Page 32 of Catapult

I laughed. “He doesn’t bite.”

“It’s not his teeth that were pressed against me.” Charlie shuddered.

I patted his back as he hugged my waist and hid his face in my stomach. “It’s okay. You’re safe now. The monster can’t get you.”

“It’s too early to be so dramatic.” Zaide sighed, rolling onto his back and stretching.

I bit my lip as I admired the delicious muscles rippling across his chest and the tenting of the sheets around his hard cock.

Is it normal to go from being untouched to craving intimacy all the time?I shuddered with excitement, just thinking about having another experience like the one Charlie and I had in the shower. Who knew opening the bond in such a way could be so powerful.

I wonder if Zaide and I can do the same.

“It’s never too early to be dramatic,” Charlie replied, unaware of my hungry thoughts. “Did you say you had food?” he asked.

As they sat up, I handed them plates, then crawled between them as they tucked in. Between ravenous bites of his breakfast, Charlie told us about the dream he had with his mother.

“Do you think she will help?” I asked when he finished explaining.

“I don’t know for sure. It seems like it’s a family decision, but she seemed earnest.” Charlie shrugged and slurped the last of his tea.

“I didn’t meet with Baelen in my dreams last night. Did you?” I asked Zaide as he put his plate on the side table.

He shook his head but didn’t look me in the eye, and I frowned at his odd behavior. Charlie interrupted, saying, “Does it matter if he did? Do you always need to be a threesome? Maybe Zaide wants to have some time alone with Baelen like you did at the start?”

I was taken aback by the suggestion and spluttered, “No … that’s … it’s not that. I just want to make sure he’s okay since I didn’t see him.” I took Zaide’s hand in mine and gave it a squeeze. “I don’t need us to all be together if you want time alone, but I’d like to know if you saw him.”

Charlie scoffed. “You want the dirty details, you mean.”

“Charlie!” I exclaimed. “I do not!”

“I’ll require a new book to teach me about sex with a male, Charlie.” Zaide said with a teasing lilt to his voice. “I do not want to disappoint my soul pair with having no dirty details nor my soul mate with poor skills.”

Charlie burst out laughing. “I got you, man. I’ll get you something with some threesomes with a girl in there too. For research, of course.”

“Zaide, you got a book about sex from Charlie?” I hadn’t heard anything about that.Is that why he was so good with me even though it was both of our first times?“Why didn’t I get a book?” I demanded hotly. I wanted to research and be good at sex for them too.

There was a brief silence before howls of laughter echoed around the room. Charlie clutched his stomach, and tears ran down his cheeks, dripping from his nose to the pillow, while Zaide huffed chuckles into my hair.

I didn’t intend to be funny and was genuine with my question, but a smile overtook my face as their joy filled me through our bonds. Their laughs vibrated the bed. I loved how it all felt, being together and laughing, safe in bed.

“You are very amusing, Little Cat,” Zaide said when he could finally catch his breath. He pressed a long kiss to my forehead before throwing the covers off and padding barefoot to the door.

But his kiss made me long for more, and I sounded whiny when I asked, “Where are you going?”

“To the toilet. I won’t be long.” He smirked, crinkling the scar across his eye, which only made me more attracted to him and pouty.

As the door shut, I sighed, and Charlie chuckled next to me. “Needy.”

“I don’t know what’s gotten into me,” I confessed in a whisper, rolling onto my side to look at him. “But it’s like a dam has broken and suddenly it’s all I can think about. I didn’t know anything could feel that good. I want to feel it again and again and again.”

A slow smirk began crossing his face. “We’ve turned you into a monster.”

“Is that a bad thing?”

“Not when you’ve got three guys to give whatever you want.”

“Whatever I want?”

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