But she had fled only after the ritual had already taken place, which made her actions suspicious, to say the least.

Their security cameras had been turned off. The council had been adamant that nothing was mistakenly captured on video to maintain the integrity of the ritual itself and to keep the actual finer details of their society and its rites a secret from the media.

Who was this woman who had come into their house and pretended to be their virgin, then took flight wearing their brand on her pussy, the imprint of their teeth on her nipples?

There was no doubt in his mind, or Ezra’s and Maxim’s alike, that they could pick her out from the shape of her naked body alone compared to any other woman. Or the way her pulse had beat against the side of her throat.

Or the way she felt when they penetrated her, her exquisite pussy clinging to their cocks as they stretched her to accommodate their colossal sizes.

Jensen could safely say that not one of them didn’t have the image in their mind of her taking all three of their cocks at the same time when they seeded her.

There was just something about her that spoke to all three of them. It was rare—in fact, it had never happened before—that the thought of sharing a woman turned them into voracious, possessive, and overprotective beasts.

Again, except now they had lost her.

“Not for long, Little Flower,” Jensen thought silently.

There was nowhere in the world she could hide from them. They were the rulers of the Basilisk Empire. They owned the world.

She wore their brand now. On her skin above her pussy, Ezra had branded her with the design of a flower. A lily.

Their cocks had been tattooed with a basilisk as part of their initiation.

The flower to their three-headed dragon-serpents.

The lily to the basilisk.

Once they were inside her sweet haven, they were instantly satiated, according to their scriptures, because she wore the stamp of their ownership.

No man could touch her, let alone see what belonged to them.

No one could keep her from them.

They were going to find her.

They already had their own security on it. Despite their own cameras being switched off, they had instructed their team to analyze every single car that could possibly be headed toward their house in a ten-mile radius from CCTV footage.

Law enforcement was on their payroll as well, so getting access to such information was a non-issue. They weren’t above flattening the earth to find her. It was just a matter of time; that was all.

And when they did, they were going to keep her for the rest of her life, whether she was their enemy or not. Whether it was a case of wrong place wrong time … or she had deliberately set out to derail the rites of their Sesquicentenary.

She had walked into their lair, had looked into the Masters of the Basilisk eyes, and had given them her virginity and sustenance from her breasts; she was theirs now.

Forever.

Chapter Eight

On autopilot, Sutton opened her eyes way before her alarm could go off, rose from the bed, and stepped into her tiny bathroom.

She immediately proceeded to get ready for work while she tried not to dwell on the fact that her panties were wet because, in her dreams, she had relived every moment of them touching her.

Her breasts had leaked during the night as well, but it had been insubstantial and, thankfully, without any of the scorching discomfort she had experienced before. She took that as a good sign toward putting the whole thing behind her.

She brushed her teeth and took a hot shower. She was shocked to discover the branding on her mons had healed with such miraculous speed that she couldn’t believe her eyes.

Standing now in front of her mirror, she could clearly see the embossed design of a flower. Maybe a lily, like the one she had seen on their door of the three-headed dragon with the snake’s body.

It was just as well that no one was ever going to see her naked for as long as she lived, so no one was ever going to see the flower scar either. Maybe in time, when she had enough money, she could do some research and see about having it removed. But that was for later. For now, she just had to hide it.