Chapter 14 Cedar
Cedar
Ididn’t want Vesper to say it.
I could see how it tormented her, and because of my own trauma with the coven, I knew how hard it was to speak about something like this.
My hand found her arm.
I shifted so I could look at her, but she was looking up at the ceiling.
“Do you want me to…?”
I trailed off, not being able to gauge what she needed in that moment. The bond was strong between the three of us, but she was obviously trying to pull her emotions inward, trying to erect a wall between us.
“No… I got this.”
Aurelia pushed herself up on her forearms, looking down at our poor hunter.
“If it’s too much—”
“They starved me,” she forced out in one breath. “They left me in a dungeon and only gave me blood until… until…” She gritted her teeth, the words coming harder now. “Until I lay there, hallucinating the two of you looking down at me with disgust because of what I’d become.”
Panic and pain shot through our bond, but I couldn’t decipher who it came from because Aurelia and I blurted the same thing out loud.
“We would never—”
“I don’t know when I died,” Vesper cut us off. “I think it was sometime after the hallucinations. I stopped sleeping. Started enjoying the blood. It was hard to keep track of everything, and then suddenly I was pulled from the dungeons and given to my new family.”
She spat the word “family” like it was a curse.
Aurelia cupped her face. Only then did Vesper look at her. There was so much pain in her eyes that it physically hurt me.
I hated the council. Hated how they could be so cruel to their own people.
“We would never be disgusted by you,” she whispered. “Ever. I’m sorry this happened to you. I’m sorry…” Red tears welled up in Aurelia’s eyes. “I’m sorry I couldn’t save you when you needed me.”
I reached forward, placing my hand on Aurelia’s, both of us now cupping her face together.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t get there fast enough,” I said. “But Aurelia’s right. Human or vampire, you’re our Vesper.”
She swallowed thickly. I could see the words circling around in her head, but nothing came out of her mouth.
“We love you. Then and now. Forever,” Aurelia vowed. “You’re beautiful—”
“Breathtaking.”
Aurelia smirked.
“Caring.”
“Soft.”
“Sexy.”
Vesper’s lips twisted. It was the first sign that she was coming back to us.
“Does our princess need to prove it to you?”
Her eyes fell to Aurelia.
“Gladly.”
I shifted our position so Vesper was lying with her back flush against my front, pillows propped under us. I wanted a front-row seat to this.
Aurelia was already trailing small kisses from her lips to her neck.
“My. Beautiful. Hunter.”
Each word was topped with a kiss that got lower and lower until Aurelia was between her legs, arched with her ass up in the air.
Tease.
She looked up at Vesper before licking the length of her cunt.
“You still taste the same.”
Vesper let out a sharp breath, and I grabbed her throat, tilting her head so I could lick her earlobe.
“You could never get rid of us, even if you tried,” I whispered.
Aurelia gave us one naughty smirk, then descended on Vesper like she hadn’t gotten a taste of her delicious pussy in years.
“You feel that?” I asked and started plucking her nipples. “The bond is telling you everything you need to know, isn’t it?”
Vesper let out a strangled groan as Aurelia speared her with her tongue. I brought both hands to her nipples, pinching and rolling them between my fingers.
The bond was intoxicating, and if we weren’t careful, we might never leave this place.
Fine by me.
All I wanted was to be with them. And anything that could push away those dark, painful memories Vesper was feeling, I would gladly do. Over and over again until they were but a fading scar on her psyche. One that would never meet the sun again and would slowly disappear as time went on.
“Tell me you feel it,” I ordered.
“I feel it,” she gasped as Aurelia nibbled on her clit.
“Do that again, Princess.”
She did, a bit harder, and it had Vesper throwing her head back.
“Fuck,” she gasped.
“Tell me what you feel.”
“I feel the two of you.” She let out a cry as Aurelia sucked on her clit. “Inside me. Together. And you—”
She was cut off by another cry when Aurelia started teasing her clit with her fangs.
“We what?”
“You don’t hate me,” she said. “You… You…”
I twisted her nipples, hard. Her body began to shake. The scent of her arousal was pooling in the room.
“You accept me. Love me. Regardless.”
“Good hunter,” I cooed before looking down to Aurelia. “Bite her clit and drink from her.”
Aurelia let out a sinful giggle.
“My, my, someone’s getting creative.”
I kept playing with her nipples as Vesper’s breathing stopped in anticipation. Then, Aurelia licked her clit and sank her fangs right into the sensitive bundle of nerves—
“Fuck!”
Her orgasm was explosive. I closed my eyes, savoring the feeling of it shooting between the three of us. When I felt another burst of pleasure from Aurelia, my eyes opened.
Aurelia was playing with her pussy as she drank from Vesper. I couldn’t help the moan that fell from my mouth.
Vesper was still, her body stuck in the kind of bliss that seemed to go on and on until Aurelia finally dislodged herself from her clit.
She crawled up her body until she was straddling Vesper’s thigh.
“Dirty girl,” I whispered. “Look at how needy your cunt made her.”
Aurelia started grinding against Vesper’s thigh, her need to come obvious between us.
“Fuck, I can’t—"
Vesper’s hand went between her legs, pumping her fingers in and out as she watched Aurelia.
It was all too much. Before I knew it, my own hand was shoved between Vesper and me, strumming my clit to try and catch up to them.
Fuck. Fuck. It was too good.
Their pleasure tasted sweet on my tongue, their need and desperation taking my own orgasm higher than ever before.
We came simultaneously, our moans intertwining in our own melody.
Perfect.
Every day I wondered how it was possible that I’d met them. And every day it was still so hard to believe we were here, together. Alive.
Aurelia fell into Vesper, and I wrapped my arms around them both.
We got a moment of pure, warm bliss before Aurelia shot up.
“The meeting,” she gasped, panic lacing her features. Vesper pulled her back down, and I wrapped my arms around her so she couldn’t move.
“Ten minutes,” Vesper mumbled.
“Don’t run off so soon, Princess.”
“I’m only a princess to you,” she murmured.
“That’s fine by us.”
She would always be our princess, no matter her standing or who she was married to. Just like with Vesper, our feelings for her wouldn’t change.
She shifted, a silence falling over us.
“In this meeting, I’m going to ask you to be a hunter again,” she warned Vesper.
Vesper nuzzled the top of her head and let out a sigh.
“Once a hunter, always a hunter. It never left me. Tell me what you need, and I’ll do it.”
“General Lee. He has something sneaky going on. It feels dark and… dangerous. We need to figure out what he’s doing. I need you to follow him.”