Now.
I didn’t answer him, but people clapped as we began and a starry sky erupted overhead. They assumed the illusion was a trick for their entertainment. When connecting and channeling magic, we brought the stars out above us to start, then extinguished them when ending. A personalized ritual for just the two of us.
The energy between us didn’t feel as volatile as it had been in our earlier attempts. This felt more natural. Orion’s lips found my neck and I tipped my head back to give him more access. He sucked on the flesh at my neck while I grabbed onto the power between us and then we both directed it at the right place, deeper inside me.
I jumped like a shock as that intoxicating combination of Orion’s incubus energy and my magic filled me, flooding every inch of my body from brain to bone to vein. Especially the last one. We crafted the spell already, and Orion gave the task of putting the spell together to a coven his clan occasionally hired for magical services. Their coven would power the spell and be strong enough to keep it intact, I just needed to activate it at the right places.
One song started and ended. Then another. Then it was done.
Some people complained and others yelled for an encore as the stars displayed on the ceiling winked out. Orion and I left the dancefloor and the club without looking back.
Once we were back out in the parking lot, I sealed the spell.
The city around us seemed quieter, hushed, as if it waited to see the results too.
“Guess I should do the honors, huh?” I moved closer to the back door.
"Whenever you’re ready."
Orion believed that the strongest connections were created on something real first, they were grounded by what was already there. I hoped he was right. I thought he was. We might be missing a lot of things, but we had a real desire between us. A desire to stop Lex… and a desire for each other.
I hoped it was enough.
Were we able to not just merge our energies but to create magic together? Did we use everything between us to accomplish something?
“Here goes,” I said and tried to walk back into the club.
The whoosh of sound registered, and I yanked my foot back just in time.
A line of fire shot up in the doorway, blocking my entrance.
My mouth dropped open. Holy shit. It worked.
It fucking worked. We did it.
“Hell yeah! Rob wins! Take that, you son of a bitch!”
Orion chuckled quietly next to me.
“And you, you helped too, big guy. Come here!”
I clapped my hands together and laughed, jumping on him and he caught me, sweeping me into his arms and patting me on the back while I cheered and he laughed.
We barred anyone with my blood from entering. My mom and dad were shit out of luck if they picked this weekend to get into the supernatural sex club scene. No chance of that.
Fortunately, it also prohibited the incubus who joined our blood all those years ago. If he’d just mixed our blood the respectful way, with a chalice or container to collect our blood, it wouldn’t have worked. Our blood would still be tied together magically but not to each of us physically. But since our tie was created with direct contact, with the blood mingling in our bodies, the tie applied both magically and physically. The barrier keeping me out would prevent him from entering too.
We stole his hunting ground from him.
Clearly, I needed to do the right thing and be heroic more often since this moment felt pretty damn good. Because we succeeded, not because Orion and I hugged and celebrated. I kept whooping and cheering, and after a little while,so did he. This was the most carefree I’d ever seen him.
This moment wasn’t awesome just because I was wrapped in his arms and he seemed happy. But that didn’t hurt.
After our impromptu celebration, we hit every sex demon establishment in Ashvale and performed the same spell. Lex wouldn’t be able to enter a single one. Finding his victims became much more tricky now.
We deserved a proper celebration to pay respects to our hard work so far. I hadn’t even been the one who suggested it.Orionthought we deserved to enjoy ourselves.
After the last club, Orion checked us into the nearest hotel that met his standards. Soon we were in a swanky room that cost more for a night than any apartment I’d ever rented did monthly. We were naked except for fancy ass robes drinking expensive champagne.
