“Oh my God!!!” Cassidy grips my arm and I watch as her eyes roll back in her head. She’s getting close and all I want to do is ram my cock to the hilt inside her warmth. Fuck the prophecy.
I kiss her, backing her up against a tree, holding her there as I free my other hand from between her legs. She cries out at its absence, her hips still rocking as if I’m still finger fucking her. “Give me a second sweetness,” I say as I fumble with my jeans. Pulling them down around my hips I pull my cock out, twitching, it seeks out her warmth like a heat seeking missile. I can feel her body steaming as she wraps her legs around me, pulling me closer and closer until...
A rumbling thunder erupts from the clear blue sky above followed by four bolts of lightning.
I lean my head on the tree against hers and mutter, “Sonofabitch.”
“What’s going on?” Cassidy whispers as four figures covered in black, from their pointed witch hats to their boots, move through the underbrush towards us.
I disentangle myself from her body and strip my shirt off. Pulling the shirt over her head, I softly say, “Go get dressed.”
She ducks around me just as Mickle orders, “Get your dick back in your pants, now!” He brushes a speck off his sleeve and looks in my direction. “You know the prophecy and what it states.”
Instead of arguing my reasoning of why I thought it would be a good idea to screw Cassidy against a tree, I just nod instead. “It won’t happen again,” I say, gruffly.
“Ah... Excuse me.” Cassidy walks to my side tugging up her jeans then hands me my t-shirt. “We are grown adults and if we want to ... fornicate against a tree, who are you to stop us?”
“You two can fornicate against a tree all you want,” Mickle responded, waving his hand about. “In fact, be my guest. But only after the marriage is consummated. If it happens before, the ritual won’t matter. It won’t stop her.”
I wince and shake my head. “Ah... about that.”
“Beg your pardon?” I feel Cassidy’s eyes snap to my face. “What marriage?”
“Oh, for Christ’s sake,” Mickle mutters, throwing his hands in the air.
Peter laughs. “You haven’t told her yet?”
“No. I haven’t.” I shot Peter a dark look. “We got...sidetracked before we reached the castle ruins.”
“Give me a second.” Cassidy puts her fingers to her temples then closes her eyes. The air around her ripples, like a mirage on a hot day. “Will you all please remove your face covering so I know who I’m talking to?”
I look around to see if anyone else notices the displacement of the air around her, that is now rippling around me too. I feel something that I haven’t in years. A healing, calming effect slides over me like a lover’s touch. “Cassi, they can’t, they’re vampires, remember?”
She drops her hands and blinks her eyes at me, like she’d just been in a trance. “Right, I forgot.”
Ivan comes forward and stands directly in front of her. Apparently, he’d gotten over his fear of her. “What did you do just now? With your hands?”
“Rubbed my temples. I seem to get a splitting headache whenever the four of you are around. Most likely because you talk in nothing but riddles.” She sighed.
“Do you still have the headache?” I ask.
“No.” Delicately she lifts a shoulder. “It’s gone. Always does go away when I rub my temples.”
“Wait a minute,” Mickle says, coming forward. Peter and Jake do the same, surrounding us in a circle. If these men weren’t like brothers to me, I would be worried.
But Cassidy doesn’t know that, all she knows is that they are blood suckers. She raises her hand and the air around us ripples again. She doesn’t know it, but she just erected a force field that they can’t penetrate.
“Ah you’re in my personal space there bud,” she says to Mickle.
He pushed forward, or at least he tried but he was going nowhere fast. He rooted his feet to the ground but that only made it worse. He started sliding back, right towards the pond.
“Cassi, put your hand down,” I said to her.
She dropped her hand and Mickle stumbled forward, right into her. He grabbed her by the arms and through the mask on his face, he kissed her on the forehead then bowed at her feet.
She looked at me dumbfounded and whispered out of the side of her mouth. “What the fuck is he doing?” Jake, Peter, and Ivan followed Mickle’s lead, and all bowed down to her. “What the fuck are they doing?”
“They are bowing to you Cassi.” I smiled at her.