My stare darted toward the bathroom door. I swore it was an involuntary movement. Not that Slade cared as he hauled me up in a flash, and by the time I sucked in a deep, ragged breath, we were in the bathroom.
Slade stripped my underwear from me, and then two naked shifters crowded me back against the wall. The cool tiles were a blessed relief as steam and dragon heat covered me until I burned. Talon stroked down my stomach, his fingers sliding inside me without hesitation, only pausing when he hit the edge of the disc. “What’s that?” he asked, blinking down at me.
“My period disc,” I rasped, my core aching as my legs trembledbeneath me. “You can leave it in if you’d like. According to the instructions, the disc should contain blood without limiting sexual activity.”
“Remove it,” Slade ordered, and Talon curled his fingers in to hook on the edge, somehow knowing the exact way to catch it and pull free. There was no way it should be as erotic as it was to watch him slide the disc from me, blood slicking down my legs to land on the white tiled floor. But here we were.
True to their word, neither of them looked remotely turned off by the blood, and I shouldn’t have been surprised. I’d watched them tear Fletcher to pieces only two days ago, and not one of the alphas had flinched at the blood that had covered them.
“Stop thinking so hard,” Slade murmured near my ear, and while there was a brief annoyance at his arrogant ass trying to force mythoughtsto obey him, my mind did weirdly clear.
My wolf obeyed her alphas in a way that the human side of me couldn’t.
When Talon sank to his knees, I gasped and tried to back up, but I was already plastered against the wall. “No, not like that,” I choked out. “Put the disc back in before you stick your mouth?—”
My words were cut off by his tongue on my clit, then my head spun until I couldn’t remember my objections. Slade tilted my head back and captured my lips, his hands reaching out to clasp mine and keep me pressed against the wall. As sparks of pleasure took me under, I decided that it wasn’t up to me to protect grown shifters from a little blood.
If they didn’t care, then Idid not care.
After taking both of my hands into one of his, and positioning them above my head, Slade used his other hand to slide two fingers inside me, moving them in time to his brother’s tongue stroking my clit.
They were both gentle, as if they sensed how tender and sore I was in my core. A pain that all but vanished under the maddening swirl of a tongue meeting slow thrusts of a hand.
My moans were so loud that not even Slade’s kiss drowned them out. I parted my thighs wider, hovering on the edge of what felt like a devastating release. At the first roll of the orgasm, my knees buckled, but I already knew they’d hold me up.
Neither of them slowed, and when my release shattered throughme, I gushed all over Slade’s hand. They continued to touch me until I was spent, relaxed, and completely pain free. There wasn’t a ton of blood from what I could see, with the shower taking care of most of it.
After that, Talon lifted me out from under the stream and dried me off. Neither of them looked away when I inserted my disc again, and I got the feeling that they’d be asking to do that job next time. With my backup underwear on once more, I crawled into bed between them, half drifting off before my head hit the pillow.
As they cocooned me between their naked lengths, their palms landed on my stomach and back, the heat easing any cramps the orgasm hadn’t taken care of.
I fell asleep so fast that I barely caught their goodnights.
Sleeping between my dragon sentinels was the safest place in the world, and I knew I would rest easy.
CHAPTER 20
TALON
Until recently, my life was one of servitude, with brief moments of interaction with other shifters. Most of whom I either worked for or had to kill.
There was no true connection or bond in my life.
All of which changed the moment I set my eyes on a terrified,unexpectedlyperfect omega.
As much as I wished to take back our first meeting, I was too selfish to ever risk not tying her to me in all ways. Every moment spent with Emme, sleeping beside her, touching her soft skin, and drowning in her scent calmed and healed my beast and me.
Now we cared about more than just our task and the destruction of shifter cities.
We cared about our mate and the entire pack of alphas in my quintet.
The transition from wanting to please mycaptorto wanting to protect my family had changed me on a level that felt essence-deep. Touching Emme all night soothed ragged edges that I never even knew were there until I had theafterto compare to. Along with my twin’s proximity, I’d never slept so well in my life.
You heading out soon?Slade’s voice was a low hum in our bond, neither of us needing as much sleep as Emmeline, but unable to leave her comforting presence in our bed.
We were tangled around her, just as our beasts were pressed against her wolf in the bond.
Yeah, it’ll take me four or so hours to fly to the compound, and then I need to scout the area.Assess the danger.I paused, as a worrying thought hit me.Will Emme be in pain from our distance. Our bond isn’t new, but this full connection is.
