Steal the Sun (41 page)

Something hard came down on the back of my head, and I was down for the count.

Chapter Twenty-Four

I came back to consciousness gradually, having the most delicious dream. My body was warm and safe. There had been no confrontation with Gilliana and no one was going to take me to an auction house. Dev was with me, his tongue laving my nipples with the greatest of affection. My breasts were heavy, the nipples taut as they stood up begging for his attention. I didn’t have to do anything but let him pleasure me.

He sucked gently, more sweetly than ever before. Usually with Dev there was a certain amount of domination. He liked to show his strength and I got turned on by it so we all won. This was a new side to him and I sighed into his gentle touch. I would have thought Bris was with me, but I didn’t feel the rush of lust roll over my skin. There was a laziness to his tongue, like he had all the time in the world and he was content to play forever.

“God, that’s hot,” Danny said from somewhere in the darkness. I smiled in my sleep. He always liked to watch when Dev made love to me. He liked to join in, but sometimes he would just sit back and enjoy the show. I was naked and the world was warm with Dev’s love and care surrounding me.

“You like that do you, vampire?” Dev asked but his voice was strangely…feminine. “I’m surprised. I’d heard vampires were extremely possessive. It was a worry of mine when I made the deal.”

“Yeah, well, I might be a vampire, but I’m still male.” Danny laughed, a deep sexy sound. “No male is that possessive. Besides, you’re very much not what I expected. Why don’t you let me join you?”

There was a sweet tug at my breast, and I felt myself getting soft and wet. I sighed because I didn’t want to leave this dream. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew I would wake up and be forced to deal with the fact that I’d been sold to a goblin, or something like a goblin, as a sex slave. I would be used roughly and Danny would be forced to watch, and he’d probably be killed when they realized he couldn’t be controlled. Dev would fight his war and he would die. I would live my life out on this plane in agony, so I didn’t fight the dream of being gently made love to.

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea, but I do know what you’re talking about,” Dev said in that strange, sweet voice as his mouth moved to the other breast and his hand sought out my soft center and rubbed so gently I moaned. “She’s so responsive. This is why I had to buy a girl. My boyfriend would freak if I played with another guy. I just…like girls. They’re so soft and sweet. I can be gentle with a girl. With my boyfriend, it’s all strength and power and dominance and that’s fine most of the time.”

“But sometimes you just need a little sweet pussy, right?” Danny asked, his voice low, and I knew he was ready to go.

There was a soft sigh. “Oh, and it is sweet. I’m not going to hurt her, you know. I really do promise that.”

Something small began to play with private parts of me and my eyes flew open. Even in my craziest dreams there was nothing about Dev or Danny that was small and soft. I looked up into the eyes of my Unseelie captor, who was supposed to be a brutal, barbarian overlord.

“Hello,” the small, sweet-looking female said with wide eyes. “Welcome back. I hope they weren’t too rough getting you from…well, wherever you came from. They didn’t tell and I didn’t ask.”

I couldn’t estimate how tall she was, but she was slender and her breasts were small but spectacularly formed. Dark-brown hair curled around her face and gave her the appearance of a gorgeous pixie with violet eyes.

I knew her breasts were pretty because she was right next to me and she was naked.

“You’re not wearing any clothes,” I said because I wasn’t sure of anything else.

The pretty pixie smiled, a decadent grin spreading across her expressive face. “That’s all right, gorgeous. Neither are you.”

I shoved my head up, which was a mistake because my brainpan felt like it was going to split in two. I rested it back down, but I’d confirmed the fact that she was telling the truth. I was naked and spread out for the world to see. My arms were over my head and I was pressed into a soft mattress, apparently tied to the headboard.

I moved my eyes to the left and the right, but all I could see was a softly feminine bedroom. The walls here were wooden, and I suspected I was in some sort of cabin. The only sound I could hear beyond my own labored breathing was a dog barking somewhere.

“What am I doing here?” I wasn’t where I was supposed to be. I doubted Gilliana had meant to sell me to anyone who looked like this girl. She would be flustered at the prospect.

The woman sat up. She smiled down on me and let her hands run across my torso. “Well, sweetie, I kind of bought you. Don’t freak or anything. I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to play with you for a while. I was promised you’re experienced at giving and receiving pleasure.”

“I’m not a whore.” God only knew what Gilliana had said about me. I might have a strange sex life, but I’d slept with exactly two men.

She frowned and touched my face gently. “I didn’t say you were. I said you were an excellent lover. At least that’s what I was promised. Goddess knows you are extremely responsive. You got wet the minute I started rubbing your pussy.”

“Well, you should stop that.” I was sure my entire body went red with embarrassment. I would have crossed my legs but my feet were tied to the posts at the foot of the bed.

“God, please don’t,” I heard a familiar voice plead.

“Daniel!” I nearly shouted and I looked around again. If I stretched, I could catch a glimpse of him. He was stuffed in a corner, but he had a view of the action.

“Sorry, Z,” he said with a shake of his head. Even from where I was lying I could see that his fangs were out. “I’m just a guy and I didn’t even get to watch you and Sarah do it last month.”

“We were keeping Neil warm,” I explained for the thousandth time. We certainly hadn’t done it.

“Baby, you were naked with another girl in a big old bed. If Neil was there, I’ve blocked it from my memory,” Daniel admitted in a husky voice. “All I remember is four pretty breasts rubbing together and both of you looking at me and begging me to join you.”

I looked up at the smiling woman staring down at me and shook my head. “That was a fantasy of his, a product of his horny male imagination. I didn’t sleep with Sarah…well, I slept with her but I didn’t…” She slid her fingers down and gently played with my clitoris, parting my labia and rubbing with perfect pressure. I gasped. “Yeah, I didn’t do that with her.” I tried to get a little oxygen into my lungs. Girls really know where to touch other girls.

“I can teach you what she likes if you just let me out of these chains, sweetheart. I’ll tell you this much. She likes it when you rub little circles,” Daniel commented.

“Shut up, Daniel,” I hissed even as I proved I really liked little circles.

“I’m sorry, baby,” my vampire apologized. “It’s just this is so much better than we expected. This isn’t a bad place. We can relax here. She’s not a bad person, Z. I need you to know, I’m doing this for us. If she plays with you a little longer, I think I might be able to cut through these chains with my dick.”

The brunette threw her head back and laughed long and hard. “He’s hilarious.”

Her right leg rested on the lower half of my body. She was certainly a girl comfortable in her own skin.

“Yeah, he’s a laugh riot,” I said sarcastically but I was happy she’d stopped playing with me. My body apparently didn’t care that she was female and not married to me. If she’d played a little longer, I would have gone off like a rocket. I blamed my husbands. When you’ve had that much amazing sex, your body gets conditioned to it. I decided it was time to ask a few questions. Since I wasn’t being tortured by a goblin and Daniel was with me, we might have a shot at getting out of this. “Who are you?”

“My name is Nim,” she introduced herself. “The hot vamp over there told me your name is Z.”

“Zoey,” I corrected.

“That’s pretty.” She moved her thumb lightly across my lips. If she’d been a nasty old barbarian goblin I would have been tempted to bite her and set our relationship on a proper footing. I found myself strangely reluctant to hurt the dark-eyed girl who looked down at me with an amused fascination.

“So you bought me?” It wasn’t the first time someone had tried to buy me. There were several vamps out there who had offered cash to Daniel for me. It was just the first time someone had succeeded.

“For a pretty penny, too,” she admitted, wide eyed. “I’ve been saving up. I’m afraid I haven’t found anyone over here who does it for me. I mean my boyfriend does, but the women here tend to be a little fierce. They’re actually kind of scary, if you ask me. I like soft. There’s one female but she isn’t into girls. I guess she’s my best friend. She actually has awful taste in men. Her last boyfriend was an asshole. You look like her. It was a bonus in my book.”

I wasn’t sure what that had to do with anything, but I nodded. “So you thought a slave could do it for you?”

She smiled brightly. “Oh, I made them describe you, but I knew the minute they said they had a human female that I was finally in luck. Human females are so sweet. The vampire was just icing on the cake. My boyfriend is going to love him.”

Now it was my turn to smile as I heard Daniel swallow nervously. I’d been planning our escape but it just might have to wait an hour or two. Turnabout was fair play. My vampire had enjoyed my sexual servitude. It was only fair that I enjoy his. “Nim, I’m going to have to watch that.”

“Wait just a minute now. I only knew about Nim,” Daniel was saying.

Nim laughed, her lilting amusement an infectious thing. “He’s not going to want to have sex with you, silly. I told you. We won’t hurt either one of you.” She brought her attention back to me. “Though I don’t personally see anything wrong with it. It would be hot. They would look good together, but every time I bring it up that I’d like to watch him with a lovely man, he just rolls his eyes like it’s the stupidest thing ever.”

“I know.” I was rapidly getting altogether too comfortable with my captor. We had a lot in common. “I have two husbands and all I’ve ever managed to get them to do was kiss.”

“That was not a kiss, Z.” Daniel huffed, a sound filled with masculine indignation. “That was food. There was blood involved.”

I smiled sweetly up at husband number one. “That’s not the way I remember it. I seem to remember tongues and hard cocks rubbing together and the two of you begging me to join you.”

“Two husbands, huh? I can’t get the one man I have to marry me. It’s the story of my life,” Nim said with a little pout. “Is the other one as pretty as the vampire?”

I sighed at the thought of husband number two. “He’s so hot. He’s the filthiest man ever. The horniest one, too. I miss him already. He has the dirtiest mind ever created.”

“I don’t know about that. There’s this guy in the Seelie
sithein
you should meet. So is he the one who sold you?” Nim asked the question with a great deal of sympathy.

I shook my head. “No, he would never have sold us. He loves us. That was his shitty ex who decided if she can’t have him no one can. I’m in the Unseelie
sithein
, right?”

She nodded. “Yes. It’s where we live although I should tell you, I’m not a faery. My boyfriend is…well, mostly.”

That made sense. The Unseelie accepted pretty much everyone. The
sidhe
here would be halflings or simply
sidhe
who felt more comfortable with the Unseelie. “What are you? Are you human like me?”

“I’m a lot of things,” she explained. “I started out as a nymph. That was a long time ago. I got into black magic for a while and became a powerful sorceress. I kind of stumbled into immortality, wandered the Earth plane for a while, fell in love, fell out, and now I’m here.”

“Nim,” a deep voice said from the doorway. “What is the meaning of this?”

Nim turned with a brilliant smile on her heart-shaped face. “Hey, lover, I’ve got a surprise for you. I found our third. You promised if I found a girl we both liked that I could have my threesome. Isn’t she pretty?”

I looked up at the man, who had to be six two. He had a startlingly handsome face, though it bore some of the scars of battle. He wore brown leather trousers and an open-necked linen shirt. There was a sword on his belt. He had dark eyes that looked me over with the assessment of a connoisseur. His annoyance faded and those eyes heated up. “She’s an excellent counterpoint to you, dearest. Is her hair red? That’s very exotic. She’s quite lovely. I worried when you said you wanted a third that I would end up fucking some cold Seelie bitch. She’s obviously not Seelie and she doesn’t look cold at all.”

“She’s not.” Nim clapped her hands in happiness. “She’s warm. We can sleep with her between us.”

The man smiled affectionately at his girlfriend. “Well, my lover, if this is what you need, who am I to deny you? We can keep the girl.”

“Lay one hand on her and I swear to god I will kill you,” Daniel promised.

Daniel suddenly had the new guy’s attention. The man’s eyes turned from me to the vampire wrapped in the corner. Daniel struggled against his chains and his flesh was smoking again.