She wasn’t kidding about her strength.
Her hand caught my chest, pulled me to her, and tore at the neck of my tunic. I felt a couple of the fastenings give as she hauled it over my head. The cool air touched my bare chest, but all I felt was heat. Bertha shoved me, and my back hit the hard mattress. The bed creaked when she followed.
Then her mouth was on mine.
My only frame of reference for kissing in the Sinarius Realms was Lilith, but Bertha was another flavor entirely. Her mouth generated an intense heat, her lips were firm, and her tongue was aggressive.
I felt her catch my wrists, and I couldn’t help but grin as pleasure exploded into my bloodstream. Her rippling thighs pinned mine into the bed, and her wet tongue slid into my mouth. I savored her taste as my tongue brushed over tiny ridges in hers.
Bertha ground into me, her smooth voice deepening further into an animalistic growl as I sank my teeth into her lip, almost drawing blood. She pulled her mouth away from mine forcefully and straightened up, but her hips continued to move rhythmically as she pleased herself against my hardened muscle.
I watched her grin as she placed my core in her teeth. With a vicious tug, she tore off her leather corset, freeing her breasts before tossing the clothing behind my head and leaning over me again. Her tongue flickered out and left a warm line of pleasure on my face.
Almost delicately, she placed my core onto her pillow. My only free hand found her ass and gripped her while my fingers dug into her powerful muscle, her salacious smile growing wider as she kissed me again.
The half-troll’s hand traveled south under my trousers and tightened.
My breath caught in my throat, and her eyes sparkled with mischief as she looked into mine.
“I was right about you,” she whispered. “And I give you five minutes.”
Chapter Eight
I wasn’t sure exactly how long we had been at it since checking my timer was probably impolite, but I was on the cusp of outlasting Bertha. The half-troll’s hair was starting to escape its braid, and the dark brown strands tickled my hip as she leaned back. Her whole body trembled from her release, and her bottom lip quivered with ecstasy.
My back curved upward as my own hellish avatar exploded with pleasure, electric heat blasting through every limb, through every fiber of my being. My core vibrated and shuddered on the pillow behind my head. The jewel glowed with a bright crimson light that mixed with the shadows cast by the torch.
For a moment, I felt my consciousness flux and flicker between the gem and the elf. I detected a potent essence swirling inside Bertha before that same essence flooded into me. Delirium ensnared me and left me feeling as if I was halfway between a dream and waking. The essence was slowly moving out of the bare creature straddling me and into my avatar.
But it didn’t stop there.
It pumped through my veins like a shot of adrenaline and then siphoned into my core. A rush of power enveloped me, and I was seeing through both my avatar and my jewel at the same time. The entire room became completely known to me, an infusion of true knowledge right down to the atomic level.
Was this the Vampiric Expertise?
Bertha’s hair brushed my cheek, my face splitting into a satisfied smirk as the sensation faded. My senses returned from their omnipresent state as my consciousness reattached itself to Von Dominus.
Something had changed.
The elf had felt agile before with his sharp senses and sharper reflexes, but now his body felt more powerful, somehow. Every sinuous strand of muscle snaking under my skin brimmed with heat and strength. Lilith hadn’t been lying to me; I really could take the perks from the females I decided to sleep with. Bertha wasn’t a dungeon core, but the same power that radiated from every inch of her was now mine.
“You said you don’t have a lot of time before you return to your jewel.” Bertha panted, slipped off my lap, and dropped beside me on the earth-moulded mattress. “We should leave.”
Bertha was the first woman who hadn’t wanted to kiss and cuddle after sex. In a way, I was a bit disappointed, but she was right. Every second I lay here, I was wasting time. We needed to move. I had trouble even lifting a hand since my mind was still reeling from the sex. Holy shit, that had been something else.
I forced myself upright, and the daze of my climax lifted. Rather than feeling exhausted, every part of me burst with energy.
I was spoiling for a fight.
“Aren’t you forgetting something?” I chuckled as she started to collect her clothes from around the room.
Bertha’s eyes narrowed as she looked at me. “What is it?”
“I’m going to enthrall you. You think you can kill Jeff and Ma if they get in your way, but they’re your family, and you could hesitate. If I join my mind with yours, you won’t even think twice. Better for you, better for me.”
“I’ll do it,” Bertha said without hesitation.
I rolled over onto my side, placed a hand on either side of her face, and held her head in my hands. My gaze locked onto hers just as it had with Lilith and Charlie, and I reached out with my elf’s mind. I found her mind deep within her pupils, lost inside a miasma of hurt and violence. She was a mess of emotions and traumatic experiences, but she would be my mess. My vision became almost completely clouded in crimson as I touched her soul.
Charm test . . . Success!
Bertha the Hell Troll successfully Captured!
Hell Troll / Human (Black Sands)
Name: Bertha
Core: Infernal
Rarity: Common
Possible Evolutions: 2 (Cave Troll, War Troll)
“I’m yours now . . . Master.”
“My gaze didn’t enthrall you,”
