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“Where’s Eden?” he asks after a minute.
“Waiting by the tree for us. She was… hmm, keen this morning.” I lean against the doorframe.
“Well perhaps you should’ve let her be keen in my bed. We agreed I’d get the night of Winterfeast Eve.”
“Do not stress, brother. I think you’ll forget about all of this once you see the gift I have prepared for you.”
“Mmm…” His eyes glint before he disappears into his bathroom to prepare for the day.
Minutes later, he steps out into the hallway dressed in a dark purple outfit with gold detailing. Eden made matching sets for us today, so of course I’m wearing the exact same clothes with an excited grin on my face.
“I see you also have good taste,” I tease Lux.
“The stitching is so well done.” He admires the gold embroidery. “Sometimes I feel like we’re depriving the realm of its most talented seamstress by keeping her here.”
“I dare the realm to steal her back from us,” I taunt. The cities I’d burn…
When Lux steps into the living room I know he feels the same way. His gaze hardens with that possessive glint I’ve come to love over these past few weeks.
“Fuck,” he groans as I turn my smirk to our princess.
Eden is seated with her pretty thighs spread amongst her mountain of gifts. Thick red ribbon ties her wrists up above her head, fastened to a gift box behind her, while more ribbon loops around her waist and her thighs, finishing in a big bow above her sex.
As she smiles, the room around us falls away. “Good morning, Your Highnesses.”
That’s all it takes. When Lux dives for her, I give him a second before I can’t help myself and join him.
“You’re fucking divine,” he murmurs, pushing two fingers into her sex. “And you’re soaked.”
“I couldn’t stop thinking of you both.” She arches her back. “You kept me waiting.”
“Then let me be the first to apologise.” I tilt her chin towards me, capturing her lips with a deep kiss while Lux tastes her nipple. She moans into my mouth, squirming against her ribbon bindings but I’ve tied them too tightly for her to move.
Pulling away from her lips, I growl into her ear, “I bet you were desperate for us, princess.”
“I was,” she moans as Lux slides another finger inside her.
“I bet you couldn’t wait for Lux to come here and find you all wrapped up for him,” I taunt, “or for me to come and help him open his present.”
“I couldn’t…” she breathes.
Lux slides his fingers out to take his turn on her lips, kissing her softly. “Shall I let my brother fuck you first?” His hand rests possessively against her lower belly, his thumb brushing her growing bump. “It’s Winterfeast after all, and I’m feeling generous today.”
“I want you both.” Her toes curl. “Please.”
Lux’s eyes glint like the baubles as he glances my way. “As you wish, little butterfly.”
An hour later, Eden is wrapped in a delicate robe and seated on a chaise while we pass her gifts from a seemingly endless present pile. As always, Lux has outdone himself, gifting her practically an entire wardrobe’s worth of gowns and jewellery.
But I’m not feeling jealous. The golden sunflower necklace I had custom-made with a garnet centre sparkles prettily against her neck, and when she opened the new sewing machine I bought her, her scream was loud enough to make me cover my ears.
“You’ve both bought me too much,” she laughs when I try to hand her another gift box. “Let me give you your gifts now.”
“You have gifts for us?” Lux grins from the present pile.
“It’s those two parcels there.” She points at two beautifully wrapped bundles hidden deep beneath the tree. “I’m sure you can work out whose is whose.”
Lux digs out her gifts. She must’ve placed them under the tree early last night, before Lux and I spent the rest of the night hauling her present mountain in.
