“Then show me,” she whispered, riding him with a rhythm that tested his control. “Prove it, Cassian. Or are you still pretending to be the good one?”
That’s when she saw it.
The change. His eyes–no longer warm hazel, but sharp obsidian.
His hand shot out, fingers wrapping around her throat–not tight, not yet, but claiming.
“You really want him out,” Cassian murmured, voice colder, darker. “You want to play with Cain.”
The room felt smaller. Hotter. She should’ve been scared.
She wasn’t.
He flipped her with bone-snapping speed, one hand pinning her wrists above her head, the other gripping her thigh like a man who knew how to break bodies and make women beg in the same breath.
“You think teasing me makes you brave?” Cain purred. “No, baby. It makes you mine to ruin.”
Kael’s lips brushed mine, his eyes burning.
“Yes, omega. You are ours. No other man’s. No other kings. You belong to us. And before this night is through, you’ll admit it with your teeth in our skin.”
Darius growled in pleasure, “Yes brother, she needs to mark us. That’s the only way to get these ridiculous thoughts out of her fucking head.”
The bond pulsed again, hotter, sharper, leaving me gasping. My gums ached. My body trembled. Instinct screamed at me, whispering things I didn’t want to understand. A whimper escaped my mouth before I could stop it.
“It’s okay, omega. We will show you how. Within the hour, we will be fully bonded as true mates.”
“I… I can’t—”
“You will.” Darius’ grip on my throat tightened as he shoved me back onto the sheets, pinning me there with a growl that rattled the walls. “We’ll fuck the denial out of you. We’ll fuck you so full of us there’ll be no room left for doubt.
“And after we are done fucking our names into your bones, we will find out who fed you these lies. And as an offering, we will give you their heads.”
Darius groaned, “I can’t wait to slaughter them. Maybe we’ll even claim you over their dead body.”
DEVOURED is a compilation of standalone one shots spanning the full spectrum of dark romance — from demon summoners to forbidden encounters, from fantasy realms to the human world.
Table of Contents
The Breeder’s Tree: A girl who was never allowed in the forest walks into one, gets caught by something ancient and knowing, and spends the rest of the day learning exactly what she is– and who she was always meant for.
Seven : a demonologist who summons something six tiers above her pay grade and spends the rest of the night finding out exactly what that costs her.
Gilded: One minute she’s in the market. The next she’s in the sky. A sharp-tongued captive taken to a dragon’s mountain arguing with her own body & a mate bond she refuses to acknowledge.
Bless Me, Father A woman who has decided she wants a priest spends six months engineering his ruin– and gets exactly what she came for, and more.
His, Then His: She had one mate. She went to sleep. She woke up with two.
The Breeder’s Tree: A girl who was never allowed in the forest walks into one, gets caught by something ancient and knowing, and spends the rest of the day learning exactly what she is– and who she was always meant for.