urges.
Moments later, we were both completely sated.
I laughed, a sound that was part exhaustion, part amazement. “I’m dead. I really am. You killed me with orgasms.”
“Arouse me like that again and you’ll get worse,” Kyden said, his tone quite serious.
He withdrew and lay on his side. I turned over toward him and snuggled against his chest as he wrapped an arm around me. “Christ. If I knew you were capable of that I would have done that sooner.” I leaned up and kissed his lips. “You’ve been holding out on me.”
His grin was sleepy. “I’ve never been so aroused. Feeling your intensity is unbelievable.”
“I’d say. Well, there’s something to be said about a little loss of control.” His eyes lit up. “Just not now, I’ll be surprised if I can even walk.” That was a lie. My abilities could heal me instantly, but I liked this feeling. Worn out from a good romping just felt good and I wasn’t about to erase the effects of tonight.
A few minutes passed as sleep began to settle in. “Kyden.” My voice came out as a soft whisper.
“Mmm…”
“I love you.”
He gave my ass a little pat. “Back atcha, Álainn.”
Chapter Four
The next night, my body hurt in all the right places and then some.
Kyden sat with his feet up on the coffee table watching a UFC fight. I’d just finished my shower and stepped back into the living room when a knock sounded at the door. Knowing he probably hadn’t even heard it, since he was in ‘the zone’, I walked over and opened it. Misa stood on the other side, smiling from ear-to-ear. “Honeymoon’s over,” she announced.
“So soon?” I grumbled.
“Sooner the better. The challenge is being arranged and you need to learn more about the Underworld before you choose your guard.”
I glanced back at Kyden, pleased to see that he’d taken notice of something other than the television and was aware of Misa’s arrival. He turned off the TV, stood and approached us, grinning. Clearly, he sensed my annoyance that she’d come so soon. “Come on in, Misa,” he said.
Misa happily stepped in, and took a seat on the couch. Who knew this day would come. A demon sat in my living room—bah!
Willow apparently agreed with me. “What is that thing doing in here?”
I chuckled softly, kept Willow’s snippy question to myself and shook my head at her. She took the hint and trotted off to the bedroom, away from the said demon.
Kyden took a spot on the loveseat across from Misa and I joined him. “What do we need to know?” he inquired.
Misa took a deep breath before she began, which only told me, this was a conversation I wasn’t going to enjoy. “To start at the beginning, the stories are quite simple. There was a time that supernaturals lived among the humans in the Earthworld—peacefully. As time went on, two rulers emerged in a way very similar to what we know between our worlds. One ruled for the greater good. The other ruled in darkness. The two were constantly at war with each other and battled repeatedly to make the Earthworld what they believed was right. We know them as God and Satan.” She took another long breath before she continued. “When the battle between the two leaders approached a point of total destruction to the Earthworld, the Fae…”
“The what?” I interjected.
“The Fae. Fairies.” Misa looked completely surprised that I didn’t recognize the term. “You don’t know of them?”
I gave my head a big bewildered shake, and glanced at Kyden. “Another realm I don’t know about?”
He chuckled and nodded.
Misa continued. “When the Fae’s princess, Aaliya, intervened, she constructed two other realms. Now we know them as the Underworld and the Otherworld. She demanded God and Satan take over these worlds in an attempt to stop the long-standing war. But as you know it never ended and still hasn’t.”
Okay, this was just ridiculous. Kyden leaned forward completely enthralled and seemed to believe this. However, I was having a hard time with it.
“Angels were God’s followers,” she went on. “Immortals who believed in his ways. To protect humans, save souls, use magic for the greater good. Satan’s, of course, were the exact opposite, and as we know are called demons. Through time, Black Magic evolved away from the elemental force, and now as you know, White Magic and Black Magic are two completely separate entities.”
“Explain how you’re different then?” Kyden asked. “Why do you deny your instinct to commit evil?”
“My ancestors were fallen angels.