Free Ultimate Warriors by Joy Nash, Jaide Fox, Michelle Pillow Page A

first, they began to speak words
she’d never heard before. Gradually, their voices became louder, the words
falling faster from their lips.
          She
sensed Onyx’s presence before she felt his touch on her leg.
          He meant
to take her and this time there would be no escaping him.
          She
screamed then, as loudly as she could, summoning Xalen to her aid. No one was
more surprised than she was that she actually managed to break the hold that
had sealed her lips before, but the chanting was so loud by that time that she
despaired that she had made herself heard above it.
          And she
was in a cavern, far below the Earth. How could he hear her? she thought despairingly.
          The
thought had no sooner occurred to her than she realized how totally irrational
it was. If Xalen was "real" then he was a demon. It shouldn’t matter
where she was … unless this cavern shielded the cult from the other demons, the
good demons?
          The
skate of Onyx’s hand along her thigh jerked Nari abruptly back to her
situation. Straining, she lifted her head to look down at him just as he curled
his fingers into her mound. She jerked as she felt his finger parting the
flesh, probing her.
          His gaze
moved up her body and locked with hers. He was frowning. Slowly, he climbed
onto the altar, licking a path all the way up her belly as he moved. Nari
squeezed her eyes shut, trying to ignore the leap of her flesh beneath that
damp, heated caress. To her relief, he withdrew the tortuous tongue from her.
When she opened her eyes, she saw that he was studying her almost curiously.
          "I
can give you pleasure," he said in his deep, rumbling voice.
          Nari
gritted her teeth. "Only in your conceited mind!" she snapped.
          He
frowned, but more thoughtfully than angrily. "I am so repulsive to
you?"
          "You
disgust me!" she spat out angrily.
          He
closed his eyes. As she stared at him in surprise, his features began to shift
and change. She blinked. When she opened her eyes once more, she saw that it
was Savage who hovered above her.
          She
swallowed. Onyx was playing with her mind.
          Or was
he?
          Was it
possible there had never been a Dr. Savage at all? Had this demon appeared to
her in a form he thought would please her more? Tried to gain her trust by
appearing to her as an attractive human being?
          Almost
as if he had read her mind, he asked, "Is this form more pleasing to
you?"
          Instead
of answering, Nari looked away from him, feeling ill at the thought that she’d
kissed Savage with such pleasure when he might only have been Onyx all along.
          "Perhaps this, then?"
          Despite
her unwillingness to be drawn into his game, whatever it was, Nari found she
couldn’t resist looking at him when he spoke again. To her horror, she saw
Xalen above her--Onyx looking like Xalen--or maybe there’d never been a Xalen
either? Maybe there’d never been anyone but Onyx.
          He
growled angrily when she merely stared at him. "There is no pleasing
you."
          "You
can not please me," Nari retorted.
          His eyes
narrowed cunningly. "I can wring pleasure from your body whether it is
your will to feel it or not. You responded to me before. I smelled the sweet
scent of your desire, felt the heat of your body."
          Nari
swallowed with an effort. She could lie and deny it, but he would know.
          She
steeled herself as he lowered his head, turning her face away. He sucked the
flesh of her neck, almost to the point of pain, but heat flooded her despite
that. She felt her nipples pucker and stand erect.
          Onyx
felt it, too. The hard little tips drew his attention and he moved down her
body. Nari gritted her teeth as his mouth covered one tip, trying her best to
ignore the rampant, pleasurable sensations that shot through her. Despite her
efforts, her body sang to