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I just need to see them, I say.To feel them.Somehow.
She’s quiet, but when she speaks, she sounds hopeful.There might be a way, she says.Go to sleep, Flame.And let me see what I can do to light the spark again.
Sleep, is she insane?But a lassitude falls over me, despite my state, and I realize she’s influencing me.Do I dare rest?Is it even safe to close my eyes?I sink back into the cushions once more, eyes closing, the simmering rage a distant thing as the quiet of sleep calls to me.
I drift into the dark, body humming with the tingle that is my connection to her.And when I open my eyes again, I’m calm, adrift.
But I’m not alone.
Lips brush mine, breath in my mouth, hands on my skin.I’m naked somehow, but unafraid, as their touch drifts in and out, their scents so familiar I ache from the taste of them, the way they feel, the spark rising slowly, almost unfelt until it’s there in a wave and I’m on fire—
Atlas.Zenthris.
Remi, they say together.
As the flames consume us all.
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Chapter Twenty-Three
How many times can I orgasm?While they stroke my folds, lips on my mouth, tongues on my clit and nipples and fingers pulling my hair, stirring gooseflesh from soft strokes of my lower back and inner thighs, the backs of my knees, soles of my feet, the soft flesh between beneath my breasts tingling, aching for more.
The buildup of passion is a never-ending wake that spins out into infinity, because they’re touching me everywhere at once, an overload of sensation that can’t possibly feel any more but does.No matter the release that comes in bursts of sparking joy, the sensations only increase, the spiral of ecstasy carrying me higher and higher until I’m floating in an endless spasm that will never end.
Please, don’t ever let it end.
Remi, Atlas’s thrusts are as sweet as they are deep and hard, the way I love him to take me.
Remi, Zenthris pants over my neck from behind me, throbbing inside me, one hand cupping my pussy with Atlas sliding between his fingers, the other pulling my hair, arching my head back to him so he can kiss me.
How?I shove at the question, not wanting to know, terrified the answer will break the spell, but it’s there, it’s done its work, and we’re tumbling back into the cushions together.We’re in a bed I don’t know, in a quiet room filled with shadows, and everything feels soft, misty, and I know how.
I need to know how before this can resume.
“I’m dreaming,” I whisper.
“We all are,” Atlas says, blue eyes filled with wonder.“Is this real?”
“Real enough,” Zenthris growls from my other side, fingers trailing down my stomach to my clit.He strokes me as we talk, comforting more than stimulating, Atlas’s lips tracing my cheek, my jaw, nibbling my ear.
“I don’t care if it’s not real,” I say, fighting the tears I refused when I was awake.
“Remi,” Atlas says, anxious concern as aroused as his thick, heavy cock that softly pulses against my hip.“We’ve looked everywhere.Where are you?”
“South,” I say, and tell them everything.In the dream state, it seems that I’m folding my story over into layers, not like I shared with Brem, but as though I’m able to explain it all in a crumpled ball of a handful of words that somehow share the horror that now squeezes tears from me after all.
They cradle me, whispering their love to me, the kinspark bright as it races between us, tying us tightly together.And I see and feel more than I hear them tell me what has happened to them, for them, since I’ve been lost.
Flashes of panic, of hunts through the city of Neem, the outer isles, while they fought the armada of the Overking, Isolatta’s fleet destroying the attacking ships and fleeing again, striking hard and fast.
But no trace of me was found, and they both took comfort in one another while refusing to believe I was dead, even when my father gave up on me.
They’re sailing for Dorgondon in the morning.
“Not anymore, we’re not,” Zenthris growls.“We’re coming for you.”
“No,” I say immediately, startling them both.I feel their resistance to my denial, but I can’t risk them throwing themselves into peril.“I’m already here.I have to see this through.But I will do what I need to do, and when I return, we will go to Dorgondon together.”
