Constant Cravings (17 page)

I’m not sure where the idea came from. I held the wine up high, tilted back my head and poured the crimson liquid down the front of my body.

“Holy shit,” Liam whispered.

Hey, he said to get creative. If Cernunnos liked naked women and wine, then I was betting I’d just found something else he liked.

The wine didn’t have time to dry on my skin before I heard footsteps behind the statue. Heavy footsteps. What emerged from behind the massive stone was neither a horse nor a man, but a combination of both that I’d only seen in mythology books.

“You’re a centaur,” I said breathlessly.

He smiled and my pulse raced. Whatever else he might be, Cernunnos was gorgeous. His body was that of a powerful warhorse. Only where the horse’s neck should have been, a man’s perfectly sculpted waist began. His human half was as finely muscled as the rest of him. His skin was lightly tanned, with a patch of dark chest hair that I wanted to curl my fingers through. This hair trailed down his abs where it connected to the equally dark fur of the rest of his body. Long, dark hair hung in waves, framing a strongly featured yet devastatingly handsome face. He looked down at me and that’s when I noticed the horns. They were smaller than a ram’s, but with the same shape. Since they were also black, his hair hid them until he turned a certain way.

“It isn’t night,” he said, laughing softly. “Come closer.” His voice was a deep rumble that made my entire body feel more alive.

He took one step closer and reached for me. “Did you give your consent to this summoning, or did the shaman trick you?” Before I could answer he turned to the right and said, “You can come out now, Liam. I know you’re here.” Liam removed his hood and the centaur turned his attention back to me. “I didn’t know what to expect, but I’m the one who needs your help. The ritual was his but I am the one who summoned you here.”

Cernunnos smiled his approval. “By the way you just looked at him, I can tell there is something between you.”

98

Constant Cravings

Wow. I didn’t realize my glance toward Liam was so telling.

“Have you explained to her, Liam, that anything done with a demigod is not considered cheating?”

His tone was playful and I wondered if he was only teasing me. Still, my pulse quickened painfully at his words. What the hell had I gotten myself into?

“No, but it’s true,” Liam directed the last part of his answer toward me. “Whatever you do here is of your own free will and won’t be held against you.” Cernunnos looked down at me and though the smile faded from his lips, it remained in his gray eyes. “I don’t think that’s the answer she needs to hear.”

“You’re right,” I said. “If whatever it is you’ve got in mind isn’t cheating, then what is it?”

“A gift.”

Oh my God. I literally trembled at his words. “Before we go further, could you please give me some straight answers about what is going on here? Please.”

“Of course. I will answer any question except the one you summoned me for.” He took a deep breath. “What’s going on here is a mutual agreement. I will help you for a price. Once you’ve paid that price I will answer your question to the best of my ability.

If at any time you decide the price is too great, I will answer according to what you have paid.”

“You mean if I don’t go through with it I’ll only get half an answer.”

“Exactly. However, I think you’ll find that if you let go of your human reasoning and morality, you’ll enjoy the price just as much as the answer.” Damn that was sexy. I tried to keep the tremor from my voice as I asked, “How do we get this started?”

Cernunnos smiled and reached for me again, only this time I took his hand. The instant I touched him I felt better, stronger and somehow weaker at the same time. My legs shook a little but I felt charged with energy. Power flowed through him like a current and radiated out from him in waves. It wasn’t threatening, but very impressive.

“Explain to me what you need to know,” he said. As he spoke Cernunnos lightly caressed the backs of my knuckles, helping to calm me further.

“A few nights ago my friend was attacked by a creature that I’ve not been able to identify. I believe she was eaten. I saw the beginning of the attack, but looked away before the end. It was dark. The only things I know for sure are that the creature was big, hairy, had long claws and glowing red eyes. My first thought was a werewolf; however, the Wolf King, Marco Barak, thinks that’s unlikely. Mostly because of the glowing red eyes. I want to know what happened to my friend.”

“And you need my help in identifying this creature,” he finished.

“Yes. I’m sorry I don’t have a simple question. I summed it up as best I could.”

“That’s all right,” he said, shaking his long hair in a very horse-like gesture. “I don’t have a simple answer. But I do believe I can help.” 99

Tracey H. Kitts

“What’s the price?” I asked.

His eyes sparkled with wicked promises. “I’m not so different from a mortal man when it comes down to it.”

“I find that very hard to believe. Now be honest, what do you want?”

“A good, stiff drink and a long, hard ride.”

My heart did another painful thump at his words. “You mean you want some wine?” I asked, my voice sounding faint.

Cernunnos pulled me closer and I had to tilt my head almost completely back to watch him. Did I forget to mention he was around seven feet tall? Oh yeah, the guy was huge.

“I thirst for more than the wine, but it’s a nice start.” Cernunnos put his hands underneath my arms and lifted me as if I weighed nothing. He pulled me tightly against his human half and I gasped at the contact. Skin against skin never fails to excite me. Strangely, I didn’t see him as a creature and definitely not as a beast. There was something in his eyes that couldn’t be mistaken for anything but a man. And yet he was something more. When he held me I knew through his touch—and my gift—that this was his favorite form, and Cernunnos had many.

Despite how the situation might sound, I wasn’t threatened by him. Even though I had gone into this unaware of what would be required, his touch was most welcome. I couldn’t imagine anyone turning away from him.

I held the bottle tightly in one hand as I wrapped my arms around his neck. The feel of his soft chest hair against my breasts made my nipples hard and my pussy ache. I arched against him as he ran his hand down my back to cup my ass. The demigod brushed his face against mine as he whispered, “You’re going to enjoy this.” I looked over the centaur’s shoulder to give Liam one more questioning glance.

“Consider it an early Winter Solstice present,” the shaman said.

Cernunnos laughed as he lifted me so that my breasts were directly in front of his face.

“Use my body to brace yourself if you need to,” he said, his voice deepened with desire. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t drop you. Now, pour the wine.” I watched him lower his handsome face toward my breasts, felt his breath against my skin and shivered with delight. I brought the bottle up to my chest and let a tentative little splash trickle down my right breast. Cernunnos flicked his tongue over the mound of my breast, licking the wine from my skin before taking my nipple into his mouth with a moan.

Had I really just made a demigod moan? That was exciting enough, but then he flicked his tongue across my hard nipple as he said, “More.” I tilted my head back and poured the wine down my throat. Instantly, I felt his mouth on my collarbone, his lips sucking gently as his tongue lightly grazed my skin. I touched my fingertip to the rim of the bottle and ran some of the wine across my lips.

100

Constant Cravings

Cernunnos’ smile was full of promise as he pulled me closer to meet his kiss. He flicked his tongue across my lips then pulled them gently into his mouth. He kissed me deeply before going back to sucking my lower lip. When he moaned again I opened my mouth, letting him slip his tongue inside. My clit throbbed and I felt myself becoming wetter. I devoured him with my kiss, surprising myself and probably Cernunnos as well. When he pulled back from me his eyes promised the passion I craved.

“Put your legs around me,” he said.

I did as he asked and my bare sex rubbed against his waist. My arms were around his neck for support and I still held the bottle in one hand. Cernunnos kept one arm around me as he reached between our bodies to rub my soaking pussy.

I had never done anything like this before and knowing that Liam was watching, that he approved, turned me on like I can’t describe. I looked up into the demigod’s eyes that now noticeably sparkled with magic.

“Finger me,” I whispered, arching into his hand. I was on the verge of begging him to change form and fuck me when, through his touch, I understood that he took pleasure in denying me this.

“Why let me read your thoughts if you’re going to hold back the good parts?” My voice was husky and strained with desire.

He smiled down at me and stroked my clit in a slow torturous move. “I love to be wanted,” he said. “It is my desire to give you pleasure in a way that pleases me. A good hard fuck is easy enough.” I gasped as he stroked my clit again. “But I want to hear you beg before I make you come.”

“And then?”

“I want to eat your pussy, to drink your juices just like wine while you scream for me.”

Holy shit. Did all men with magic in their blood know exactly what to say to turn me on? My next move surprised me further. I arched against his hand again, rubbing my juices over the fingers he deliberately kept from moving closer.

“That’s what you say now,” I said, “but you can’t resist fucking me.” What had come over me? I had no idea, but I embraced it. I loved the boldness I felt when he looked at me and knew through what emotions he allowed me to read that my taunting was getting him off.

He dipped one finger inside me and I gasped. “More,” I begged.

He smiled, but that didn’t stop him from plunging his finger into my pussy again.

“I’m the one who names the price, remember?”

“Then why are you still fingering me?”

His laughter was a rough, masculine sound. Cernunnos moved his hands to my waist and lifted me so that I had to put my knees on his shoulders for balance. “Pour the wine,” he commanded.

101

Tracey H. Kitts

I poured the wine down my abs. Cernunnos waited until it trickled over my pussy and buried his face between my thighs, sucking the wine from my skin and pulling my clit into his mouth.

“Yes,” I growled.

I dropped the bottle and grabbed his head by the horns. I heard Liam gasp. Maybe what I’d done was forbidden, but by Cernunnos’ growl, I didn’t think he objected. It wasn’t that kind of a growl.

I used my leverage on his shoulders and my grip on his horns to thrust my pussy harder into his face. He opened his mouth wide and tongued my clit. The orgasm began as a hard ache deep inside me that spread down my thighs before my pussy contracted and I cried out with release. Cernunnos held me to him, drinking me down just like he’d said he would as I ran my fingers through his soft hair. The feel of his powerful body holding me tight and shaking with desire seemed to intensify my orgasm.

He lowered me until my body was flat against his chest and with my juices still on his tongue, he kissed me.

“You still want me to fuck you?” he asked, his voice trembling.

“Yes.”

Cernunnos laid me down across the stone altar and I pushed the pumpkin aside. In the time it took me to look back at him he was changed. His body was now completely human with a lust-worthy display of muscles and a long, thick cock. The only parts that remained otherworldly in their appearance were his sparkling gray eyes and his black horns.

“Shaman,” he called, turning toward Liam. “Come into the circle.” Liam did as he asked and when he moved closer, I could feel the emotions pouring out from him. Liam was very,
very
turned-on. Not just from watching us, but from looking at Cernunnos.

He moved closer to Liam and when they were face-to-face I realized that even in this form, Cernunnos was still close to seven feet tall. At first I thought he was going to kiss Liam, but the demigod stopped just short of contact.

“I want you to watch closely. I want you to see the instant I penetrate her flesh…and remember.”

Liam visibly trembled at his words.

“Maybe next time, you’ll be the one to summon me.” Cernunnos turned back to me then and pulled me toward the end of the altar so that my ass hung off. He leaned over me and smiled as his long hair spilled across my face. “No one’s ever grabbed me by the horns before,” he said softly.

I was afraid he would scold me but instead he said, “I liked it. Do it again.” He spread my legs with his thighs and as he leaned farther over me, I wrapped my legs around his waist at the same time he thrust into me, deep and hard. He paused with his cock buried inside me and his arms propped beside my face.

102

Constant Cravings

“Tell me what you need,” he said.

I grabbed his horns as I answered, “Fuck me hard.” He growled again as he slammed into me and my mind was filled with images of Nym with the she-wolf. Obviously Cernunnos had some mind-reading abilities as well.

His lusty grin gave him away.

“Accidentally read your friend’s mind, I see. And is this what you wanted when you watched him fuck her?”

He slammed into me again and I said, “Yes.”

“You wanted to be fucked like that?”

“Yes.”

“Tell me.”

I pulled his face closer to mine, still holding tight to his horns. “I watched him fuck her and I liked it. I came. I imagined what it would feel like and I came.” He watched me, staring into my eyes as he fucked me so hard I could barely breathe. It’s what I asked for, what I craved, and he gave it to me like no one ever had.

He pumped in and out of me until our bodies were slick with sweat, even in the midst of the cold. When I pulled him down for a kiss, I came the instant his tongue plunged inside my mouth. Cernunnos moved slowly now, letting me feel every inch of his long shaft as he thrust into me again. I released his horns and wrapped my arms around him.