Carnage: Nate Temple Series Book 14 by Shayne Silvers

Author:Shayne Silvers [Silvers, Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argento Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-03-30T05:00:00+00:00

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I panted wildly, jerking my head left and right for inbound threats.

But the only current threat was the naked goddess straddling my hips like a vise. Her bare flesh was pressed tightly against mine, her entire body hugging me close. I sucked in ragged lungfuls of air, noticing that we were on top of the Round Table in Chateau Falco’s Sanctorum—not our secluded woodland strip club.

The sudden adrenaline rush caused by Raego’s threat—even though our body paint should have protected us from detection—swiftly shifted course to give me an altogether different bodily response.

Never let energy go to waste, it said.

My skin hummed with electricity where it touched Aphrodite’s skin. I bucked her off, and spun to pin Aphrodite beneath me. I stared down at her, panting in starvation, my rational thoughts a very distant whisper as blood pounded in my ears. My veins flared with golden light, triumphing in my dominance of a god now that I’d reversed our positions.

She was mine. As all gods should be—some in different ways than others, of course.

Torches along the walls suddenly puffed to life, casting the room in a purple glow as the Sanctorum responded to the Master’s presence. This was my castle. Everything in my grasp was my plaything, to do with as I pleased.

Aphrodite whimpered, looking surprised—and then aroused that she’d been caught off guard and overpowered. Her pupils dilated and her breathing changed as she blinked lazily up at me. I hadn’t realized I’d secured her arms above her head, holding them down as I loomed over her.

“Yes,” she breathed, her lips barely even parting to let the word out. My grip clenched tighter and she whimpered in response, sucking in her lower lip. She was mine to command—whether to ravage or revile. “The carnage sings,” she purred in a calming whisper. Part of me knew she was right. I could hear the encouraging whispers in my soul, tempting me. “I am the only vessel strong enough to contain it.” She squirmed her hips beneath me, gaining a better position for negotiation—one that made my toes curl. “It will consume you,” she warned. “Give. It. To. Me.”

I shut my eyes, gasping for air as I struggled to think clearly. She would do anything to lull my carnage to sleep long enough to save us both. Nothing was forbidden and everything was permitted in the aim of that goal. This was to save the world.

Or the Catalyst would get a power boost he definitely should not have.

I…considered it. Anything to give me a fucking break. In my mind, I was on the edge of a mental cliff, staring out at an endless abyss and…

It was beginning to talk back to me in seductive, enticing promises.

And Aphrodite’s seduction was the protection from that dark malevolence. Its antithesis.

She claimed I was not strong enough to contain it—that it would consume me. I felt a spark of defiance rise up in my soul, and the endless abyss of temptation hissed angrily, even at such a frail, pitiful ember challenging it.

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