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“You can’t run from us, princess,” Castor teases. “There’s no point.”

Lux strokes the side of my face. “He’s right. You know I’ll always come after you.” His voice is deeper than normal. Possessive. “You may as well just accept the bond now, sweetheart. Save yourself any pain. I’ll never let you go.”

I scrunch my eyes shut as a wave of warmth crashes over me.

I don’t really want this. I don’t! Even if my body is screaming to let Lux do exactly what he did in my bedchamber this morning over and over again.

“Castor hasn’t had a go yet.” The words shoot out of me.

Lux’s gaze narrows. “What do you mean?” I don’t miss the jealousy in his tone. Good. He needs to be jealous for me to have a chance of this working.

“The mallowberry toasting,” I rasp. “He hasn’t had a go yet. It’s not fair.”

Lux chuckles. “I didn’t realise you were enjoying this game so much.”

“I’m not.” I hug my cloak. “But Castor should have a turn. It’s only fair.”

Even if he doesn’t burn his own mallow, at least then I might get to try a toasted one. Earlier in the game, it was hard to stop my mouth watering when a few of the other guests sandwiched their perfectly toasted mallowberries between biscuits and chunks of chocolate. It looked divine.

Seriously Eden?

I can’t believe I’m thinking about food while trapped between two faerie men who are probably just as hungry but in a very different way! If my sisters heard about this, I’d never hear the end of it.

“How thoughtful of you to think of me.” Castor rises from the bale. There’s no one else around the fire now, and the musicians have started to play lively music for the dance floor.

Sliding a mallow onto a stick, he hovers it over the flames. But after shooting me a smirk, the mallowberry burns and drops into the fire. “Oops.” He grins, dropping the stick in too. Crossing his arms, he turns back at me. “What are my dares, little princess?”

I feel Lux’s gaze on me as I reply. “One, take me back to my sisters.”

The princes chuckle.

“Two,” I wet my lips with my tongue, “fuck me in front of your brother.”

The laughter dies immediately.

“Eden,” Lux growls.

“Those are your dares.” I stand up with clenched fists. “And you have to pick one! Those are the rules.”

Castor’s smirk returns as he steps towards me.

“Don’t you dare,” Lux snarls, but his brother just winks at him.

“You’re forgetting, dear brother, that there are ways to fuck a girl without touching her pussy.” His hand wraps around my wrist while my stomach drops. “Come with us,” he says to him. “I’ll let you choose how we do it. She’s still yours, Lux.”

Lux’s jaw tenses, but then he takes my other wrist before I can argue. “My bedchamber,” he says huskily. “We do it there.”

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LUX

Eden, of course, does not like the sound of our plan. “Let go of me,” she rages, but I can smell the sweet arousal between her thighs. She wants this just as much as we do.

“This dare was your idea, sweetheart,” I remind her while whisking us through the manor. Castor has hold of her other wrist, watching her with a heated gaze that I know all too well.

I don’t know if I’m ready to share her yet, but if Eden wants us both now, then who am I to tell her no? She knows my brother and I share everything. And as long as she remembers who her heart truly belongs to, she can play with him while I watch.

“Lux, just wait a minute,” she cries as I push her through the door of my bedchamber.