Chapter 37 – Shade
SHADE
For a few days, I explore the world alone, finding empty places to sleep and gathering food from the woods. It’s a strange life, but not an unpleasant one. And yet, I’m not happy. I miss the gargoyles.
It seems that I’m free, but I’m not sure I want to be…alone, I guess.
But something about the way they answered me left a bad taste in my mouth. I didn’t need to hear the same words of undying love from my gargoyles that Andros had spoken to Hecate, but I needed more than they gave me.
I just didn’t know what.
But as I sit in the same field of yellow daisies where I first met Jordon, I realize that no one is hunting me. No one is telling me what to do. I get to do what I want for the first time.
And what do I want? I want to go back to the gargoyles.
The realization hits me, and I can think of nothing else. Perhaps they’ve left. Perhaps they’ve chosen to explore the world without me. But I need to take this chance, now that I know what I want.
Teleporting back to the sanctuary, I stand outside the gargoyles’ cabin, feeling uncertain. I know I wanted freedom and they wanted to explore. Could we pursue our dreams together?
Going to the door, I knock softly, fully prepared for no one to answer. But an instant later, the door is thrown open and Damon’s eyes widen when he sees me. A second later he’s pulled me into his arms, and his entire body seems to shake.
“Who is it?” Cody asks, and he sounds tired and sad.
Damon moves back from me and tugs me into the room. The men have four large bags packed, lined up near the fireplace, and a fifth smaller bag that sits to the side.
“You’re back,” Elliot says. He takes a step toward me before he freezes.
I nod. Not sure what to say.
“We fucked up.” Jordon’s words come out easy.
I look toward him, frowning. “How so?”
“We didn’t explain ourselves clearly enough before.”
“I understood. You all want to explore and you want me to come with you.”
Jordon shakes his head. “It isn’t just that. We want a relationship with you. We want to see if we have the same kind of love that the others found in Keto and Medusa.”
“We do love you,” Cody adds.
I stiffen in surprise.
“We realized that and more. We’ve realized that we need you to be happy.”
“Are you sure?”
“Damn right,” Damon says.
“Would…would that be okay with you?” Cody asks, hesitation in his voice.
I smile for the first time in days. “Yes.”
And this time, I don’t need to tell these men that I want freedom, because I already know I’ll have freedom with them. I already know deep in my heart that they won’t use me like the others. Together, we can be happy.
“I missed you,” I say.
Damon pulls me into another hug. “You have no idea how horrible it was here without you.”
I laugh. “Was it really that bad?”
He pulls back from me a little, and his eyes darken. “And it was fucking lonely.”
My heart speeds up. “It was?”
He nods and leans down and kisses me. At first his kiss is gentle, and then it grows harder and harder. Soon, I’m clinging to him, my knees shaking and desire rolling through me.
“Stop being selfish,” I hear Jordon growl from beside me.
Damon breaks our kiss, panting, “Screw you,” but there’s no anger behind his words.
And then Jordon leans in and starts to kiss me too.
I’m lost in his touch when I see Elliot and Cody move to surround me. Someone starts to undress me. And before long I’m between them, naked and aching for more.
When Jordon’s lips start to slide down my throat, my head spins. “How will this work?”
“Work?” Damon asks, grasping my hips harder.
“With four of you.”
His chuckle is dark. “Any way you want.”
“I want…you everywhere.”
“We can do that,” Elliot says from behind me.
Suddenly Damon lifts me into his arms and carries me toward the fire. He sets me on the rug then begins to strip, and the others follow.
My mouth drops open as I drink in the sight of all the delicious muscles, and then I greedily watch as their pants come off and their hard dicks are pulled free. Yes, this is what I needed. To be with these men. In every way.
“Lay down,” Damon tells Cody.
The blond gargoyle blushes, but does as he’s told. I stare at him beside me, his erection straining, and can’t help but lean down and start to suck.
He swears, and his hand moves to the back of my head, holding me lightly. And there I lie, taking him slowly in and out of my mouth and loving the feeling of his muscles tightening and his breathing hitching.
I’m barely aware of what’s happening when someone spreads my thighs. And then I feel hot breath on my core before someone licks my slit.
Gasping, I look down to see Jordon has slid between my thighs. He only pauses a moment, and then spreads me with his lips and licks me so damn hard and slow that every nerve in my body shatters. I cry out around the erection in my mouth, and Cody’s hold on the back of my head grows tighter.
Elliot lies down beside me, his cock rubbing against the back of my ass as his hands reach around me to cup my breasts. Those big hands of his roll my nipples, and his touch is so damn possessive, so damn good, that I swear I stop breathing for a second.
And then Damon kneels before me, takes my hand, and wraps it around his erection.
The room is filled with the sounds of our arousal. Each of them working me as if wanting more than anything to make me explode between them. And all along my inner muscles clench around nothing, begging for the big shafts I know these men can give me.
When I try to beg them to fuck me, Cody groans as I speak around his cock. “Holy hell.”
“Keep it together,” Damon pants, his cock slick with his desire in my hand.
“I’m reaching my end…” Cody says, his words a warning.
Damon swears. “Give her his dick.”
The others pause, and I almost beg them for more.
But Damon pulls out of my hold, picks me up, and puts me right on top of Cody.
I don’t wait to see what he has planned, I sink down onto that big cock of his while Cody presses his hands on his face.
When Damon moves behind me and pushes me forward ever-so-slightly, I already know what he wants. And I’m eager to give it to him.
The man spreads my ass with deliciously slow movements, then begins to sink deep inside of me. I’m gasping, trying to keep control, when Elliot turns my head and plunges his shaft into my mouth.
I’m overwhelmed with pleasure, barely aware when Jordon closes my hand around his dick. But the second they all begin to plunge in and out of me, I come alive, my nerves awakening, my pleasure making my nipples hard even before Cody’s hands close around my breasts.
Elliot holds my head tightly, working his dick in and out of me like a man hell-bent on claiming me. Cody starts off slow as he works my pussy, but soon increases his speed to match Damon, who is rocking in and out of my ass like he owns it.
When Cody finally cries out and comes, filling my body, it only takes a minute for Jordon to come too, his seed sliding down my hand.
And yet, I’m so close. So on the edge that the sounds of their pleasure only push me further, and then…
I’m orgasming. Crashing over the edge of my pleasure with all the speed and recklessness of a storm.
I work myself against Damon and Cody faster and faster, and Elliot’s cock hits the back of my throat as he groans my name. And then both Damon and Elliot come together, filling me with their hot seed. Finally claiming the way I needed.
Slowly, Elliot pulls out of my mouth and collapses beside me. And Jordon lays down at my other side. All of us are breathing hard. All of us are lost for a long time.
And then Cody says, “Wherever we go, we need to keep doing this.”
“Yes,” I pant. “We do.”
The others laugh, and I relax between them. Now this…this is freedom. This is the furthest I could be from those soulless shades in Hades’s dark realm.
Here? I am living.