Page 52 of Shae’s Bounty
“She never had a chance once you used your magic on her,” Volethos grumbles, even as he closes another restraint around my other wrist.
“Wait. Magic?” I gasp, realizing they just tied me to the cross. Whatevermagicshe might have used dampens as anger flares up at being tricked.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve shared a female,” Raela sighs, dragging her hand down my arm to the swell of my breast. To my surprise, the desire I felt hasn’t dulled like I expected.
“And we’re not sharing this one. Shae ismine,” Volethos growls, pushing her away to take her place.
My body instantly warms in his presence, even as I test my strength against the restraints.
Raela chuckles. “I have no intention of stealing her from you. I’m trying to help you by taking some of the heat off you by proving you are both willing to share.”
“And that’s all this is?” Some of the anger I felt at being toyed with suddenly fizzles out. “You’re getting nothing from this by helping us?”
Volethos’s hands are braced on each side of my head, between where my arms are stretched wide. His eyes are locked with mine. If he hadn’t had my full attention just then, I doubt I would have noticed the way the gold rippled through his disguise once again. This time, with an added hint of green.
Raela presses herself against my other side. “Oh, I wouldn’t say that,” she whispers, and then her expression turns serious. “I have a confession.” Her fingers drag up and down my bare thigh, but her attention isn’t on me. Her eyes are on Volethos. “I’m not who you think I am. I never have been.”
I feel every muscle Volethos has pressed against me lock up tight. And a low rumble rips through his chest. A warning.
“I work for the Federation, and we’ve been trying to take down Kurrahstka, and others like him, for revs. When I first met you, I lumped you in with him too. I was a new agent, and I knew if I took this whole place down, it would rocket my career to the top.
“The first time I met you, I thought you were just another one of Kurrahstka’s minions. That’s why I got close to you, thinking you would be my in.” She looks away, and shame flickers across her face. “I was going to use you to get closer to Kurrahstka.”
Volethos is frozen in place, his eyes no longer on me but staring past me at the wall. He’s practically vibrating with fury, and I’m trapped between them, chained to a fucking cross with the enemy stroking her hand closer and closer to my pussy in a way that has me throbbing, despite this fucked-up situation.
“But then things changed,” Raela whispers. “I got to know you, and I realized my initial assumptions of you were wrong. You had flaws, but you weren’t like Kurrahstka. I didn’t want you to go down with him. That’s why I left. I hoped you would follow me. I needed you far away from this place when we finally took him down.”
“You fuckinglied to me.This whole fucking time,” Volethos grits through his clenched teeth.
“I had to,” Raela pleads.
“How am I supposed to know you’re not lying now?”
Her teasing fingers pause on the inside of my leg, and I whimper.
“Because I’m completely breaking my cover by telling you this,” she admits.
“So, why tell me now? After all this time?”
The soft strokes of her fingers pick up, moving higher… higher… My body clenches, and a light sweat breaks out across my skin. The conflict of having Volethos pressed against me and Raela’s fingers teasing is messing with my mind, making me hotter for its wrongness. Then there is whatever her supposed magic is. Is that what’s making me feel this way? Volethos doesn’t seem to be affected.
I can’t help the soft moan when she finally slips her fingers between my legs to tease the seam of my lips. Then I gasp when her middle finger strokes through my wetness.
“Because I need your help. We’re prepared to make our move on Kurrahstka. Soon.” She leans in and runs her nose up the side of my face before placing a soft kiss at the corner of my mouth. Her attention is on me, but her words are meant for Volethos. “I don’t want you getting caught up in the takedown, but I know you won’t leave. So—I’m bringing you in.”
She adds a finger, slicking them through my lips before circling my entrance. Just when I think she might press them inside, they disappear, and I keen at the loss.
Using the hand that was just between my legs, she grips Volethos’s chin and turns him to face her before sliding the fingers coated in my slick into his mouth. His lips clamp down around them, and his lids go heavy as he moans.
“If you want to keep your little mate safe, you’ll need to trust me. And do everything I say.”
CHAPTERTWENTY-FOUR
Volethos
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Ican’t think of a time I’ve ever been so hard and so pissed off at the same time!