Putting two hands on my chest, she pushed up so she could smile down at me. “Don’t sniff me. I probably smell like old cheese.”
“I love cheese,” I told her solemnly.
She slapped at my chest, but leaned down and kissed me. “You make it hard to keep my hands to myself, Hayle Taeme.”
“You’re only human,” I said with faux-haughtiness.
The mattress beside me dipped, and I looked over at Lierick, who was watching us both with amusement. “I bet Lierick even struggles keeping his hands off me. It’s all this animal magnetism.”
Snorting a rude sound, he lay down beside us. “It takes all my willpower,” he said drolly.
Vox came out at that moment, a towel wrapped around his waist, and the lust in the room spiked so dramatically that I could taste it.
I chuckled. “Yeah, I bet.” I sat up, looking at Vox. “All this yearning is giving me blue balls, and I don’t even want to fuck you.” I shrugged. “No offense.”
Rolling his eyes in my direction, he shook his head. “Surprisingly, my feelings aren’t hurt over you not wanting to fuck me, Taeme.”
I looked back at Avalon and Lierick. “What I’m trying to say is we have bigger problems than trying to ignore the elephant boner in the room.” Avalon snorted a laugh. “Vox, you want to be with Avalon—that much I know—but do you also want to have dirty, sweaty sex with Lierick?”
“It’s not that easy, Hayle.”
“Why?” I asked honestly. “Avalon wants to have dirty, sweaty sex with Lierick too. And Lierick wants to fuck both you and Avalon, to the point that it’s a wonder his cock hasn’t exploded. I’m easy?—”
Avalon’s mock-scandalized gasp echoed around the room. “So the rumors are true? Are you a manwhore, Hayle Taeme?”
“I’m only easy for you, my sweet Soul Tie,” I rumbled, burying my face between her breasts and blowing a raspberry.
Fuck, she had great boobs. I loved them so much.
Hearing Lierick clear his throat, I pulled back reluctantly. “All I’m saying is this little life side-quest would be a whole lot more comfortable if we could all just fuck and get it over with. There’d be less bodily fluids for someone to track through the forest too, if you guys weren’t jerking off in the trees every five minutes because of all your repressed desire.”
It seemed totally logical to me. We’d almost been there when we’d left Eaglehoth.
“We are generational enemies—” Lierick began.
“There’s a fine line between wanting to slit someone’s throat and deep throat their—” My words were interrupted by Avalon slapping a hand over my mouth.
“This isn’t something you can strong-arm into happening, Hayle. You have to let them find their way there themselves,” she murmured against my cheek.
I huffed. “Fine, but I’m going to fuck you until you’re screaming my name, right here in this room, so they can see what they’re missing out on—if they’d just shake those stupid hang-ups that have nothing to do with them as men, and everything to do with the actions of some jealous fucks centuries ago.”
“They murdered my entireLine, Taeme, not stole my date to the Boellium Ball,” Lierick snapped.
I unbuttoned Avalon’s shirt, peeling it from her shoulders. “They did. Buthedidn’t.” I pointed in Vox’s general direction, though I was pretty transfixed by the smooth flesh of Avalon’s torso and losing interest in the conversation by the second. “And he never would. I know that deep in my soul. Avalon knows it. Even his psychopath father knew it; otherwise, he wouldn’t have spent so much of his time trying to flay the goodness from his flesh. You can’t blame him for the sins of his ancestors. But hey, it’s up to you guys. Maybe this is just the world’s most tedious bout of edging. Who am I to judge?”
With that, I sucked Avalon’s bra-covered nipple into my mouth, making her let out a humming moan. She was straddling my waist, and I held her hips as she rubbed her hot little center against the ache of my cock trapped in my pants.
“If you don’t want to join in, go stand by the door or something. This isn’t the tournament. This is a team sport, andthe goal is making Avalon orgasm so many times, she’ll beg us to stop. If you want to spectate, go loiter in the stands.”
Vox grunted as I bared her breasts, letting them thunk happily into my waiting palms. Finally, he dropped his towel and moved toward us, and I smirked. He was as helpless to resist Avie as I was.
She gave me a knowing look, like she knew my game, but was happy to see where it went. I could feel myself smiling like an insane person as Vox lifted her in the air with his magic and dragged her pants down her legs, until she was naked as he was.
Lierick still hadn’t moved from where he lay on the other side of the bed.
I didn’t even protest when Vox used his magic to float her in front of his face, kissing her messily on the lips. “He thinks he’s being sneaky, but I’ve been dying to kiss you all day,” he murmured to Avalon as he found her lips again.
Crawling to my hands and knees, I moved to the end of the bed so I could bury my face in her shining cunt. She moaned into Vox’s mouth. I felt the bed move, but didn’t lift my face from between her thighs. My tongue stroked her sweet little clit, and I felt fingers brushing against my chin like they were going to help me out.
