“It’s just nerves,” I whispered, my chest rising and falling with each too-fast breath.

Bastian scoffed and crossed the bathroom, eating up the space between us in two large strides. “You’re shaking like a leaf,” he said, wrapping his arms around me.

I tucked my face against the curve of his shoulder and inhaled his familiar woodsy scent. He rubbed slow, comforting circles over my back and nuzzled my neck.

I was vaguely aware of Gavin and Ash hanging back in the bedroom, but for the moment, I was perfectly happy to take the comfort Bastian offered. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused on the gentle brush of Bastian’s lips and slightly prickly stubble over my neck, on his softly murmured reassurances. I gripped his shirt at his sides, pulling him closer. His lips moved from my neck to my jaw, and I angled my face toward his, letting him kiss me fully.

Bastian’s arms tightened around me as I opened my mouth to let him in, savoring his approving groan, then slackened, hishands settling on my hips. His fingers kneaded the swell of my ass, slowly inching the towel higher up my legs.

With a hoarse growl, he gripped my hips and lifted me, setting my ass on the counter and wedging himself between my legs. I hooked my ankles behind his thighs and pulled him closer, rubbing my needy center against the hard length of him pushing against his sweatpants. I wrapped my arms around his neck, twining my fingers through the soft, short curls at the nape of his neck, and moaned at the delicious, teasing sensation between my legs.

Suddenly, Bastian’s arms were around me again, and he lifted me off the counter. I squeaked, holding on tight as he turned with me and carried me into the bedroom. He sat on the edge of the bed with me straddling his lap, and he let me take control of the kiss. But suddenly I wanted so much more than that.

Without breaking the kiss or even letting myself consider where this was leading, I reached down between our bodies and slid my hand into the waistband of his sweatpants, finding his hard length and pulling it free. His fingers dug into my hips, dragging me closer until my wet slit dragged across the bulging head of his cock.

I pushed his shoulders, wanting him to lie back on the bed so I could have my way with him. He complied, breaking the kiss and easing backward. I dug my nails into his shoulders and ground myself against him, not yet ready to give him what I knew he desperately wanted.

“Fuck, Sophie,” he moaned as I dragged my clit along his length, pleasuring myself even as I denied him. “You’re so fucking beautiful.”

A second pair of hands brushed over my shoulders, then down my chest to unknot the towel. The thick terry cloth slipped off my body and fell away, and those new hands teased theundersides of my bare breasts as teeth glided over the crook of my neck.

I arched my back, tantalized by the promise of a bite. “Yes,” I hissed, angling my head further to the side, encouraging those teeth to dig in.

Gavin’s smooth chuckle cascaded over my skin a moment before he bit down, breaking the skin and freeing my blood. At that exact moment, Bastian angled the head of his cock against my needy entrance and filled my aching core with one hard thrust.

I gasped as the pleasure of being filled so suddenly merged with the thrill of the bite, awakening my darker hunger. Gavin released my neck almost as soon as his teeth dug in, but the switch had been flipped. Bloodlust roared through my veins, amping up my sexual desires until I felt insatiable.

Ash stepped into my line of vision, standing beyond the far side of the bed, his eyes locked with mine as he stripped off his T-shirt, then set to work on his belt. I watched him as I rocked atop Bastian, craving the other immortal’s hands on me as well. My earlier fear seemed ridiculous because, at that moment, I knew nothing would feel as right as being with my consorts—all of them at the same time.

Behind me, Gavin grazed his teeth up and down over my neck, teasing the bite wound and pausing every so often to lick up the leaking blood. His hand slid down my abdomen and dipped between my legs, his fingers expertly finding my clit.

“Mmm . . . yes,” I moaned, slowing my rocking hips to enjoy Gavin’s circling fingers.

Ash’s belt was unbuckled, and he quickly unfastened his pants, his stare roving over the scene before him. He kicked off his boots and pushed down his pants with one hand while he gripped his monster cock with the other. I licked my lips, recalling how that massive appendage had felt inside me, and Imoved faster atop Bastian. Sensing my mounting climax, Gavin worked me harder, and the pleasure built higher and higher within me.

An orgasm ripped through me suddenly, my back bowing and my body shuddering. I closed my eyes, coasting along the blissful waves as Gavin and Bastian continued to play my body like expert musicians.

When the pleasure receded and Gavin moved his hand higher, to my belly, allowing semi-coherency to return to my lust-saturated mind, I opened my eyes to find Ash kneeling on the bed before me, at Bastian’s shoulder, fully nude and pumping his hand along the length of his massive cock.

I grabbed for him greedily, replacing his hand with my own. His breath hissed through his teeth as I squeezed him, using my grip on him to pull him closer to me. He crawled forward and leaned in toward me, bringing his neck inches from my mouth, seeming to instinctively understand what I needed. His large hands settled on my ribcage, and he angled his thumbs upward over my breasts, flicking his thumbnails over my nipples.

Encouraged by the sharp caress, I grazed my teeth over Ash’s neck, teasing only for a moment before digging in hard enough to break the skin. A deep groan rumbled through Ash’s chest as I pulled his blood into me. My nerve endings electrified, his immortal blood heightening the senses of my mortal body. The pleasure of Bastian’s cock filling me ratcheted up, ecstasy building within me once more.

Behind me, Gavin trailed a hand down my spine and grazed a fingertip lower, teasing between the cheeks of my ass. The sensation jolted through me, unexpectedly thrilling, and I pushed back against his finger as he focused his attention on a single point. I felt a warm wetness dripping down my crack, and the instant his fingertip, coated in the unexpected lubricant,pushed into my back hole and I felt the exponential heightening of sensations, I knew exactly what that wetness was: blood.

I tore my mouth away from Ash’s shoulder as a second orgasm rocked my body. Gavin took advantage of my momentary bliss to add a second finger, stretching me. The waves of pleasure intensified, and I pushed back against him.

I whimpered when Bastian suddenly pulled out of me, sliding his body out from between my legs, but I couldn’t do anything to stop him as I clutched onto Ash’s shoulders, entranced as I was by the new sensations Gavin was drawing from my body. But suddenly, his fingers left me as well, and I felt empty without either of my immortals. I sagged against Ash, mourning the loss of feeling so deliciously full.

“Hold on, Sophie,” Gavin said, and then I felt him nudging my back entrance with something far thicker than a finger. More warm blood trickled down my crack, and I shuddered as sparklers of pleasure soaked into my skin. “Deep breaths,” he said, stroking gentle fingers along my spine. “Relax.”

“Fuck me, Gavin,” I panted, pressing back against him, and he slowly pushed into me. The pleasure of his immortal blood eased the pain of being stretched.

“Some help?” Gavin ground out.

Without hesitation, Ash crawled forward and rolled onto his back, angling his head directly between my legs. He dragged his tongue along my slit, then wrapped his lips around my clit and sucked.

“Fuck,” I moaned, my eyelids fluttering shut as Ash continued to suck my clit, flicking his tongue over the swollen bud.