“Short pain is better than a lifetime of pain,” Lilith commented.
“Shut up!” I screamed at her.
I staggered back, my hand pressing on my stomach to stop the twisted pain inside. I turned on my heel. I needed Zak and Héctor more than ever. But I was alone in the spyglass room.
“Where the fuck did you take my other mates?” I roared. “Where are my Héctor and Zak?”
Did Mom plan to deprive me of all of my mates?
“Have him,” Mom said, as if doing me a huge favor.
Zak swept into the spy room out of nowhere, confused and angry. Then he spotted me and his face brightened. I threw myself into his arms.
“I got you, Rosebud,” he said, grabbing me tightly against him and kissing me, searing me, as if he was so afraid that I’d slip from his grasp again. “I was looking for you everywhere. This place separated us. I won’t allow it to happen again.”
“Where’s Héctor?” I asked when we pulled away.
Then I saw my beloved.
Another of the glass walls showed him in the middle of an indoor pool that coalesced into an exotic garden, surrounded by a dozen naked nymphs, all of them lovely. He was stark naked. He looked down at his nudity, surprised and scandalized, then at the voluptuous females all around him.
No! Not my Héctor, too. Was I going to lose him to other women as well?
“What the bloody hell?” Zak asked, seeing Axel, Paxton, and Héctor with bare-assed women. He growled. “Scoundrels! How dare they!”
He rushed forward to kick through the glass to reach the other demigods and stop them from being unfaithful to me, but a force field flared, sending him flying back. He crashed onto the dragon chair.
“We’ll have to go through this, Zak,” I said, my heart breaking.
I wouldn’t know how to pick up all the pieces afterward.
Zak rolled to his feet, reached me in no time, pulled me against his chest, trying to shield me from what was going to happen.
I shut my eyes, then opened them. As Mom had said, I’d have to see my mates’ true nature. I had to know if they truly wanted me and also give them a chance to walk away.
At least, I had Zak with me here, solid as a rock, as usual.
“My Zak.” A sob tore out of my throat.
“I’ll always be with you, my Rosebud,” said the sky demigod with his heart in his blue eyes.
My gaze snagged on Paxton as he suddenly shoved away the succubus whom he’d pulled to him earlier and sat bolt upright in bed.
The temptress fell on the top of another succubus.
“What the fuck is going on?” Paxton snarled at them. “Who the fuck are you?”
“You wanted me a second ago, lover boy,” the succubus purred.
“I mistook you as my mate!” Paxton hissed. “Where’s Marigold? Your mistress promised to send my mate in right away before I somehow nodded off after the tea!”
“She’s screwing another man,” the succubus said in a saucy voice, “just how you fucked all of us and didn’t slow down before you knocked yourself out. You were insatiable, my demigod.” She spread her legs wider and ran her fingers along her slit. “No man has fucked me the way you did. I can’t get enough of your big cock. Fuck me again, tiger.”
A succubus to Paxton’s left crawled toward him, writhing and moaning wantonly.
“I want your cock inside me, too, demigod,” she said. “It felt so good. Yummy.”
“Stop!” Paxton roared, leaping across the succubi and jumping off the bed.