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Cum and slick flooded down my thighs and Shadow’s thick girth shoved into my pussy beside Lex’s shaft. It felt like being pulled in two in the best possible way. Pain mixed with pleasure, and my body reveled in it.

My teeth ached knowing how close I was to complete, and Shadow must have known it, too. My arms tangled around his neck, pulling him to me. His smoky scent filled my nose and saliva pooled in my mouth. My gaze locked onto the thick muscle running down the side of his throat, curving to meet his shoulder. I lunged, biting into his flesh. His harsh groan rumbled against my chest as his cum poured into me.

Shadow’s groan was a pained whisper that echoed in my soul. “Fuck. Why does it feel so good?”

His emotions, heavy and dark like the sweetest treacle, flooded the vast emptiness behind my ribs. I couldn’t process it all, so I just let it flow over me. Content to exist in it, without understanding it.

My body started to flag. The exertion of the night, or maybe the tea working its magic, taking its toll. There was still something I needed to do.

When Shadow lowered me to my feet, I slid off their cocks and turned to face Lex. He was the last one. The only one left. I laid my palms against his chest and pushed softly, hoping he would yield to my touch. His brows bunched, but he took a step back, and then another, until the backs of his legs hit the edge of the ledge circling the pool. He glanced behind him and I put more pressure until he sat down on the stone shelf.

I placed one knee next to his hip, and then the other until I was kneeling in his lap. His eyes locked on to mine as I lowered myself down onto his swollen shaft. My lips tingled, and I pressed them against his, coaxing them apart. As soon as he relented, my tongue darted in, stroking along his while my hips rolled in long strokes.

My conscious thoughts were clearing. The hollow chasm behind my ribs ebbed. He was the final missing piece. The first one I loved, the last one to bond. He’d come to find me when everyone else had given up, to save me, and he brought my entire world with him. Without him, none of us would be here. He was far from perfect, but he was exactly who I needed him to be.

I pulled back from our kiss and looked into his eyes for the space of a breath before nuzzling against his skin. The base of his cock grew as I rocked my hips, pushing it deeper inside. My mouth skated over his neck, seeking the spot that called to me. I waited, tracing my tongue over his collarbone and up his throat.

His knot swelled and thickened as his fingers dug into my ass, grinding me along his shaft over and over. When my lips finally parted, he was shaking with restraint. His need for release was just as strong as mine.

I bit down, and he shoved himself deep, his knot locking in place, and pumping me full of cum as the bond sealed. His love and possessiveness gripped me and held me like it would never let go, and I never wanted it to. This was him in his rawest, most undiluted form. It was never going to be soft or easy. I didn’t expect it to be. They were all there, connected irrevocably, and I felt more complete than I ever had. My sweet caretaker, my light-hearted joker, my brooding fathomless darkness, and my loving protector, all lodged inside my chest. Right where I know they’ve always belonged.

Fuck Edeth for trying to keep them from me. And fuck the Imperatrix for sending her here to murder my family. Fuck them both for keeping me from this.

The trees overhead lit with a torrent of colors, and my heart hammered until I looked up. The shield pulsed with rainbow color, stronger even than when it was first activated. It didn’t look the same as when it deflected an attack. It was brighter. Brilliant arcs of light cascaded from horizon to horizon, gradually drifting away, but the crackling power lingered.

I had a feeling that completing the bond had energized it in some way. The searchers were going to be even more ravenous to find us now.

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Saphyra

Itossed and turned in the bedding that had been dragged to the edge of the spring last night. After I’d fluffed the pillows and blankets perfectly, we’d all tried to get some sleep, but that hadn’t lasted long. The barest hint of pastel light already graced the horizon, and bird song danced in the chilly predawn air.

The suns’ rays would soon burn through the fog and our short window of cover would be gone.

Shadow was awake, moving efficiently down by the fire pit, putting out the last embers and scattering the ash so that no trace of our camp would be found. Lex was a dark blur between the trees near the horses, readying them for the journey ahead.

Ghost pulled me back against him, his cock swollen as he pushed it into my slick folds. “Mmm, you smell so fucking good. You smell like you belong to us.”

I groaned, my body sore from the many rounds it had taken to appease my heat last night.

“Shhh, princess. You don’t want to wake up the good doctor.” Ghost nuzzled my neck pressing a kiss to my newly healing mate mark. His length throbbed inside me as he held me close, unmoving. A purr rumbled to life against my back, further soothing my ragged emotions and coaxing a faint reply from my contented chest.

The comforting fullness of his hot thickness lulled me into a light doze, but I knew it couldn’t last.

Grey rolled closer and our legs tangled. His fingers threaded through mine and he pressed soft kisses along my collarbone.

My mates were taking advantage of the remaining few moments we had to rest, and I was determined to enjoy every second.

Their contentment and caution nudged at the sleepy corners of my consciousness while I existed in that gray space between sleep and waking. My back arched, rocking against the delicious intrusion of Ghost, but he took hold of my hips, stilling my movement and kissed the nape of my neck. His chuckle brushed my skin as he tsked my bad behavior. “Naughty little Queen. You shouldn’t start something we can’t finish.”

I grumbled out a laugh. I wasn’t starting anything. He was the one who was starting things, but I enjoyed the warmth of my mates wrapped around me, so I wasn’t going to complain. He was right, though. It wouldn’t be long before we had to go, but it felt so good.

As if the Stars knew what I was thinking, footsteps scuffed over the smooth rock and warm lips pressed to my temple. “It’s morning, my Queen.” Lex’s low tone drew me from the dream I’d drifted into.

I smiled, feeling Ghost’s cock twitch inside me. I could get used to waking up like this, but we had much to do today.

Ghost groaned as his length slipped from my hot, wet body and I was disappointed not to have a few more minutes to follow through with his early morning teasing. But the blush of dawn on the far horizon told me we were already pushing the boundary of our window of safety.

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