His claws dug into my hair, holding me in place as he thrust in deep, releasing a flood down my throat. I drank it down, screaming as the orgasm ripped through me.

My pussy clenched around the thick cock, all of my muscles spasming. Kiraxis and Drazan pushed in, releasing hot gushes of seed at the same time; the pleasure shattering me into pieces was drawn out by the sensation of being pumped full, unable to take a single drop more.

Toth’s claspers released me, and he smoothed sweaty hair back from my face as he withdrew his glistening length from my mouth.

“My love,” he whispered. “The most perfect mate.”

I smiled up at him, feeling languorous and alight at the same time. “I love you all so much.”

You are everything I’ve waited for. Drazan stroked my back as he pulled out of me, sending a hot rush of seed down my thighs. My perfect Ellerasha.

Coming from my monsters, I liked that name.

I felt like I’d earned it now.

Kiraxis cradled me against his chest. “Now we are wed in the human fashion. You belong to us forever.”

I decided not to tell him that most human weddings did not, in fact, involve orgies.

Their way had been much more exciting.

“Absolutely. And you’re all mine forever.”

I was happy to twine into their arms, even as Kiraxis fussed about tending to me. I swore I would not negate our wedding because I hadn’t had a bath immediately after getting hosed down with their seed, and he finally contented himself with running his claws through my hair.

But the bath was definitely coming. I wasn’t going to escape it for long.

Toth took my hand, and Drazan stroked my back.

Surrounded by my monsters, full of light and happiness, I thought about that first day, parked in Dunwich, wondering if I’d made a mistake.

I’d been so close to turning around and driving away from what had been my destiny all along…

Strange how things worked out. All it had taken was one letter, and I’d found exactly where I belonged.

Juno had a word for that.

Providence.

And now I truly believed it.

42

Elle

Two weeks later, I opened my eyes and yawned, stretching in a big, warm pile of limbs, fur, and claws.

Kiraxis’s nest was nearly impossible to extricate myself from without waking up the monsters, but somehow I managed.

I kissed Kiraxis’s soft forehead, and Toth’s, making his feathered feelers wriggle in his sleep, and one of Drazan’s tentacles. I appreciated that he left the water to sleep with me at times, even though dry land was less comfortable for him.

Then I climbed up the ladder Kiraxis had installed to the Void door above our nest, and quietly clambered through to the underside of my bed.

In the week following our wedding, we’d worked hard on getting the Lodge back into functional order.

I’d elected to keep my quarters to live in. After all, my bed was perched directly above a door to my nest; I wanted to be able to climb right through.

The rest of Deepwater Lodge was still in progress. I was glad Tater had made it out alive, but he had never come back.