Page 28 of Fritillaria

The air is charged, heavy with the warmth of their encounter. Aspis wraps his arm around my waist, pulling me in close and pressing my back against him. He moves my hair away as he starts to place burning kisses along my neck.

Ivy’s dark eyes draw me in. “Fuck,” she swears as she watches Aspis touch me.

“Please kiss me.” I beg, so turned on that I can’t feel anything but my need for her.

Ivy doesn’t wait. Aspis brings us closer and Ivy bends down from her seat at the counter to kiss me.

Everything clicks into place and my soul is settled.

Finally.

I hold her face in my hands, terrified that she will pull away. It’s softer than kissing Aspis. Ivy’s plush lips are decadent, her amber rich scent heady and addictive. Aspis pauses his kisses, but his hand strokes down my back and side as his other does the same to Ivy.

Aspis has lowered himself so that his mound is pressed into my butt and he grinds against me. I am sandwiched between my mates, letting Ivy explore me as she wants.

Ivy leans back, breaking our kiss and looking at us both with heat in her eyes.

“Ivy,” I stroke her thigh, tracing the lines of her tattoos through her tights. I’m nervous to ask her, but I need to know. “Are you trying this for real? Has something changed?”

As happy as I am that she is with us right now, it is really out of character for her to jump all in after changing her mind. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed Ivy changing her mind.

“I-I’m…” I’ve also never seen Ivy at a loss for words like that. “I’m scared. But I need to try this. My initial reasons… how do I say this?”

She tugs at her hair, but we give her the time she needs to compose herself. Aspis is frozen behind me, not daring to make a move apart from the tightening of his hand on my hip.

“It’s never been that I’m not attracted to either of you. It’s just that I didn’t want a relationship right now. I’m trying to write a new album, which I have been really struggling with.

“But it was also that I didn’t get to choose it for myself. The thing is… if one of you had asked me on a date without all the ‘mate’ strings attached, I probably would have said yes.”

Ivy is looking down, refusing to make eye contact with either of us.

“But to answer your question… I realized at dinner tonight how stupid I was being. That my priorities could shift. That you could both make me very happy.”

My heart breaks for my stubborn mate. She has been holding herself back over nothing. But that is all about to change. I am not letting my mate leave me again without averyclear reason.

Chapter 24

Ivy

I wouldn’t normally be this honest with, well,anyone.

Aspis has been silently watching my conversation with Matilda. Her hand is on my thigh but he isn’t touching me. I wish he would say something. Do something.

“I’m sorry,” he clears his throat. “I was too pushy. I should have eased you into this so much more gently. I—”

“It’s not you,” I cut him off. “I was just being stubborn. It happens, what can I say?”

Aspis chuckles, moving around Matilda and closer to me, shifting between my legs again. His kiss this time is so much sweeter. My heart is full as he pours so much emotion into it.

My knees buckle, and I am so grateful that I am sitting on this counter.

I keep a hand on Matilda so that she doesn’t feel left out. Pleasure is pooling in my core again as Aspis continues to kiss me like his life depends on it. I can’t help but grind my pussy against him. I need to feel some friction or I will go crazy.

Except it’s much easier this time, he’s not smooth like before. No, he’s at a different height to our last kiss. It doesn’t feel like a dick?

I break our kiss, looking down between us. A lump has formed on his lower abdomen, a large bump that is expanding. It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before.

I glance at Matilda, but she doesn’t seem to have noticed. Or maybe she just doesn’t care?

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