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P hillip relaxed on the velvet sofa in the suite he shared with his mates. He was in a terrific mood. The television was on, and Phillip enjoyed Keegan’s husky laughter as a sitcom played. Keegan and Phillip had already changed out of their clothes into comfy pajamas sent over by Larissa with their uniforms. On Phillip’s dark pants, vibrantly colored dragons in a variety of poses were spread from hem to waistband, while Keegan’s bottoms displayed fun kittens.

As for the cat shifter who held Phillip’s heart, Victor was cleaning his face, applying moisturizer, and adding whatever else was in the plethora of little tubes and jars in their bathroom to his soft skin. Phillip absentmindedly caressed one of Keegan’s furred calves as he wondered how easily he could persuade the men he adored to try something new tonight.

Sucking and rubbing each other was enticing and never failed to disappoint, but Phillip desperately wanted to expand their horizons. He ached to fuck them in every sense of the word. But he wasn’t sure if they had the same desire. It was a conversation he’d put off for far too long. They weren’t the only words he’d kept hidden.

Phillip was determined to tell Keegan and Victor he loved them. And that his dragon wanted to sink his fangs into their throats to claim them completely as mates. Hopefully, Victor and Keegan were as enamored of him as he was of them. The fear of being rejected had kept him silent, and it was foolish. They were his closest friends and had shared the most intimate experiences together; he hated the secrets resting between them.

Phillip had to contend with the feelings he’d withheld, and being a sentinel, he had a unique disadvantage. Each sentinel kept the truth about their poisons confidential. That wasn’t entirely true. Alaric allowed each sentinel to make their own choices about whether to confide in their mates. The Arch Lich knew the black poison killed the undead and that the green didn’t mar the skin of sentinels, but he’d been told because he resurrected them. Without that knowledge, the spell would be inaccurate.

It was up to Phillip to decide if it was best to withhold the truth from Keegan and Victor. Phillip wasn’t sure yet how to proceed. But he thought it might help him better explain reactions like the one his dragon had on his first flight. The moment Keegan had risen to his feet, the dragon had lost his mind. It wasn’t that a fall would’ve killed Keegan. He couldn’t die that way. But he could die, though that would be news to Keegan. The major problem for Phillip’s dragon was that Keegan was a fallen knight. His resurrection spell demanded he run toward danger to save others.

That hadn’t bothered Phillip or his beast until Keegan had graduated from the Ascension Center. While Keegan was training, it was pointless to consider his race. As a recruit, Keegan was kept confined to a dorm, classrooms, and a gym. Things were different now. Keegan was a Cinder Lord, and like Phillip, he was expected to follow whatever order was issued by the Lich Sentinel and the Skeleton Seven—even if that meant he put himself in imminent peril.

How the hell could Phillip demand his superiors tell Keegan to hide when, as a fallen knight, he had been resurrected to protect and defend the Council? The sentinel side of Phillip understood how capable Keegan was and respected him for it. As for his dragon, the beast was scared shitless of anything happening to Keegan.

“Why are you getting so tense?” Keegan asked, pulling his gaze from the television to study Phillip’s face.

“What?”

“You were relaxed, and now I can feel your body stiffening. What’s worrying you?”

Phillip forced himself to take a deep, calming breath and focused on loosening his strained muscles. Since he couldn’t fool Keegan, he smiled and licked his bottom lip slowly to divert him. It worked instantly. Keegan’s eyes followed the motion of his tongue.

“Maybe I was getting worked up thinking about my plans for you and Victor tonight,” Phillip drawled.

The bathroom door opened, and Victor emerged in a lilac sleepshirt with tiny white hearts on it.

“Perfect timing, Sparkles,” Keegan called out. “Spicy was about to distract me from whatever was worrying him with dirty talk.”

Victor stopped moving toward them and crossed his arms. “While I’m always eager for your dirty talk, Spicy, why don’t you tell us what’s bothering you first?”

Nearly rolling his eyes at his own foolishness in thinking he could get away with anything less than full honesty with either of his mates, Phillip went with truth since he had little choice. But any conversation about poisons would have to wait.

“I was thinking about our flight together. It upset my dragon,” Phillip confided. “I was trying to remind him that Keegan is a fallen knight.”

“Keep telling him that, Phillip. I didn’t mean to make him anxious, but he also didn’t have to worry. I wasn’t in any danger.”

“Exactly. So, let’s talk about the peril Victor has put us in tonight,” Phillip responded as he focused on pleasing his men and not secrets or jittery dragons.

“And what peril is that, Spicy?” Victor asked saucily as he strolled to their bed and bent to drag throw pillows off the coverlet.

“You are not wearing underwear,” Phillip remarked. Through the thin cotton of his nightshirt, Phillip could easily see Victor’s half-hard cock completely unencumbered by the cat shifter’s preferred sexy panties.

Keegan hopped off the sofa and raced to Victor’s side. With a big grin, he slid his hands under Victor’s nightclothes. Victor squeaked as Keegan grabbed his length.

“Look at that, Spicy, you’re right!” Keegan exclaimed.

With a playful swat to Keegan’s arm, Victor shook his head. “And you knew that before you decided to play with me.”

The fallen knight’s lips landed on Victor’s nape. “Can you really blame me? You’re beautiful and sexy.”

“Spicy, get over here or I’m going to ruin everything thanks to Sunshine,” Victor ordered as he melted against Keegan’s chest and his breath grew husky.

Yanking off his T-shirt, Phillip climbed on the bed and watched Keegan toy with Victor under his nightshirt.

“I had something I wished to discuss with you both,” Phillip stated, shucking off his pants and tossing them aside. Watching Keegan and Victor together had his cock already hard, but Phillip ignored it.

No one else did. Practically in unison, they clambered onto the mattress and crawled to where he was slouched on the remaining pillows. Thrusting his hands out to prevent them from touching him, Phillip tsk ed.

“Take off your clothes so we can talk,” Phillip ordered quietly.

“Weird order, but okay,” Keegan said. His T-shirt flew off a moment later, then he wiggled out of his bottoms. At his side, Victor was much more deliberate in his movements, but the lovely body he revealed was no less enticing than Keegan’s muscled frame.

“What do you want to talk about, Spicy?” Victor asked.

“I bought some lube, but do you have any already opened?” Phillip inquired.

Victor’s lips curled upward, and he padded to the nightstand on his hands and knees. Phillip’s attention zeroed in on his rounded ass, and he dearly hoped he wasn’t the only one desiring something different.

“I want to be fucked,” Keegan rushed out. His eyes widened. “I mean, if anyone else is interested in fucking.”

“I am interested,” Phillip replied as his gaze landed on the hard cock curling up toward Keegan’s belly.

Victor plucked the lube out of the nightstand drawer and handed it to Phillip. He grimaced slightly. “To be honest, I’m not sure I can fuck anyone. I’ll try anything, but mostly I’ve envisioned myself being fucked.”

“Is it okay that I’ve thought about both?” Keegan asked.

“Since I cannot lie, I have to admit I have fantasized about fucking but not being fucked,” Phillip remarked.

“Well, I think that means that we should start out with everyone involved,” Victor said. “So, Keegan fucks me while you fuck him, Spicy.”

Keegan flopped onto the mattress on his back. “I’m going to be the first fallen knight to die.”

“I take it you do not object to Victor’s plan?” Phillip asked, uncapping the lube and pouring some out onto his fingers.

Scrambling up to a sitting position, Keegan grinned. “I was resurrected to persevere against all odds. No matter what it costs my sanity, I’ll endure it to be in a Spicy-Sparkles sandwich.”

Victor took the lube from Phillip and handed it to Keegan. “For efficiency and because I’m not going to last all night, you need to stretch me while Spicy does the same to you.”

“I’ve fucking dreamed of his fingers in my ass,” Keegan said. “Yours too, Victor, so that’s happening in the future.”

“It’d be my pleasure, but seriously, get to work,” Victor demanded.

Keegan’s eyes widened, but he dumped some slick out. “Um, where should I be?”

“Straddle me, ass in the air,” Phillip instructed.

“We’re going to need a cleansing potion later,” Victor murmured.

“Yeah, I probably should’ve waited to get lube on my fingers,” Keegan said.

To Phillip’s delight, he soon had Keegan’s round cheeks in front of him. Phillip waited as Victor and Keegan figured out how to work out their end of things. Eventually it was decided that Keegan could balance his weight on his knees and one hand as he stretched Victor if the cat shifter lay on his back.

Phillip slid one slippery digit into Keegan’s pink pucker. The fallen knight gasped softly.

“You can use two, Sunshine, I’ve put toys in there for years,” Victor instructed.

“Why are you just now mentioning this?” Phillip asked, belatedly realizing that their plan blocked his view of Victor. Hopefully, he’d be able to ensure he could watch them both as he fucked Keegan.

“No one asked,” Victor replied huskily. “Crook your fingers, Sunshine, and you can touch my prostate.”

Victor moaned, and Phillip copied the action inside Keegan’s wet channel. Keegan whimpered.

“Oh shit, Sparkles. He did it to me.”

“Good, right?”

“Fuck, yes.”

Delighted to please Keegan, Phillip smoothed his free hand up Keegan’s hairy thigh and massaged one firm ass cheek. Both of his men were built to perfection.

“Spicy, I can take two, or you know, a hundred. But if you keep touching me like that, I’m going to come and Sparkles will hate me.”

To ensure Victor enjoyed himself as much as Keegan and Phillip, the sentinel worked two digits inside Keegan’s tight hole and bypassed his prostate for the time being.

“I can’t wait to feel your dick if fingers feel this good,” Keegan groaned.

“Why did we wait so long to do this?” Victor asked.

“I do not know, but we need to plan better,” Phillip said. “I cannot watch Keegan stretching you, nor can I see the way your face flushes when you are aroused. While I love the view of Keegan’s beautiful ass, I want to experience everything of our lovemaking.”

“If it makes you feel any better, I’m pissed I can’t watch you finger Keegan,” Victor huffed. “And I can’t see your expression or touch your dick.”

“If you touched my dick, I would make a mess on the comforter instead of inside Keegan,” Phillip retorted. There was so much lust coursing through his veins that Phillip wasn’t even sure he was going to last long enough to fulfill their plan. But he was a sentinel. He would honor his word and ensure his mates reached the height of ecstasy.

Keegan was rocking slightly toward Phillip, so he worked three fingers into the fallen knight and took great delight and pride in the way he squeaked out Phillip’s name.

“He has three in you, doesn’t he?” Victor asked. “Come on, Sunshine, I need more.”

The pleading in Victor’s voice made Phillip’s cock jerk.

“Okay, Sparkles,” Keegan responded breathlessly. “I can’t really think while…you know, while he’s doing that. Fuck, I love this. I love this.”

Noting the strain in Keegan’s voice, Phillip kept his touch light as he caressed Keegan’s freckled thigh and ass. There would be plenty of opportunity to push him beyond his limits soon. Earlier than Phillip expected, Victor called things to a halt and declared himself ready.

“Are you sure?” Keegan asked.

“Do you want Phillip to play with you all night or to get fucked?” Victor asked testily.

“I’m ready too,” Keegan shouted.

Although Phillip and his dragon were always concerned first with the safety of his mates, he had to trust that Keegan and Victor would object if anything grew uncomfortable. His men would be fine. Phillip pulled his fingers free, and Keegan sighed softly. Keegan was still straddling Phillip when Victor rushed over and fused his mouth with Phillip’s.

Grabbing a fistful of Victor’s spiky hair, Phillip answered the aggressive kiss with rough strokes of his tongue. His balls tightened with delight. Just as swiftly as Victor started the exchange, he ended it. They stared at each other for a poignant heartbeat, and Phillip smiled at Victor’s flushed skin and dilated pupils.

“How do you want Keegan to fuck you?”

“If I’m on my back, I can watch you both come,” Victor replied.

Phillip nodded. It was an excellent plan. Keegan’s gaze widened as he crawled out of the way and Victor took Phillip’s place in the middle of the mattress. Grabbing the lube from the bed where Keegan had apparently dropped it, Phillip dumped some into his palm.

Keegan hissed as Phillip fisted the fallen knight’s length to slick him up. Phillip’s hair was pushed out of his eyes by Keegan, and the fallen knight kissed him hard and fast.

“I’m nervous,” Keegan admitted.

“Me too,” Phillip said. “But we will all be fine.”

“Put your hands on my sides,” Victor instructed, lifting his ass up as Keegan scooted close. Phillip watched with rapt envy as Keegan lined his dick up to Victor’s stretched pucker. Needing to distract himself so he wouldn’t ruin their plans, Phillip moved behind Keegan and slicked up his own length.

“That’s it, Sunshine,” Victor coaxed. “I love the way you feel inside me.”

“You’re so hot and tight.”

As a spark or two flitted through him, Phillip was torn between demanding they explain in glorious detail how wonderful it was to be connected so intimately and telling them to shut the hell up so he wouldn’t come immediately.

At last, it was his turn to get involved.

“Spicy, put your dick in Keegan before I lose my mind,” Victor ordered.

Phillip grabbed Keegan’s hip as the fallen knight bent forward. Victor’s fingers dove through Keegan’s waves, and Phillip heard their soft kiss. Phillip nudged his cock against Keegan’s hole and took a deep, bracing breath as he pushed inside. The first thing he registered was the intense heat.

Then the tightness nearly robbed his lungs of air altogether.

“Are you okay?” Phillip asked, cupping Keegan’s other flank.

“Fuck,” Keegan replied.

“He’s good,” Victor answered for Keegan. “He’s so damn good right now.”

Taking Victor at his word, Phillip slowly continued his onslaught. His dragon roared with approval, and Phillip’s fangs dropped into place. The beast wanted Keegan and Victor forever. But that had to wait. Phillip would take nothing from his mates without their permission.

At a speed no less than glacial, Phillip slid into Keegan and was incredibly grateful when he finally bottomed out.

“We’re doing this again,” Keegan panted. “Again and again.”

Chuckling darkly at the pleasure in Keegan’s voice, Phillip dug his fingertips into the fallen knight’s skin.

“Move whenever you are ready, Sunshine,” Phillip instructed.

“Move now,” Victor ordered. “Or I’m going to burst.”

Phillip kept himself still and held on tight as Keegan tentatively thrust. Victor moaned. Thanks to the way Victor thrashed his head, Phillip had a perfect view as his pretty mouth fell open. Keegan’s confidence grew. A few seconds later, Phillip gnashed his teeth as Keegan pumped his hips enthusiastically. The channel milking his cock was so exquisite, Phillip wasn’t surprised he was yanked to the edge swiftly.

His balls ached. His breath stopped. The world spun.

Keegan’s hole clamped down on Phillip’s length, and a shout was torn from Keegan. A heartbeat later, Phillip groaned as he shot his seed into Keegan’s welcoming body. His dragon growled with satisfaction and thankfully didn’t take it upon himself to bite either man in the bed with him.

“I love you,” Phillip heard someone say. Then he squeezed his eyes shut as he realized he’d declared his feelings during sex. It wasn’t the romantic moment he’d envisioned, but at least he’d finally revealed his heart.

“I hope he means us and not my ass,” Keegan said to Victor, his voice husky.

“Never mind,” Phillip rushed out. “We will discuss it later.”

“It’s okay, Spicy. I love you and Keegan too,” Victor responded. “I was waiting for the perfect moment. You found it first. And it’s a good thing you did because my kitty nearly bit the shit out of Keegan as he fucked me.”

“My fangs dropped too,” Phillip confessed.

“So, can we bind our souls?” Keegan asked. “Because I love you both too.”

“This is less romantic that I had wanted for you both,” Phillip complained, hoping he wasn’t leaning too heavily on Keegan. His limbs felt like jelly. “But that is what I want most in life.”

“This is wonderful and just for us,” Victor insisted. “And I promise we’ll get cleaned up and cuddle for hours to celebrate.”

“Or maybe we plan an encore?” Keegan asked, his voice bright with hope.

Pleased he hadn’t offended anyone by finally speaking the truth in his heart while they were sweaty and sticky with lube, Phillip smiled as relief flooded him and his dragon.

“Whatever you both want. I offer you my heart and my soul.”

“Now that is definitely romantic,” Victor replied with a happy sigh.

“And sexy because he’s still inside me,” Keegan added with a husky laugh.

“I adore you both; thank you for tonight.”

“No, thank you ,” they replied together, making them all chuckle.

It was a wonderful night and one Phillip planned to repeat as often as his mates wanted. And soon, he and his dragon would have their greatest wish—to be bonded eternally with Keegan and Victor.