Page 42 of Gemini Hunted
Still half-hard inside me and pumping his hips lazily into mine, Vasili hums with contentment and laps at my bite to stop the thin double drip of bleeding with the biochemicals in his shifty saliva. I submit to this familiar tending with a sigh of resignation.
He’s supposed to ask before he bites. But by now, we’ve pretty much established that he never does what he’s supposed to.
Literally. Never.
“Pot, kettle.” Following my disgruntled thoughts through our mating bond without effort, my snake chuckles like the Devil against my skin.
Yeah, he’s maybe got a point about that. V and I are well matched for a whole lotta reasons.
Neo roots around the headboard for the thickest, softest pillow he can find, then nudges it gently under my head.
“Such a good boy,” Zephyr praises him warmly. My Fae’s definitely got a thing for our bookworm, and I am here for it.
“Hey,” Neo grumbles good-naturedly, snuggling back into his place against Zephyr’s side. “I’m not actually a boy. I’m older than Ronin. I’m twenty-one, and he’s only nineteen.”
“Ronin was a man at fifteen. You’ll still be a boy at fifty.” Zephyr’s sleepy voice goes silky. “There’s no shame in it, sweeting. I intend to take exceeding good care of you. You’ll always be my special boy.”
Whoa.
Zephyr truly is finding his place in our polycule. The incredible sweetness of this moment seeps through me like a sugar rush.
Of course, being us, that moment of peaceful sweetness doesn’t last.
It ends at the exact moment the sliding glass door to the balcony whizzes open to admit a gust of windblown rain. Immediately followed by a naked and violently disturbed dragon shifter.
Soaked to the skin and growling like a bear, Maxim gives his head a ferocious shake to fling dripping ribbons of drenched blond hair out of his flaming eyes. Rainwater flies in all directions.
“I smell a strange male!”my newly arrived alpha announces with a roar. “Who threatens my mates!”
“Oh, dear fuck.” Vasili gives my latest bite a final lick, slides lazily out of my drenched and sated pussy, and rolls onto his back. “Don’t burst a blood vessel, darling. Or a testicle, with all that testosterone you’re pumping out. Truly, I can explain.”
That seems highly doubtful.
Ever since we agreed to let that demon bunk down next door, I’ve known Maxim—the most fiercely territorial and violent of all my alphas—is gonna be hard to handle.
I grimace and struggle onto my elbows, limbs limp and heavy as overcooked spaghetti. A trickle of V’s cum spills out of me, which makes Vasili tut with real annoyance.
Sweet Jesus. I’m so saturated with warlock spunk I practically squish.
Before I can muster the brainpower inside my sluggish noggin to settle Max down and form actual words to defuse this looming crisis, the door to the adjacent guest room flies open.
Oh, groovy.
“Yo.” That deep demonish rumble rolls from Mordred, whose brawny and still-shirtless frame now fills the doorway. “Guess that’s me you’re smelling, homeboy. My deodorant musta washed off while I was rocking my kraken and getting your chick her trophy Horn, you feel me? My bad.”
With a shocked exclamation that explodes from the depths of the duvet, Zephyr shakes off the multiple warlocks lying across his legs and shoots to his feet.
“You!”Maxim roars at the newly arrived Mordred, definitely using his outdoor voice.
My alpha dragon shifter charges across the bedroom to hurl himself between us—all his mates, but especially the two (counting V when he’s shifted) that Max is trying to get pregnant—and this new danger.
“Yup. That’d be me.” Unfazed by all this commotion he’s clearly causing, Mordred props a hip comfortably against the door jamb, winds a long ribbon of midnight-blue hair around his finger, and grins at us till his dimples pop.
“By the moon,” Zephyr hisses, naked and literally trembling with fury. “What is this vile treachery?”
“Hiya, cuz. We can all fight this thing out if that’s what you want, true?” the demon drawls in that voice like maple syrup drizzled over hotcakes. “But wouldn’t you rather we all fuck it out instead?”
Chapter Ten
