Page 55 of Essa

I watch in amazement, much like I did last night. Seth pleasures Adam with his tongue, licking from root to tip, his lips wrapping around the ruddy head before it disappears into his mouth. Nothing is better than the sweet way his eyelids grow heavy as he sucks.

Adam doesn't let me admire our shared male for long before he grabs my arm, the closest part of me to him, and drags me closer to him so he can press our lips together.

"One day, I want you both sucking my cock," he tells me as he swipes his tongue over the tip of one of my fangs. Not much venom drips from them since my reserves are so low, but there's enough to blow out his pupils. There's only enough to make him docile if I sink my teeth into his skin.

"Not today," I tell him.

He kisses me more angrily, teeth scraping, tongue forcing its way into my mouth. It's a fight with us, but it won't be for much longer. When he bites my lower lip, I wrap a hand around his neck and pin him to the bed. He doesn't like that, but he'll like this next part enough to make up for it.

"Do you want to be my good boy when we fuck for the first time?"

Adam's fight dies out, his whole body stilling for one glorious second as my words catch him off guard, then he's back to lips pulling back in a snarl, nostrils flaring in anger. He's too easy to read now, but Seth helps me out all the same.

"He wants it, but good luck getting him to say it out loud when he's like this."

Adam wraps a hand behind Seth's head and forces him down on his cock until he's gagging and choking, though the smile on Seth's face is evident even if there are tears in his eyes.

I keep Adam pressed to the bed by his throat even as he tries to wriggle out of my hold. Between my hand on his neck and Seth's mouth on his cock, we have him trapped, and I'm sure he doesn't like that.

Well, he probably loves it, but no one except for Seth gets to know that, and it's only because he's in Adam's mind. Somewhere, I'm unsure if I want to be in because I could imagine not much getting done in the real world if all three of us were in one another's minds.

"You know the rules. I only bite males who ask for it or ones whotryto attack me." I emphasize the word try because it makes Adam's nostrils flare again.

He can pretend all he wants to be offended, but he likes that I'm stronger than him, likes that I can protect him. I can offer him a safe place to submit because as scary and as powerful as he is, he wants someone else to take care of him. He wants to be my sweet, submissive male.

When I release his neck, it's no surprise to me when he lunges as much as he can using anger and his abdominals. He bares his teeth at me, getting close enough to my neck that he grazes the skin with his teeth as though he'd actually bite me.

Before I decide if I ever want him to bite me or not, I force him back to the bed and dig my fangs into the same spot I've bitten him every time before. Some Haventh, who enjoy the act,also enjoy marking their partners up all over, but I don't do this for the thrill of biting or marking and claiming. I do this because I have to. No other reason, and I don't need to add to Adam's scars. He doesn't like them, and I won't add to that, even if these scars are added with consent.

There's not much venom in my fangs, so he'll be back to feeling like himself in no time, which also means there's no more playing around with him now that I've gotten my prey nice and relaxed in bed.

The relieved whimper that escapes Adam's lips is punctuated by his hand slipping from Seth's head and falling limp to the bed. Now that he's not being forced down, Seth pulls his mouth off Adam's length and begins to tease it more than anything with soft strokes of his tongue and kisses pressed against it.

"So sweet for us," I tell Adam, making sure he knows that in this state he's always safe with us.

It would be easy to break his trust if we were to make light of his submission. So I stroke my fingers over his hair as pink blooms in his cheeks and soft, sweet little whimpers pull from his throat.

"You're going to be so good for us, aren't you?"

Adam attempts to nod, and it's good enough for me. The venom in his system makes him sluggish and relaxed. He's still in there, though, and he's willing. I'm trusting Seth to let me know if anything changes. Based on the males' devotion to one another, I can't imagine him letting me do something one of them doesn't like.

"I've never done this with multiple partners," I tell Seth as I look down the length of Adam's body to decide how we're to do this.

"We have," Seth says, and I can't help how I rear back at that.

I'm not upset at them, but I'm more than a little jealous that they've had this experience with others. I don't like it, and it'sevident on my face. Seth has to avert his eyes, but he distracts himself from the fear I'm probably pulling out of him by kissing a trail from the head of Adam's cock down to his balls.

"Only you from now on, Essa, promise."

My heart does a little flutter at those words, and I do my best to ignore the jealousy, trying to rear its ugly head. I'm not innocent, either. I've slept with my fair share of males. Well, enough to know what I do and do not enjoy in the bedroom.

Jovi and Alik were sometimes even kind enough to let Phial or me have a pleasure crew on the ship between jobs, not that we'll ever need a pleasure crew again. Jovi and Alik have their mate, Phial and Avery are, well, whatever Phial and Avery are, and I now have two concubines. And, yes, yes, Holoth is on Rythar, starting a family with K'Vella.

"Okay, well, how should we share our male then?" I ask Seth, moving to kneel closer to him so I can watch his lips press into Adam's skin.

I'd very much like to watch them lie with one another at some point, though I have a feeling Adam's the one in charge of those couplings.

Seth clears his throat, eyes peeking up at me through pale lashes. "Adam's normally not the filling in that sandwich."

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