Grave Signs (Hellgate Guardians Book 4)

by Ivy Asher

  “Here, here,” Tazreel declares, his cup raised in toast, turning to Nefta and placing a careful hand over hers. She looks up at him warily. “Like Sable said, this isn’t about us anymore, it’s about them. We’ll keep our girls safe. That doesn’t just fall to you now,” he says before dropping his hand.

  We all raise a glass, and slowly, Nefta picks up the one in front of her and joins us. “I’ll drink to that,” she announces, and then we all cheer and whoop and take a deep pull from our glasses.

  “Mmmm,” I observe at the same time Nefta starts coughing uncontrollably. “What in Satan’s taint is this stuff?” she asks, wiping her tongue with a napkin and staring at the goblet like she’s trying to figure out where to stab it to inflict the most pain.

  Delta starts to choke on her drink in laughter, and Rafferty pats her hard on the back as she works to clear her lungs of the aspirated liquid.

  “I warned you,” she croaks. “But real talk, how would you even know what Satan’s taint tastes like?”

  Medley and I go wide-eyed as our gazes snap from Delta to Nefta.

  She gives Delta the look, the one I’ve seen TV moms give their sitcom kids when they’re not amused.

  “It’s a saying, smart ass,” she states with a shake of her head.

  “Is it, though?” Delta teases, and I can’t stop the giggle that comes out of my mouth.

  Medley’s trill of laughter is quick to follow, and trying not to laugh pretty much makes both of us have to laugh all the much harder.

  What Delta said must sink in, because Taz’s brow furrows and his head snaps to Nefta. “Did you fuck Luce?” he asks, both shocked and offended.

  Nefta’s eyes widen in outrage. “Are you seriously asking me that as if it’s any of your business?”

  “You did, didn’t you?” Taz accuses, and the two of them start arguing in heated haste.

  I laugh and sit back in my chair, sipping on yummy demon spirits while listening to my parents argue about Satan’s taint.

  Guess this dinner wasn’t so bad after all.

  Delta’s amused eyes land on mine, and she raises a glass in silent toast. I lift mine and so does Medley, and we giggle as we drink.

  “What do you say to meeting at the Hellgate tomorrow? See if we can finish resetting the thing once and for all?” Delta proposes over the cacophony of an escalating fight.

  I look to my mates, and they all nod or shrug their agreement.

  “I’m in. It’s probably better to get everything as fortified as possible while we can,” I agree, and my sisters nod like it’s a done deal.

  I yawn, suddenly feeling tired, but I slap my sleepiness across the face because I have ravishing to do later. Ire scoots closer to me, and I lean against him shamelessly as I yell at my mind for trying to make me yawn again.

  “So, did you have a nice time upstairs in the bathroom?” Ire asks quietly, leaning down so only I can hear him, his lips tilting up into a smirk.

  I go still for a second, then sheepishly raise my face to look at him. “Uh, what?” I deflect.

  He taps on my forehead with a wolfish grin. “I’m deep inside you, remember?” he purrs. “I could feel your pleasure.”

  Just like earlier, embarrassment is ready to swoop in and color my cheeks. “Oh.”

  “Yes. Oh,” he repeats. “Having to sense my mate being pleasured when I couldn’t join in was its own torture. But the fact that I was instead forced to participate in tactical battle talk with a boner while sitting next to my Matron was complete misery. So thanks for that.”

  A laugh escapes me, and I look over to see that Vudu and Toreon are looking at us, looking quite smug. Ire tosses them a glare. “Upstairs at her Sire’s house? Really?” he whisper-scolds.

  “You’re just mad you weren’t with us,” Toreon whispers back.

  “Obviously,” Ire counters with a roll of his eyes before looking back down to me.

  My grin turns into another yawn. Crap. Didn’t Delta say demon spirits had caffeine in it? I take another deep pull from my glass and snuggle up against Ire as he wraps an arm around me. “I’ll be sure to steal you from your Matron next time,” I promise sleepily as my eyes flutter closed against my will. Apparently, I find my parents’ bickering rather soothing.

  “You better, Snarls,” Ire purrs into my mind as I rest my eyes for just a second. It definitely won’t be more than a second, because I have big ravishing plans later. “You better,” he repeats softly, and then I’m out faster than Nefta was when she brought up Satan’s taint.

  47

  I wake up with a start.

  I was having one of those dreams where you feel like you’re falling and then you flinch awake with adrenaline hammering through you. I blink as my eyes adjust to the dark and I feel someone’s slow, steady breath as a chest rises and falls under my flat palm.

  Like he’s responding to my second of distress even in his sleep, Vudu pulls me closer to him, and I nuzzle my cheek against the rough armor plating of his chest. He sighs and instantly relaxes, which I find adorable, and a smile stretches across my mouth as I close my eyes and try to fall back asleep.

  I’m not even sure how I conked out so fast last night, but I was just so exhausted. I remember the guys slipping off my dress, but then they just put me into bed, and I fell right back to sleep.

  My eyes pop open, and I look down. Yep, I’m only in my underwear. My naked breasts are pressed against Vudu’s chest, and I look behind me to see Toreon’s closed sage-green eyelids, his parted lips, and his hand hanging over my bare hip. I don’t see Ire anywhere, but I do see a crack of light under the door and figure maybe he hasn’t come to bed yet.

  I have no idea what time it is, and I close my eyes again and try to drift back to sleep. I clear my mind and refuse to let questions or a recap of the events at last night’s dinner party play in my mind. Typically, my brain likes to recall every embarrassing thing I’ve said and done in my entire life right before sleep takes over. It won’t have to go far tonight, as recalling my failed attempts at seduction will be sleep fodder for all eternity, but I refuse to let my mind go there.

  No, I’m just going to listen to the soft breathing of my mates and let it lull me right off to sleep.

  A minute goes by, and then five, and all I seem to be able to do is be painfully aware of my nipples as Vudu’s chest presses against them with each breath, and the fact that if Toreon dropped his hand a few inches, he could dip inside my underwear and start bringing my body back to the pleasure they played through me so effortlessly earlier.

  I keep my eyes closed and carefully move my arm so I can skate my hand down my stomach. I’m too revved up to sleep, and their bodies touching mine is just making it worse. Maybe if I just take the edge off… I can be quiet.

  Biting my lip, I move my hand further down until I can slip under my panties. My fingers go to my clit, and I start to circle around it, making myself grow damp. I press my breasts further into Vudu’s body as I go, and shift ever so slightly until my butt is pressed into Toreon’s hip. I need friction, but I know I can’t get any without waking them up.

  My mind replays the way they touched me earlier, and I revel in being caught between the two of them. My fingers go faster and my breath matches, little puffs of exhales pressing against Vudu’s gray skin.

  Moisture and heat begins to build between my legs, but before I can really start climbing to the peak, a hand suddenly reaches down and grips my wrist, halting me.

  I freeze and my eyes snap open, and I find Vudu looking at me and Toreon hovering over me. I didn’t even feel him move.

  “Uh, hi?” I squeak out.

  Toreon’s white teeth flash in the dark. “What are you doing?”

  “Sleeping,” I reply quickly.

  “Hmm.” His hand moves down until his palm rests over mine. “Are you sure about that?”

  “She smells like she’s in need,” Vudu says, his sleepy voice making him sound even more gravelly than usual.

  “
She does,” Toreon confirms before he presses down on my fingers and starts to move my hand for me. I moan as he directs my movement over my clit.

  Beside me, Vudu gently settles my back flush against the mattress. I lie flat on my wings, heart beating fast, my nipples already pebbled. “So beautiful,” Vudu rumbles, his hand coming up to my breast, kneading the whole thing in his large palm and making me arch into his warm, rough skin.

  Toreon continues to move our hands over my clit, but he takes it one step further. “Put your fingers inside yourself,” he commands, and nervous desire shoots through me.

  Like he knows I need him to walk me through this very intimate moment, his fingers move mine down and then curl, finding my center. The barest swipe of my fingertip presses into me, and I shift on the bed, Toreon’s golden eyes watching my face as he pushes me further inside.

  As I start to feel braver, my hand moves on its own as I pump my finger into me, feeling the wetness coat me. After another few pumps, Toreon’s hand comes to my wrist again, and he slowly pulls me out.

  He puts my finger into his mouth, his tongue swiping over me, tasting my essence. “Delicious,” he says, pulling me out with a pop.

  “She is,” Vudu agrees, just before his head bends down and his mouth drops down over my nipple, and he begins to swirl his tongue around me.

  Vudu moves to the next breast to kiss and lick there too as Toreon lazily brushes a finger through my lips, spreading my wetness around and making me squirm, my hips moving up to seek something that’s not there yet.

  “No more teasing,” I say through panted breaths. “I can’t take it.”

  Vudu’s mouth moves from my nipple to travel between my breasts, his mouth nipping along my sensitive skin. “What do you want, Little Mate?”

  “I want both of you,” I say, feeling emboldened here in the dark where we’re shrouded in shadows and desire. Toreon groans.

  Vudu’s hand on my jaw turns my head, and then my mouth is getting the same attention as my nipples just were as he swirls his tongue against mine.

  Feeling increasingly needy and brave, my hand reaches out, skimming over the hard planes of Vudu’s abdomen. When I feel the waistband of his sweatpants, I dip my hand inside and immediately come into contact with his hard length, my fingers wrapping hesitantly around him. His hips jolt forward, thrusting himself further in my palm as soon as I close around him, and a rolling groan escapes him.

  That’s one of the sexiest sounds ever.

  “You rule me, Little Mate,” he says with a kiss pressed against my head. “I am completely and forever yours.”

  “I need you both,” I say before I push up to a sitting position. With my hand still wrapped around Vudu, I move toward Toreon, and he’s already leaning up to meet me halfway. I grip his shoulder as he grips the back of my head, and our mouths dance together, our heads turning, swapping, going deeper or changing angles, learning each other’s taste.

  While I kiss Toreon, my hand moves up and down over Vudu’s thick cock, my fingers unable to fit around him all the way, though from how big he is everywhere, I’m not surprised in the least.

  “Are you ready?” Toreon asks as his mouth starts to trail soft kisses down my throat.

  “I’ve been so, so ready.”

  He smiles at my neck before nibbling it slightly. He disengages and then stands on the bed, pushing down his pants. He’s already shirtless, so I instantly get rewarded with fully naked Toreon, and I drink him in. The dark symbolic tattoos around his abdomen and inner arms, the green skin and lean body. His cock is darker than the rest of him, and when he fists it, his eyes watching me with sharp hunger, my stomach tightens.

  “Come here,” I tell him, and he smirks at the needy whine in my voice as he kneels down at the foot of the bed.

  I have to let go of Vudu’s length as he moves up and slips down his pants, but I watch him appreciatively. Now I have two naked males surrounding me, and it’s getting hard to breathe. I want them so badly. I’m so wound up, tense with longing and worry that I’ll do something wrong, that I’ll be awkward with two of them at the same time.

  “What’s wrong?” Vudu says before he scoots up on the bed and begins to stroke my wings again, just like he did earlier, as if he knows right at this moment that I need to be soothed and relaxed.

  “I’m just nervous,” I admit on a whisper, my eyes looking between them in the dark. “I don’t...I’m not sure how to do this.” I can feel my face heat, but Vudu sweetly kisses my shoulder, and I melt a little bit more.

  “We’ll take care of you,” he promises, and Toreon makes a noise of affirmation. “Just relax.”

  I take a deep breath and let it out, determined not to let my worries ruin this moment. As soon as the steadying exhale passes through my lips, Toreon and Vudu start to touch. Tease. Kiss. Stroke. They move their hands and mouths over me with pleasurable precision until I have no space to fret. All I can do is feel.

  They work me over until I’m writhing on the bed, and all of my apprehension disappears. I move onto my hands and knees and lean over the side of Vudu’s lap, following my instincts and pure lust as I close my mouth over him.

  “Burning Morningstar,” he grits out as his hands shoot up to thread into my hair. “Your mouth is…is…” He groans and trails off, and behind me, Toreon chuckles darkly.

  “That good, huh?” Toreon teases as I slowly lick around Vudu’s cock, my tongue slurping over the head.

  I feel Toreon’s hand skim over my butt and up my spine as he moves closer to me, his hard, hot length pressing against the curve of my cheeks. My mouth opens wider as I learn Vudu’s length and start to slowly suck on him, his thick fingers digging into my scalp.

  Toreon moves his cock between my thighs and starts to ease over my lips, gathering the moisture that they’ve pulled from my body. With a whispering touch of his fingers across the backs of my wings, Toreon begins to push in.

  I gasp, my mouth slipping off of Vudu, and I look behind me as my green-skinned mate grips my hips and eases in deeper and deeper.

  My back arches and my wings try to flare, but Vudu moves in front of me and grabs my wings, helping them to spread out without shoving him off the bed. With his back leaning against the headboard, he gently clasps the top arches, stroking steady, firm fingers down until I whimper, my core letting out more wet heat, my nipples feeling like they’re being nipped at and sucked on all at once.

  Toreon groans behind me as he bottoms out, his pelvis hitting my ass with a firm thrust. He gives me a moment to get used to him, and then he starts moving inside of me, somehow keeping my hips tilted in the perfect position as he moves in and out to stroke against my G-spot.

  “I want your mouth back, Little Mate,” Vudu says, his legs bracketing either side of me.

  Licking my lips, I brace my hands on his muscled thighs and open my jaw as wide as it will go before I lower myself over him. He makes another noise letting me know I’m doing something very, very right, and it boosts my confidence. I start to move up and down over his length before I pop off to lick and lather him with my tongue, tasting every hard inch of him and then starting all over again.

  “Hellfire, she’s exquisite,” Toreon breathes behind me before he reaches around and starts to circle my swollen clit. It’s throbbing and wet, insisting on more pleasure, but I know my mates will bring it to me.

  As I start to bob over Vudu’s dick again, he plays with my breasts, his calloused fingers sliding over my already sensitive nipples.

  I hum around Vudu as I lift a hand to wrap around his base, stroking the rest of the length that I can’t reach with my mouth. Toreon begins to move harder and faster behind me, and with every thrust, my mouth goes down on Vudu, making me move between them in a perfect rhythm.

  “I’m going to come,” Vudu warns, his hold around my breasts gripping harder. Not knowing if I can swallow around his huge girth, I slip off while I continue to stroke him hard and fast with my hand, and then I lift my head and spread my
tongue out flat, letting the head of his cock hit it every time Toreon thrusts into me from behind.

  “If that isn’t the sexiest fucking sight…” Vudu murmurs, and then his hips jerk forward, and I tighten my hold around his dick. A second later, cum begins to shoot out of his cock, landing in hot spurts across my waiting tongue, my plump lips, my swinging breasts. Everywhere he marks me feels like a sensual stripe, a physical marking of our mating and our bond.

  I love it.

  My pussy clenches, either from how turned on I am with Vudu coming right in front of me or from Toreon’s expert touch against my clit. Either way, I start to come with the taste of Vudu’s essence on my tongue and Toreon’s cock sliding deeply into me.

  “Shit, shit, she’s squeezing me so hard…” Toreon rasps, and then I feel his hips jerk against mine, his fingers still dancing over my clit even as he comes inside of me with a harsh thrust that nearly topples me onto Vudu’s lap.

  When we’re done, I nearly fall onto the bed, Vudu already swiping his cum off my chest, my tongue licking the rest from my lips as Toreon slips out of me. Vudu’s red eyes darken. “That was sexy as sin.”

  A flash of light abruptly leaps across the room and lands in a wide sliver across the bed, and all three of us look over to see Ire standing there in the doorway with a platter of food in his hands and a scowl on his face.

  My heart jumps in my chest for a split second, and I worry we’ve done something wrong without him here. He sighs and sets the platter down on a table beside the door, glaring at us. “Really? I left for twenty minutes,” he says with a sardonic twist of his lips.

  Relief washes over me, but then his wicked voice fills my head. “Oh no, you’re not getting off the hook that easily, Snarls. That’s twice you started without me.”

  My heart pounds in excited hesitancy as he starts to stalk toward the bed. He looks like a predator, wings slightly out, eyes flashing, a smirk that shows just a hint of fang on one side of his mouth. And with a bare chest and the outline of a hard cock in his pants, I know that tonight’s pleasure isn’t over.