as she drew
air into her lungs
to start screaming about how she’d get even for their highhanded behavior
,
they were in
side
her
bedroom
with
the
door slamming shut
. Gabriel
tossed
her
onto
the mattress
,
and she bounced as s
he swat
ted
hair out of her eyes
.
Maximus rummaged through
his
overnight bag
he’d
packed earlier and she’d delivered before their arrival.
No idea what he was looking for, she didn’t much care either.
She
went
to sit up, but Gabriel pressed his hand against her collarbone and commanded, “Don’t
move.”
The nerve of her guys! She whacked his
touch aside. “
God
damn
it, you two—”
Maximus yanked her into a sitting position,
his roughness cutting off her dialogue. He
wrenched her hands
together
behind her back
,
and
cold
metal
hit
her
flesh
, making a clicking sound as
her wrists were ensnared in cool manacles
.
Did he just handcuff me? They were taking things too damn far.
Fury had her serenade tingling at the base of her skull.
She struggled to
withhold the magic while testing the constraints of the
steel
. W
hen the
cuffs
held tight, she glared at
Maximus
. “
You handcuffed me?”
“So it would seem,” Maximus said cool as ice.
“
You have no right
!”
“We have every right.”
The vampyr
tied her hair back with something she never got a
glimpse of
.
“You’re safety is priority number one to us.”
Gabriel spoke as she
peered up at
him
. “That we value your life more than you do,
infuriates
us both.”
“How barbaric! I’m a siren with—”
Gabriel gagged her with something that
reminded her of
a rubber ball. She screeched, but he calmly secured it behind her head.
Next came something soft over her eyes, darkness descended as the tiger blindfolded
her. She
twisted and jerked
at the
handcuffs again
,
but
like before,
they
held.
A fist wrapped around the ponytail, holding her head motionless. Fangs pierced her
neck and she cried out in euphoria, as Maximus sucked and licked
until she grew lightheaded with rapture
.
His incisors withdrew from her flesh. “I can’t decide which tastes better, your blood
or your pussy.” He slid his tongue along the wounds, healing them, and she shivered
her delight. “You’re at our mercy, Sameya. How does that feel?”
Their
domineering conduct
wouldn’t help their
bid
for her to remain with them.
If anything, it’d harm their—
She squealed when
she was
suddenly
flipped her
face
down
on the mattress
.
“All this bluster, Sameya, when you could halt it by serenading Gabriel and forcing
him to stop me
,”
Maximus
said,
his British accent thicker than normal. P
alms landed on the back of her thighs
and
dragged upward across her bottom and
higher,
along her back
,
until
Maximus
leaned over her, his mouth against her ear. “Want to know what I think?” He didn’t
wait for her to answer. “I think you want it rough, so you can use that against
us
later as a lame ass excuse
not to
remain with us. But guess what, naleah…I bet you’re wet with anticipation.”
Maximus
abruptly shifted
away and one of them
pressed a finger inside her.
Her surprised
hiss
died against the gag
.
“She’s wet, Maximus.” So it was Gabriel
who
penetrated her, not the vampyr. “Got anything to say in defense to what Maximus said,
baby?”
Not one thing came to mind since he was dead-on accurate. And she was gagged,
so
it wasn’t like she could say anything
anyway
.
“
You’ve been bad, naleah, and bad mates must be
chastised
.”
Maximus
swirled his tongue at the base of her spine, his fangs indenting her skin. “Be a good
girl and s
ubmit to us, Sameya
. Grant us permission to use you however we want. I promise
I’ll let you come
if you do
.”
His speech vibrated against her spine and sent goosebumps along her skin, and her
pussy throbbed to be claimed by them.
He licked up her spine, his
incisors
grazing her. “Make a fist for yes.”
Was he crazy?
Submit for p
rotecting
her Empress
when that
was her
fucking job
?
They were straight from the dark ages with their idiotic thought process.
That they saw her as some
feeble woman who need
ed
their protection
was galling
.
She was a reaper for Christ’s sake!
But she couldn’t stop thinking she was the crazy one for not making that fist for
yes. Her men aroused her with just words. Hadn’t they already used her however they
wanted? And she’d enjoyed every second of their claiming.
The
smack
to her butt cheek
startled her with a crack of flesh meeting flesh.
Squealing, s
he jerked at the impact and instinctively tried to rub the sting out her backside.
Hands bound, all her movement gained her was a firm hand between her shoulder blades.
Another whack. Harder this time and delivered to the
other
cheek. She screamed at
him
to stop, but with the ball-gag, nothing but agitated squawking emerged.