“He gave me a blood transfusion.”
Nox stopped with his thumb over Luca’s pulse. “Why?”
“I don’t…” Luca swallowed and his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down. “I think I might have been hurt, but….” He did it again.
Nox chased the movement with his tongue.
Luca exhaled Nox’s name.
Saliva filled Nox’s mouth, his teeth elongated, and his jaw popped. The urge to bite Luca wasn’t an unfamiliar one, but if Nox did it this time, he wouldn’t just make Luca bleed. He’d sink his teeth till bones snapped and he tasted marrow.
Luca petted Nox’s cheek. “If that’s what you need.”
“No.” It was wrong.
But just like Isaiah had warned, the Anubis didn’t care about right and wrong. It only cared about what it wanted.
And it wanted Luca.
The Anubis roared to the surface, and Nox yanked back, but not before it got close enough to graze crimson scratches across the top of Luca’s shoulder.
Nox shook with the effort to hold the creature back. Deep within, it purred as if excited by the challenge. Threads drew dark lines under Nox’s skin and his grip on the Anubis weakened.
If Nox didn’t appease its need to mark its place, he’d lose the fight warring inside him.
He rolled over Luca and flipped him onto his stomach.
“Put…” A growl rose out of his chest. “Yourrr—” His jaw realigned, making it impossible to form words. All Nox could do was envision what he wanted and hope Luca could see his thoughts again.
Luca trapped Nox’s cock between his thighs.
It only took a few thrusts before the rush of release left cum smearing between Luca’s legs. Nox pulled back enough to get an arm around Luca’s waist, lifting him from the cot they lay on.
The grip on Nox’s cock tightened. Skin against skin, the high of pleasure rising with each thrust, Nox fought for the edge, but the Anubis resisted.
Because it didn’t want this poor substitute. It wanted to fuck Luca until it filled him. Fuck him until he couldn’t stand. Use him over and over and over for however long it took to erase Isaiah’s scent.
A flood of thoughts washed through Nox’s mind, images of himself, the sensation of teeth on his shoulder, the glorious feel of being penetrated. The thoughts Luca fed the Anubis snatched its attention, breaking the dam of euphoria. Nox jerked, grinding the head of his cock against the sensitive area behind Luca’s balls.
Luca groaned, and the pleasure of his release wove through Nox until he didn’t know where he ended and Luca began.
Only then did the Anubis let go, and Nox collapsed, barely catching himself before he crushed Luca against the cot.
Luca panted, and sweat soaked the back of his neck. Nox turned on his side, taking Luca with him. Holding him too tight but unable to let go.
The air kicked on, bringing in the flavor of dew-covered grass with old fertile ground.
Varu and Mah.
Life and death.
Nox snarled.
“They’re not going to hurt us.”
True. Because the Anubis would kill them before they got the chance.
Nox ground his teeth together and willed the creature to focus on the man in his arms. It complied, and its rage fell into a muffled hum.