Page 77 of Run Like the Devil

I swallowed hard at the fear but pulled in a deep breath and reminded myself that I wouldn’t allow the Path to win.

“You can stay,” I forced myself to utter, surprised that the words didn’t feel like as much of a lie as I suspected.

Maybe I was more okay with this than I thought? In fact, the way my cock twitched, as if it cheered me on, said at least that part of me wanted to keep going down that line of thought.

Gorrin nodded and rose to his feet, the action masculine and almost hypnotic. In this setting, drugged by the atmosphere and Loch’s need and the light, I could admit that Gorrin was handsome.

I’d slept with men enough times—once people died and came back, things like gender stopped mattering so much. It had been quite a while, but even I could appreciate Gorrin’s looks. He was strong, his body cut and beyond impressive. He moved with such certainty, as if he doubted none of this, as it didn’t strike him as strange at all. The fact that he’d also worn nothing to bed meant none of us had to go through the hassle of disrobing.

He crossed the short distance to us, then dropped to his knees beside us. He caught Loch’s chin and turned her face, kissing her with a passion I would have never expected from him.

In fact, it felt like seeing a part of him I wasn’t meant to, something private and personal and precious and not intended for me. He was aggressive with his kiss, slipping his tongue past her lips, but he didn’t touch her as if she were just a toy. Instead, he curled his hand tightly, holding her, and the whole thing made my chest tighten.

He broke the kiss and turned that gaze to me.

I was used to feeling in charge, yet I felt oddly prey like beneath that gaze. Was this how Hale had felt the last time, when Loch had ordered him about?

And why did I…enjoy it?

I couldn’t even say for sure that enjoy was the correct word. It was deeper than that, more consuming.

And worse? Gorrin ran his thumb across my bottom lip, then paused and slipped it into the heat of my mouth, the action blanking any worries that had run through my head before.

I latched my lips around him and sucked, closing my eyes, tired of thinking rather than feeling, worrying rather than experiencing.

If the Path was going to end us all anyway, if things were truly as hopeless as they felt, I would give myself over to this. I deserved at least that much, didn’t I?

And even if I didn’t, I wouldn’t throw it away.

Loch

Fuck everything else.

Or at least everything in this house…

The sensation of Gorrin’s lips against mine while I rocked my hips, rubbing my clit against Tyrus’ hard cock, made me wonder if we hadn’t made it to Heaven already.Maybe we’d managed to cross over to the Plains and I just hadn’t realized it?

They lit up my entire body, made me gasp and shudder. How was it that they could make everything that had weighed on me disappear the moment they put their hands on me?

That distance and loneliness I’d felt before couldn’t stand against this. It was as if whatever existed between us was so much more powerful than the Path, than the magic Hubis used to twist us all.

And I felt it in the touches of Gorrin and Tyrus.

Tyrus, who feared being betrayed, who feared getting close to others without a plan to outwit them, laid beneath me, sucking on Gorrin’s thumb. He did nothing to defend himself, to protect himself, instead choosing to trust us both.

Gorrin, who had clung to me, who had worried for me, kissed me with such recklessness it showed he acted rather than thought, that he gave himself over to the feelings without questioning them.

And he allowed this with Tyrus.

Not that I was a fan of the word allowed, since he had fuckall say over where I put my pussy, but him joining in showed he refused to allow his own clinginess, his fear of losing me to control him.

Maybe this was how we needed to get out of the Path.

Not sex, although I wouldn’t have minded that route, all things considered. Rather, our connection to one another.

I’d escaped the shadow because I had them. I’d found the way out and away from those doppelgangers because I’d rushed toward my men. Time and time again, our connection to one another had saved me, had gotten us further than we’d ever have made it alone.

So I melted into the moment with these two men, men who had frightened me at first, who had seemed bigger than life, like stars in the dark sky I knew I could never reach. Never would I have thought I’d have them like this, that I could feel so comfortable with them, as if I’d never not had them with me.

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