Destiny's Wrath (Destiny Series - Book 3) by Straight, Nancy (read full novel .txt) 📗

at me, his answer sounded strained, “He’s stronger than he was last time. It’s pretty hard to tune him out.”

I looked directly into Max’s eyes, but spoke instead to Samael. “Hey, Samael, I need you to take it easy on Max, okay? We’re all going to be one big happy family for the foreseeable future. I’ve got a couple surprises for you today.” I took Max’s hand and cupped my breast with it.

Max’s eyes widened, “What are you doing?”

“Oh, ease up, Max. You said, more than anything, Samael really wanted to be intimate with me, right?”

A feral voice from deep within Max, hissed, “YEEEESSSSSSS!”

“Samael, you like the way that feels? You want to go inside and have some quality time?”

Max’s voice responded and his eyes looked as though they were pleading, “Lauren, don’t do this. I’m not going to be able to control him. Don’t flirt with him.”

I merely got out of the truck, while Max stayed seated. I could see he was having an internal argument with Samael. I walked around to the passenger side of the truck, opened Max’s door, and offered my hand. Again, speaking to Samael rather than Max, “Samael, I’ve missed you, too. Let me show you how badly I’ve missed you.”

Max’s words were stiff, pained, “Lauren, call Renny. Call her now. Before something really bad happens.”

“Samael, you wouldn’t let something bad happen to Max, would you? Not when I have something so naughty planned for you.”

Max’s body erupted from the truck, but I knew it wasn’t Max who swooped me up in his arms and started sprinting for the motel room. We were standing at the door within minutes. Max was no longer strong enough to even interject words. Samael was in control, I could feel it. I could sense his excitement.

In my most sultry voice, “Samael, tell me what you’re going to do to me. I hear you like to make girls scream. I don’t think you could make me scream. I think you’re just a big softie.”

Devoid of Max, the eyes staring back at me had changed. Max’s seafoam green with brown specks were gone, replaced by a brilliant sapphire color. Samael spoke, “Lauren, my love, I have waited an eternity to hear those words from you. All those lifetimes I was forced to watch you from afar. Rewsna screwed up and contacted you three years ago, which permitted me to finally seek you out. I do not wish to inflict pain on you. I want your screams to be the passion you feel for me, too.” Samael never set me down; I was still cradled in Max’s arms.

I slipped the key card in the door, Samael pressed the door open. Without breaking his gaze, I commented, “It’s too bad you are inside Max.”

“What do you mean? Max is your other half. I would think intercourse with me through Max would be the best of both worlds for you.”

“You don’t know us very well. Things have changed a great deal in the last six months - since you left us. Did Max not share that with you when you joined him?”

A sizzling look still emanated from his eyes, but curiosity accompanied the sizzle.

I continued, “Max and I have an open relationship. We figure this is our last lifetime being human, so we’re making the most of it. The only rule is we don’t share our conquests with the other. With you inside Max, he’ll know exactly what we’ve done.” I held my hand up to his chest, caressing him through Max’s shirt, “Maybe this isn’t such a great idea. I don’t want Max to know how badly I want you. If we’re spending eternity together, he may never forgive me.”

“I, I can, I can keep him in the dark. I have already put him there. He cannot see anything going on right now. Lauren, you are all I have dreamed of, for longer than you can fathom. You are all I’ve ever wanted! To hear you want me, too, I could never have imagined.”

“Yeah, but there is still the problem of Max. Hmmm, let me think for a second.” I rolled out from his arms and stepped into the comically small bathroom. I looked at the vanity and said to myself, “This had better work, or we’re both dead.” I slid into my sexiest negligee, dabbed on a drop of cologne, used mouthwash and looked at myself in the mirror. I was worried that Samael would smell a trap, but Max had told me that Samael was obsessed with me. He’d better have been right. An obsessed demon is the only way I’ll be able to fool him.

I stepped through the doorway in my bare feet and negligee, to see Samael, in Max’s form, lying on the bed. The blue sapphires staring back at me enlarged for a second as he took me in. Nearly breathless, he uttered, “You are - magnificent.”

I casually walked over to the side of the bed, noting the time on the clock. Just over an hour before the Council and Cabinet members would arrive. I’d need to be downstairs well before they arrived or they wouldn’t be capable of waiting together.

Doing my best impersonation of bashful, “I don’t know, Samael. Are you sure Max can’t see?”

Authority beaming through his voice, “Positive. I am in control. He is tucked away for safe keeping. It is just you and I.”

I reached into my purse, “If he found out that we were ‘enjoying’ each other, he might leave me. We couldn’t have that.” I took out three yards of shiny silver chain and gently placed it on the nightstand. I had stopped at a convenience store during the drive back to the motel and got lucky finding exactly the props I needed for my little “show.”

Samael’s eyes turned, still the sapphire blue, but different - dangerous. I dug further in my purse and found little silver loops for body piercings. “He once told me that you said having the two