Page 42 of Smoke and Mirrors
As I retold the story, my awareness drifted to the heat and contours of Hunter’s body. When I stepped in closer to squeeze him tighter, an unmistakable bulge pressed into my lower stomach. His breath hitched and he stiffened, moving just a fraction of an inch away.
My own body ignited into a liquid heat, concentrating at my core. With Hunter pressed against me and Razvan’s tattooed back watching me, thoughts entered my mind that I barely dared to voice.
I wouldn’t let Connor set me free, or whatever supposedly noble way he tried to justify it. He wasn’t perfect and I accepted that about him. But I still needed him. And even if he didn’t want to admit it, he needed me to keep his mind from going to dark places.
When he was low, these two lifted us back up. Sure, maybe just Connor and I would be too unstable and dysfunctional to make it together. But with the four of us? We were unbeatable.
“Razvan,” I breathed in a sultry whisper while the full length of my body pressed against Hunter once again. “You don’t have to turn around.”
His head turned to the side, making the dragon on his back coil up as if ready to pounce on its prey. “Are you sure?”
“Please.” My voice shook from either fear or anticipation, I couldn’t tell which. “Look at me.”
He turned slowly and his eyes heated immediately upon drinking in my curves, still wrapped in Hunter’s embrace.
“You’re beautiful,steluta,” he murmured with genuine appreciation. “Conner and Hunter are lucky men.”
“I feel way too overdressed,” Hunter laughed in an attempt to lighten the thick tension growing in the room.
I slid my hands up his chest to wrap them around his neck. His touch drifted across my waist to my lower back, hovering just above my bare ass. An electrical intensity fired between us. I looked over to Razvan and felt the same intense chemistry from him.
Maybe it was selfish but I didn’t care anymore. For once, I wanted to forget about everything else and just feel good.
“I think both of you are overdressed.”
20
MELODY
Neither of them said a word for a long moment but Razvan seemed to get the idea first. A naughty grin spread across his face as he folded his arms across his chest.
“Have you ever been with two men before,steluta?”
“No,” I admitted, leaning my head against Hunter’s chest. His heart pounded just as furiously as mine.
“Are you sure this is something you want to do?”
I reached out an arm to him. “Come here, Raz.”
He approached me slowly as if still trying to survey the situation. But when I cupped his face and pressed my mouth to his, he dropped all caution to the wind and kissed me back with pure, fiery passion.
His split tongue caressed both sides of mine, teasing my lips with playful flicks as he slid an arm across my upper back. When we parted, I stood on tiptoes and kissed Hunter in the next breath. He tensed in surprise but soon opened his mouth to me too. From him I tasted that sweetness mixed with the alpha dominance that made me weak in the knees.
Just when I thought this couldn’t get any hotter, Raz’s split tongue danced along the back of my neck. He moved behind me, his jeans brushing against my ass as he kissed my neck but not pushing against me. Yet.
“Now,” I breathed when Hunter’s kiss broke. “Did that bother either of you?”
“Not in the least,” Raz whispered gruffly against my skin. “It’s hot to see you kiss him, to see him wrapped around your beautiful body like this.”
“Hunter?”
My pale wolf exhaled a deep breath and I could see he was trying to think with the correct head, to do the right thing by me.
“No, it doesn’t bother me,” he began. “I just don’t want you to feel bad afterward if… this happens.”
“I’m done feeling bad,” I told him. “You two make me feel amazing and I just want more of that.” I took his face in both of my hands. “Tomorrow, we’re going to drag Connor out of a hellhole he’s trying to bury himself in. But it’ll be a ton of work and I can’t do it by myself. I need you two with me. I need—”
He cut me off with a hard kiss, giving me every reassurance without words. As his tongue invaded my mouth, he dragged my hands down his body to stop at his pants. My fingers grazed the firm muscles of his abs before I flicked the button open, and he broke our kiss for just a moment to pull his shirt over his head.
