Chapter 58 Let´s take a look
“We have nothing left here.” She poked my chest again, digging her claws into one of the open wounds. Then swiped hard to cut through my chest, this time aiming to do as much damage as possible. Silently telling me how much that thought hurt her by trying to inflict it back on me.
Those knives she called nails were capable of slicing through bone, and if I’d been any other man, I’d have been in shock from the pain. When I didn’t react the way she wanted, her face scrunched up.
She was about to shriek and use her most powerful weapon against me. I tensed up, ready to go flying.
Her foot whipped out instead and landed right in my nuts. Pain shot up my spine like electricity and my feet went out from under me. I groaned, “I should have seen that coming.”
“It’s so satisfying to see you kneel at my feet.” She cackled, finally satisfied with my reaction. “Be gone when I come back.”
I grabbed her foot, but she stepped out of my reach before I had a good grip.
“Maleene,” I growled. “Don’t you leave this fucking house.” The bitch didn’t even turn back.
“Oh, I’m going to make you regret walking away from me,” I told her, just in case she was still in earshot.
I was going to edge her for hours, until she was a sobbing, begging mess. I’d belt her pale ass until it was bright red. Then, after she couldn’t take anymore, I’d use her like a cum dumpster and deprive her of what she wanted most.
She would pay.
As soon as my legs worked again.
I
laid in the depths of the lake with my arms crossed. The only thing that overgrown shark was good for was chum. The twisted thought ofthrowing him into the world's largest blender made me smile.
I stared at the ring of light on the surface. I wondered how long I needed to stay away before he got the message and took a hike off a cliff. Something landed perfectly between my breasts. I plucked it out and smiled at the cute little pearl. Using my tail, I pushed up to the surface.
I found a delicious hunk of beast standing off to the side waiting for me. His blonde hair complemented his dark brass skin tone, and those brown eyes always made me lose myself in them. “You went on a date with a wolf. Really?”
“Do you aim for my tits or do your gifts gravitate to them?” I asked him, holding up his pearl.
He grinned like a demon ready to make a soul sucking deal. “You didn’t answer my question.”
“Are you jealous, you big prick?”
“Absolutely.” He squatted by the water. “I’ve been flirting with you for years, waiting for you to give me a chance to take a shot.”
“Kam’s back,” I warned him. I liked Phio. He shrugged. “Your bond is broken.”
“He doesn’t think so.”
“He doesn’t get to neglect you and come play mate now,” Phio snarled. His deep voice made my insides quiver with need. Maybe he was right. I shouldn’t have let Cassia pick my first date. I knew who I wanted. He smiled, smelling my reaction. “Are you done letting your girlfriend play matchmaker? I could have told you that you would smash that little thing to pieces.”
“And I’m sure you would have no ulterior motive for telling me that.”
He leaned down closer, just a brush away from my lips. “You aren’t built for a soft man, Mal. Unless you intend to drown him in the lake, aim for someone more in your league.”
“I’m considering only taking female lovers.” I licked my lips.
“If you do, at least let me watch.” He stood up and walked away with a grin on his face, not falling for my bait. “That way I can deposit the memory for rainy days.”
I stopped my tail so I could sink into the lake, back onto the rock I rested on. I smiled at the little pearl. He started tossing things to me years ago. Right after the hysterics made me lose my mind for the first time, and I attacked him.
A spinosaurus. In his beast form. On land. Not my best moment.
A pink shell had fallen in here and I popped my head out, much like I’d just done, and he gave me that big stupid grin. “You can quit avoiding me, Mal. I won’t harm you.”
I smiled at the tiny pearl he threw at me. A blush warmed my cheeks, right as waves knocked me off the rock I sat on. A few hundred feet away, a huge megalodon stared back at me. I clenched the pearl in my fingers to hide it from him.
There wasn’t enough room in this lake for a primordial behemoth that once terrorized the ocean. His gray flesh was a stark contrast to the blue water, and while I couldn’t read the expression on his face, I knew he was pissed.
He swam at me, creating waves in his wake. The bastard was fast, but I used his size against him to twirl onto his back to avoid his mouth. It wouldn't be the first time he’d grabbed me to get me under control. But if I could hurt him, he could hurt me. Those rows of serrated teeth didn’t sound as fun anymore. I let out a shriek and stabbed him in the eye with my claws. He swam back and forth to shake me off. I managed to keep a hold of him until he slammed our sides into the hard earth on the side of the lake.
Ocio appeared through a whirlpool that threatened to suck us both in. Her long blonde hair flared around her and her milky pale skin shone from the leftover light from the sun. The fins around her neck looked like a collar fit for a queen. Ethereal. The goddess of the ocean. If there was ever a god you didn’t want to piss off, it was her.
“My son, welcome back.” She smiled at Kam. “I haven’t seen you in so long. How could you stay away from me without even a visit?”
Ugh. That bastard was one of her chosen ones. I couldn’t stand him. She’d take his side for sure. I was just a mermaid. Not one of her primordial babies she cultivated from single-cell organisms.
“Maleene,” she called sweetly.
Ugh. Here we go.
“I warned you.”
“Why should you warn me about anything? He abandoned me!”
“Don’t raise your voice at me.” A pulse of water threw me back into the wall. Damn bitch. He breaks the beast creed for twenty years, and I’m the problem?
Fucking mama’s boy.
Megalodons were like the youngest sons of a family. Ocio doted on him and spoiled him rotten. She expected Kam to be treated like he turned shit into gold.
“I should have picked someone gentler for you,” she cooed, petting his nose. She listened to his thoughts and smiled. “You’re right. Maleene is the perfect one for you. Your energies keep one from overpowering the other.”
“No, you’re right. Since I’m not his mate anymore, feel free to replace me with someone nicer and more subservient.”
“Not his mate? Maleene, you can’t say things that aren’t true just because you are angry.” Ocio’s disapproval crunched her perfect brow.
“I injured him.”