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The magic whispered in my mind that he'd just called me his star. The endearment warmed my heart and felt so right.

"Nuss? What about you?" It took a minute for me to find him. He'd tucked himself into a dark corner of the room.

"I will bear witness, sweet Clara, but I ask you to forgive me for not participating. It is not something I can do until we find the Snowflake crown." The fist of his unbound arm clenched and opened at his side and the magic between us pulsed just as hard as it did with Zucker and Tau.

I reached my hand out to him and beckoned him to me. He put his palm against mine and I wrapped my fingers around his. "Then tomorrow we must find it."

Your Love is Better Than Cookies

ClaraMarie

Iunderstood what I had to do now.

If I wanted to bond with each of these men who'd come dancing into my life and stealing my heart. I had to find all the pieces of the broken seven crowns. That's why I was here. They might think it was to defeat this corrupt Mouse Queen, but I still wasn't convinced the Vivandiere wouldn't show up and do that herself.

What I needed the crowns for was to be able to restore the magic of love in the realm. I got to do that by discovering it for myself. That's how I would help defeat the evil that had seeped into the Winter Realm. Not fight, not lead an army, but spread the magic of love.

Mother Gingerbread gave me the piece of the broken crowns from their Kingdom which she and her bonded partners had carefully guarded. I realized now that she was blessing me with her son's hand.

This bonding was just the same as a marriage as far as I could tell, but somehow so much more. Marriage in the human world was a contract, and mine in particular was a business deal made to bail my brother out of the poor decisions he'd made. Love had nothing to do with it. Only fear, obligation, and desperation.

This bonding with Leb, and soon with Zucker, Tau, and Nuss meant so much more than saying some vows and getting a piece of paper that said I belonged to another man.

This was a joining of our spirits and I honestly believed that without love, it wouldn't feel quite so powerful. I might be joining with them so they could be my consorts, but in this moment, I didn't care about that even a little bit. I only knew that I wanted to be vulnerable, and intimate, and closer to these men than I ever had to anyone in my other life.

"Please stay, Nuss. I understand we can't yet be together, but I want you here." I squeezed his hand and hoped my request wasn't too much.

"As you wish, Princess." He slid his hand from mine and stepped back into the shadows where he sat in a lone chair in the corner.

I vowed to someday find out why he seemed to feel alone when he didn't have to be. For now, I would give him what he needed hoping later I could heal his heart.

Zucker pressed his lips to my ear and whispered, "I feel your mind working, and he's a tough nut to crack. We've all tried over the years. But I'll wager watching you come for us, and again as you ride Leb's cock sealing the bond, will do more to thaw that icy snowflake he calls a heart."

He swirled his tongue over my earlobe and then to the sensitive spot just below my ear. If this was how I could heal my Nutcracker once again, I was all for it. I wrapped my arm around Zucker's head and held him to me, reveling in the sensations his kisses were sending through me.

"I want to kiss you everywhere tonight," Tau said, "we'll make your body sing and prepare you to take Leb's giant of a cock into your body."

Leb raised an eyebrow and grinned but didn't say anything. That more than anything else told me that Tau wasn't exaggerating about the size of Leb's penis. Oh boy. Instead of touching me though, Tau pulled Leb's trousers down his legs and I got a look at every inch of Leb's body for myself.

That wasn't a cock. That was a whole damn Christmas tree. Decorative ornaments and all. "Are those piercings?"

Leb stroked his hand up his cock from the base to the tip, dancing his fingers over the small barbell underneath and then the four shiny metal balls circling the head of his shaft. What would those feel like in my hands, in my pussy?

"I promise, these are for your pleasure. It's all for you." Tau took my hand and placed it over the head of Leb's cock, showing me how to play with his piercings, and making them a whole lot less intimidating. Beads of his seed leaked from the head and my pussy clenched, heating, and my own moisture responded to his. Tau dragged my hand down to the second piercing underneath and Leb groaned in a way that I wanted to hear over and over.

Leb put his hand over both of ours and stilled our stroking with a hard squeeze. "Fuck me. If you keep doing that, I'm going to spill my seed on her belly instead of in her cunt."

"Is it bad that I'd like to see that?" It didn't feel wrong, but I knew extraordinarily little about what I should and shouldn't do or think when it came to sex.

Tau, Zucker, and Leb all groaned, and not in the you're-such-a-fool way, but in a manner that meant I'd definitely said the right thing. That emboldened me, making me feel as if I could do no wrong. That was something new in my life and exciting to me.

I wasn't entirely sure what to do with this feeling, but I had one idea. I looked at Tau, and then to Zucker. "I know we can bond yet, but I want this connection with you. Could you, or rather, could I stroke you like we were just doing to Leb and make you come... for me?"

"Sweet princess," Zucker crooned, "the bonding is about pleasuring you, not us. When you and Leb come together, your bodies joined, it will link your spirits, and your magic will build."

The magic wasn't as important to me as the link I wanted with each of them. "But I want it to be about both of us, all of us," I glanced over to Nuss hiding on the other side of the room, "including you."

"I say give the lady what she wants." Leb smiled and moved my hand slowly over his shaft again.

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