17
EVE
“Tell me the plan again,” I murmured, my hand running up Oros’s arm.
Eros was behind me, her hands wrapped around my waist. Her breathing was steady, but I knew she was awake.
We were all gloriously naked, cuddled in their bed after spending the rest of the nightandmorning fucking. Turns out the twins were so much better at controlling their bloodlust thing when they had me together. I wasn’t complaining. I’d stopped caring about what I should and shouldn’t do.
Fuck that.
I want them both, and they want me.
They were both so thorough I wasn’t sure I even had a favorite anymore.
“There’s a banquet,” she whispered. “Father invites his closest people and loses himself in humans and bloodlust. We never go because?—”
“It’s disgusting.Vile,” Eros mumbled against my skin. She had been against the plan from the beginning.
“But it’s the first time he’s meeting with his inner circlesince the treasurer was caught,” Oros said. “His lips will start to loosen once the bloodlust takes over. You know him.”
“But this time we have Eve,” Eros said, lifting her head and no doubt sending her twin a glare. “I don’t want her to seethat. And having to protect her in a room filled with bloodthirsty demons?Youbarely held it together when you smelled her fear.”
Oros’s gaze narrowed at her sister. The threat in her eyes was deadly.
“If you hate the plan so much, why don’t you try to come up with something? You never even try; you just leave it to me to do all the?—”
I placed my hand over Oros’s mouth, and I could feel her frown against my palm.
“Let’s not say anything we regret,” I said and sent her a smile before turning to face Eros. Her expression mirrored her twin’s.
I hate seeing them so unhappy.
“Thank you for your concern.” I ran my fingers over the wrinkles on her forehead. “But I know you’ll protect me. You did so last time, and I know you can do so this time.”
“It will change the way you see us,” she said, her voice lowering. She couldn’t look me in the eyes. “Those parties show just how deplorable our true nature is.”
Something clenched in my chest. Images flashed through my mind. Demons eating humans. Tearing off their limbs. Sinking their teeth into our flesh.
Am I ready for that?I knew the answer already. It was a resoundingno. But for them… I needed to do it.
Oros’s hands snaked around my waist, her lips near my ear.
“My dear sister is worried that, once you see what we truly are, you’ll no longer want to share a bed with us.”
“More than that,” Eros said, her eyes digging into mine.
She said forever.
Her admission rang through my head with a renewed force. She must have felt the same because she leaned in, her lips centimeters away from mine.
I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t move. Couldn’t think. My limbs weren’t listening, and my brain was scrambled.
Do they really want me that bad? Me? Out of everyone they could have?
“It will work,” Oros said, her hand traveling down my bare stomach. “Now spread your legs for us, Eve. Take my sister’s mind off the job.”
I did as she said, leaning back into Eros as Oros’s mouth found my neck, leaving hot, wet kisses down toward my chest.This I can handle.The pleasure. Sex.
