He delves his nimble fingers between my thighs and plunges them into the wetness of my pussy. The shock of pleasure sets off a moan that vibrates from my mouth into Jonah in turn.
As Jonah tangles his fingers in my hair, Mirage vanishes his clothing. The head of his cock slides teasingly along my slit. Then he presses into me, filling me in that giddy way I’ll never get tired of.
I gasp and suck Jonah harder, wanting to pay back the pleasure offered to me in every possible way. Mirage sinks deeper, and his desire radiates into me alongside the pleasure blooming from my core.
Raze slips his hand around me to fondle my breasts, sparking even more bliss. Hail teases tingles of cold and warm breaths over my neck and shoulder.
I sway with Mirage’s thrusts and bob up and down over Jonah’s cock, feeling as if we’ve all melded together into a single mass of pleasure.
Perhaps we have. Just as my second orgasm crackles through me, Jonah’s breath breaks. He comes in my mouth in a hot spurt in time with the jerk of Mirage’s hips behind me.
I soar toward the sky on the whirlwind of their pleasure mixing with my own and glide back to Earth surrounded by my mates’ loving warmth.
Because that’s what they are, the best way to describe them. We’re bound to each other in our hearts and souls, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Hail lets out a light laugh and kisses my shoulder. “Never thought I’d get off more from feeling people whoaren’tme having sex than doing the pumping myself.”
I give him a gentle swat. “You were part of it. You all mattered.”
Raze strokes his fingers over my hair. “And so do you, Glowbug. Always.”
A different sort of satisfaction wells up inside me. We’ve come so far together. We started out wary and hurting and in some cases seeing each other as the enemy, and now we make each other so happy.
Because we understand each other. We opened up to one another and discovered how much common ground we truly share.
My thoughts drift back to yesterday’s conversation with Rollick, and my throat constricts.
The demon has been alive for a long time, yes. But that also means he has millennia of his own hang-ups and trauma clouding his vision.
He wants to let go of the chance to get true acceptance for shadowkind in the human world because of his fears based on the past. In the last few months, I’ve seen just how important it is to move beyond old pains to get to a better place.
My mates and I have accomplished so much. And this one thing feels so right.
The rift even showed us again today, didn’t it? When we work with it, it lightens up.
When we treat it like an enemy, that force echoes right back into our bond.
How much farther could we get with humans if we weren’t always treating them like enemies?
Jonah trails his fingers down my arm in a tender caress. “What are you thinking about, Peri? You’ve gotten all determined.”
I open my mouth and hesitate. This is so big. So scary.
So let’s meet that fear head-on.
“I think we should reveal the truth to all the humans,” I say. “Even if we have to go behind Rollick’s back.”
11
Periwinkle
Iset my hands on my hips and look around at my companions. “All right. Are we all clear on what we’re doing today?”
My mates and I have assembled a collection of the allies we feel are least likely to betray our plans to Rollick. Asmallcollection, since the demon holds an awful lot of sway over both his colleagues and the academy students who’ve come to the city to pitch in.
Fen nods with an air of determination that’s only slightly diminished by the nervous drips of water trickling off her hands. Next to her, Brine—our selkie friend—draws her plump frame up taller.
Jonah picked out a couple of other shadowkind students who he knows have always wanted to show off their natures to the rest of the world and who are pretty good at following instructions. Right now, the two level four students are poisedwith one perched on the other’s shoulders, bobbing energetically like they’re about to launch into an acrobatic show.
