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She plastered on a smile while coyly batting her lashes at two beefy mages who passed by.We’re waiting until the mind spinner is defeated. The hold he has on Malvolia’s mind is too dangerous.

“So you know?” I looked into her eyes and saw a wisdom beyond her years reflecting back at me.

From what I’ve seen of the future, I can glean his past atrocities.

“And?”

She sipped her wine, leering at me from over the rim of her goblet.And I’ve been planting seeds in Malvolia’s mind ever since, and I will continue to do so, as I’m sure you’ve been doing.

“What have you seen?”

Two splotches of color appeared beneath the white powder on her cheeks as she clutched the stem of her goblet.We do not voice what we see, for we fear it will not come to pass.

She handed her goblet to a passing servant, and I followed suit. “Can you tell me anything?” I whispered as she took my arm, walking me back toward my mates.

Trust in your heart and in your bonds. Do not act out of fear, but out of love.

I couldn’t describe the relief that turned my knees to jelly, for I knew she was telling me to react to my sister out of love, not fear—to trust in her, which meant I wouldn’t be forced to kill her when we met on the battlefield. Hopefully.

“Thank you, Lady Veronica,” I said as she left me with Drae and Blaze. I dared not look into my mates’ eyes yet, for I had a dark, foreboding feeling like spiders were crawling through my bones, and I knew Malvolia was staring at us.

“Of course. I must leave you with your mates now. I’m meeting my new lovers soon.” She fanned her face with a giggle. “Since most of the court has left, I’ve been reduced to sleeping with prison guards. Had I known they were such brutish lovers, I would’ve given them a turn ages ago.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. Had we found ourselves in different circumstances, I realized we could’ve been good friends. She flashed a devious grin, her gaze lingering overly long on Drae as his cheeks reddened before she sauntered away.

SUPPER WAS UNBEARABLE. Malvolia refused to speak to anyone as she glared at the empty seats over her wine goblet. Like before, I picked at my bread and stirred my soup, but I didn’t eat a bite, even though the food smelled heavenly. We couldn’t escape my aunt’s scowling face fast enough. After supper, I relayed to my mates my conversation with Lady Veronica, and they agreed it sounded as if I wouldn’t have to kill Tari. I was relieved they confirmed it, but I wouldn’t be able to breathe easy until after my twin and I finally reunited. If we ever reunited. Hopefully soon, and hopefully not in the middle of a war.

The girls were barely holding their eyes open when we returned, and I was grateful to Nikkos for keeping them awake long enough for me to read a picture book to them and put them to bed. My lips lingered on their foreheads overly long as I kissed them, and a shudder coursed through me when I thought of Malvolia using her choking magic on them to manipulate me. If she dared try, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill the bitch.

Mental and physical fatigue weighed down my eyes as Blaze flew me up to bed, accompanied by Nikkos. I looked for Drae, who was still in the bathing room, but then I was distracted by Nikkos’s kisses. As exhausted as I was, I needed their strength and their love, so when Nikkos and Blaze undressed me, I let them devour me, stealing greedy kisses and erotic caresses.

When Blaze licked his lips and spread my legs, a hungry look in his eyes, I fell back with a groan, gushing into his mouth while he feasted on me, alternating between sucking on my swollen cleft and lapping up my juices. He flashed a wicked grin as his thick finger tunneled into me, jarring against my swollen flesh with deft strokes, while Nikkos pinched and sucked my nipples.I couldn’t hold back the flood as my orgasm shook me to the very marrow of my bones. Shuddering, I fell apart in their arms until they stirred to life my desire with more tender strokes and kisses.

I was eager to return the favor to Blaze, so I crawled over to him and took him in my mouth, slurping up and down his thick cock while Nikkos mounted me from behind. Blaze’s eyes swirled with smoke and lust as he leaned back against the pillow, his wings fanned out behind him while he watched me devour him. Nikkos tried to go slowly at first, but I didn’t need tender passion tonight. I jarred against him until he got the hint and started slamming into my sweet spot with brutal thrusts, the bed rocking beneath us. When I lost myself to the bruising pleasure, Blaze thrust his hips before growling out a warning. I greedily swallowed his seed when he stilled with a groan, continuing to swirl my tongue around his sensitive flesh while focusing on my own release as Nikkos pounded me harder. Just as the orgasm overtook me, holding every nerve ending in my body captive to the thrumming drum deep inside, Nikkos stilled with a grunt, spurting his seed into me.

We collapsed in a tangle of limbs before our desire stirred to life once more. Nikkos and Blaze switched places, and I sucked Nikkos while Blaze latched onto me from behind. I put all my focus into pleasuring Nikkos until he flooded my mouth. I drank him down and then held him in my mouth, his seed bitter on my tongue, though I didn’t mind. Blaze awakened new desires when he swirled wet fingers around my puckered anus, and when he dipped a finger inside, stars exploded behind my eyes, the orgasm so intense I feared I’d combust. He stilled with a groan, and this time when we fell onto the bed, our sweat-drenched bodies were fully sated.

Renewed magic surged through my veins, and I inwardly smiled, my eyes falling shut while my mates tenderly strokedand kissed me. Then my eyes shot open when I heard a rustle of wings.

I looked at Drae kneeling at the edge of the bed.Save any strength for me?

I held my arms up to him.Always.

I expected Drae to make love to me in the bed, but he had other ideas as he flew me to the bathing room. I sighed in relief, my weary bones turning to jelly when he laid me in the steaming tub. I cleaned between my legs with a sponge, wincing at the soreness there, though the pleasure had been worth it. Drae handed me a goblet of wine, and I swished it around in my mouth before drinking it down. Drae refilled my goblet, and I drank until I no longer tasted Nikkos and Blaze. After drinking two goblets with Lady Veronica earlier this evening, I was already lightheaded, but my head was swimming by the time Drae climbed into the tub opposite me. Flames of desire swirled in his eyes as he leaned back and stroked his thick cock, his wings draped over the side of the tub. I gravitated toward him, climbing into his lap and draping my arms around his broad shoulders. I melted in his arms when he grabbed the back of my head, capturing my lips in a bruising kiss. He reached between us, deftly stroking me with thick fingers, stirring my desire to life once more. Straddling his hips, I slowly slid onto his thick length, his tongue swirling in my mouth while I slid all the way down until I was fully impaled by his gloriously large erection. A groan tore through me when we began to move against each other, slowly at first, but our passion couldn’t be contained for long. Digging my fingers into his shoulders, I rode him hard, our bodies slamming together as water splashed around us.

Our lovemaking wasn’t a tender dance filled with sweet promises. It was a frantic joining of desperate souls clinging to each other through the storm while a tempest raged around us.

Oh, Drae,I cried out in his mind, clawing at his shoulders while his feathers tickled my arms.I won’t be able to hold on much longer.

Our tongues sparred as he growled into my mouth.Then surrender to me, my darling.

And so I let go, a ship tossed about in passion’s gale. I surrendered to his strength as he brutally claimed me, his wings wrapped around us as he thrust deep and hard. The breath was stolen from my lungs when a cataclysmic orgasm claimed me, my sheath expanding and pulsing, milking him into me as he stilled with a groan.

Drae was far from finished. He made love to me by the hearth in our bedchamber. Wrapped up in warm furs and blankets, I surrendered my body to him as he claimed me again and again. When fatigue finally overtook us, he flew me to bed and I clung to him, my bones weary, my eyes heavy with sleep, but my heart filled with love.

Right before I nodded off to sleep, I heard Marius’s voice echo through my skull.Flora, Derrick. I don’t know if you can hear me, but I held our daughter today. For years I’ve prayed for death. Now I have a reason to live.

Chapter Twenty-Four

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