Page 43 of Forged Bonds

“Tell Shan how you’re feeling, sweetheart. You know what he’ll do.”

My eyebrows drew together. “Lecture me? That’s why I told you instead of him, to avoid the lecture.”

Em chuckled. “No, he’ll boss you around. It’ll be a good outlet for him right now, and you tend to listen to him. You like being a good boy for Daddy.”

There was a hint of teasing in his tone, and I flushed. My cock hardened against his hip at the memory of the last time Shan had gotten rough with me. We hadn’t been doing anything too kinky, not when we were all sneaking moments while Em was out in the living room.

He was right, though. Once Shan caught wind of how much I was struggling, he’d go into full control freak mode. He would practically hand feed me and sing me lullabies. Usually it was stifling when he got into that mood, but in this case it would be helpful. Why did Em always have the fucking answers? It was so unfair.

“You’re a genius, you know that?”

I sat up, straddling his hips. It only took a few moments of rubbing our cocks together before he was ready to go again, and I had the head of his cock pressed to my hole.

Unfortunately, the door to the utility room flung open, revealing Shan and Nolan on the other side.

I gasped and Em was quick to sit up, shielding me from prying eyes. Not that the view of my naked body was new to either of them. Nolan was even politely averting his eyes, while Shan’s gaze ran over me with need and a bit of regret. “Sorry, love,” Shan said after the minor scramble. “We’ve got news. We just missed Kylan, but there’s surveillance video to watch. Freya is meeting us in Nolan’s office.”

It was tempting to pout about how I would have to leave my hard cock unattended, but this was what we’d been waiting for.

Elusive information on Kylan.

Sex could wait.

TWELVE

Freya

Em and Caspian were the last ones in the room, flushed and smelling of sex and each other. I smirked, gesturing Cas over to me. He sat a solid foot away, perched on the very edge of Nolan’s bed, and I grabbed his arm to drag him closer. The squeak he let out was adorable.

We were currently referring to this room as Nolan’s office, but in reality it was his bedroom. The real office had been on a lower floor, where Kylan’s vampires had managed to breach. To our knowledge, they hadn’t gotten to the penthouse level before the tides had turned on them, so all sensitive information was being discussed and stored here. Less chance of it being bugged, in theory. You never really knew when it came to magic, though.

All of us barely fit in the room together, the air growing uncomfortably hot. It didn’t help that there was enough sexual tension to run a fucking power plant. Amabella and Clement stood off the side, Clement scowling and Ama grinning in amusement. Nolan sat in his desk chair with Ozzy behind him, their bodies touching. The affection between them was tangible — maybe not to everyone, but with Oswald’s mark on me I was given an inside look into their bond. We hadn’t gotten much of a chance to bask in our new bond, because of how we’d been rudely interrupted.

If we’d been interrupted by good news, I wouldn’t have been annoyed, but this news was bittersweet.

We’d missed Kylan’s trip to one of his downtown condos.

Nolan’s hired spy had gotten surveillance video, though. We had yet to watch it, so it was undetermined how useful it would be.

Shan and I sat on the bed, against the headboard, and I’d pulled Caspian to me. Emmett stood beside the bed, hands folded in front of him. They were doing a piss poor job of hiding the erection slowly shrinking in his pants. His hand placement might have brought more attention to it, even.

“We’re all here. Let’s get started,” I said, waving a hand at the computer screens currently showing various corners of this building.

“We’re waiting for two more.”

I stiffened at the same time Shan did. My hand reached out to keep him down as the door to Nolan’s suite opened and closed, two familiar scents trailing through.

He tried to surge from the bed anyway when Altair slid into the room, closely followed by Sky.

I moved my hand to his crotch and squeezed hard enough he let out a little pained groan, which I felt bad about, but it got him to settle. Sometimes the only way to handle a man was by their cock.Take that statement in whatever way works best for you.

“You trust these two enough to bring them in on this?” I asked, watching the smirk on Altair’s face.

It didn’t falter.

Nolan nodded. “We need more help than we have here, and they’re loyal to me.”

“Why are they loyal to you? It might help to settle Shan down if you give us a reason.”

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