by Sin
Maxim nodded, reached down, and pulled the stakes out of Jovan’s body. A sickening sucking noise sounded as the last of the wood was drawn from his body. I had to fight the vomit down that wanted desperately to rise.
Maxim rolled Jovan over slowly. His body was limp. Maxim looked over at me and shook his head. That small gesture told me more than I could handle. I screamed out and dropped to the ground near Jovan’s body. Maxim eased him down, and came around, putting his hand on my shoulder.
“He can’t be gone. Omnimorpheleons live forever, right? You guys are more than human, right? He can’t be gone. Jovan, please....”
“Rayme, there are things that can kill us.”
“He swore that he’d never leave me, he asked me to let him love me and I did. He said he’d never....” I slammed my hands on Jovan’s cold chest. The sound of chants filled the air around me, but I didn’t back down. Fuck being a supposed Priestess. None of that mattered, only Jovan did. “Damn you, damn you, you lied to me!”
Jovan sucked in a quick breath and his eyes flickered open. I screamed, and fell away from him, unsure of what was going on. Maxim dropped down next to me. He put his wrist to Jovan’s mouth and let out a small gasp when Jovan bit into him. They stayed like that for a few minutes before Maxim pulled his arm away, reached down, and picked Jovan up. He lifted Jovan’s large frame as though he weighed nothing.
I followed close behind Maxim, trying my best to see in the darkness that had surrounded us. I held the door to the cabin for him. He put Jovan on my bed and I sat down next to him. I touched Jovan’s chest. It was smooth again, no sign that only moments before he’d had stakes rammed all the way through his body. His hand found mine and his long, cool fingers held me tight.
I looked into Jovan’s blue eyes and let out a half cry, half sob. “You’re alive.”
He smiled. “I wouldn’t go that far.” His voice was weak, but there.
I leaned forward and kissed his lips, shaking the entire time. Jovan touched my cheek and I pulled back from him. He took my hand in his and put it on his chest. “Here, feel what you do to me.” I felt the tiny rhythmic thumping of his heart beating. There was no stopping the tears that ran down my cheeks. I’d thought that I’d lost him only to feel what Maxim had thought impossible, Jovan’s heart beating. I used my free hand to wipe my face and did my best to regain my composure.
Maxim appeared next to me. “May I?”
I looked down at Jovan and he grinned and lifted our hands for Maxim to feel for himself that his heart truly beat. Seeing Maxim’s hand on Jovan put me right back on the verge of tears again. “You two are turning me into a weepy mess.”
“Yes, but what are you turning us into?” Jovan asked.
I didn’t answer, because I didn’t know. It was their job to stump me and scare me, not the other way around. Right?
“Can you shift my friend?” Max asked.
Jovan shook his head. “No, not yet. I am too weak.”
Chapter Eighteen
Maxim snuggled closer to me and I smiled. I ran my hand over Jovan’s chest again--just to make sure he was still breathing. His hand moved up to mine. He caressed the back of my hand gently, letting me know that he was still with me. It was strange to be sandwiched between two men, but I was getting used to it. I wasn’t so sure about it, but Maxim had refused to leave my side, and I wasn’t about to leave Jovan’s side, so we’d ended up sharing a bed to get some rest. I wasn’t sure what time it was. I didn’t think we’d been asleep that long.
Jovan pulled my hand to his lips and I moved closer to him. I needed to be closer to him, but I wasn’t sure that was even possible. Jovan turned to me and put his lips on mine. He’d sensed that I needed him, and he was giving me what I had to have--himself. His tongue moved into my mouth and my eyes rolled back with pleasure. His hand moved up and under my shirt. He cupped my breast.
“We can’t,” I said softly, trying not to wake Maxim.
“We can’t what?” Jovan asked, touching my cheek lightly.
I glanced down at his hand. “If your hand’s there, whose hand is…?”
“Mine,” Maxim said, his voice so deep that it roused my body.
Jovan leaned his head up and looked at Maxim. They had one of those moments that I would never understand, I was a woman and I couldn’t possibly get it. Jovan’s blue eyes found me and he let his fingers run down and over my neck. “Say the word and we will stop.”
I turned my head to Maxim. He was propped up on one elbow with his hand up and under my shirt. “I can’t, we can’t. We have to be able to function together after this. I can’t have anyone upset … I can’t … can we?”
Maxim kissed my lips and pulled on my bottom lip as he drew back from me. “Rayme, you belong to us. We can share you now, or later, but in the end, it’s still the same. You are Queen to two Kings. Jovan is right, you say no, and it ends.”
He was right. The two of them held some sort of power over me. Just being near them left me in a state of need. Giving in seemed so much better than fighting it. I was tired of fighting. I just wanted to be loved and to have someone take care of me for a change. It seemed as though I would be getting that in stereo.
I gave in and reached down, pulling my shirt over my head. I suddenly had more help than I needed. Hands stroked me, caressed me, and articles of clothing flew about. Left in the center of two very nude and very gorgeous men, I wasn’t sure what to do. I went with who I was more comfortable with, Jovan. I went for his mouth, but he turned my body towards Maxim. “He saved my life tonight, he could have had you all to himself, but he saved me. Show him that you can love him too.”
It wasn’t hard for me to show Maxim that I could love him too, because I already did. Somewhere in the insanity that had become my life, I had fallen in love with two men. I reached out and touched Maxim’s face. I pulled Maxim to me and he pressed his naked body against mine. Jovan moved in behind me. My body was suddenly on sensory overload. Every bit of my skin tingled and reacted to their touches. Maxim’s fingers found me damp and ready for him. I licked his lips and cried out as he found my moist clit and worked it with his thumb as his finger still moved deep within me.
Jovan moved my hair out of the way and planted tiny kisses on my shoulders. I turned my face towards his and kissed him. I looked back at Maxim. I wasn’t sure how this should work. I went with what my gut told me and it told me that I wanted to have Maxim in me, now. Turning my body away from Maxim, I moved over Jovan.
“Can you sit up?” I asked, unsure if Jovan was as fine as he claimed he was. He nodded and sat up slowly.
I put my hand out to Maxim, he took it and I guided him up to his knees, behind me. “What do you want?” he asked, with a slight smile. He knew exactly what I wanted. He just wanted to hear me say it aloud.
“I want to taste him,” I said touching Jovan’s cool flesh.
“And?” Maxim asked, running his hands up my sides.
I looked down, slightly embarrassed to be so free with my wants and desires. Maxim pulled my chin up to him. “What does my Queen want?”
“She wants her King to make it official.”
Maxim’s hands moved down my body, and stopped on my hips. “It’s already official.”
“Then just fuck me.”
Both Jovan and Maxim let out nervous laughs. I leaned forward for Maxim to be able to enter me and licked along Jovan’s lower abdomen. I kissed the base of his cock and cupped him in my hand. I let my tongue run along the side of his shaft and Maxim pressed against my opening as I took Jovan’s thick cock into my mouth. Maxim pushed into me and I cried out with Jovan still deep in my mouth. Jovan’s moved his hands into the sides of my hair, and Maxim’s held my hips as he thrust his dick in and out of me.
I wrapped my hands around Jovan’s cock and worked the slippery shaft as my head moved up and down. I looked up and my eyes met Jovan’s gaze. His mouth was slightly open and he rocked his hips gently under me, bringing him deeper into my mouth.
Maxim grabbed my hips and rammed his body into mine. I was sure that he would break me in two if he wasn’t careful, but it felt too good to have him stop.
Maxim called my name out and I pulled away from Jovan long enough to back at him. His face showed strain, he was trying not to come as he pumped into me slower now. His thumb found my ass and he worked it inside my tight rosette. It was so carnal, so unlike me, that I jerked away at first, before relaxing. The feel of his finger in my ass and his cock buried in my pussy was almost too much. His eyes met mine. The strain of trying not to finish yet was evident in his voice. “I can’t hold it much longer. I want to finish in you--can I give you my seed?”
I rubbed the ruddy head of Jovan’s shaft as I smiled at Maxim. “I’m on the pill.”
It was Jovan who laughed. “Oh, my beautiful one, you have much to learn about us. If a child is meant to be then it shall be. No manmade contraceptives will stop that.”
I looked up at him. “You and I…we....”
He smiled and winked. Maxim clutched my hips and drove his body into mine. I contracted around him as my body hit its orgasmic peak. I felt his hot semen shoot into me. He tried to pull out, still coming. I reached back and held him to me, letting every last ounce of him remain inside of me. He let out a sound that told me he was content and laid his body against mine.
Jovan took my hands and pulled me up towards him. Maxim withdrew from me, but stayed close to my back. I climbed onto Jovan and he positioned himself under me. I slid down onto him. I was still dripping wet from Maxim finishing, so Jovan went in with ease. I leaned down on him and let my body lie against his. We kissed and I knew that of the two, I loved Jovan more, not much more, but enough that he’d always hold a special place in my heart, and that scared me, because of the two, Jovan was most likely to hurt me.
“Ah, my sweet Rayme,” Jovan said softly as I sheathed him completely within me.
I rode Jovan’s body with a fury I never knew I possessed. Maxim continued to rub his body against my butt and back. I screamed out as another orgasm hit. Jovan cried out as well and I felt him releasing himself in me. With each pulsating jerk that Jovan’s cock had, a wave of cool power washed over me. The feel of his magic running through me freed me. It opened me to him in a way I’d never experienced before and I knew that I had not only let him love me, but had fallen for him as well. I leaned in close to his ear and whispered to him. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” he said so quietly that I almost didn’t hear him.
Maxim grabbed me around the waist and lifted me off Jovan. I screamed out as he tossed me onto my back on the bed. He crammed his dick in me fast. I cried out and reached for Jovan.
Jovan leaned up on one arm and smiled at us. “Oh, Rayme, I forgot to mention that we have incredibly good hearing, and I believe that wolf-boy here is letting his alpha side come out and play. You see, he will not leave here tonight until he knows that he’s in your heart too.”
My eyes widened as Maxim ground me into the bed. He was strong and there was so much power behind each thrust that it was starting to cross the line from being fun. Jovan touched Maxim’s arm. “Careful my friend, she may still break as easily as a human. We do not know how much, if any, of us she carries within her now.”
“I have seen her change. She is one of us now.”
“Still, be gentle with her.”
I looked up at Maxim and felt a tear run down my cheek. He stopped, and tried to pull out of me. “No,” I said clutching onto his arms. “Just not so rough.”
“Rayme, I can’t, I didn’t mean to....”
I put my finger to his lip and moved my hips under him. I ran my fingers down his arms and found his hands. It took some working, but I managed to get him to stop supporting his weight on his arms, and just hold my hands, lie on me, and make love to me. Each stroke made my inner thighs quiver and shake.
Jovan’s face moved close to mine. I went to kiss him, and Maxim growled out. He looked down at me with the eyes of his wolf and tipped his head back. I was suddenly surrounded by heat. It was almost too hot to breathe, and Maxim and I were the source of it. Each time Maxim entered me, I cried out louder. His head was still arched back and I could see the veins in his neck. I wanted to run my tongue over them, I wanted to taste his skin, smell his scent, bath in it. I put my lips to his salty skin and licked along his collarbone until I came to the beating vein. Something dark swept over me and I wanted to do more than just lick his skin, I wanted to sink my teeth into him, mark him, and make him mine. I did. I bit down on him and felt my teeth breaking the surface of his skin. He cried out, but I didn’t ease up on him, I applied even more pressure. His blood welled up in my mouth and I let the metallic warm fluid move down my throat.
I closed my eyes and smelled nature. The fresh smell of the earth surrounded me as I drank Maxim down. His body convulsed on top of me and I could fell his hot come deep within me. I eased up on his neck and released him slowly. I licked along the tiny puncture wounds on his neck and he looked down at me. His hand came to my mouth. His fingers touched my teeth and I slid my tongue to them. I felt the tiny fangs and I pushed at Maxim to get him off me. I didn’t want to hurt him again.
“It looks like you may have found another trait that is shared with Jovan,” Maxim said, still inside me, but looking over at Jovan.
Jovan was lying on his side, looking more than content. He had enjoyed the show. He smiled at me and then let an eyebrow rise when he looked at Maxim. “Are you so sure? Do you not smell that?”
Maxim took a deep breath in and then nuzzled his face down into my neck. His head shot back up and his eyes were like the wolf again. I screamed out and he blinked them back to their normal brown. He bent down to kiss me, but I turned my head and tried to push him away.
“Get off! I don’t want to attack you again,” I said.
“You’re a Lycan too, Rayme, some part of you holds the wolf. I can smell it, and I’ve seen it. Besides, you didn’t hurt me, you marked me, the same way I marked you. You made me yours and for that I am grateful. It is what a mate does. It is a sign of love.”
I didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t sure what I had expected, but this wasn’t it. I let Maxim hold me, and reached out for Jovan’s hand. I needed to feel him. I needed to touch him and have him tell me that everything was going to be all right. His hand clasped around mine and I held on to him for dear life. Maxim slid to my side and I turned my body to Jovan’s, allowing Maxim to snuggle in behind me. Jovan leaned forward and kissed me gently.
I looked up at Jovan. I had to see his face. I needed to see if he still felt the same way about me that I did for him. I wasn’t sure I could lose him now, not just emotionally, but physically as well. His touch kept me grounded, and without it I’d be lost. Something passed over his face and he let go of my hand.
“Do you mind if I shower?” he asked.
“Of course not.”
I watched Jovan pull away and walk to the bedroom door. His pale white skin reflected the moonlight from the window. He never turned and looked back at me and my chest tightened at the reality of being another one of Jovan’s women. Maxim had warned me, and I’d fallen prey to Jovan all the same. I was a fool, and acting this way made me think of Fawn again. As much as I’d disliked her neediness, I’d ended up being the same way. I could only hope that Jovan wasn’t married with four children.
Chapter Nineteen
“Maxim.” I touched his arm gently as I spoke to him. I wanted to ask him if he knew where Jovan had gone. The sun was out and I was concerned for Jovan’s safety. He stirred slightly and then pulled me into his arms.
“Good morning,” he said, sliding his body over mine.
I laughed and rolled my eyes. “Oh, no you don’t. I’m sore.”
He leaned down and kissed my lips. He wasn’t there long before he was pulling away and heading downwards. I grabbed his hair to prevent him from dropping any lower. I knew that if he touched me I wouldn’t be able to resist
him. He laughed and tugged on my nipple with his teeth. I arched my back and his hands slid up and under my arms. He moved his body up and he eased his hard cock into me. I was tight, and still sore from the night before, but my body was wet and willing to accept him.
Maxim made love to me gently. I wrapped my legs around him and let him work his Lycan magic on me again and again. Each orgasm was more intense than the one before it. When he was finished he pulled out slowly and moved next to me on the bed. I was drenched in the fluids of our lovemaking, and felt no need to wash myself. I liked knowing that he’d marked his territory. He tried to draw me into his arms, but I sat up.
“No way, I’m getting a shower before you touch me again. You aren’t ever satisfied. If I don’t get cleaned up and eat soon, you’ll never let me.”
“What can I say? I can’t get enough of you. I’m in love and it feels great.”
I tossed my pillow at him as I walked away. “Let me get cleaned up and I’ll make you some breakfast.”
“Sounds good,” he said, rolling off the bed and getting to his feet. “I’ll bring in some more wood for the fireplaces. You were shivering last night.”
I wasn’t cold so much as I missed Jovan’s touch, but I wasn’t sure how to tell Maxim that. If he thought that bringing in more firewood would help me, that was fine by me. I turned to head to the bathroom and Maxim came and wrapped his arms around me.
“It’s not just you, Rayme. He does this with every woman.”
I almost pretended like I didn’t know who or what he was talking about, but it was pointless. He knew that I was upset about Jovan, so why bother lying. I put my head back against him and exhaled. “It sounds stupid, but I thought I was different for him.… I thought....” I stopped. Saying that I thought that Jovan loved me too would be too difficult for Maxim to hear so I left it alone.
“If it’s any consolation, I thought you were different for him too.”
I rubbed my head against his warm chest and let my eyes close. “You’re too good to me. I don’t deserve you.”
