“While that’s true, beautiful, the wolves want Kade to become a member of their house again to fulfill his role as alpha,” Locke replied. “And even without interference from the council, they wouldn’t be willing to accept an alpha who—”
“Had a dragon shifter as his mate,” I finished for him, voicing the worry I’d already been obsessing over. I swallowed hard. I didn’t want to be the reason Kade couldn’t be with his house.
Locke stepped back, giving Kade space, and my wolf shifter closed in on me, staring at me with golden eyes that held me in place. “You might not yet be willing for us to mark you as our mate, but I know you’re mine, Raine. And your dragon knows it, too. So, until I’m sure that the wolves will accept you by my side, I won’t step up. Nothing could make me risk you like that.”
A part of me wanted to remind him that I was a dragon shifter now. That I wasn’t as easy to kill as I once was, but I was so wrapped up in his words and the emotion in his gaze that my eyes blurred with tears. Kade leaned down, pressing his lips to mine like he was desperate to remind me just how much I meant to him. He kissed me like we were already marked, and I let him have me, claiming his lips just as badly as he was claiming mine.
My arms wound around his neck, and his hands slid across my back pulling me away from the tree. Lowering me gently to the grass, he moved between my thighs.
“Give in, Raine,” he breathed when he broke the kiss. “Let us mark you. Let us show the world that you’re ours and nothing can change that. Not even when war is on the horizon. Fuck the Taratun council. We’ll kill them all if we have to.”
Locke laid beside us, and he grabbed my hand, trailing kisses up my arm. His teeth grazed along my skin, and I swallowed hard. My wolf shifter grinded his hips against me, and I squirmed as warmth pooled between my legs.
“You know I can’t,” I rasped. “Not until I find my sister.”
I yelped in surprise as Kade tore my pants off me, tossing them to the side with a growl that made my insides clench.Uh, yes fucking please.But…I couldn’t mark them. Not yet.
Kade’s ears shifted, becoming pointed as he tilted his head to the side like he was listening, but then he turned back to me, his ears rounding again, and his eyes softening. “When we find her, your sister will see you’re meant for us,” he growled as he moved back and took off his pants.
Locke was now already naked, and he pulled me to my feet as Kade laid on the ground. Lowering myself, I straddled Kade, sliding along his length to tease him. A growl rumbled in his chest, and I smirked as my dragon preened on the inside.My mates.Locke dropped down behind me, and as the tip of Kade’s cock pushed inside me, Locke’s teeth clamped onto my neck.
“Fuck,” I gasped as I drove my hips down, taking all of Kade as Locke’s venom made my head spin.Seriously, fuck.I moved faster until the pleasure became too much, but before I could shatter, my vampire pulled back, hissing as he licked his lips.
“Locke?” I panted.
He nipped my ear and growled. “You’re so fucking delicious.”
I grinned, but my smile fell as Kade gripped my hips hard, thrusting into me so fast that all I could focus on was the pleasure to the point I struggled to remember my own name.
“Well now, this is much better than finding you three battling outliers as Asher suggested,” a familiar voice commented with amusement, and I peered over to find my siren and demon striding toward us. They both grinned as they took in the scene and began stripping off their clothes.
Darian swayed as he crossed his arms, pulling his shirt over his head, and I half wondered whether he’d found more wine to consume while they’d been out searching for us.
“What took you so long?” I teased, but my smirk turned to a gasp when Locke’s finger slowly worked its way into my ass.
Darian and Asher dropped down, moving to either side of us, and their gazes heated as they watched. Kade slowed his thrusts, and Locke removed his finger and lined himself up.
I gasped at the intense feeling of both of them inside me. I’d never had a cock in my ass, much less one as big as Locke’s, but my body shifted slightly, until it was just enough that the pair of them could move in tandem, only the thin wall separating them.
Pleasure unlike anything I’d ever felt made me cry out, and both Kade and Locke groaned, thrusting harder. Darian moved close enough that I could twist my head to take him in my mouth, and I reached out, stroking Asher with my hand.
The orgasm shattered through me, making me moan around Darian’s cock, and Kade and Locke found their release as well. Before I’d even recovered, someone was moving me from my wolf shifter and vampire, and then Asher was inside me.
My demon drove deep, his piercings rubbing me deliciously with every thrust until I exploded again. I panted heavily as tingles pricked over my skin and light flashed before my eyes. Still, I didn’t get a reprieve. It wasn’t until Asher was roaring his release and Darian had spilled himself over my chest that they finally pulled back, lifting me into their arms as they kissed every part of me, reminding me that they were my mates, whether we found my sister or not.
I was curled against Asher and Darian, with Locke lazing close by and Kade sitting near my feet, when I spoke. “I saw something else,” I said softly, not wanting to ruin the moment, but also knowing I couldn’t hold back any longer. “When we were in the mountain, and I had a vision of the queen.”
My monsters stiffened, but no one spoke as they waited for me to continue. “Queen Izla was with child when she went through the portal. And I can’t be sure, but I think Vasken was the father.”
There was a long moment of silence, but then Locke was the one to speak first. “That would explain Vasken’s behavior.”
I nodded, and licked my lips before adding, “And I think I might be descended from both of them.” I was glad I didn’t have to say I was descended from King Adrien, but my heart still pounded as I waited for their response.
All four of them stared at me, none of them looking the least bit surprised.
I lifted my head. “Wait, you knew?”
“We suspected the queen might have been pregnant,” Kade answered. “And that you might be her kin. It was the only explanation that made sense when we found out you had fae blood.”
