How To Tame Monsters

Chapter 21: (Not) The Mission

A/N: I hope you all enjoy it! Happy 2025! 

Salifix's Pov:

Pain, blinding pain spread through my chest, knocking me out of my meditation. My master was squeezing my wing, a constant pressure as he walked into the room.

Breathing required a focused effort now as I pulled on my shirt in an attempt to put less restriction on my chest. My magic flared in me, twisted in pain yet desperate to do something to help keep my body alive at the same time.

"What the hell is this useless report you left on my desk?", My master hissed as he kicked the door shut to my room.

I glanced up at him, my wing fluttering as dots connected in my brain. The reason I was captured so completely in the first place by him. He carries the blood that is in my mate.

Of course that would cause me to falter, to hesitate, Fae instinctively know the bloodline that leads to their mate. My master is related to my mate, and I have been so deep in denial about it since the first time I laid eyes on her.

I can't be in denial anymore. Without tasting her deeply I know she is mine, just like with Perice. Whose presence I don't feel, is he resting?

"No weaknesses yet, need more observation", He tossed the page in front of me, his other hand still clenching my wing.

"You've been watching them for nearly three weeks and you've seen nothing of note!", His spit flew through the air, landing randomly over my face, my lip, my cheek, my nose.

I glared at him the best I could while trying to breathe through the pain still coursing through my body. He relaxed his hold on my wing, the pain slowly ebbed away until I could breathe properly again.

"They are her mates, their connection to each other is unstable but very present. I haven't seen them use their abilities so I can't say what weakness they have in battle", I spoke a little more in-depth with what I reported.

He sucked his teeth before stepping forward and kicking me in the jaw making my teeth rattle and my magic scramble to start and heal the damage done to my body. My lip stung from being slit open, my blood filling my mouth, and a bruise was forming on my jaw.

"Hence why I need to separate them as soon as possible! Useless little solider", He hissed at me as he started to pace the length of the small room that he stuck me in.

He grinned suddenly, too wide, showing too many teeth, his skin lightening up with his own power, "Go and Observe. Keep your ears open, when you hear me again, you do my command without fail. So says your master, Salifix"

With a quick nod of agreement, He released my wing from his harsh hold before pushing the small pouch back into his pocket. He walked to the door, holding it open for me, I pulled from my magic rezervies and went invisible as I rushed out of his house in search of Nia and her lovers.

It didn't take long to find them in her dorm room. They tended to stick to a schedule of sorts. As I searched for Nia, I also looked for Pierce and didn't find him anywhere.

Traveling through the sunlight I got into her shared dorm room. To see something I didn't expect at all. Nia, Cody, Roger, and Gannon are in physical passion together. The sight was one thing, yet combined with the sound, smell, and thick magic in the air from them all together, almost made me fall to my knees.

I felt myself about to release my seed right then and there if I didn't dig my hand in my pants quick enough and strangle the base of my shaft. To witness this felt like torture because it was the one thing I had been craving since I met Peirce, the physical passion, yet I knew that as long as he was cursed I couldn't have it.