Page 103 of Cruel Tides

Leander chuckled softly as his hand moved to the other side of Kai’s head. He gripped his hair, and I let out a whine as Kai’s mouth tore from me. Leander tilted Kai’s neck back until his lips, glistening with moisture, parted.

“Good boy,” Leander praised, holding him there by the short spikes of his hair.

Kai’s chest rose and fell rapidly, sweat forming over his brow. There was no smile on his face, no indication he’d even heard Leander’s praise. Kai fixated on me with an intense hunger, like a shark interrupted during a feeding frenzy.

“Kaius,” Leander uttered with a low hum, demanding his attention. “Do you enjoy pleasing our mate?”

Kai’s pupils seemed to darken. His tongue slashed across his bottom lip. “Yes.”

Beneath me, Leander relaxed his posture. As soon as he released Kai, that lavender head dipped, preparing to resume, until Leander intervened with a blunt, “Wait.”

Kai’s hesitation was clear as he pulled back, shifting uncomfortably on his knees. His nostrils flared, and for a moment, I wasn’t sure if he would accept Leander’s order, but he waited.

Leander pressed a kiss on my neck and started slow, shallow movements of his hips.Oh shit, yes—this was what I wanted. To feel him sinking in and out of me. I groaned in appreciation, savoring the feeling. “Your mate is waiting to please you,” Leander murmured against my ear. “Tell him what you want, beautiful.”

My throat constricted.Me, tell him?My lips parted as my body swayed, moving along with Leander’s slow pace, enjoyable but too languid to fully satisfy.

Kai’s knees bore the bulk of his weight as he leaned forward. His throat bobbed. “Tell me,” he said, eager but clearly abashed. Gemstone eyes dropped to where Leander’s hardness stretched me wide, steadily rocking in and out. “My mouth is yours.”

“I want…” I began, and Kai’s chin snapped up like he was ready to listen to my request. “I want your mouth on me.” My voice trailed off, tinged with nerves. “Y-you don’t have to be gentle.”

“You don’t have to be gentle?” Leander nuzzled my neck, his hand sweeping through the top of my braid. “I think what you actually meant to say was,I want it rough. Is that right, beautiful?”

I whimpered, his words making my insides pulse. “Fine, yes. Rough,” I pushed out through gnashed teeth while Leander’s deep laugh vibrated against my ear.

“I think we can do rough,” Leander murmured, and a second later, Kai’s breath was beating against my slit. After taking a moment to watch Leander’s hips in motion, he joined in. But instead of his tongue swiping, he nipped the inside of my thigh, just as Leander drove into me again.

The prick of Kai’s teeth immediately had me panting, twisting, clawing at whoever’s body my hands could find first.

My muscles clenched around Leander’s length, clamping and refusing to release as Kai moved to my other thigh. His teeth connected, and I cried out.

The licking was incredible, but this—I adored this. The danger, the sparks of heat, those confusing signals in my brain where pleasure and pain mixed and became something more, somethingbetter.

I focused solely on that sensation until Kai had his fill of my thighs and moved to my center. His lips closed around my sensitive bud, and the danger of his teeth being so close to such a defenseless place had molten heat coursing through me. His teeth grazed it, and if it weren’t for Leander’s sturdy chest behind me, my spine might have cracked in half. “Oh, fuck,” I all but screamed, not even caring if the neighboring bungalows could hear it.

“Good girl,” Leander rasped, rewarding me with a deeper thrust. “I love it when you curse while riding my cock.”

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I repeated, nearly in hysterics, my body constricting, yearning for more. Leander obliged, and his hand found its way to my breast. He tweaked my nipple as Kai’s tongue flicked high over my slit, his lips enveloping me. The sharp sting of his teeth followed, and the next time Leander bottomed out inside me, I came apart, throwing my head back against his shoulder.

Kai must not have known what had happened, because his mouth was relentless, and it took shutting my legs on the sides of his face for him to pull away.

Poseidon help me—I’d come so hard that the lights flickered, and I briefly wondered if I was experiencing some sort of hallucination.

My breath came in quick gasps as Leander’s growl vibrated against my scalp. “Fuck.” His body was still tense underneath me, and I was sure he was close to finding his own release. Pleasure rippled through me, delightful aftershocks, as he worked in and out, but his thrusts were getting faster, more erratic.

The lights flickered again—wait. When had it gotten so dark out?

My eyes snapped to the window where the once-beautiful purple sunrise had all but vanished. Instead, black clouds loomed in the distance, and angry ocean waves were lapping up the side of Barren’s house. “Shit, Lee! The water.” I struggled to get off him, but my legs were like limp seaweed.

Behind me, Leander’s chest rose and fell with deep, concentrated breaths. “It’s okay,” he said, every muscle, even his neck, straining. His face reddened, his eyebrows furrowing in concentration. “I can—I can control it.”

My eyes slid back to the window, where seawater sprayed against the glass. If this continued, there was a good chance Barren’s place would end up as an underwater bungalow rather than an overwater one.

Leander’s cock pulsed inside me, and for a horrifying second, I thought he might risk the entire neighborhood. But with a mighty inhale, he lifted me from his body, growling as if it caused him physical discomfort to separate from me. “FUCK!”

He cast me on the couch beside him, flipping me onto my back and cradling my head down to the cushion. His hand went right to his cock, still slick from our combined arousal, and the back of the couch creaked from where his other fist closed in on it. He pumped two more times, a dangerous desire contorting his face into something feral, before he ripped his hand away, leaving his cock unspent.

Leander spun around to face Kai, snarling like a rabid animal. “Fuck it.Youtake her.”

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