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I took her other hand and brought it to my lips, kissing her fingertips, which had her beaming out at me adoringly. I loved that fucking look more than I could even quantify. “I need to get to my lab. We have an hour before class and—”

She grasped my wrist. “No, Kai.”

I arched an eyebrow. “No?”

“The four of us are going to wake up together, have breakfast and just be, before we then head to class.”

“You know the complications of what needs to be done, how long—”

She covered my hand on hers. “Idoknow. I know all too well. And that’s why this matters, baby. This, right here. Us taking these moments together, to savor the good and the happiness, the fun and the comfort. It matters more than ever. Because with what we’re up against, especially if there is actually another True Celestial operating on this plane, times like these will become fewer and farther between.”

Fuck me.I pushed into her until her lace-covered breasts in her sexy negligee were pressing against my chest, loving the little gasp that escaped her as she felt the heat of it. “Are you trying to manage me, sweetheart?”

Her wing around my back slapped against me, hitting my ass.

“Did you just spank me?”

The corner of her mouth turned up. “It worked, didn’t it? It jarred you out of heading down that paranoid road.” Her mirth vanished then, earnestness taking her over as she pulled her hand free from mine and slid both of hers up to cup my face. “You don’t need that with me anymore, Kai. Forsake that paranoia. You don’t need to be on guard anymore, not with us, not with me. I have your best interests at heart. I promise you that.” She stroked my cheeks with the pads of her thumbs. “I called my wings forth last night foryou, because you were calling out in your sleep, having nightmares. When I wrapped them around you, it soothed you. With everything that’s happened, it’s impacted you more than you’ve let on, because you believe you need to hold everything for the rest of us, to rise above it all. But that approach is hurting you now. Don’t go it alone anymore. Because you’re not alone. It’s certainly not all on you. Those days are over. We’re all in this together. Pull on that support.”

Nightmares?

I hadn’t experienced nightmares since I was a young teen, just after my parents had told me the story of their near demise at Draco’s hands.

She was right then, I was internalizing too much if that was happening again now.

“Okay,” I murmured.

“Yeah?” she asked, obviously hesitant at my easy agreement, wanting to make sure. It was me she was dealing with after all.

“Yes. I heard you.”

She smiled and retracted her wings, and then she was brushing her lips over mine.

Her thigh came up and hooked my hip, and she pulled me closer still, her eyes hooding in undisguised need.

In the next moment, I was on her, straddling her and taking her in a deep kiss.

She sank her fingers into my hair, tugging and stroking, while she rolled her hips beneath me, making me groan as she teased my now rock-hard cock in an absolutely head-spinning way.

When she eased her mouth from mine to suck in an unencumbered breath, I trailed my hand up her thigh, making her eyes spark and her undulate for me.

“Besides,” I said, gazing down at her. “I did promise you a cunt-eating train.”

She slapped my chest. “Kai!”

I chuckled. “You fucking love my dirty mouth.” I nuzzled her neck, making her gasp and giggle. “Admit it,” I said, licking her throat. “Tell me how much it gets you off.”

She angled herself, giving me better access, a sexy little moan escaping her. “Fuck… yes…yes.”

“Mmm… call mebabyagain.”

A familiar rumble sounded. “Love it when you get all needy, sorcerer.”

I looked to see V had woken up and he was eyeing us with a whole lot of heavy-lidded lust.

“It’s so rare that when it does come about, I can’t get enough of it.”

“Morning, my dragon,” Ari said, reaching out and stroking his long hair.