Page 19 of Oracle
“Your loss,” she muttered before turning to Seth, rising up on her tiptoes and moving her hands to rest around his neck. She slammed her lips to his in a bruising kiss as his hand gripped her hips with a desperate need to be inside of her. Grinding his cock against her, his hands moved to her ass and lifted her with ease.
Her lean legs wrapped around him as she deepened the kiss with their now equal height. I saw their tongues clashing together and growled as I came to terms with the fact that this was a battle I was more than willing to lose. I’d go to her, and I’d make her scream my name.
As Seth backed them into the flow of the water from above, I stripped out of my boxers and stroked my throbbing erection. If Kira was sure this was what she wanted, then I’d concede. Who was I kidding in thinking that I could deny her invitation?
Padding over to stand on the other side of Kira, I became engulfed by not only the heat of the water, but the heat of this moment. The passion emanating from Kira and Seth was a big fucking turn-on, and I found myself aching to see what it would feel like when we both filled her simultaneously.
My hand moved the heavy weight of her wet hair to the side as I leaned down to pepper soft kisses down her neck and shoulder. Right where I wanted to mark her. She moaned my name softly as my hands trailed down her sides.
“What do you want, Kira?” I asked as I ground myself against her ass, my cock wanting to find its home inside her soft folds, or maybe inside the tight ring of her ass if she’d let me.
Her head pulled away from Seth to turn and pin me with the weight of her stare. “I want to know how to fix this between us. Permanently. I want to fix what’s broken between your wolf and you.”
I sucked my bottom lip into my mouth as I grappled with how to handle this. Did I give in and let her fix it, even though I felt like I didn’t deserve the easy way out of this? Or was I just pitying myself and self-sabotaging this fresh start with my mate.
“Fuck,” I hissed out as indecision plagued me.
“Well, I know what I want right now,” Seth interjected as I felt her shift in front of me in his arms. Before I knew it, she was crying out as he positioned his cock to line up with her pussy and she sank down onto it in front of me.
Fuck it.
Hearing her crying out in bliss as he rutted into her like a wild animal, making her hang on to him for dear life sealed my decision. I wasn’t going to just stand here with my cock in my hand and jack off. Fuck that. If Kira was ready to take our relationship to this level, who was I to deny her?
Gripping my cock firmly at the base, I met Seth’s questioning gaze and nodded, telling him all he needed to know to slow down. His hands on her ass lightly spread her cheeks to give me better access, and I stepped forward in order to position myself underneath her.
Rubbing my tip along the tight ring of muscle, my precum made it easy to tease her lightly. Giving in to her question, I explained, “The way to fix what is broken within me, is for us to fuck and give each other the mate bite, Kira.”
Her head swung to look at me, her brows furrowed slightly. “Is that why you were trying to avoid sexual interactions? To punish yourself?”
I snickered, “Can’t get much past you, can I?”
She didn’t rise to the humorous side of that statement, instead, tapping on Seth’s chest to be let down. As they disentangled themselves from each other, I found her turned around and staring up at me with so much confusion and something that was too close to pity for my comfort.
I didn’t want her feeling bad for me.
Her hand reached up to rest against my cheek. “I will say this only once, so listen.”
Nodding my understanding, she said the one thing I didn’t deserve to hear. “The only person who still needs to forgive you, is yourself. Do not punish yourself out of some twisted desire to think it’s what I want or what you deserve. It isn’t brave and it isn’t honorable.”
Fuck, that stung a bit. I thought I was trying to do the right thing this time around.
Her hand slid to rest behind my head, tugging my face to be mere inches from hers now. “What’s brave is looking at yourself in the mirror and accepting that you aren’t perfect. That you’ve made mistakes, and hell, admitting you’ll probably make a few more along the way because none of us are perfect.” She paused to take a breath. “Being brave is forgiving yourself, because that shit is fucking hard.”
Despite being in the heat of this chamber and in the water, my arms pebbled with goosebumps. The depths of her words shook me to my core and had me swallowing the emotions bubbling up and blinking away the sting that came to my eyes.
It was hard, because I didn’t think I was worthy of forgiveness. Not yet, anyways.
Her lips brushed across mine in a light touch, similar to the way my fingers had lightly caressed her skin just moments before. Her breath fanned across my mouth as she whispered, her words barely audible above the water crashing down around us and the way my heart hammered in my chest. “Life is too short to not allow yourself grace, when you’ve already proven to everyone else that you’re deserving of it.”
Her words were exactly what I needed to hear to smash this barrier between us to pieces, baring all of myself to her. My arms wrapped around her back, pulling her into me, loving the way her breasts pushed against me as she melted into me. I wanted nothing separating us, not even one inch of air.
My lips seared themselves to hers, making me groan as they parted immediately, inviting my tongue into her mouth. Trailing my hands up her back, I cradled her face between my hands as we breathed each other in, so much healing in this moment between us.
It was the first step towards the future I wanted her to have, with me in it. As her mate. The way I should have always been. Cherishing and protecting her.
“I won’t push you for your secrets right now, Kitten,” Seth said, coming up behind her like I had in our role reversal. “But I won’t forget, either.”
I saw her mouth pull into a flat line at his words, but it was gone in the blink of an eye as hooded lust took over instead. Glancing up at me beneath her lashes, she pleaded, “Let me help you fix this. I want nothing more.”
