Page 74 of The Program

I glanced behind me, the need to check in with them suddenly extremely urgent. Bromm and I weren’t the only ones taking part in this, and while their participation wasn’t active like ours would be, I still needed to ensure they were okay. I was going to fuck Bromm regardless, Bal’s safety depended on it, but I didn’t want to make them any more uncomfortable than necessary.

‘Are you guys all right with this?’ I asked.

Foryk grunted and silently turned to face the wall. Henrik and Urman confirmed they were okay despite looking rather uncomfortable, then followed Foryk’s example and also faced the wall. T didn’t bother to look up, though I could see the tension threading through his shoulders and the tick in his jaw. Reece and Adara were still asleep, so I didn’t have to worry about them. Dorian seemed too stunned to react, but then he jolted and gave us his permission to continue but stared at his shoes rather than turn around.

Cadmus, however…

‘No. I’m not okay with this,’ he said, his voice strained.

I wanted to slump in defeat but squared my shoulders in determination instead. ‘What can we do to make this easier for you?’

He ignored me, focusing his attention on Bromm from over my shoulder. They seemed to have some sort of silent conversation I couldn’t decipher, but after a raised brow and a slow smirk from Bromm, Cadmus stepped forward.

I eyed him warily, wondering what he was doing, then shot a questioning look to the Griknot currently squirming in my grasp.

‘I think you have another admirer, love,’ he revealed with an excited gleam in his purple eyes. The dual pupils were so blown out they merged together and almost took over his entire irises.

My head snapped toward Cadmus, shock piercing through me like a spear. ‘What?’

‘Artemis, ever since you walked in on me with my cocks out I’ve barely had anything else on my mind,’ he said in a low, desperate voice as he prowled closer. ‘If I hadn’t covered up, would you have looked?’ Another step closer. ‘If I hadn’t stopped touching myself, would you have watched?’ His voice dropped into a growl. ‘Would you have touched yourself, too?’

He finally came to a stop in front of me and Bromm, close enough that if I breathed in deeply enough my hard, sensitive nipples would have brushed against his chest. His head dipped low until our breaths mingled, the promise of his taste just barely out of reach. ‘Are you going to make me watch you fuck another man when I want nothing more than to feel you clenching aroundme?’

I was confused, my emotions a whirlwind of turmoil writhing around inside me. I had noticed Cadmus was attractive from an objective standpoint, my intrigue over his race’s physical attributes the driving force behind the times I’d checked him out. But it wasn’t anything more than that.

I could admit I’d taken an eyeful of his cocks, not quite at full mast as he toyed with them for the benefit of the cameras. Yet, while they were a sight to behold, I hadn’t been looking to do anything with themmyself.But now that he was presenting himself to me as a viable option for mating the idea of him took root. The mental image of being wedged between two men had my attraction suddenly surging like it had been held back this entire time without my knowledge.

I glanced at Bromm, needing him to take charge of this interaction. I didn’t know what I was doing, and I needed his guidance to help me untangle this web of emotions that had taken me by surprise.

‘Come on, gorgeous. Let me have a taste of you,’ Cadmus growled sensually in my ear, the sound moving straight to my clit where it pulsed with desire, causing a great flood to gush from my core.

I barely held in my whimper of need, but Bromm didn’t even try to contain his.

‘For fuck’s sake, love,kiss him,’ he whined, and who was I to deny him?

Ignoring any trepidation I felt about being with a man who I barely knew, let alone alongside the one I was in love with, I closed the distance between us and pressed my lips against his. They were pillowy and soft, and when I ran my tongue along their seam he opened up to tangle his with mine. He tasted like clean air and mint, the effect wonderfully cool against my overheated skin.

‘Fuck,’he cursed into my mouth, pulling back to take a breath, but I didn’t let him get too far away. I bit his lip and forcefully sucked him back to me. His responding nip was just as hard as mine, like I had just set a challenge that he was more than willing to meet head on.

He pulled back again, though this time I let him, also out of breath. Both of us were panting, chests heaving, our breaths puffing against one another’s faces and ruffling our hair.

‘My turn,’ Bromm cut in, grabbing my face with both hands and slanting his lips over mine in a scorching kiss. I savoured his sweet and salty taste, sucking his tongue into my mouth in a desperate attempt to have more of it. More ofhim.

I wrenched myself away from him in order to speak, tugging at his shirt. ‘Off,’ I demanded. ‘Take it off.’

He rushed to obey, tearing a few seams in the process and chucking it somewhere to the side. I didn’t bother to check where it ended up.

I turned to Cadmus, eager to see him without his shirt, too. His feathers were poking out from the collar of his shirt, the colours vibrant, and I wanted to finally touch them, to feel their silky softness and discover the areas that would make him moan. They were considered an erogenous zone and I was more than curious to learn why.

Instead of following through with my silent instruction, he merely smirked at me with a devilish glint in his brilliantly purple eyes. WhereBromm’s were a more muted shade, his were darker and stood in stark contrast to his olive-toned skin that was only a shade lighter than my own.

‘Not yet, gorgeous,’ he declined and I couldn’t help but pout. He seemed to like that reaction, though, and flicked my bottom lip with his thumb. ‘I’m too much of a selfish bastard not to touch you, but this is your first time with your man. You can play with me later. Right now, this is aboutyou.’

The way he put me and Bromm first broke off another sliver of the wall surrounding my heart, but this wasCadmus.He was the arrogantly privileged heir to his father’s business, a bit of a brat that didn’t quite grasp the concept of working for what you wanted.

Okay… that wasn’t totally fair. He was a good guy, I knew that. His superfluous upbringing shouldn’t be held against him, especially considering the smidgen of personal growth he’d shown those first few weeks I’d known him, but the resulting fears were the same. I had Bromm, and this man was not someone I could trust my with something as precious and delicate as my heart. I couldn’t let him wriggle his way through the gap he’d just made when I doubted he’d be willing to commit. The fact that he wanted me in this way was shocking enough, I didn’t think he’d be willing to put his heart on the line for someone like me as well.

This was just a one-time thing brought on by the severe emotions of our current predicament.

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