Immortal Rider_ Lords of Deliverance Series_ - Larissa Ione [143]
Limos went up on her toes and kissed Arik. “If he tries to kill you again, I promise he won’t make it to the hospital.”
“Aren’t you all protective and cute.” She huffed, and he chuckled as he pressed a kiss into her hair and inhaled her coconut scent. “Hey, Tavin did mention something about the khnives that attacked us. He thinks someone outside of Sheoul summoned them.”
Limos frowned. “That’s… not good.”
There was a long stretch of silence as Ares caressed the hilt of his sword. “If this new player isn’t a demon, then the forces working toward an Apocalypse are growing. We’re going to have to start looking at those around us more closely.”
A traitor. Ares was implying that there was a traitor in their midst, and as much as Arik wanted to rail against the idea, he couldn’t. Not when even The Aegis itself had been compromised by one of its own a couple of years ago.
And hell, the Regan situation only reinforced Ares’s words.
“Ares,” Arik began, because this needed to be said, “I discussed this with Limos already, but I need to say it to you too. I swear I won’t keep information from you again.”
A shock of brown hair fell over Ares’s forehead as he gave a brisk nod. “I’ll hold you to it, human.”
That was the thing about Ares; when he wasn’t pissed, he was damned reasonable. Unlike Limos’s other two brothers. Speaking of which…
“How’s Thanatos?”
“Can we talk about it later?” Limos asked. “I want to go home. We haven’t had a proper weddiÀ proper ng night.”
Ares groaned. “That’s my cue. I have to do some Christmas shopping anyway.”
Arik hugged Limos tight. “It seems weird that you guys celebrate Christmas.”
“Reseph loved any excuse to celebrate and buy presents,” Limos said. “Breaking the tradition would just make it that much more obvious that he’s gone.”
“Not to mention the fact that two of us are now married to humans,” Ares said, “and you people come with a lot of baggage.” A smirk curved his lips, and Arik realized that Ares was reacting to Cara, who had come up behind him with her hands on her hips.
“Are you calling me baggage?” Her tone was huffy, but her eyes glinted with an impish mischief.
In a quick, blur of a move, Ares whirled around, hauled Cara over his shoulder, and strode toward the house. “If the shoe fits.”
Arik watched the couple until they were inside with the door shut, and then he turned back to Limos. “What do you say I haul you off like a sack of potatoes too?”
Limos’s smile was so sweet Arik thought he might get struck with diabetes. “You do that, and I’ll kill you.”
“Can’t. I’m immortal now.”
She sniffed. “Then I’ll… deny you sex.”
He laughed. “Now, see, I’d worry about that, except you want it as bad as I do.”
“You want it bad?”
He stepped back from her just enough that he could rake his gaze down her body. “Oh, yeah. I want to take you in every way imaginable and keep you so sexed up that when you aren’t in bed, all you’ll be thinking about is getting back in it.” He took in her lush curves, imagining how well they’d buffer his thrusts. “And that’s just tonight’s itinerary.”
Her tongue came out to lick her lips, and he zeroed in on the action, his body hardening already. “Forget everything I said about killing you and denying you… and just take me home.”
“What about Ares?” he asked. “We need to tell him about the chamber and the baby.”
“Tomorrow,” she said. “We’ve all been through enough hell for the day.”
Grinning, he swept her up and tossed her over his shoulder. “Open a gate.” When she squirmed in token protest, he spanked her lightly on her firm ass. “Open. Now.”
A shiver stole through her, and a gate opened. “There. And Arik?”
“Yeah?”
“Spank me again.”
Stepping through the gate, he did exactly that.
<ƀa >Thirty-eight
Finally, Limos was going to get what she’d always wanted. Yes, she’d lost her virginity in the technical sense. But not only had there been no finish, it had been done in anger and out of necessity. Now she’d lose her virginity