“I love you,” he choked out, and the depths of his feelings existed right there in his beautiful, broken expression.
“I love you,” I said with force, and I shifted my wolf toward his beast, so he could really feel me as well.
Slade’s scent blossomed at the exchanged words of love, and I wondered if he was thinking about the fact thatwehadn’t said those words to each other. I didn’t even have to ask to know Slade had never said them to anyone, and even though I loved the stubborn bastard, I didn’t want to force the declaration before he was ready. He showed me with his actions every day anyway.
“I love your strength and bravery,” I continued, pressing my hand into Talon’s face. “I love that you chose me. Without asking for anything in return.”
“I’m still not a good shifter,” he said, expression open and calm. “I’m an assassin at heart, built of the cold mentality of my race, but not for you. You’re the best part of my life.My reason for existence. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do, and no one I wouldn’t kill to keep you safe.”
I kissed Talon so hard I almost knocked him back onto the bed. My joy at finally bonding surged through me, until I was exploding with happiness and desire.
Slade’s heat moved farther from us, but I was too consumed to look his way. Talon sprawled back and lifted me on top of him. I spread my thighs to straddle him, but even on top he didn’t let me take the lead or control the pace.
Gripping my hips, he slowly thrust, parting me with each slide of his hard length. I hadn’t really had enough recovery time after Slade, but as Talon pushed deeper, my core pulsed and ached with intense pleasure.
Talon’s pupils were slitted and dragon-like as he growled, “I understand why males go to war over their female.” He lifted himself to capture my lips in an unhurried, intoxicating kiss, and all the while he slowly drove inside me. “They kill and die for just a taste of the heaven you offer to us.”
His smoky scent blasted through the bedroom, mingling with mine and Slade’s. The only way this could get better was if my other mates’ scents were here as well.
Moans slipped from my lips as I trembled above him, the sparks of pleasure taking me over. I wasn’t fully seated yet, having only managed to take about seventy-five percent of his length.
Talon’s grip on my hips was firm; he held me in place as he controlled the pace. Like Slade, he took his time to learn what I liked and didn’t, watching me closely and adjusting with each of my moans.When my eyes fluttered, and my walls pulsed around him, his expression turned satisfied. Both of my dragons were fast learners.
The duality of intense pleasure teamed with the slight burn of being stretched too wide had me panting and seeing stars. Talon slid a hand down my front over my breasts, before he reached my clit. When his thumb moved over me gently, he thrust, and it was enough for me to finally slide down that last quarter to seat myself fully.
Goddess above. It was too much. It was everything. It was going to be my undoing.
My alphas would be the beginning and end of me, just as I’d always expected.
Talon took his time, but unlike Slade he didn’t edge me. If his expression was any indication, he was barely holding on himself, and when my body tightened around him and I cried out, he drove himself deeper. Impossibly deep. This shifter was rearranging my internal organs, and I was here for it.
My first orgasm spilled into another and another until I shook and collapsed on his chest. Talon held me when I couldn’t hold myself, thrusting up into me with the force of… well, a dragon. As the green in his eyes flashed brighter through the darkness, his dick swelled until I was about to burst. I cried out as he partially shifted and bit me again, reconfirming our bond.
My wolf pushed through my daze to shift our jaw, and with Talon attached to my shoulder, I latched on to him. We’d come a full circle, and the hate that surrounded us in that first bonding was now filled with love.
Slade rumbled from somewhere in the room, and when my wolf and Talon’s dragon burst into my mind’s essence, Slade’s beast followed. For a split second in time, the three of us were as one. We were perfect.
Until everything changed.
That circle around my wolf exploded with a new power, one that had been hidden beneath us the entire time. As the icy slap of energy hit me and my beast, I managed to keep my eyes open long enough to see that I wasn’t the only one to lose consciousness this time.
CHAPTER 10
HUNTER
Islowed my pacing to glare at the shifter-witch crowding my entryway.
“You know we only have until the next full moon to destroy the witch who cast the curse,” Constantine said, his eyes manic as he wrung his hands. “We’ve already wasted near two full days.”
This fucker stood inmyhouse, wearing clothes provided byme,and then had the audacity to start demandingwetake action. “You were the one who informed us that Emme wouldn’t have access to her power without securing her quintet. We will not rush this for them. They deserve their time together, and if you try to interfere, I can promise you that two dragons will tear you to pieces before you even set foot in the apartment.”
Not that I’d let this annoying asshole make it that far.
Pursing his lips, he ran a hand through his hair, which was clean now but still tangled. He’d also refused shoes, yapping on about how the Earth energy was absorbed better through his feet. Fucking witches.
Not that I should be harboring so much animosity toward their kind when my mate was a quarter. But she was the exception. The rest of them could burn for all I cared.
“Since we have time to kill, explain it all to me in detail,” I said. “Everything you know about what Jewels did, and what will happen if this curse comes to pass.”
