Chapter 15
Persius’s neck craned as he tilted his head over his shoulder to glance at the rest of them. His eyes were closed, but his nostrils flared. He scented the air, lowered his head, and trembled against the wall.
Something was happening. That was clear.
Persius groaned and fell to his knees. “No,” he shouted and rammed his head into the wall. “No, no, no.”
Not the reaction she expected. “Stop him,” Nix urgently told her mates as she tugged at her remaining right wrist and right ankle in the ropes.
He kept smacking his head into the wall. Again and again. A loud roar of thunder sounded over the ceiling as a pounding of rain came down over the house.
“What’s happening?” Nix wailed. It sounded like the heavens were opening up and every cloud pelted rain directly onto the roof of the house.
“Fuck,” Bael mumbled as he grabbed at Persius and tried to pull him from the wall. Persius escaped him, swerving around and launching himself onto the bed.
As Persius laid on top of Nix, lightning struck just outside the bedroom window, lighting up the room.
Persius’s desperate and heart-wrenching expression pierced through Nix’s chest. “Mine,” he whispered in a cracking voice of sorrow. “Mate.”
“Yes, I am. I am yours.” Nix tried to comfort him, but she only had one free hand to caress over his damp, wavy locks. “Get me out of these ropes, damn it!” she demanded to the others, and they quickly released her.
Nix wrapped her arms around him, and he nuzzled his head onto her chest. “Shhh, it’s okay,” she told him.
Persius lifted his head just enough to roar onto her breasts.
“Fuck, calm down,” Bael told him.
Thunder boomed outside again.
Persius’s lips moved against Nix’s chest as he said, “I touched her.”
Nix blinked. Oh. Not only was Persius overwhelmed at Nix’s scent as his mate, but he was also realizing what he did while enchanted.
The guilt.
“I touched her when I had a MATE.”
Lightning struck the window again, this time zapping and crashing so loudly that Nix wondered if it could actually pierce the house.
Was Persius causing the dramatic weather right now? She had not known he could do that. Granted, she had only known him when both of them were weakened by poison and kept powerless.
“I know,” Nix mumbled, feeling her eyes water. “It’s okay.”
“No. No. All wrong.” Persius shook his head between her breasts and kissed the center of her ribs. “Pain.”
“It’s okay. They were controlling you. It wasn’t you. It’s okay.”
Persius planted more desperate kisses onto her skin.
“It’s okay. You’re you again, and you’re mine.” Nix held him tighter to her.
He was so warm against her, thrumming with electricity. Like the lightning outside? It sizzled and crackled between them as they touched.
“And I’m going to protect you,” she promised, listening to the hard, quick beats of his heart as he kissed down her sternum. “They won’t come near you, or I’ll fucking burn them to ash.”
Bael whistled. “Hot.”
As she petted his hair, Persius kissed down the center of her ribs, down her stomach, down to her—
“Oh!” Nix yelped in surprise as he started kissing over her core.
“MATE,” he growled onto her pussy lips and lowered his nose between them to kiss directly onto the slick, pink flesh between her legs. “MINE.”
His long tongue delved in and dipped down to her puckered entrance. She gasped at the immediate sensation of raging lust. Her inner walls clamped around nothing, demanding to be filled.
He licked up to her clit, circling it and sucking on it.
“Oh.” Nix’s fingers tangled in his hair as Persius settled into eating the hell out of her pussy.
“Wow, he really just went right for it, huh?” Bael muttered.
“MATE,” Persius nipped and sucked and licked between her legs, shocking her with expert, controlled strokes.
Nix’s mouth hung open as he devoured her. Lick. Suck. Oh. Her thighs fell open, welcoming the tantalizing exploration.
“MATE,” another low voice joined in. Suddenly, Ryker’s smoky, vanilla birthday candle scent perfumed beside her on the bed.
Ryker’s head lowered to Nix’s left nipple. A second later, Thierry’s mouth wrapped around Nix’s right nipple on the opposite side of her on the bed. They circled their tongues around the hard peaks and suckled and tugged.
Three mouths on her, Nix’s back arched on the bed, lifting and grinding her breasts and her pussy up more firmly against the talented lips and tongues.
But when Bael stepped forward to join the party, Nix pointed at him and said, “No. Stay.”
He blinked. “Did you just command me like a dog?”
“You don’t get to touch me tonight,” she said, still pissed about the hypnotism.
Bael blew out a breath full of regret. “Baby, I only did it to make sure—”
“You only get to watch tonight,” she told him as Ryker hollowed his cheeks and gave her nipple a powerful suck. “Y-You have to sit back and watch as I take all three of their cocks and love every minute of it.”
“Mmm,” Ryker moaned and ground his erection into the side of her thigh.
“You plan to fuck all three of them without me?” Bael lifted an eyebrow. The incubus appeared impressed. “All at once or in separate turns?”
Nix did not have the experience to imagine the “all at once.”
Plus, Persius’s tongue grew distracting as he flicked and lapped between her quivering thighs. He had one palm laying over the top of her abdomen, where he could dip his thumb down and pull up the hood of Nix’s clit.
His tongue strummed the bare bundle of nerves again and again and again. It pressed hard against her clit, swiping in strokes. Licking up and down as he stared into her eyes.
He flattened his tongue and flicked. Flick, flick.
“Yes.”
Thierry and Ryker both played with her nipples in their suctioning mouths.
Her breathing grew heavier until every inhale was a shallow pant of: “Yes, more, please.”
“You sure you want me to just be a bystander?” Bael rasped, with a hand squeezing his hardening cock. “Don’t you want my tail vibrating that little, needy clit?”
“Actually…” Nix clutched Persius’s light-colored locks in her fingers harder. “His tongue is better than your tail.”
Bael’s expression lost any sense of humor. His red eyes darkened to an angry crimson.
As rain continued pounding the roof of the house and pinging against the bedroom window, Persius’s hands inched up to lay over both of her top inner thighs. He sank his right hand down, under where his mouth worked her pussy, and lowered his fingers to just under the curve of her ass.
He partially lifted her, tipping her upward. With the new angle and leverage, Persius circled his thumb around her slick entrance. He sucked on her clit as he prodded her pussy with a long finger.
“Oh.”
“My tail is way fucking better than his tongue,” Bael grumbled sourly under his breath.
Persius released her clit just long enough to tell her, “I want you to come on my tongue until you are all I can taste.”
Nix moaned when he settled back in with a fervor. “Romantic.”
Bael scoffed at that and directed a jealous scowl at Persius. “I can be romantic,” he muttered.
“Oh yeah?” Nix challenged him as three men sensually serviced her body.
Bael’s red eyes narrowed onto her. “I’d kill for you,” he said.
“You’d kill for a lollipop.”
“If it were cherry-flavored, sure.” Bael winked at Nix. “You know how I love cherries.”
Her breath hitched. “Persius,” Nix squealed when he slurped at her clit and sank a finger deep inside her.
What had started slowly now turned frantic and fast. Desperate. One of his fingers entered her hot channel, but he kept his thumb circling her back entrance. The threat of dual penetration had Nix biting her lip to mask her begging mewls.
“So wet for me,” Persius murmured onto her pussy as he eased his long finger out of her before plunging the digit back in. “Taking it so well.”
“Our mate is such a good girl,” Thierry praised against her breast and reached down to grip her quivering thigh. “So greedy for touch. So slick for us.” He lifted her leg, stretching her open wider for Persius to devour her.
Ryker followed his lead and lifted her other leg.
Persius ferociously fingered her, wrist jerking in a fast blur. All the while, Persius kept a consistent rhythm over her throbbing and pulsing bud with his talented tongue.
“Oh Gods.” Her pussy gushed onto his finger, and he added another, stretching her.
Still, his thumb pressed and lifted, pressed and lifted, just above her clenched rosebud. Would he really slip his thumb into her ass? Did she want him to? Her eyes threatened to roll back in her head every time he lightly pressed it, as if it were a pleasure button he teased off and on.
“Do you like how Persius is fingering you? Getting that pussy ready for us?” Thierry asked in a low, gravelly rumble that vibrated through Nix’s breast as he massaged it. “Don’t his fingers feel so good?”
“Mmmm,” Nix whined through pressed lips. Her legs shook as her body tightened in anticipation.
Thierry added coaxingly, “Look at how you’re dripping onto his hand.”
“Is this how you like it, beautiful?” Persius asked, flexing his fingers to hit her G-spot with each thrust.
“Yes.” Nix’s head fell back to the pillow.
“You like being spoiled by three alphas at once?” Thierry hummed onto her overheating skin as he kneaded her breast and clamped her nipple. “I bet that greedy pussy likes having so much undivided attention on it.”
Bael kicked at invisible dust on the floor and mumbled, “I’m better at fingering than him.” The jealous incubus muttered under his breath, “Better dirty talker than them, too.”
“Baelfire, either shut your mouth or leave us be,” Thierry instructed him whilst never removing his gaze from Nix’s pleasure-torn face.
Bael crossed his arms and remarked, “You liked my mouth when I was teaching her how to suck you off.”
Nix sighed. “Bael.”
“Baby, I’m sorry, okay?” he stressed earnestly. “I shouldn’t have hypnotized you. I won’t ever do it again. Blind trust is a lot to ask from a guy raised in Hell, but I’ll give it to you. I won’t ever hypnotize you again, I swear. I’m sorry.”
Ryker stopped kissing Nix’s nipple long enough to gaze in shock at Bael. “You just…apologized?”
“First time for everything,” Bael replied, running a hand through his wispy black locks.
Nix lightly pulled on Persius’s hair, pausing his tongue on her wetness. “You want to participate in the group sex that badly, huh?” Nix asked Bael.
“Hi, hello, incubus who loves you here.” Bael waved a hand over his body. In nothing but black boxers, he was a tantalizing, sinful sight to behold. “Ready for duty.”
Nix’s breath caught. “Love me?” she questioned in disbelief.
“I told you that I’d kill for you.”
“You’d kill for lollipops.”
“Because I fucking love lollipops.” Bael stepped to the edge of the bed and touched her ankle. He drew a design with his finger, dragging it up her calf. “I’ve never loved anyone before. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I don’t really ‘like’ people.”
Nix rolled her eyes.
Bael leaned down, laying his chin onto her calf as he said, “I love the way you don’t judge me for being a literal Hell demon. I love the way you impulsively do things that end up blowing up in your face—like when you tried to sneak some of the potion ingredients in class and caused an explosion.”
He kissed her ankle and added, “I love the way you stand up for yourself. I was so damn hard when you told off the dean in his office.”
“Me too,” Ryker grunted.
“Me three,” Thierry said.
Bael told her, “I have witnessed appalling torture and seen traumatic, vile things that drive normal people mad. But the idea of not being by your side, not allowed to touch you or make you smile or squirm or scream from orgasming around my cock, which by the way is better than your other mates’ mediocre dicks—”
“So goddamn immature,” Thierry stated. But it made Nix smile.
Bael squeezed her ankle. “Baby, if I’m not allowed to be near you, I might as well be back in Hell.” Bael stared deeply into her eyes and projected his regret.
“I’m sorry, Nix,” Bael told her. Genuinely. Remorsefully. “Now, will you let me help make you come?” He kissed her calf lightly. “That’s all I want to do. Make my mate come so much, she passes out.”
“You promise not to use hypnosis on me again?”
“I promise not to use any of my powers on you unless you ask me to.”
Nix quirked an eyebrow.
He shrugged. “There are some sexual contexts where you might like it.”
Nix sighed, fighting off a smile. “You…can join us.”
A twisted, maniacal grin stretched Bael’s lips. “Let’s get this orgy started.”