She bent over him and swirled her tongue around the tip, enjoying the salty flavor of his skin. He smelled so good, masculine and clean. And he tasted even better. His moans of pleasure guided her as she experimented with tongue, teeth and hands. She took him deeper into her mouth, using her hands to pump his shaft.
Burke stroked her fanny, slow caresses that spiked the simmer in her blood to boiling. Heat pulsed down her legs and up over her chest. She groaned around a mouthful of Miko and sped up her motions. This is what she’d always wanted -- to be possessed by two powerful, dominating men. Maybe she hadn’t been ready to admit it before she’d met them, but she had stared at her share of group porn pictures.
Two men. One girl. So hot.
Ha, she hadn’t known how hot the reality of it was! It was like a nuclear blast. Kaboom!
Burke pulled her cheeks apart and teased her anus and pussy with his fingers. He bent over her back to kiss her shoulders and nape, while stimulating her clit with magical fingers. Miko grasped her hair and pulled, forcing her up and down, fucking her mouth.
She wasn’t going to last long. She wanted release. Now. She couldn’t plead, not with Miko’s thick cock plunging in and out. Feeling powerless and wonderfully submissive, she whimpered and surrendered, letting her vampires dictate her motions.
Miko stopped her with a tug on her hair and forced her upright with a push to her chest. From behind, Burke guided her into position, her legs straddling the bench, her pussy hovering over Miko’s hips. He pressed between her shoulder blades, bending her forward at the hips, gripped her waist and eased her down until Miko’s cock was buried deep inside.
The air left her lungs in a slow sigh. Up, down, he supported her with his hands as she rode Miko, yet her thighs began to burn from her position. The pain wasn’t enough to distract her from the pleasure her two vampires were giving her, though. Miko pulled and pinched her uber-sensitive nipples. Burke produced some lube from somewhere, spread it over her anus and slowly inched inside.
Oh, glory!
“Open, baby. Take me in.”
Her perineum burned as he breached her hole, but the pain was oh, so good. She groaned, tossed her head back and relaxed, taking him deep. Miko’s thrusts slowed, falling into the same pace as Burke’s. The combined movements of both cocks, gliding in and out, coupled with the guys’ softly uttered words of encouragement, and the tormenting touches of two sets of hands, sent her over the edge. A powerful orgasm blasted through her body just as her vampires found their own releases. Their cum filled her pulsing pussy and anus, lubricating her. They quickened their pace, taking her harder, faster. A second orgasm coursed through her body. Her pussy and ass milked their cocks until every drop had been expelled and she lacked the strength to stand.
Burke lifted her off Miko and took her hand, kissing each fingertip.
“Now, my love, it’s time for you to make your final decision,” Burke said, as he led her to the center of the room. “I wish we had more time. But we don’t.”
Her gaze focused on the floor. Four chains were connected to steel rings affixed to the floor, just like the ones she’d been tied in when Hadrian had tried to kill her. The lingering heat simmering in her blood chilled. Ice shards pricked her insides. The resemblance was too creepy. Why was he doing this now? Exposing her to something that would scare her, instead of turn her on? They’d just shared the most amazing experience, and she was still tingling all over. Now she was ready to run screaming for the nearest exit.
Did these two have the world’s worst sense of timing or what?
“I learned there’s a reason why our Binding didn’t take effect,” Burke said while easing her onto the floor. “Something was missing.”
“Then it really hadn’t taken? The Binding?”
Miko circled her before stooping down to pick up one of the leather cuffs attached to a chain. “Only partially. Just enough to ease the pain.”
“Partially? How does one become partially bound? Isn’t that kind of like being partially pregnant?” she snapped, resisting Burke’s effort to force her to the floor. “What are you doing? Are you crazy?”
Burke muscled her onto her butt. “Not unless you want to equate loving you with insanity.”
“I don’t know. That’s a close one,” Miko quipped.
“Gotta agree with you,” Burke said.
“This is no laughing matter,” she shouted, struggling to break free from Burke’s tightening grip. Her mounting panic took the form of an invisible belt of ice. It wrapped around her chest like a constrictor and squeezed the air from her lungs. “Stop.”
Miko gave Burke a warning glance then settled on one knee beside her. “If you don’t want to complete the final step of the Iugum, we can stop. Nothing has to happen if you don’t want it to. But I think it’s only going to help you to do this -- to face up to your fear.”
“That’s the final step? I have to conquer a fear?”
Miko took her hand in his and gently stroked the back. The innocent touch, a small show of concern and support, eased her panic somewhat. “No, it’s more like pass a test of love.”
“A test? I’m not fond of tests. Maybe we don’t need to complete the Iugum? We’re not hurting anymore. Right?”
“That’s an option.”
“What’ll happen if we don’t?” Her vampires swapped who’s-going-to-break-the-news-to-her looks. She did not like the vibe she was getting. “It’s that bad?”
“I guess it depends on how you want to look at it,” Burke answered.
“Okay, Mr. Vague, what’s that mean? Am I going to die?” She decided Miko might be more forthcoming, and turned a questioning glance his way.
Miko shook his head. “It’s unlikely.”
That sounded like good news. So what was the big deal? What weren’t they telling her? “Is that awful pain going to come back? So far, it hasn’t. Thank God. That has to mean something right?”
Miko released her hand, which almost made her whimper. It had been such a sweet gesture. “Sure. It means something.”
“Then what?” she prodded. “I need to know. What are you holding back?”
“I contacted someone local here, to find out exactly how the Iugum works, and why our Binding didn’t fully take.” Burke settled next to her on the floor. He stretched his long legs out in front of him. “I also asked what the consequences would be if we went no further.”
“Yeah, yeah, I kind of got that. So, what’s the deal? You’re killing me here.”
“I’m trying to break it to you easy.”
“Forget that.”
“Okay.” He sent Miko yet another one of those looks. “We didn’t want to pressure you. We wanted to let you take the time you needed. But we didn’t know… Neither of us have ever met an Origo. We didn’t know there were certain rules…”
“What kind of rules?”
“There’s no way we could have known before we left the United States,” Burke added. “The elder I consulted is very ancient and does not use modern technologies…”
“What are you trying to tell me?”
Miko sighed. “Because we brought you here, to our homeland, if we don’t take the final step by sunrise, you’ll become a vampire.”
“Oh.”
Both her vampires stared at her like they expected her to freak out. She briefly considered doing just that. But instead, she bit her tongue and tried to sort out the facts.
She was a semi-bound Origo. She’d gone as far as she had for several reasons. First, to escape that awful, gnawing pain. Second, because she really liked the idea of being forever young. Immortal. She’d never get sick. Never age. But mostly, she wanted to be with her vampires, Burke and Miko. She loved them.
There’d been a time -- not so long ago -- when she’d accepted the fact that her past had made it pretty much impossible for her to love another person. Human or otherwise. Her mother’s death, the life-or-death existence on the streets she’d endured for years, and the many year
s spent later being shuffled from one foster home to another had taken their toll. Her heart had been hardened. Her ability to trust severely impaired.
She’d even kept friends at a safe distance, including Lisa. To let anyone get really close, to mean something, was to risk losing them. She could not survive another loss like that, even if she had immortal blood coursing through her veins.
But then Burke and Miko had come. Yes, initially her attraction to them had been all physical. They were both beautiful men. What red-blooded woman wouldn’t find them attractive?
Next, she experienced a sense of needing them. For protection. Despite all the crazy things going on around her, they made her feel somewhat safe. That was one emotion that was completely foreign to her. She liked it. A lot. Soon, she started missing them when they were gone. This wasn’t a little twinge of missing but a gut-deep, painful kind.
Finally, somehow she found herself loving them. She sold her bar. She walked away from the life she’d known. And she hadn’t done those things just to escape the pain of her past, but because she couldn’t imagine living a day without her vampires.
Maybe she could live with becoming a vampire. It would take some getting used to. But why would she go that route?
She loved Burke and Miko.
Now, she had to prove it. To Burke and Miko. To herself.
Chapter Nineteen
Sylvie took several deep breaths to slow her out-of-control heart rate. Adrenaline had her feeling dizzy, jittery, out of breath. Her senses were over-reactive, sounds, smells, touches so intense they were almost painful. She nodded to Burke and Miko, swallowed a huge lump in her throat and let them ease her onto her back on the floor.
“Trusting is one of the most essential aspects of love,” Miko said while fastening one leather binding around her wrist. “Do you agree?”
“Yes,” she whispered.
“Can you trust us?” Burke moved to her ankle, lifting it to slip a leather cuff around it.
“I want to.”
“That’s not the answer we need,” Miko said, reaching for her other arm.
Tears burned beneath her closed eyelids. “It’s not easy for me to trust.”
“Why? Can you tell us?” Burke pleaded, before securing her second ankle. “What happened to you, Sylvie?”
“Life happened. It taught me that trusting other people was stupid. Because people die. Move away. Decide they don’t want you around. Whatever.”
“We aren’t going to die,” Miko said.
“Or move away.”
“And we definitely want you around for a long time.”
Despite the fact that she was once again tied down spread-eagled like she had been in that awful place Hadrian had taken her, she had to give her vampires a teary-eyed smile.
Burke stroked her cheek, his love for her shining in his eyes. “The chains aren’t really what are holding you down. You know that, don’t you?”
“Yeah.”
Miko’s eyes shone with love too, as he also smiled down at her. “Are you ready to say the words that will finally break the chains?”
She was surprised by how easily they came. “I trust you. I love you. I want to be with you forever.”
Burke and Miko bit their wrists and each let a single droplet of blood fall, striking the center of her forehead.
Unlike before, their irises turned deep, blood red. It was the most bizarre sight she’d ever witnessed. And yet, she wasn’t afraid.
It was going to work this time.
The bindings fell from her ankles and wrists and magically dissolved into a swirling mist. The white cloud whirled around her. The circling wind started slowly but gained speed until it was howling like a tornado. Within seconds, the center of the cyclone was directly over her forehead, the narrowest part hovering less than an inch from her. She wanted to flinch, to move away, but Burke and Miko told her to remain still in calm, soothing voices. There was nothing to fear. The wind was magic. It wouldn’t hurt her.
It touched her, a soft caress like a summer breeze. She closed her eyes, letting the wonderful sensation relax her. Behind her closed eyelids, images flashed through her mind. Memories of Burke and Miko in strange historical costumes, doing things like riding horses across green fields, sailing wooden ships. A barrage of emotions swept through her -- sorrow, joy, confusion, loneliness, despair.
And then there was only peace. Quiet contentment.
Her vision cleared. She looked at Burke, at Miko. Their eyes were normal again. Their love for her shown clearly now, as if some kind of fog had been cleared.
She sat up and sank into Burke and Miko’s embrace, thankful for what she’d learned, and for the gift they’d given her -- freedom from the chains tying her to the pain of her past.
“Now, are you ready to finish what we started earlier?” Burke clapped his hands, rubbing them together eagerly, sexual promise glittering in his eyes.
A whole other kind of sensation pulsed through her ? a simmering sensual heat. A very wonderful erotic warmth, coupled with pure joy that made her feel so light she could literally take flight like the birds.
* * *
Miko had never known such profound joy existed. Having lived for centuries without a soul, he’d learned to accept the way he was. He’d also learned to hide from the emptiness, distracting himself with work. He still loved his job with the Excoluni, and in fact was looking forward to the challenges of his new position -- the one formerly held by his brother, Hadrian. But he now could put his job in its proper perspective. No longer would he live to work. There were two other reasons to wake up in the morning -- Burke and Sylvie. They were much more important.
Someday, however, he hoped to find out what had changed his brother. He could appreciate Hadrian’s grieving for the loss of his girlfriend, now that he had experienced love firsthand. Yet it wasn’t exactly the same. Hadrian and his girlfriend hadn’t been bound mates. Hadrian couldn’t love her. At least not in the purest sense. Perhaps he’d loved her as a soulless man could? And just maybe that imperfect love had destroyed his brother?
Answers. He would get them. But he would not let his quest for them rule his life. The man Miko had respected was gone. Nothing would bring him back.
* * *
Burke signed the final document and slid the stack of papers across the table’s glossy surface.
The agent from the title company checked the signatures, nodded and set a signed check before him. “Very well. Best of luck to you both.” He stood, shook hands with Burke then turned to do the same with Isabella, after handing a set of keys to her.
As soon as he left the room, Isabella beamed at Burke, keys in hand. “I wanted to pay more, you know.”
“You paid enough.” The full price she’d paid hung between them, unspoken words. She’d sacrificed her job, home, friends. She could have lost even more. Thankfully, she hadn’t.
She raised the key ring. “You can still change your mind.”
“No, never.”
“You’re too damn stubborn for your own good.”
“Nah. Just too damn stubborn for your good.”
She gave him a watery smile. “Come visit me?”
“Soon.”
“I’m going to redecorate. The estate’s so… medieval. It’s needed a facelift for centuries.”
He knew damn well she had no intention of changing a thing. She was, after all, a medieval woman at heart. “It’s yours now. If you want to put in shag carpet and mirrored disco balls, that’s your choice.”
She lifted a single delicately groomed eyebrow. “Hmmm. That is a thought.” Leaning forward, she pressed a kiss to his cheek. “Thank you. For everything.”
“No, thank you. For being my friend when I needed one most.” He watched her leave the office, knowing she would finally have the life she deserved. No more struggling. He plucked up the check, reading the figure printed on it. One dollar and no cents.
He had paid his debt.
And he had rece
ived the most wonderful gift of all, even more precious than the money, houses, freedom he’d fought for.
He had finally experienced love.
* * *
About Tawny Taylor
Tawny Taylor has been writing romance for women for ten years. Her first novel, Tempting Fate, was published in 2004 and was an RT Reviewer’s Choice nominee and highly reviewed book.
To date, Tawny has over 50 published books by 5 publishers, including Pocket, Kensington, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain and Changeling Press. They include several subgenres of romance including paranormal, contemporary, New Adult and romantic suspense. Among her bestselling books are Dark Master, Decadent Master, and My Alpha Billionaire.
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