by Marie Mistry
“Two?” I gaped, and all three men chuckled.
Jin gave me a wink, but ruined the cocky effect by staggering slightly afterwards. “To your tower then, Pet?”
He was smiling, but his words were strained. I began to worry for him slightly, which made my next word slip out. “Fine,” I grumbled, feeling stupid because I barely even knew him.
We’d just began to move off when Daron caught up to us, jogging but not even out of breath. He took one long look at our group, with Kain almost supporting Jin, and Blaze giving both of my new mates assessing glances.
“She needs more power too,” Daron announced, looking pointedly at me instead of greeting us.
“I’m fine.” I shrugged, but Blaze instantly dragged me to a halt. “You said you took from Daron.” He raised a brow, disapproval colouring his deep voice.
“I did.”
“You took barely enough to keep going,” Daron insisted.
“I didn’t know how much you had,” I protested.
Kain all but dropped Jin in the dirt in his haste to get near me. “Take from me, Sunshine. I’m overflowing after that win.”
Jin mock punched him in the arm. “Stupid Pride with your easy energy.”
“What are you both?” Blaze asked, that assessing gleam in his eyes. “I know you’re in Maddox’s specialised energy manipulation class and Hadrian’s advanced combat classes with Aeron.” Both of them stiffened slightly and Blaze smirked. “Oh, by the way, he’s also Lilith’s mate.”
“That arrogant, moody jerk? Oh, Sunshine, I’m so sorry for your suffering.” Kain hugged me close, ignoring the part where Blaze had asked what sub-caste he belonged to. “That’s all the more reason for you to come and run away with us.”
I couldn’t help smiling at his antics. “I happen to like my arrogant, moody jerk,” I told him.
“Oh dear, she’s clearly delusional.” Jin smirked, staggering slightly, only to be caught again by Kain. “I’m a Slumber and this idiot is an Accomplishment. I would offer Lilith some of my power, but as you may have guessed, I’m running a little low at the moment.”
“I’ll be fine,” I mumbled.
“Come here, Sweetness.” Blaze commanded, and without conscious thought, I found myself gravitating towards him. “I’ve stopped five fights in the queue for the match alone, today. Take everything you need.”
There was no mistaking the command in his voice, and my lips parted slightly in response.
I didn’t even have a moment to think about the fact that he was going to kiss me in front of everyone before his lips plundered mine.
Blaze’s kiss made me moan, my entire body catching fire at the possibility of finishing what Daron had started earlier. One of his hands found its way into my hair, taking hold and tilting my head back so he could take over my mouth more thoroughly. My own hands clenched on his shoulders, feeling the muscles beneath bunch in response. When I boldly stroked my tongue against his, he responded by stroking a hand along my horn, a move that made me gasp and left my panties soaking.
I let my power loose, feeling Blaze’s energy flow slowly into me as I ground against him. I started to pull away when I had taken enough, but he kept kissing me. Dimly I heard one of the guys say something, but I was too consumed to notice what it was.
Abruptly, I was snatched away. Blaze growled a warning, and my body cried out at the loss, but Daron didn’t seem to care.
“The crowd is coming,” he informed us. “We need to get out of here before someone starts asking questions.”
Blaze didn’t say anything for a second, his green eyes glowed with desire as he stared at me like he wanted nothing more than to finish what we’d begun. But he visibly shook himself and offered Daron a curt nod.
“You’re right,” he admitted. “You lot go, I’ll be expected to join security in the crowd.”
Aching in sheer feminine need, I allowed myself to be led away from Blaze and towards the Carnal Tower. Behind us, I could hear the singing crowd making their way back into the school.
“Be careful,” I called after Blaze, staring at his retreating form.
It was dark, so I could have been mistaken, but I could have sworn he turned and bowed.
Jin was almost completely passed out by the time we reached the tower, and it took both Daron and Kain to lift him up the stairs into my room. When they got him there, they dumped him half on the bed with his legs dangling off. We left him there as I saw the remaining two guys back to the door of the tower.
“Thank you for taking me to the game,” I said to Daron, who nodded, kissing me sweetly on the cheek.
“I’ll see you in the morning,” he promised, jogging off into the darkness with a last look at Kain’s lingering presence.
I sighed long and loudly at his retreating form. “I really am sorry. I know this probably wasn’t what you and Jin wanted from me when you invited me to that match.”
Kain shrugged. “What’s the big deal? More power for all of us, right?”
“There’s a bit more to it than that,” I hedged. “Being my mate is quite complicated, and I know you and Jin liked to play the field.”
“None of that has to change just because we’re mated.” Kain smirked.
I shook my head. “Do you even know what mating is?”
“Just a little more power in duels?” He phrased it like a question.
I looked at him grimly. “Kain, mated pairs are monogamous.”
His jaw dropped. “You can’t seriously expect to dictate who I fuck.”
I shook my head earnestly. “I don’t dictate anything. You just won’t desire anyone else… Or, at least, that’s what I’ve been told.”
Kain left looking rather dazed and did not meet my eyes as he muttered goodbye. I lingered in the doorway, watching his retreating back with a heavy heart before trooping back upstairs to the sleeping man in my bed. I took off my shoes and coat as I entered my room, before standing beside the bed and deciding my plan of action.
Though I planned to sleep with Aeron in his room, I thought I should at least take Jin’s shoes off and make him comfortable before I went upstairs. I carefully unlaced Jin’s lacrosse cleats and placed them by the door, then swung his legs over onto the bed and shuffled him unceremoniously into position on the bed. At some point, Doughnut got sick of all the jostling and scampered out of his hiding place in Jin’s pocket and settled to sleep on the pillow.
I had just dragged the quilt over Jin when his arm came out of nowhere, grabbing me and tugging me into the curve of his body. Despite appearing completely asleep, I heard him mutter under his breath.
“Not going anywhere, Pet.”
I lay there, spooned by the sleeping man, trying to think my way out of the situation. If I wasn’t in his room, Aeron might try to come and find me. I didn’t want him to jump to the conclusion that I was betraying him with his rival if he came into my room and discovered Jin here with me. But at the same time, Jin was probably generating more power from sleeping near me just because we were mated. I kind of owed him that, since I was the one who caused his power drain to begin with.
Another part of me, one growing in strength every minute, was only concerned with how warm Jin was and how tired I also was after the crazy events of the day. He smelled like rain and the sea mixed with a layer of sweat that strangely didn’t disgust me as much as I thought it would. Eventually, that part won, and I fell asleep fully clothed with the light on, cuddled securely in Jin’s arms.
Chapter 27
I woke to the smell of hot pastries and orange juice, and the feel of strong, calloused fingers stroking lightly against my inner thighs from behind. Still half asleep, I rolled over onto my back, letting my legs fall open in invitation and arching my back to try and get those teasing fingers right where I wanted them.
There was a masculine chuckle, but it wasn’t the sound I was expecting. Before I could puzzle it out, however, a mouth descended on mine coaxing and tempting in a way that made me wake up
straight way.
Aeron never kissed me like that, neither did Blaze or Daron. But the sleepy brown eyes in front of me didn’t belong to any of those men. One look at Jin’s face and I remembered the events of the day before.
I jumped out of bed, or at least, I tried to. He had his leg between mine and his weight carefully suspended over me, keeping my lower half pinned in place.
“Don’t freak out,” he pleaded, and it was then that I noticed that he had changed into a fresh uniform and showered at some point. “Look, I won’t do anything you don’t want. But you slept next to me all night, I figured I could at least return the favour considering how drained mating two of us had to make you.”
“You don’t even know me,” I protested.
“I know you enough,” Jin responded. “You’re my mate. I had already suspected before the game, when you sitting beside me in the library as I took a quick nap generated more power than a full night’s sleep ever had. I know what mating means, and I want to treasure you the way you deserve… If you’ll let me, that is.”
I started to shake my head, but somehow the motion never happened. “Kain doesn’t want me,” I told him, feeling like it was important he know. “He found out mating was monogamous and ran off.”
Jin shook his head. “My grandparents were mated, I know how it works. Kain will come around quickly enough, Pet, but he has no bearing on what happens here right now.”
I bit my lip in indecision. On the one hand, I did have a full day of school to get through and I hadn’t taken from Aeron, which meant I would probably be incredibly drained at the end of the day without what Jin was offering. On the other hand, Jin and I barely knew each other, and even though we were mates, he was one of Aeron’s rivals.
“Let me do this.” Jin’s fingers stroked my thighs again, travelling up and down, but never quite touching me in the right place. The mating bond joined in, amplifying the sensations and eroding my self-control. “I’ve wanted you for weeks. Can you honestly say you don’t want me too?”
I succumbed with a groan, reaching up and drawing him down for a deep kiss.
I almost protested as he did the opposite of what I wanted, withdrawing his hands from my thighs completely. Instead, his fingers went to my shirt and started slowly undoing the buttons from the collar downwards, stopping to kiss each inch of skin he exposed.
He kept it up as he slowly divested me of my clothing, peeling away first my shirt, then my skirt and bra till all that remained were my panties. He threaded a finger under the elastic, running it along the underside of the drenched cotton fabric. I flushed slightly at the way he was looking at my plain underwear like it was the sexiest thing he’d ever seen.
“I only want silk and lace touching you under your clothes from today onwards, understood?” he murmured darkly.
“There’s no point, Aeron just rips them off,” I complained.
Jin smirked. “Whoever said I would be any different?”
I felt something cold against my leg, and then my panties fluttered away from me. I had no idea how he’d torn them from me without my feeling it, but I couldn’t bring myself to care as he stared down at me. His hands went straight to my breasts where he proceeded to torment and tease the sensitive flesh there.
“Jin!” I cried out in shock as he swooped down and caught one nipple in his mouth, sucking punishingly before lapping away the small hurt with his tongue.
He played with my breasts till I was nearly insane with need, squirming like a wild thing beneath him. At some point, I tugged greedily at his clothes and he broke away for a fraction of a second to rip them from his body. My gaze was instantly drawn to his rock-hard cock. I barely managed to close my hand around his girth, pumping shallowly in an effort to tease him as he teased me. He indulged me for a while, teasing me back with shallow, short pumps into me with just the tip of his finger. When I bent down to suck on him, however, he anticipated the move and flipped me in an instant. His hands on my hips pulled me up onto my hands and knees.
“You can play next time,” he promised, stroking soothing hands down my back to my shoulders and pushing me down onto my elbows, ass up in the air. “Has anyone played with this pretty ass of yours before?” he asked, stroking one finger up through my core to touch the rosebud of my ass.
I shivered and shook my head, embarrassed.
“We’ll have to fix that before Kain has his way with you,” Jin murmured, continuing to stroke the forbidden place. “If you want me to stop, say so.” He went back to my pussy, collecting the cream that had pooled there and moving it back, lubricating his finger as he shallowly thrust it in and out of the tight ring of muscle.
To my shock, I loved it. The nerves there were just as sensitive as the ones in my pussy, if not more so, and I felt the edge of an orgasm creeping towards me when he pulled away.
“I’m going to try something, and it’s going to be cold,” he warned me. I looked back to watch him pulling water from the air with his power, freezing it into a long, thin cone with a flared base. I recognised the object from discussions with Nelly and Lulu. He wanted to put a plug into my ass.
I said nothing, turning into the pillow and bracing myself for the cold.
“You know the wonderful thing about cryokinesis?” Jin began almost conversationally as he pressed the slippery, cold plug to my rosette. “It won’t melt until I tell it to, so I can leave this in you all day.” He started pushing forward in tiny thrusts; I gasped. Unusual fullness was settling over me, and soon my ass was stretching to accommodate the girth of the plug, which was nothing compared to any of the cocks I’d seen so far. It seemed to take forever, but eventually I felt the flared base make contact with my ass.
At the same time, Jin thrust his cock into my pussy.
I came instantly. The heat of him in my core and the cold in my ass setting off a strange chain reaction that left me vibrating with release, pulsing around both Jin and the plug. He didn’t thrust again, instead giving me time to adjust whilst his hands made smoothing motions across my ass.
“You came just from that...” he whispered in awe. “You were made for us, Pet.” He thrust into me, tunnelling past my still squeezing inner walls with long, sure strokes that made me moan. “So fucking responsive.” He reached beneath us and pinched my clit, making me scream in pleasure.
I felt the first drops of pre-cum form a pulse of power within me and pushed back against him, silently demanding more. Jin chuckled again, one of his hands moving to hold the flared base of the plug and thrust it shallowly in counterpoint to his own pounding. The dual sensations wound me tighter than a spring, so when he hit the perfect spot inside me, I came again, triggering his release. I felt hot jets of his cum fill me before I passed out as an accompanying wave of power washed over me.
When I came back to earth, Jin had put his boxers back on and moved the covers partially around us. He was playing with the plug in my ass, and I moaned, remembering his threat of leaving it in all day.
“Push out,” he instructed. I did as he asked, feeling the ice slip free and turn back to water, which slithered into the bathroom in a sinuous ribbon.
“You’re not going to…”
He smiled. “I’ll leave those sorts of tortures for Kain.” He winked, pulling the duvet further over me and stroking up and down my back soothingly. “He has a whole box of toys for us to use on you.” His voice dropped conspiratorially. “But I hear that’s nothing on what Blaze has saved away in his flat.”
I wanted to know how he’d heard anything about the contents of Blaze’s flat, but I didn’t get the chance to ask, because at that moment the door burst open in a whirlwind of such force that it banged off the wall, leaving a dent from the handle.
Aeron stood there, yellow eyes blazing in fury as he glared across the room at me, framed by Nelly yanking hard against one of his arms and Lulu hovering awkwardly in the background.
“Aeron,” I stammered, pulling the covers up to my chest defensively. Guilt slammed i
nto me for him finding out like this, but I straightened my shoulders. I had nothing to be ashamed of, Jin was my mate too and I’d just explain everything and then–
“Get the fuck away from my mate, Sharax!” Aeron roared, sending a blast of air over the top of me, catching Jin straight in the chest, sending him flying across the room and smashing into the wall.
“Aeron stop it!” I tried to put myself in between them whilst keeping the sheets around me for modesty, but a bolt of water zoomed out of the bathroom, drenching Aeron and then freezing around him.
