“I was just thinking of how delicious she is.” Gage shrugged.
“Then it's responding to our unspoken desires,” Gideon said.
“You know what this means?” Gage asked me.
“What?”
“It's only going to get better and better between us.”
“I already knew that.”
He chuckled and moved to his knees. “So cocky. Maybe I should give you a cock to go with that attitude.”
I frowned at him.
“What the hell was that?” Garret asked.
Gage winced. “I don't know. I was trying to be sexy. It just came out.”
We looked at each other, lips twitching, then all four of us burst out laughing.
When the laughter died down, Gage asked, “Are we trying too hard?”
“I don't think you can try too hard,” I said. “I love the creativity.”
“Food with sex isn't all that creative,” Garret drawled. “We're working up to the really kinky stuff.”
“Ooooh,” I said and sat up. “Like what?”
“Easy now, tiger,” Gideon said. “If you jump into the deep end, you miss the swim across the pool.”
“And you could drown,” Gage added.
The rest of us gave him horrified looks.
“Maybe you should not speak,” Garret said. “Like, at all.”
“Fuck you.”
“That was pretty bad,” I said.
“You totally ruined my proverb,” Gideon said.
“That wasn't a proverb. You just made it up.”
“It sounded like a proverb. I could start a trend.”
“With who? Your vast amount of followers on Instagram?”
I leaned back and watched my boys banter, a smile coming to my face. It didn't take them long to realize they'd left me hanging. A few seconds into the silliness, they let it go and refocused on me. But first, they put the tray on the floor. As much as I was looking forward to getting kinky with them, we didn't need it. It was enough for us to be together. To feel them sliding against me. To watch them kiss me everywhere. And then, at last, to experience that sublime physical connection. All at once or singly, it didn't matter to me. Each act was thrilling. Every moment magical.
As Gage moved inside me, his big body bowed over mine, Gideon slid beneath me and worked into my other entrance. I moaned and turned to look at Garret. With a smirk, he offered me the long, hard piece of flesh that no other woman would touch ever again. Happy in that knowledge, I sucked him into my mouth and hummed.
Paradise. And like a true paradise, it was eternal. My mates had transformed me, changing me from a sad shell of awoman into the person I was meant to be. She'd been inside me all along, but it had taken three men—three magical hounds—to bring her to the surface. And with them beside me, I would never lose myself again.
Epilogue
Once again, Hades found himself standing at the Cauldron of Fate. It wasn't a cauldron at all, but a bubbling pool. Still, the name suited the small, circular body of water. In it, time could move forward and back, giving the viewer a preview of what was to come or a closer look at what had already passed.
