The glow in Zara’s eyes burns brighter.
“You and Lucius?” she whispers, with that throaty catch that tells me how much she likes the concept.
“Not… not yet.” It’s hard to pull my head together enough for actual speech right now. But I try for her sake. “He’s, uh, resisting. But I… I definitely think I want to…”
And I still want him to bite me whenever he finally fucks me.
Both ZaraandRonin groan when they pick that up.
“Sweet Jesus.” Her pussy clenches around my dick hard enough to make me groan too. Her legs wrap around mine and her hips shove into me. “That’s gonna besohot, baby.”
Pleasure shoots down my spine and swells in my balls. My hips punch forward all on their own. Then it’s like the dam breaks and I’m fucking her, my beloved, my cherished fated mate, like I’ll literally die if I don’t.
She can run away and leave me behind and not answer any of those voice mails I loaded into Ronin’s inbox until the thing stopped working. She can hurt me by leaving me out of her crazy plans. She can take as many consorts as she wants to be her kings and share her throne with whomever she likes when she ascends.
ButI’mthe guy who’s fucking her now.
Iwon’tbe left out or left behind anymore. I won’t.
Not ever.
And right now I’m going to make her come so hard she summons her lightning and blows every circuit on this whole darn island.
I growl and hammer into her, setting a furious rhythm that makes the bed shake and the curtains sway and the headboard slam against the wall. Her eyes flutter shut and her brow furrows and her head tips back to bare her throat. She’s still wearing Lucius’ shirt, that gamy wolfish smell of him is everywhere in this bed—he’s all around me, yet still so unattainable—and that makes me even crazier.
With a snarl, I clench my fists in that shirt and rip it open, buttons flying (sorry about that, Lucius) to bare Zara’s perfect tits, just literally the most gorgeous breasts on the planet, full and crowned with those pink areolae and pert nipples I love so much to suckle, her rings bouncing gently with every thrust.
“Yeah, just like that,” she moans through her bared teeth. “Love the way you give me your cock.”
“Love the way you take it.” I nuzzle my way down her sweating neck to tongue the little puncture scars on her boob that Vasili left when he bit her like the viper he is, because tonguing her bites is something I know she likes.
Even though this whole train of thought just gets me thinking all over again about why no one wants to biteme.
I shove that thought away and enclose one nipple with my mouth, sucking as much of her inside as I can, before I start worrying her tight nub with my tongue and tugging at her ring with my teeth.
Her hands clench around my bottom, nails digging hard enough to leave crescents. But it’s the sparks flying from her fingertips that make me grunt and grip her wrists and pin her arms safely overhead.
Well, that, plus the fact that she actually likes being restrained when she’s fucked.
Next to us, Ronin’s on the edge of losing it, one fist clenched in the sheets, the other wrapped around his dick in hard punishing strokes made slick and audible by all that precum he’s pumping out. He’s grunting with every downstroke and his fiery eyes are riveted on Zara and me like he’ll never look away.
I love that he’s watching, that it’s me with her now, that watching me fuck her is what’s getting him off. Because, even though I’m mad at him, I’m also so deeply in love with him.
“Ah, shit, Red,” he grunts, thrusting into his fist, his gaze locked on mine. “I’m sorry I ghosted, okay? Didn’t know what to say to you. You’re so blooming sweet you just wreck me.”
Which isn’t the same thing as saying he loves me back.
C’mon. You know how I feel about you,he whispers in my head.You know.
And, sure, I thought I knew.
Until they both left me.
“Never leave me again.” My eyes veer from his to burn into Zara’s. “I mean it. I need you to promise.”
Her slitted pupils dilate wide. In our bond, guilt and worry surface through the hot haze of lust.
“Oh baby,” she whispers. “I was trying to protect you. I was trying to protect all of you, but those two refused to be left behind. It was a combat situation. And you’re not a fighter.”