Page 72 of Rising Luna
Silas took my response and ran with it. He picked up his pace, driving himself hard and deep inside of me with my leg still raised. He grabbed the other leg and lifted me slightly off the ground, somehow getting him impossibly deep and moving at a punishing pace. The orgasm crashed through me, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head. I wrapped my legs around him, and his lips were on mine as he released the hold on my legs. As he kissed along my jaw, his pace continued until he found hismark, just above where Jackson put his. He sunk his teeth back into my neck, claiming me for a second time, and the pleasure ripped through me where I screamed louder than I ever had before. His release followed mine, and as he went slack against me, he retracted his canines from my neck.
We were out of breath and entangled with each other as we stared into each other’s eyes. There was a time when I thought this would never be real, but now I couldn’t see it any other way. The Great Moon did more than a good job. This felt perfect. The three mates she had created for me were everything I could ever need.
“What’s going through that pretty head of yours?”
I let out a laugh because I knew he wasn’t used to the bond being there to check himself. It took me a while to know I could easily pull the information I needed from my mates through the bonds. He needed some reassurance, so I sent it through the bond before putting my hand on his face.
“How stupid we were to throw this all away. But also how I wish I could freeze time right now to savor this.”
He leaned his forehead on mine, and I could feel he felt the same. “Yeah. Too much time wasted on wanting the other to feel the pain we went through.”
There were footsteps approaching, and the presence of my other mates washed over me before they came into view. Jackson was on top of the hill first, coming from the dorm, and I could see his face contorted with a bit of rage before his eyes landed on me. In the bond, his confusion hit me like he didn’t expect for Silas to be there, even though I could feel all three bonds thrumming in my chest. I held my breath as I waited for Hunter to come into view. The bond was there, so he couldn’t be dead, and I could feel him nearby. The problem was that I wasn’t that far from the academy, so I could tell whether he was in the infirmary or not.
Then he came into view.
Even though I felt bad, I pushed Silas off me and got to my feet. I ran to Hunter, bypassing Jackson, and threw myself into Hunter’s arms. He wrapped them around me and sighed as he pressed his nose to my neck and breathed in my scent.
“You scared the shit out of me,” I sobbed into his neck, breathing in that citrus and woodsy scent.
“I could say the same to you.”
He pushed me back enough to look into my eyes. I dropped my gaze to his chest and raised his shirt to see where the dagger had been pushed. There was no mark. He had healed, but I needed to see it for myself.
“It’s fine. I’m good, love.” He kissed my forehead as he put both of his hands on my face and forced me to look at him. “Never chase off an enemy again and leave me. Do you understand?”
“He would have kept going if I didn’t distract him, Hunter!”
Jackson growled, and I turned to see him with his hands over Silas’s throat and Silas in the air. Hunter dropped his hands from my face and pushed past me to stalk toward my other mates. I chased after them and jumped onto Hunter’s back to stop him. It was like jumping onto a damn tree. Hunter pressed on like he didn’t even feel me on his back.
“STOP!” I pushed the command through the bonds.
Jackson dropped Silas and turned toward me. I didn’t know that would even work, but I was happy it did. Both of them were staring at me with Silas coughing on the ground. Somehow, they couldn’t feel the bond completed between us, or they didn’t care. They wanted to hurt Silas for what he had done.
Could I blame them? No. Kind of hard to. But they needed to know we were past that.
“Silas was under Lupe’s control. He had been since she took him, and getting him out of that chair was a set up, but I fixed it. He is ours now.”
Jackson sniffed in Silas’s direction, which I found kind of funny in the moment since Silas was naked on the ground. When he looked back at me, I nodded.
“You finished the bond with him?”
“Yes.”
There were a few growls from all of them, but I ignored them. They were all on edge, and there was no blame. I knew this situation was fucked from the start, and I couldn’t imagine how they felt. I still wanted to punch Silas for stabbing Hunter.
Silas got to his feet just in time for Hunter to close the distance and land a hard punch to his jaw, which made him fall back to the ground.
“What the fuck, man?”
“That’s for stabbing me. If I can’t stab you,” which he pulled his own dagger from a sheath in his pants, “then a punch will have to do.”
Silas sighed and nodded. Hunter sheathed the dagger again and held out a hand for Silas to help him get up.
“We need to get back to the dorm. Something is going down. None of the guards are here,” Jackson said, taking off his shirt and handing it to me.
Hunter took off his pants and threw them at Silas to put on. Once we had enough clothes on, we headed toward the dorm.
“What do you mean, there aren’t any guards?”
