by Lacey Thorn
“Whose memories?” Lynx asked.
“The memories of the goddess,” Serenity answered.
“How does it work?” Rory wanted to know.
“Through the mixing of blood and magic,” Serenity said. “But it can only work with the five of us. I’m sorry but no one else can be present.”
“My mates are as included in this as I am,” Aurora stated.
Lynx and Rory nodded in agreement.
“My mates as well have a vested interest in all of this,” Serenity agreed. “But in this they do not. It was not their mothers whose lives were changed that day. That belongs to us.”
“My mother was one of those,” the native with Rory said.
Serenity crossed to her and took her hands. “Yes, she was. But you do not share the stain of Wilhelm’s blood with the rest of us and thus your blood is not ours.” Serenity leaned closer to whisper in her ear. “I will not take her from you. I seek only to share a small bit of the bond of sisters if I can.”
“I can’t shake the feeling that this is supposed to happen,” Aslan said. “I swear I hear a voice telling me that I will know when the time is right.” He walked around to stand in the middle of the room. “We can use my inner office,” he offered.
Serenity crossed to stand beside him and took one of his hands in hers. “Thank you.”
“If all this is true then you have given me an amazing gift this day,” he said.
“And what is that?” Aurora asked as she stood and joined them.
“Three more sisters,” he said.
“Are you so sure that is a gift?” Merced asked and all the mates laughed.
“I’m in,” Rory said and joined them.
All eyes turned to Lynx.
“If this is true,” she said, coming to her feet. “Then I am the worst of us all.”
“Why on earth would you say that?” Aurora demanded.
“Because my mother loved him,” Lynx said. “She wasn’t drugged or raped. She loved him.”
Serenity stepped to her and reached up touch her cheek. “Yes, she loved him. That makes you the best of us, conceived in love. My mother wasn’t raped or drugged. She may not have loved him but she thought highly of him. Does that make me the worst of us? I choose to think not. Our mothers were human just as we are. I cannot know for sure what the orb will show, what details it will decide to share. But I can promise to stand beside you, all of you, and face it together.”
“Well, then as the oldest sister, I say let’s open this orb,” Aurora said and led the way to the chamber Aslan spoke of.
Aslan placed himself last, only entering after the four women had. Serenity knew that he would take his role as brother seriously. She looked at all of them. All so different and unique on the outside. This moment would change the rest of their lives.
“Your dagger, Aurora.” Serenity sat the orb in the centre of a table and urged everyone to move as close as they could around it.
Aurora took the dagger from the belt and held it up.
“We must make a small slice in our palms and then position them on the orb,” Serenity said, then hurried on when Aurora nodded and made to slice her own palm. “No, in the order of our births,” she added. “Aslan first.”
Aurora passed the dagger to Aslan. He took it, made the cut and placed his hand on the orb. He passed it back to Aurora.
“As his twin, I’m going to assume I’m next,” she said and slit her palm.
Serenity nodded. “I’m next.” She held her hand out while Aurora moved her bleeding palm next to Aslan’s on the orb.
Serenity opened a cut on her palm next and set it on the orb before handing the knife off to Lynx. “You’re next,” she said.
“Nice to know I’m not the baby,” Lynx snickered as Rory muttered under her breath.
Lynx cut and placed her palm then passed the blade to Rory.
Rory slit her palm and took a deep breath. “No backing out now,” she said and laid her hand on the orb.
Blinding white light shot out and seemed to pierce each of them through the eyes. Serenity saw her mother and Wilhelm through her mother’s eyes. She saw Ona and knew the great love her mother had for her friend. And she felt the broad range of emotions that her mother had felt on that day so long ago. When she came back she could see the other’ shaking their heads as if coming out of a great fog.
“I saw my mother,” Aurora said and didn’t bother to wipe the tears that fell like rain from her eyes.
“As did I,” Rory said, her cheeks wet as well.
“Me too,” Lynx agreed.
“It is true,” Aslan said. “We are all the children of Wilhelm.”
Serenity had one more secret to share before she was done.
“I know how to stop him.”
Chapter Nine
“Are you okay?” Thedan asked Serenity as she sat fuming on the bed in their room.
That hadn’t gone exactly as she’d expected. Maybe it wasn’t going to be so great having an older brother. He was even worse than her mother. How dare he tell her no! Who did he think he was? He might be the king but she was a direct descendent of the goddess and didn’t require his protection. But she couldn’t contain the tiny glow that bloomed inside her. She had siblings and they cared what happened to her.
“Serenity.” Theron nudged her with his shoulder when he sat on the bed beside her.
“Sorry,” she said and leaned into him to lay her head atop his shoulder. “I just wasn’t expecting to wait.”
“Ahh, so you thought you’d just share the truth like that and immediately go take care of Wilhelm?” Thedan asked then laughed.
Serenity just laughed as well. Yes, honestly, that was exactly what she had expected. But it was nice to know that someone planned to take steps to ensure her safety first. They would all be going together, but Aslan wouldn’t until he had men in place to secure the area they needed to go to. And he was right.
“You had tears on your cheeks when you came to us,” Theron said. “What happened after you shared the orb?”
“It showed us all visions of our mothers on that day so long ago. I…I’d never even thought of the woman my mother was then or how she loved and lost her best friend. I knew but I didn’t understand. Watching her, seeing what she went through showed me just how amazing she is. I can only imagine what the others saw.”
The bed dipped with Thedan’s weight as he joined them on the bed. “I imagine Aurora and Aslan might have witnessed their mother’s murder. And Rory might have seen her mother raped and caged. Lynx maybe witnessed her mother loving and learning that he wasn’t who she’d thought. All of those are devastating things to learn. It would be a lot to process for anyone.”
Serenity nodded. “Before we left, Aslan pulled us into a joined hug and said his life was complete.” A tear slipped down her cheek again. “He’d spent his life searching for the sister he’d lost and ended with three more as well. Then he kissed us each on the head and welcomed us to the family.”
“He has a strong soul,” Theron stated. “He is just coming into his role of king though he has been the figurehead for much longer. His search for Aurora kept him from the awareness of what Wilhelm did in his name.”
“That isn’t his fault!” Serenity exclaimed.
“But he will see it as such,” Thedan replied.
“I can’t shake the sadness I felt,” Serenity admitted. “Not just from what I saw but from glimpsing the faces of my brother and sisters after it was done. I know we had to see those memories but I wish I hadn’t been the one to bring it.” She glanced at her mates. “Does that make me weak, a coward?”
“It makes you human,” Theron corrected.
She turned and lifted her leg to sit on Theron’s lap, facing him. “I want you.” She looked over her shoulder to include Thedan. “I need you to make love to me, to wash away the sadness and remind me that I am not her. I have the two of you, and love that I would have never imagined possible. Remind me how l
ucky I am.”
“We’re the lucky ones,” Thedan said and began removing his clothes.
Theron turned her head back to him and brought his lips to hers. A soft lick and nip to her bottom lip and she slipped them open, panting for breath. But Theron just continued a path up her jaw to the lobe of her ear. He sucked then nipped it a bit harder.
“We’re going to fuck you until you can’t think, until you can only feel,” he whispered. “My cock aches to feel the clench of your sweet pussy. My mouth waters to nip and suck your nipples.”
He treated her lobe to just such a nip and suck and she moaned as her nipples tightened into hard buds with her anticipation.
Her robe was lifted and tossed away so she sat on his lap naked from the waist up. He lowered his hands, tracing lines down her sides, along the outer curves of her chest but never giving her aching breasts the touch she yearned for. He slid his mouth up along her jaw, tracing a path to her other ear which was treated to the same pleasure.
She felt Thedan behind her and leant back into him, hoping Theron would let his lips travel down to where she most wanted them. He chuckled, his breath warm against her skin and moved with her, letting his lips paint a trail of love bites over her neck. Her nipples were so tight they ached and she could feel the slickness of her pussy as it rippled and pulsed, begging to be filled with one of their hard cocks.
Theron bent back from her and took her legs one by one and straightened them so they rested on the bed in perfect alignment with his thighs. He eased away from her and she watched him move from the bed and begin disrobing. Thedan shifted beside her and pressed her to lay flat on the bed. His cock bobbed just above her face and she rose up to lick him.
“You want this?” he rumbled, grabbing his cock with one hand and holding it steady. He braced a hand on the other side of her head and lowered beside her so that she could take his cock more easily.
Serenity licked over the head, loving the way it flared, the drop of pre-cum that filled the slit in the top. She wiped it away with her tongue then explored the opening searching for another taste. He was so musky and tart on her tongue. He moaned and there was no missing the way his thighs and ass clenched as he fought for control. Serenity didn’t want him to find it. She reached up, wrapping one of her hands around the one he was using to hold his cock steady and pulled him closer.
She used her lips to surround the head and she drank him in, tracing her tongue all along the underside. Then she lifted her neck to take more of his length. He groaned and moved his hand to gain more support on the bed beside the other one. He pumped his hips and she slid her hand into a matching rhythm with her mouth, licking and sucking, driving them both crazy.
Her rhythm broke and a cry escaped at the first flick of Theron’s tongue on her clit. Thedan used that to move back from her. He gave the base of his cock a hard squeeze before releasing it and shifting position to stretch out on his stomach beside her.
“You’re so beautiful,” he said. “The flush to your skin. The way your lips are so red and puffy from working my dick.” He traced them softly with his finger and she caught the digit with her teeth and enclosed her lips around it to give a hard draw before he pulled it free. He moved his hand down to her breasts and one by one he traced her rock hard nipples. “The way your nipples swell and lift, begging to be tasted and savoured.” He traced patterns on her belly and she followed his gaze to watch Theron between her thighs.
“The way your cunt flushes and swells, blooming like a flower eager to be touched,” Theron added, then trailed his tongue along her wet folds to rim her opening. She clenched the pulsing walls of her pussy in a vain attempt to hold his tongue there but he eased back, chuckling, his warm breath fanning her plump sex. “The way your pussy tastes so sweet, begging to have my cock fucking it.” He used his tongue to trace back up and with one hand pushed her folds further apart, bringing the tight bloom of her clitoris into sharp view then lightly outlined it with his tongue. “I love the way your clit swells to attention, demanding to be taken, caressed.” He did just that, lowering his head to place his lips around her bud and sucked on it. Softly at first then adding tongue taps around it before increasing the pressure and giving a hard pull with his mouth that had her back arching off the bed.
She felt him slip a finger inside her and pump it while his tongue continued to taste and tease. Thedan moved his hand back to her breasts and used his fingers to pluck and pinch her nipple. He held her gaze as he lowered his head until his mouth hovered over the nipple closest to him. She watched him flick his tongue out and lick over her flesh and felt it ripple down to her womb. He licked it again and again, teasing her with the promise of more, of a firmer touch.
Her scream of pleasure must have echoed off the walls of their rooms and she prayed no one came to make sure she was uninjured. It was all she could do to keep from screaming again. The pleasure was too much, too intense. Thedan had finally latched onto her nipple and worked deeply on it, tugging it as far into his mouth as he could. Almost as if they had planned it, Theron moved back to her clitoris at the same moment and sucked it greedily into his mouth while thrusting two fingers inside and hooking them to rub just the right spot. That was all it took to have her right at the brink of what she swore would be a soul-shattering orgasm.
“Please,” she cried but even she didn’t know if she was asking them to stop or finish.
Her body was as tight as a bow string, quivering and ready for release. Thedan bit down on her nipple hard enough to bring that slight edge of pain into play and Theron nudged her clitoris once more with his tongue. He pulled his fingers back and pierced deep again and again until she had no choice but to spiral over the edge head first into the rush of pleasure that threatened to drown her.
She knew they had eased back, felt their touches soften, but she was awash in sensation, so boneless that she was as pliant as ploughed earth in their hands. Thedan pulled back, leaving the bed, and Theron moved up her body, sweeping his arms to hook them under her knees, and lifted them, opening her so that his cock found her pussy as his mouth took hers. He pumped his hips, moving his cock through her wet slit, lubing his shaft with her juices until the head finally lodged at her opening.
He eased from her lips and smiled as he thrust inside, filling her pussy with one hard stroke. He stayed buried, lowering his head to brush his lips over hers again.
“I love you,” he whispered then, holding her tight, shifted, rolling so she was on top of him. He released his hold on her knees and reached up to grab her shoulders, tugging her down to him.
“I love you,” she managed to say before he claimed her mouth again. His tongue thrust inside much as his cock had, demanding and ravishing, tasting and exploring.
She felt Thedan behind her and wasn’t startled as he used his fingers to trace the pucker of her anus, wetting it with whatever coated his fingers. While Theron stole her breath with his kiss, Thedan began working his fingers into her ass, stretching and filling her, preparing her for the much larger implement he planned to thrust there.
She tugged from Theron with a gasp for air. “Hurry,” she pleaded. It was taking all she had not to move up and down on Theron’s rigid length.
Theron widened his legs, which stretched hers wider as well, making more room for Thedan to move closer behind her. She felt the tuck of his cock against her anus then he was pressing inside. He used one hand to push on her lower spine above her buttocks, keeping her at just the angle he wanted. He held the pressure slow and steady, never stopping as he surged his length fully in her. Only when his scrotum brushed against her did he stop.
She was stretched tight, filled beyond capacity with cock. It hurt, this fullness, but it was a pain that sent spirals of pleasure pulsing throughout her entire body. She was shaking, trembles shuddering through her as they remained still for one long moment.
“Thedan,” Theron grunted out, and then Thedan was moving behind her, pulling his cock back while Theron shifted her, h
elping her ease up so that she was now straddled on her hands and knees over him. This tugged his cock almost out, but Thedan used that instant to thrust inside her ass. He leaned into her, keeping one hand on her spine while using the other to reach up and grasp her shoulder. Theron grabbed her hips and used them to help him thrust up into her pussy as Thedan pulled out again.
They took turns filling her, thrusting and retreating in such perfect rhythm she was always filled by one of their cocks. This was just what she needed, a reaffirmation of life, of the existence of love and pleasure and happiness.
“Fuck me,” she whispered to them. “Love me.”
Then there were no more words, just sighs, moans and ragged groans of pleasure as they did just that. She felt her muscles growing tighter and tighter as orgasm loomed. Theron cried out, arching his hips high, sending his cock slamming deep into her cunt. The hot splash of his seed pulled her over the edge and she took Thedan with her as her ass clenched down on his cock. Hot spurts of his cum filled her and each blast sent another small spasm of pleasure coursing through her.
They collapsed to the bed, Theron turning so that they were on their sides, still connected though their shafts were already softening. Theron’s lips touched her brow and Thedan’s the crown of her head. She smiled in contentment and with a sigh she let drowsiness take her under.
She was lucky. Her mother hadn’t been gifted with mates as she had. And her father? Well, she wondered if Wilhelm had ever known love. One thing was certain, she was more than they were.
She had always worried that she might be expected to walk the same road as her mother, be forced to take Serena’s place as the Temple Priestess. Or worse, that somehow her father’s blood would show up stronger and she would be drawn to the dark magic. But she wasn’t. Instead, she was mated to Theron and Thedan and blessed with a love that was still fresh and young, with the promise of only growing stronger and greater.
She was glad now that Aslan had wanted them to wait. She’d needed this. Maybe they all had. One thing was certain. Wilhelm would still be there when they were ready.
