Chapter One #2
I look to Finn, who is struggling to swallow it all as instructed. But he does the best he can, swallowing frantically as Kai shoots into his mouth.
Kai makes a low rumbly sound as he pulls out, leaving just his cockhead in Finn’s mouth as he tips Finn’s head up.
“Let me watch you get that last bit. Then clean my cock and balls with your tongue, pretty boy. Best to do it quickly though, because if you get me hard again, I think we’ll go for another round.”
I purr. So fucking hot. I tug my cock out of Finn to his whimper as he starts to lick Kai.
I collapse onto the bed and lay on my belly, next to Finn. I watch him clean Kai. His eyes meet mine, humor dancing in them.
I hear Kai make a noise and my eyes flick up from my prone position on the bed. He has a look on his face like he has an idea. “Don’t even think about it,” I murmur tiredly.
Kai chuckles.
An odd sadness hits me. Lonan. Lonan should be here.
“Where’s Lo?” I ask. I struggle to my feet to remove my harness, though my eyes stay on Finn, his nose buried in Kai’s sack.
“With the Mayor. I came to see if you wanted to meet with her.” Kai shrugs. “Oops.”
I grimace. “Oops, my ass. You should have said something.” I cross my arms. “Next time, let me know; let me decide if bedplay takes precedence.”
Kai arches an eyebrow but nods brusquely. “Did you want to join them?” he asks, tucking his half-hard cock away, now that Finn is done.
I shake my head. “No.” I pause.
My emotions have been raw since seeing my powers on such a wide, devastating scale outside of Squall’s End.
I sigh, feeling silly for what I’m about to say.
“What I want is a cuddle.” I turn as I say it, grabbing my dressing robe but folding it over my arm as I stand nude.
My mind and my heart both ache in a way I hadn’t expected.
I continue looking out the window, worried about the silence behind me. I glance over my shoulder to see Kai and Finn exchanging a look. Kai holds out a hand to help Finn up.
I look back out the window, the trees now actively losing their brilliant red, yellow, and orange leaves, interspersed with the constant evergreens. Finn presses his body to my back and the door opens and closes, Kai’s footsteps silent, but our bond clear.
“Come, beloved,” Finn says gently, interlacing his fingers with mine and tugging me to the bed. “Let’s cuddle.”
I sniffle and smile half-heartedly and let him pull me in. He tosses the heavy covers over us and wraps his arms around me. I settle my head on his chest.
“This is... not about the sex we just shared,” he nearly whispers, as his thumb strokes over my arm. A tiny shake of his head. “This isn’t about the dragons.”
I frown. Yeah, I’m worried about that too.
“This is surely about Squall’s End,” he finishes.
I huff. “How do you read me so well?”
I feel his shoulders move. “It’s not so hard.
You have a sad, fraught past and a kind heart, even though you like your bravado.
The folks you want revenge upon aren’t the soldiers, but you can’t get to the real criminals without death.
I have a feeling that when you have seen your magic kill before this, it was with much more.
.. obvious danger to your life. And certainly not on that scale. ” He kisses the top of my head.
I bite my lip, huffing again. Damn him. Where are my emotional idiots who aren’t going to pull the scabs off my wounds?
Finn’s chest shakes, silently, and I look up.
He’s laughing. The bastard. I lean back, my eyebrows pulling down. When he manages to stop, he grins.
“Don’t you glare at me, Oleander. It’s not my fault you’re as easy to read as a book.” His smile softens. “C’mere, beloved,” and he tugs me in, kissing the top of my head again as I resettle myself.
“I’m not going to say something trite like ‘the ends justify the means,’ but I do think you need to hear that your brother is a terrible Fae. A terrible ruler, who has caused so much death and destruction. Unseating him is the right thing to do.”
I mull that over as he tucks my head down under his chin. The door opens.
“Sweetheart,” Lonan purrs, “I hear I missed the fun. Perhaps a repeat performance later, eh Finnick?”
I can hear the grin, and teasing, in his voice and I smile into Finnick’s chest. Several heavy muffled metallic thumps later, and the distinctive sound of belts undoing—which causes a thrill to run through me—and the covers are lifted as Lonan and Kai both climb in, wearing only their breeches.
Finn’s arm slides down, cupping my hip and ass and he quickly rolls me over his body, so I’m in the middle of the bed.
I yelp in surprise but now his other arm is under mine and he curls it up over my naked waist. His thumb again strokes easily back and forth and I feel him hum into my hair.
Lo presses his body against mine, Finn’s arm trapped but neither of them seem fussed about it.
Hmm. Will they be willing to play together too?
Another bolt of heat goes through me. Goddess.
I’m greedy, to want them all at once. And insatiable, it seems, since I bonded with Lo and Kai.
I frown. I don’t have time to get fucked six ways from Sunday on the regular. Sounds nice though.
Lo cups my face, his tattooed hands and arms blurring in my vision as I fight a wave of inexplicable, and absolutely stupid, tears. His maroon eyes study mine. “My little Queen needs some skin time?”
I smile, sniffling. “Skin time?”
He nods, “That’s what I’ve always called it with Kai, when a good fucking isn’t enough to fill the need. You need the flesh of your love pressed against you, whilst you breathe the same air and let your soul rest a bit.”
He grins that charismatic smile of his that’s half smirk. “It reminds me of a calm sunset. And you, Ollie, need it. So we’re here to give it.”
He kisses me deeply even as my throat tightens with tears again. His words remind me of the time they must have spent, alone, terrified, after their parents were killed and their town reduced to ashes.
How am I so graced by the Goddess as to have two incredibly powerful spirit mates and a wonderfully kind oath-bound who is quickly finding a spot in my heart as well?
Kai’s arm curls around Lonan and he places his hand on my hip, under the covers. I smile at his touch and I let my eyes slip closed. I wasn’t intending a nap, but this is so warm and comfortable that I quickly find myself drowsing.
The last thing I see behind my eyelids as I drift off is the gleam of sunlight on blue scales.