Immortal Dragons: The First Four: Prequel + Books 1-3

by Ophelia Bell

  Calder raised an eyebrow, his lips quirking in a fascinated smile. He slid his hands up along the tops of her thighs. “Interesting. I’d love to see inside your mind for myself, but that hasn’t happened yet. Trust me, when we’re done tonight, the three of us will be as a single mind, at least for a time.”

  Nicholas had resumed his light squeezes and caresses of her breasts, his lips tickling at the sensitive area behind her ear. She shivered from ecstasy at his contact and almost failed to speak.

  “Wh-what do you mean?”

  “I mean I want to meld with you. My bond with Nicholas is so strong it’s almost unbreakable from the time we spent together. I want that with you, too. I want it with all three of us. Once will be a test, so you can understand what it’s like. Twice will be to know each other more fully. Thrice will be to become one forever, our minds linked and our souls entwined.”

  His voice roughened and his throat worked with a harsh swallow. Somehow she sensed a glimmer of uncertainty amid his determination. He feared something, but wanted this melding more.

  “Tell me what to do,” she said.

  “We simply share our essence. I ingest yours and Nicholas’s. You ingest ours. We each taste the others’ first, and then I’ll take care of the rest.”

  Nicholas slid a hand down her stomach and dipped a finger between her folds, stroking her while Calder pushed her legs wider.

  He bent his dark head and Nicholas paused his stroking, lowered his other hand between her thighs, and spread her folds open for Calder’s mouth.

  Aurum was grateful for Nicholas’s sturdy support behind her. Calder lapped at her juices and toyed with her clit until she was gasping for air.

  When he came up, she met swirling blue eyes.

  “Your essence is inside me now,” he murmured, reaching up and cupping the side of her face with one hand. “This is what lets me inside you.”

  With his fingers digging into her jaw, he pressed his thumb against her temple. Aurum stared into his hypnotic gaze, unable to look away.

  His presence slid into her mind with sensuous ease, and his power filled her as though it belonged there.

  “This is only half a melding,” his deep voice resonated inside her mind. “When tonight is over, all three of us will be linked for a time. It is the most intimate act a nymphaea can share with their partner. We do this to test compatibility, but I already know we belong together. Still, we will take things one step at a time so you understand.”

  While he spoke into her mind, their eyes remained locked. Nicholas shifted behind her, gripping her knees and pulling them wide to drape over his own knees as he pushed her closer to the edge of the seat.

  Aurum tilted her head back, her body awash in sensation from Nicholas’s lips brushing her ear, telling her to open herself completely to the soft slide of Calder’s hands along her inner thighs as he positioned himself between them.

  His hot tip pressed at her slick opening, and at the same second his cock slid home, his presence filled her mind entirely. Nothing existed but the pleasure of their joining.

  “There is more, beautiful,” Calder said. “So much more.”

  He slid back out of her, leaving her moaning in protest.

  “Shh, Sunshine, it’s my turn,” Nicholas whispered in her ear.

  His strong hands gripped her hips and raised her up. Understanding right away what he was after, she leaned forward and braced both hands on Calder’s shoulders and positioned her hips above Nicholas’s cock.

  Calder’s lips locked with hers, his tongue slipping into her mouth, giving her another strange sense of being invaded in more than just a superficial way.

  Nicholas grunted softly when her tight muscles clamped around him and she slid down his length. He pulled her back against him again, hands at her hips and holding her too tight to move.

  “Oh, please fuck me,” she groaned.

  She lifted up off his cock and pushed back down, needing the friction to continue, but Calder grabbed her hips, stopping her.

  “We will. Patience, little dragon,” he said, smiling at her. He pushed her back against Nicholas and moved close again. His body nearly flush to hers, he reached between them to grip his cock. Aiming it between her folds, he rubbed the tip in tight circles around the swollen flesh of her clit, each circuit creating a wild buzz of sensation that flooded her entire body with need.

  Aurum gasped and lifted up again, arching into the contact at the same time she struggled to gain more friction from Nicholas’s cock inside her.

  “That’s right,” Nicholas said. “Wet my cock with your juices, Sunshine. Let him into you so I can taste you both together after.”

  Calder shifted his cock lower and pressed against her already filled opening. Aurum gasped at the pressure and arched back, reaching up to grab Nicholas by the back of the head while she bent her knees and spread them wider. Sweet mother, she wanted them both like this.

  “Yes! Fuck me, both of you. Now!”

  With a groan of pure need, Calder pushed harder, his thick length making its way into her. The ridged head of his cock rubbed against her inner wall so perfectly she cried out, digging her nails into Nicholas’s neck.

  Nicholas chuckled against her ear. “I knew you’d love this,” he said. “I’ve been dreaming of this moment ever since the first time I fucked you, Sunshine.”

  “Ah, yes!” she gasped. “I didn’t know … it would be like this …” The words came in a breathless rush as the pair of them finally began to move together, synchronizing their thrusts in a way that sent her head spinning.

  Nicholas cupped her breasts again, pinching and teasing at her nipples as their breathing quickened and their bodies coated with sweat. Calder bent over her, bracing his upper body against the back of the chaise behind Nicholas while he fucked her.

  “Do you still feel me inside your mind?” he asked, staring into her eyes with those swirling blue orbs. “I can feel everything you feel, Aurum. Fuck, I had no idea you would feel everything the way you do. Is it always like this?”

  She reached up with one hand and cupped his cheek. “You tell me.”

  In that moment, his eyes fluttered closed and he let out a low groan, thrusting harder and faster. Nicholas kept up, emitting a string of breathy curses into her ear. Their auras swelled and brightened around her, tangling with hers as their Nirvanas drew close.

  With simultaneous cries, they both speared her hard, their dual thicknesses buried deep. Her body gave up, the sudden tremor of her orgasm flooding her with tingling warmth, all her muscles tightening. Her pussy clamped down hard on them both as they pulsed inside her, the combination of tight pressure and flooding energy prolonging the ecstasy.

  His eyes wide and dazed, Calder slowly pulled out of her and took a deep, shaky breath. Then he grinned.

  “Fuck, I had no idea it would be that good, but it’s only going to get better.”

  He gave Nicholas another nod that must have been some kind of signal. Nicholas lifted her off his cock and lay her down against the thick cushions of the chaise. She scooted to move into a sitting position.

  “No you don’t,” Nicholas said. “We’re not done yet.” He gripped her ankles and pulled her back down so she was lying prone. Sliding his hands up her legs, he parted her thighs again and gazed with raw hunger at her cream-coated pussy.

  “This is the best part,” he murmured, then glanced at Calder. “Are you ready?”

  With a nod, Calder moved up onto the chaise beside Nicholas and angled himself along one of her spread thighs. He teased a hand up along her tender skin and dipped a pair of fingers into her semen-drenched opening. Nicholas bent his head and darted his tongue out, sliding it up her outer labia and tasting the combination of their fluids.

  Then they were both between her thighs, their heads together and their tongues licking eagerly. They seemed more in
tent on tasting her than anything, but soon one of them wrapped his lips around her aching clit and sucked until she was flying again, the deliberate tonguing of her clit beyond the realm of normal pleasure.

  As a fresh orgasm gripped her, a mouth claimed hers and she opened up, accepting the tongue that slid deep. She tasted all of them combined—Nicholas’s familiar honey-sweetness, her own tartness, and a new taste. Calder’s essence was rich and salty, and she groaned into it, deepening it to taste more of their merged flavors.

  “This is it,” Calder said when he pulled back and she could see his face again. His eyes swirled with power, and she felt herself being pulled in by the second. Nicholas shifted to lie beside her, propped up on one elbow while Calder raised up onto his knees. He reached out a hand to each of them, cupping the sides of their faces the way he’d done hers earlier. He fixed his gaze on her first, and in that deep connection, she felt something shift within her mind.

  It was as though a piece of her had dislodged and chosen to travel—to simply be elsewhere—and that new place was looking through his eyes down at herself.

  Then that perspective shifted and they were looking at Nicholas. He gazed back with utter adoration. Power surged around her presence inside Calder’s mind, reaching for Nicholas. A moment later, a third presence filled the space beside hers.

  “Now you two,” Calder said. “I am inside you both. Stare into each other’s eyes and let the melding pull your souls together.”

  She did as he requested, her heart soaring at the look of love Nicholas gave her. The strangest thing was that his aura almost seemed right in that moment. Almost, but not quite.

  But they were melded, and nothing else mattered but the slide of their bodies together as they made love again and again. Soon, they migrated into a dark inner chamber with a comfortable bed, surrounded by the calming trickle of small waterfalls from all sides.

  She didn’t want to stop, and neither did they. Having both of them buried in her at the same time might have sounded strange to her before, but once they were in her mind as well as in her body, it made perfect sense.

  The sensations were multiplied threefold, and she finally thought she understood what she’d been curious about while she had taken on the temporary form of a male ursa. Their arousal and desire for her consumed them this way. But more than that, their deep, aching need for her—and for each other—felt like it might never be quenched.

  When she lay back, exhausted and weak in a way she never imagined she could be, she watched the pair with each other. They explored each other’s bodies the way they’d explored hers, with sensual wonder and love. Calder took Nicholas’s cock in his mouth and sucked while Nicholas lay back beside her. When he abruptly rolled over and hovered above her body, she gasped and giggled.

  “I know you wanted a break, but I need to feel you under me again,” the huge, white-haired ursa said. He rubbed his soft beard against her neck, tickling her as he trailed playful kisses down her breast to suck at one nipple.

  Her smile widened when she saw Calder move around behind Nicholas and bend to kiss the base of his spine. Nicholas let out a rough gasp when Calder gripped his ass cheeks and spread them, teasing his tongue lower.

  Calder leaned back and stroked between Nicholas’s cheeks, his fingers seeming to grow a wet sheen while Aurum watched.

  Nicholas suddenly sank his teeth into the flesh of her breast when Calder’s fingers disappeared deep in his ass.

  She threaded her fingers through his pale curls and pulled his head back to look at her. “Are you all right?” she asked.

  “Gaia, yes,” he murmured, gazing back through low-lidded eyes as Calder worked his fingers in and out of him.

  When his gaze locked onto hers for a few seconds more and their mental connection took hold, suddenly Aurum’s body flushed with pleasure that began somewhere near her core, but deeper. Her own ass tingled pleasantly, and a more potent need griped her.

  “Sweet Mother. You need to be fucked, don’t you, zhrihiva coro?”

  Her pussy flooded with wet heat again and she forgot her weariness. Turning and raising up on all fours, she poised her ass in the air in front of him. “I need it, too,” she said. “Please.”

  She didn’t need to see Calder to sense his reaction. They both desperately wanted what she offered, but only one at a time could have this particular treasure.

  “Take her,” Calder said, removing his fingers from Nicholas and sitting back on his heels with his wet fingers now gripping his own cock and stroking. “I will feel her through you. I will fuck her through you.”

  Nicholas teased his tongue along her cleft, dipping down to gather some of the copious lubricating fluid her pussy had to offer and swirling it around her rear opening. He didn’t have to prepare her much, but he took his time, teasing with tongue and fingers until she gripped the pillows and nearly screamed out her need.

  Finally, he pressed his cock to her ass and pushed. The sharp friction of his length sliding past her barrier sent a flood of sensation through her entire body, and she cried out. Nicholas halted suddenly and let out his own rough cry. In the depths of her mind and her connection to both men, she could feel his pleasure and the mild, but welcome pain of Calder’s cock buried in Nicholas’s ass.

  When the pair of them moved, it was as one being seeking to pleasure her, and each other at the same time.

  They climaxed in a violent rush of bucking bodies, and then the three of them fell into a heap of limbs and didn’t move again for several hours.

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Nicholas

  “How long do we have until we have to show our faces, do you think?” Nicholas asked, sprawled on the chaise where he and Calder had finally lived out their fantasy of fucking Aurum at the same time. He felt better than he’d felt in a long time, whole and free for the first time in his life, but he knew there was more to do yet before they could be happy together.

  Calder moved to the chaise with a fresh cup of tea, and Nicholas shifted over to make room for his robe-clad lover. Calder settled next to him with a sigh and blew on his cup while he stared off toward the door to his bedroom where Aurum slept soundly.

  The outer room was still cast in deep shadows, the limited light from the morning held at bay by the closed shutters. Nicholas was still naked, feeling no pressing need to put any clothes on yet.

  He sipped his own hot tea and watched Calder’s profile as the satyr pondered his question. He wanted to reach out and slide his fingers down Calder’s smooth cheek, still not quite believing he’d made it here and had been received with open arms. More than that—with almost all his wishes being granted within the span of a few hours.

  “It depends on how well Assana manages to convince our mother she’s keeping you locked up in her own quarters to mate with. Aurum said you came in without being added to the list, but so far no one else knows she is in here, so the numbers still agree. Mother will want to meet you, though. If we wait too long, she will expect to see you formally mated to my sister.”

  Nicholas frowned and gripped his mug tighter. The question that loomed at the front of his mind was one he knew he shouldn’t need to ask, but was going to anyway.

  “You mean to mate me, right? Both of us, I mean.” He tilted his chin toward the bedroom.

  The sudden tension in Calder’s body didn’t bode well. A deep-seated buzz set in at the base of Nicholas’s skull. Was he about to be rejected even after the melding last night? One of thousands he had shared over the years with this man—more than enough to be considered his mate in the Haven, save one minor detail. They were both males, and the only way to be together was to mate a female together and have the union blessed by the Diviner.

  They had the female part covered, but Nicholas realized Aurum’s identity came with a whole slew of other complications. Still, none of it explained Calder’s sudden silence.

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nbsp; “You know it isn’t that easy,” Calder said quietly.

  Nicholas closed his eyes, the rising flood of anger suddenly washing away and leaving him cold. “Your vow,” he replied. “I’d forgotten about it. You hadn’t mentioned it in so long, and now that Aurum and I are here, I guess I got caught up in the excitement of being together again. Of … all of this finally, finally starting to work out for us.”

  He shifted, placing his mug on the floor and moving to sit at the end of the chaise so he could face Calder and look into his eyes, now that a tiny bit of sunlight began to shine in through the skylights above them. He loved the Haven for its seclusion and the fact that he couldn’t actually see the sky from here, though after that epic dive he’d taken, the idea of that wide, blue emptiness didn’t leave his stomach in knots the way it used to.

  “There is a way around it,” Calder said, dipping eyes to look into his mug, then tilting it back to drain. He lowered the mug and said, “I just haven’t figured out how to make it work yet …”

  When his eyes raised, they fixed on Nicholas and widened, his mouth falling open. “Nick … do you want to tell me something?”

  Nicholas raised an eyebrow, unsure what Calder meant. “Ah … Aurum and I have been lovers for the past month or so … We didn’t really think it would be an issue and, well, we kind of needed each other after what you did …”

  Calder raised a hand and pointed at Nicholas’s head. “No, brother. I knew all that from being inside your heads all night. Did you know you’re …”

  “Raven Stonetree,” came a voice from the opposite side of the room. Aurum came toward them, her gaze fixed on Nicholas. She was carrying his mother’s journal in one hand and the shining black feather in the other, and giving him the strangest look of excitement he’d ever seen.

  “What is it?” he said, growing alarmed. “I swear I don’t know what you guys are so upset about.” Then he realized Aurum had used his ursa name and he stared at her.

  “Oh, zhrihiva, not upset. So not upset.” Aurum reached him, and his entire body flooded with joy at just being near her. She lifted a hand and slid her fingers down the side of his cheek, through his short beard, then raised it again and threaded it through his thick hair over and over as though enthralled by it. Then she stared into his eyes, her own glowing with elation.