Page 86 of Mantle

“Absolutely! That is happening!” He rolled around and did a little flip on us so he was on his stomach and facing me now, his head propped up on his hand. “I was actually going to suggest we have Ariana create a permanent, perpetual heating spell throughout the building and the immediate area so that you’re never cold, seeing as though you hate it so much.”

“Aww,” Ariana cried. “That’s so sweet.” She reached out and stroked his hair.

“Thank you, Luscious,” I said, giving his shoulder a squeeze.

“I’m gonna bring my lab over,” Kai spoke.

“Like magically move the entire thing?” Nyx asked.

“Yeah.”

“You love that cave aesthetic, baby,” Ariana said, grinning at him.

“Why not add in a sex dungeon then. I actually figured that was what you were going to suggest—fits with the cave thing and your dirtiness and hardcore nature. Whips, chains, ball gags.”

“I think you’re the one aiming for that, V. As for the gags… definitely not. You know I live for the sexy moans and groans from all of you, your cries of ecstasy.” He trailed his fingers down Ariana’s arm that was bare because she was just in her lacy black tank, her jacket discarded over by the curtain door. “Especially your sexy little pleas.Ungh, Kai… more. Please. Fuck my ass… dirty me up like the slut that I am for you.”

She laughed and slapped his fingers off her. “Hey! You made half of that up.”

“It doesn’t have to be made up,” he said, his eyes flashing in erotic challenge.

“That’s it,” Ariana announced.

In the next second, she was pouncing on Kai and slamming him down beneath her.

“Fuck, yeah, sweetheart,” he choked. “Grind that sweet Celestial cunt all fucking over me. Own the shit out of me. I’m ready, willing, and beyond able.”

Motherfucker, he was in for it now.

Nyx burst out laughing, while somersaulting to his feet and hastily stripping his shirt off.

I pushed to my feet also, heat and rapidly escalating need pulsing through my veins.

This was how we did it.

And it was everything.

16

~Ariana~

I staggered slightly as I landed just outside the Maven Academy ward, my wings folding behind me in a sweep of gold and white light.

Upset and frustration was taking me over.

We still hadn’t found Ketheron.

I’d just come back from working with Cassius.

Following our training, which was taking a lot out of me, because we were going extremely hardcore and fast-paced with it, we’d headed out to one of the sites where Ketheron was possibly being held.

Unfortunately, that had been Silverwood Wolf Pack lands.

It was now a mass burial ground.

Nothing at all left of my dad’s former pack but bones and ash.

Draco had committed that massacre a couple of decades back when he’d risen.

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