Page 300 of Dawn of Chaos and Fury
Luka didn’t care who was calling the shots right now. He bent over Tessa’s bare body, his tongue lapping up the spilled alcohol off her breasts.
“Oh,” she breathed, already sliding her thighs farther apart. Not having her sight would be heightening every other sensation at the moment.
“But you’re a villain, right?” Theon went on as if none of that had just happened. “So the plan must be to make them trust you, and then you’ll leave them to their own fate. Right?”
“That’s not?—”
Then she was hissing as Theon poured more alcohol down her chest, and Luka was there, cleaning her up. His tongue slid along her flesh, circling her nipples, sucking them sharply.
“Luka,” she gasped.
“Yes, please stop, Luka,” Theon sneered. “She didn’t ask for this.”
“Theon, that’s not… This isn’t the same thing,” she gritted out, jerking against the darkness keeping her in place.
“It should be,” he snapped.
Her brow bunched in confusion. “What?”
“It should be exactly the same fucking thing,” Theon snarled again, pouring more alcohol down her front. More than last time. Only this time, he kept talking while Luka dropped to his knees before her, catching the small stream that was making its way to her navel and licking up her torso.
“Here, when it’s just the three of us, you trust us to be what you need. Toknowwhat you need. To be your balance.” Theon gripped the back of the chair, leaning down and speaking harshly into her ear. His hand slid under her chin, tipping herhead back. “Even out there, you trust us to pull you back if you sink too deeply into Chaos. But you can’t trust us to be your balance inthis? In something we have worked and prepared for nearly our entire lives.”
“To take over Arius Kingdom,” she gasped. “Not…”
“Say it,” Theon ordered. His hand slid from her jaw to her throat when she didn’t answer right away. His fingers flexed, massaging her pulse point. “Say it, Tessa.”
“They’re going to think we’re trying to take over everything. That we’re no better than Rordan,” she cried out. “And how are we any different? You are taking power from others. Iam the very thing that has been prophesied to destroy the realm since its inception. The three of us? It’s no secret we could bring this world to its knees and make them worship at our feet.”
“Baby girl, you have proven time and again that is not your plan. Why would you bother with any of it if that’s all you wanted?” Luka asked, his hands settling on her thighs as he watched her torment play out on her features.
His thumbs made small circles, distracting her as she shifted, trying to move them higher. Because when she was in this state, she lost control of her thoughts. Letting them out and saying things she’d never admit to anyone else.
“Because I could,” she whispered. “Maybe not now, but the power… Maybe not now. Not tomorrow or next year. But some day… It wants that.”
It.
Notwe.
“We are yours,” Theon said darkly, his hand sliding down to cup a breast. “Are you saying you are not ours?”
“No. That’s not?—”
“Because if you are ours, you will trust us to make sure that never happens. We are a balance, Tessa. We call each other out.We fight. We fuck. We drive each other mad. We talk. We love. We do this thingtogether.”
“I understand,” she whispered.
“That wasn’t very convincing,” Luka growled, his thumbs now massaging the creases of her thighs.
“Are you ours?” Theon demanded again.
“Yes.”
“All of you? Every piece of you?”
“Yes,” she ground out.
“Then that means we get your insecurities, Tessa,” he retorted, his teeth nipping at her throat and making her hiss again.
