Breathing deeply with satisfaction, Elliot groaned, “Shit, that was good.”

We cuddled together, caressing each other’s ass, while Elliot kissed my cheeks and forehead and chuckled lustily at me.“You are the best pussy I’ve ever had.Tight and perfect.The best.”

I snuggled up against his chest and nuzzled my nose in the hair of his pecs, inhaling the musky smell of his released passion.“Oh, Elliot,” I whispered.“You’re so wonderful.So, so wonderful…”

We were quiet for a while.Elliot held me, and I luxuriated in his arms and admired and worshipped his body.I gazed down between his legs to where his softened but still large penis dripped cum onto his hairy thigh, and smiled at knowing it would not stay soft.It would be hard many times tonight, and each time I would happily submit to him again.

There was one thing that made me so happy to let him take me as much as he wanted; one reason why I wanted to give him everything he wanted, and took such joy in his unquenchable desire.I had felt it the first time Elliot fucked me, and every other time since then and it was countless incredible times, both alone as we were now and together with Elliot’s friends.The feeling welled up in my heart and begged to be expressed.It was the only thing that I’d ever held back from him, because our relationship was not only between us, but included Cade and Byron.But now, when it was only Elliot and me and he had just given me such an incredible experience with only his erect cock, I needed to express that feeling at last.

I lifted my face to look into his breathtaking handsomeness and said, “Elliot, there’s something I need to tell you.”

He kissed my forehead and said sweetly, “You can tell me anything.”

After only a heartbeat of hesitation, I gazed into the warm darkness of his eyes and said, “Elliot…I love you.”

He only blinked at that, at first.I waited for his answer.He perplexed me with his simple answer.“Oh.”

Now I returned his blink with one of my own.“Oh?Just oh?”

Elliot began to roll one of my nipples between his thumb and finger, making it grow hard.“Not just oh.One of us should have already said that by now.I should have said it.Jenna, since our first time—which was your first time—I’ve been feeling things I never thought I’d feel.All I’ve ever been looking for since I was fifteen was…”He hesitated, not wanting to finish where his words were taking him because, I guessed, it wasn’t where he really thought he should go at this moment.He said, “What I mean is, all I wanted at first was just to fuck you and then you told me you were a virgin, and I wanted to make your first time the best it could be.I suddenly cared about how you were feeling, how you should feel with a guy.All of a sudden, I cared not just about the sex—but about you.That first night, showing you what fucking is…”He hesitated again, and looked at me as if he were looking right into my soul.“Jenna, I fell in love.Caring about making you happy, caring about your feelings and what you wanted, I felt things I’ve never felt with anyone.I love you, Jenna.I do.I love you.”

We both broke out into what were probably the biggest smiles that either of us had ever worn in our lives, and pulled together into a kiss that should have made music play in the air around us.

At the end of the kiss, Elliot and I stayed curled up together, smiling as if we were both in on some deep, great secret; as if we were both innocent and just discovering the most fantastic pleasure in the world.We felt drunk, and silly, and filled with the wonder and the newness that I guessed people could only feel when they first fall in love.It was as if we and the whole world were brand new and we were discovering life for the first time.

Then, another thought—an inevitable, unavoidable thought came to me, and my smile faded and I looked down.Elliot saw the shift in my mood and put his fingers to my chin, lifting my face back to his.“What is it?” he asked.“What’s wrong?You’re as happy as I am, aren’t you?”

”Oh, Elliot, yes,” I said.“I think this is the happiest I’ve ever been.But…”

”But what?”

”The others, Elliot.Cade and Byron.What about them?We’re in love, but our relationship isn’t just us.It’s almost never been just us.It’s them too.They’ve shared almost all of it.They’re part of it.Elliot, do you think Cade and Byron know?”

Now his own smile faded.He didn’t frown, but he looked thoughtful, as if he were turning inward.His eyes focused back on me after a moment, and he said, “Yeah.I think they do.People have tells; they give off signals even when they don’t know they’re doing it.We’ve probably been broadcasting how we feel around them, especially when we’re all in bed together.They’re bright guys, Jenna.I can’t believe they haven’t picked up on it.I think they know.”

Worry fell over me like a shadow.“Oh, Elliot.They haven’t let on that they know anything…”

”Yeah, but they’ve got to know,” he insisted.

I sighed at the thought of it.“But they haven’t acted like their feelings are hurt.They haven’t acted jealous or resentful.”

”And they won’t,” Elliot insisted further.“Because I don’t think that’s how they feel about it.”

”How can you be sure?”

”Because I know them.Because the three of us know each other like the backs of our own claws.Jenna, we haven’t really talked about this around you, but you’ve got to know you’re not the only woman the three of us have shared.I’d never want this to hurt you, but you know that’s true, don’t you?”

That made me sigh a little harder, not from jealousy, but from knowing that even though I’d become very experienced with Elliot and his friends, their experiences went much further than mine did.They were all six, nearly seven, years older than I was, and they were all male Scalers, with the kind of sexual appetite that went along with the kind of creatures that they were.Frankly it was a wonder that a nineteen-year-old girl could begin to keep up with them.

“I know,” I simply said.

“The guys and I have a special friendship,” Elliot said.“In this way, the way we are with females, we’re closer than brothers.There’s an understanding we have that allows us to be the way we are.You’ve seen it from being with us.Has there ever been any time, in bed or not, when one of us has resented sharing you with the others?”

”No, there hasn’t,” I said.“And I can understand that’s part of being what you are.But Elliot, love changes things.Whether you’re just human or a human who’s a dragon, love makes a difference.”

”You’re right, Jenna,” said Elliot.“Love does make a difference.It will make a difference and I know we’ll all be okay because while I love you, my friends love me and I love them and they love you.”

”And I love them too,” I said.“I mean, as lovers, as partners.But the way I love you…it’s more, Elliot.It’s like we’re part of each other.”