“I need you to fall with me,” Kai begged, voice ragged as he tried to hold on.
A familiar, cool strand of magick squeezed between us and made its way down my back. I knew what he was about to do but there was no preparing for it. Kai was an ass man, and as I was coming to find out, I was more than okay with the benefits of that. The blunt shadow brushed between my cheeks, pressing, pressing…
The tightness in my core snapped and together we fell over the edge, our voices crying out in one sound. Something happened between us. Somewhere between one breath and the next; a bridge opened in my mind, and waiting at the other end, was Kai. He wasn’tphysicallythere, of course, but it was him. All of him. His emotions and dreams—his thoughts.
I knew all my crazy had to be screaming at him from my side as well, but it didn’t seem to bother him. His warm breath bathed the back of my neck as he caught his breath. Arms still clasped around me, cock softening inside me…I’d never felt more at peace.
You are so fucking beautiful.
My eyes widened as the echo of his voice lingered in my mind.
Kai?
His chuckle vibrated my back.
Surprise.
I laughed, and it jostled him, still half hard inside me. Wincing at the movement of now tender muscles, I wiggled totry and get comfortable again. My legs had absolutely no feeling, so me and those abused muscles were stuck here for a moment.
Did I hurt you?
His concern made me smile…and it was an unexpected turn-on. Well then, I didn’t think I’d have to do much convincing to get my body up and awake for round two.
Can we do that again?
Blatant male satisfaction blasted down the bridge as Kai ground against my ass.
Maybe give me a second to catch my breath and turn the bass down in my head,I teased.
I might die if my heart didn’t slow down and calm itself. That pounding I heard hadn’t gone away. It was worse.
That isn’t you.
“Ezra, stop fucking banging on my door!” Kai shouted over his shoulder. “We’re obviously a little busy in here!”
Oh. Maybe that wasn’t my pulse racing in my ears then. Honest mistake.
The bedroom door burst open with a fling of splintered wood, and then Ezra was there, standing only a foot away. He didn’t appear to care that we were both buck-ass naked and connected by a cock, but I still dropped over the other side of the bed to hide all my personal bits. His distorted shape was clear over the mattress, moving back and forth in an agitated dance, and there was something white in his hand.
“You better have a good fucking reason to—”
Ezra frantically waved a piece of paper in the air. “She’s gone! They took her!”
twenty-seven
Kaiden
I pushed my cousin out so that Eryn could run into the bathroom. I then grabbed my towel from the floor and cinched it around my waist before letting one very rude, very soon-to-be homeless witch, back inside. I hadn’t even had time to process what just happened. One second Eryn was squirming in my arms, an absolute fucking dream, and now I was here, half-naked, trying to calm a panicked Ezra.
He was losing it. Incoherent and ranting about not understanding how it happened. Howwhathappened? I still wasn’t sure what was on that paper he clutched either.
“Ez, Ezra! Calm down, man.” I forced my legs into a pair of pants and tracked him as he paced near the door.
The mirror on my dresser took that moment to also make itself known and began to vibrate. The edges of the black cloth covering it waved but it didn’t fall. Fuck, did no one want me to enjoy my bonding? It finally fucking happened, and we couldn’t even bask. Or do it fifty more times.
“They took her,” he said again, desperate.
“Who?” I asked, ignoring the mirror. Whoever it was could call back. “They took who?”
