by Scott, Helen
I had been so stuck in my own thoughts, I hadn’t even heard him come in. “Always,” I purred, happy to have one of my mates come and check on me, even if I hadn’t intended for them to feel like they needed to.
A naked Cade appeared around the shower curtain, and as he stepped into the steamy water, I couldn’t help but lick my lips. The man was perfection, as were all of my mates—physically, at any rate. His thick biceps and pecs, which most men would only ever dream of having, were just the tip of the iceberg. The rest of him was just as tasty, from his shaggy ‘just been fucked’ hair to his piercing blue eyes, and his thick muscular thighs, to the cock they framed. Everything about him warmed my blood and made my body almost vibrate with anticipation.
Cade’s blue eyes bled to sliver as he moved toward me like the predator he was, only I wasn’t prey, and while he could catch me, he’d never tame me. His hand roughly palmed my breast, working the suds over my nipple as though he was trying to help, although we both knew he wanted anything but. As his lips crashed against my own, he pinched my nipple hard enough to make me moan so he could devour the sound with his kiss.
His other hand slid around my waist and pulled me toward him. I went willingly, eager to be surrounded by my mate and the intensity he brought to our time together. His thick cock pressed against my belly, and I shivered with anticipation.
“I need you,” I mumbled against his lips. My own were already swollen from his kisses, and as he claimed my mouth once more, his hands came down to cup my ass, lifting me and pressing me against the shower wall while he roughly slid into me, making me gasp in surprise.
“You want me to make you come in the shower?” Cade growled, his teeth grazing the sensitive skin on my neck as he spoke.
“Yes, and then I want you to fuck me in bed and share me with the others,” I whimpered on the end of a moan, feeling the need to be claimed by them all after this shitty night, as he slid in and out of me once more.
He pulled back, his eyes studying mine.
Cade wasn’t one to share, I knew that, but tonight I needed my brotherhood around me. I needed their care and their strength. “Only because I love you so damn much,” Cade agreed, before roughly claiming my pussy and my mouth at the same time.
“I love you too,” I said, almost breathless from the way he began to pound into me.
His hand wound into my hair, and he pulled my head back, forcing me to look him in the eye while he rolled his hips up, pushing himself deeper than ever before. When he rolled again, he hit the spot inside me that made my body tingle all over. When my legs shook in reaction, he grinned and worked his cock over that spot again and again until I was a quivering mess.
I knew he was hungry for more than sex. I could feel it through the bond, so I wasn’t surprised when he struck. The feeling of his fangs sinking into my skin, along with his cock rubbing that special spot, pushed me over the edge and I screamed his name as my pleasure rolled over me like a tidal wave, leaving nothing in its wake except warmth and hunger. For sex. For blood. For my mates.
When the last of my post orgasm twitches had finished, I expected Cade to keep going, but he didn’t. Instead, he stopped and let me down; his erection still nudging my belly as he stood in front of me and helped me rinse off. My knees were still weak from that amazing orgasm, which seemed to come out of nowhere and much faster than usual.
Part of me wanted to ask what he was doing and why he wasn’t still inside me, but as he cleaned off any remaining soapsuds and ran his hands through my hair, all I could think about was how good he felt instead.
The next thing I knew, the water was off, and I was being wrapped in a towel and carried from the bathroom into the bedroom. Cade laid me on the bed and unwrapped the towel like I was a present. I expected him to crawl onto the bed with me, but instead his hands wrapped around my legs and pulled me down, so my ass was almost hanging off the edge.
His mouth was on me a second later, his tongue like a hurricane around my clit, making me buck and moan shamelessly. Hands seemed to come out of nowhere and began playing with my nipples. My eyes fluttered open, and the smidge of awareness I had left told me that there were too many hands for just one person. Gideon and Barclay were on either side of me, while Keiran and Raven were perched on each side of the bed.
All of their gazes were heavy with lust and hunger, and it only enhanced what Cade was doing even more. I lifted my head and looked down the length of my body, watching as Cade devoured me. His fingers were thrusting into me, making my hips grind against his hand, while Raven moved over and claimed my mouth with a kiss. His full lips moved over mine as his tongue danced with my own. Someone was pulling my hair and although Raven followed me a little, I was moved too far away for him to keep kissing me. Keiran descended on me then, his ice-blue eyes staring at me until the last moment.
“Someone bite her,” Cade ordered when he came up for air.
The man knew what I needed and I loved it. I didn’t know who it was, either Gid or Barc, but one of them sank their fangs into my breast so they could still play with my nipple while they drank from me. It was hot as fuck, and when Cade began lapping at my pussy again, I rushed over the edge to my second orgasm, with Keiran and Raven taking turns kissing me and capturing the sounds of my pleasure with their mouths.
Before my orgasm had even finished, I felt Cade pushing at my entrance, the blunt head of him nestling between my folds for a moment before his pushed in. My walls closed around him and pulsed, pulling him deeper into me. He grunted as I felt his hips connect with mine, and then he started moving.
The pace he set was brutal, and if I hadn’t had him and the others helping to hold me in place, then he would have pushed me all the way up to the headboard with his thrusts.
“Fuck, sweetness, you’re so fucking tight after you come,” he said with a growl.
I would have responded if I had the breath to do so, but I didn’t. A moment later and Raven was kneeling on one side of me with Keiran on the other. I grabbed their cocks with my hands and began working them to the best of my ability. Considering it felt like I was being fucked by someone who was more machine than man at that moment, I figured I did a pretty damn good job. The velvety softness of their skin made me want them in my mouth, and when I leaned over and started sucking on Rav’s cock, Cade lost it.
With a shout that was more of a roar than anything else, he finished. His cock pulsed and twitched inside me, making me writhe on it even more. I wasn’t done, even though Cade had given me two amazing orgasms and fucked me harder than almost anyone ever had.
After he pulled out, he stood there for a second, and I felt his seed trickling out of me. “Best fucking sight in the world,” he commented with a grin, making eye contact with me even though my mouth was still wrapped around Raven’s cock.
It was all change then, when, by some unspoken agreement, he and the others shifted around, all except Raven who seemed perfectly happy with his cock in my mouth.
“Look at that pretty, pink pussy,” Gid growled before I felt him push into me.
I moaned around Raven’s cock and felt him tense. Before he could lose his load in my mouth, he pulled out and away from me, his lips coming down on mine a second later. I didn’t even have to verbally ask for what I wanted though, since a moment after that, he pulled away and stuck his wrist in my face.
A flash of a memory came forward, of Lily almost killing me in front of my mates the first time we were tested in front of them. Raven was the one who fed me and gave me the first taste of having something that was more delicious than any other blood I’d experienced at that point. It probably didn’t help that it was forbidden.
When his blood rushed into my mouth once more, I savored it, letting the spicy, almost-cinnamon flavor coat my mouth before I began to swallow him down. He pulled away too soon, but I knew he wanted to have enough blood left over to fuck me, so I let him. Cade was next to me then, taking Raven’s spot with his wrist extended.
Before I could bite down
, Gid lifted me up and sat me down on his cock, supporting me with his hands while he said, “One of you get underneath her.”
My heart stuttered at his words. Before I lost the opportunity, I bit into Gid’s shoulder, relishing the fresh, clean taste of his blood that had an aftertaste similar to whiskey. I wanted them all so badly, and he was trying to figure out how to give me the most pleasure, the most bang for my buck, only it was my hips bucking and my mates doing the banging.
Thank the Maker.
Raven was the one who took the opportunity, and I felt his slick cock slide between my ass cheeks, pushing against the pucker. I released Gid’s shoulder and reached around, spreading myself for him, helping him enter my tight hole inch by inch. The noises I made were decidedly unladylike, but I didn’t care.
Once I was fully seated on Raven, Gid lifted my legs, handing my ankles to my mind walker so I was as exposed as I could possibly be. When he pushed into me once more, I wanted to lose my mind from need. Cade’s wrist appeared in front of me again, and I knew that I still had some of Raven’s blood smeared on my face, but I didn’t care.
They could coat me in blood, and I would be their red queen while they fucked me until sunrise, that was how much I wanted it all. It was like a ravenous hunger had formed a chasm somewhere between my belly and my pussy, and I was trying to fill it from each side. Nothing was satisfying it, though. I wasn’t sure it would until I’d felt them all come inside me and I’d fed from each of them
When Barc and Keir began working my breasts, sucking on my nipples and biting me, I couldn’t help but bite down on Cade’s arm. My need was too great for anything else. Blood was running down my face and breasts in large amounts, but it didn’t matter. I didn’t care how much I destroyed the bed, so long as they didn’t stop fucking and feeding me.
Raven was rocking gently beneath me, but it was Gid who was fucking me just as hard as Cade had been a moment ago. I wasn’t sure who it was, but someone had slid their hand between us and was playing with my clit, driving me toward my third orgasm of the night. As much as I loved that my guys could make me come harder than I’d ever been able to do solo, I wasn’t sure how many more orgasms I could take.
Suddenly, Raven released one of my legs and it altered the angle. Instead of being folded up, I was given a little more room and it changed how Gid’s cock felt inside me. He began rubbing on that special spot, and when that combined with what I thought was Barc playing with my clit and Gid’s fangs sinking into the flesh of my leg, I screamed, letting go of Cade’s arm for a moment while pleasure shot through my veins like lightning.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew that my orgasm had triggered Gideon’s and Raven’s, and I felt their cocks twitching and flexing inside me. I was still coming back down to earth when Barc lifted me off Raven and flipped me over as he began to fuck me from behind. Keir was there, sliding in front of me with his cock, and I felt overwhelmed for a second before I began sucking on Keir’s cock with as much enthusiasm as I could muster after three orgasms.
A sharp intake of breath from the doorway drew my attention. I knew it was Darius, but I wasn’t going to change what I was doing for him. I wanted Barc and Keir to fuck me as hard as they could, and they knew that. I realized then I needed to be fucked so hard, to be fed so much, that I wouldn’t need my pursang for the night.
This was my way of punishing Darius, I recognized, and it was perfect that the bastard had walked in to witness his castigation in the flesh.
Without making another sound, Darius walked over to the chair and sat down, adjusting the tent in his pants as he did so. Seeing my perfectionist mate looking so out of sorts was surprising, but nothing was more surprising than when he undid his pants and fisted his thick cock, stroking up and down in time with Barc’s movements.
Knowing that he was pleasuring himself, using us as his own personal porn flick, was so much hotter than if he had demanded to be included—even if this was supposed to be my idea of making him suffer.
The sounds I made must have changed because suddenly Barclay’s rhythm faltered. I lifted up off of Keiran’s cock and reached behind me, pulling Keir down so I could reach his wrist with my mouth, biting it as soon as I was able to. The smoky, woodsy taste of him filled my mouth and the next thing I knew, he was coming. His cock jerking inside me while his hips slammed into me over and over again.
Keir grabbed my hair and pulled me away from Barc’s bloodied wrist. I didn’t mind, in fact, I was starting to think that I liked it when they were rough with me. When his hips arched up to meet my mouth, I gladly took as much of him in as I could, twirling my tongue around him as I went.
After just a few pumps, his grip on my hair changed, holding me as still as possible while he came in my mouth. I swallowed everything he gave me, and when he pulled back, I bit his inner thigh, sucking his blood into me as much as I could until I was feeling full.
When I was done, I licked the wound closed and fell onto my back next to him. I officially couldn’t take any more, and I was beyond satisfied that I’d punished my pursang mate.
Cockblocking wasn’t something I wanted to perpetuate in my fledgling relationships with my men, nor did I want them to think they’d get sex as a reward for ‘good behavior,’ but fuck it.
What Darius had done this evening was beyond messed up, and if a little frustration was the way to go about hitting that message home? I was all in.
* * *
Darius
The second I walked in the room, I knew I wasn’t getting any.
With every lick and roll of her hips, with every triumphant smile and furious glance, Marcella displayed how beyond angry she was with me.
That didn’t stop me from enjoying the show.
These young ones… so enthusiastic. So much energy.
I wanted to sigh at how fucking old I felt at that moment.
I remembered when I was her age. Everything was a race. The need to hit the finish line was more important than the actual journey itself.
It wasn’t the first time I’d go to sleep with a hard-on, nor was it the last time my mate would be furious with me. But I still appreciated the show, and her beauty? It was beyond anything I could have imagined. She looked like sex, and she was mine.
Surrounded by her mates, who lay around her like downed soldiers while she barely looked winded, I knew she’d never looked more glorious to me than she did at that moment.
She was a queen. She just didn’t know it yet.
I tucked my cock back into my pants, and though I winced at the discomfort and she smirked at it in satisfaction, that satisfaction soon died when I bowed to her. Waving an arm before me, I gave her her dues, just as I had to the various monarchs whose courts I’d attended, before I straightened and headed for the door.
When my hand was on the handle, she cried out, “No!”
I shot her a look over my shoulder and saw that she was sitting up now, no longer indolent and delirious with pleasure. She was a state too. Blood and seed everywhere, and fuck, she’d never looked hotter. I wanted to eat her up. Taste her blood, sweat, and tears, while making her beg me to go easy on her.
But I couldn’t.
She wanted a war, and I wasn’t about to give her one.
The heat in my eyes confused her, had her quivering in place before I turned my back on her and headed out the door. Her whimper of distress nearly killed me because she hadn’t anticipated my leaving the room, but if we were to survive the council intact, I couldn’t betray any weakness, and she was my biggest weakness.
The council were piranhas. Man-eating bastards who could and would attack at any time if I didn’t play their game the right way. Marcella didn’t know the rules, but even if she did, she was no one’s pawn. At least, no ordinary man’s pawn. The Sires didn’t count, did they? And in comparison to them, the council was exactly that—ordinary.
I strode into the living room, not stopping until I was in my bedroom and the doors were shut behind me once
more.
The dark paneling, the ruby red fabric that curtained the four-poster, and the dark leather sofa and armchair before the hearth, were almost a mirror image to the suite of rooms Marcella was in.
People from the Maximus line stayed there often, and though there were few who matched my rank, that didn’t mean there weren’t those I didn’t have to butter up to get my own way. Because of my ties to the Cavalry and, ultimately, the Reapers, I was usually using someone, manipulating the rules, breaking laws for an outcome that wasn’t something I truly wanted.
I sank into the sofa after I grabbed a bottle of whiskey from the drinks’ tray on a cabinet beside the hearth. I didn’t bother with a tumbler, just grabbed the bottle and swigged directly from it. The burn didn’t hit me like it would a human, but I was good at pretending—alcohol had often been a false crutch in my life. Why should it stop now?
All was silent across the hall, but I anticipated the door opening and one of the brothers stepping through.
I didn’t expect it to be Barclay, however, and I shot him a disgruntled look as I stated, “Do closed doors mean nothing to you?”
His lips tightened as he sat down with a sigh on the armchair beside me. “You know she doesn’t understand the rules. Why didn’t you explain shit to her? This could all have gone down much differently.”
I tilted my head to the side then offered him the whiskey. He grabbed it, took a deep sip, then returned it to me. Rather than reply, I murmured, “Is it true?”
“Is what true?” he asked, cocking his brow.
“That when you fuck your Sixth together, the bond deepens?”
He blinked. “I hadn’t really thought about it, to be honest. Having the Sixth burst into tears moments after you’ve exploded inside her kind of kills the mood.”
I winced at that. “She’s too softhearted.”
“She is where we’re concerned,” Barclay bit off. “She’s not one of your women, Darius. Not some piece of meat you can fuck and feed from.”
