Taste 2021 edition, p.115
Taste: 2021 Edition, page 115
“But you weren’t touched until me, why?”
“I don’t know,” I whispered thickly. “I was their top-earning assassin, but times are changing. They’re changing what they do, and with fewer contracts coming in during the brewing war of the Otherworld, I’m guessing I would have become one no matter what. My virtue was sold to Kerri, who also planned to buy me.”
“Kerri wanted you, a female?”
“She enjoys hurting things. She has a collection in her dungeon she liked to show me. Women she’s…in her words, made into pretty dolls. However, they’re not whole anymore. They’re mindless monsters who she tortured and destroyed with magic. She told me to murder you before you’d finished taking me. She had, after all, paid for my virginity.”
“But you fucked me,” he snorted.
“You were the lesser evil, believe it or not.” My eyes lifted to his, finding him studying me. He moved his hand, sliding his fingertips up my open thighs as I watched them vanishing beneath the skirt I wore. My eyes slipped to Dominick, and Evander laughed coldly.
“He sees nothing, hears nothing unless I allow it. You said you’d be whatever I wanted you to be in order to protect your lover.”
“He’s not my lover, and you know that. I was untouched by man until you. I’d never kissed another man, not like you kissed me. In passing, I’d brush my lips against a mark’s, promising him pleasure and delivering him hell. Seduction isn’t about fucking. It’s about leading a man to believe he is all man. He needs to feel as if the weak, delicate little flower needs him,” I whispered huskily as his fingers slipped through the wetness between my thighs. “That her world could revolve around him and that without him, she is lost.” I cried out as his fingers pushed into my body, creating a storm of emotion that caused my body to arch and tremble violently. “It’s an illusion, and those with enough skill can accomplish it without ever having to kiss the mark.”
“You didn’t seduce me,” he announced in a cocky tone, spreading his fingers as my mouth parted past the burning of being stretched by them. “I seduced you, Elianna.”
“I was heavily drugged, but then you knew that. You knew their entire plan before it even began, didn’t you? Yet you still took me knowing I planned to kill you, why?”
“Because you were pure, and I wanted to be certain you were my enemy before I declared war on you and your body.”
“And now?” I whispered.
“Now, I know that you are my enemy, and I own your body.” He watched me, pushing deeper into my body as it tightened with need. “I own your mind, and your pleasure is mine to give and take,” he whispered, barely loud enough to be heard. “I also scented the truth beneath this halfling shield you wear, and that piqued my interest because, until tonight, I’m certain you’ve never even known you’re more Elvaan than halfling, but you are. The fact that you didn’t know makes you weak, but I can work with that.”
My head rolled back as his mouth brushed alongside the pulse in my throat, beating wildly against his lips. His fingers moved faster, forcing me to the point where my body teetered on the edge of a cliff, only to stop before I reached climax. His hand moved, wrapping around my waist as he lifted me up, carrying me deeper into the library until he sat on a couch with me straddling his lap.
“Fuck me, Elianna. Show me why I should keep you alive.”
“I didn’t say you should keep me alive, Evander,” I whispered, grinding against him as heat flooded my apex, coating my sex with need. “I didn’t beg for my life. Do with me as you want, but that boy? He is everything good in this world. For him, I will be whatever you want. Give me your cock, and I’ll ride it until you fill me with your release. Give me the names of your enemies, and I will slaughter them for you. Hurt my friend, and I will bring hell to this world until you are the king of nothing and on your knees before me,” I said, still grinding against him as he watched me.
“You think you can bring me to my knees? Kings and Queens alike have challenged me, and I have their heads in my trophy case. One woman doesn’t scare me, Elianna. You do, however, make the most delicious noises for me. I didn’t leave that boy alive because I want to fuck you, he’s alive because I plan to train you,” he admitted coldly. “Oh, don’t look so disappointed. I plan to fuck you, too, often even. Fae politics keep me from slaughtering men in my court who need to be put down like rabid animals. Your innocence and the scent of this delicious pussy is how I plan to win a war without ever lifting my sword. Well, other than when you’re riding it.”
“You want me to murder your enemies by seducing them?”
“I want you to do whatever you have to do in order to bring them down. Your friend’s life depends on it,” he countered carefully. “I’ll train you, and at night you’ll be on your knees waiting to please me. You said you’d do whatever I wanted. I want you to murder my enemies that I cannot kill because they’re in my own court, and I want to fuck your tight cunt until I rid myself of the need to do so. You’ll either agree, or I will end his life now. That choice is yours. He’s waiting for you to decide.”
“Done,” I said without hesitation. “I am used to being owned, Evander. You’re just another creature who thinks me a lesser being who can be owned. Once again, you’re the lesser of two evils.”
“I wouldn’t be so quick to say such things, Elianna. And you call me your king or your majesty,” he growled, pushing into my body as a scream tore from my throat. “Now, fucking ride me because I enjoy listening to your screams while you’re stretched around my cock, milking it with your tight body.”
I rolled my hips, leaning close to his lips before whispering again. “When do we start, Evander?”
I was lifted and pushed face-first into the couch. His large hands spread my legs apart before he slammed into my body, forcing a scream of pain to roar from my lungs as he used inhuman speed to batter into my body. Power erupted, and the whisper of wings displaced air as my hair was yanked back, and his dark laughter echoed inside my head without him making a sound.
“When I say we do,” he roared as I exploded around him. “I didn’t say you could come, little plaything.”
“I didn’t ask permission,” I laughed, enjoying the feel of his fingers as they bit into my flesh. “Harder,” I demanded, bucking against him, feeling him pause as my words registered, withdrawing to flip me onto my back as he stared down at me.
“Someone has a dark side,” he smiled, pushing my legs up until they touched my shoulders as he pushed in, causing my eyes to roll to the back of my head as absolute pleasure ripped through me.
“So play with it, Darkest King,” I encouraged as I lifted up, rolling my hips as he watched me.
“I’m almost pleased you tried to kill me,” he growled, watching my body as it moved against his in wild abandonment, clenching against him as I slowly brought him to the edge, watching his face as it tightened with pleasure. “No, I am. You’re so fucked, woman. You have no idea what I have planned for you, but you will, soon enough.”
I watched as his eyes glowed, and he smiled with large canines exposed that promised pain. I didn’t back away, didn’t fear what he was. I was free of those who wanted to sell Dom and me to whoever would bury our bodies the deepest.
This creature, I’d escape him too. I could do whatever it took to keep us alive, even at the cost of my soul, which I was sure he’d steal. Amethyst eyes ignited, and I felt him pushing through my mind, learning me, which I allowed.
I had no secrets, no dark fantasies that he could pluck from my mind. I had been abandoned, left to the monstrous humans that ran the agency. I would repay them for hurting us, for hurting the halflings they controlled. After I was finished with them, I’d make the fae pay for leaving us to them. He was a means to an end, and no matter the cost to reach that end, I’d pay it.
“While you’re deciding how you’ll wage war against me, Elianna, you should know exactly who you’re planning to wage it against. I am the shadows, the night, and I live within every Unseelie in this kingdom. There is nowhere you can hide from me. There’s nowhere that you can hide your friend that I cannot reach. I am the Darkest Knight, the Dark King, and the monster that will always find you no matter how far you run, or how deep you dig yourself into a hole to hide from me. You are mine now, and no one will argue it. You will never escape me.”
“Never say never,” I growled, still grinding against him as he smirked coldly.
“You run from me, and you won’t like what happens, little girl.”
“You’d have to catch me first.”
“I always catch my prey. And when I catch them, I devour them.”
I watched his arms as his muscles strained, and the smile that covered his lips promised pain. It didn’t matter how long I had to wait; it didn’t matter how much he hurt me, as long as I escaped him eventually. Because I always had a plan in play and my escape route planned before ever entering the enemy’s gates—and everyone was my enemy.
“You won’t run, not without your friend,” he announced, leaning down to clamp his mouth around my nipple before letting it go with a loud popping sound. “He’s been moved while I’ve been fucking you. Play games with me, woman, and I’ll show you why the king outranks the queen in our world.”
“You’re a cold bastard,” I hissed as he rocked me on his hips.
“I am. I never said I wasn’t. I’m the villain, in case you hadn’t figured that out. I am the one who owns you, and I plan to exploit your talents. There’s so much I have planned for you, Elianna. We’re just getting started, you and I. You’re about to learn who I am, and what it means to be my new pet.”
“No, I’m about to teach you why owning exotic pets is a horrible idea, Evander. We’re notoriously bad, and when we bite, it’s often fatal.” His mouth lowered to mine as a wicked smile curved over my mouth. “There’s also the fact that you forgot to account for a few things. Like my entire team waiting outside of this castle who have your men as hostages—and Dominick safely out of your reach. You may own the dark, but I own the creatures this world abandoned, and we’re ravenous with the need for revenge. The light always outshines the darkness, and I’m burning brightly, Unseelie King. So get your cock out of me, because I’m about to get up and walk out of this room and you’re going to watch me do it. Or I give the order to slit the throats of your men.” I pushed him away, but he lunged, grabbing my throat as his hips moved rapidly against mine. I exploded, smiling as light burst behind my eyes.
“You can run, little girl,” he growled as his body tensed. “But I just filled you with my darkness. You won’t like being my enemy.”
“On the contrary, if it ends like this, I think I’m going to enjoy it immensely. In an hour, I’ll release your men, and we can become enemies. Or, I kill them, and you add me to the list of enemies you want murdered. Tell me, Evander,” I whispered thickly as he pulled out of my body, staring at where my body tightened with the loss of his. “How much do you want to kill me right now?”
“Immensely,” he growled.
I patted his cheek as I sat up, allowing him to see the sharpness of my canines that had grown as he’d ravished my core. “It’s too bad we didn’t work out; you’re amazingly talented in bed. I hope you can wield a sword as well as your impressive cock. I’d love to stay and play, but I’m a little busy right now. I have a witch to hunt down, a war to start, and revenge against every last asshole who used us to line their pockets with coin. Who knows, maybe you and I will end up on the same side of the war in the end.”
“You set this up?”
“I did, but I didn’t expect the King of the Unseelie to come himself,” I laughed huskily, leaning over to brush my lips against his, enjoying the anger that leaked from him. “I needed someone strong enough to bring down the witches who use their magic to hold ours, weakening us. You are the strongest creature of the high fae, which worked out perfectly. I had our whores whisper to Lennox about your traitorous plots to murder him. He, of course, tried to murder you, and you murdered them as I knew you would. You failed me, though, because Kerri got away.”
I stood up with him, watching the anger dancing in his amethyst eyes. “Don’t look at me like that. You and your kind think we’re lesser beings. You left us to be tortured by humans and the monsters they made their deal with. You rape women and leave them pregnant, and they abandon us to monsters that use us as weapons. You have no idea the capabilities we have, or what we can do now that the agency is burning to the ground, which is thanks to you, my generous lover. You may get me, Evander, but we are rising against our oppressors. The thing is, we can either be on the same side, or you can fight me.”
“I think I’m going to enjoy hunting you down and fighting you, Elianna. I hope you’re ready to become my prey, because the moment I catch you, you’re going to regret ever crossing me.” He grabbed my hair, curling his fingers through it as he brought his mouth crushingly against mine. He devoured it until I moaned breathlessly from the heat that rushed through me. “You’re mine, and if anyone touches you before I catch you, they die. I will catch you, little one. You better run, and you better fucking hide, because when I catch you, I’ll show you why the world cowers before me—and when you plead for mercy, I’ll show you how little I have for those who betray me.”
“Sounds kinky as shit, but I’m not going to be easy to catch. I’ve planned the downfall of an empire. I intend to watch it fall. I’m glad that it was you,” I whispered, pulling back to look into his pretty, narrowed eyes. “I’m glad you were my first lover, but I’m not yours. I won’t be owned by anyone ever again. Now get the fuck off of me. I have shit to do, and you’re not on my list anymore.”
I smiled as I left the biggest, most notorious monster standing, watching me walk away from him. I’d known the agency was changing, and while Dom was my best friend, he often ended up lost in people’s nightmares. I couldn’t have him giving away the plan, not until I knew it had worked. The witches no longer held control over us, the agency was being dismantled, and the fae who had abandoned us would pay for doing so. They’d called us abominations, unwanted creatures that had no use in their world. We were about to prove them wrong. We were about to bring them to their knees.
The End for now.
Books by Amelia Hutchins along with reading order for series
Legacy of the Nine Realms
Flames of Chaos
Ashes of Chaos
Ruins of Chaos
Crown of Chaos
Queen of Chaos
King of Chaos
Reign of Chaos
The Fae Chronicles
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
Unraveling Destiny
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
The Elite Guards
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Claiming the Dragon King
The Winter Court
A Demon’s Plaything
A Guardian’s Diary
Darkest Before Dawn
Death before Dawn
Midnight Rising TBA
Playing with Monsters series
Playing with Monsters
Sleeping with Monsters
Becoming his Monster
Revealing the Monster
Wicked Knights
Oh, Holy Knight
If She’s Wicked
MIDNIGHT COVEN BOOKS
Forever Immortal
Immortal Hexes
Midnight Coven
Tempted by the Fae
Finished Series
If you’re following the series for the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters, reading order is as follows.
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Playing with Monsters
Unraveling Destiny
Sleeping with Monsters
Claiming the Dragon King
Oh, Holy Knight
Becoming his Monster
A Demon’s Plaything
The Winter Court
If She’s Wicked
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
Revealing the Monster
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Alta Hensley
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