Then, her gaze fell.
And she began coughing—actively choking on her excess saliva as her mouth watered and her nipples hardened.
Nix and Persius both stood nude in the living room, but droplets of water clung to his smooth, tan skin and snaked down his broad chest and rippling muscles. The droplets licked down his light happy trail and settled onto his cock.
His thick shaft featured ropey veins that called to Nix, silently telling her, “You’ll love tracing me with your tongue. Come. Try it. Try it andcome.”
Nix licked her lips and finally stopped choking on breath.He is hard. Her legs clenched together, and—considering she was naked—her arousal was on complete display as her nipples tightened into little sensitive peaks.
“Please try smelling less horny,” Bael warned Nix. “You’re making Stoney harder than normal.”
Nix did not look back at Thierry. Her gaze was stolen and locked onto Persius. A naked, dripping Persius.
The rosy bulbous tip of his cockhead was plump and flushed as his large, jutting erection strained in a rigid line, pointing right at her.
“You…” Persius murmured when his azure-blue eyes connected with Nix.
Her knees weakened as she stood trembling with emotion. Desire, mourning, excitement, love, and fear.
Fear that Bael was about to think Nix was some sort of Oadess spy.
“Why does she know what you are, Pers?” Bael asked him point-blank.
Persius’s gaze had trickled down Nix’s body, but he paused and looked at Bael. “What?” His voice reminded Nix of sunshine and deep-toned bell chimes.
“Did you tell her what you were?” Bael asked.
Nix pressed her lips together and silently pleaded with Persius to say, “Yes.”
Persius replied, “Of course not. You and Ryker are the only two that know.”
Bael sighed deeply. The incubus appeared right beside Nix, causing her to jump in alarm. Bael pinched her chin and steered her gaze to connect with his. Bael’s red eyes pulsed and burned into hers as he palmed her throat again.
He tsk-tsked her and said, “I don’t like liars, baby.”
And the world went black.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Thierry snapped at Bael as the incubus, wordlessly, ran an unconscious Nix up the stairs to his bedroom and threw her onto the black silk-covered bed. “Did you just knock her out?”
Thierry’s instinct was to steal Nix’s sleeping body from Bael and fly far away.But Bael cares for her too.Thierry’s brows furrowed with anxious uncertainty. Surely, he wouldn’t hurt her…
“Not violently,” Bael replied calmly as he began tying Nix’s limbs to the bed posts, spreading her naked body out like a starfish. “I just told her subconscious that I wanted to play with her. She has a very submissive and horny subconscious.”
Thierry stepped up to Nix’s side and worked to untie the ropes. “You can’t just—”
Bael’s blade flung from his hand and bounced off Thierry’s rock-hard chest. Even though he could not penetrate the gargoyle shifter’s silvery skin, the threat was blatantly clear. “Donotuntie her.”
“Donotthrow knives at me. It could have bounced off me and landed in her.” Did Bael expect Thierry to just sit back and watch whatever was about to occur? “She is my mate,” Thierry growled.
He may not know why she lied to Bael about Persius, but she was Thierry’s fated mate. If she lied, she did so for good reason.
After all, Thierry’s mate was clever. Everything she looked at, she analyzed; Thierry loved watching her do it.Just like me. Though, she was impulsive—unlikehim.
We are the perfect balance. Thierry did not understand why the gods gave her more mates than just him. Ryker was fine, but Bael was a real pain in the ass.
“My mate too,” Ryker rasped from the bedroom door as he and Persius both entered to see what Bael did with her.
Cygnus, female dragon, or phoenix shifter, matehood was unquestionable. It did not matter what she was, only who she was.
