Darkness Taunts by Susan Illene Page B

gone too far. “Yeah, but now blood and brains are covering the floor. Nik’s not going to be happy.”
    A sly smile crossed her face. “No, he’s not. Are you coming over to train tomorrow?”
    She was helping me with my sword and hand to hand combat skills. The military had taught me a lot, but fighting sups meant taking it to another level if I wanted to have any kind of chance against them.
    “I can probably come by for an hour in the morning.” She’d be out for the count while the sun was up, but with it being winter in Alaska there were plenty of hours of darkness. “I’m heading to Juneau tomorrow night.”
    She nodded. “I heard about that. All the more reason to get one last training session in before you go. Don’t rely on that nephilim to save you. Actually, don’t ever rely on any man to save you.”
    I had to agree with her there. “Don’t worry. I’ll watch my back.”
    She clapped me on my sore shoulder. I tried not to wince. “See you at six in the morning sharp.”
    Great, I wasn’t going to get much sleep tonight.
    “Yeah, sure.”
    Kariann went back in the security room and I continued on my way. The left side of my face was starting to hurt, but at least the bleeding had stopped. I made a quick detour to the hallway bathroom to clean up. The armor had cut me just past the cheek bone and the area around the gash had begun to swell. I hung my hair over that side to cover it up. I did not need Nik to notice and get angry about it. Tonight had been long enough already.
    A solid oak door with intricate carvings on it marked the entryway to his room. A magic spell sound-proofed this part of the house and kept anyone from entering without his permission—except me and his second in command. When he didn’t answer after the third knock, which was the one thing he should have been able to hear, I decided to go inside whether he wanted me to or not. The magic barrier sizzled over my skin as I passed through it and opened the door. Low lighting in the cavernous room made it difficult to see until my eyes adjusted. I had to search out the vampire in question despite knowing his general direction. He stood a few feet from the four-poster bed.
    His head was thrown back with a look of pure ecstasy on his face. A woman’s mouth was wrapped around his cock.  She was naked on her knees with her long, black hair flowing down her back. I had to admire her ability to take him all the way in like that, considering his size. When she withdrew a couple of inches, sucking noises reached me. Good lord, she’d make a vacuum envious. Where did he find these women anyway?
    There was a time when walking in on him like this would have been mortifying. Over the last few months Nik had found numerous many ways to test my limits. I’d learned to put my feelings aside so even the most vulgar acts didn’t bother me as much as they once did.
    I cleared my throat—time to ruin his fun. “Hey Nik, is this your newest accessory? I’d say she fits you nicely.”
    He groaned and opened his eyes to look at me. The woman didn’t stop doing her thing. “Melena,” he sounded my name out real slow, “don’t suppose you want to join in?”
    I smiled. “You already know the answer to that. We need to talk.”
    He rubbed the woman’s shiny black hair as she began to do swirlies around his head. “Can’t it wait a few minutes?”
    “No,” I said. “It can’t. I just spent a less than pleasant evening with Lucas. Apparently he has a job for me—one I have no idea how to do—but he says you know about it. I also had a run-in with his twin brother, Micah, who no one told me about. My life was bad enough before discovering there were two of them in this world.”
    The girl at his feet was back to deep-throating him again. Nik closed his eyes. “In other words, you had a bad night and now you’ve come to ruin mine as well?”
    “Pretty much,” I said. I couldn’t say it didn’t turn me on to watch, but I’d gone