Free Denying Ecstasy (The Guardians of the Realms Series) by Setta Jay

up in your business, I’ve been cool as fuck even though you’re in the wrong on this one. Rain doesn’t deserve this shit, Brianne shot back through the link, and he could see her fighting with a perfect titian brow cocked high in his direction.
    Silence filled the link, and Bastian cocked a brow in Dorian’s direction. She’d single-handedly knocked them all down. Him more than the others. Dorian frowned. Brianne was one of the few that hadn’t busted his balls. It hadn’t been like her to keep quiet on anything, but they’d been fighting in different locations with all of the activity.
    Report, Drake said.
    All hell beasts are down, fire’s out, and the last serpent isn’t far behind, Bastian replied.
    The others reported that they were all starting to help the warriors with cleanup. The fun was gone. None of them wanted to deal with an angry Brianne. They all liked their dicks where they were.
    The remaining cat got in the fray, and this time Vane teleported in and tossed the male out of the way. Vane looked around for a split second, probably searching out Brianne, and it was if everything else happened in slow motion. The beast reared and struck as Vane was spinning. It latched onto the male’s shoulder. If he’d moved slower, it might have been his head. Fuck.
    Brianne roared while everything else went quiet. Bastian and he teleported and helped Brianne slice through the neck. They got Vane free as quickly as possible. He was unconscious almost instantly, which was scary as fuck. The male was a Demi-God, closest to a Guardian in power. It shouldn’t have knocked him out like that. They laid Vane’s body out on the ground, the serpent’s teeth still lodged in his flesh.
    “Damn you!” Brianne shouted at Vane as they pulled the jaw apart, removing the teeth from bone and flesh. They didn’t want more venom getting into him. Before they could do anything else, Brianne was yelling completely incoherent things at the knocked-out Demi-God while ripping his leather shirt with her sharp talons. Before Dorian knew what she planned to do, she put her lips to the gored flesh and sucked. She spit blood and hopefully poison over and over while Bastian and Dorian forced the serpent’s still flailing body back. She quickly flipped Vane’s body over and did the same to the holes in the back of his shoulder.
    Sirena, Vane’s down, ofioeidis bite. Dorian hated having to say it.
    His heart clenched painfully for his sister. He’d never seen her with a male, and watching her now made him wonder just how long she and Vane had been seeing each other. It was obvious she cared for the Demi-God more than any of them imagined. He cringed hard. It could only end in more pain. She and Vane weren’t mated. The races didn’t mix. If either found their true mate, it would be painful if they were as attached as it seemed. He clenched his jaw, not liking the idea of his sister feeling that kind of pain.
    “Shh, Brianne, he’ll be fine. You’ll get to beat the shit out of him later,” he said to her as he rubbed her back, trying to soothe her. He glanced up at Bastian. The emotion coming from her was too raw, and he didn’t know what the fuck to do to fix it. She was always a ball of energy and fire.
    Bastian shook his head, sadness in his eyes as they looked at their sister.
    Brianne was shaking under Dorian’s hand, and he felt like a piece of shit as she continued to yell at Vane for his stupidity.
    The beast venom was obviously stronger in the new breed, or it wouldn’t have landed the Demi-God on his ass so quickly. With the other variety, the venom wasn’t deadly for an Immortal, it only incapacitated so the beast could decapitate its prey. What would this breed’s do? He listened for Vane’s pulse. “His heart is beating, and he still has his head. He’ll be fine.” He tried to reassure her. It was likely the unknown that was scaring the shit out of Brianne.
    Bring him to me, Dorian, and, Bastian, get me the