Page 100 of Bright Soul

I was a married woman now. Just thinking about it gave me butterflies. How’d I get so lucky as to have this experience, even if it was in the service of taking down a larger threat? Now that we were bound together in the same circle, I would not need to pick and choose my affections. I could have all three of them without fear of judgment in supernatural eyes.

Supernaturals often formed groups with multiple partners, especially with notable someones like Dr. Aurina and her fivepartners or Madigan and her three husbands. It’d been on display during the Mabon feast as well, when family units had included children and multiple spouses to a single partner.

And I was that core figure now. Me, someone who only a year ago had no idea that the supernatural world existed. Once we ended the threat Myuna posed, I would get to spend my days with three incredible men.

They arrived, and I felt the general shape of their thoughts as I teetered to my feet. Ben reacted first, catching a hold of me around the waist before I could fall. He was wondering, Is Cress all right?

“I’m fine, I think,” I said, though he hadn’t spoken aloud.

Geo observed our surroundings and noted the bags of gifts and the fading smell of sex from the night prior.I knew it,he seemed to think.

And Phaeron was considering how to change the mood in the room, noting how tense we were.My mate will not know peace again if we don’t stabilize the circle. How can this be romantic if those two males stand there gawking at her?

“I was admiring her. She’s shining,” Geo said in a defensive tone.

I glanced down at myself from their concentrated attention. “Ohnooo,” I stated dramatically, pulling at my shirt. “It looks like I drowned in a glitter factory!”

Geo and Phaeron exchanged a glance. They didn’t understand, but Ben pulled a sympathetic face. “This is never coming out,” I explained. “Is it in my hair? On my face?”

“No, and yes,” Phaeron answered. “I believe we’re meant to…smear it around. It’s cupid magic.” Though unsaid, I felt him imagining us skin to skin, the sparkles absorbing into us because of shared pleasure.

I flushed with heat at the thought. “Shall we see how much of me it covers?” I invited.

Judging by the arousal suddenly leaking from all three of them, that was a majoryes. Phaeron had wanted to change the mood, and it seemed he had with one lusty thought.

Kind of like animaris, spreading through the bloodstream once it hit the heart. His gaze flashed with awareness, and he wondered if I wanted another bite. And while I did…no, it wouldn’t be right for this moment to let my body take over.

He nodded. We’d just had a full conversation in the space of a few moments… How surreal. I toed off my shoes while Geo murmured, “What even is animaris?”

“Phaeron’s sexy venom,” Ben said.

The gargoyle’s brow furrowed. “His what?”

Phaeron barely cracked a smile, but now I felt him using all of his impressive self-control not to die laughing.

I giggled for him, and that, plus the shimmy of my hips as I slipped out of my jeans, had their undivided attention. Ben started to help me. He’d gotten a thrill at hearing mysexy little laugh,and then all three of them were reaching to pull my clothes away faster. A few seams popped in the frenzy to get me naked.

“I think it’s safe to say all of you sparkles,” Geo remarked. I saw hints of creamy, glimmering flesh, but their mouths and hands were on me. Ben tilted my head up, our lips meeting, breath heating, tongues and teeth clashing.

Geo’s broad palm splayed over my lower back, holding me steady. He tweaked one hard nipple between his fingers with practiced care, and that was him laving up the soft plane of my belly.

I knew it wasn’t Phaeron, since the sharp edges of his fangs were working their way up my inner thigh. He braced my shaky legs as he snuck a taste of me, projecting a feeling of smug satisfaction.

Their emotions, thoughts, and desires came together for a moment. They gave and I took, but I didn’t just want them to pleasure me. I tugged at the back of Geo’s shirt and fumbled for Ben’s pants, needing to feel their skin on mine, wanting to give back.

“Whatever you want, babe,” Ben groaned once he pulled away from my lips.

Clothes hit the ground, and claws pressed into my skin in warning not to move. Phaeron dove in eagerly for a feast, suckling on my clit and sharing how I tasted with the other two men. That wasn’t playing fair. Ben and Geo throbbed with need as they revealed their bodies—and a bit of cupid magic on their chests, I noted vaguely. I jolted with a moan when a smooth tail ran between my pussy lips, twisting to get the first few inches slick.

“Fuck,” Ben said. There were grunts of agreement. “Your body is putting off ‘fuck me’ signals that I can feel now.”

Phaeron maneuvered my legs around his horns to lift his head after giving my clit one last lick. He shook his head briskly, focusing long enough to take us all in. “If you stay like this, Cress…”

He outlined a simple enough plan to account for all our limbs and their general bulk. Despite some crowding and kneeling, it seemed like the soundest way for me to have all three of them at the same time. We agreed enthusiastically as a unit, and I coaxed Ben and Geo in closer with a shiver of anticipation.

Phaeron shaped the curve of my hips and ass, and I glanced over my shoulder when he reappeared there with an eddy of shadows. I thought,You’re still wearing too many clothes.

And he answered,Patience.The slickened tip of his tail brushed the edges of my hot core again before pressing into my ass with intention. My mouth opened on a gasp, and Geo took me by the jaw, turning my head toward where he stood besideme. His quicksilver eyes glimmered with love, and we kissed for a long moment.

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