She bit my lower lip and tugged it, her mouth hitched up. “I’ll do you one better. I’ll make you a whole new person with it.”
Well, damn. Okay. Death by pleasure it is.
No one was surprised when Cash complained about how long we’d spent in bed after the magical bond was created. He’d insisted on sharing a room with me afterward, arguing I’d need him soon enough.
Unfortunately, he hadn’t been wrong. The Season didn’t care that I’d just had mind-blowing sex with a femme fatale capable of magic-bending pleasure. I’d made a connection with both, and it demanded I satiate each one in equal measure.
Thankfully, I’d learned to control my urges over the next few days. What had been a couple hours had grown to half a Fae realm day. Their days and nights were shorter by six hours. I only needed to get my sexy on with my two companions twice in an eighteen-hour period, and really only Cash that frequently. The connection I had with Jo wasn’t quite so strong, but we’d made it our excuse anyway.
Tough job, but someone had to do it.
Thanks to my shitty luck, a new complication soon presented itself after long hours of training and sex. I wasn’t ever truly satisfied. An urge I couldn’t name tugged at me day and night, making it harder with each passing minute to ignore it.
I rubbed my chest, the burn nearly unbearable after we hit day nine since Aram scared the shit out of me and put his rune on my neck.
Jo stood in front of me, waiting.
I’d been training my mind with both her and Cash every chance we got between little errands to get those favors Cashneeded. He never explained what any of them were, but I’d inferred enough with his ability to steal power. He was collecting them to use.
Before we could show ourselves in front of Lyra—or really any villain worth their salt—my head would need to be locked tight. The necklace Cash gave me took care of the rest.
Jo didn’t seem worried about training my abilities right away. She was convinced Lyra wouldn’t want me around now that Aram and I had a bond, but I didn’t want to waste time.
I needed to get back to Phillip and Sloan. I missed them so much it hurt. No contact with two guys I’d been wrapped up in for a year and a half was much harder than I ever thought it would be. As hard as it’d been when I didn’t know if Phillip was alive or dead. As hard as it’d been to lose Nigel.
I didn’t care if the Austrian had been a douche and a half. I loved him, and that was painfully clear the longer I was without him. When I got back, I’d make him talk it out with me. I’d force the conversation the way I’d been too angry and depressed to do after losing Nigel. And that alone motivated me to do my best as I continued to practice protecting my mind from Fae bastards bent on listening in.
Cash’s head popped into view. “What has you so anxious and uncomfortable, love? Do we need to take a little break in our room?”
Code for having sex despite everyone in here knowing perfectly well what he meant.
Cash definitely seemed to be suffering the loss of his phone and texting. He’d leave me little notes with hand-drawn emojis about how much he despised Jo or what evilness he witnessed her do while I wasn’t in the room. He’d left them everywhere, so sometimes I’d find Jo’s little fixes—changing the name to prissy princess or Fairy Boy, or fully rewriting it to berate him instead.
It made me smile even when it shouldn’t.
Their rivalry was a hilarious sidebar to our epic training to fight a group of super villains. I had a little pouch I’d swiped off Cash full of the notes to show to Kate later. Another motivation to get this shit done, fast and furious.
“No. Something’s not right. No matter what I do or how much with you guys, it’s like…”
Jo’s mouth thinned. “It’s your bond with Aram.”
The Dark Fae next to me soured at the thought. “If it’s affecting her—”
“It’s affecting him,” Jo supplied, her grim tone anything but comforting. “We need her mind ready. He might feel things, but from this distance, I really doubt he can read her mind through the bond.”
I gave them both a curt nod. “And I’d like to keep it that way. Okay, again.”
I thought about everything I would lose if I didn’t block them out. I thought about Kate. I thought about Grams. Then my mind wandered to the men I’d left behind who were probably going insane trying to find me.
Jo let out a sigh. A gentle smile lifted her mouth when I finally opened my eyes. “Thank fuck.”
“I hate to agree with the devil woman, but yes. You kept us both out that time.” He had his arms crossed like a proud papa. “Now do it again.”
Chapter 16
Back to the Future Woo-Woo
After nearly a day of keeping them out of my head and not having to concentrate much to do it, the two agreed I was ready. Cash still had two more favors he needed to call on. To my surprise, it was his suggestion we all go together.
