19. Carter
19
Carter
W hen Lex said he was the sacrifice, he cut somewhere deep down inside my chest, and after the words left his lips, I couldn’t hold myself back anymore. Because I knew it wouldn’t come to that. My luck told me it wouldn’t. Unlike him, I did believe in fate. I did believe in destiny. After four years of this fairy gift, how could I not? I’d learned to trust my gut and right now, it said there would be no sacrifice. I knew that in my bones. It was the way my gift worked. It was how I knew which cards to play in poker, or how I’d gotten us to safety with my eyes closed the last time the king attacked. The luck ran in my blood, and if it came to it, I would put myself in the line of fire before I’d let any of them do it.
Aren’t we a bunch of martyrs?
But this was my show now, my scene, and I wanted him to shut the fuck up.
After I dismounted Lex, I walked to stand next to Miri at the foot of the bed, eyeing our two spouses like we’d stumbled on the holy grail of riches. To be fair, we’d come pretty damned close.
Ivy Washington and Lex Fairfax: tied to a bed next to each other, underwear stuffed in their mouths, nearly disrobed and disheveled beyond all reason. It was the stuff of fantasies. It was what I had ached for since I was a freshman in college.
“My, my, what a sight?” Miri tapped her chin as she leaned her head on my shoulder. “Whatever shall we do with such spoils?”
Lex shifted his hips, bucking his arousal forward, clearly indicating what he wanted to happen. Weeds let out a loud sigh, scooting closer to Lex, perhaps so they could talk telepathically.
That shit used to hurt, but not tonight. If they wanted to communicate while I put them in their place, fine. So be it. After Lex tied Ivy up and stuffed Miri’s panties in her mouth, I suggested to Miri that we do the same to him.
“Let’s remind them why they married us,” I’d said. She had agreed.
Now, I turned to Miri, wrapping my arms around her waist while hers came around my neck, relishing in the softness of her lips and the way she molded to me. It reminded me of California, when it had just been her and me and the heartbreak between us. Melancholy tightened in my chest, reiterating that we had no idea what tomorrow would bring.
I kissed Miri deeper, tugging the zipper of her dress down to her waist so I could drag the fabric over her arms and drop it to the floor at her feet. I lowered to my knees, helping her out of her shoes before taking the dress and throwing it on the chair behind me. I looked up at her, this Goddess of delicate energy, such devotion and sincerity radiating out of her gaze. Trembling and trying to hide it, I ran my hands up the sides of her thighs, memorizing how soft her skin was. She truly was so very beautiful, and I loved her as much as I loved the others.
All we have is us.
Perhaps I knew that more in that moment than I ever had before. Lex and Ivy lived to tear into each other: they always had, they always would. But Miri and I had always been on the same side: about the two of them, about California and Poppy, about needing to check both of our spouses tonight of all nights.
“I love you,” I told her.
She smiled and ran the back of her knuckles down the side of my face. “I love you.”
For all that we had suffered, Miri and I wanted to take this moment to remind Lex and Ivy what we were together and why we loved each other.
There had been times when I’d held Lex down and taken what I’d wanted from him. Even Ivy and I liked to play a certain dynamic between us. But this wasn’t about that…this was about taking care of them, all of them, on this trepidatious eve. I didn’t know what we’d face in the morning, but the last few weeks had been traumatizing enough without Ivy and Lex biting at each other’s throats.
Maybe the queen had told Lex he would be the sacrifice, or maybe the whole thing was a farce like he suspected. I didn’t care. My luck didn’t care. I had to fuck Miri, and that was it. After that, I’d fuck Lex until he couldn’t stand, and I’d set Miri on Ivy to do whatever she pleased. Once they couldn’t remember their names, only then would I let myself come. Only then would I let the magic of the night have me.
I’d witnessed horrors not even an hour ago, things that would surely come back to haunt me once I let myself think about them. But under the influence of Faerie and the fairy wine and the intoxicating scent of Miri’s pheromones, I couldn’t be bothered to care.
“Take me, Romeo,” Miri whispered, and a moan came from Lex’s side of the bed.
Hiding a smile, I kissed the inside of one thigh, slowly dragging my mouth up her body to her beautiful cunt, and when I slid my tongue through her skin, I hummed to myself at how wet she already was. I spread her open, latching on to her clit the way I knew she liked. I had spent hours between her thighs, even more watching Ivy and Lex do the same.
She rocked against me, spearing her fingers through my hair, holding me while I took from her.
“You both have forgotten why we’re in this mess,” Miri said, her words no more than breathy sighs as I lapped at her, swallowing down her arousal and her delectable energy like it could revitalize the broken parts of me. “And if tomorrow is to be the end, then I won’t spend my last night listening to my prince lie to me while my favorite girl vibrates with fury.”
I chuckled at her turn of phrase, scooting myself closer so I could press a finger at her entrance. Miri spread her legs farther, allowing the access, and when I eased inside her tight pussy, the thighs on either side of my head shook. She was so turned on and eager, I almost couldn’t resist bending her over and taking her rough and quick. But I wanted to make this last, and I knew she did, too.
“I want to ride my Romeo’s face so hard, his jaw hurts in the morning.” She threw her head back, her dark curls falling down her shoulders, her neck arched in a glowing display of skin. I bet Lex ached to dig his teeth in it. I bet Ivy couldn’t wait to lick across her pulse. I bet they itched with anticipation. “I want to make my wife come so hard, she doesn’t remember why we’re here. And I want my prince to watch it all, to make me kneel for him the way only he can.”
The visual sent me skyrocketing, my cock jerking behind my jeans, aching with desperation for all that she described. Miri tightened her hold on my head, using my mouth however she wanted, and I kept finger-fucking her, relishing just how joyous I was in that moment. If I could freeze time, I would never leave this tent with them. I loved watching her fall apart, and when she made those breathy little moans, I felt like the king of the fucking world. Miri came on my face, rocking and making good on her threat to strain my jaw. But even the ache pleased me, and when she stepped back to glance down with that tenderness in her eyes, I fell even more in love with her.
Then, I set my sights on Weeds and DC, who had both turned a shade of blush while they waited. Lex’s cock bulged behind his trousers, his desire apparent in the way he stared at me with that burning cold hazel gaze. Ivy, on the other hand, panted through her nose in deep huffs, her thighs clenched together like she was trying to alleviate the tension building there.
“My poor Weeds,” I said, pushing to my feet. My dick pulsed at the two of them looking so disheveled and pitiful tied to the bed. “Do you need some attention?”
She only glared at me, fiery gray eyes drilling holes into my soul. It delighted me how much she always wanted us, how much she thrived when the four of us were together. Miri may be my one and only Juliet, my star-crossed lover, my best friend and confidante, but Ivy was my first love, my first favorite girl, the one who opened my heart for the others. She and I knew a side of each other that few would ever experience.
“What do you think, Juliet?” I put an arm over Miri’s shoulders and leaned down to kiss her softly, grabbing the tip of my dick through my pants to soothe some of the hunger careening in my veins. An impulsive side of me wanted to take them both hard and fast, to devour whatever I could as soon as I could. But I held that piece back, knowing it would be better if I savored it, if we took our time. “Should I tend to our queen while you take care of our king?”
She hummed and smiled, leaning up to give me one more gentle kiss. “I believe he said something about you sucking his cock while I stuff my pussy in his face.”
The reminder made me chuckle. “And playing with Ivy last.”
Miri tsked her teeth, looking at Lex with a hint of devilish mischief behind her eyes. “Such arrogance.”
“The audacity,” I added.
Miri climbed onto the bed, straddling Ivy’s legs so she could scoot herself up her torso, positioning herself on the redhead’s chest. My princess leaned back so she could spear her fingers through Ivy’s cunt, making Weeds groan and arch into the touch.
“My, my, she’s so wet. We must have put on quite the show.” Miri laughed and returned her attention to Ivy, holding out the other hand and wiggling her fingers so Ivy knew to spit out her panties. She did, and Miri quickly tossed them back to me, where I stuffed them in my back pocket for…uh… souvenir purposes. Lex stayed transfixed on our wives, and I watched him regard them as Miri spread herself open and placed her vulva right on Ivy’s mouth.
Weeds wasted no time, licking and sucking at Miri like she was a starved woman. After all these months away from our wife, she likely was. I had missed Miri with a sick hollowness that almost drowned me. For Ivy, it had been unbearable.
Now that we were back together, Ivy let Miri do whatever she wanted to her. And I stared at Lex while I unhooked Ivy’s leg from the bed frame. He caught the movement, trailing his attention over my body while I did. When she was free, I took her pants off and climbed onto the mattress between her knees, using my shoulders to spread them wider.
I may have played with Ivy’s cunt a million times, but it never stopped being amazing. I loved the sounds she made against Miri when I kissed the inside of her thigh. When I dug my teeth into a sensitive part, she bucked and squirmed, and her beautiful pussy clenched so nicely. I wanted to be balls deep inside her and make her do that again. But I settled on fucking her with my face and my fingers until her thighs clamped down on my ears and she arched her hips every time I slid deep inside her.
“Yes, just like that,” Miri groaned. “You have such a great mouth. I’ve always loved your tongue. Fuck, that’s so good.”
I couldn’t stand it any longer. Miri’s words combined with Ivy’s squirms and Lex’s hot stare, and I needed to be inside her. I dropped my jeans to my ankles, kicking them off with my feet before kneeling between Ivy’s legs and lining the tip of my cock up with her scorching hot entrance.
Good Lord, sinking inside her always felt like heaven, like coming home, like she was made for me. Miri rose to turn around, now riding Ivy’s face in my direction, and she leaned in to kiss me. Our mouths connected, and I swallowed one of her groans of ecstasy, where it settled deep down in my chest, amplifying my own. We were magic together, the four of us, and even though Lex hadn’t been allowed to touch us yet, he was still very much a part of this.
His eyes never left our show, and the thrill of taking the ones I loved while the one that loved us watched made me feel invincible. The fairy king could try his best to separate us tomorrow, and I wouldn’t give a shit because we had this…we would always have this.
The surety of that radiated so deep inside me that nothing could shake it. We would make it through this together, all four of us.
I hoisted Ivy’s legs to my shoulders, turning my head so I could bite the inside of her calf while I fucked her. She moaned harder, and Miri leaned forward to rub at Ivy’s clit while she writhed on her face until she fell apart again, her forehead pressed against mine, her desperate pants searing my cheeks and lips. Miri was so beautiful when she came.
Once she’d had her fill, Miri climbed off Ivy to finally tend to her prince of darkness, our proverbial king, the one who bore the weight of the crown so we didn’t have to.
“Should I finally take you?” Miri raised her eyebrow as she teased a finger over the waist of Lex’s pants, his stomach muscles trembling as she licked her lips.
“He deserves to be edged for hours,” Ivy said, her voice croaky and harsh for how long she’d been gagged. Even in the throes of euphoria, she couldn’t resist needling her former nemesis.
Lex groaned and rolled his eyes, sinking into the little contact that Miri gave him. I slowed my thrusts, drawing out the sensations like I’d never get to feel them again. I kissed Ivy’s ankles and spread her legs farther so they fell to my hips. I leaned over her, dropping down to my elbows by her ribs, so we touched from chest to pelvis.
“Are you okay?” she asked mentally, drawing my attention from Lex and Miri.
“Just fine, Miss Washington.” I kissed her gently, stuffing myself deep inside her, making a deliberate display of connection. “Are you okay?”
She sighed and ducked her head into my neck, licking and sucking at my pulse point. Fuck, that felt so damned good, and I picked up my pace.
“Don’t leave me, Carter,” she said. “Please. Whatever happens tomorrow. Don’t leave me.”
“I won’t,” I pressed my forehead to hers, forcing her mouth back to mine. She tasted like Miri and wine and her, and it was such an intoxicating blend that I couldn’t resist sticking my tongue deeper into her mouth for more. Always more. Forever more. Always with her. “I promise I won’t. You have me until we die, Weeds. Forever.”
“I love you,” she whispered, low but loud enough for the others to hear.
“I love you,” I repeated. “I’ve always loved you.”
“Do you hear that, my prince?” Miri said, bringing my focus back to her. She had stripped Lex completely naked and now kneeled between his legs, flicking her tongue over the tip of his cock in featherlight caresses that drove Lex wild. He surged his hips up to her, trying to get more contact, but she only grinned and tormented him. “Weeds and Romeo are so in love. Do you love me like that? Are you jealous of what they have?”
He threw his head back, his eyes clenched in frustration, his lips struggling to hold in Ivy’s underwear. It shouldn’t thrill me as much as it did to see him in such a state of distress, but twisted amusement and arousal hit me low in the gut, making me rut into Ivy harder. Lex had always been beautiful in a haunting sort of way. His cheekbones could cut glass and the permanent scowl set between his eyebrows hinted at the darkness he put up as a front to the whole world. It had protected him his entire life, and now that we were so intertwined in it, that darkness had done the same for us. Because of it, he had been suspicious of Poppy when no one else was. He had been able to read the king and the queen in a way we never could. And now, his darkness would see us through the end.
I did believe in fate. I believed all of this had happened for a reason, that we were meant to meet and meant to be a four. We were meant to be together, or this would have happened to four other idiots.
No, we were chosen. It could have only been us.
And here was the proof—I was fucking his fiancée while he fucked the princess of England and after I was done with her, I planned to roll him over and remind him of the promises he made to me four years ago. We belonged to each other. That strengthened us, and it would see us through the other side of this fairy-tale nightmare.
“Good God,” I groaned when the sensations became overwhelming. The scalding heat of Ivy’s cunt combined with the way her body rolled under me and the sight of Miri sucking Lex off, and I nearly came. Lightheaded, I pushed myself up and sat back on my haunches, running my hands over my face and through my hair. “This is too good.”
It didn’t feel real, like I would wake up any second and realize I was freezing my dick off in some Romanian shithole while my costars bickered about who was blocking whose light. I’d been such a dumbass to think I needed the fame to be with my spouses. I should have stayed to see it through after college. I should have done so many things differently.
“Please, Carter,” Ivy said on a sigh. “Please, make me come.”
“Hmm.” I turned to Miri, who sat up and stroked Lex’s cock while she leaned over and kissed me. “Do you think it’s time?”
Miri chuckled and shrugged. “You might as well go easy on her. She tries to be so tough, but she is such a delicate thing.”
Ivy curled into herself and ducked her face into her arm, her cheeks turning a darker shade of pink as I picked up my pace, fucking her hard and rough, hitting the spot inside her that I knew would get her there. Suddenly, she wasn’t the twenty-six-year-old congresswoman in front of me. She had become that eighteen-year-old girl I met at college: fearful of everyone she didn’t know, refusing to let anyone touch her. I had been the first guy between these legacy legs, and after nearly eight years, I could say with complete certainty that I would never get tired of it.
I was so proud of her, of both of us, for everything we’d accomplished, for everything we survived. I poured all of those emotions into the way I took her, groaning when her cunt clenched around me so hard, I almost couldn’t hold myself from spilling deep inside her. Her eyes rolled back in her head and breathy moans fell from her lips, chanting, “Yes, yes, yes.”
I loved fucking Ivy Washington, but watching her climax had to be my most favorite thing in the world. To know that I, a mere no one from the Chicago suburbs, could unravel her so completely inflated my ego to epic proportions.
But I wouldn’t let myself go completely. My climax wasn’t for her. I had a bone to pick with my husband, and I wanted to make sure he understood the implications of his actions tonight.
I wouldn’t allow him to keep things to himself. If this was our last night together, then I would demand his complete honesty. What would it take for him to understand we needed him just as much as he needed us?
Miri leaned in to kiss me again, grabbing Lex’s cock with one hand and his balls with the other, squeezing so that Lex let out a deliciously agonized groan.
“That looks like fun, Juliet,” I said, leaning over to kiss her temple.
“Care to have a turn?” She glanced up at me and grinned, pure joy radiating out of her gaze. I hadn’t seen her look so happy since Solstice. I would do anything to make Miri grin like that for the rest of our lives.
“You’re entirely too generous.” I gave her one last kiss as we switched places, and she scooted in between Ivy’s legs, leaning over her body to plant a kiss on her lips. I focused my attention on Lex, who stared up at me with icy fury behind his gaze.
I had ruined his plans, and sure, he could have gotten out of that button-down if he wanted to. He could have called for mercy and we would have granted it. But he stayed where I put him and endured Miri’s oral torture, probably in anticipation of this exact moment when I revealed my true intentions.
I smiled like a kid that had been given free rein in a cookie factory and ran my hands up his long legs to his hips, purposely ignoring the beautiful cock that jutted straight up in the air. If I happened to give it a quick peck on my way up to his mouth, well, how could anyone blame me for that? Every part of Lex was beautiful, all hard edges and selective blue blood breeding—especially his dick. I licked a trail up his chest, relishing the salt of his sweat as it mixed with the sweet sugar of his natural taste, and stopped at his neck, where I nudged his head to the side so I could lick that, too.
He obliged, tilting his chin toward his other bicep, and when I sank my teeth into his pulse point, he jolted his hips off the bed and collided with mine. Chuckling to myself, I continued up to his ear, pressing my torso down on him, pinning him to the bed.
“Remember that time in Russia?” I whispered so low, only he would hear me. This was for him alone. The girls hadn’t been there with us when I’d held Lex by the mouth and forced myself inside his hot body. “Remember how much you loved getting fucked like my little slut?”
He laughed out a deep moan, rolling his head back to look at me, Ivy’s underwear sticking out from between his lips. Finally taking mercy on him, I reached up to pull it out, gleefully watching as he flexed his jaw and licked his lips.
“You’re a wicked man, Carter Scott.” Lex pushed his face forward to kiss me, and I allowed the touch for a moment before biting his bottom lip hard enough to make him squirm. I didn’t break the skin though, just pinched and pulled and chuckled while he whined.
“Do you remember our promise?” I sat back, glancing over to Miri while she hitched Ivy’s leg onto her shoulder, positioning their cunts together so she could gently rock into Ivy. I took a deep breath and returned to Lex, grabbing his cock with a tight grip. “Do you remember how you made me swear to come home to you?”
Lex groaned and rutted into my fist, seeking that desperate release that we’d been holding back from him.
“Yes, I remember,” he breathed, his voice scratchy in that sexy way only he could accomplish.
“Good,” I said, pushing up on my knees so I could get a good grip on Lex’s hips. Then, I flipped him, hoisting his body up so his legs were under him, his ass up in the air. I reached inside my back pocket where I’d stashed a few packets of lube from the Beltane festival, and I ripped open the foil, spreading the cool liquid over my fingers and his ass, making sure to smear it in.
Lex arched his hips into me, moaning at the touch while I pushed a finger inside.
This wasn’t the first time I’d fucked Lex, and judging by Ivy’s toy collection, I suspected she pegged him on occasion. He normally liked to take the lead, preferring to run the show and fuck everyone his way. But even kings should be taken care of sometimes, and tonight, he needed the reminder that we were the ones who did that for him. He could rely on us for this. He could be vulnerable with us in a way he couldn’t with anyone else.
One finger became two, and I studied his reactions, warm delight slithering down my chest and into my balls when he rocked back against me, his cock leaking precum under his body. Good lord, it went to my head.
I opened another packet of lube and rubbed it over my cock, mixing with the remnants of Ivy’s arousal, and when I lined the tip up at Lex’s entrance, he groaned and shoved back on me harder than I’d intended to go. I wasn’t prepared for the sudden sheathing, and my stomach clenched so hard, I almost embarrassed myself.
“Fuuucck,” I groaned, falling forward onto my hands.
Lex let out a dark laugh. “What was that about being a little slut? Looks like you can’t even keep yourself upright.”
“Oh, fuck you,” I said through deep pants, using his back to push myself up again.
“What do you think, Princess?” Ivy whispered, reaching to wrap her fingers around Miri’s neck and pulling her back down. Miri must have unbound her, and now they rubbed their clits together and moaned against each other in a glorious display of love and adoration. “Should we join our husbands?”
Miri laughed softly and nodded, rearing back so Ivy could scoot herself under Lex’s massive body. He lined himself up at her cunt, and I used my hips to shove him deep inside her, nearly collapsing at how tight he became around me once he was fully seated inside our wife. Miri climbed on top of Ivy’s mouth, facing us, and together, the four of us chased our combined pleasure.
Lex rocked in between me and Ivy, pressing tender kisses to Miri’s lips while she ground down on Ivy’s face, her head thrown back in displays of rapture. In that moment of affection, the atmosphere began to shift. What once had been sexual and overwhelming had now become suffocated by the complete awareness of them.
Ivy’s scalding energy coursed through me, fiery and incinerating, combining with Lex’s icy avalanche and Miri’s grounded earthy presence to create a powerful vitality that seemed to be a part of us and separate from us at the same time.
“Do you feel that?” Ivy whispered inside my head, inside all of our heads.
“Yes,” I said as Lex and Miri replied with the same word. The word rang in stereo, like it was coming from inside me and all around me.
“It’s us.” Miri grabbed my hand on Lex’s hip, pressing her mouth to his, writhing against our wife, and that was what set me off. One simple touch had me thrusting into my husband like a wild beast, determined to see where this connection went. The vibrancy of our love for each other became a physical tension between us, extraordinary and ethereal, a glimmering green mist that connected at our chests.
Was this what Siobhan meant by raising the sensual spirituality of the place? I didn’t know, but the more I touched the three of them, the stronger I felt. I could face the king tomorrow. I could take on the entire fairy world if I had to. As long as I had my spouses at my side, I could do anything.
The barriers between us disappeared. I could no longer tell where I ended and where Lex began, and beyond that, Ivy and Miri. We were one soul, one body, one heartbeat, and I could have sworn our pulses synced up. Their blood raced in my veins, and mine thundered through theirs until we finally hit a crescendo.
Sparks of euphoria skated across my skin, and I clenched my muscles while my climax took me over, pushing into Lex a few more times before freezing to empty deep inside him. His cock kicked inside Ivy. I felt his inner muscles pulsing with his orgasm. Miri moaned and Ivy’s toes curled, and for one blinding second, that brilliant emerald connection between us exploded, escalating every sensation in my body.
I didn’t just disintegrate under my pleasure, but I shattered with the weight of theirs… ours.
“It’s us,” Miri had said, and the absolute magnitude of that raw power confirmed what everyone had been saying all along. We were better together. The strength we had as a foursome could topple entire kingdoms.
In the aftermath, Lex and I fell to one side of Ivy, and Miri lay down on the other, each of us lost in our own comedown while we panted away our hormones.
When I had the strength, I laughed out a quiet noise and murmured, “That was incredible.”
To which Lex agreed with a chuckle of his own.
“Rest up, all of you,” he said. “Because we’re going to do that again.”
He made good on that promise at least four more times. After that, I lost count. We took each other and raised that forest-green vibrance to the point where it hovered in the air around us like a fog, like a tangible thing we could control and move around.
“It’s beautiful,” Miri said, waving her hand through it long after Ivy and Lex had passed out. It was just the two of us for the last little while now. We had lost track of time a million years ago. Who the hell knew? I took another deep breath and let it out on a soft sigh.
“Do you think it’s tomorrow?” I asked through my pheromone-induced haze.
She shrugged. “Perhaps.”
“I don’t want this to end.”
Miri rolled on her side to face me, the sounds of Lex and Ivy’s soft breathing coming from the other side of her. “Me neither.”
“Make me a promise.”
She narrowed her eyes. “Okay.”
“Whatever happens tomorrow, you’ll stay with us.”
Miri froze and blinked owlishly at me. “Romeo.”
“I’m serious,” I said. “I won’t let you leave us again. You saw what happened to you and Ivy when you were gone. If we all don’t leave Faerie tomorrow, then none of us leave.”
Miri closed her eyes and tears streamed down her cheeks. She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it again before she could, ultimately deciding to give me a small nod instead. “Yeah, Romeo. Okay.”