Grave Signs (Hellgate Guardians Book 4)

by Ivy Asher

  Unfortunately...I didn’t account for the weight.

  With my left hip shoved so far out on my two inch heels and my boobs thrust out, the wing move makes me go topsy-turvy as I throw myself off-balance.

  A squeal escapes me as I go falling nipples-first to the floor, my damn wings not doing a thing to help catch my fall other than to flap-flail right along with my arms.

  “Oof!” Vudu’s strong hands catch me around my waist before I can hit the floor, but I’m so top heavy with the wings and my inflated confidence that I tip all the way over in his arms until I’m hanging upside down. I feel the tulle skirt of my dress flop up by my ears, baring my dumb ass in the most spectacularly embarrassing seduction fail to have ever happened to any angel or demon alive. Ever.

  Vudu quickly spins me back until I’m right side up, and he sets me down on the floor as I scramble to shove the tulle back down where it’s supposed to be, but the damage is done.

  “Oh. My. God.”

  I cover my face, completely mortified, and I’m certain that my entire body is flushed red with humiliation.

  “What...ah. What happened there?” Toreon asks carefully, but I can hear the smile on his face, and I want to die...and also punch him.

  I instantly drop my hands to glare at him. “I was trying to seduce you pricks!”

  Vudu’s dark eyebrows shoot up in surprise, while Toreon rears back a little. “You were...what? I thought you wanted to talk?” Toreon asks.

  I start pacing around the room, because I can’t even face them right now. My mind keeps replaying how I tripped and flipped, and I think I may have done some permanent damage with the hip popping, because now it clicks every damn time I take a step.

  “You haven’t tried to be with me all week,” I begin, my hands flinging around animatedly. “I feel weird about it, okay? So when I told my sisters, they so kindly suggested that I bring you up here and try to seduce you. But clearly, I am incapable of that, as I just so colorfully showed.”

  I hear Vudu’s low rumble of laughter, and I flush all over again. “This is the worst,” I say before I stop in front of the wall and plant my forehead against it. I thump my head against the wall a few times for good measure, wishing I could reverse time and stop myself before the wings part of my plan.

  Before I can hit my head against the wall again, Vudu’s hand is suddenly there, gently pressing against my forehead and pushing it back. With his other hand around my waist, he turns me to face him, but I’m still so mortified, so I bury my head against his chest.

  “Let’s just forget this ever happened and go downstairs, okay?” I ask hopefully.

  Toreon comes up beside me and runs a hand down my back. “You don’t have to try and seduce us, Sable,” he tells me. “We’re seduced every time you’re in the room with us.”

  I turn my head to look at him, hope flaring to life in my chest. “I thought maybe...maybe you changed your minds. That you didn’t want me as your mate anymore.”

  Vudu stiffens and then pulls me away from him, his frowning face taking me in while Toreon gapes at me.

  “Is that really what you thought?” Toreon asks.

  “No? Yes? Maybe…God, I’m so embarrassed,” I say again.

  Both of my mates sigh and share a loaded look before Toreon runs a frustrated hand over the top of his black hair. “It’s not you who should be embarrassed. It’s us.”

  “Why?”

  “Because,” Toreon answers. “We’ve made you feel doubt, and that’s not what we want. We were trying to let us all heal. Get to know each other better. But we didn’t realize that it was making you so uneasy.”

  “Yes, we only want to make you feel good things,” Vudu adds, his large hand coming up to pet my arm. How someone so rough and large can touch me so gently, I’ll never know.

  “So, you do still want me?” I ask thickly, forcing myself to ask the question that’s been plaguing me.

  “Always,” they both answer, and immense relief takes away some of the humiliating sting.

  “We need to do a better job at this mate stuff,” Toreon mutters to Vudu.

  “I’m blaming you. You said she needed time,” Vudu tells him, clearly unhappy.

  “Fuck. I’m sorry, Sable,” Toreon says, “I thought you did need time, that you would want it after everything that happened. I was trying to let you adjust before we took things further. I wanted you to feel safe and comfortable. I thought when you were ready, you’d let us know.”

  I snort, which would normally be something I might be embarrassed about, but really, there’s no topping what just went down with the wings and the hips and the tulle around my shoulders instead of my waist.

  I shake my head as I look into Toreon’s golden gaze. “I was doing the same thing. I knew you needed time to mourn and adjust, to feel safe here with Ire and me. I was trying to give you time to be okay and not push myself all over you like some lunatic incapable of thinking of anything other than the orgasms she wants.”

  Toreon and Vudu both chuckle, and I release a sigh.

  “So you do still want me, no second thoughts about the whole mate thing?”

  “Never,” Toreon and Vudu both say at the same time, and I laugh. I bring my hands up to scrub at my face to rid the remaining tension, but I quickly remember I have makeup on and drop them.

  Toreon wraps a loose strand of my hair around his finger and then nods like he’s come to some kind of conclusion before looking at Vudu again. “We need to make this right, V. We need to make sure our mate knows how much we want her. How glad we are that we have her forever.”

  “About fucking time,” Vudu grunts.

  “Oh,” I chirp out in surprise as Vudu turns me in his arms until my back is to his front, and even with my wings, he’s able to hold me like that, his body wide and tall. Toreon steps directly in front of me, and I feel both sets of eyes drinking me in, their gazes falling to my chest that’s rising and falling in rapid succession.

  “How long do you think we have?” Vudu asks behind me.

  “We could probably get away with fifteen minutes,” Toreon says, and Vudu growls in displeasure.

  Toreon laughs. “It’s okay, we’ll take our time with her later. For now, let’s just show her how beautiful she is. How wanted.” He steps closer to me until we’re chest-to-chest, and with a teasing touch, he traces the curves of my breasts, instantly making my skin prickle and rise in awareness.

  Vudu makes a noise of agreement and then moves his hand to begin tracing over the curve of one wing. I shiver in response, just as Toreon cups my face and presses his lips against mine.

  My mouth opens to him, my heart hammering in my chest as my baffled mind tries to catch up. This is happening. They’re touching me. They want me.

  I nearly whimper when Toreon’s tongue swipes against mine, and then he tilts my head to take me deeper, like he wants all of me. It reminds me of our first kiss, of the way our souls seemed to meet, drawn inexplicably together and burning with want.

  He hums as he pulls away, and I try to follow him, but he steps back. “More,” I tell him, my voice already breathless, but I don’t want air. I want him.

  “You’re getting more,” he promises. “Much, much more. But we don’t have time to worship your body the way we want right now, and our first time shouldn't be rushed in your Sire’s house. So we’re going to take the edge off, and then we’ll worship you properly later.”

  I swallow hard, my eyes going wide when Toreon lowers himself onto his knees in front of me. How he makes that look so sexy, I have no idea. “You’re much better at seduction than me,” I say quietly.

  Toreon grins as his hands grasp the hem of my skirt. “I disagree. You seduce us simply by being.”

  I bite my lip as he slowly lifts my skirt up all the way to my hips. “Hold this there. Don’t let go.”

  I follow his order instantly, my hands dropping to hold the layers of tulle up, my eyes watching in rapt fascination as he starts to run his hands up
my thighs. While he does that, I feel Vudu start to dip and stroke the curves of my wings, and I nearly jolt when he hits a particularly sensitive part.

  “What is with these wings?” I murmur.

  I feel Vudu smile into my neck when his mouth comes down to lay a kiss behind my ear. “Our wings are erogenous zones,” he says in his sexy rasp. “And I intend to learn every single inch of yours to see exactly how you like to be touched.”

  Heat spreads to my core at his words, and right then, Toreon’s fingers come up to graze my panties. My head snaps down to watch as he dips inside the silky purple fabric, and I’m throbbing already, all this need I’ve had for the past week coalescing and churning in my core.

  “Like when I graze over you here,” Vudu says as his fingers dance over the top curve of my left wing. “I see it relaxes you, makes you melt even more against me.”

  He’s right. If it weren’t for his arm banded around my middle, I’d be struggling to stay upright.

  “And if I touch here,” he says, moving to brush a single finger down the base of my wing where it meets my spine. I jump from the contact, my whole body flushing with heat. “This makes you wet, primes you.”

  “Mmm,” Toreon says, and then he leans up and hooks his fingers in the top of my panties and begins to pull them down, down, down.

  “Oh, God…” I say, trembling in anticipation as my head falls back against Vudu’s chest.

  Then Toreon’s mouth is right there.

  He nuzzles into me, spreading my lips and wrapping his mouth around my clit. He sucks, and I gasp and moan and reach up to cling onto Vudu’s strong arms.

  “Mmm,” Vudu hums deeply against my ear. “And while he does that, if I touch you here...” he starts, extending my wing slightly before firmly pinching the inside arch just where my wing starts to bend. “It’ll send a pulsing sensation right to your—”

  I moan and start to pant as Vudu tightens and loosens his fingers in just the right spot, and it’s as though his fingers are pinching my nipples. Toreon’s tongue flicks against my clit, and he teases his fingers slowly up the inside of my thigh. Vudu’s hand moves from pinching and instead grabs a fist full of feathers and tugs slightly, and it’s like he’s palming my breasts and sucking on them all at the same time.

  Having wings is the best!

  Toreon’s fingers tickle my lips and circle my entrance, and Vudu drops his lips to my neck and nips at my rapidly beating pulse.

  “Yes,” I pant as the tips of Toreon’s fingers start to press into me.

  “Fuck, are you sure we don’t have enough time, V? Our mate is so wet and ready,” Toreon says, and then he snakes out his tongue and laps up the desire I feel pooling between my thighs.

  “More,” I beg, reaching back and gripping the back of Vudu’s neck.

  “I want longer. I want to hear her moans for hours, not minutes, for the first time,” Vudu declares, his hand reaching up and stroking the inside base of my wing. It feels like someone just held a vibrator to my clit.

  I cry out, and Toreon presses two fingers inside of me and starts pumping in and out. I grind against him, my body demanding more.

  “Suck on her while I make our mate come harder than she ever has before.”

  Vudu’s order is barely out of his mouth when Toreon sucks hard on my clit, his fingers still working in and out of me. I mewl, and then Vudu unwraps his arm and quickly wraps both his hands round the entire base of my wings and squeezes.

  I scream. The orgasm doesn’t just wash through me, it tsunamis its way through me. Every cell in my body is alight with pleasure. My thighs clamp around Toreon’s head, and I hope he finds an air pocket or something, because I won’t be letting go anytime soon.

  “That’s it, come for your mates,” Vudu encourages, squeezing the base of my wings even harder, and I orgasm again, riding Toreon’s face and fingers with pure, wild abandon.

  They feel so good, so impossibly, infinitely good.

  One orgasm crashes into another, and I throb with ecstasy, all at once boneless and jellied while also wanting to see Toreon and Vudu in the same state. I want to reach around and grip Vudu’s wings just like he’s gripping mine and ride his massive cock until neither one of us knows what day it is.

  I want to drop in front of Toreon and show him that my mouth can be just as fun as his and then lie back and feel him slip deep inside of me. I want to stare into his golden eyes while we come together more times than we can count. I want to solidify our claim to each other’s minds, bodies, and souls. I’m ready. So ready.

  Well...after I figure out how to make my legs feel like they have bones in them again.

  “One more time, V. She just tastes so damn good.”

  Before I can say anything, Vudu’s hold on my wings tightens once again, and I come for a third time. I didn’t even know I had it in me, but somehow, I do. I want to scream no and yes at the same time, so overly sensitive, but all that comes out is some garbled version of their names as I’m wrung out completely.

  “You’re perfect,” Vudu whispers in my ear as I sag against him. He lets go of my wings at the same time Toreon’s fingers pull out of me, and all I want is a quick nap and then to get right back to doing this.

  “We’re going home,” I announce breathily. “Tell Taz I got a headache or something, but we’re going home right now and doing more of that. So, so, so much more of that.”

  Toreon licks up the seam of my pussy, and I gasp, but before I can say anything, Vudu turns my head, and his lips are on mine. He kisses me deeply, and I can taste his hunger, his raw desire. His tongue strokes mine, and I moan when it’s the same rhythm that Toreon is using to lap at my entrance, up and over my clit.

  I melt, reveling in the feel of them, my lips and tongue matching their hunger stroke for stroke, my clenching pussy begging for more as shock waves of the last epic orgasm still buzz through me like tiny little currents of electricity.

  “If we do that, then your whole family is just going to show up to make sure you’re okay. Just get through the dinner, and then we’re all yours,” Toreon tells me, his face glistening with my arousal as he threads my legs through my panties and pulls them up my thighs. “Or better yet, you’re all ours,” he corrects, pushing to his feet as he licks his lips clean of me.

  “Then can I...” I reach down and palm the very obvious erection that his suit pants aren’t doing a very good job of hiding. I stroke down the length, teasing his tip for a moment before softly gliding my fingers back to his base.

  He moans, and I reach back with my other hand and get a palm full of Vudu. “Come on, let’s just play hooky. I’m sure no one will even notice we’re not there.”

  “I’m pretty sure Ire would notice,” Vudu replies, his deep laugh moving through me and settling warmly in my bones.

  “Being that this whole dinner is to celebrate you and Medley, I think the Sins might be offended if you skip it,” Toreon adds.

  I huff out a breath and let him tug my skirt from my hands so it can fall around my feet like it’s supposed to. “Fine,” I relent. “But we’re not staying for dessert, and we’ll be leaving here promptly so I can ravish you,” I declare, my words sounding more like a threat than the seductive promise it should be. Toreon smiles his amusement, clearly at my expense.

  I raise my eyebrows. “Do you hear me? Ravished,” I repeat again, because it wasn’t bad enough the first time.

  “Duly noted,” he states on a laugh. “Personally, I can’t wait to see more of those sweet seduction skills,” he teases, and I slap his chest.

  “Too soon,” I groan, shaking my head and trying to hide my face in my hands. They both step away from me, and I peek through my fingers and watch them adjust themselves.

  Ugh, why is life cockblocking me?

  “How many orgasms is it going to take before you both forget that whole awkward thing happened?” I ask, dropping my hands from my face and checking that everything is tucked into the dress that’s supposed to be before s
moothing down my hair.

  Toreon shrugs, a sexy smile spread across his lips. “Hundred maybe,” he jokes, and I laugh.

  “Well, then with what I have in mind, you two should be getting seduction amnesia in just a couple days.”

  Vudu pulls me to him and kisses my lips softly. “Sounds like a plan,” he tells me against my mouth, and I press up on my tiptoes so I can sneak another taste. Just as I’m pulling away, a flash of anger goes off in my chest, catching me off guard. I pause to examine my connection with my sisters, finding that rage pools through our connection.

  “We should get down there. Something just pissed off Delta and Medley.”

  Both of their brows dip in concern, and we all check each other to make sure we look properly pressed and pristine, and then we head out the door to finally face the dreaded dinner.

  “No dessert,” I remind them, and they both chuckle.

  “No worries, Sable, you’re all the dessert we’ll ever need.”

  I smile at Toreon’s words as we start down the stairs.

  I love my life.

  46

  I feel floaty and giddy as we make our way back downstairs. I mean, given what just happened, I shouldn’t be confused by why I’m experiencing these sensations, but this is something else, something more. I pause on the step, my fingers laced with both Toreon’s and Vudu’s, and it forces them to stop too.

  “Everything okay?” Toreon questions, looking back to take me in.

  “Just make it through dinner, and then we’ll play with you again,” Vudu tells me matter-of-factly, like I’m some impatient child who needs to be bribed. I snort out a laugh.

  Damn, that’s hot. Who knew blunt could be such an aphrodisiac?

  Toreon smiles like he can read my mind and the dirty direction my thoughts just took. He looks at me curiously, waiting for me to either start moving again or explain what I’m doing. I love that he’s so patient, so unbothered by the quirky things I do as I adjust to this life.