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PANDORA

T he sun was molten gold in a way that reminded me of the Fates, dipping into the endless stretch of ocean as waves lapped at my feet. The salty breeze tangled in my hair, lifting it and blowing it around.

Laughter echoed around me, deep and teasing, a chorus of the five voices that were my heart and soul.

We were finally on vacation from all of our work on the Supernatural Council and getting the Demon Council officially switched over to merging with the Supernatural Council—and everything was finally done.

Sabine started transferring supernatural agents to the Demon Capital the moment we’d finished receiving our seats on the council, and the Demon Capital was already admittedly safer than it had been.

Reed’s mother had gifted him the estate when she’d taken her own life, but he had gifted it to me.

Now, it was home to all of us.

Dex’s shadows slipped around me. “Come on in, trouble!”

I yelped, thrashing as he lifted me clean off the sand. “Dex, don’t you dare?—”

Too late, his shadows tossed me into the ocean.

I hit the water with a gasp, the cool water swallowing me whole before I broke the surface with a groan. Dex’s wicked grin was the last thing I saw before Skel dove in after me, his hands wrapping around my waist and holding me up. “Gotcha, princess.”

“Skel needs kisses.” Bram summoned Chaos, who barreled into Skel, sending us both tumbling as Chaos chased after Skel, making him swim further away from me. “Whoops.” He smirked as he effortlessly tossed me over his shoulder. “You’re mine now, brat.”

“I’m not a toy!” I shrieked, pounding at his back before Reed’s hands slid over my hips, stealing me away from Bram.

“My turn, dream girl.” His voice was smooth, smug. His lips brushed against mine, lingering before he set me back on my feet in the shallows.

A second later, Hunter swooped in, his lips at my ear. “You know how we love to fight for you.”

I barely had time to gasp before he claimed my lips, his tongue slowly slipping into my mouth, making my knees weak.

Fates, they were amazing, and they were all mine .

“This is amazing,” Dex murmured as Hunter and I pulled apart, Dex’s fingers tracing patterns on my skin. “I still can’t believe we made it.”

“It wasn’t easy,” Skel added, glaring at Bram as Chaos dissipated.

“Nothing worth it ever is.” Reed’s lips quirked.

“And nobody died,” Hunter pointed out with ease.

Bram snorted. “For long.”

I laughed, tilting my head back. “Oh, have you guys heard the latest from Fester? Who saw that coming?”

Groans echoed around me.

“He mated Brimsworth,” Dex muttered, rubbing his temples. “Good for him, I guess. Better than Nightwind.”

“I know you all hate it, but Jenni and I still have a group chat with him,” I giggled. “He’s actually working at her restaurant as a chef.”

“I guess he did help us with the cult and stuff,” Reed grumbled.

“Once,” Bram corrected. “Barely.”

“True.”

“Jenni deals with this too, you know.” I rolled my eyes before grinning at them. “Dad and Joel have been extra protective lately with her.”

Dex cackled. “Well, yeah, trouble.”

“She is pregnant with their baby,” Hunter murmured, his white gaze flicking to my flat stomach. “It makes me think about what you’ll look like pregnant with our baby.”

“Babies,” I corrected. “Twins.” My heart swelled with happiness. Siblings . I was getting siblings. “For now, I get to be a sister to babies,” I told them. “Someday, we’ll have a baby, too.”

“Babies,” the five of them corrected, and I giggled.

“Babies,” I agreed. “But not yet. Not now. I want to enjoy our lives for us for a bit longer.”

“And there’s nothing wrong with that,” Skel murmured, leaning over and stealing a kiss before I turned back to the guys, watching the way the firelight from our bonfire flickered against their skin.

We had plenty of time ahead of us to make a family.

Right now, we had this— freedom , love , and a future wide open before us.

* * *

Later that night, as we walked inside, my eyes scanned over the side-by-side axolotl tanks of Gumdrop and Raindrop. Dex had adopted an axolotl in hopes for Gumdrop to have a friend, and he had fallen in love with Raindrop. The black axolotl floated next to Gumdrop, and they glared at each other.

It was safe to say that they were enemies rather than friends, but he was a good addition to our family.

Skel and I had tried to get Comet to come stay with us here, but she’d been depressed, so we let her stay at Occult Cat-tuary. We went back to visit often, though.

My gaze moved toward the black kitten curled up on the couch, looking as relaxed as ever. My chest tightened, the memory of losing him still vivid.

Nebula, my best friend and familiar, lifted his head and tilted it. “Are you six going to close the door this time?”

“Hey, Nebs, you can walk away now,” Skel teased him, going over to scratch behind his ear.

“Skel, I’ve told you, I’m a familiar, stop that—wait, no . Yes . Right there ,” Nebula purred, and Skel chuckled as he listened to his direction.

Reed took my hand, pressing a kiss to my knuckles. “Come to bed, dream girl.”

“I have been wanting to show the guys how much you like being bound by my shadows,” Dex whispered in my ear.

“We do want to see that,” Bram practically moaned, his red eyes shimmering with desire.

“Please, princess,” Skel begged.

“Ugh, gross.” Nebula patted his hand away before jumping off the couch and striding past us. “I’ll be going for a walk. Enjoy yourselves.”

“Sorry, Nebula!” I called after him as he made a disgruntled noise, going through the cat door on the front door.

“What do you think, starlight?” Hunter’s gaze heated as he waited for me to answer.

I turned, feeling desire pool between my legs, and I nodded. “It’s always a yes with you five.”

“That’s exactly what we love to hear,” Dex purred, grabbing me off the floor and over his shoulder before he shadow-traveled us up the stairs to our room, leaving the other four downstairs.

They shouted their protests, and their footsteps were fast and hard as they bounded up the stairs.

“Let’s get you naked and bound before they get up here, baby, what do you think?” Dex clicked his tongue ring against his teeth as he stripped bare, grabbing his cock and pumping it.

I melted. “Please, Dex.”

His shadows acted fast, ripping my bikini from my body and stringing me up over the bed in a few seconds flat—and heat seared down my spine as desire scorched through my veins. There was no fear of his shadows anymore, and I was so thankful for that.

Dex and I started what we called exposure therapy after he and Damien had an apparent eye-opening conversation about how shadows could be used in sex.

I wasn’t mad about it in the slightest.

The door flew open as the rest of my mates barreled into the room.

“Fucking Fates,” Skel hissed, his green eyes searing every inch of my exposed skin as he took in my vulnerable state.

“You’re fucking hot,” Bram blurted.

“Literally a dream,” Reed agreed, nodding his head as he moved forward.

“Starlight, how do you like being put on display like this for all five of your mates?” Hunter mused, strolling forward and pushing his dark blond hair out of his eyes as he studied just how Dex’s shadows bound me and suspended me over the top of our bed.

“I like it,” I rasped. “Feeling vulnerable around you five…I like that.”

“And how do you want us, brat?” Bram purred, adjusting his septum piercing before undressing.

“I don’t care,” I admitted. “I just want all of you at once.”

“Hmmm.” Hunter tapped his index finger against his lips before shrugging out of his swimming trunks. “How do you suppose we do that?”

Skel dropped his trunks and chuckled. “Dibs on her pretty pussy.”

“It is pretty, isn’t it?” Dex asked, allowing his shadows to tighten around my thighs and pull them open to display me for them.

“Dex…” The cool air of the room hit my wetness, and I squirmed.

“It definitely is,” Skel agreed, biting his lip ring.

“Why don’t I try to get into her pussy with you?” Dex arched a brow.

“Fates, yes,” Skel moaned, pumping his dick, letting his thumb smear the pre-cum all over it.

“I’ll take her from behind,” Bram offered, raw desire leaking through his bond like the thought turned him on just as much as it did me.

“And us?” Reed asked.

“I’ll take her mouth,” Hunter murmured, coming over and swiping his thumb over my bottom lip.

“Free one of her hands,” Reed told Dex.

“I’ll free her shadow hand. You have no fucking idea how good she can make that shadow feel.” Dex’s shadows shifted, and my hand with his mark was suddenly free—but then, I was spun around to where I faced the bed, still hovering over it.

“You’ve been playing with Dex and your shadow, hmm?” Reed asked.

“Yes,” I rasped.

Dex’s shadows were hot against my skin, and I felt my pussy clench in anticipation.

“This is going to be a trial and error, yeah?” Dex chuckled, and I felt his excitement through our bond. “Fates, trouble. You look perfect like this.”

“Hold on.” Reed climbed onto the bed and moved over, pulling the hair tie off his wrist and pulling my hair up into a very messy bun. “There, dream girl. Don’t want what happened last time to happen again.”

My face heated as I remembered how I literally choked on my own hair last time we’d all been together.

Dex, Bram, and Skel burst out laughing as I pouted.

“Thanks, Reed.”

“It wasn’t your fault, starlight.” Hunter glared at the other three, who sobered up pretty quickly from their laughter. “I was too rough.”

“You didn’t even realize until she couldn’t breathe and you felt it in the bond,” Dex teased Hunter, who flushed scarlet.

“Shut up,” Hunter mumbled.

“Let’s make her come first.” Reed grabbed my breast and squeezed before lowering his head down and licking my nipple marked by Skel. Pleasure radiated through me, and I moaned as Skel did.

“Dude, that’s my mark,” he pouted before claiming my other breast.

Reed and Skel sucked and lapped at my nipples as Hunter cupped my face and kissed me with everything he had.

Bram and Dex dove between my legs, one of them plunging their tongue into my soaking pussy, and the other was rubbing my clit until my first orgasm tore through me, shaking all five of my matebonds until they moaned with me.

“Fates, she’s fucking dripping,” Dex moaned.

“She’s thinking of how hot it’ll be pleasuring all of her mates at once,” Bram whispered before kissing my pussy and pulling back.

Skel popped off my nipple as Reed did. “Let’s not keep her waiting, then.”

I giggled deliriously as they all got into position underneath me, throwing elbows and pushing until they got into a position they actually liked.

Skel and Dex laid flat underneath me opposite of each other with Skel’s legs overlapping Dex’s until their cocks were lined up together, and Bram straddled over Skel’s waist with his cock in hand. Reed stood on the side where my hand was free, and Hunter stood on the other side.

“Alright, I think this works,” Bram muttered.

“It’d be better if your ass wasn’t in my face,” Skel grumbled, but Bram just laughed.

“No other way to do it,” Dex told him. “And now…”

His shadows tightened before moving me down, directly on top of Skel and Dex’s erect cocks that were pushed together so they entered my pussy at the same time.

And Holy Fates…I never knew having both of them inside me there at the same time would feel so fucking good.

“Full,” I gasped as Hunter’s tip tapped against my lips.

“About to get more full, princess,” Skel moaned.

“Here’s the lube.” Dex tossed Bram the bottle with his shadows.

“Come here.” I grabbed Reed’s cock with my free hand before taking Hunter into my mouth.

I was so thankful that Dex’s shadows were holding my weight, otherwise, I wouldn’t know how this would work.

Hunter and Reed moaned in tandem as I worked them, and Bram slowly inched his lubed dick inside of my ass.

“So tight.” Bram shuddered as he finally sank all of the way in.

“So beautiful,” Reed croaked with a moan as I pumped his cock, bobbing my head up and down on Hunter’s.

“Fates,” Hunter moaned, tilting his head back.

Skel and Dex cursed under their breaths as they moved as one, and them moving together added to the build up searing through my veins.

Bram also started moving with them, and I was in utter bliss as they did.

Skel and Dex thrust as one up into me as Bram took my ass with excruciating pleasure opposite of their thrusts. Hunter’s cock hit the back of my throat with each motion, and my arm ached from running my palm up and down Reed’s throbbing dick, so I released him and called on my shadow.

It came from my palm and wrapped tightly around Reed’s shaft. It picked up a rhythm, and his moan told me he loved it.

This was the ultimate pleasure.

Our matebonds were alight with a fiery ecstasy, and it wasn’t long until my body bowed against the shadows, the sensation of my mates moving against me pushed me off the brink, and I fell. A soul-tingling orgasm scorched through me, robbing me of all of my senses, but they didn’t come.

“Dedication,” Dex grunted underneath me. “We’ve been practicing on our…”

“Stamina,” Skel gasped, and I felt him almost lose himself to an orgasm through his bond before pulling it back.

“Yeah,” Bram panted.

“Every time we’re all together, we don’t last long,” Hunter explained in a strained tone as they all continued to fuck me.

“I did research, and we’ve been taking you more so we can make this last longer for you. Give you more…” Reed gritted his teeth as my shadow pumped him harder.

“Orgasms,” Bram finished for him.

I whimpered around Hunter as they wound me up tight again until the tension inside exploded again and again.

By the time I reached my fourth orgasm, my body was quivering, heart pounding, and I saw stars like I was in Reed’s dreamscape.

Fates, I couldn’t take it anymore.

My body clenched around all of them, and I writhed within Dex’s shadows.

“She’s ready,” the five of them murmured before another orgasm tore through me, but this time, they came with me.

The last white-hot climax ripped through me, consuming me completely as erotic oblivion gripped a hold of all six of us—and our collective moans, groans, and roars shook the room as we lost ourselves.

Reed’s cum shot out, coating my hand and arm. Hunter came down my throat. Skel, Dex, and Bram spilled inside of me. All as my body contracted like it wanted more, but I couldn’t handle any more.

My hand fell as my shadow sank back in, and Hunter slipped out from between my lips.

“Fates,” I gasped, feeling like I was made of jelly.

“I’ve got you, trouble,” Dex assured me as his shadows lifted me up and left, letting his, Skel, and Bram’s cocks pull out. The shadows gently laid me on an open spot of the bed before dissipating.

“Fuck yes!” Dex, Bram, and Skel high-fived. “We did it!”

Hunter and Reed arched their brows at them as they seized the moment and slid in beside me, pulling me against both of them.

“Hey, no fair,” Dex whined, untangling from Skel as Bram collapsed next to us.

“I need a shower,” I mumbled sleepily.

“Shh, just sleep,” Reed whispered.

“We’ll clean you up,” Hunter promised as Dex’s shadows went to work grabbing wet hand towels and bringing them in.

The five of them cleaned me up and wrapped me up in their arms before I fell asleep, and all I could think about was just how blessed by the Fates we were.

Kalista was free from Dark Veil, Nebula was alive and my familiar, and I had five strong matebonds who had recently taken on my last name.

What more could I possibly ask for?