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Grumbling under my breath, I weaved my way through the crowded dance floor, interrupting at least one would-be orgy with four co-eds aggressively grinding against each other, several articles of clothing long gone.
As soon as I passed, two of them were already making out again while groping for the other members of the group.
A chill crept up my spine and clenched around the back of my neck like an icy fist. I knew co-eds could be a little free and easy with their sexuality, but wasn’t a public foursome pushing the envelope a bit?
I stopped Wilder with a gentle squeeze of his wrist and scanned the groups on the dance floor.
A couple had gone down to the carpet, and the boy was fumbling his hand under the girl’s skirt, her eyes closed in an apparent state of euphoria as she clawed at his back.
Clawed and clawed until tiny red spots of blood soaked into the back of his T-shirt. She moaned and writhed as he found the right spot with his questing digits.
The girl opened her eyes, and I gasped audibly.
Her eyes were completely black, from pupil to iris to whites.
“Fuck,” I said.
Another cursory glance of the living room showed me that people weren’t just grinding to the music. Half the couples around us were actively engaged in full-on penetrative sex.
“Fuck.”
A girl wearing a cat costume pawed at me. “You wanna?”
I smacked her hand off my shoulder. “No. And you don’t either. Go home.”
She stuck her tongue out at me. “What about him?” Her eyes were all for Wilder. I’d like to say this was the first time a woman had tried to steal him from me while I was standing right beside him, but it actually seemed to happen whenever we went out anywhere where alcohol and party girls were combined.
He was beautiful. I couldn’t blame them for trying.
On the other hand, “He belongs to me.” I snarled at her, showing teeth. I hadn’t planned to respond that way, but my body reacted on its own, like something had come over me that wasn’t quite me.
I blanched.
Nope. This was all wrong. The creeping sensation of thoughts that were mine but also not mine made my skin crawl. I wanted to slap the girl for even suggesting she might be able to take Wilder from me. I imagined myself clawing her eyes out and ripping open the soft flesh of her belly.
What was happening here?
The flirty girl got distracted when a guy dressed like Zorro walked up to her and lifted her into his arms. As she wrapped her legs around his waist, the new couple vanished into another room, swallowed up by even more churning, writhing flesh.
I thought we were walking into a sorority house, but this was more like a scene out of Caligula. At first I’d assumed it was regular Greek party shenanigans, but the more I took in the sights before me, the more I realized what I was seeing was deeply and entirely wrong, no matter how you looked at it.
Worse still, we’d been in the house less than five minutes, and it was already getting to me. Whatever kind of magic was worming its way through this place, it was dark and powerful. Strong enough I hadn’t even felt it come for me.
I prayed my protection spell would be adequate to keep this from getting to Wilder.
We had to find Tansy and get out of here fast. Once I was free of the house’s pull, I could figure out how to undo what was effecting these kids, but until then, we needed a single-minded focus and to get the heck out of dodge ASAP.
We would need to split up after all.
“Can you look for her down here?” I shouted at him. “I’ll check upstairs.”
Upstairs. Where Gamigan was waiting.
Wilder’s expression showed me how much he loved this suggestion, but I shook my head when he was about to verbalize his complaints. “Something weird is happening here, Wilder, and we need to get her and leave fast. Like super fast. I don’t like what I’m feeling.”
He grimaced, then nodded. “Yeah. I can feel it.”
I sucked a breath in through my nostrils, scanning the room. The smell of sex wafted up among the other scents, and it was enough to drive more of the dancers into torrid embraces. Things were going to get substantially more pornographic before this was all said and done.
