Page 266 of Icy Cold Death

Yeah, him either.

Ridge’s hands were now sliding up his body, and across his nipples. Lucian could feel his fingers on his flesh, luring him into the act of mating.

Someone was a cock tease in the static.

The space around them shook with power and need that they were helpless to stop.

Their mouths were still connected, and there was no differentiating between them.

They were one.

Their energy was one single entity.

In their minds, they were connected body-to-body, and soul-to-soul.

Ridge, we have to exit the static. I’m about to take you, and we can’t without talking to the women.

I know. I can’t help touching you. We have to get out of the static or I’m going to want more. I can hear so much here. I can feel everything you’re feeling. We’re different here. Let me lead you out.

Lucian didn’t want to leave because he felt good. So this was what it was like to go into the darkest parts of the static to find information.

Yes, you only have to use what gifts I’ve given you. You asked Oracle, and she delivered.

She was in his mind too.

When Ridge’s hands were back on his erection, and he heard his zipper slowly being lowered, it was time.

Ridge, pull me out!

He heard him, and his new anchor did what Claire and Beckett did.

He brought him back.

Time and space around them shifted.

When they came out of it, Lucian and Ridge were sitting face-to-face on the floor. Their shirts were off, and they were barefoot.

Somehow, they’d gone into the static and into their customary positions.

They were touching foreheads and holding hands.

“Ridge,” he whispered as he focused.

He blinked.

“We almost had sex.”

Lucian said nothing.

“Don’t,” Ridge said. “Don’t pull away from me,” he said. “You heard Oracle. You need this to survive. Something is coming, and it’s not cheating. We have to be honest with Bishop and Wynter.”

Slowly, they focused.

Lucian stared down into his lap, and he didn’t have an erection.

“I don’t either,” Ridge said, hearing his concern in his mind. “She was right. It’s not the same as there.”

Lucian felt better about that. There was no way he wanted to hurt the women.

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