Do they fear or hate me?
I don’t know, and part of me doesn’t want to, so I keep my eyes on the land, as if hoping it will stop the inevitable—the part where they leave me.
“I want to apologize, Cora,” Zee murmurs. “We shouldn’t have behaved like that.”
“What Tentacles said,” Bracken adds. “We took a vote on who should come and apologize without overwhelming you. I truly am sorry, Goldie.” There’s sincerity in his voice. “I was…jealous.” I look at him, seeing how hard this is for him. “I’ve never been jealous before, but the idea he could take you from me…from us?” The smile he gives me is so sad, it hurts my heart. “I couldn’t bear it. I can’t lose you, Goldie, not even if you are destined to be his and never mine…ours.”
I turn to Zee to see his guarded gaze. I hate that. I hate the distance. “And you?”
“I want you to be happy, that is all. You are right—it is your body, your future, and your choice. Yes, it hurt when he called you his mate, and the idea that he could take you from us made us crazy. I apologize, they all do. They only did it because they care for you so much and the idea of losing you forever made them a little…”
“Insane?” I offer. “Petulant? Childlike?” I keep going, making him smile.
“Desperate,” he adds.
Nodding, I turn back to the view, unsure how to bridge this gap that seems to have grown between us.
“Goldie,” Bracken whispers, making me close my eyes in pain. “Please don’t give up on us. Please don’t walk away from us. You’re the only person who has ever cared for any of us, the only person we want to. I know I joke a lot, and I play and tease, but I’ve never had a family, and now I do because of you. We are all terrified of losing that. We’ve all been alone for so very long, wandering in the darkness, and then you came. You brought the light back, along with laughter and love, and none of us could live without you. They will all tell you to do what you need to, to follow what your heart desires, but I’ll beg for them, for you, on my knees if I have to.”
“Then do it.” I turn to him, keeping my voice even as an idea comes to mind.
All of us need to reconnect, and right now, I need them.
I need to feel like I am still theirs.
Bracken swallows but drops to his knees, his eyes pained as they meet mine. “I’m yours, Goldie. We all are. Choose us.”
“I already did,” I retort as I step forward and grip his hair. I bend down and kiss him before nipping his lip. “So why don’t you thank me?” I purr, and when I pull back, his eyes are closed with ecstasy, his lips slack. He blinks his eyes open again as my meaning sinks in, and they quickly heat.
Desire glimmers in his gaze as he watches me.
“You’re already on your knees, so why don’t you make yourself useful?” I grin.
“Dirty little human.” He smirks wickedly, flashing fang. Relief pours through me at the return of the teasing, happy fey I’m used to.
Parting my legs, I magic away my clothes, watching them strip from my body and flutter to the ground, leaving me bare before him. I place one foot on his shoulder and drag him closer with his hair. Turning my head, I beckon Zee closer, and he comes quickly, happy to oblige. Arms wrap around me from behind as I kiss him and absorb my mates.
I let him taste the truth on my lips. “I have always been yours and always will be, no matter what happens, so prove you are still mine,” I murmur into his mouth.
His hands slide upwards, cupping my bare breasts and tweaking my nipples, reminding me what his stilma can do. “With great pleasure,” he promises.
Bracken’s hands slide up my thighs possessively as Zee decimates my mouth, and when fangs scrape across my pussy, I moan against his tongue, making Bracken chuckle smugly. “Hold on, Goldie,” he warns, and then his mouth attacks my pussy, his lips and tongue tracing over every inch. Tasting every part of me, Bracken makes me his again.
Both males imprint on my soul so deeply, they can never doubt this again. All the while, Zee rolls, twists, and pinches my nipples, arching an agonizing heat and pain straight to my clit, and when Bracken sucks it into his mouth, his fangs nipping at each side, I come. Zee swallows my cries as Bracken laps up my cum. Slumping into them, I pull myself from Zee’s mouth, panting as I look down at a grinning Bracken, his face coated in my cream.
“You taste like mine, Goldie,” he purrs.
My hand is still in his hair, so I use my grip to tug him up. He crawls up my body, stopping to kiss and lick every inch before he grips my hips and lifts me, letting me wrap my legs around his waist.
His eyes flick to Zee for a moment before he grins smugly. They flip me, and my legs wrap back around Zee when I find him naked. Those molten, stormy eyes watch me possessively as he grips my throat and pushes me backwards, leaning me back against Bracken’s chest. His hands grip my ass and hold me up. “You are ours,measma, and sometimes, we will fight. We will clash heads, but we will always come after you, always apologize, and always fight for you,” Zee promises, his face stern before his eyes skim down my body. “Now let me remind you that I’m yours too.”
I feel his cock dragging along my pussy, wetting his length, and when one of his stilma locks on my clit with that maddening suck, my eyes slam closed and my back arches into Bracken, who turns my head and claims my mouth.
Zee thrusts into me, stretching me around his length, and I scream into Bracken’s wicked mouth. Zee doesn’t hold back, his head dipping to my breasts, where he licks and sucks my sensitive nipples as he pulls out and slams back in. The force smashes me into Bracken so hard, his fang nips my tongue and the slight taste of blood fills my mouth. He freezes before an inhuman growl erupts from his lips, and then he’s sucking on my bleeding tongue. Hands massage my ass, parting me wider as Zee fucks me with hard, quick thrusts as Bracken tastes a different part of me.
It’s all too much, with too many hands, stilma, and fangs. I’m unable to do anything but whimper between them and trust them to hold me up.
When Bracken pulls back, he’s snarling. “That’s it, Zee, get her nice and wet. Stretch her cunt for me.”
