Sandwiched between his mates, a euphoric sensation built in his chest as they all moved in one long fluid throng of bodies. Nico thrust into Ben who thrust into Teilo. Teilo pushed back at the same time.
Water splashed everywhere at the slap of bodies grew wild and uncoordinated. Frantic wheezing breaths, skin slapping skin and water hitting tiles filled the steamy space.
Ben’s teeth ached in his jaw as Teilo’s ass crushed his cock. Teilo’s head fell onto Ben’s shoulder exposing his neck. His panther screamed in victory as Ben bit down at the junction of his neck and heat filled his ass and Nico bit his shoulder. A wave of intense dizziness swept through him, his eyes flashing colors as his cells lit up. He wasn’t sure who was groaning as the pleasure flowing through him when from hot to a lava burn. It scorched his skin flaying it from the bone.
His teeth released and tugged back onto Nico’s cock, Teilo set free sprung around and his teeth latched into Ben’s chest. He withered between the two men. His mind lost to everything other than those surrounding him both internal and external. No one could explain the explicit changes. The knowing that came with a center of peace and harmony from their connection.
Drugged from the feeling Ben struggled to open his eyes when moved. His back touching wet tile. Nico and Teilo holding each other, their mouths clamped on each other. Streaks of blood running down wet skin. Ben levered himself off the wet wall and staggered to both men. His panther wild to bite Nico. The second Teilo released Nico, Ben’s mouth was there, his teeth striking deep right next to Teilo’s mark.
Nothing else mattered, only this, only them.
Chapter Twelve
Teilo
Sex is a strange thing. Teilo straightened out his back, letting gentle movements of his hands keep him afloat as he watched Nico and Ben on the shoreline. He found he liked swimming in his human form. The water wasn’t harshly cold, but it was cooling on sun kissed skin. After spending so long being kept in a basement, Teilo liked to be outside as often as he could. One night he’d even coaxed his mates to sleep outside with him, although not a lot of sleeping was done. Being under the stars whenever they wanted to be, or under the sun—Teilo even welcomed the rain on his skin one day when a brief shower passed overhead—he loved it all. Being free.
Ben had been so funny those first few days after their claiming. Teilo ran that word through his mind again. Claiming. Just thinking about it made him tingle, and he was getting addicted to the feeling. But Ben, despite clearly having more sexual experience than he or Nico had, had been a bit unsure, never wanting to have sexy times with Nico if Teilo wasn’t doing it, too, or the other way around.
It took him a little while; it took all three of them a while to understand the differences in their need for sexy times. Ben hadn’t understood how solid Teilo’s relationship with Nico was. He just wanted to be a part of it, but Teilo knew and so did Nico, which was why he didn’t have a problem if Nico and Ben had sex without him.
Teilo had loved it when Nico let him shove his cock into his cage brother’s ass, but it wasn’t his favorite thing to do. And likewise, Nico accepted him into his body and had yelled as spunk pulsed from his cock as he came, but he preferred to be the one penetrating one of his mates. When asked about it, Ben said that it was perfectly natural for people to like different things when it came to sex, and Ben, it seemed, likedallsexy things.
Teilo chuckled as the water splashed around him. If anyone heard Nico’s grunts and growls, they would think poor Ben was being eaten or beaten. But Ben was moaning and crying out for “more, more,” and Nico was giving it to him. Tilting his head slightly, taking care not to get water in his ears, Teilo watched the proud lines of his cage brother’s body as he thrust into Ben’s butt.
Nico always looked so vicious in his passion—his neck muscles straining, his teeth clenched, his lips bared as if he was grimacing. Even from where he was, ten feet away from them, Teilo could see Nico’s hold on Ben’s hips was firm, but not bruising, and he was watching Ben’s face the whole time, taking care Ben wasn’t in any pain. As Teilo watched, Nico’s movements got faster. Ben tilted his neck… Nico reached over his shoulder and plunged his teeth into Ben’s mating mark as he slammed into their mate’s body one last time.
Such a strange thing to get pleasure from. Having spent most of his life in pain, Teilo had never imagined they could get so much pleasure from simply stroking skin, muscle, and the bones beneath them. Nico, seeming to understand his preferences from the start, had stroked his body as if he was in fur, showing through his calloused fingers the feelings Teilo knew were in his heart. Ben took his cues from Nico when it came to Teilo and there were times when Teilo felt like a well-loved and highly spoiled cat. A sensual cat, even a sexy one. Despite his training, Teilo had always longed for the softer side of life, even if he wasn’t sure how that presented itself.Something Nico knew about me all along.
Teilo couldn’t deny every joining they had, in every combination, strengthened the bonds between them. He could feel it—a blossoming warmth under his rib cage even now as both men looked over to him,making sure I’m okay.
He waved, and then pulling his knees in close to his chest, he rolled headfirst under the water, gliding to close the distance between them.
“You’re so beautiful together,” he said as his head broke free of the water, and he sat up, shaking the salt water from his hair. He leaned up for the kiss Nico offered and then quickly kissed Ben, who was still trying to get his breath under control. “Come on in. The sea will clean you and refresh your senses.”
“I swear, if I didn’t know you were a cat, I’d think you were a merman,” Ben said with a grin, but he got up and waded into the water.
“You know you could have joined us, don’t you?”
Teilo tilted his head, watching Nico’s eyes. “I’m not left out,” he said softly. “Left out” was a phrase Ben had used when he’d tried to explain why he liked them all having sexy times together. “I don’t feel excluded in any way. I just wanted to go swimming this time. And I mean it, you are beautiful to watch. Both of you. Makes my heart warm inside.” He tapped his chest. “I love that feeling. I love you, and Ben, too.”
“There’s not been a day in my life when I haven’t loved you,” Nico tripped over the words, but Teilo heard them all the same. “Now Ben is in my heart, too, and sometimes I just feel…” Nico spread his arms wide as if trying to express his feelings.
Jumping up, Teilo nestled into him, something that was still so new that he could do that, even two weeks after they’d been rescued. “It can be overwhelming, these new feelings we have,” he whispered, “but it’s real, Nico, very real, and this is ours. We will fight to keep this, no matter what, yes? What we have with each other, and what we have with Ben?”
“Yes. Yes, we will. Now, that is something I understand.” Nico laughed then, and Teilo felt the slight sting from a tap on his butt. “Come, my little water kitty, let’s go get Ben.”
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Nico
It was quite a few hours later. Nico had left Ben and Teilo curled up on the large bed, but his animal was restless. After two weeks, the concept of being able to just wander as he pleased, in human form and on four feet, was still a wonder… and a worry. Stepping outside fully naked—Ben had explained the entire island was warded, so they couldn’t be seen from air or sea—Nico breathed in the salt air. So different from the humid nature of the jungle.
Crouching down on the wide wooden porch, Nico curled his arms around his knees as he stared out to sea. There was a full moon—it would be easy to attribute his restlessness to the Mother Goddess—but Nico knew it was more than that. A ding behind him reminded him of what was really bothering him.
Why doesn’t Ben respond to that noisy device?
It dinged often. Ben had it plugged into a wall socket on the kitchen counter. Even when he was in the bedroom, Nico would wake—tense and anxious—every time it made another noise.
