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I whimpered, the pleasure too much, and I couldn’t lift myself even though I wiggled. And struggled.

Laurent kissed the corner of my mouth before moving his lips to my ear. “Talk to me, sweetheart. Tell me what he’s doing to you.”

Ariel’s fingers dug into my hips, and he used his tongue to tease me, licking up under my clit and around it. Little bursts of pleasure that weren’t enough and he damn well knew it. “His tongue is on me,” I gasped out the words.

“You can do better than that.”

“Please,” I begged. “Please.”

The tongue swirling and swirling and swirling and I was so fucking close and wet I was shaking. I tried to pull my hands out of Laurent’s grip and the hand turned to stone.

“He’s licking my clit,fuck.”

“Mmm. And which do you like better? When he licks your clit? Or when he sucks it so hard you see stars?”

Ariel did exactly that, and Ididsee stars. Silver stars. Drenched with silver power and the incredible sensation of Ariel’s mouth.

“Or maybe,” Laurent whispered. “Maybe you like it when he fucks your cunt with his tongue until it’scoatedwith your cum.”

Beneath me, Ariel’s tongue shifted to follow Laurent’s words, and I imploded. Fiery, honeyed heat rolling up and out until I was rigid and frozen with pleasure. There wasn’t any voice left to scream with. All I needed was this and them, and I melted back down as they both released me, Laurent laughing softly.

He came around the bed and touched Ariel’s mark, but it didn’t respond the way it did when Ariel touched it. “This is new.”

Suddenly shy, I looked away from him, and he pulled me up and slung my legs across his lap. “How do you feel?”

“I don’t think I can describe it.” But I was still exhausted. That was for damn sure. My arms were a little less purple after hours of raw sex, but the power was still advancing and already beyond where it had receded. Even now I saw it creeping up my skin like ink absorbing into paper. “And I need a shower.”

He kissed my forehead. “Okay. I want to hear about it when you’re ready.”

Nodding, I let him stand me on my feet. I wasn’t hiding from him. I was just… both full and empty at once. Full of happiness and pleasure and satisfaction and empty of energy and reaction and thought.

Ariel caught me around the waist before I made it to the shower. “I love you.”

“I love you. I’m just exhausted.”

He laughed. “I can feel it. Take a nice shower, and I’ll make some coffee. Not summon it.” There was a wink over his shoulder before he disappeared and I went into the giant shower.

The hot water felt amazing, but it was still too hot. I kept turning the heat down, and down, and down, but my skin was still burning. And then it was glowing.

Fuck. There wasn’t any chance to even step out of the water or yell for help before the island wrapped its claws around me and took me away.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

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MEGHAN

Ifell onto dirt and rolled, my skin scraping on the packed surface. This place was a combination of darkness and pure brightness.

Where the hell—

Rolling, I came face to face with the blinding light. Pure brightness in the center of this room. It looked like a crystal, but it was so stark and bright, I couldn’t really tell.

“It should have killed you by now.” The voice rasped, and I turned to find Prospero leaning against the wall of this room. He looked drawn and gray, like he could barely stand. His skin was hanging off him, and he reminded me of a doll that was old and too worn out.

I’d been pulled out of the shower and didn’t have anything on. The dirt now smeared on my skin wasn’t nearly enough coverage.

Shimmering light flickered through the air, and there was a sheet draping over my shoulders in a shade of violet I now recognized. I snatched it and wrapped it fully around myself.

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