Wicked Souls: A Limited Edition Reverse Harem Romance Collection

by Rebecca Royce

  But I had flesh now. I was solid, despite being part fire, and my flesh craved all the things that could give it pleasure. I wanted to start with the three of them and everything they could do to satisfy my five reclaimed senses. I’d taste the rest of the world later.

  I pushed Razik down to the damp sand beneath us and straddled his thighs, the pulse of my need fluctuating visibly through my skin. His cock bobbed, the piercings glinting in the flames that seemed to constantly flutter across my skin. If I ever needed proof that these three dragons were for me, this was it. They didn’t fear what I’d become. They reveled in it.

  Salem and Errol both knelt on either side, and I tore my attention away from Razik just long enough to savor a kiss from each one before they dipped their heads and lashed their dragon tongues over my nipples. I let my head fall back and moaned at the spikes of pleasure, wet heat collecting between my legs. Eyes still closed, I gripped Razik’s cock and began to stroke him in earnest, rather than simply toy with him like I had the first time we’d met. He emitted a rough growl, hands sliding up my thighs to grip my hips.

  “Come here, Benedetta,” he commanded.

  I opened my eyes and met his wild gaze, enjoying the way he gritted his teeth and hissed when I tugged lightly at the ring that pierced the underside of his cock.

  “What if I just want to tease you some more?”

  “Do whatever you need, just do it with my cock inside you.” He pulled at my hips again, and this time I surrendered, shifting up his thighs until my drenched pussy hovered over his tip. I held him in my hand, somehow both eager and anxious about what was to come. I barely knew these men, yet at the same time, my soul called to all of them as if they were beacons in a storm, and I’d been lost at sea. But the way they gravitated to me, I wondered whether I might have been their beacon.

  Either way, we’d found each other, and no matter where or for how long we’d been lost, we were together now.

  I pressed down, eyes fixed on Razik’s face. Sweat beaded on his brow, his chest slick and glistening, reflecting my glow. His tip somehow felt even hotter than my flesh though, and my eyes widened at the sensation. It felt good. So good, the piercings sharp, searing points of heat. I sank slowly, wishing to feel every inch of sensation they sent through me, rubbing against my inner walls.

  “You like that, huh?” he asked with a wicked grin as he pushed up into me, moving with deliberate care as if he’d grasped my need to take my time.

  “Yes! Gods, yes!” I arched my back and began to rock, slipping my fingers through my hair and moving up and down, taking him in as deep as he could go on each descent. Errol and Salem kept touching me, sensing my need for constant contact everywhere. My skin never lost contact with one or both of them, someone’s mouth was always at my breast, someone’s hands kneading my ass, stroking my back. Not a single inch of my fiery skin went untouched as I rode Razik’s cock with sheer abandon.

  “Hmm, you’re not going off like a firecracker with him,” Errol murmured in my ear. “Need me to help?” He slid his palm down my belly and cupped my pussy, rubbing gently with two fingers. I quivered and moaned but shook my head.

  “Let it last. Let me test my limits, see how hot I can burn. For you.”

  He gave my clit one last stroke before moving his hand and kissing my shoulder with a nod. “Anything you desire, lovely. Just ask.”

  “I desire to please you. All three of you. Give me your fire. Your magic. Let’s see how we mix.”

  “I am so down with that,” Salem said. He took my face in his hands and kissed me, then nodded with a silent message to Errol.

  Errol smiled and bent to my ear again. “Hope you’re ready.” He pressed a large palm into the center of my back and urged me down. I bent over, bracing my hands on either side of Razik’s head, grinning down at him. He kept fucking me, and I gasped at the sensation of Errol’s hand grazing over one ass cheek, fingers probing gently in between.

  He teased around my rear, driving my already brilliant heat even higher, then dipped his head, tongue lashing out to tease where he’d touched.

  “Sweet fuck,” I muttered, eyelids fluttering closed. Razik only watched, his handsome face graced with an enthralled smile, something I hadn’t seen a single time since he’d arrived.

  “I want to see you come to pieces while we fuck you. You’ll let him do what he wants, won’t you?”

  “Anything,” I said, because I knew that with a trio of dragons, there was no way everything they did wouldn’t feel amazing.

  Errol’s tongue disappeared, and I sensed him move behind me. His hard length rested hotly against my cleft, and he stroked the entire length along my tailbone before notching his cockhead between my cheeks. He rested there, his breath hot against my neck, and I realized it wasn’t merely his breath, but his fire that brushed across my skin, feeding my own rising heat.

  He didn’t try pushing into my ass. Instead, Razik slid out of me until just his tip remained inside, waiting while Errol fit himself alongside his pierced tip. Then in perfect sync, the pair pushed into me again, both thick cocks sliding and stretching, the pleasure and heat increasing until they were fully seated together and began to move.

  I threw my head back and moaned, my mouth caught by Salem’s in a ravaging kiss. He devoured my pleasure, teasing my breasts while our tongues tangled, then pulled back with a desperate look.

  “I need to be inside you too. Can you…?”

  His deference was endearing, but there was no question whether I could. I nodded feverishly and grasped his cock, dipping lower to wrap my lips around it. He was half straddling one of Razik’s arms, and the other dragon nudged him over until Salem’s thighs were spread above Razik’s face. I took him into my mouth again, sucking deep, while out of the corner of my eye I spied Razik lift his head and lash his tongue out, coiling around Salem’s balls and probing between his cheeks. Salem’s cock pulsed between my lips, and he let out a groan of utter abandon as he began to undulate his hips in time with my sucking.

  All three were in perfect sync somehow, both with each other and with me. The heat between us rose until I was sure I’d burn to ash again before it subsided and rose again. I remained whole through it all, through our heated fucking, their fire-infused sweat coating my body too, and their intense magic cascading between and around us like the fire itself.

  We were one with the fire, with each other, and when I could take it no longer and the pleasure finally, irrevocably consumed me, they went with me. We fell to pieces together, awash in flames and rough moans and curses. Salem’s semen shot in a molten thread down my throat, his fingers tangled in my hair as Razik’s and Errol’s cocks both pulsed and exploded inside me.

  We collapsed in a heap of glowing limbs, like the embers of a bonfire giving in to their own weight after the fire had burned the wood down to coals. But we were still whole. I was still whole, and I’d found love once more, love I would never give up, my sanity be damned.

  Errol

  We lay in a heap, limbs entwined, for what seemed like eons. The heat didn’t subside, though the bubble of our tangled auras around us hummed with our sated bliss. Benedetta was still sprawled on top of Razik’s chest while I lay on my side next to them. Salem had fallen on his back above our heads, his face near mine. All three of us still touched her, as if we couldn’t believe she was real, and she might become insubstantial with a breath.

  “Sweet Mother,” Salem breathed as he lightly toyed with the glowing strands of Benedetta’s hair. “Sex has never been that good. Which is saying a lot for a dragon.”

  I huffed a laugh and tilted my head back to look at him. The ground beneath me felt strange when I moved, and I pushed up onto one arm, curious. Beneath us, the sand had melted and was now a thick, solid sheet of dark glass, shot through with streaks of purple fire.

  “Wow, I knew we were on fire, but I had no idea we burned that hot.”

  Benedetta’s sleepy eyes opened, and she smiled. “The hottest. Who knew drag
on fire could give life too? I owe you guys.” Her voice cracked, and she sniffled. I looked down at her, alarmed by the shift in her mood.

  Razik lifted his head, his brow furrowed as he cupped her face in his hand. “We owe you for waking us up to, well, to this. To love. But I think we have one more thing to do. Let us mark you. Take all three of us as mates. I think it’s safe to say we’re all pretty solidly on board.”

  “No fucking question,” Salem said, rising onto one elbow and leaning in as if preparing to do the deed now. I touched his shoulder to urge him back, and he frowned at me.

  “Give her space to decide. She’s barely been free for a minute. We can wait.”

  She sat up, hands resting lightly against Razik’s chest, then took a deep breath. The inhalation made her cascade of fiery hair undulate, and her crackled half-molten skin flared bright with the fire inside her. Her wings reappeared from nowhere, stretching wide. And she smiled, a brighter, happier smile I’d never seen as she reached out and touched my cheek, then Salem’s, then Razik’s.

  “I would be honored to be your mate. Please mark me. All of you.”

  Salem leaned in again, but Razik’s hand shot up, holding him back.

  “Me first,” he said, his gaze intent and fixed on Benedetta’s face. “Where would you like your mark, B?”

  She lifted a hand to her sternum, pressing it over her heart. A bright, glowing ember flared within her, illuminating her entire body.

  “Here. I want all of you to mark me right here.”

  Razik sat up, curling both arms around her waist, then leaned her back until he supported her arched back with both hands. Her breasts jutted out, nipples tiny glowing coals that begged to be sucked again. I gave in, taking one in my mouth while Razik did the deed of marking her with his tongue. Benedetta’s fingers combed through my hair, the intense heat of her touch making my scalp tingle as much as my tongue. Then I felt a nudge against my shoulder.

  “Your turn,” Razik said.

  I released her nipple with a pop, amused to see Salem had followed suit and was kneeling on her other side, laving her breast and nipple with his forked tongue. Razik’s mark glowed between her breasts, a perfect symmetrical mandala of fire. I added my mark to it, a similar pattern that would complement his. Then Salem took his turn, and when we were done, a three-petaled flower blossomed with actual flames licking out across Benedetta’s breasts.

  “I’m yours now. Forever.”

  She met my gaze, and my heart swelled with the adoration in her eyes. Sweet Mother, could this be real? With a desperate lunge, I grabbed her and kissed her. She laughed against my lips, relenting and climbing into my lap. The next thing I knew, I was seated deep inside her, and she was fucking me slowly while the other two watched, happy to jack each other off to the show.

  We didn’t stop for hours, and her heat never once ebbed, nor her desire for us. If anything, we wanted each other even more as the night stretched on. Benedetta’s magic fed the three of us, leaving us more energized than spent. But another craving grew amid all the sex, and I could see it in her eyes when we were on our third round with her astride me. Or was it our fifth? I’d lost count.

  She slowed and then stopped entirely, a pensive look on her face.

  “What is it?” I asked. Razik and Salem’s heads lifted from their slow, involved exploration of her body with their mouths. She was pure fire, which was as much of a drug to us as sex.

  “I can’t stop thinking about what will happen when I face the world again. The higher races knew me as an enemy. What happened last night, with Cassandra wanting to lock me up until she could determine the risk of my existence, we can’t just run away from that. I won’t run and hide. They will eventually find us. You three must know this. Even though you stole me, Nikhil and Ked will still come if they hear it’s me. We’ll have to face them. I’ll have to face them.”

  I grimaced, thinking about meeting two of my idols after such egregious lawbreaking. But what was done, was done. “We’ll face it together. Everything from here on out, we’ll face together. We will always be by your side in everything, I promise.”

  “It’s almost dawn,” Razik said, pointing to the mouth of the cave, which glowed with the rising pre-dawn light. “Considering they haven’t found us yet, I imagine they’re still looking. Shall we go face the music?”

  “Let me head out first,” I offered. “I can probably smooth the way a bit, so they don’t flip when they see her.”

  “Thank you,” Benedetta said, leaning down to kiss me once more before standing.

  I headed to the mouth of the cave, shifting into my dragon form as I went.

  “Keep us posted,” Razik said. “We’ll come when you say it’s clear.”

  I nodded and stretched my wings, turning to face the sunrise before I launched myself into the air.

  I’d only been flying for a few minutes, crossing straight over the densely forested center of the island when a streak of white scales slammed into me from my right. We tumbled through the air, then crashed through the tops of the trees, finally smashing into the ground in a grappling knot of talons and wings. I struggled to gain the upper hand, but whichever of April’s three Guardian mates had found me was much larger and stronger. I should have kept to the shadows until I reached them, but there was nothing to do now but make my case.

  “I surrender!” I roared, rolling over and showing my belly to the big white dragon. He snorted white fire as he loomed over me, and for a second, I worried he might take his prize like we’d just dueled. If it was Murdoc, I was probably in for a rough ride. I wasn’t opposed to being fucked again, but after mating Benedetta, I didn’t want to spoil the sweetness of the energy that still flowed through me.

  Then he leaned back onto his haunches. His dragon voice resonant, he said, “You assholes are in deep shit, you know. Where is she?”

  “Hidden until you all agree to a reasonable discussion.”

  He huffed, then began to shift, shrinking into his human form. After a second, Gray stood looking up at me with a stern expression from the misty forest floor. I followed suit until we faced each other, man to man. “Does this mean you’ll parlay?”

  “We can discuss it,” he said. “Cassandra’s pretty fucking pissed, and don’t get me started about the state you left Tate and Murdoc in. You’re lucky I’m the one who found you. You’re also lucky you didn’t set the studio on fire with the students arriving soon.”

  “Our intention wasn’t to damage property or cause any harm. We just wanted her back. She isn’t the monster Cassandra believes.” He gave me a dubious look. I huffed in exasperation. “Dude, if I was under the thrall of nymphaea blood, I’d have fucking killed you. Not to mention, we’d have burned the damn studio to the ground and left Murdoc and Tate in pieces. We don’t want that. We love this job. But we weren’t about to leave Benedetta trapped when we knew how to free her. How to resurrect her.”

  His expression softened, and I could tell he was scrutinizing my aura as I spoke. He must have seen how earnest and very much not corrupted by evil I was.

  “It’s really her, isn’t it?” he asked finally. “And she’s…not insane?”

  I was unable to suppress a smile. “Yeah, it’s her. And she’s perfect. Let me come back to the house and explain it to Cassandra. The others will join me as long as they believe it’s safe.”

  He nodded and exhaled a long breath of smoke that flowed down his body, reforming into faded jeans, boots, and a white T-shirt. I did the same, not wanting to show up naked to a meeting with my boss. If she was going to fire me, I didn’t want it to happen with my balls hanging out. I hoped once she heard me she’d understand, but Benedetta would probably have to make her see the truth.

  We went on foot from there, the house and grounds only about a ten-minute walk through the woods. The others were already waiting, thanks to the mental announcement Gray had likely sent their way. I braced myself for Cassandra’s displeasure, but slowed at the edge of the woods wh
en I realized how many people stood around the base of the big tree in quiet conversation.

  My pulse sped up. It would’ve been one thing to talk to Cassandra again, or even the full complement of April’s mates. But there were more than just the school’s permanent residents arrayed before me.

  Cassandra stepped forward, and at her side was the enormous black-haired, black-eyed dragon I both revered and feared in equal measure. Void magic cascaded off him in waves so potent I could feel them seeping into my mind from where I stood. I swallowed hard, and Gray shot me a look. “Fucking scary bastard, isn’t he?”

  Then another man stepped up beside him with a tattooed collar around his neck and matching braces around his wrists that glowed with blue magic. Nikhil had come too, just like we expected. I cursed under my breath. “Fuck, they got here fast.”

  “They drifted. You do realize that under the circumstances, they weren’t going to take the long way getting here, right?”

  “Yeah, I wasn’t really thinking that far ahead,” I said. Then I plastered on as gracious an expression as I could muster as I steeled myself and closed the distance.

  Nikhil and Ked weren’t the only new arrivals. Behind them, I saw a group of others: Ked’s mates, Marcus and Evie, were here. With them stood Belah, Iszak, and Lukas, Nikhil’s three mates, who I already knew well. Belah gave me a warm, comforting smile that did some work to ease my mind. At least she was likely to be on my side.

  Behind them were Naaz, Neela, and Sterlyn, the other three Elites, along with their mates, Asha, Zorion, and Zamirah. Standing by Asha’s side, arm-in-arm with her was none other than Deva Rainsong, and I couldn’t see them, but I imagined she’d probably brought her hounds along too.

  My gaze returned to Neela for a moment, her fiery glow so similar to Benedetta’s. Of all of them, she might be the only one who truly understood how huge a transition Benedetta had made to return to life. I was glad she’d come because with easily half of the most powerful dragons in existence here to pass judgment today, Benedetta would need as many allies as she could get.