Light Speed by Arkadie, L. (accelerated reader books .TXT) 📕

not think I’m beingcritical if I say it?”

“No.”

“You’ve killed a lot of Selells, and Irealize that they were influenced by the evil and intending to harmothers, but you didn’t know that you were of Gogulon untilrecently.”

His expression hardens. I fidget under hisglare. I can see him contemplating whether he should respond to myquestioning. I’m relieved when he parts his lips to speak.

“My mother was a peasant and my father wasthe king. He ordered my death from the day I was born and I’ve beentrying to survive the sword ever since.” He reaches over to smooththe crinkle out of my eyebrows. “So many questions my emerald-eyedbeauty,” he breathes as if he’s captivated by the way I’m lookingat him. “I learned how to kill men in iron suits, men who weretwice my size, by the time I was six years old.”

“Learn? Who taught you?” I ask.

“My mother was big on fucking, notmarrying—she was born way before her time. But she was involvedwith Remus Maddix. He was the assassin who was charged by theKing’s decree to kill me. He was hell-bent on doing just that untilhe fell into lust with my mother. Because…” He hesitates and I cansee the veil of disgrace shape his expression, “… she was asiren.”

Now it’s my turn to reach out and touch hisface and bring him comfort. “Do not be ashamed, Chex. A siren isnot created by the ambitions of the ek’et’ru.”

He looks even more conflicted as he ponderswhat I just said.

“Well,” he says, but stops to clear thecatch in his throat. “Maddix taught me how to fight. When I wassix, I killed my first mercenary. He was a man. I had a boy’sstrength but slayed him because I was faster and smarter.”

“And what happened to Remus Maddix?” I askbecause I’m utterly enthralled by this story of Chex’s past.

“He’s still around.”

“Is he a…”

“Vampire? Yes.”

I flip onto my back and gaze up at theceiling. I can’t picture Chex as a boy during the days before hisfirst kill, but I can imagine him as a tiny human male, handling adagger and killing a man.

“And what happened to your father, theking?” I turn to gaze at him and he’s studying me curiously.

“I didn’t kill him if that’s what you think.Actually, I became an assassin for him but he didn’t know who Iwas.”

I can’t imagine Felix Benel not knowing whoI am, or issuing a command to have my sisters or me murdered.Suddenly I feel Chex’s finger smoothing out my eyebrows again.

“What are you thinking,” he asks.

“How harsh and barbaric your father was fortrying to have you killed.”

“You said you didn’t judge,” he says.

“I do not.”

“He wasn’t harsh or barbaric Ad’ru; therules that governed him were. Once the Romans called themselvesCatholics, sane men became fools.”

“Catholicism, that’s religion?”

“The mother of them all.”

“Is that why you don’t believe in theCreator?”

“Bingo.”

“Oh, I see…”

“Hey,” he says, grinning. “I don’t have totell you what bingo means!”

I chuckle. “I may be new but I’m not slow.You’ve used the word before, and I referenced the context.”

“Smart, beautiful, sexy…” he scoots closerto me, slips his hand under my shirt, up my sternum until he’scaressing one of my breasts, “And doesn’t like the word ‘shit.’ Doyou want me to stop saying it? Because I’ll try, but shit, yourskin is so soft.” He lifts my shirt all the way up and sucks gentlyon the nipple that he’s already made sensitive. “And when I’minside of you, shit it feels so damn good,” he seductivelywhispers.

“I like the word,” I spastically croak. “Um,when you use it that way.”

“That’s what I needed to hear because Ican’t stop myself from saying it.”

“I don’t want you to, or Na’ta either. I wasangry with her and sometimes I say the wrong things when I’mincensed.”

“Enough talking,” he commands. I look downat myself because once again Chex has slipped off my pants at aremarkable speed. “Take off your shirt,” he demands.

His eyes regard me with pure lust. Once I’mcompletely bare, he’s suddenly on top of me, inside of me,pleasuring me. “I’m going to make love to you until the sun comesup and only make love to you.” He pushes himself deeper into me.“I’ll fuck you twice another day.”

***

Navi

Telman growls and I cry out loud. I can’tdeny that this feels insanely good. And we do have the time to doit since we have to wait until sundown. But I can tell that justlike me, he’s itching to get into Ol so we can finally get ourhands on that damn Scepter of Gant.

“Navi,” he says, as he continues humpingme.

“What,” I breathe, fighting the urge tomoan.

“Does Adore know the Scepter of Gant wasstolen…fuck…” he grunts with pleasure, “…from the Mtknv?”

“Yes.” Shit. It’s coming. I’m about to comeagain.

“She knows we can’t give it back?” he asks,grunts. “Under, any, circumstances,” he winces.

“Yes…” I sigh, feeling that damn orgasmworking on me.

“She’s okay with that?”

“I meant, no!” I cry and the noise I unleashis way too high for my tastes.

When I stop trembling and open my eyes,there’s Telman watching me with a satisfied grin. He loves it whenI lose the battle against an orgasm. My head is clearerafterwards..

“I was thinking…” I whisper, sinking intothe mattress.

“You could think through that?”

I chuckle. “Listen, Mag Star said not gointo the city, right?”

He frowns, wondering where I’m going withthis. “That’s what I heard,” he says in a highly curious tone,still working on top of me.

“Let’s just go through it.”

“And go where?” he asks breathlessly.

“To the surface?” I moan as he shifts hiships faster.

“There’s a surface?” he grunts out.

“Yes…” I strain to say.

Telman flips me around and now I’m on top ofhim. He’s still hard inside and is grabbing me by the waist as heswiftly moves my hips back and forth.

“Then let’s go…” He swiftly flips me aroundand now I’m on my knees, he’s behind me, pounding the hell out ofme. I throw my arms up, wrap them around his neck and let go theway he loves it, moaning a chorus of oohs and ahswhile reeling from the little ones until the big one hits. That’swhen I lose my mind and cry