Energy thrummed through Juliran, and he threw his head back with the force of it. His teeth clenched and the skin stood out along the stretched tendons of his neck. He arched up onto his toes as electricity scorched through his body, holding every bone, muscle and cell to the ransom of its power.
The solid, masculine energy of his brothers flowed through him, as did his mate’s softer, feminine energy. His awareness expanded, as though every cell in his body flew in all directions. He came out of his body, his consciousness cresting the waves of power that radiated across his planet.
He could feel everything. Was one with everything. He was so much more than the mere consciousness that was contained in his body. He became a part of the blue-green energy of the Erion Homeland. He became a part of the trees, the leaves, the soil, the rocks and the newborn crystals that the ground had given birth to in the wake of the power that scoured over the land.
His consciousness raced across the surface of the ground, to the buildings, the towns, the people. He was filled with the terror, the grief for those lost, the anger that so many had died and the determination to fight this untouchable force. Every thought, action, and deed were soaked into the ground and now became a part of him as he flew.
He reached the distant shores, and then his mind entered the water. The cool liquid suffused through him. The creatures that lived in its liquid depths darted here and there. Even they hadn’t been left untouched by the entity. There was the essence of fear, loss and emptiness.
Up he flew, into the stars and the vast, inky blackness of space, seeking, seeking, seeking until he latched onto the grounding energy of the Arabis crystal. His energy embraced, fused and pulled it back to the surface if the planet where the energy and his essence stretched to the neighboring shores, skimming over the lands of the Arabis and the Ozar, land not breached by Erion feet in centuries.
The Erion crystal’s energy reached for the energy of her mates. Golden waves of the Ozar mixed with magentas of the Arabis and fused with the blue-green of the Erion in a fantastic, mystical spray of multi-color.
Crystals birthed through the soil, glowing and golden in the Ozar Homeland and magenta in the Arabis Homeland. Crystals erupted along the ocean floor, multi-hued with pinks, purples, green, blue, yellow, and orange.
Beyond the birth of multi-colored baby crystals that protected the land came the awareness of the other Quads. The Ozar energy flowed over him and merged with the Arabis, foreign, and yet so much the same. The need to protect their mate, the knowledge that their families were the most precious thing in the world, the love that radiated between them.
No, they were not that different at all, and now they were combined with the need to protect their planet. Protect their Quads. Protect their human mates.
“Look,” Lucie whispered.
That softly spoken word was enough to bring him back to his body where he stood with his hands still linked with his brothers and his mates. He eased his eyes open. Golden waves flowed with magentas and blues around him and across the land. Then spikes of energy reached upwards, slicing through the black clouds and disintegrating them.
The entity howled, screamed, screeched, but it was no match against the combined energies of the Negari Homeworld and the power of love behind it.
The clouds cleared and disappeared. The screaming faded. The sun shone down, chasing away the shadows and leaving the land shining and glowing—and alive.
“Oh my God. Did we just…? Lucie whispered.
Juliran picked her up and twirled her in his arms. “You did it. Lucie, you defeated it!”
Lucie threw her arms around his neck, tossed back her head and giggled. He kissed her plump lips, a peck that immediately became hotter and deeper and more intimate.
She laughed as Zaen took her from his arms and kissed her just as thoroughly. Finally, Kyel brought her into the cage of his arms and devoured her without letting her feet slip to the ground. Juliran’s cock strained against his leathers as he watched them kissing, their passion igniting his own.
They’d survived. Against the odds, they’d done it. Their mate was a miracle. A miracle he couldn’t wait to get naked with and renew their bond in the physical manner. Not that the bonding in their minds didn’t completely blow his, but he needed to see if it stood up to the reality.
I second you, brother. Right after we get her out of Kyel’s arms.
I’m never letting her go again. You’ll have to join us if you want her.
Lucie chuckled. There’s enough of me to go round. And if I don’t have all of you at least three times, you’ll hear about it. Now keep kissing me. We have a lot of time to make up.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Lucie
After spending an enormous amount of time and energy seeing to the injured, understanding their losses, getting their parents and sister who were thankfully alive, and organizing an army to aid those that had suffered, they had all come back to Lucie’s bedroom—her real bedroom and not the one she’d created in her mind.
All they’d done was collapse into bed and fallen asleep. She had no idea how long they’d slept for—it could have been a day or three, but when she woke up it was to find she was too hot because three large bodies were spooning her. Being naked exacerbated the heat problem, on her skin and in her blood. As did the hand stroking her breast.
Her nipple budded and she stirred as a tingle ran through her veins straight to her pussy. Her body woke fully with an insatiable need that only her mates would satisfy.
I hear you, mate, and I will do my best to provide for your need. Kyel rolled her nipple between his thumb and forefinger. She sucked in a fast breath.
Next to her, Zaen stirred. She fell into the glowing pools of his eyes as he leaned forward and took her other breast in his mouth. She closed her eyes and sighed as they stroked and licked and sucked and built an insatiable internal flame.
She ploughed her fingers through Zaen’s hair and then in Kyel’s hair as his mouth replaced his hand.
You taste like Heaven, mate. Zaen’s voice filtered in her mind.
Kyel licked his way up her chest, trailed a hot path over her chin, and claimed her mouth. His tongue dipped inside, sliding against hers. She couldn’t get enough of his taste. His heat. The need that coursed through him set her veins alive with unspent desire, and when she felt a hand slide up her leg and another mouth kissing across her thigh, she parted her thighs so that Juliran could nestle in the juncture of her body.
I want to see what our mate tastes like as well. Juliran planted his open mouth over her clit and sucked. Electric sensation erupted through her as she reached her pinnacle. She exploded into a glowing aura of blue-green light, and liquid pleasure coursed through her body.
I think she liked that, brother. She barely registered Kyel speaking as her body was washed with her orgasm.
I think she’ll like this more. While he nuzzled her clit, Juliran slid his fingers through her slit, coating them with her release. Up and down he stroked before he dipped his fingers inside and suckled her at the same time.
Another orgasm crashed through her. She gasped as her muscles locked as she was lost to sweet pleasure again.
“Oh, my God, that’s…” She couldn’t think what it was. There were no words that could describe the bliss. The connection. The absolute closeness that was between them. Her pleasure was theirs. Their arousal heightened hers. It was an infinite circle built on the secrets of the fates that had brought them together.
“Yes, it is.” Juliran licked a path up her body as he crawled to hover over her. The heated head of his cock nudged her wet entrance, throbbing with each beat of his heart. May I enter you with my cock, my sweet mate? May I take you there and bring you more pleasure?
She parted her thighs, opening her most intimate part of her body for him. The tip slid inside her. Perspiration beaded on his forehead as he made himself still, his tense gaze holding hers. His body shook as he waited for her word.
She
tilted her hips, swallowing more of his shaft inside her. “Please, Juliran. Please take me.”
He slid inside in a long, smooth stroke, pushing until the base connected with her pussy lips. He flattened out on her, hardened his abdomen, and rubbed her clit as his hips thrust into her.
She wrapped her legs around his lean hips, inviting him into her body, welcoming each lunge with the tilt of her hips, taking him as deep as she could. The pressure built inside. His lips crashed down on hers, his tongue fucking her mouth as his cock fucked her pussy.
She clung to him, every muscle locked as he pistoned harder and faster until she screamed into his mouth with the rush of her climax. He slammed into her. His body bowed, hips locking before he threw his head back and yelled through his own climax. Heat jetted, coating her on the inside. Her climax spiraled alongside his. Her body sang and her soul rejoiced.
She sank back down to her body in the cage of Juliran’s arms. His kissed her gently and rested his forehead against hers.
That was beautiful, Juliran. So beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you, my mate. I am truly blessed.
She kissed him as he withdrew from her body.
Zaen tucked his arm around her waist. His taut abs pressed against her back. Her buttocks locked against his hips and his erection slid between her cheeks. He tilted his hips. His shaft rubbed against her rosebud and she shuddered with the intimate contact.
She turned her head and accepted Zaen’s heated kiss. His tongue slid into her mouth, his lips caressing hers, massaging, tasting, teasing. He tweaked her nipple between his long elegant fingers, sending sensation cascading through her body.
A delicious shiver stole through her, and as it did, Zaen lifted her thighs and settled his long, hard shaft at her entrance. His kiss stifled her cry and she was filled.
That’s it, beautiful. Take me inside you.
He withdrew, sliding out of her body to the very tip, before slamming back inside her. She gasped, her mouth falling open. Kyel slipped his knuckle inside her mouth, keeping her lips parted.
He towered over her, one hand gripping her chin, while the other stroked his broad shaft in front of her face. She didn’t hesitate. She wound a hand about his thick thigh, opened wide, and brought his hips to her mouth.
The head of his cock slid between her lips. His sharp musky-tang exploded on her tongue. As he eased inside, her tongue flattened out on the bottom to explore every veiny ridge. His taste was intoxicating, and she drank him in, suckling around his width and swirling her tongue over his skin.
“Gods, Lucie. Feels so good.” Kyel’s voice cracked so low it was no more than gravel.
Zaen gripped her hips, his fingers indenting into her supple flesh. His heated breath poured over the back of her neck as he worked himself in faster and faster with every pounding thrust.
He suddenly stiffened, grinding his hips against her bottom cheeks. Kyel removed himself from her mouth and kissed her as Zaen’s cock throbbed as he came inside her. His jumbled thoughts, his excitement, and his release drove through her mind and her body exploded alongside his.
Zaen kissed the back of her neck and she shivered, no more than a sweaty mess. Zaen’s strong hands firmed about her waist. She was lifted and positioned over Kyel’s waiting form.
Juliran kissed her neck as Zaen rubbed her back. Kyel kissed her mouth as he moved her over his cock. Without preamble, the head of his cock slid inside her. He thrust upwards and she came down on his hips.
Her clit rubbed against the hard muscles of his abdomen, sending electric sparks of sensation rocketing through her body. Already sensitized, she felt every centimeter of the long, hard length of him inside her.
Kyel gripped her hips, lifted her, and slammed her down again. She whimpered, a trembling, nerveless mess. All she could do was cling to his shoulders as he impaled her with his cock and ride his fierce thrusts. Hands caressed her body and mouths left warm kisses everywhere.
The pressure in her body built. Kyel smashed her down on his cock, tilted her hips, and crushed her clit against his body. Her climax ripped through her at the same time as Kyel roared through his release. Hot jets streaked inside her, erupting from his throbbing shaft.
Her release was intensified by his orgasm. Zaen palmed himself, stroking his hard cock while Juliran worked his shaft. Their climax triggered, intensified through the bond and imploded them all. Zaen yelled a hoarse cry, while Juliran groaned. Hot jets coated her back, her legs, her arms.
Her men were inside her. Outside. Everywhere. She flew up and up into a ball of glowing blue-green light, to the place where their souls had connected and merged before in their minds and hearts, and now so were their bodies. She felt her men alongside her. They caressed her, cradled her, embraced her. She was them and they were her. One and the same. So happy and content.
And the love she’d discovered between them. She couldn’t forget that. The beautiful, joyous love. The kind of love that went beyond mere life and into the everlasting. The kind that lasted until the end of time.
She was truly blessed with not one, but three men who loved her without limit. And she loved them back just as much. Finally, she was whole. Healed and complete.
And free.
Epilogue
Lucie
“Lucie!” a familiar voice called. Evelyn stepped through a side-entrance into the waiting room where Lucie was waiting.
“Evelyn!” Lucie rose from her seat and bear-hugged Evelyn. She thought she’d be fine seeing her friend. They’d commed each other every day, but nothing made up for seeing her for the first time in person.
It was also the stress of being stuck in the small waiting area behind the closed doors that led to the huge ballroom of the Erion palace that held hundreds of people. She heard the roar of the mass of voices building, and it was killing her not knowing what was going on behind them. Her mates hadn’t told her a thing. Maybe Evelyn might know.
“Don’t make me cry, I’m going to mess up my make-up, and that took hours for the make-up girl to put on me,” Evelyn said, laughing as she gingerly wiped a tear from beneath her artfully made-up eyes.
Lucie was just as dressed up, having spent the past several hours bathing, dressing, and similarly getting her hair and makeup done. The last she’d seen Evelyn in the flesh was that day when the Negari guards had forced their way onto the reptile craft and rescued them.
“You look…” She searched for the right word. Evelyn vibrated with health. They’d been starved, tortured, and left with no sanitation in those cages, where they’d been locked up for weeks.
Evelyn self-consciously touched the small magenta gem in the middle of her forehead. “Freaky?”
The gem glowed and made Evelyn look more ethereal than ever. Her white-blonde hair flowed down her back, thick and lustrous. Her skin was dewy and healthy, and she hadn’t stopped smiling. She was luminous. It made Lucie happy.
“I was going to say beautiful. And well. And healthy. I’m not pointing a finger,” Lucie said. She lifted her glowing blue arm. “I sparkle.” The light struck the thousands of tiny crystals in her skin, making her glitter in the lighting.
“I guess the crystal affected us all differently. As if being human didn’t make us stand out like sore thumbs to begin with,” Evelyn said.
“I almost can’t believe where we are now. What’s happened. How it happened,” Lucie said.
A smile crept to Evelyn’s lips. “But I wouldn’t change it for the world. Would you? You know, the three guys, one girl scenario.” She waggled her brows.
Lucie’s face heated. She could imagine her skin glittering like mad now. “Truthfully?”
“I’m being truthful when I say it wasn’t easy, but now… knowing them… feeling them… I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Evelyn said.
“Neither would I.”
“Well, that’s one way to bring a world together!” Riley’s voice had Lucie and Evelyn spinning to see Riley storm through the same side door Evelyn
had just come through.
She was a force of nature even without the golden, glowing eyes. Lucie could easily see her as the tough soldier she’d been on earth with her swagger, shaved-on-the-sides haircut and no-nonsense air.
She didn’t stop walking until she caught Evelyn in a hug. Then she hugged Lucie. With her strappy gown, her muscled arms and toned shoulders were on display. The pressure stole the air from Lucie’s lungs.
There was fit, and then there was Riley.
Lucie could imagine her jogging across rugged terrain and climbing the tallest mountains, if not for the baby bump she also sported, highlighted by the tight golden gown.
“God, it’s good to see another human, no matter if we are a little bit changed,” Riley said.
Lucie blinked back more tears. It seemed nowadays she cried at the drop of a hat. Damned pregnancy hormones. It had been confirmed this morning and she’d spent the next two hours celebrating with her mates in the most beautiful love-making session ever. They’d told her over and over again how much they loved her, and then one thing had led to another and Zaen pointed out that she couldn’t get more pregnant and what the heck, they might as well show her how much they loved her. Full of suggestions, that mate was. She didn’t have it in her to argue with him. Not when she fully agreed.
“Do you know what our mates are doing out there?” Riley said.
“I thought you’d know,” Evelyn said to Riley.
“And I thought you’d know,” Lucie said to Evelyn.
“Huh. Looks like they’ve kept a secret.” Riley put her hands on her hips, frowning, but her face danced with amusement.
“How did they manage to do that?” Evelyn said.
Lucie shook her head. “I don’t know. It must have taken some coordination.”
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