Page 104 of A Pact of Blood

I feel Raul’s wicked smirk against my shoulder as he tugs aside the fabric of my gown. “I couldn’t forget that.”

“Let’s bring her to the bed, then.”

More wind licks beneath my gown and tugs it right off me when Lorenzo eases back. His dark brown eyes gleam with amusement as he strokes his thumb along my jaw.“He can be awfully bossy, can’t he?”

A giggle tumbles out of me. “I can’t say I mind.”

As the prince of Rione guides me to the bed, more air swirls around my body. The eddies flick across my skin like the most teasing of touches. My drawers flutter with a current that strokes right across my sex.

I gasp at the pulse of pleasure, and Raul clicks his tongueat Bastien. “You’re just torturing her like that. Our woman needs a firmer hand.”

He delves his fingers beneath my drawers to cup my folds. I outright groan, rocking into his hand.

He curls two fingers right inside me and then brings them, slick, to his mouth. Watching him lap up my juices sends a shiver right down the center of me.

I can’t forget why I’m here, why I took the potion in the first place. Bastien has already made it to the bed. I grasp at the fastening on his trousers, and he strips out of them and his drawers at my urging.

His cock ruts toward me, rigidly erect. I wrap my fingers around it to pump it up and down, and Bastien’s hips jerk. A bead of liquid forms at the tip.

He sprawls on the covers on his back and beckons me to him. His tone has gone rough but no less demanding. “Come ride me, Star.”

There’s nothing I want to do more. My sex throbs as I squirm out of my drawers and scramble after him with a heady sense of desperation. Raul and Lorenzo follow me.

As I brace myself over their foster brother, Lorenzo sets a steadying hand on my side and brushes kisses along my shoulder blade. Raul twines his fingers in my hair. “Do you think you can take us all at the same time, Empress?”

I sink down over Bastien, taking his rigid length into me with a very undignified whine and a panted breath. Bastien answers for me. “Of course she can. She needs everything we can give her. Make sure she’s ready.”

His voice breaks as he fills me to the hilt. He catches my neck and tugs me down for another scorching kiss.

But when I arch my hips against him, Bastien grips my thigh to hold me still. “Not yet. Not until we’re all together.”

Raul lets out a dark hum and traces the cleft of my ass. “I think you’d better be the one to take her here, Lore. I won’tmake her try to fit me on her first go. But I can prepare her so it’s nothing but bliss.”

I stay tipped farther forward, my head bowed next to Bastien’s, as Raul spreads a slippery oil across my back entrance and then inside with a dip of his fingers. The unfamiliar pressure makes me gasp, but the hunger inside me intensifies.

“Such a good little lamb for us,” Raul murmurs. “Is this how much you want to be filled? I can do even better.”

His fingers retreat, but only to graze across my entrance again. A second later, I understand why.

A smoother pressure solidifies inside me. Raul eases it in and out, expanding the substance in his grasp slightly with each iteration.

He’s grasped the shadow from right inside me and is bending it to his will to pleasure me.

“There you go, Shepherdess. Look how nicely you stretch for me.”

The growing pressure and the slick friction flood my whole body with heat. A strange mewling sound seeps from my lips.

Bastien catches it with a kiss and slips his hand between us to massage my clit. I barely hold myself back from grinding against him.

As Raul keeps pumping his shadowy plaything into my ass, Lorenzo kicks off his trousers. He strokes his hand along his cock, watching the scene before him as avidly as a starving man before a banquet table.

“You’re gorgeous, Aurelia. And you’re ours, as we’re yours. Even if no one else knows it. Even if Marclinus acts like you’re his. We belong to each other first.”

The devotion in his words brings a swell of affection into my chest, as overwhelming as the pleasure that’s quiveringthrough my nerves. I find my words amid the maelstrom of sensation. “Yes, we do.”

Bastien has been watching my face. A pleased smile creeps across his lips. “I think she’s ready to be fully possessed. Get over here, brother.”

Raul lets out a rumble of agreement. He releases his sculpted shadow and moves to the side to make room for the other man. “Slow and steady to start is the way to go.”

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