Caress The Dark God [Scions of the Ankh 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Toni L. Meilleur Page A

roared as he expended the energy and his seed inside of her. It seemed as if long founts of semen spurted inside of her and he was powerless while in its grip. He couldn’t remember an orgasm so strong that it made him lose all sense of equilibrium. The river water thrashed just as violently as it reacted to his power, splashing over their hot bodies and instantly cooling them off. Tessa didn’t seem to notice.
    As his orgasm subsided, he watched her more closely. Her eyes were transfixed on the sky above, without exactly focusing on anything. Anubis’s suspicions were proven, as the water subsided almost as quickly as it had churned wildly. Her body shook every now and then. Eventually her eyes focused on him and she smiled. “That was wonderful.”
    Anubis pulled out of her and lay on his side as his fingers made small circles on her belly. He said nothing, the thought that assailed him both comforting and shocking.
    “Are you all right?” Her voice bit into his thoughts. He looked down at her. Tessa, the beautiful doctor who spent her life helping others. That was the Tessa of the past. This Tessa was not only a doctor, she was a hybrid. A hybrid that needed to feed off the life force of another to survive.

Chapter Eleven
     
    He let the darkness comfort him as the earth healed him. He burrowed deeper as pain lanced through his body. He had been caught unaware. Never had he run into such power before. Teremun had underestimated his enemy. As precious energy flowed through him, he knew it would not be enough to take nourishment from the earth. He needed more. He required the type of energy only a life force could give. His father had only briefly told him of the others. Obviously there was more he had to learn.
    Teremun sat up in the darkness of the cavern and contemplated. He certainly couldn’t run the risk of confronting his new enemy. He was too weak. He had to find a simple source of food, one that wouldn’t require much energy to gather. He couldn’t risk the dark man following his trail. He needed a food source that wouldn’t cause attention.
    Teremun wouldn’t be able to share his energy with him , this time. Once fully rejuvenated, he would be able to gather more souls and finally complete the transformation. It was only a matter of days before his power would be unrivaled.
    He stood in the cavern, determined to do whatever was necessary to finish his mission. Shame had washed over him when he had to cower as the other being searched for him. Lucky for Teremun, his life signs had been so weak he couldn’t be detected. It took every ounce of his power to break out of the funnel that had imprisoned him. He would not be so helpless again. He needed to learn more about his foe, find his weakness. If memory served him, the man had been angry that he had killed the human female. Perhaps his enemy had a weakness for humans. Teremun smiled. If that were true, it was a good thing, for in his own way Teremun had a weakness for humans as well. He simply couldn’t resist feeding off them. As he strode out of the cave, Teremun got a good idea of just where he could go for an easy meal.
     
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    Thoth rubbed his head in frustration. Books were piled high around the room, with various ones left open for quick reference. Something was staring him right in the face, and yet the answer eluded him. Hathor glided into the room with a drink in one hand. “Here, I thought this might help.” She handed him the small snifter of brandy and idly looked into the books. “Anything so far?”
    Thoth sighed before he tipped the glass and let the entire contents burn its way down his throat. “I don’t know, love. I should know this. I’ve read the reports of the attacks. I’ve even seen pictures of the tags left right above the heart. But it doesn’t make sense. The cult lead I pursued turned up one interesting fact. Its founding members had died the same way as the people are dying here.”
    “You will figure