Page 12 of Tethered Thrones

I had never seen that color before or heard him shout so loudly. Was he angry? But he couldn’t be. Clem didn’t get angry with Bracken, not to this degree.

Or maybe he had in the past, and once again, I was learning about how they were before me.

Bracken reached down and scooped Clem up by his neck. He licked him from his chin to his lips, and I flinched, knowing it wouldn’t be long until their eyes and hands and mouths were on me next.

“Don’t be angry, Clem. Relax. Hard times are ahead. Sun prepared this place for our pleasure, no? So, relax,” Bracken said as his tongue went from tasting Clem’s skin to entering his mouth as my mothian faded to a pleasant shade of pink. The vice grip on his neck appeared painful, but that seemed to turn my mothian on even more.

Damn them, always making up by screwing each other’s brains out!

I needed to leave but was trapped in place by the feral look in Hadi’s eyes as I turned to flee. It was hunger, but not the kind that was a prelude to filling his stomach. No, I had the sneaking suspicion he wanted to fill something else up as he rose, creating a higher wave as his lower body breached the surface.

My heart sped up, out of control this time, feeling dizzy and disoriented. Why the hell was I like this?Control the beast. If I succumbed now, I’d probably end up a crying mess.

I felt raw enough after what me and Hadi had done together. Seeing him in such a humane light had shaken me.

If we did more now, I’d beg not to be confronted with my years of foolish loyalty. I’d become so very, very weak if I allowed Hadi to break me, curling into his arms, sobbing like a child as he came inside of me.

Markedme.Claimedme. He’d make me confront head-on how Gaulu’s lies had blinded me for years with a self-righteous sneer.

“Join–” I cut Bracken off by raising my hand as he released Clem long enough to reach for me.

“Later.” At his indignant huff, I added, “I promise. For now, leave me out of it.”

Scrambling out of the pool, I traveled to the furthest spring without looking back, hoping to be alone with my thoughts for once. Truly, alone.

Since meeting my nocs, I hadn’t had a second apart, and it was starting to wear on my soul. When I was with them, all I could think about was fighting or fucking, and I needed to focus!

Removing my white towel for a second time, I quickly submerged myself in the new spring. It was much smaller, about two arms wide in each direction, but cozier for me. When I emerged, I headed straight for the change rooms however, the moment I stepped through the door, I was taken by surprise.

“Ha–!” Silenced by a hand over my mouth before I could speak, something long, thick, and wet curled around my waist.

I reached down to claw at it but was held back as a voice rugged with need whispered into my ear.

“Stay with me, Sun.”

“Kiar!?” I said as he uncovered my mouth and releasing a trembling breath as his bulging cocks pressed against my backside from within their sheath.

By the slur in his speech, I could tell he was still drunk from the bar. He quickly nestled me into his body, hands, and tail wrapping around me until I was trapped. And though I should’ve fought him off like I did the rest, my guilt over what he had heard in the bar ate me alive and I remained rooted to the spot.

“Stay with me,” Kiar repeated as if I could free myself from being woefully entangled by him, body, and soul.

Chapter 4

Kiar

If Sun noticed the way I wobbled, sliding side to side from the alcohol coursing through me, he didn't mention it. Instead, he put his hands on my tail and gave me a weak push.

“You are an insatiable fiend,” he growled. “The lot of you. There are more important things afoot.”

“Then why are you getting hard?” I whispered, flicking my long, thin, forked tongue into his ear.

He shivered, giving one last half-hearted push.

Good, if he kept fighting, I would have gotten mad. I alreadywasbecause I could smell Hadi on him.

While we had been left behind, he had clearly snuck off with our former king to have a little fun. Pretending to be so serious and heroic, pretending to only tolerate Hadi when he clearly didn't mind his advances...

Then again, our own relationship had started the same way.

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