Ezra mentally fist-pumped, and my heart fluttered. “Yes, Quinn. It’s more than okay.”
She bit her bottom lip and squirmed before freezing in place. “Wait. Hold up. Alex created that hospital room for me while Iwas still inside the Lawson compound. I was still in it when you moved me to your castle. That was way more miles than, what are we, like a mile and a half away from the castle? There was no way Alex stayed close to me that entire time.”
I inclined my head before brushing the collar fused on her neck. “The two of you have a bridge.”
Instead of accepting my explanation, she peered at me and brushed the collar above Alex’s. “And the four of you are keyed to my new collar.”
“Don’t you even think about using your Majekah on it.” I leaned toward her.
She waved her arms. “No. That seems rather permanent. I like um.” She bit her lips together. “Look, can you make a room like Alex’s and then bring everyone into it so we can talk about this?” She bit her lower lip. “I’m not from here. Sharing more than one lover is not really socially accepted in my time.” A tear slipped down her cheek. “But, you and Ezra are perfect, and Rowan and Cayden are getting along so well… I don’t want to be my Majekah and destroy everything.”
I flapped Ezra’s jaw a few times, making Quinn giggle. “I didn’t know the muscles on Ezra’s face could do that.”
Ezra growled in the background.
“You are not your Majekah.” I finally found words. “And yes, you’re right, we all should talk. Ezra and I have failed at that enough times. I think your request is reasonable.” But, I ran my fingers through my hair, thinking. “That’s not how the collars work. Alex’s collar is dysfunctional. Magic is going out instead of in. I can’t replicate that. That’s not how mental magic works.”
My thoughts kept churning.
“But,” Quinn said, over-enunciating the ‘t.’
“Rowan’s tether to you was born of pure need. The energy of the world manifested it, which hasn’t been seen in fifty years. It’s different.” I took a deep breath. “I don’t understand Rowan andCayden’s link, but it similarly formed around you.” I kissed her again. “Even I was unnaturally drawn to your magic during my trials. Tethering you was effortless.” I frowned. “I don’t think the collar will help us, but give me a few hours?”
Quinn clasped her hands together as if in prayer, which also squished her breasts together in her low V-neck sweater, which I currently had the perfect view down. It was one of the single most erotic things I’d ever seen in my life, and I seared it into my memory.
“I will wait, Knowledge Daddy.” Quinn twirled a strand of crystal hair.
I didn’t know if it was my dick, Ezra’s, or both that stiffened, but I had to leave before I badly abused my lover’s trust and used his body to make all my dreams come true.
“That fucking name,” I growled before high-tailing it back to myself.
To my surprise, I came to with my unstabbed body in one piece, though my hand dangled in a bowl of warm water. Rowan and Cayden were cooking away with the door propped open.
“Um,” I said, sitting up and taking my fingers out of the bowl.
“Did you wet yourself?” Cayden asked.
I looked down at my dry pants. “That would be a negative.”
“Doesn’t work,” Cayden snapped.
“Told you, it didn’t.” Rowan laughed. “I’ve got three brothers; we tried everything to make each other piss the bed. You’ll have to get more creative.”
Cayden scowled.
Before I could stop myself, I pushed the last image of Quinn into both their minds.
Rowan stopped stirring, and Cayden dropped his wine glass, sending it crashing to the floor.
“Quinn asked me for something I don’t yet know how to do. Get to a stopping point and assemble in the Alun, now.”
Chapter 28
Quinn
ThemomentIknewI didn’t want to be somewhere, I really didn’t want to be there. The Westwaters had done nothing wrong. I chose to come with Ravana, and I stood by it. But when Xan said the trio was having dinner together, it hurt. Our relationship was still finding its footing, and I was missing its first steps. For the first time in my life, I could choose—not from necessity, but because it’s what I truly wanted.
I wasn’t crazy, dying, or running. I just… wanted.
