Chapter 73

She reached for the man and he flinched. She chuckled.
“Don’t tell me your brave facade is gone now.” He looked away and the scent of his fear filled the air. “Come on, now, we will start slow. Who was your target?”
His jaw clenched, but he remained silent.The door opened behind her and she didn’t even have to look to know Gregory, Aiden and Ethan had arrived. She scratched the wall with her claws, leaving deep grooves in the stone by the man’s head, only stopping when blood welled up on his neck.
“Was Lily a target?”
The man sighed. “The three girls were.”
“Why?”
He shook his head. She shrugged.
“Alright then.”
She lifted the chain that hung around her neck. “If fear doesn’t get answers, I have something else. I am not even about to let you ruin my nails. I just got them done.” She held up the little crystal in her hand, showing the little bug trapped inside of it. “This is called a dragon tick. It is a special little bug my ex-girlfriend and I created.” She dragged a chair over to place it in front of the man.
“It’s sole purpose is to burrow through your eye and into your brain. It sends you into a mind control state of which you will be forced to answer all of my questions whether or not you want to. Magic nor aura can stop it. The only thing that can stop it, is death.” She shrugged as she moved her hair out of the way to reveal what looked like a mole on her neck. “My questions only as I have the tick’s leader feeding off of me. When all of my questions are answered, the bug will slowly eat the rest of your brain and you will be unable to do anything, except lay there paralyzed, feeling every single bite that is ripped out of your brain.”
She aimed the crystal at the restrained man and twisted half of it off. The bug leapt from the necklace to his face. It made its way up his face before wiggling its way under his eyelid. Jo leaned back in her chair, humming as the man cried out in pain. The captured men exchanged worried glances. She slowly looked over each of them, before pointing at the smallest one.
“You! Come here.”
He slowly made his way over to her. She pointed to the ground.
“I need a footrest while I wait. It’s hard to carry all this badassness around all day.”
He got on his hands and knees and she bent down to scratch her ankle.
“Oh, I needed that,” she moaned.
She put her legs over the man and leaned back again. She watched the man in the chains. His face got red and his breathing got harsher as the bug moved through his brain. His eyes started to grow hazy and she grinned.
“Oh, Kelly, you are one badass bitch,” she muttered, watching the man go limp.
She made a note to go visit her when this was all done and thank her for this weapon. When she was sure he was ready to answer her questions, she sat up straight, grabbed the small one's head, pulled his head back and sank her human teeth into his throat. She bit down around his trachea and ripped it out, before setting it aside. She finally glanced at the men behind her who had not said anything yet. Gregory and Aiden were watching her with their eyes wide and mouth open in shock. She hesitantly looked towards Ethan. His eyes were on fire as he watched her and there was nothing but pure admiration for her. She tossed Gregory the trachea, shrugging.
“It makes a great broth. Don’t waste it.” She turned her attention to the man chained to the wall. “So, why were the royal highnesses targeted?”
“Sasha was the main one, because she is the Mother of dragons. Without her, the dragons can not reproduce. She also is very hated by Anastasia, so she wants to kill her for that, too. Kalani, because if she can’t kill Sasha, she knows that Sasha will do anything she is asked to do to protect her. Lily, that little monstrosity, she was going to control King Lukas with. She seems to think that he would do anything for her. Even though in my opinion, that little bitch is not worthy of being his queen, let alone all of our queen.” He took a deep breath. “The plan was to eat her eventually. We have a number of offspring that need sustenance and human flesh is good for them.”
Jo stared at him, her body vibrating with her anger. She stood up and walked over to where the other four men were huddled. She quickly removed their heads and left their corpses where they fell.
“King Aiden, do you have any feral pixies around here?”
“No, why……?”
“Because feral pixies do the same thing that bug will do. I want him to feel exactly what it feels like to be eaten alive.”
“How long will the bug take to finish eating his brain?”
“Two weeks.”
“I’ll have some brought here. How many do you need?”
“2.”
“Done.”
Jo patted his cheek. “It’s a shame you won’t be around to bow to Lily. I’ll make sure knows how bad you wanted to.”
She walked out of the cell, her mind going a million different ways. Who the fuck were they to have any opinion on their future queen? She was going to hunt down every last mother fucker who thought she wasn’t worthy. She was the most worthy person Jo had ever met and she would be damned if Lily was ever made to feel low. She was pulled around and she fell into Ethan’s chest. She tilted her head back. He opened his mouth, but she jerked his head down so she could kiss him. Her tongue was thrust into his mouth and his eyes widened. She pulled back to look into his eyes.
“Give me ten minutes and meet me in my room.”
She walked off, leaving her stunned mate standing frozen in that spot. She jogged up the stairs to find Lily. She followed her nose to Lily’s room and knocked. The door was pulled open by Kalani and she was immediately gestured inside. Lily looked up from chair by the window.
“JO,” she cried, jumping to her feet and running over to her.
Jo caught her and hugged her tight. “Lily, sweetheart. Are you okay?”
“Yes, yes. Where is Sasha? Did you find her?”
“No, sweetheart, but we will. We know who has her and what the plan is. Tomorrow we will go to Tursum and find her.”
“Do you promise?,” Lily sniffled. “She has always been so nice to me.”
“I swear to you. Kal, are you going stay in here tonight?”
“Yeah. Gregory is going to guard us.”
“Okay, if you need me, I’m just down the hall.”
“Alright.”
Jo left the room and hurried to hers. Ethan was waiting nervously inside. She shut the door and locked it, before turning towards him. She began to walk slowly over to him, taking her clothes off. He watched her hungrily.
“One thing you will learn about me, Ethan, is that I have a sweet tooth and right now you are looking like a buffet of dessert.”
She dived at him and they hit the floor. She rolled him until she was on top. Her lips devoured his and she tore his shirt open. She sliced through his pants and boxers to take his rapidly swelling penis into her hand. She stroked him as she moaned into his mouth. He tried to reach up for her, but she pulled back to lift herself over his throbbing member. His eyes dropped to where her pussy was teasingly moving over his tip.
“Jo…,” he panted.
She lowered herself onto him, taking him all the way inside of her wetness in one smooth move. She cried out at the pain of his entrance and he groaned. She stared down at him, blinking rapidly. He raised an eyebrow at her.
“What’s wrong?”
She flushed. “I know the mechanics…”
His hands went to her waist and he began to move them. “Like this.”
She leaned down to kiss him again as she started moving her hips to his. Pressure unlike she had ever known before started to build in her stomach and she whimpered, almost unable to cope with the heightened desire and tiny bombs going off on her skin with every single one of his touches. Her rhythm faltered and he rolled her over. He started thrusting into her harder, faster and she became a very liquid solid under his body. Her body tightened and she ran her talons down his chest and stomach. Fire leapt from her mouth to his skin and they both screamed out. Her with pleasure and him with a fleeting pain. He froze. She lifted her hips up.
“Ethan?”
“Did you.. Did you just mark me?”
“I.. uh.”
He leaned back on his heels and lifted one leg to wrap it around his waist. He tilted her hips up so he could drive to the hilt with each thrust, building another orgasm inside of her faster than the first. When her eyes glazed over and she was a puddle of sensation, he repeated her actions of clawing her, before leaning down to blow his fire over her. Her body bucked and he ground against the deepest part of her pussy, before letting his cum fill her. He picked her up to carry her to the bed. He got her situated on it and collapsed next to her. He put his arm over her waist and pulled her into his body.
“Are you okay? Did I hurt you?”
She snorted. “As if you could, asshole.”
He raised up to look at her. “Well, Miss I’m gay so I don’t want you, I’ll try harder next time.”
She laughed and lifted her hand to his face. “You are a lucky bastard you know.”
He kissed her fingers. “I know, because I have you. May I ask you what changed?”
She weaved her fingers through his. “When we were in the dungeon and that asswipe for diseased shitty assholes was talking about Lily, all I could think about was what you were thinking and how you were my mate. Then the thought of not having you, like Lukas can’t have Lily yet, crossed my mind. Call me selfish, but I don’t want that. I will kill you, but I will also kill for you.”
He leaned down to kiss her lips softly. “Can I be Mr. JoAnn Martin?”
She chuckled softly. “That will make you my bitch.”
He grinned down at her. “I’m already whipped like one, so why not?”
“Stupid,” she murmured as she curled up into him to go to sleep.