Page 186 of Gift from the Nexus

“Fuck, I wish I could bottle up that sound.” He curses under his breath as his dragon forces his way to share the surface and my pussy tightens around him.

He growls as he shifts his body, and his hands move to where they’re gripping my hips. The feeling of his thumb caressing my mating mark sends fire shooting through my veins and I cry out in ecstasy as everything in me comes alive.

Over and over, he draws out and slams into me, dominating every part of me and claiming everything he demands to be his. There’s something sinfully sexy about allowing myself to be his prey in the bedroom when everywhere else I’m a predator. I love how he’s the most powerful creature in this realm, and he uses my body how he sees fit but forces everyone else to treat me as a goddess amongst men.

Testing his dominance to see if he’ll let me, I lift my hips and thrust in time with his. When he doesn’t immediately growl or stop me, I take my opportunity while I can. Everything he gives me, I give it right back. I claim him as thoroughly as he’s claiming me.

Fingers, mouths, elements, gifts, you name it touch every surface of my exposed skin and I feel it all, crave it all, butthe shining silver mark where Draken’s neck meets his shoulder demands my attention. Every part of me insists I put my mouth on it.

Wrapping my hand around the back of his neck, I pull him down to me until I can reach it. I kiss, bite, suck every inch of it. I worship it like he so fucking magically worships me and I bask in the harsh breaths falling from his chest, knowing I’m causing him to come undone.

A feral sound leaves the back of his throat as I continue to lavish his mark with my love, and he fucks me harder and harder. My screams are muffled as I bury my face into his neck, and I tighten around him as I have no other option but to hold on to him and take every solid inch he’s giving me.

“Come for me, sweetness,” he purrs and my back arches as fire skates down my spine.

His pace increases as he drives himself into me and my head spins. My dragon beats her wings frantically in my chest, then my flames burst free.

He comes apart with a roar of my name and his flames lick across every inch of my body, cutting the two of us off from the others. Searing heat drives into my hip where he clenches me almost to the point of painful, but as my orgasm rips through me, leaving my body too heavy to lift, I just give myself over to the heat. I burn in it and wait to be reborn from the ash.

Our fire sinks into each other’s skin and we groan as the warm threads stitch their spots on our souls. What the flames leave behind is beyond a mark, it’s a permanent brand never to be removed.

“Little wanderer,” Draken whispers as he slowly trails his fingertips down my side, causing me to hiss. Pushing myself up with what little strength I have left, I immediately have to hold back a sob.

The scars that littered across my hip are gone, and they’ve been replaced with a seared impression of Draken’s hand. Right in the middle of his palm, shining brighter than the stars in the sky, lie the perfect silver teeth imprints of my mating mark. Not only is it completely visible, but it looks brand new.

“Draken, how—”

I don’t get to finish my question when suddenly I lose my voice, control of my limbs, my mind. Everything goes blank as I slowly rise into the air. My soul shifts and all my gifts stir around inside of me as if they’re trying to get comfortable or maybe free. I’m not sure. I hear the guys yelling my name, trying to get me down, but nothing is working.

Panic sets in as my control over everything inside of me starts slipping and I clutch it all as tightly as I can. I cry out, closing my eyes and gritting my teeth as it becomes so painful, dark spots start coloring my vision.

“Let go, Ultima unum.”

Power crashes through me like a summer storm, sudden, brutal, unforgiving as it rains down and my entire being vibrates with the energy behind it. The fickle pressure in my chest that has come and gone countless times from the moment I stepped foot in this realm leaks out of me in slow dripples of color.

Let go.

With a cry of relief, I throw my head back and my hands out beside me, letting my gifts, my elements burst free and flow into the hearts of the men that connect them all to me. I burst through the barrier that’s been blocking the stream of my soul and everything snaps into place with a deafening click.

My body shakes and trembles as the power pours freely between the five of us and the more give and take that comes from us, the more balanced I feel. Each return of their gift, their magic, their element, sets another part of me right and I baskin the feeling of harmony that I’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing before.

As the last cycle of power filters through me, the colors that connect us all slink their way back into my chest and as the last of the threads of magic disappear into my heart, gravity relinquishes its hold and I freefall toward the floor.

I prepare for impact that never comes because I’m caught on a bed made of air, earth, water, and fire. Each of my men stand at a point, surrounding me as their elements flow from their fingertips, cocooning me in a bed of safety. My gaze scans across their smiling faces and the weight that’s been lifted from them is tangible.

They’re balanced too.

Resting my head back on the elemental mattress as they begin to pull me in, I blow out a subtle breath, murmuring to them as darkness takes hold.

“We’re one.”

Twenty-Nine

Corentin

One, two, three, four, five, six…

“I have twenty-six bones in my spine, your highness.”

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