“Me,” I said. “I just…”

Wrapping my arms around Trin’s neck, I grinned. “Why the fuck am I hesitating?”

Then they were laughing too. The prick of Trin’s spine met my shoulder, and the world took on a glossy, golden shine.

“Fuck.” I whispered.

Ariel chuckled and lifted me out of the water. “I have a plan for you mate.”

“Oh?” I couldn’t resist and couldn’t think with the shimmering haze of pleasure around everything.

“Something I told you about a long time ago, and now your other mates know too. They’re all on board. So hold on.”

“I—”

Tentacles wrapped around my waist and I was flipped, brought down onto Trin’s waiting cock. He didn’t move, just seated himself deeply and waited, watching me.

Ariel floated up, only physical above his hips, pressing the head of myself to my mouth, and I took him down greedily.

“Laurent,” he said. “Your turn.”

My mates pleasured me together regularly, but this felt different. Usually it wasn’t planned. This was coordinated—organized to overload my body and mind.

Laurent’s stone hands gripped my hips, and I suddenly remembered what Ariel was talking about. When we’d bonded he’d painted this image for me, exactly like this.

My gargoyle mate took my ass, and I was overwhelmed with the pleasure of it. Trin’s venom overcame the need for me to be warm or prepared for it. I could simply exist and they could simply fuck me.

Of all the things we’d done, I hadn’t yet had his stone cock in my ass, and it made light flare behind my eyes.

Ban’s tongue on my clit and Laurent holding my wrists hostage behind my back were the last pieces of the puzzle, and for a few heartbeats we were all still, holding our breath.

And then my mates took me.

I imploded. Exploded. An overload of sensation that drove me straight into golden pleasure. Slow, heated honey that flowed under my skin and made me moan.

Ariel controlled my breath with his cock in my throat, just like he wanted to. And the lack of air made everything sharper. My mates were the only ones allowed to steal my breath now. They could take me to the edge of darkness and bring me back, and I would go with them every single time.

I didn’t know which way was up or down right now, all I could do was feel and breathe when I could. Cherished and fucked, owned and loved, mated and melting beneath all of this glorious attention.

Trin fucked me hard, pulling back just in time to come all over me, painting me with light in the darkness of our bedroom. Ban wasted no time slipping under me and into me, and I realized why. My two mates that could lock me to them fucking me together…

Oh, shit.

Ariel gripped my hair, fucking my throat both hard and slow, exactly the way he knew I liked it. Showing me how in control he was and how much I was not. Through our bond, he was close. But two could finally play at that game.

I reached for him through the mating bond andpressed. Shoving my need and arousal toward him and making him lose control.

He swore, coming, fucking my mouth erratically as he came. As soon as he was finished his hands were on my throat and his mouth was at my ear, whispering. “Later, I’m going to make you come only through the bond. Pin you down forhoursand make you writhe until you’re begging me for it.”

“Good,” I managed, breath heaving. “I’ll give it right back.”

“We’ll see who wins, mate. I’m a very patient spirit.”

Ban and Laurent hit the same place deep inside me, and I cried out, thrust over a cliff so I was falling down into another orgasm. “I can’t,” I breathed. “Even with the venom, I can’t.”

“Can’t?” Trin asked. “Or afraid to?”

They knew me too well, and I moaned, closing my eyes. I was on the edge of the orgasms that frightened me as much as I craved them. A place they only took me to once in a while. Now was one of those times.