August shot me a brief smile, and it reminded me of the time he’d told me I looked like the Sun. “We’ve made our decision and you’ve made yours.”
 
 “You belong to us,” Knox concluded.
 
 It was that simple. There was no need for nerves, because those four words made everything clear. When Knox walked up to me and pressed his lips to mine, I kissed him back. Our lip-lock was excruciatingly gentle. It was unlike Knox, who had a naturally savage nature. And yet, it didn’t feel wrong or twisted. In a way, it wasn’t sexual at all, just a reminder that he was there.
 
 That profound knowledge hypnotized me and dragged me off into a world where only the four of us existed. I melted against him, and for the first time, I dared to acknowledge the hole in my chest, the strange emptiness I’d tried to ignore for so long.
 
 “You don’t have to be in pain any longer,”a voice whispered at the back of my mind.“You can have everything you want. Just reach out and take it.”
 
 I reached out and my lovers did the same. As Knox continued to kiss me, Brendan, Pollux, and August started to take my uniform off. I felt their hands on me and a part of me wanted to help out, to encourage them. But I didn’t have enough coordination, and they were moving too quickly for me to be able to join in.
 
 Knox broke our kiss and nibbled on my neck, making me let out a moan of delight. “It’s all right, Selene,” he whispered. “Just let go. Just be ours.”
 
 Surrender didn’t come naturally to me, but at that moment, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. I was theirs to claim, to fuck, to possess and to protect, and I didn’t want to fight it anymore.
 
 Our clothes ended up in a pile on the cold, metal floor and he set me down in the small nest. As he spread my legs, our eyes met and the intensity in his gaze made me shudder. He kissed my knee and smirked darkly. “Cold? Don’t worry. We’ll heat you right up.”
 
 Following his cue, August lowered his head to my breast and started sucking on my right nipple. I cried out as he bit down on one of the peaked nubs, hot arousal already surging through me. Brendan took advantage of the opening I’d given him. Grabbing my hair, he turned me around and shoved his cock into my mouth.
 
 The motion was so sudden it brought tears to my eyes. I wasn’t very experienced at this sort of thing and he was pretty well-endowed. But Knox’s earlier words were still ringing in my head.“Be ours,”he had said, and I wanted that. I truly wanted us to be one in every possible way.
 
 We’d come so close before, but we’d been thwarted by our own fears. Not again. Closing my eyes, I focused on that emotion, all the while doing my best to ignore the mild discomfort. It might not have worked, but Knox helped when he buried his face between my legs and thrust his tongue into my pussy.
 
 Knox had always been as ravenous in all his appetites as his chimera, and today was no different. As he flicked his tongue over my swollen clit, he shoved two fingers into my channel. I moaned around the dick in my mouth, and in response, Brendan grunted and tightened his hold on my hair.
 
 “Fucking hell, princess. You’ll be the death of me.”
 
 He sounded wrecked and the realization made me feel powerful and wanted. Just because I could, I moaned again, trying to encourage him, to encourage them all.
 
 It worked better than expected. A shudder went through Brendan’s frame, swept over me and all the way into Knox. Knox growled and lifted his head.
 
 “I wanted to take my time with you, but I can’t wait.”
 
 “You don’t need to,” August said, releasing his hold on my nipple. “I bet she’d just love to come on your cock. Isn’t that right, sweetheart?”
 
 They didn’t wait for a reply. Instead, Brendan pulled his dick out of my mouth, giving Knox a little more room. I might have protested had Knox not picked me up and impaled me on his shaft.
 
 It was rough, raw, almost brutal. At the mercy of his punishing pace, I tried to cling to his shoulders, to clear the haze descending over my mind. I failed. Brendan shoved both Knox and me down. We ended up lying on the floor, with me on top of Knox. The next thing I knew, another cock was sliding into my pussy, right next to Knox’s.
 
 My mind went blank. For a few seconds, I panicked, because I thought it couldn’t possibly fit. I was wrong. Knox and Brendan went a little more slowly while my body adjusted, but in the end, my flesh yielded to them, as if I’d always been meant to belong to them like this.
 
 When they started pounding in and out of my willing body, Tartarus’s flame responded to their presence. Power vibrated through me, hot and fierce. I couldn’t tell if was just mine or also theirs, but it didn’t really matter. Every single inch of me was alive with the sexual intensity of the moment.
 
 I wasn’t sure what made me come. Maybe it wasn’t anything in particular, just the natural escalation of the pleasure we shared. I could’ve sworn I felt Knox dig sharp claws in my hip, but the pain dissipated into a haze of almost agonizing ecstasy as bright as the Sun itself.
 
 Knox and Brendan thrust inside me one last time and followed me over the edge. Waves of pulsing heat filled my insides, and the power Sphinx had given me burst over us, as intense as it had been during the tournament. Once again, I could feel their emotions, their almost overwhelming desire for me. It battered my consciousness, sweeping everything else away.
 
 I was still convulsing in the waves of my climax when August pulled me into his lap. Barely aware of myself and what was happening, I went along with everything he did. My slick pussy easily took his dick, but I was too dazed to hold myself upright on top of him. Pollux helped me out. He came up from behind me, his cock nudging my ass.
 
 “I wanted to keep my distance from you,” he said, “but I just can’t help myself.”
 
 Tears sprang out in my eyes all over again as he slowly slid in. We’d never had anal sex, so it was a tight fit. It didn’t hurt as much as I expected it to. My body received him smoothly, and I realized that at one point, he must’ve prepared me for this in some way. When had that happened? I didn’t know but neither did I care.
 
 All I cared about was them, having them again and again, until we all forgot everything and anything outside these walls, until every single secret between us became distant and irrelevant.
 
 Pollux and August fell into a fast, but easy rhythm, moving in perfect sync to make sure I was never empty. Somehow, they even had enough coordination to give me pleasure in other ways. August reached upward to fondle my breasts and Pollux sucked on my neck, so hard he’d undoubtedly leave a bruise. Knox and Brendan joined us, and although they didn’t try to fuck me again, their overwhelming presence still stole the breath out of my lungs.
 
 It could have been because of tachyon manipulation, or just the result of my own need answering to theirs. Either way, my vision started to swim and my world turned into a whirlwind of lust and fire.