Page 58 of Essa

I open my mouth to say… I don't know what. It snaps closed as I work hard to swallow. Seth begins to nudge further inside of me, the pressure deliberate to make sure I know he's there without breaching the outer ring and offering me satisfaction.

"Say it, Adam," Seth growls in my ear as he folds himself over me so we're both above Essa.

He can see her wide, unsure eyes just as easily as I can, and it's clear now that either I say something or she's going to think the worst possible conclusion.

"I love you," I choke out as a little whimper. It's turned into more of a cry of pleasure when Seth takes firm hold of my hips and forces himself deep inside me. He makes sure he's fully seated before releasing my hips and bucking into me, forcing me inside Essa and into absolute bliss.

Warm, wet, wriggling somehow. We looked into Essa's anatomy when we realized we wanted to be with her. Haventh females have tentacles, for lack of a better word, inside their pussies to help milk their partners of their sperm. Seeing as Seth and I don't need to be milked, it's just added pleasure as they pull and suck and twist.

"Fuck, fuck," I whimper over and over again as I try futilely to hold myself back from blowing so soon after being inside her.

Seth isn't going easy on my ass, either. His thrusts are hard and powerful, making me thrust in and out of Essa in tandem with him.

"You take my cock so well," Seth groans in my ear, punctuating the words with a hard thrust. "Our girl is so pretty when she's getting fucked, isn't she?"

"Fuck, yes," I whine, trying to keep myself level enough to keep going.

Essa stares up at the both of us, her pupils still huge, her fangs biting down into her lower lip, her fingers pressing hard into my shoulder with one hand, the other snaked between us so she can rub herself in the way that's going to have her chasing her orgasm with me.

"How does she feel?" Seth asks from behind me. "Is she everything you ever wanted?"

"Yes," I manage to get out through clenched teeth. I'm not lasting more than a few more seconds, and that'll be if I'm lucky.

"Say it again," Essa's voice isn't as commanding as Seth's, which is a surprise until I realize what she's asking me for. Sweet female, when I'm like this, how am I to deny her what she wants?

"I love you."

This time, it's not as forced or strangled. I fall onto my forearms, my nose close to hers as Seth keeps up his pace, his hand wrapping around the back of my neck to give him more leverage now that the angle's changed.

"I love you so much."

Essa's breath catches in her throat, her eyes flutter closed, and when the tendrils inside of her begin to rhythmically tense and pull at me, I press my lips to hers, kissing her, devouring her moans as she does the same to mine.

Seth isn't far behind us in finding his pleasure, his cock spilling inside me before I've fully come down from the high of my release. He lowers himself over my back when he finishes, all of us as close to one another as we can be without me letting my weight fall entirely on Essa. We stay like that for a while, our bodies connected, our heartbeats syncing.

Seth is the first to pull away, his cock softening as he steps back. He's gone for a moment, bringing a washcloth and some water over to the bed. He cleans me up first, and when he urges me to back away from Essa, her tentacles reluctantly release their grip on my softened cock. He cleans between her legs as well, and she watches him with admiration.

She spears her fingers through his red curls, tightening her hold on him when he tries to get up. "I would like to hear you say it as well."

Seth gives her that smile of his that I love so much where both of his dimples are visible. "Essa, of course, I love you. Anyone who doesn't is an idiot."

I crawl up against Essa, snuggling her as much as I can while the venom is still in my system. She wraps her arms around me, finally releases Seth from between her legs, and lets her body relax against the bed.

"Come lie with me," she tells Seth as he retreats into the bathroom. "I want both of my males for a moment until we need to get on with our day."

Seth finishes up in the bathroom and then follows her command. "You can have us any time you want, Essa. We're yours now."

"And I am yours," she tells him, reverence and joy in her words as she says them.

twenty-four

Seth

Iddis is waiting for Adam and me in the same dining room we've eaten at the last couple of meals. It's the only place we have any chance of navigating to in this enormous palace anyway. We stay in the room most of the time, but it's not like Adam and I want to go anywhere else, especially not without our female.

Essa left the bedroom with her sister and, at the same time, sent us on our way to meet with Iddis. She also told us about fifty times that if we needed anything, we could reach her on the comm.

We won't need her, everything will be fine. Now that we all know Iddis has no interest in her. We can all act cordially with one another. I mean, the man's going to basically be our brother.

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