Madoc lifts my chin and wipes away the leftover juice from my lips. His thumb lingers on my Cupid’s bow as he gazes down at me with seductive eyes, and he didn’t steal a nip from that cherry, did he?
“You’re always free to have a taste of my forbidden fruit, my beauty...”
Well, I could do with removing the taste of melon out of my mouth. It’s still tempting me, filling my brain with fake vestiges of happiness where I smile and laugh like a Stepford Housewife.
The horror.
Madoc’s spicy cum should remove that toxic taste right away. Plus, it will help with the ache in my core and the empty feeling where his cock should be.
I get down on my knees, giving the crazy psycho what he obviously craves, and now I suck and pump on his dick, filling up on his spicy cum. It seeps through my body, soothing the ache between my legs, and once I’m finished, I stand, wiping my lips.
I set my eyes on that distant castle and smirk.
One down, three more challenges to go.
Chapter fourteen
Grey
Ouruncledidn’tlookthe least bit excited when our mate returned to his court, her hands on her sexy round hips. I think he genuinely thought she would cave to all the fruit, but it looks as if he underestimated her in the end.
It takes a strong person to resist all that temptation, after all, but an even stronger person to realize that it’s all just bullshit. Many humans have lost their souls to that forest, being sucked into a mini-universe where there is no escape. You want happiness? Sure. But at a cost.
You have tobleedfor that smile, but deep down, you’re depressed. Money sounds nice too, right? Being able to buy anything you want. Sure, you may never know a moment of financial misery again. Your kids can eat, yourdogcan eat, but the cost? That’s right. You’re effing miserable. All your old friends hate you now because you’re rich and you can’t make new ones because they only like you for your money. You are lonely.
Swim like Scrooge McDuck all you want in your big money vault, just be aware that you will be swimming alone in that ocean of money.
Then there’s love. Sweet, sweet love. I know it can be hard to find a fault in that kind of temptation, but everything comes with a price. Also, there’s a good chance that all that sweetness will give you a tooth cavity in the end, and no one likes tooth decay.
Luxury? Well, you drown in all that plush, rich velvet, forgetting your responsibilities. And then there’s freedom. We all remember what happened to Icarus when he flew too close to the sun. His wings melted and then he fell into the sea.
Last but not least is sex, and you guessed it: genital herpes.
Bottom line. Don’t give in to temptation because nothing is ever what it seems.
And I’ve never been prouder for my Belle for resisting all that fruit. She can still have those things but in time. Maybe not all of the time, but I swear that my brothers and I will ensure she lives a comfortable and happy life.
The king confers with his councilmen. Monsters who used to work for us, but now they serve our good-for-nothing uncle. I step toward Belle, ruffling her head. I mess up her brown hair.
“Knew you could pass the first test, sunshine. Proud of you.”
She grins up at me, fixing her eyes on Alice. Meanwhile, Madoc hisses at me for ruining Belle’s mane, and what is he, twelve? He can be so petty and jealous.
Belle wanders over to Alice. The young girl hides beneath Enzo’s shadow, and I’ve never seen a more frightened creature. If only I could fly her away and send her back to the human world, but she’s trapped. She’s lucky to have survived this long in the Abyss. Many humans don’t even make it past the wraith forest; it’s a miracle that any humans make it to the Forest of Forbidden Fruit at all.
She’s a broken girl, and I wish I could find all the motherfuckers who were responsible for turning her into this shell of a girl.
Some people just don’t deserve to live and I’d happily wring the necks of the people who made Alice this way. So she thinks she went to a world called Wonderland. Who are we to rain on her parade? It’s obviously just a case of a wild imagination.
“I promise, Alice,” my mate says. “I will win back your freedom. I only have two more challenges, and then you can go free. Also, with the king’s help, we can rid the darkness from the human world.”
I’m not so sure about that. My uncle was never the type to keep his word, and there’s something shifty about his eyes whenever he heard Belle talk of her people’s plight.
He almost appeared smug, and it makes me wonder...
Where was he exactly in the five years we were trapped in the human world? Many of our followers and people were banished with us, and that goes for our sad sap of an uncle too.
It was the reason why he managed to rally up so many supporters and overthrow us. We were no longer fit to rule the Abyss, all because we ignored an elderly lady seeking shelter.