"You can't stop me." Galen's arms closed tighter around her. He gasped as he ground deep in her ass.
"It's too late to stop. When I cum, it'll be done."
"That's what you think, Fang-boy! I've been magus longer than you have." She grasped the spiraling power and slammed it straight back into him. "I made you live! By the powers, you will fucking take that life and keep it!"
"No..." He groaned. "I don't want it. I love you too much...to be the cause...of your death." He grasped the power and redirected it back into her. She shoved it right back. "You're not...killing me, you idiot." "If you had your full power, you could defend yourself better..."
Power cycled from him into her and back into him, gaining momentum and strength, becoming a corona of brightening power. "Fuck you, it's mine and I can use it any way I want-you ungrateful, selfish bastard! You are not dying on me!"
Galen snarled. "I don't want to be a monster!"
"Tough shit!" Her skin began to flicker with lightning arcs as the magic became too large for her body to
contain. Sygni had to close her eyes against the glare. "If I have to make-do with what fate has given me-then so do you!" "I'm a fucking vampire!" "So? I'm a fucking witch! Live with it!" "I don't...want to." "I don't care! I am not...giving you up!" "It's my life..." "And I gave it to you!" "And I'm giving it back." Galen grabbed her shoulders and panted against her throat, his thrusts pounding into her with frenzied speed. His breath brushed her throat. "I'm going to...cum. I love you." Galen opened his mouth on her throat and long teeth pressed against her skin. Sygni could barely think beyond the lust boiling and clawing within her, but she was damn well not going to allow this to happen. She jerked away, dodging his bite. "No, you stupid bastard, it was my choice!" Holding tight to Raven's shoulders, she leaned far to the side, pressing up against Raven's neck. He needed blood to cum, and she had no intention of providing it.
"Give me your throat, you stubborn bitch!"
"No!"
"Enough!" Raven lifted his forearm. "Galen, drink."
Sygni twisted around. "No!"
The vampire locked himself around both the god and the sorceress, impaling her with thrust after thrust.
He bit down on the god's arm. He swallowed once and jerked back with a pained hiss. He gasped and shrieked. Both his eyes blazed sun-bright.
And he came.
Raven choked under her and slammed up into her body, cumming with breathless gasps even as Galen
howled.
Caught between them, Sygni was slammed over the edge. Climax exploded in a horrific maelstrom of ferocious surging majesty and enchantment. Light burst from her skin in a white-hot nova of luminescent sorcerous power. She shrieked as her power returned in wave after burning wave... "No! Don't leave me!"
* Thirty *
Sygni stirred among the blankets. The light aroma of cedar mixed with stronger musk of masculine skin tickled her senses. It wasn't Galen's scent. She awoke with her nose pressed into a hard male chest. It wasn't Galen's chest, either. She jerked.
Raven opened sleepy eyes. "Go back to sleep, Sygni."
Sygni stared at him, her heart beating in her throat. It had to have been a dream... "Where's Galen?"
Raven frowned. "He's on my other side."
Sygni struggled to sit up.
Raven closed an arm around her. "Leave him be."
Sygni fought his arm. "Let me see him."
Raven sighed. "Look, but don't touch, he's not done yet."
Sygni sat up. Just beyond Raven's body, Galen lay stretched out wrapped in a network of power. His
eyes were open and filled with golden light. She frowned. "What are you doing to him?"
Raven pulled her down into the blankets and wrapped his arm around her. "I'm remaking him."
Sygni frowned as suspicion curled in her heart. "As what?"
Raven pulled her closer and whispered. "He asked me to return your stolen power, but alas, I still have
need of him, so I've been forced to realign the power that animates him." Sygni scowled at the god. "I thought he was going to die?" "He did die, but here in my realm, I am master of all things." Raven smiled. "And want him to live." Sygni shook her head in confusion. "Are you making him mortal?" Raven snuggled against her breasts. "There is no changing his vampire nature, but I can make him run under his own power." Sygni felt her heart give a hard and painful thump. "So he's not my familiar anymore?" Raven grinned. "I'm afraid that can't be changed, either." "Oh..." Sygni looked within to find the pulse of her power. "But I can feel all my power...all of it." "Yep." Raven nipped at one of her nipples. "Hey!" Sygni winced and shoved away. Raven pouted. "Give your god your nipples, Sygni." Sygni snorted. "You are Galen's god. My god is Loki." Raven threw his thigh over hers. "Really?" Raven's face began to shift in shape... "Did you never think that perhaps, one trickster god is very like another?" His features sharpened into Nordic lines with a thick black brows, a strong hooked nose and a sly grin. "And in fact, may actually be another?"
Sygni sucked in a sharp breath. "Loki?"
"Of course, my consort." He rose above her. "Now kiss your god and show him how much you love him.
Sygni leaned up to brush her lips against his.
Loki snorted. "You call that a kiss?"
Galen groaned. "My Sygni, you letch."
"Galen!" Sygni jerked to go to him.
Loki grabbed Sygni's wrists and pinned them over her head. "Not yet, he's not finished."
Galen turned to face them with burning yellow eyes. He frowned. "How come I'm not dead?"
Loki shifted back into his Raven incarnation. He grinned at Galen. "Because I'm a god, and I say so."
Galen groaned. "Why do I have the nasty feeling that I'm gonna pay big for this?"
Raven chuckled. "Ah, you know me so well!" He rolled off of Sygni and planted his long body between
them. "However, it's too early in the morning to talk of payments and debts, so I suggest we all go back to sleep."
Sygni rose up on her elbow. "I couldn't possibly sleep now."
Galen snorted. "Sleep? Not hardly."
"Yes, sleep." Raven wrapped his arm around them both and pulled them tight against his sides. "Right now."
Sygni felt the cool rush of oblivion racing to take her and reached over the god. Galen reached for her at the same time. Their fingers met over the god's heart as they both fell into sleep.
Sygni shuddered awake as though she'd fallen from a great height. She was back in her bed at the penthouse. At her side Galen opened his eyes and turned sharply to her.
"Sygni?"
Sygni struggled to sit up. "Blood and shadows, Galen!" They met for a ferocious kiss. She threw her leg over him and straddled his hips. Sygni pulled away and sat up. "You ass-hole!" She whacked him across the top of his head with the flat of her hand.
Galen flinched and threw up his arms. "What?" Sygni fisted her hands. "I ought to punch the shit out of you!" "Sygni!" "Don't youever pull that noble sacrifice shit on me again!" "Oh..." Galen's cheeks reddened. "It seemed like the right thing to do." "Well, it wasn't, you big jerk." Sygni leaned down and grabbed his shoulders. "I love you and it almost killed me!" Tears welled in her eyes. She let them spill down her cheeks.
Galen wrapped his arms around her and pulled her down. "Hey, I'm sorry."
Sygni snuggled against his neck. "You better be." She sniffed for good measure.
Galen snorted. "Okay, okay... No more noble sacrifices."
Sygni wrapped her arms around his neck. "Good, cause I can't afford to lose you."
"I don't have what you need anymore."
Sygni chuckled against his throat. "Raven didn't tell you, did he?"
"Tell me what?"
"That you're still my familiar." She pressed her hand over his heart and felt the familiar response of
power answering her call. "And it feels like you have a bigger chunk of power than the one I gave you."
Galen stilled. "I'm still what?"
"You heard me." Sygni grinned and slid her hand to one side to pinch one of his nipples. "I'm still the
master."
Galen curled and arm around her and rolled her under him. "Master-my ass!"
Sygni grinned up at the vampire. "We'll get to that in due time."
"You wish!"
"Hey, I'm a sorceress, I get what I wish for."
"Is that so?"
Sygni wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down to her. "Absolutely." She lifted her mouth
to his and kissed him with everything in her body.
Galen pulled away. "Did you know that both your eyes are yellow now?"
Sygni stared up into Galen's golden gaze. "Funny you should say that..."
* Fini *
About the Author.
"For me, writing is more than a passion, it's anobsession ."
Morgan Hawke has been writing erotic fiction since 1998. She has lived in seven states of the US and spent two years in England. She has been an auto mechanic, a security guard, a waitress, a groom in a horse-stable, in the military, a copywriter, a magazine editor, a professional tarot reader, a belly-dancer and a stripper. Her personal area of expertise is the strange and unusual.