Quantum wrath, p.38
Quantum Wrath, page 38
I raised an eyebrow and sent her a sideways glance, and the woman was strutting like a blood-splattered peacock. Until she caught the look I was giving her, at least. Then she cleared her throat, shrugged, and mumbled something about “maybe getting carried away there.”
I snorted as I glanced back at the mercenaries’ silhouettes. Once we were far enough away, I slowed my pace.
We had come to a little clearing that could almost be called cozy. The glowing moss formed small hillocks and humps that were almost like pillows, and the glowing foliage formed a soft canopy overhead. The underbrush towered higher here and shielded us from sight.
We had freedom, we had space, and we had the food and drinks I’d packed.
“Sounds like the remaining Unit men here are already being hunted,” I said as I lowered my rucksack to the ground and stretched. “But I’m still thinking we should stay out of the city for tonight. The forest seems safe enough. Especially now.”
“What do you think will happen next?” she asked and came over to my side to watch the strange city below.
“Doesn’t matter, really,” I said with a shrug.
“How do you figure?” she snorted. “Aren’t you curious? Don’t you feel like we should… I don’t know. Think about it?”
I looked over to find an amused little smirk on her face.
“What happens next will be the same thing that always happens with stuff like this,” I said. “New orders, some freedom regained, a hell of a lot of cleanup… They’ll figure it out. And worrying about it won’t make any difference. The second we warp, about twenty-six years will pass this whole dimension by, and then another twenty-six, and another twenty-six…”
Lu’s smirk was gone as she listened intently to me. I got the feeling she was really wrapping her head around the concept of my existence for the first time, and I didn’t sugarcoat it. She needed to understand how I truly viewed the worlds I alone had access to.
“That’s what this is,” I said bluntly. “I made it here. I saw some shit. I wrecked the worst of it and had a decent time doing it. But I’m no savior in a fucking cape. I’m just the better villain. This dimension isn’t mine to babysit just because I can reach it.”
Lu’s eyelashes fluttered ever so slightly as she held my gaze, and I didn’t look away for a long moment. Then I shrugged and looked out at the burning in the distance.
It really was a beautiful sight, and I realized then that I was glad we’d come here.
The truth was, I’d needed a trip like this more than I’d wanted to admit.
“This dimension is theirs to save from here, and they know that,” I said. “They’ll figure out what to do next. And we’ll be eons from here unleashing all hell on another wannabe fuckhead when they do.”
Lu was silent, and she stayed that way for what felt like several minutes.
Which was pretty unnerving for her.
I turned and saw that her pink eyes were still fixed on me, but she didn’t even seem to be listening to my words. Her eyes pulsed into a stronger glow than I’d seen since she’d done her big scream, and she seemed entirely back to her former energy all of a sudden.
Even my zenith seemed to sense the direction of her thoughts.
It was still buzzing at full velocity, and having seen the utter destruction of the obelisk from all angles did wonders for my state of mind.
I hadn’t felt this good in years.
Before I could think twice about anything, she launched herself at me and wrapped her lithe legs around my hips, and I gladly caught her tight ass in my grip. Her hands clutched at my chest as she pressed her lips hungrily against mine, and I devoured her tongue as every inch of me burned for more of this fucking maniac woman who’d just unleashed hell with me.
Then she dropped to her knees and practically tore my pants open.
As soon as my cock was freed, she took every inch of my already-stiff length into her mouth until her eyelashes were brushing up against my stomach. My knees practically went numb with pleasure as she paused there, and I exhaled hard as her pink eyes smoldered up at me.
“Good girl,” I said raggedly.
I laced my fingers around the back of her head and guided her movements. Despite how muffled her little moans were around my cock, the power of her voice still seemed woven into them somehow. It sent tingles through every one of my limbs, and my balls ached with the need to take her in every single way I pleased.
Before long I was pulling her roughly against me over and over, and her arms wrapped around my legs as she swallowed my full length without question.
But I needed even more.
With some effort, I prized her lips free from my cock, and then I yanked her to her feet by her elbows. I ripped the shirt from her body, and her breasts spilled excitedly free. They heaved with every breath and gasp as I cupped their warm, heavy weight in my hands.
I toyed with one nipple as I trapped her against the tree trunk with my weight. Then I nudged her legs apart with my knee and slipped a hand under her tiny leather skirt.
I didn’t have the patience to torment her for long this time, though. I closed my teeth around the soft skin of her neck while I pressed my cock into the silky wetness of her passage.
Hearing her moan my name was just as fucking intoxicating as the first time, and soon I urged her into whimpers of pleasure as I rolled my hips roughly against hers. My zenith was pounding in my veins as strongly as my lust, and it sizzled through my whole body every time I buried my cock in the heat between her legs.
Before long, I shoved her to all fours on the ground so I could be on top of her, and she pressed her face to the moss and arched to offer her glistening pussy to me.
I paused to admire the view for a moment, and my whole mouth went dry as desire pulsed through me.
“Heathy…” she whined and wiggled her hips impatiently. “Don’t make me beg.”
“Oh?” I bent forward and seized her by the wrists to pull her up onto just her knees. Then I gripped her by the throat with one hand while I inched the other toward her pussy, and I growled in her ear. “Why shouldn’t I? It only seems fair.”
“H-heath,” she whimpered and squirmed at my touch in a mixture of pleasure and desperation. “Please.”
I teased the word from her lips a few more times before I moved my hands back to her wrists with renewed pleasure scorching through me.
Then I gripped her by each wrist and knelt upright between her legs, and I used my grip to pull her pussy firmly onto my cock. Our zeniths twisted and writhed as I made the taut depths of her passage yield to my rigid cock again and again.
I would’ve thought her zenith might feel weaker after the way she’d unleashed her scream back in the obelisk, but it felt more electric than ever as it twined through mine.
I didn’t have the space in my head to be curious about why right now, though. There was an unspeakable thrill about having this stubborn woman under my total control, and the helpless mewls of pleasure that spilled from her lips were enough to have my hips driving relentlessly.
It felt like sparks flew through our coiled zeniths as she spasmed and writhed back against me, and I groaned softly as she reached her climax.
The feeling of her walls fluttering around my length sent a jolt of energy straight through my pelvis and up my spine, but I didn’t stop thrusting until her whole body went limp for a moment, like she was entirely spent.
But I could still feel her zenith sparking and curling around mine, and she seemed possessed with the same energy as she squirmed out from beneath me.
“Turn over, Heathy,” she murmured as her hands pushed insistently at my shoulder.
I rolled over, and I hadn’t even completed the motion before she leaped up to straddle me.
Then I eased backward so my back was propped against a tree and my legs were stretched out in front of me.
I was so drunk with pleasure and the pulsing roil of my zenith that I just leaned back and watched as Lu lowered herself breathlessly onto my cock.
She was moaning the second I entered her, and it trailed up into a breathy gasp as she took all of me inside her.
After a moment, she leaned back to brace her hands against my thighs and lifted her legs up to rest her ankles against my shoulders.
Her breasts swayed hypnotically as she put her agility to the test and stirred her weight around on my shaft. I felt like I was floating through a delirious sea of pleasure as the tightness of her pussy gripped every inch of me, and my hips bucked up in a relentless rhythm. Her moans broke into a gasp with each pump of my hips, and soon she was clutching my thighs and quivering against me as another orgasm took over her body.
“F-f-fuuu-uck,” she whined as she lost control completely.
She must’ve whimpered and twitched for nearly a full minute before she finally crested over the peak, but I didn’t let her rest for long.
I pushed her down on the rough moss and fucked her some more with all the fierce, burning energy that filled me. I felt fucking ravenous with lust, and I didn’t hold back.
Lu certainly didn’t seem to mind.
She wriggled back into me when I grabbed the base of her skull to have her under my control, and there was an electric fizz and crackle under the pounding of my pulse as I threw myself into a maelstrom of thrusts.
Every muscle in her supple body tensed as I forced her to orgasm for a third time, and I covered her mouth with my hand as she wailed with pleasure again.
Then I pinned her down with my weight and ground my hips greedily against her ass until the pleasure in me came to a peak. Each one of my ragged breaths were underlaid by a guttural electric snarl as the pressure in me built.
My zenith felt fucking wild, as wild as the lust that powered my movements. It sizzled out from my core through every inch of my body. It seemed to weave and twine through my pleasure even as it tangled with Lu’s, until our movements were one seething mass of explosive energy.
Then everything came to a rippling peak, and my whole back stiffened. I drove my hips down one last time and locked them as I crammed every inch of my length inside her. My vision burst into white light as I let loose a deluge of cum into her womb.
“Shiiiit,” I hissed through my teeth in a voice that crackled with electricity.
She bucked and spasmed against me again with each pulse of my cock, and I lingered there until she had milked me for every drop of cum.
Then I sighed, sprawled back against one of the moss-covered tree trunks, and rested my head back against the glowing, pillowy surface.
“Jesus,” I panted.
“Mmmm,” Lu mumbled huskily. Her lips twitched up into a sly smile. “You can just call me Lu.”
I snorted with laughter at the sound of my previous joke repeated back to me.
Then, to my surprise, the laughter simmered down into a smile.
Like, an actual fucking smile.
What the hell was happening to me?
I felt so damn light and good, I wouldn’t have been surprised to find out I was levitating. Every muscle in me was calm and loose, and I didn’t even fight the blissed-out smile on my face.
I just sat there grinning as I listened to Lu’s ragged breathing and the strange chirps of the insects in this glowing forest.
If I raised my head a little, I could still spot the obelisk burning in the distance. Puffs of colorful smoke rose from the flames, along with the occasional gout of steam that was strewn with green and purple sparks.
I pictured a normal scene from the type of life I distantly remembered from back home, where typical people would be in a bedroom surrounded by candles, with a romantic view and a partner to share it with. Maybe they’d be in some type of post-sex haze after a romantic evening out with a partner they wanted to spend the rest of their life with, or at least a good portion of it.
But here I was with this blonde hellion of a super who I’d been thoroughly planning on ditching at the soonest opportunity. We’d spent the evening infiltrating and destroying the headquarters of a tyrannical and violent overlord, and followed it up with a rough evening on the ground of a bioluminescent forest. Now, in place of the bed, candles, and romantic view, we were sprawled out on the moss with a view of said headquarters as it burned to the ground.
And I loved every fucking second of it.
“Heath.” Lu propped herself up on one elbow as she looked over at me. Her blonde and pink hair was tousled, and her pink eyes looked somehow both dreamy and wired. “Do you realize how amazing of a villain you could be if you straight-up went crazy on these worlds?”
“I guess?” I snorted. “I’m not really a ‘go crazy on the world’ type of guy, though.”
“I’m serious,” she insisted. “The Unit was the absolute worst this place had to offer, and we just fucking annihilated them. And we did it within a few days of arriving here. And… as much as I’d like to claim credit for that, you were obviously the one behind all this. Just imagine what you could do…”
“Sure, I was the one behind it.” I shrugged idly. Then I shot her a look that was genuinely impressed as I thought back to our time in the obelisk. “But even I’ve gotta admit, you were a worthy sidekick in there. That fucking scream… It was honestly incredible.”
Lu’s pink eyes seemed to pulse a little brighter as a soft smile spread across her face. It wasn’t as deranged or delighted as she usually looked, though. It was fucking gorgeous, and just… open. She was smiling at me like a normal damn person for once, and I did my best to ignore the way my heart rate kicked up at the sight.
I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples as I contemplated the fact that maybe I did feel something for this woman.
But there was no point in admitting it. Sure, we’d hopped dimensions a couple times together, shared some blood, and the sex was fucking electric. That didn’t mean this was going to be a long-lasting thing.
The cold, hard truth was that it couldn’t be.
“We should warp back home,” she said suddenly.
“I don’t have a home,” I said as I opened my eyes but turned my face away from the gorgeous heathen beside me.
“Heathy.” She rolled across the ground to get in front of me again, and the look in her pink eyes was a hilarious combination of earnest and evil. “Think of what we could do to them. The Bureau. The ones who probably would’ve done something with your power exactly like that Alvari bastard. We could really make them pay. Just like we did with the Unit. But on a bigger scale…”
“Not my thing,” I said. “And anyway, ‘we’ aren’t going to do anything. Yeah, we’ll warp together another time or two. Just until I find the right place–”
“To what?” she hissed. “Fucking leave me?”
I shrugged and didn’t say anything, but I didn’t avoid her gaze, either. I wasn’t going to bullshit her.
Even though the very brief flicker of betrayal I saw in her eyes damn near stabbed me in the heart.
It was replaced with her usual stubbornness in a flash.
“Just tell me why,” she fumed as she sat up straight. She crossed her arms and sent me a challenging look. “What’s wrong with me?”
“Nothing I can’t get used to, I promise,” I snorted, because it was honestly true.
“Then… what’s wrong with spending a big chunk of your life with someone?” she demanded, and I was a little unnerved by how quickly she’d cut to the root of it.
“A big chunk of your life is a small chunk of mine,” I said evenly.
I fully expected her to take this comment in a bad way. To either get even pissier about it or try to have some super deep conversation about my loneliness.
But instead, she just snorted, and the sound spiraled into an outright laugh.
“I was so right earlier,” she hooted. “You really are a supersnob.”
I raised my eyebrows and shot her an unbothered look.
She fell back into her usual pattern by taking my silence for something other than indifference.
“You are,” she snickered. “You’re soooo boring about new dimensions. You’re even boring about hot, kinky villain sex.”
I arched an eyebrow. “You didn’t seem too bored twenty minutes ago.”
“You’re literally being a snob, though,” she informed me. “You look down on every experience you possibly can, when you could just say ‘fuck it’ and have some fucking fun, Heathy. It’s not like it’d age you at all to try…”
I couldn’t help but laugh at this, because it was just utterly naive given how much I’d seen. I’d witnessed things that wouldn’t have made it into even Lu’s twisted nightmares.
And on some level, she knew this. I could see it in the way her gaze softened ever so slightly when I met her eyes now.
But it didn’t matter.
She threw herself back onto the moss with a snort and shrugged like she couldn’t care less.
“Whatever,” she muttered. “At least admit that you feel great right now. Every part of what we just did was fucking awesome, and it’s only the beginning. That’s the best part about it. This was just an appetizer in the great Heath and Lu menu of utter destruction. And you can’t deny, it was delicious…”
“Agreed,” I said quietly.
Her pink eyes fluttered shut, and she let out a small sigh as she folded her hands on her abdomen.
I allowed myself a moment to take her in more. She really was beautiful, especially when she wasn’t putting on some type of bitchy front.
But privately, I had to admit there were things I liked about her beyond the physical. I liked the crazy little glint in her eye when she was about to go fucking ballistic on someone. I liked her absolutely unhinged giggles and laughter, too. I even liked the fact that I never knew what the hell she was gonna do next, like spending every last scrap of her zenith on saving my ass.
Even when it left her vulnerable in this strange dimension where she knew just one person.
