Zander groaned, moving up to seize my lips when Dex moved his mouth to my breasts. He kissed me roughly, biting and nipping and pushing my lips open to accept his tongue. I did, ignoring my promise to always defy them and kissing him back, drawing out a long moan that was all mine. He broke the kiss, cupping my jaw, and fixing his lust-filled eyes on mine.
“You see how hard he’s fucking me?” he groaned, his upper body jostled with Kaiden’s thrusts. “He’s going to fuck you twice as hard. And twice as long. Every thrust he gives me, you’ll get double that. Four times that, Princess. Because that’s what you deserve. That’s what you need. The four of us, Aria. You’re ours.”
“You were made for us,” Dex echoed, panting as he sucked my nipple hard and drew out another cry. “You’ve been alone for so long, just waiting for us to claim you.”
“And once we do, we’ll never let you go, Aria,” Umber vowed, burying his face against my pussy, his fingers and tongue making me tighten, coaxing out another orgasm. I tried to fight it. I couldn’t let it happen again. I couldn’t let them think I enjoyed this. It was debauched. Obscene. Nothing but a demonstration of pure lust.
But I never wanted it to end.
I was writhing again, my hands controlled by Dex and Zander, Umber’s mouth working me into a frenzy, but it was Kaiden who finally met my eyes, smiling as he looked down at me. His muscles flexed as he pumped harder into Zander, who groaned, his face buried in my neck, one hand fisted in the sheets above my head. I tipped my head to his, wanting to feel his pleasure. My lips pursed and I kissed Zander’s cheek, and it was that moment Kaiden freed me from the prison of lust they’d trapped me in, giving me an order I’d already come to love, and to dread.
“Come, Aria.” He somehow managed to thrust harder, and Zander groaned, his teeth sinking into my shoulder. “Now.”
I clenched my jaw, then my back arched, my pussy tightened, and I shattered.
My cries were so loud I worried someone outside might hear them, but no one did anything to silence me. Umber moaned against my throbbing pussy, his fingers stroking and pumping as pleasure flashed through my body, racing down my legs and up my spine like bolts of lightning.
Soon the men joined in my song, their pleasure-laced voices echoing around me. Dex grunted, exhaling an audible sigh as wetness filled my fist, his hand closed over mine to keep stroking as he came. Zander did the same, growling out his pleasure, sprays of his cum soaking the sheets beside me, drenching my forearm. And finally, Kaiden groaned, bowing over his friend’s back, his hands smoothing up and down his skin before he reached out and cupped my thigh, pulling it close to his body, gripping me so tight it almost ached.
Umber was the last to finish, and he stood between my spread thighs, his arm flexing furiously. I felt his hand against me, then the tip of his cock against my entrance, then warmth splashed between my legs in rhythmic spurts. He coated me with his release, rubbing his cock against me before sliding his fingers through my folds. He pushed them into my pussy, and I closed my eyes, unable to meet his lustful gaze as he dipped his cum-coated fingers inside me over and over.
“Who do you belong to, Aria?” Umber asked, licking his lips as he finally lifted his gaze from my pussy up to my eyes. “Say it, pretty girl. Tell us all who owns you.”
He pushed his fingers deeper, curling them until I grunted and closed my thighs around his hand, the pleasure bordering on pain because I was so stimulated. I let out a long, shaky sigh as he climbed over me, covering my body with his to give me a soft kiss.
“I’m not yours,” I said, forcing myself to deny the truth, far too afraid to let myself trust anyone again. They could leave. Whether by choice or by fate, someone could take them from me.
And I’d be alone again.
Umber tilted his head, then he swiped a gentle thumb over my cheek, smearing a single tear across my skin. He kissed the spot, then turned my lips to his, pressing a kiss to each corner of my mouth.
“You’ll say it soon enough, but for now I want you to hear it from me. You’re ours, Aria. Ours. And I promise you, pretty girl, no one will ever take you from us, or us from you. And when the next full moon comes, we’ll claim you. Right here, in our bed, and you’ll never doubt our mastery over you ever again.”
I swallowed, wanting so badly to believe him, but knowing that promises like that were always easily broken. My parents had broken theirs to me, and so had Esme. Unwillingly yes, but a promise broken left marks, even when they weren’t intentional.
And it was only a matter of time before these men left their mark on me, one I wasn’t sure I’d survive if I lost them too.
CHAPTER 9
Aria
The full moon haunted me.
It had for years.
I lost my parents under a full moon. I lost Esme under an almost full moon. According to Zander, I would lose my innocence under the full moon during the harvest procurement ceremony, though I felt almost like I’d lost it already.
“Whose cock has been between your legs?” Zander asked when I voiced this thought, concerned someone else had gotten to me before the four of them could.
I scowled, raising my eyebrows pointedly, because just a few days ago Umber had his cock between my legs and covered me with his release, and Zander had done the same two days later, spreading me open and ordering me to touch myself while he stroked himself to a messy finish between my thighs.
Zander made a dismissive noise at my expression and waved me off, pushing some low-hanging branches aside with his spear. “That isn’t the same. Neither of us put it inside you. Not yet.”
“No,” I scoffed. “You just stroked yourself to completion and made a mess I had to clean up later.”
“You were already a beautiful, slippery mess, pretty girl,” he said, twirling the spear in his hand. “As much as you still try to deny it, Princess, you crave us just as much as we do you.”
I glared at him as fiercely as I could, disregarding the incessant tugging sensation in my chest, and the heat that settled between my legs at his words. He continued to twirl the spear, his eyes fixed on mine before they flicked behind me and narrowed.