“Yeah,” he whispered against my ear. “I see your head between her thighs while I’m fuckingyou.”
Evidently she picked up on that image too because she jerked against Rik’s grip, and this time, he let her go. Head back, hands braced on his stomach, she rode him hard, plunging up and down as much as she could without his help. Her pleasure rained down on our bonds, sweet and cool like the first spring rain, but quickly darkening with thunderclouds and lightning. She burned. She needed. Her fangs throbbed so hard that mine ached in sympathy, her thirst an insatiablewildfire.
I leaned toward her, eager to feel her fangs again, but Rik growled, “no,” at the same time that Ezra planted a forearm between my shoulders and pushed my head down out of his way so he could offer his throatinstead.
I would have bitten the crap out of him, if I could have gotten my mouth on him. She’d fed on me already, but I was still fucking pissed ashell.
He leaned on me harder, bending me in half, his weight on my back, his dick impossibly thick inside me. Stuffed and bent like a pretzel, I was starting to feel a little sympathy for Mehen after the way Rik had fucked him lastnight.
Her voice broke on a soft cry that made me writhe and heave, but I couldn’t get free. Not even to put my mouth on herskin.
Ezra suddenly jerked beneath me and I felt her fangs sinking into his throat. I had a half second to brace, and then he exploded inside me. He roared with release, his hand clamping down on my dick so hard the last brain cell I possessed worried a second that he’d break it in half. Then I was coming too, and Shara and Rik like dominoes. Only when Rik came, he let out a deep bellow like a volcano had gone off inside him. His body jerked so hard that the bed shook and thudded against the wall, spurt after spurt emptying into our queen. Her body drank him down as eagerly as she sucked blood from Ezra’s throat. Gulp after gulp aftergulp.
When he started to sag toward her, I finally worked free of him and cuddled around her waist, easing her off Rik and down to themattress.
Our alpha was sweaty and barely conscious, his chest still heaving for air after such a mighty climax. His instincts still drove him hard. Protect the queen at all costs. He tried to roll toward her, but he could barely lift herarm.
:It’s all right,:I whispered for him alone.:We’ve got her.Rest.:
:She.:His eyes flickered, his mighty muscles slowly sagging into the bed.:Hungers.:
:I’ve got her,:Ezra whispered in our bond.:With my bulk, I can tide her over until Mehen and Xincome.:
We shifted her down between us, Ezra’s throat still in her mouth. I pressed against her back and did what I didbest.
I purred. Slow and deep and steady. While she fed so long that even the mighty grizzly sagged unconscious in her arms. She made a soft sound of disappointment, but her bond felt relaxed and sleepy. I kept up that steady purring, easing her to sleep. She needed as much rest as she could get in between feedings. It’d help her strengthreturn.
Now that I was back in her bed, I wasn’t ever fucking leavingagain.
17
Shara
Iwasn’tsure who came and went the first few hours. Daire picked me up at one point and they changed the sheets on the bed. I was too sleepy to look, but I figured after I’d fed and fucked so many of them, the entire room probably would have glowed like a nucleardetonation.
Rik pressed a glass to my mouth and I drank it all. Then I drank from Mehen and Xin while Daire and Rik wolfed down some sandwiches. Rik tried to make me eat one too, but I didn’t wantfood.
I had what Ineeded.
They all fed me again in the wee hours of the morning. It was a strange feeling, this hunger. It tormented me in my sleep, but I was too tired to even consider sex or biting one of them. I kept wandering in my dreams, searching for one of my Blood, my fangs throbbing. It was horrible. Like dreaming about trying to find a bathroom all night, only to finally wake up and realize your bladder was about toexplode.
I woke again when they switched guard rotations. It felt painfully early and my body was still heavy and sluggish, but I made myself getup.
I had too much to do to lie around in bed all day. Though Rik glared at me as I shambled around the room, trying to find my other shoe. That I was already carrying in myhand.
“Even you are not invincible. The stronger you are, the more energy you expend, and you’ve completely depleted your reserves. You need to rest and feed and rest somemore.”
“I will,” I insisted, holding on to Daire’s shoulders as he helped me pull on a pair of jeans. “But I’ve got to learn as much as I can about court life before thistrip.”
“Etiquette lessons won’t help anyone if you’re falling down into a faint because you’re tooweak.”
Goddess, he was so sexy standing there, frowning so fiercely. My big protective alpha. He’d completely depleted his reserves last night, too. All inside me. I could still feel the hot splash of his semen deep inside me. Maybe he was right. If I took him back tobed…
My stomach growled and that decided it for him. “We’ll get you some breakfast and talk with Gina for an hour. Max. Then you really should take a nice long nap if youcan.”
“Deal. And a bath, if we can find a tub bigenough.”
He tugged on some pants and then tucked my arm through his. “I’m sure we can find something big enough for at leasttwo.”