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Lust twisted within him, rising in sharp, ravenous demand as it chased pleasure, needing more of it. The water rippled around him with his fervor and his hands moved over her, smoothing over her soft human flesh, gently squeezing and gripping her, savoring her lushness as his cocked jerked repeatedly in its eagerness to be buried inside of it. He wanted his mate… needed her. She did not realize how much happiness she brought them, nor how it made them hunger even more for her. Every gentle smile and affectionate laugh made him want to be buried up to his sheath in her, breeding her day and night. Every flash of her wit, brightness of her intelligence, and spark of her temper made him yearn even more for the tight clutch of her around his clock even as he longed to hold her in his arms and enjoy the closeness with her in body and heart. A desire to be one within the fires once more.

He devoured her, his tongue thrusting in her mouth in a rapturous mating, enjoying the muffled sound of her needy gasps and moans. Agrel ceased floating on his back and glided over, nearly trembling with his eagerness. Gripping her under her legs, Agrel lifted her, breaking their kiss as he lined her upwith Gehj’s engorged phallus. Cock straining, Gehj hissed and pumped his hips upward in an attempt to pierce her. He needed her, the flash fire roaring through him would accept nothing else but her. No one else. The fire between mates burned hot and fierce. He had been told that all his youth but had never been able to imagine it. Now he understood. The bone between them crackled with life between them, fueling and fanning the flames like a rousing wind. It was energetic, a combustion within the air around him, and he felt it burst from the tip of his cock with the first initial release of his seed as Agrel lowered her sex onto him so that the soft, wet flesh parted in welcome around his length in one long stroke.

With his wings braced wider to keep him afloat at his current angle, Agrel worked her up and down on Gehj’s cock, lifting her up and pressing her down to meet him as his hips shot up, driving the tip of his cock up into the heat that gripped and drew upon his length with every stroke. Delilah flung her head back, shouting her pleasure, giving herself up to their lead.

Gehj’s wings spread slightly in the water beneath him as he arched his back, lifting himself up from their secure surface, his tail fanning wide to add additional support as he rocked with her, her cunt rippling around him as she panted and fisted his feathers ecstatically. He trilled as he shook with a burst of pleasure, a hot stream of his seed ejaculating into her, sending his mate writhing upon him from the dose of heat and concentrated pheromones. Throughout, he maintained an eye lock with Agrel, sharing his pleasure openly. Although his cock alone filled her at this angle, he could see that his ahaku enjoyed teasing himself with watching.

With his tail and wings spread further for greater and more stable buoyancy, Gehj gripped her ass, rocking her with him, allowing Agrel’s hands to slip away. His ahaku stroked her bouncing bottom for a moment, watching as Gehj’s cock filledher cunt, his eyes gleaming. Agrel’s hand slid down and wrapped around his own cock and Gehj did not miss the fact that the male fisted himself tightly, dragging his hand up and down his length in time every thrust of his cock. Excitement roared hotter through Gehj, his lips parting as he panted, dragging in ragged gasps of air as Delilah’s sex squeezed tightly, sucking hard in a pulsing rhythm that made his hips jerk and slap upward helplessly, driving his cock hard and fast as he rode her climax.

At his side, Agrel’s hips jerked in small, sharp, barely constrained spasms, and the male’s jaw tensed as if straining for control. His green eyes lifted then, and they were searing with heat as flames danced and brightened within their depths.

“Gehj,” he hissed in warning. He was unable to wait any longer.

Trilling that he understood, Gehj angled his body, shifting the angle of his wings and tail simultaneously so that he was able to lower his hips and Delilah, keeping them joined while also keeping them afloat. Her cunt squeezed his cock as the cool water washed over her hips, shocking her body with the rapid cooling that it triggered another climax, sending fire rushing from his cock up to the tip of his crests. He was certain that flames licked off the tips of his feathers. Agrel grinned in response, his eyes trailing away, brightened with the reflection of the flames as he watched them dance across the water. The male chuckled as he circled around to take position behind her, his love and lust burning brightly in his green eyes. They braced themselves on their wings, floating in place, their wings sliding around her sides and overlapping together so that they floated, interlocked, stabilized as Agrel lined himself up and pressed his cock into her sex, the shaft and broad head of his cock rubbing against Gehj’s as he slowly sank deep.

Gehj’s eyes rolled back, and his breath shuddered from him as he began to pump his hips, once more driving his cock inand out of their mate’s silken heat, riding against the plunge of his ahaku’s cock in counterpoint. All three of them moaned and cried out together, their bodies rocking together, sending sprays of water as feathers flicked out of the water that rose with the rhythm of their rut and slapped against them.

His hands tightened on her, anchoring her to him, and in counterpoint to Agrel’s firm hold, as the fire within his blood crested high within him. They rutted her together, their cocks shuttling in and out of her in a wild but broken rhythm that had them all crying out and clinging to each other. Claws gently raked against her soft skin, and her soft human claws returned the favor with considerably more strength, but not enough to harm him. Indeed, it did the opposite. It sent a new frenzy boiling within him to the point that his wings were nearly rising up and slapping the water with his every thrust, putting every bit of his momentum behind his thrusts while Delilah screamed her encouragement, her cunt strangling his cock against Agrel’s sex within her clutch. Agrel, in truth, was the one keeping them stable and afloat, though he recognized the fact through the haze of maddening desire climbing through him. The male’s face was twisted with pleasure, his constraint fracturing.

They would not be able to continue in the water, not without risking drowning. The embankment was too far away to reach in quick order, which only left the sky above. Atlavans never mated in the air, it was considered reckless. However, it was better than sinking.

His decision made, he jerked upward, hips slamming deep, burying his shaft completely as his wings wildly flapped, lifting them from the water and into the air. Agrel trilled in surprise as his cock was suddenly pulled free from her body, but the splash of his wings lifting up from the water thundered loudly as he rose in pursuit. Gehj’s grip tightened on his mate, his hip pumping wildly, eager to breed and fill her with his seed as hiseyes followed his ahaku’s progress. The male’s wings fanned the air as he glided upward, rising as he circled them until he was just behind Delilah. Stretching his wings wide to catch the air, Agril wrapped his arms around her, tucking his bottom in as he curled himself against her, his hips pressing forward, lunging for her wet heat.

An electric burst rose from Gehj’s testicles up his back as Agrel’s cock buried itself within her, grinding along the length of Gehj’s shaft. He shook with it and his cock grew rigid as it gave up the first true streams of his seed pumping into her. Hooking their legs together, they thrust in tandem with every wet flap of their wings until she was screaming, her cunt drenching them with every rapturous pulse of her cunt squeezing and releasing around them. And still they rose higher and higher as they rutted her, the steam burning off their feathers before exploding into a dance of flames. They were burning in the air, consumed by the flames. Gehj shouted hoarsely as his seed finally erupted from him, flooding into her in tandem with Agrel’s release. Delilah’s cunt gripped viciously around them as she shrieked again, milking them, drawing the seed that they offered her.

They gave it all to her as they climbed high into the air, the breeze fanning their flames and their heated flesh. And at the pinnacle, their wings spread wide, flames bursting harmlessly in the air in all directions around them. Joined together, the bodies trembling with the force of their release pounding through them, their wings folded, and they slowly glided downward, their wings flapping as they splashed down into the water. There, once more in the water, they drifted together, tethered as their cocks continued to rock in and out of her, pumping stream upon stream of their release into her. Their wings locked together once more, they floated in lazy circles drifting upon the water, the flames of their fire dancing over the water’s surface.

Gehj shivered rapturously as he clung to his mate, his hips flexing instinctively as he continued to release his seed within her. Truly mating in the skies was beyond description. It was the ultimate pleasure and dizzying, and even though it filled him with the most sensational pleasure, he understood another reason his species did not indulge in mating in flight. Aside from the risk of injury, the pleasure was so much that anyone who knew what to look for could mark their location—and Atlavans were notoriously private and known for keeping their nests among the rookeries hidden, even from each other.

But it was worth it. Such pleasure was worth experiencing at least once in one’s lifetime to his reasoning. He just hoped that their fire show would go unwitnessed and remarked.

Chapter

Twenty

Delilah brushed the wet strands of hair off her face. The further south their journey had taken them, the hotter it had become. Although the Atlavans seemed unbothered by it, she was unaccustomed to it and felt like she was suffocating in her clothing that was currently damp with sweat and sticking to her body. At least the mountains were getting closer and, according to Gehj, they would soon be in the foothills where he promised her that she would find some relief from the heat as they made their way higher. Blessed Mother, she hoped so.

It was so hot that she wasn’t even attempting to ride in the wagon during the day. The wagon ran several degrees hotter than it was outside and she just wasn’t built for the misery. Nor could she subject Lily to it with a good conscience. Which meant that she was going to have to put all her faith in the protection of her mates… and that didn’t bother her. She trusted them. She didn’t think it would be possible to trust a man again, but the two Atlavan males had worn down her defenses with their kindness, loyalty, and unshakable love that she couldn’t help but to trust them with everything.

Hell, she didn’t even freak out when they burst out into a column of flames while taking her together in mid-air. It was in the aftermath of their love-making that she’d come to realize just how much she trusted them. And loved them.

She loved them. Her eyes trailed over to where Gehj was patiently carrying Lily while Zemb took his place at the wagon. She was actually in love with aliens. A private smile curled on her lips as she watched them. Her daughter’s head lolled against his chest, clearly exhausted from walking in the heat, but her face was still animated as she chattered up at him. Lily had been right. They had found a new family in the males who not only loved her but loved both of them. If they had just been chasing after Delilah, she would have known how to handle them, but their tenderness and ceaseless patience and care of Lily had chinked away at her defenses. They had understood that they came as a package and not only accepted it but were truly delighted in it. It hadn’t all been an act. And now… now she had it all. If only there wasn’t this ominous shadow that seemed to follow them, as if something was just lying in wait to upset their found happiness.

Her smile faded. So why couldn’t she just have this? Why couldn’t whatever it was out there—whoever it was out there—just let her have her happiness?

But she knew. The Order would never let her be happy if they discovered her wandering with aliens in the Great Forest, and as the days passed and the ominous feeling increased, the more certain she was that they were being stalked by at least one huntsman. And yet, still, he had not made an appearance. The uncertainty of when he might strike frayed her nerves that were already strained from heat exhaustion.

Why wouldn’t the bastard just do something? Either quit messing around and attack already or leave them alone. She sighed heavily, drawing Agrel’s gaze to her.

He gave her a compassionate smile. “Not much longer,swiya. Another hour and we will be in the foothills, and it will be cooling off by the time we make camp tonight.”

That soon? Maybe the Mother was listening after all. Surely the huntsman would not pursue too far into the mountains. That was terrain with which they were not generally trained to deal with, from what she recalled. They would be safe once they began climbing into the mountains. At least, as far as she figured, anyway.

“Good. When all is said and done, I don’t think I’m going to want to travel anywhere ever again,” she groaned. “The blisters on my feet have blisters.”

He glanced at her boots with concern. “Your feet hurt? Why did you not say so?”

Agrel shifted the weight of the wagon’s pole, preparing to drop it, but she held her hand up and laughed. “Hold on, Zemb needs your help. And that, right there, is why I didn’t tell you. Because you will want to rescue me and abandon either Zemb or Gehj to handle the wagon alone.”