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  After what seemed like hours, but must have only been a few moments, she opened her eyes and looked at Pestilence again.

  He looked sickly and pale. Not at all strong enough to end the world, though she knew he would if given the chance.

  She vowed not to give him such an opportunity.

  Anna counted out her breaths and let her body relax. She looked into Pestilence’s eyes and saw…fear. Fear of her.

  “I forgive you,” she said, and this time she meant it. Anything to stop him from succeeding in his evil intent. “I forgive you, Pestilence. Now be gone from my realm.” The words came to her naturally and felt right. “And never return.”

  “Noooooo,” Pestilence screamed. “You cannot do this. You haven’t the power—“ But that was all he managed before he disappeared completely before her very eyes.

  Anna stood there in silence for a long while, amazed at how suddenly it had all ended.

  “Come, we mustn’t dally. We haven’t much time before your military strikes against this place.”

  Anna took his outstretched hand and together they ran from the building.

  They took to the air, Enigma’s crimson wings unfurling like a giant cape as he held her tight in his arms. They escaped mere seconds before the building exploded behind them in a blaze of complete destruction.

  Chapter Seven

  They landed in a forest dozens of miles away from the blast, but still Anna could feel the ground shuddering beneath her feet.

  She burst into tears the minute her feet touched earth, and collapsed onto the ground. Enigma came down beside her and held her cradled to him as she sobbed out all the long days of terror and uncertainty into his chest.

  When her sobs faded into hiccups, Enigma put his finger beneath her chin and lifted her mouth to his kiss. He licked her lips, deliberately infusing her with the scent and flavor of his mouth.

  She tasted of honey and tears.

  “How do we know if he’s really gone?” she asked him on a shaking breath.

  “He won’t be able to try again for another five hundred years or so. Such are the laws of our people.”

  “I can’t believe it was so easy.”

  “Was it really all that easy?” he asked her.

  No, it hadn’t been. “All those people are dead. Everything I knew and loved is lost forever.”

  “Not everything,” he said, and claimed her mouth once more.

  She clung to him desperately, thrusting her tongue into his mouth with eager intent.

  Within seconds they were both naked and lying on the soft bed of the forest floor.

  Enigma traced every line of her body, first with his fingers and then with his mouth. He suckled her breasts, dipped his tongue into her navel, and licked her pussy like a cat licking cream from a bowl.

  Anna screamed when he laved her asshole with his tongue. She screamed again when he placed his mouth over the whole of her cunt and suckled hard.

  He flipped her over and spread her ass cheeks to better kiss and lick and suck the moue of her anus. He licked his fingers and gently pressed them into her until she keened with the wild pleasure of it. He lifted her up before him and shoved his cock into her with one mighty thrust.

  His fingers filled her ass and his cock filled her pussy and the wet, slurping noises of their coupling echoed in the woods around them. He used his free hand to slap the cushion of her ass and she cried out.

  “Do that again,” she panted.

  He spanked her again, hard enough to make her skin sting deliciously. He leaned over her and bit hard into her shoulder and she moaned, thrusting back against his questing cock and fingers.

  “I don’t believe it, but I think I love you,” she panted, unable to call back the words.

  “Such a romantic you are,” he teased her.

  “I mean it,” she said, and did.

  “I know I love you, my Anna,” he told her. “And I know you love me, too.” Enigma thrust deeper into her. “Join me. Come for me,” he urged her.

  He pressed yet another finger into her ass, stretching and burning her until she was sobbing with the overwhelming pleasure. Anna came with a savage scream that echoed about the forest, frightening off the birds in the treetops.

  Enigma flowed into her like a molten river, spurting deep.

  But he never stopped thrusting.

  Once Anna was able to catch her breath, Enigma turned her back over and hooked her ankles behind his ears. He leaned forward and took one of her breasts in his mouth. He reached down and thrust a finger inside her, alongside his cock. His wings unfurled and wrapped around them like an iridescent crimson blanket.

  Anna sobbed and pulled wildly at his hair, and he continued to suckle hard on her breast.

  He thrust both his cock and his finger into her, over and over again, touching her womb with his great length.

  Her nipple popped free from his mouth, wet and chilled in the night air. “Say you love me and mean it,” he demanded.

  She only gasped.

  He increased the pace and force of his thrusts, using his other hand to reach around and squeeze the cheeks of her ass. He rotated his hips into hers, mashing against the swollen pebble of her clit with each movement he made.

  He lifted her higher against him, delving deeper into her body until she cried out. His wings spread out impossibly longer around them, each furred inch of them caressing her body like a thousand questing fingers.

  She came with a roar. “I love you, Enigma. I love you so much,” she yelled, pulling at his hair and clawing at the arms that held her suspended against him.

  Enigma gave a mighty shove into her. And another. And another. And then he, too, came with a roar that shook the heavens from their slumber. His wings shuddered and seemed to change color, shifting from a dark crimson to a glowing, fiery red.

  It was a long time before Anna found her voice again. “Now what do we do?”

  Enigma smiled down at her and kissed her mouth softly. His hips began pistoning into hers again, his cock still hard and thick and demanding. “Now you come to live with me in my realm.”

  “How?”

  “I will show you all you need to know,” he said.

  “Nothing will ever be the same,” she sighed, moving with him now.

  “Nothing ever is. Change is inevitable. But I’ll be with you every step of the way. We’ve a thousand lifetimes to learn everything about each other, and I know I’ll enjoy every moment of it.”

  He thrust into her again and again, making her see stars.

  “You’re so beautiful,” he told her.

  “So are you,” she said, and smiled up into his ice blue eyes.

  He plumped her breasts in his hands to kiss and lick each nipple noisily. “I will love you forever,” he vowed. “Your courage and your valor have saved this world, but you’ve also saved me, my love. You’ve saved me from an eternity of loneliness and duty. You are my heart now and I’ll never let you go.” His wings wrapped around her once more, enfolding her in his warmth and scent.

  Anna nearly swooned with his words, and when he touched her clit with his fingers…she did swoon. It was bliss. And for the first time since the end of the world, Anna felt as if she’d come home at last.

  About the author:

  Sherri L. King lives in the American Deep South with her husband, artist and illustrator Darrell King. Critically acclaimed author of The Horde Wars and Moon Lust series, her primary interests lie in the world of action packed paranormals, though she’s been known to dabble in several other genres as time permits.

  Sherri welcomes mail from readers. You can write to her c/o Ellora’s Cave Publishing at 1337 Commerce Drive, #13, Stow OH 44224.

  Also by Sherri L. King:

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  The Horde Wars: Wanton Fire

  The Horde Wars: Razor’s Edge

  The Horde Wars: Lord of the Deep

  The Jewel

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