Page 87 of Immortal Burden

“Let’s call this a practice run,” Ryker said, starting to untie my robe.

I swallowed hard. “So be it.”

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~Lucian~

The sexy little sorceress was out of her depth and she knew it.

It had been startling to me and Ryker both that she’d actually allowed us to see that vulnerability, that she’d shown any sort of what she’d normally interpret as weakness.

Yet, what had happened in the phantasmal plane had sparked something in her, something she’d denied herself for decades, something she’d realized she could no longer keep starving herself of now that she’d had a taste earlier.

As I watched Ryker untying the belt of her robe, bearing her skin, inch by inch, his gaze molten as he looked between her and I, a warning sparked.

A memory slammed into the forefront of my mind.

“She’s not like the people you fuck around with, she’s naïve, not able to deal with the sexual manipulations of someone like you.”

“You’re correct. And, as such, I would not seek to seduce her.”

Manipulation?

Seduction?

My mind awhirl and seemingly not fully my own, I fought to connect the dots, something in my mind’s eye I knew should’ve been obvious and easy to gauge.

Mia shifting her attention to me pulled me from the verge of success, and I looked to see vibrant-blue sparks emanating from her, some of her power being expelled carefully.

She reached behind her and caressed my cheek. “The block is down,” she told me.

She was opening herself up to me.

Her touch burned in the most delectable way.

The urge to sink into it and delve so much deeper with them both was fast becoming all-encompassing. I could barely breathe through the intensity, struggling to maintain coherent thought.

The shifting visual and the corresponding escalation of things really didn’t help either as she turned from me and trailed her tongue over Ryker’s throat, before thrusting it into his mouth.

He grasped her hips and ground his cock against her, his eyes hooded and that sexy groan of his that I’d come to know well slipping from his lips. It had my cock stiffening, need sparking for a hell of a lot more.

Mia ripped herself from his grip, then slammed her hands into Ryker’s chest.

The unexpected rough and brazen move from her had him so incredibly startled that he lost his balance and his back hit the cushions.

Before he could regain his equilibrium and composure, Mia was there crawling up his body. The sudden move had her opened robe hanging off her shoulders, threatening to bare her at any moment. Her back to me, I watched it hanging loose either side of her as she rutted against Ryker, driving him to distraction.

“Lucian,” I heard him utter on a shaky, needy breath as he threw his head back when Mia ripped open his pants, then started palming his length.

Something was wrong.

The way in which he was just so open to it, giving himself over to her, after what he’d endured following the shattering of their union, didn’t add up.

And then there was her, all her inhibitions now fallen to the wayside, in a matter of moments.

The moment, in fact, that we’d come into physical contact during her brief magical attack on Ryker.

Of course!

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