"I'll take you back," Kage offered.
"Why don't I, since you brought her out here in the first place?" Caspian reasoned.
"Why don't you both walk back with me?" Lowena suggested.
Kage and Caspian scoffed, refusing to answer. Instead, they folded their arms over their chests, acting like sad schoolboys.
"Fine, you stay here; I'll walk back alone," Lowena sighed over their antics.
Kage and Caspian shook their heads, pacing between each other and watching Lowena walk away. At the same time, they both rushed after her, escorting her back to the party.
After an awkward, short walk, they were all surrounded by happily drunk people. Ethica boldly approached the three of them, firmly holding her chalice.
Lowena's cheeks blushed red, remembering the kiss they shared the night before.
"Lowena, there you are," Ethica greete. "King, Caspian, King Kage."
Both dropped their jaws in awe as if in the presence of royalty of an even higher status than their own. Ethica took advantage of their silence, plucking Lowena hastily away and running through the groups of people. Lowena giggled happily, following after her.
"How beautiful," a woman said, seizing Lowena's wrist mid-flight.
Ethica looked back, glaring. Lowena, bewitched, looked at the gorgeous woman holding her wrist. She had long crimson-red nails, pale skin, long brown, wildly curly hair, and a killer smile.
"I'm Melisandra. I'm pleased to meet you, Lowena," she introduced herself.
"How do you know my name?" Lowena questioned.
"Leave her alone, witch!" Ethica snapped.
"What's going on here?" Kieran approached.
Melisandra tenderly smiled at Lowena. "I only wanted to offer a drink from the high priestess of all covens."
She bowed, presenting the chalice to Lowena. Lowena, embarrassed, didn't know what to do, so she drank. It was sweet, juicy, and delightful. Her mouth watered for more, salivating excessively from the taste as it went down her throat. Her head threw back, and more tears of ecstasy trickled down her cheeks.
Lowena's iris glowed a fiery red as she felt it ripple throughout her body.
"Are you alright?" Kieran, concerned, caressed Lowena's cheeks, which she leaned into.
"I don't know," Lowena whispered as another tear fell silently. "I feel amazing."
Lowena's breathing quickened, her heart pounding in her chest, and her skin broke out in a damp, glistening sweat. The flames fueled the fire, making her body rapidly heat with extreme intensity.
"What's happening?" Lowena whispered.
"What do you mean?" Kieran pressed his forehead to Lowena's to calm her nerves.
"When you touch my skin, I feel like it's on fire," she rasped.
Kieran inhaled, her sweet scent growing stronger and stronger. He exerted some of his pheromones to ease her hastiness.
"Calm down, you'll draw attention," he warned.
"Get me out of here, please," she begged.
Without hesitation, he pulled Lowena after him through the crowds of people and soon through the house, Kage and Caspian angrily watching on in silence, looking at one another.
"May the best man win," Caspian commented.
Lowena's head was swirling in a blur of lusty haze. Her body was begging, pleading for a release of this heat inside of her. Sweat trickled down her body, and her top suctioning to her damp breasts made it more difficult to breathe.
"Fuck," she whimpered.
"What's wrong?" Kieran asked while easing her onto the bed.
"I'm so hot inside," she cried, seductively rubbing her damp body. "It hurts."
"Shh," Kieran hushed, leaning over her, releasing more pheromones, "One of the vampires bit you?"
"Yes, Celeste and Lucinda," Lowena said, touching the bite marks on her breast and neck.
Everything began to intensify—the heat in her body, the ache inside, the burning lava pumping through her veins.
"Ugh!" she bucked beneath him, rolling to her side.
"Get off of her," Eli warned.
"She's mine, old man!" Kieran growled. "Lowena wants me. She begged for me."
The other pack members walked in moments later, keeping Eli and Kieran separate.
"Lowena needs to be a virgin five nights from now," Eli reminded. "Five nights from now, she decides who she wants to lay with."
"No! She's mine! You've been saying that since the start-"
"You're drunk off her pheromones," Eli interrupted. "Get him out of here."
The pack members turned to look at Lowena. As she grew hotter, her pheromones filled the room, making it difficult for any creature to resist her heat. The sexy whimpers erupted from her throat as she thrashed around on the bed.
"Now!" Eli snapped.
As if scowled puppies, they pulled a fighting Keiran from the room, and Eli remained behind.
"Why?" Lowena forced, "Why did you make him leave? I need this ache to stop! Everything is on fire! I'm scared!"
Eli stood in front of Lowena, looking down into her fearful eyes.
"Please," she begged, tears trickling down her hot cheeks.
Eli, though firm as he was, couldn't resist her scent. She caught sight of him, seductively enticing with how she spread her legs, holding her hand out for him to take her, help her. Eli leaned over her, greedily rubbing her swollen entrance.
"Ugh! Ah!"
Lowena smiled, latching onto his back and digging in her werewolf nails.
"Agh1 Lowena!" Eli winced.
The alpha in him made it easier to resist her scent. The pain of her nails tearing his flesh brought him out of the lusty, drunken state in which he was nearly engulfed.
"Lowena, you need to rest," Eli hushed while forcing himself from the room, sliding a bolt into place behind him.
Lowena angrily sprung from the bed, trying to open the locked door, but it wouldn't budge. She touched the bolts on the frame, only to be poorly burned on her fingertips.
"Ahh!" she whimpered, yelping like a hurt puppy.
"Lowena?" Caspian said, climbing through her window.
"Caspian?" she cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.
Lowena was hurt, confused, and unsure of what was happening. The burning pain in her hand made the lava in her veins worse. She felt like she was going to burn alive from the inside out.
"P-please," she stammered, "Everything hurts. Help me, please."
"Shh," he hushed, swiftly embracing a trembling Lowena.
"Everything burns," she sniffled.
Caspian inhaled her potent pheromones, making resisting her difficult for a King like him. He was uncertain how to aid her. Taking her lust as his own could cause him to lose control, and she needed to remain a virgin until five nights from now. He glanced at her hand, kissing the burn away. Lowena's trembling from the pain was subdued, but internally, she needed relief.
"What's happening?" she cried.
"You'll be okay," he reassured, rubbing her back tenderly and bringing her over to the bed.
Lowena slumped down in a heap on the mattress. Her body ached in a way she couldn't fathom. There was a burning deep inside that yearned to be scratched. Caspian began to caress her body, unhooking her top and removing her skirt. She opened herself to him, unafraid of what he may do.
"I'm not going to have sex with you."
Lowena propped herself on her elbows, glaring at Caspia.," Why not?"
"I'm going to ease your pain and suffering," he replied.