“Sorry, not sorry.” Layla spoke stubbornly as she flushed, crossing her arms though she didn’t look away. “You like to be stared at, and I like staring at you. Besides, I’m already in good clothes for the pool area, so I get to watch you dress.”
“Actually, you might want to put a swimsuit on under that.” Dusk eyeballed her boho peacock silk dress. “The pool area isn’t clothing-optional until sunset on the human side. So if you want to swim after lunch, you’d have to ruin that nice dress.”
“Oh. Touché. Guess I’ll go get changed.” Turning, Layla moved towards her room in the center of the cluster to go put a swimsuit on. But before she could, Dusk caught her, hauling her back into his strong, muscled arms. Layla’s breath caught as he crushed her close, grinning at her ear and biting her neck gently with a slow wave of rumbles pouring into her.
“Just because your Dragon isn’t active right now doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun on this vacation.” He rumbled sexily from behind her.
“Define fun.” Layla spoke, pretending to be peeved at him but really loving it.
“Oh, I don’t know…” He spoke deviantly, grazing his lips over her neck again. “Say… the kind of fun five men and one woman can come up with in their wildest orgiastic sex dreams.”
Just the thought of being with all five of her men at once in some kind of hedonistic, massive orgy flared Layla hard – almost as much as it suddenly made her panic. Her breath was high in her throat, her heart hammering, though she didn’t know if it was from eagerness or terror. Normally, her Dragon would have just hijacked sexy thoughts like this and turned them into a raging bonfire of lust. But now, Layla had only her human eros active, and though she’d always had a high sex drive, it came with all her human-side hangups. Though having an orgy with all her men was a very hot idea, Layla found herself blushing hard not just from sexy thoughts, but also from suddenly wanting to bolt thinking about that much male energy around her at once. Making light of it, she laughed.
Though her laugh hid the part of her that was wary.
“Dusk Arlohaim! Did you arrange this vacation just to see how many dicks I can manage at once?” Layla teased, slapping Dusk’s thigh.
“Can’t say it hasn’t crossed my mind.” He rumbled sexily from behind her, flooding her with a deep, rolling eros and completely missing the fact that he’d nearly given her a panic attack. “You’re at the center of a very interesting sixsome, Layla Price. Adrian and I like fighting over you in the bedroom. Rhennic and Reginald like doing each other with you involved. Fury’s been with Rhennic a few times in the past, and I daresay they’d try it again if Fury’s feeling up to it in his current state. Reginald has no problem marshaling everyone in the bedroom, orchestrating our time to perfection. If you wanted it… I’d say it could probably happen.”
“I’m wondering if you want it more than I do.” Layla twisted in his arms, looking up at him as her heartbeat gradually calmed, though something inside her was still tense.
“Can’t say I’m not curious.” Dusk rumbled with a dark blaze in his sapphire eyes. “We all need a little diversion on this vacation, and what better diversion is there than sex?”
“Oh, I don’t know – sea kayaking, scuba diving, sunbathing, hiking the mountains…” Adrian had emerged from his room and was now changed into casual jeans with the cuffs rolled up and a white linen shirt with the sleeves rolled up, baring his red and black Dragon-tattoo. His coiling gold and platinum talisman cuff was clasped around his left forearm and his aqua eyes flashed like the Caribbean sea as he stepped to Layla’s front, pulling her close to him. “Stop trying to convince Layla to do an orgy, Dusk. Give her a break. She just came down off five days in isolation meditating.”
“Just because you don’t want to do an orgy doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t intrigued.” Dusk spoke petulantly, pulling Layla back closer to himself now.
“I never said I wasn’t into it,” Adrian spoke with a pointed look at Dusk, casually delicious and sexy as hell as he resolutely tugged Layla back towards himself. “I just don’t think we should all jump in the sack right now. Layla’s had a tough two weeks, Fury’s still barely on his feet after everything with Hunter, and the rest of us are trying to manage strange power-ups now that we’re mostly Bound to each other rather than Layla.”
“Nothing a little sex couldn’t fix.” Dusk spoke with a hot growl from behind Layla as he stepped in very close to her now so she could feel how hot and hard the idea had made him.
“Nothing a little group orgy couldn’t seriouslybreak.” Adrian spoke back, his beautiful blue-green gaze cooling with a deep warning as he stared at Dusk over Layla’s shoulder.
Giving a dark rumble behind her, Dusk’s strong hands gripped Layla’s waist possessively. As his rumble deepened, he leaned into her so his entire front pressed up against her back – and Layla could really feel how hard he was now through her silk dress. As he growled into her neck, nuzzling his nose into her curls and inhaling deeply of her scent, Layla realized with a sudden blink what was going on. She could have smacked her forehead it was so obvious. But she wasn’t in-tune with her men’s emotions like she’d been before her Dragon decided to do a hide-away, and couldn’t read their thoughts or feelings anymore.
As Layla put two and two together, she twisted in Dusk’s grip to see him. “You’re in withdrawal, aren’t you? You’ve been celibate since you became Crystal Dragon King and left the Paris Hotel and all your usual lovers, plus me. And now you’re roaring with sexual frustration because you haven’t even had me in the last few months, and you’re going crazy.”
“Am I that obvious?” Dusk chuckled wryly, though he made another frustrated growl in his throat as he nuzzled her curls. “Adrian’s been able to do dry spells for extended periods of time, Layla, but I’ve always had someone in my bed, night after night. My life and health depended on it for a long while. Since the Bind, I don’t need so many casual sex partners, but I still have a vast appetite for it. Leaving the Hotel was like… pulling the rug out from under me. I liked having casual partners always available. And since I’ve not been able to have you or them anymore, and I don’t know how you feel about me taking a lover at the Plateau—”
“You’re going insane.” Turning fully in Dusk’s arms so she faced him now, Layla reached up, cradling his face in her hands. “Dusk! Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I was too busy at first, trying to organize everything with my new Kingship,” Dusk spoke wryly as he cuddled her close, though Layla could finally see the pain he was hiding. “It exhausted me enough that I didn’t need sex for a while. But when things began to calm down and you went back to the Hotel, then with how badly everything went at Deep Harbor… I just didn’t want to put that pressure on you. You needed space… not having a horny Crystal Dragon pressuring you to bone him whenever he got blueballs.”
“Still. You should have said something.” Layla insisted, shaking his face gently. “I care about you. Just because you’re a busy King now with a shit-ton of responsibilities doesn’t change that.”
“I know.” Dusk breathed, his strong hands kneading Layla’s waist as Adrian continued to cradle Layla close, watching his brother over Layla’s shoulder. “But I don’t want to place my needy bullshit first on this vacation, Layla. This is for you.”
“This is forallof us.” Layla insisted firmly. “We all need a break from the intensity right now, not just me. If you really want it… I’ll think about the orgy thing. But in the meantime, let’s all go on down, have some lunch and a swim, and get fucking drunk by the pool and then we’ll figure out the rest, okay? Two weeks is plenty of time for kinky sex shit.”
“It is.” Dusk nodded, a pleased grin stealing up his lips that Layla was at least willing to think about the scenario he so desperately wanted, and probably had been dreaming about for months. Leaning in, he kissed her deeply before letting her go. “Go. Get on a swimsuit, hot lady. Let’s get some lunch.”
“Done.” Layla smiled.
With a brief kiss to Adrian, Layla turned, moving to her bedroom and zipping open her suitcase upon the bed. Setting up her cell phone to charge, she shucked her peacock maxi-dress quickly. Though she saw both her men sneak peeks at her, they didn’t come accost her, instead puttering around the main room charging their phones and moving furniture about the way they liked it. In a trice, Layla had donned a sporty zebra-print bikini with a halter top and bottoms with sexy side-ties. Pulling her silk dress back on, she added a wide-brimmed sunhat and cat-eye sunglasses. Slipping on her sandals, Layla was ready. Moving back to the main room, she found her men waiting, and soon all three were exiting the suite, stepping down the treehouse stairs back to the gravel path.
Dusk and Adrian were calm as they walked Layla down to the main house and its amenities. Dusk had managed to put his ardor on hold, and as they came to the sprawling garden that led to the beach, they saw a tiki bar and a large pool deck with outdoor tables beneath the palms. Stepping up to the deck beneath an arbor of honeysuckle vines, they found Rhennic, Fury, and Reginald already relaxing at a table for six, sipping margaritas as they conversed. Three plates of Caribbean-style jerked seafood, chicken, and pork tacos were shared between them, and as Layla and her other men neared, she saw three more delicious-looking plates delivered.
Conversation halted as Layla arrived with Dusk and Adrian, and as they settled in, Layla found herself suddenly wondering how all her men were feeling about this little get-together. For the first time, she wondered if it was a curse or a blessing that her Dragon was coiled up deep inside her and unable to read their thoughts as she glanced around the table. Like she’d felt about the possibility of doing an orgy, Layla felt both acutely nervous and also strangely elated that they were all here now, sitting with each other calmly to have lunch.
