Page 105 of Cruel Tides

“She does,” Kai breathed out with a nod as Leander’s hand dipped, sliding down my stomach. When he boldly cupped my sex, I jolted. His fingers strummed, easily finding the spot that made my insides clamp around Kai.

“She likes this spot here,” Leander confided as I leaned into him, my body going weak. As I reclined against Leander, the angle between Kai and me shifted, eliciting a simultaneous groan.

“Whoa.”Kai’s hands clenched my thighs. His voice was strained when he said, “I—I see why you made me do that now.”

Leander chuckled as he worked another round of tight circles around me. Then he gave me one last teasing tap and eased me forward, giving my weight back over to Kai.

His voice lingered as he retreated, brushing against my ear. “Okay, beautiful. You said you wanted control.” Stepping away from us, he moved beside the couch. Although his erection had started to soften, he still seemed eager to watch. “Let’s see how long a spike-tail can last.”

I scoffed, perching my hands on Kai’s chest as I recovered my balance. “Longer than you, I bet,” I said as I started moving my hips. Though the way Kai’s thighs shuddered beneath me had me wondering if he would last long at all.

“Yeah, okay,” Leander said, chuckling and crossing his arms. “Whatever you say.”

I smiled and turned to Kai, speaking just loud enough for him to hear. “Let’s show him.”

The answering snap of Kai’s teeth against my lips sent a wave of hunger through me. “Oh, really?” I said before seizing his bottom lip, tugging it between my teeth as I moved my hips in a smooth rhythm. Kai hissed, I wasn’t sure which sensation caused it, so I increased both until I was drawing out even more heated groans from him. When my teeth finally snapped off of him, I gave a sheepish smile. “Too hard?” I asked, and his eyes darkened.

“Never,” he spoke the word as if it burned him, tongue lashing over his teeth as he brought me in for another kiss. His hands found their way up my hips, grasping there, holding me steady as we moved in sync. What started as a simple rhythm quickly spiraled into a frenzy, urgency propelling each subsequent move of our hips.

When I was bouncing too much for our lips to stay together, Kai pulled me in closer, moving to my neck. With each movement, his teeth roamed over every inch of that sensitive skin, leaving a trail of marks behind them. But I didn’t care. I’d happily wear his marks for the rest of my life.

“If we were in the water,” he choked out, his teeth scraping over my neck between words. “My claspers would fight over which one got to open up inside you, locking us together.”

“Oh, yeah?” was my eloquent response to that. I… wasn’t sure how to process that information, but color me curious, because it definitely sounded like something was open to figuring out. Preferably soon. “Lee, get the window,” I begged, throwing a desperate glance his way as I bounced over Kai’s lap. “Splash some saltwater in. Please.”

“Fucking spike-tails,” Leander mumbled. He did not move.

My lips pulled together in annoyance until Kai’s ragged breath brought me back over to him. “And after my first clasper mates you, I’ll take you with the next,” he whispered, a heated promise, his face flushing even pinker. “If—if you wanted.”

“Want, yes,” I panted out, picking up the pace. Gosh, if his claspers were anything like his dick, I would enjoy taking them twice, though I wasn’t too sure what he meant bylockingtogether.

“I—I think—” Kai groaned, and I felt his legs strain, tightening underneath me. His fingers gripped, sinking into my hips. The next thing I knew, Leander was behind me, his hands coming up, cupping my breasts.

Oh, sonowhe moved.

“You want to come for him again, beautiful?” Despite the energy of our movements, Leander’s fingers worked lazy circles, plucking and edging my nipples until both were taut. “Feel him come inside you?”

“Yes,” I moaned, letting them take over my weight as I leaned back into Leander. Hands were everywhere. Lips toyed with my neck, soothing the marks Kai’s teeth had made in a tender way that made my eyes roll back, fluttering shut.

Leander’s wicked hand ventured down, playing a smooth circle, and that was all it took to set me off again. My body clenched, coiling so tight I thought I might actually erupt, when Kai hit high with one final thrust, pulsing his release inside me with a strangled groan.

By the time my vision returned, my spine had completely disintegrated. I was a boneless mess that Leander had to drag off of Kai. I grunted a round of breathless “thank yous”and flashed Kai a weak smile as Leander settled down on the other side of the couch, bringing half of me with him. As he reclined, he pulled me close, placing my head in his lap and leaving Kai to take hold of my legs.

“Enjoying the sunrise?” Leander asked, and I would have laughed if I still had any breath or energy in me.

It took a minute of lying there before I recovered enough to say, “Would have — if you — came too.” I gestured up at him vaguely.

Leander’s lips tilted, though there was a darkness there, too. “No need to worry about me, beautiful.”

As his hands played through my hair, I felt the strands cascading around my face, unbound from their braid.Oh well. I’d have to ask Kai to redo it after he recovered. For now, he was still catching his breath, reclined back on the couch, his body flushed all the way to the tips of his ears. Gosh, he was adorable.

I let myself relax, too, relishing the feel of their bare skin against mine. For once, my heart seemed so full that nothing could possibly?—

Across the living room, the door lock jingled, and my heart raced.

“Barren’s back?” Kai asked, finally finding his breath. He looked back, and, forget racing, my heart definitelystopped.

Because Barren was back. And here I was, on his couch. Naked. Surrounded by both of my mates that he possibly didn’t want to share with.

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