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Dangerously primally.

I looked up to see her now standing naked on the stone floor at the edge of the pool, her arms linked around Nyx’s neck for purchase as he swirled his tongue all over her breasts. She felt my gaze on her and turned her head, and her eyes blazed at me.

Motherfucker.

The sight was something else.

With a flick of his magic, Nyx stripped himself bare as well, just ramping up the desire building within me.

I caught sight of Kai stroking his own cock, his abs tightening as he approached the pool, eyes locked on Ariana and Nyx. The deep groan that slipped from him made my cock ache.

I couldn’t take another second of it.

Of not being all over them.

I needed to be fucking consumed by them, byher.

I went to start stripping, but a whistle from Kai caught my attention, and I looked to see him now in the pool. His arms were folded on the stone edge as he stared up at me. He raised a single finger and, with a spark of his magic, my coat was gone. “More?” he asked, drinking in my inked arms—the black and crimson striking dragon tattoos—with some heavy lust hooding his enchanting hazel eyes.

“Yes,” I breathed. “More.”

He smirked. “Love hearing that from you.”

An excitable shriek from Ariana jolted the both of us, and we turned to see Nyx had snagged her in a firefighter lift. He jumped into the pool with her, then put her down, and she thrust her hands at him in the water, dousing him all over.

“The hair!” he cried jokingly, full of faux drama king energy. “Not the hair, Halo!”

That had her giggling.

Kai and I exchanged a look. Perfect. She was loosening up, enjoying herself, and finding happiness amid the nightmare that had come our way tonight.

I started as Kai suddenly stripped me completely naked with his magic. A self-satisfied smirk tilted his lips and I chuckled. I did enjoy his playful side. Immensely. Hisdirtyplayful side had come to be my favorite.

He read me well, taking it further as his expression turned wicked and he levitated me with his magic, then pulled me toward him with graceful ease.

He stepped back from the edge of the pool, and then he used his power to drag me into the water, submerging me until my feet touched the bottom.

Heat rolled through me.

Her essence infused me.

I could feel her everywhere, fueling the primal connection between us.

It sparked even more than that, and before I knew it, I was snarling with overpowering desire, my cock no longer just aching, but pained with the depths of the need that was utterly consuming me more and more with every passing moment.

A hand slammed into my chest and I didn’t sense it coming in my discombobulated state, and a spark of power erupted at the point of contact before I could do a thing to dodge it or deflect it, sending my back smacking against the edge of the pool.

And then Kai was there in my space, shoving his thigh between my legs, grasping my throat, then grinding his bare cock against mine.

Again… reading me incredibly well.

He was like a sponge, taking in every little thing that he learned about those closest to him and absorbing it forevermore. And, hell, did he know how to use that which he’d learned—to everyone’s advantage, actually.

It was exactly what I needed to calm with the water situation, Ariana’s essence suffused in it already helping a great deal. But this with Kai was the final touch I needed to let that resistance and uncomfortableness toward it go and fade away so I could be in the moment.

He was grounding me.

His fingers tightened around my throat, the edge of dominance sending an odd thrill through me. Given my background and who I’d always been, I’d imagined being disgusted by enduring anything like this. But that wasn’t the case with him somehow. There was something about the way he brought it with me.