Jinxed: A Paranormal Why Choose Standalone

Luther’s story sat with me for weeks.
I wondered how similar his story was to mine, or to Theo’s or even to Felix’s. Because hadn’t we all been looking for more? Wasn’t the search for more what brought us all to this fucking house in the first place?

Theo was looking for luck. Felix was looking for love. Luther was looking for acceptance. And me? I wasn’t sure what I was looking for anymore. Maybe I had been looking for more just the same.

It was true, sex had never been great for me before the house, but I had just assumed I was one of those people who didn’t love sex. My time in the house had made me realize just how wrong I was. It was entirely possible I had been like Luther my entire life, and just never realized it, craving the attention of more than one person. Desperate for the love of more than one soul.

Now I had three of them. Although none of us had spoken the “L” word yet, I was certain it wasn’t far off. If they were anything like me, they were worried about fucking up the dynamics of the house more than we already had. Because if things went sour, it wasn’t like we never had to see one another again. We were stuck with each other for the rest of eternity. The house itself didn’t scare me, but the thought of living with people I didn’t get along with did.

Fall turned into winter, heavy clouds teasing us with snow. By the time Christmas came around, I would’ve been in the house for almost four months. Four months down, a lifetime to go. Already my skin was feeling itchy, leaving me ready to claw at the walls.

I lay on Felix’s bed as he stroked my hair. On this day, a few weeks after Luther’s story, I had found my way there. Eventually Luther or Theo would come looking for me, and find me in here, but for right now it was just the two of us. Felix and I were growing more comfortable with each other, with less arguing when we tried to speak outside of sex, or on our own. Not that it didn’t happen. It just happened less.

I turned over in his lap, meeting his eyes. “How do you do it?”

“Do what exactly?” He continued to stroke my hair back with a light touch. “That could refer to a whole host of things.”

“How do you not lose your mind in here?” My body felt like it was filled with an energy that had nowhere to go. Sex helped expel some of it, but the constant influx of renewed energy left me jittery. My research in the library with Luther was turning up dead end after dead end, and I was growing more anxious to find some kind of solution to get us the hell out of here. We had explored every option from exorcism to sacrifices and back again. None of it made sense, and none of it added up. There had to be something. Every curse had a remedy.

Felix stilled his hand, his eyes growing soft. “I’ve been in this house for a long time, darling.”

I sighed. “I know. And that’s why I want to know how you’ve done it. How have you remained sane?”

“I didn’t have a choice.” He shifted under me, pulling me up to sit on his lap. “When you don’t have a choice, you learn to survive. But you want to know my best advice?”

“Absolutely.” I nodded, eager to learn his secret. I didn’t want fifty years to go by and for me to have nothing solid to cling to anymore, my sanity nothing but shattered glass beneath my skin. “Tell me.”

“I think the moment you try to figure out how not to lose your mind is when you go crazy.” Felix took my chin in his fingers, tugging my face close. “Take it day by day, darling. Today, I love spending time with you. Tonight, I’m going to fuck you until you scream my name.”

There was a knock at the door. Still held by Felix’s tight grip, I couldn’t turn my head to see who was there.

“Am I interrupting?” At the sound of Luther’s voice Felix tore his stare away from me.

“Not at all. I’m just telling Savannah how I’m going to make her pretty little mouth scream my name tonight. Care to help?”

I knew Luther and Felix’s relationship was more strained than Theo’s with either of them, but they attempted to put it aside when we were together. They knew I didn’t want to choose between them, and neither of them wanted to lose me. So a strange sort of stalemate was formed between the two, an agreement to not discuss the troubles beneath the surface. I was certain it would eventually come to a head, but for now, it worked. And fuck if the two of them weren’t hot as hell when they worked together. Their energy was something else altogether, passion and regret pushing all of us towards epic climaxes.

“Do you even need to ask?” I turned my head to see a smile spread across Luther’s face and a devilish glint shining in his eyes. He leaned against the doorframe, crossing his arms across his broad chest. By now, I knew that look all too well.

Felix turned my head to face him, kissing me hard until I gasped. His tongue slipped inside, exploring my mouth. He dragged his hand down my side, tickling my ribs and waist, before he teased between my legs. A finger pulled my panties to the side, allowing him to slide along my pussy. Back and forth, never long enough to give me any release, but enough to make me pant and soaked in moments. The contrast of his hard kisses and delicate fingers were the perfect definition of Felix, and I would never have enough. I tangled my fingers in his hair, forgetting anyone else was in the room until he pulled back and smirked. “Lie back on the bed for me, darling. Head at the end.” He was definitely getting better at taking the lead.

Now I understood what made each of them tick, and by some strange series of events, Felix had begun to enjoy taking control of our…group activities. It usually ended well for me, so you wouldn’t catch me complaining.

“Good girl,” he murmured, pressing a quick kiss to my lips. As I separated myself from him, he pulled my panties down and off–my one remaining article of clothing tossed to the side of the bed.

I lay on my back, exposed and vulnerable. I never felt afraid though. Not with these men, as hard as their exteriors might be.

Felix moved between my legs, stroking the tender skin of my inner thighs with a moan of pleasure. “You’re so goddamn delicious. I could eat every part of you, you know that?”

My hips raised of their own accord when his hands got too close. Felix only laughed.

“Make her beg, Felix,” Luther demanded from the corner of the room. I was excited to see what Felix was going to make him do, where he was going to be. Would I get to suck him off, his thick cock filling my mouth, making me drool and gag? Or would Felix flip me, letting them both use me the way they did best.

I caught Felix’s eye, and he grinned. “I plan to.”

Felix was so beautiful when he was nude. The lines of his long, lean body were something carved from marble, and I couldn’t help but stare when the moonlight caught his skin. Half in the dark, half in the light–kind of like us.

He called to Luther, instructing him to stand at the edge of the bed. Luther stripped off his clothes, and I opened my mouth in anticipation, ready to take as much of him as I could. “No, darling. I meant it when I said I wanted you to scream my name. And as pretty as you look with a dick in your mouth, I won’t be able to hear you.”

Felix leaned over my body, his mouth hovering over my aching clit, his breath teasing me with every pant. Fuck, I needed someone to touch me–now. The waiting was torture, and the teasing was driving me insane.

“Use your hand. Then I can hear you scream my name when I make you come, and I get the added bonus of seeing your beautiful body covered with Luther when you make him come.”

“Mmm…” I wished I could be a fly on the wall watching the entire scene. This couldn’t be my real life, being used by two of the most delicious men in the world. Luther stepped closer, and I wrapped my hand around his cock. He groaned immediately, thrusting on instinct. At the same second, I slid my hand up and down his hard shaft, Felix dropped his head to my pussy, and pressed his lips to my clit.

“Holy fuck. Please, God, fuck.” I was unable to tear my eyes away from the sight as Felix teased my swollen clit with his tongue.

He backed away for a moment, looking up at me with those big dark eyes. “Not bad. But nowhere near a scream.”

I chewed on my lip, swirling my hand up and down Luther’s cock as he rocked his hips and moaned my name. Between my legs, Felix was sucking my clit into his mouth, and I cried out, arching my back. “Fuck’s sake, Felix!”

“Almost there,” he whispered, before pressing his mouth against me again. The things that man could do with his tongue should’ve been illegal. My hand sped up, and Luther bent over slightly, taking a handful of my hair into his hands.

He grunted, pushing his cock harder into my hand. “I’m going to come, Sav.”

I was ready for it, my body building in pleasure, too. If I timed it right, we could come together. I thought I had everything under control, even as my body spiraled towards release. Then Felix slipped two fingers inside my pussy, curling them up. I screamed out his name as I came on his hand and his tongue. “Oh, fuck, Felix!”

“You’re so perfect, darling. So fucking perfect,” Felix cooed, pulsing his fingers as he rocked me through my release.

I was so disoriented with my orgasm I didn’t realize Luther was moaning my name as he came, hot strands of cum shooting across my face. Holy fuck, that shouldn’t have been as hot as it was. But knowing Luther was coming in my hand to the sight of Felix getting me off was a damn heady feeling.

I lay there, my breathing returning to normal. Before I could open my eyes, I was pulled up to my knees, thrust on all fours. “I’m not done with you yet,” Felix muttered.

I was still riding my high, and even the gentle touch of his hands between my legs turned me into a moaning mess all over again. Then his hand was gone, replaced by the head of his cock. He pushed his way inside my pussy.

“Do you like this, Savannah?” Felix whispered as he fucked me from behind. “Do you like knowing I’m going to fill your sweet pussy with my cum, as Luther’s covers your face?”

“Mmm…” I groaned and rocked back against his thrusts. I was so sensitive and his hard pace was going to send me over the edge again.

A hand around my neck forced me to open my eyes, and I found myself staring at Luther. His gaze was clouded with lust and desire, and when he kissed me, I cursed into his mouth.

The sensations were everywhere, and I was going to explode. Felix was thrusting into me, his own noises telling me he was close to release. Luther kissed me so sweetly, and the pleasure from my previous orgasm still flooded my veins. Behind me, Felix smacked my ass. “Come one more time for me.”

He slapped my ass again, and my body shattered into a second orgasm around his cock. If Luther hadn’t been in front of me, holding my chin, I would’ve fallen face-first into the bed. It was only another moment or two before Felix was shaking, clutching onto my hips as he came.

Felix was the first to pull away, then Luther pulled me on top of him. I was exhausted, body and mind. Felix returned with a damp cloth, gently cleaning my face and between my legs. Once he was done, he collapsed into bed next to us. I half expected him to kick Luther out, but he must have been so sated with pleasure the thought never occurred to him.

I rested my head on Luther’s chest, letting him wrap his arms around my body. My brain wasn’t ready to turn off just yet–a hazard of having endless time–and I still had more questions for Felix. He had distracted me with sex before I was ready.

“Felix?” I asked.

He didn’t raise his head off his pillow, but reached back and patted my arm. “Yes?” His voice betrayed his exhaustion, and I felt bad for keeping him up. Not bad enough to sate my curiosity, though.

“What were the exact words the old woman told you when she cursed you?”

I could practically hear his eyes roll. “You’re asking me this now?”

I nodded. “I wanted to earlier, but your tongue distracted me. I feel like it could really help narrow down our research. Luther and I have just been going in circles for weeks on end, but if we knew the exact words, it might help us know what we’re looking for.”

“You’re not going to break the spell, Savannah,” he muttered.

I scooted away from Luther and wrapped my arm around Felix’s back. “Please. Just let me try. I have to do something.”

Felix sighed. “She said a lot of things, but if I remember correctly,” he scrunched up his face, “the last thing she said was ‘You will forever share a lifeforce, each of you keeping the other alive.’ Happy now? Can I sleep?”

“Yes.” I pressed a kiss to his back, rolling over between them. Eventually his breathing evened out, and so did Luther’s. I stayed awake for most of the night, watching the moonlight cross from one side of the room to the other. Only one thought circled around and around in my mind.

How could a person keep a house alive?