The Heart’s Lost Souls: Part One: The Binding Read online

  “Bethany is good. I hate Grel,” Their little girl surprised them by speaking in English. He knew it was another gift the Supreme Ones had given her.

  “Since Queen Carmen lost her children and needs others to replace the ones she has lost,” The King and Queen of Iter disappeared, and the Supreme Ones moved toward the brothers. “You are lucky Therbelenth wakened us, even though we don’t blame him for wanting to kill you both. Explain why you would take their mate away from them, let alone Wol-item’s mate, even though I believe she was handling herself quiet well.”

  Wol-item snorted, then growled. “Enough, with your permission,” Wol-item asked, and the closet Supreme One to them nodded.

  Tabatha, Melody and their mates all left, as they stood there waiting, watching. Therbelenth knew the twins wouldn’t be killed, since their parents were Ancient Ones.

  Stelodem was lifted into air, where he grabbed his head as though he was in pain.

  “Get out of my head,” he snarled, but Therbelenth knew from experience that no one got away from the Supreme Ones.

  Stelodem fell to the floor and his twin replaced him in the air, twisting in pain.

  “Take your family back. We will speak to you as soon as we find out what has happened.” The Supreme One in the middle of the three looked at Therbelenth, who nodded.

  “We will leave,” Therbelenth said, taking Shannon and Bethany back to their room at the castle, along with the rest of his mates.

  As soon as they arrived, Araqiel and Kruc rose from where they had been seated. They stared at them, then at the little girl in Shannon’s arms.

  “Everyone, I would like you to meet Bethany. She is your sister,” Shannon said, moving to the long leather sofa and sitting down.

  Cheyenne and Rudy crawled up onto the couch next to Shannon, introducing themselves, just as Neks appeared next to Zeus.

  Chapter Eleven

  Shannon curled up on the window bench with a blanket wrapped around her as she stared out over the countryside. The full moon lit the green pastures just enough that she could see them, but then again, her eyesight was much better now than that of a human.

  Her three little ones were now sound asleep. Cheyenne and Bethany needed each other tonight, so they shared a bed.

  “May I come in?” Neks asked, peeking into the room.

  “Of course, take a seat,” she said, indicating the other end of the bench where she sat. “Are your fathers back yet?” she asked, even though she knew they and Neks weren’t close.

  “You know they aren’t. Why would you ask?” Neks asked.

  “Here on Earth it’s custom to try and ease the tension by asking a silly question. Now, what would you like to know?” she asked, studying her son while he did the same to her.

  “Do you really believe my—well, Selina had a hand in all this?” he asked, finally sitting down.

  Shannon smiled at her son. “If it is one thing I’m grateful for, it’s that she did treat you like a son. Does it hurt? Yes. But from what I can remember from my dreams, she was one of the ones who cast the binding spell on me. Now, did she actually steal my mother and father’s egg? That I do not know. I have a feeling your fathers are finding out a lot more right now.”

  “Why didn’t you want to go?” he asked.

  “I’ve had enough today. I’m worn out mentally.” She moved to the right, and flinched.

  “You’re hurting?” he asked, frowning.

  “A little, but there’s nothing anyone can do. The wound has to heal itself.”

  “What wound? I don’t understand. Why didn’t my father’s heal you?” He began to get up, and Shannon shook her head.

  “Not even your fathers can heal the whip mark of Stelodem and Stamaestus gave me. But it was well worth it. I just wish I could have done more to the couple who took Bethany.” She growled, and Tac moved on her shoulder, sending her a picture in her mind from his mother.

  “Okay, Tac, I so didn’t need to see that.” She frowned. “Now I am going to have nightmares.”

  “What did he show you?”

  “What happened to the couple that hurt your little sister, and it’s not a pretty sight. Queen Carmen does not take likely to anyone hurting children,” she said, pulling her blanket up tighter around herself.

  “Selina’s going to die, isn’t she?” he asked, and Shannon sighed.

  She squeezed his arm. There was so much pain coming from him. Even though Neks was consider a warrior, part of him was still a little child, and that part couldn’t understand how this could happen. “I will tell you this: I will not touch Selina, but you know she will continue to try and hurt us if she lives, right?”

  Neks didn’t say anything for a few minutes, but then he nodded. “Yes,” he finally said, standing up and looking at her, before leaning down and kissing her cheek.

  She hadn’t been ready for her son to see what had happened to her, but when he touched her, he did. He stumbled back, looking at her in horror. “She did this to you? How can you stand it?”

  “Shit, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that you’d see everything I went through just by touching me.” Shannon threw off her blanket, but he disappeared before she could do anything. “Well, that went over well—not,” she mumbled.

  “I’m sorry, Neks. I really did not want you to see all of that,” she sent him, hating that he was in pain and there wasn’t anything she could do about it.

  “Are you all right?” Star asked as he appeared in the room and walked over to kneel beside her.

  “How can any of us be all right, really, when we have children out there and we don’t know what is happening to them? We were lucky little Bethany wasn’t sexually abused, but still….” She stared into his almost-clear eyes, which Shannon swore looked like stars. She ran her fingers through his long white hair.

  “I think you shocked a lot of people. Maybe you should have stayed here instead of showing that your planet does exist? I would hate to bring harm to your people,” she said.

  He captured her hand, brought it to his mouth and kissed it. “No one will find our planet. We learned early on to hide. As you know, when you are different from most, people are either jealous of you or feel threatened, so it’s best we keep to ourselves.”

  “That’s another reason you should have stayed here. Why draw attention to yourself when we all know I would have been fine? A few marks are nothing,” Shannon said. “I take it the rest of the men…. Well, it would seem your meeting is over. So, what can we expect now?”

  “It’s late. Come, we’ll speak of this in the morning. You need sleep,” Apollyon said as Star scooped her up and carried her to the biggest damn bed she had ever seen.

  “Wow, impressive, but I still don’t think all of us are going to fit on that,” she said as Star handed her over to Belen’s open arms and her clothes disappeared. “Um, Belen.” Shannon was impressed to say the least.

  With Belen’s naked body under her, she sighed, rubbing her cheek against his chest. “I know this isn’t your natural form. Shouldn’t you be in it when you are resting?” she asked, feeling the bed dip.

  She looked to see Apollyon next to them. When she looked around, Fallon, Zeus and Star sat at the end of the bed.

  “It’s not time to share our natural forms with you yet. In time, when all of us are here together, we will work this out. But for now you need your Swoquix.”

  Belen leaned over toward Apollyon, setting her between them. Each of them cupped a breast and played with it while staring down at her.

  “We would join with you this night,” Belen said, right before he lowered his head and covered her mouth with a kiss. At the same time, Apollyon latched on to her breast, sucking as much as he could into his mouth.

  Her hands trapped between her men, Shannon melted under their attention. It had been ages since a man had kissed or touched her with her consent, and boy did she want both of them—hell, all of them.

  Shannon groaned as Belen’s loving to her mouth was impressiv
e to say the least. He tasted of the wind right before a rainy day. His tongue, a bit longer and thicker rubbed against hers, conquering it as Apollyon released her breast and moved down her body, placing kisses as he went.

  “Open your legs for me, Shannon. I need to taste you,” Apollyon said, helping her to move one leg before he lay between them. “I can smell you; your scent fills the air,” he said, his breath against her pussy lips, before he separated them and slid a longer than normal tongue into her.

  She broke the kiss with Belen and glanced down between her legs, where Apollyon was watching her. “Damn, now that … ugg,” she grabbed on to Belen as he smiled down at her.

  “We have just begun to explore you,” Belen said against her breast before sucking her nipple into his mouth.

  “Bring her over. Look at the color of her skin. It pinks, and Apollyon was right about her scent,” Zeus snarled. “No one will touch her again.” He moaned the last word, and she looked over to see Fallon leaning down and sucking Zeus’s cock.

  Apollyon lifted his head. “Our woman likes what you are doing, Fallon. Star, taste her,” he said, moving over as Star lifted her right leg before joining Apollyon between her legs. Both men slid their tongues into her pussy, and Shannon swore they were kissing each other inside her.

  She grabbed on to Belen’s shoulder and the bed. “Oh my…” she got out before the orgasm hit her hard. Every muscle in her body seemed to explode in pleasure as she screamed. Her ears rang from it.

  Shannon swore they had just shown her the stars literally, as Belen rolled over and pulled her on top of him when Apollyon and Star had crawled out from between her legs.

  “Put me inside you, my Little Queen,” he said, cupping her breasts.

  Shannon did as he asked, reaching between them, shocked at how thick her Belen was. Was she wet enough? That was a stupid question, as she rubbed his cock up and down her pussy lips before slowly lowering herself onto him.

  He held on to her until he was fully seated inside her.

  “God, this feels good, so long,” she said before leaning down and placing a kiss on Belen’s lips. Apollyon ran his hand down her back to her ass.

  “You are going to have to relax for my princess. I will make sure you are taken care of, but it is much easier if you relax your muscles,” Apollyon said and she snorted.

  “Yeah, after that orgasm you want my muscles to relax. Ha, right now they’re doing jumping jacks celebrating,” she said, glancing over her shoulder to see Apollyon staring at her right before he broke out laughing.

  “You have not only warmed this cold heart, but made my soul light.” Apollyon leaned down and kissed her butt cheeks. She wasn’t expecting Star to grab Apollyon’s cock, fisting it and stroking it.

  “She will be ready for you,” Star said, sliding a finger down the crack of her ass before slipping it inside her.

  “Damn,” she moaned, feeling his finger move, but then a warm sensation filled her, and then Apollyon’s cock was entering her.

  Belen ran his hands up and down her back, whispering in his language. The rest of the men did the same, as Apollyon slid all the way in as Star moved his fingers away.

  Fallon, Zeus and Star moved around her, Apollyon, and Belen, as the two mates inside her started to love her, moving in sync. Fallon lifted her hair up and kissed her neck; Star slid his finger into her, joining Belen’ cock; while Zeus grabbed her hair and lifted her head to his cock.

  “Open, my woman,” he ordered, and she snorted but did as he requested.

  Her body already primed for their lovemaking, Shannon didn’t think it would take much for her to come, but when Fallon sank his fangs into her neck after a few minutes of kissing and sucking on her, Shannon now knew what it was to see the sun.

  Heat rose through her body and seemed to pour out of her. Shannon swore she heard her men growl, yell and snarl, but her head was in a fog, and her body was like a wet noodle. It was wet from Zeus, Fallon and Star shooting their seed onto her body as Belen and Apollyon’s seed filled her.

  “You are ours, Little Queen,” Belen whispered in her mind before she closed her eyes in complete exhaustion.

  “Will talk later,” she grumbled.

  * * *

  Apollyon slowly pulled out of Shannon. She was sound asleep, as they all knew she would be after the binding.

  “Shannon is not going to be happy when she finds out we bound her to us,” Belen said, holding on to their woman.

  “There was no choice. Even the Supreme Ones agreed. With even them not being able to see where our threats are, it was the only way we could make sure she was safe,” Zeus said, sitting on the edge of the bed cleaning her back off gently with a wet cloth he had produced.

  Even Zeus had been affected by the bonding. Not only would each of them know where Shannon was at all times, they could now feel what she did. But they hadn’t counted on their connection being a binding of the souls.

  “It is going to take a long time for her soul to heal. It’s been ripped apart so many times,” Star said, brushing a lock of her hair out of her face. “Do you believe the other two of her mates felt what we did?”

  “We can only wait. I’m sure they will show up soon now. I think tomorrow we should take our family on this tour she wants to go on. Star, are you all right with being away from your world for a few days?” Apollyon asked, cleaning and clothing himself with a thought.

  “I am fine for now. You are going back?” Star asked, and he nodded.

  “Before each of you got here, the threat to Wol-item and his mates had been growing and just because of our joining it hasn’t stopped. We all know how important her sisters are to her, and I have a feeling they will be working with us over the years.”

  “Agreed. Watch for Erole. He hasn’t been heard of in a while, and that is not like him. He loves attention. Even the other Anasazi are worried,” Therbelenth said.

  “Agreed. I do like the nicknames she has given you two. I wonder what our woman will come up for the rest of us?” Apollyon said, earning grins from each of them.

  He turned his head toward the doorway as Bethany whimpered in the other room. Shannon stirred as if sensing her child’s distress.

  “I’ll go.” Fallon stood, pants covering him as he made his way to their daughter.

  “Zeus, how is Neks doing? I have to agree with Shannon; I wish he hadn’t seen what he did in her mind when he touched her. Do you think Araqiel or Kruc know what she has had to deal with?” Apollyon asked.

  “Yes, Neks shared what he found out with both of them. I’m afraid all three of our sons are confused and hurt.” Belen said as Shannon shivered and he wrapped her in the bedcover.

  Apollyon turned to her as Shannon screamed and clenched the sheets, then flew off the bed. Blood dripped down her shoulder as her arm swayed back and forth. It had almost been ripped from her body.

  She was still not awake, but her glowing eyes scanned the room slowly, searching for something.

  “Shannon,” Belen said as he and Apollyon slowly inched toward her.

  Shannon growled.

  “What’s wrong?” Tabatha appeared in their room dressed in a T-shirt. “My God. Shannon, what happened?”

  Shannon looked confused right before her legs gave out. Therbelenth caught her and scooped her up into his arms.

  Therbelenth raised his head. His eyes glowed, and when he spoke, his voice that of the creature ready for the hunt. “It’s Erole. His scent is all over her. He entered her dreams,” he said. None of them had expected that.

  “You want to quit growling and heal her!” Tabatha snapped, drawing Apollyon’s attention.

  “Tabatha!” Wol-item growled in the air right before Tabatha disappeared from their room.

  Fallon came in carrying a crying Bethany. “It would seem they are not above attacking the children either. But Cheyenne and Rudy haven’t been affected,” Fallon said.

  “Forgot, but it won’t happen again,” Shannon said. “Put me down, Bele
n.”

  “No, I will heal you,” Therbelenth insisted. Apollyon would have laughed at her expression if this situation hadn’t been out of control.

  “Zeus, go check on the boys and see if they heard anything. Star, inform the old one what has happened,” Apollyon said as he and Therbelenth focused healing her arm. All the while, Apollyon’s demon needed to destroy something.

  Shannon cupped his cheek with her uninjured hand. “Go, you need to be there. I’ll be fine with Belen and the others. It will take time, but I know we can make this work,” she said as Belen and Apollyon finished healing her arm.

  He leaned over and kissed her hard before leaving her, knowing she was right, but still hating it.

  Chapter Twelve

  Shannon tried to sit up, but Belen held on to her tight as they all sat in the family area with Tabatha and her mates. Bull had also shown up, as if knowing she had been hurt.

  “Belen, let me up. I hate lying here,” Shannon grumbled.

  “Your arm was almost ripped off. You need to rest.” He glared down at her and she sighed.

  “I know, and you have healed me. Yes, it’s tender, but please, you can still hold me. I just want to sit up so I can see everyone.”

  “Fine, but you go nowhere. How is Bethany?” Belen asked when Fallon moved back into the room.

  “She’s asleep, thanks to our woman here and Cheyenne. Cheyenne is curled up around her. It’s the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while.” Fallon smiled at Shannon. “You’ve done well with those two.”

  “Are you sure it was Erole?” Bull asked again. “I just can’t fandom why he would do this, or why he would work with Selina. Do you think he is on Tremzs?”

  “I don’t know where they are, and I know it was him. Selina called him by name, not caring I could hear her. We will not destroy a whole planet because the rulers are idiots,” Shannon growled. “I mean it, Bull. I won’t have that on my head.”

  The elder stopped frowning. “Why would the planet’s death be on your head?”