My heart threatened to crack, and that only made me angrier.
Or… just more frightened over what the ache in my chest meant.
Zander managed to grab one of my hands once we were on the ground, but I reared back and slapped him with the other. His head jerked to the side, which gave me the chance to dig my feet into the ground and buck my hips. He toppled off me, but instead of jumping to my feet and running again, I crawled on top of him. He was grinning like a madman when I shoved his wrists above his head and used the entire weight of my body to pin him down. He tried to buck me off him, but I shifted and used my knees to pin his shoulders down. He wrenched his hands free and grabbed my hips, but I fisted his hair in both hands and pushed his head back into the soft grass.
“Enough!” I shouted, but his only reply was another maniacal laugh.
“It is.”
The next thing I knew, he shifted his body side to side, and my calves ended up pinned under his shoulders. I tried to rise up and move away, but strong arms wrapped around the tops of my thighs to keep me in place. Zander snarled, ripped through my trousers like they were paper.
“I told you what I’d do if I caught you wearing panties again.”
He tore the flimsy fabric, and despite my supposedly dominant position on top of him, I felt powerless. I had him pinned, but he was still getting his way. I thrashed, bucking my hips, trying to throw off his grip. My hands tugged at his hair, but he seemed wholly unaffected by it. When my trousers and panties were in tatters, Zander grabbed my hips and pulled, yanking me forward and onto his face, centering my now bare pussy right over his mouth.
I sucked in a breath as his tongue found my clit and he started licking me. Ravenously. Like he was starving and would get his fill any way possible. I yanked his hair again and tried to pull his head back, but he only squeezed me tighter, forcing me down onto his face. I tried settling all my weight onto him, hoping it might stop him from breathing, but he kissed and sucked and swirled that wicked tongue up and down the seam of my body. Heated pleasure bloomed low in my belly, slowly creeping up my spine.
“Stop. Oh! I’m going to… kill… oh, gods…”
Zander laughed. “Kill me then. I’ll gladly die like this.” He swirled his tongue around me, sending a shiver of pleasure up my spine. “It’d be a warrior’s death.”
I gritted my teeth, head already foggy with pleasure. “You’re filthy,” I managed in a breathy voice, fisting his hair again. Zander only moaned and stroked his hands firmly along my thighs.
“Then fuck my filthy mouth, girl.”
He closed his eyes, roughly urging me to rock my hips, to guide him to where it felt good.
And I was so lost I did.
I obeyed him, overwhelmed by pleasure, from the flood of emotions. Terror, desire, rage, relief. They all blended together in a confusing heated mess inside me. And when Zander closed his lips and sucked my clit, all I wanted was release.
He continued to torment me, caressing every inch of my skin with his lips, his tongue, faint scrapes of his teeth. Zander moaned his pleasure even though his mouth was muffled against me. I started to grind forward and back, my body no longer under my control. I bowed to his commands, caving to the wanton desire that filled me.
I finally released his hair and gave up the fight, taking hold of the hands he had wrapped around my legs and rocking myself against his tongue. Zander growled, his fingers tightening around my thighs, his tongue swirling wildly while I pushed myself closer to the edge of pleasure. Closer. Closer…
There was movement, then another pair of hands wrapped around my waist. I was suddenly enveloped in heat when a hard chest pressed against my back. Zander licked me furiously, but the newcomer pulled me out of the haze of pleasure and back to reality.
I tried weakly to shift away, but their hands slid to my hips and coaxed me to keep grinding.
“That’s it, girl.”
Kaiden’s voice was low in my ear, and once I fell into rhythm again, his hands slid up the sides of my body, taking my shirt with them. He pulled it over my head and tossed it aside, quickly shielding my breasts from the cool night air by cupping them with his palms. I shook my head, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Dex and Umber move around to stand above Zander. They peeled off their shirts, revealing broad, muscled chests and taut stomachs. Umber had a tattoo across one shoulder and Dex’s chest had a few scars covered up by soft hair on his pecs. I watched them unfasten their pants and whimpered.
This was it. It was finally going to happen.
They were going to claim me like they’d promised. Take me. Make me theirs.
And I knew, no matter how hard I fought, there would be no resisting them this time.
“Keep going, Aleria,” Kaiden purred, his callused fingers pinching my nipples. “Ride his face. Get yourself ready to ride our cocks.”
CHAPTER 23
Aria
As soon as he whispered those filthy words into my ear, I came.
The orgasm swept upward over my body, radiating from where Zander had me pinned to his face all the way up to the crown of my head. I clutched his hands and cried out, torn between trying to tear them off my thighs and trying to just… hold on.