Epilogue
Mei
Our house is waiting for us, but it doesn’t feel like ours anymore. Earth feels…too small after the oceans and Hell. Still, we walk in and order food. Ronit goes and returns with clothes. While he is dressing me, the others pull clothes on and sit down, as we all start to relax.
“I have runes,” Reed says loudly. “In my stripes.”
The shiver is silent, but my head is still tripping.
“I’m sorry, in your what now?” I finally choke out.
Leaf falls backward on the couch, laughing like it’s the funniest thing he’s ever heard. I think he might still be high on the thrill of battle.
“Stripes? What do you mean you have stripes?”
“Well, yeah. I mean, we all do.”
I choke. “WHAT? And no one thought to mention that? That is something you tell a blind monster.”
“You have stripes now, too. Very faint,” Lirin purrs and straddles me. He traces his finger lightly over my face. Down the center of my bottom lip. “In shimmering teal.”
I shudder. “I have stripes?”
“You do. Very, very pretty stripes.”
I moan when he dips his head and kisses me hard.
“I need you naked. I need to be inside you now, Strega.”
I am okay with that. He yanks at my clothes, but then yelps and falls backwards off my lap.
“I have talons,” Lirin says in awe.
“Perfect for shredding clothes,” I say huskily.
He mutters something and then, painfully slowly, he uses his talons to cut and remove my clothes until I’m naked.
“These are handy,” he murmurs. “But how do I get them to go away?”
“Think about what you want.” I moan as he ducks his head down and takes my breast in his mouth.
“Lirin, you are being greedy,” Brio says and pulls me off the couch, away from Lirin, so I’m standing in the middle of the room.
I can’t see them, but I can feel them moving.
Reed slams up into my space, his hibiscus scent hitting me hard. He pulls one of my legs up and wraps it around his hip.
“Reed, I need you.”
“Not yet,” he whispers against my lips and kisses me with a drugging urgency. I cling to him, but then I’m passed into someone else’s arms.
I’m carried a short distance where I fall face first onto a mattress that someone has moved up out of the nest. Leaf snarls in my ear and runs his hand between my legs.
“You’re wet.”
“It happens a lot when I’m around you six,” I snarl.
“If it happens with anyone else, I’ll pull their arms off.”
He growls, and that dragon tongue slides down my back and between my legs. I scream and try to move away, but coils of dragon wrap around me and pin me to the mattress.
Leaf hums deep in his throat and flicks that tongue that is as big as my arm across my pussy. I shatter. He flattens his tongue and undulates it, teasing and dragging out the orgasm as long as he can.
When I flop to the mattress, weak and panting, he switches shape and slams his monster cock into me.
I glory in the pleasurable agony. I fought for them, and I won. They are mine forever, and now no one can tear us apart again, and I get to live with this forever.
His hands slide up and under me, gripping my breasts and squeezing them before he lets go. Our mating is vicious; neither of us hold back, and when he knots me, I see teal stars in my mind.
“You are mine,” he whispers over and over.
I pant and stroke his arms in silence.
“You saved me,” Leaf whispers, and I turn in his arms as he falls asleep. When I reach up to touch his face, he’s smiling, but his cheeks are wet with tears, too.
Lirin creeps up to me and grabs my hips, dragging me away from my sleeping dragon. He presses his lips to my ear.
“Don’t wake sleeping dragons, Omega.”
“It’s more fun if you do, Alpha.”
He chuckles and grips my hand, dragging it down between his legs. His cocks writhe in his lap and then twist together, forming one thick cock.
“Lirin!” I almost shriek. “You didn’t tell me you could do that.”
He laughs, shoves me onto my back, and presses himself between my legs. “Next time, we’re going to go slow. Next time, when I don’t need to have you on my skin and in my lungs. When I don’t have to share.”
“Next time,” I promise because we can have lots of next times.
He pushes into me, slow and steady, his lips on mine.
He bottoms out and pulls away. “I love you.”
I open my mouth to answer him when his cocks start to unravel inside me. My eyes roll, and I cling to his shoulders, arching my back and sobbing at the full feeling of being massaged inside.
He chuckles and starts slowly thrusting in and out.
“I love you,” he says again.
I open my mouth, but a rough purr comes out.
“Oh, fuck, Mei.”
Lirin loses it, exploding into a vicious and violent fucking that has me gasping in between giggles.
He snarls and reaches between us, stroking my clit. I detonate around him. As soon as I become aware of myself, I start giggling again.
“You are a mean monster, Mei.” Lirin play growls and bites my nipple. He pulls out of me as I sense another one of my monsters approaching.
Brio pulls me away and shoves me lightly into Ronit, who picks me up and takes us to the pool.
“You’re obsessed with the water,” I mutter as I sink into it.
He splashes, and I feel scales rub against me.
He’s beautiful and deadly. And mine. Brio starts to sing, and I swear, my blood burns hotter.
I forget everything but the feel of the Siren swirling me around the pool.
His cock starts stroking between my legs, and I sob into his shoulder, clinging to him as he maneuvers us easily through the water.
“Can you take us both?” Ronit asks.
Can I? “Yes.”
Ronit grips my ass and pulls my cheeks apart as Brio presses against my back. His mouth opens over my shoulder, and his teeth sink deep.
Between my legs, Ronit’s cock has gripped Brio’s and is jacking him off and slowly pushing him into my pussy and guiding him out.
“Oh, hell.”
Ronit chuckles darkly and reaches between us, pressing both cocks to my cunt, hard. I cry out.
“I can feel how slick you are, even with all this water between us, Mei.”
I growl, but Brio’s cock has grown its suckers, and one of them is pulling at my clit.
“Oh, mercy.”
“No mercy,” Ronit hisses.
Brio moans and hums. His cock starts vibrating.
I toss my head back, panting. Ronit kisses my throat and then sucks hard.
“I want to leave my mark on you so everyone knows you belong to us now.”
“Already have bonds.”
“It’s not enough,” he mutters.
“Stripes, too.”
“Still not enough.”
He bites my jaw and rubs his face over mine.
“Mei,” Brio whisper-sings. “You are my everything.” He presses up into my ass.
I yelp, but Ronit is there, holding me and distracting me while I get used to the size of Brio.
“Mmm, this is going to be fun. Ready?” Ronit growls.
“Yes.”
“Good, because I can’t hang on any longer.”
We sink down under the water.
Ronit sheathes his cock in my pussy and then flicks his tail, sending us flying through the pool. All I can feel is them thrusting in and out of me while we travel at incredible speeds.
Ronit’s powerful tail keeps the three of us safe, while they make me theirs.
Claiming me in a way that I will never forget.
I explode. Over and over. They are relentless.
Brio presses himself against me like he’s trying to crawl inside me, while Ronit touches every part of me, leaving a mark, visible or not.
Ronit brings us to the surface and cradles me carefully as they pull themselves from my body.
He carries me up and out of the water and down into the nest. There I find Leaf, Lirin, Canto, and Reed. I’m bundled up in their arms and fed pieces of cheeseburger before we’re all wrapped in blankets, and I fall into a deeply contented but exhausted sleep.
***
I throw the saucepan at Reed.
He roars at me.
I snarl and then stand there shuddering, feeling awful.
“Talk to me and stop losing the plot over this stuff. I don’t care about burnt noodles.”
I struggle to put words to what’s wrong. “You don’t understand. I can’t even feed myself. I don’t belong here.”
Reed captures my chin. “I will feed you the food from my mouth. You don’t need to do it.”
He says it so aggressively and seriously that it takes every thought from my mind.
“I’m supposed to take care of you,” I whine.
“Who said?” Canto snarls.
I let out a squeak. Canto has managed to creep up on me, and now I’m sandwiched between two very pissed-off Sirens.
“Everyone says, I’m the monster-”
Reed snags my wrist and yanks it above my head. The other joins it before I can stop. He grabs the front of my dress and rips it from my body. He grips my hips, twists my body, and then slaps my ass hard.
I burn with outrage that turns to a quivering excitement. Slick pools, and I realise it doesn’t matter how much we fuck, I will always want them. “What do you think you are doing?” I growl.
“Whatever it takes to make you see sense.”
“You smacked me!” I accuse.
“And I’ll do it again.”
“I need to cook-”
Another hard crack.
“Mei, can you hunt?” Canto asks softly, like the voice of reason. I don’t trust him at all.
“Of course, I can.”
“Can you do lots of other things, like cross worlds, give out incredible orgasms, and tame six of the most stubborn ocean monsters that ever existed?”
“Well, yes, but-”
“That was a yes or no question. You can’t cook, but you can do other stuff. Why don’t you allow us the pleasure of providing you with food?”
I open my mouth to argue when Reed hisses.
“One more ridiculous word, and I’m going to smack you with Canto’s electric cock and make sure you can’t sit for a week.”
I consider that and decide wisely to stop arguing. “I just wanted to do something nice for you.”
Reed groans. He cups my cheeks and presses his lips to mine.
“You saved us; it doesn’t get nicer than that.
But if you really must know, you make us better.
You make us kinder, happier, and more tolerant of the world.
You make me curious and excited and content.
Mei, I fucking love you. We all do. That’s all we need. To love you and be loved by you.”
He pauses while I try and wrap my head around everything he’s said.
“Do you love us?”
“I came and rescued you. I love you. Yes, so much,” I stutter out.
“Good. Now let us make you feel good while Ronit and Leaf go and get food,” Reed says dismissively and stalks out of the room.
I’m spun around and shoved over the kitchen table. Canto runs his hands up the back of my thigh and over my ass.
“You are fucking perfect, Mei. Everything about you is perfect.”
He hesitates.
“Now change shape.”
I tense. “What?”
“I want to see that beautiful monster.”
When I still hesitate, he leans forward and kisses my shoulder.
“Trust me?”
It’s not even a question. Of course, I do. I let myself change shape, my limbs growing longer, my horns tearing into existence. The mask changes to fit perfectly, which I’m grateful for, but then Canto has me up and facing him, and he reaches out, and he takes the mask off.
I don’t try to stop him, even though I feel naked.
“You are beautiful,” Reed whispers as he returns from the other part of the house.
I believe he means it, and I glow inside.
Canto presses his body against mine. We’re the same height now, and his lips graze mine. Touching, tasting.
His hands slide over my body, exploring and mapping out every curve.
But it’s Reed touching my horns that has my knees suddenly weakening.
He barks a sharp laugh and grabs one, yanking my head back. “Noted.”
He licks up the side of my neck while Canto pushes two fingers into me.
“We’re going to be going hard, little monster,” Canto murmurs. “It’s going to be intense.”
I’m dragged down onto the table where I lay flat on my back. Canto climbs over me, kissing my chest.
“You taste incredible. I love blackberries,” he murmurs, and then he’s pulling his fingers free and lining himself up.
The burn is almost instantaneous. I arch up, but he uses his weight to pin me down. Reed leans over and licks my horns.
I scream through the sudden and violent orgasm that rips through me.
“New record!” Reed says, pleased.
“You are evil!” I pant.
“You love it. And you love us.”
Canto starts fucking me hard. Each drag of his cock sends electric jolts through me, setting my nerves on fire. I cry out, grasping at him, holding on, trying to remember who I am.
I lose hold of this form and slip into the other one.
He howls, thrusting violently into me, before he spills his release in me with a strangled scream.
I hold him to my chest, stroking his sweaty back.
“That was incredible. How did it feel when she shifted back?” Reed asks. “Because you set a new record, too.”
“Shut up, Reed!” Canto growls with a flustered sigh. “Like my cock was in a vacuum of heat and slick. A bit of a warning next time.”
I grin. “Maybe.”
Canto growls.
Reed scoops me up and drops on the couch. I’m impaled before I can get the words out.
“Ride me. However you want. I will give you everything. Anything.”
I lean in, pressing my lips to his. “I want your everything.”
He grips my hips and starts me moving.
“Where are your spines?” I grumble, annoyed they aren’t here.
“I learned a new trick.” Reed laughs.
Our lovemaking is slow and leisurely.
“Tell me when you’re getting close,” Reed pants.
I keep rolling my hips as I rise and sink down onto his cock.
“Oh, god, you feel so good,” he murmurs.
“I’m there!”
He grips my hips and holds me off him. “Are you ready?”
“For what?” I ask but nod.
He yanks me down, right onto his knot. The spines slip out, sinking into my flesh. It’s pain, but it hurts so good. I throw my head back and scream while he sinks his teeth into my chest.
“Harder, more, please, Reed. More.”
He ruts up into me, growling and worrying the skin in his mouth. Another spine, this one larger and thicker, presses into me. It comes straight out of the tip of his cock and stabs into my flesh, locking us so we can’t move.
All around me, our song screams, but then it just reaches a point, and it blends. Our scents blend. Our hearts start thumping at the same time.
I can feel him, and I can see myself through his eyes.
The bond flares to life, adding another intricate layer of connection. Then the others flare awake, too, like stars blinking into the night sky.
I can feel how much they care. How much they love me. I can see their souls.
Our songs become one song. I feel something growing inside me, and I open my mouth to sing.
Reed kisses my throat while I struggle with my emotions.
“I’m like you now.”
“You’ve always been like us,” Reed murmurs. “We just couldn’t see it. But we do now.”
I collapse on his chest, curling my arms around his neck.
“My Sirens.”
“My monster,” Reed whispers back and curls his arms around me. The shiver join us, legs and arms twisting together.
“I’m free.”
“Yes,” Reed whispers. “We are free. Finally.”