Page 36 of Taken By the Twins

FOREVER

DAMIEN

For nearly three millennia, I clung to the essence that Lucian fed me through our bond so that I didn’t disappoint my brother. But as I found completion inside of my perfect mate—ourperfect mate—it isn’t only my side that I share with her.

Releasing a breath as I fold her up in my arms, my cock still buried deep inside of her, I let go of Lucian’s essence while transferring my grip to Tandy’s.

It was purely instinctive. All demon males want nothing more than to perform the essence exchange. Taking that which your female offers you, giving her everything you are, everything you were, everything you will ever be… it’s what we are made to do, and why the essence exchange is essential in finalizing a mate bond.

I still must give her the mate’s promise while pinning her between my twin and I. Though I whispered it to Tandy while I mated her just now, it won’t actually complete our three-way bond until Lucian is with us.

He’s already blessed her with his essence. I’d suspected as much when the essence I held onto all these years seems to slip away without warning. I’d spent some, traveling to the human world to confront Tandy’s former mate, but we are the doppelseers. We are powerful. We are bonded. If I used the essence and Lucian insisted on my return to Sombra, he would’ve passed me more.

But he couldn’t. Not if he already gave everything he had left to Tandy during their mating.

I was content to slip away into the shadows and into madness. Once the tiny spark of essence I had left disappeared, so would I. But then my feisty human mate gave me a reason to continue my existence, and perhaps it makes me as selfish as I’ve long believed I am, but now she has essence given to her from both of her males.

I knew the moment she received it. Tandy gasped, both her eyes and her mouth going wide, and for a moment, they lit up before her lids shuttered close briefly. At the same time, she squeezed my length as her cunt pulsed around me.

As much as I didn’t want to withdraw from her snug body, the way she squeezed me left me unable to do anything but explode. At least, that’s what it felt like. I’ve rubbed my cock until it released seed countless times over the years, but now that it was being to our mate at last?

I was unprepared for how amazing it felt, and as I lift her off of my spent cock, lowering her to her feet, I can’t wait until I can claim her again.

But when I do? It will be with Lucian.

Tandy holds up her hand. “Give me a second. My legs are a little weak. Once I get the feeling in them back, we can go. Lucian’s waiting for us. He sees you’re okay, that I finally got to mate you, and I’d put coin down that he’ll be ready for another round almost immediately.”

She leans against me. “Is this alright?”

It’sperfect.

My heart swells almost as much as my cock is prepared to do. Our dear Tandy… she’s using my essence instinctively, isn’t she? I didn’t say out loud that I wanted to return to Lucian so that we can give her the mate’s promise, but sheknew. Just like, courtesy of my essence, she now can speak Sombran…

I allow our mate to lean against me as long as she likes. Through our new bond, I also give her some of my strength. I’d offer to carry her if I didn’t think her pride would have her refusing me, and when she says she’s ready to go back to the cabin after mere moments, I nod and follow close behind her as she sets off.

This section of the shadows had emptied once I made my claim on my former mortal known. The smaller prey beasts might’ve been curious, but they know better than to go up against a male demon. As for any of the lost fully demonic creatures that lurk in its depths… I have our female to protect. They would never best me to get to our Tandy.

Tandy leads the way. After a few steps, though, she pauses and I can sense her sudden curiosity.

“Hang on. How do I know the way back?”

I stroke my hand down as much of her back as I can reach. “Because I do, dear one.”

She turns, raises the tiny strips of hair over her eyes. “Oh? You mate me and now I’m your ‘dear one’, too?”

Precisely. I’m so glad she understands. “You drip my seed, Tandy. That tells all of Sombra that you are now my mate as well.Ourmate. You are both Lucian’s and mine, and you are dear to us both.”

Tandy shrugs. “Okay. Never thought I’d be ‘One’ again, but I like it.” She nuzzles against my shadows, sending a renewed jolt of pleasure through me. In all my years, I never knew myshadows were as sensitive as they are, but though I can’t wait to take our mate in my demon form, I will definitely remember that. “Even if you kinda of lose sweet confection additions when you remind me I’m leaking arrival.”

Now that Tandy has both of our essence, she’s effortlessly speaking in Sombran, though I’m not so sure she’s figured that out yet; that, or how she can navigate the woods became my memories are aiding her in doing so. I have, however, and it amuses me how her thoughts in English translate to my language.

She said something about ‘brow-knee points’ and leaking ‘arrival’, though I don’t quite understand what she means by that.

So I ask. “Arrival?”

Tandy makes the most adorable face. “Arrival? What? No. I said ‘arrival’. You know.” She changes the pronunciation just enough that, now, it sounds harsher, like, “‘Kum’?” She gestures under her dress. “Seed?”

Ah, yes. She knows I have marked her well.

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