Page 46 of Mantle (IMMORTAL FLAME #3)

~Ariana~

We still hadn’t found Corvin.

The spell Cassius and I had created had also been infused with that bastard’s blood to track him through his victims, but it had been slamming up against some major resistance.

Resistance that we’d determined had been necromantic in nature, another thing that Corvin had stolen some of Sylas’ magic for.

Thankfully, now with his power fused to the spell, we would be able to cut through it.

It was the time-consuming aspect that was getting to me more than anything else.

Although Nyx had assured me that Ketheron was safe and content in the dreamscape, I wanted him out of there for both their sakes. Nyx was still holding it well and not showing any visible strain, but it still wasn’t ideal to have a dreamwalking spell active for a long period of time.

Nyx deserved the relief.

And Ketheron deserved true freedom.

My training sessions with Cassius had shifted to focus solely on practicing my part of the severance spell—the one he, Mom, and Dad had created, now refined with Ketheron’s help.

Talk about a close call. The guys had been seriously freaked out.

Me? I was a lot more used to being thrown into dangerous situations thanks to all the gaps in what I knew about my own heritage.

At least I’d been able to shed some of the weight of things while we’d been immersed in Apex Magic Theory and Practical Application with Grandpa.

But as the four of us walked out and Grandpa was headed back to Arcanum Order to work on the reengineered Inhibitor spell, that weight returned all too quickly.

“Not until later,” I heard Kai tell Nyx, as he asked if Kai was going to teleport out right now and join Grandpa.

“Oh, phew. I thought we were going to have to reschedule our special plans for tonight.”

I blinked. “What special plans? I thought we were going to study for upcoming finals?”

“Not tonight,” Vorzyr told me.

“This one night is ours,” Kai said, a moment before he was wrapping us all up in a cloud of teleportation.

As we rematerialized, I found that we were upstairs in what I recognized as Solumira, the bedroom door to the left open. But now there was another door—one that hadn’t been there before.

I turned to see the boys looking excited, waiting on my reaction.

“What’s going on? What did you do?” I asked, in a teasing tone. “What’s behind this brand-new door here? Do I need to brace myself?”

“Only in a good way,” Nyx told me.

“Although, what might happen once you step inside will also require some bracing,” Kai said, in his flirtatious tone that send a hot thrill rolling through me.

“Mmm… I second that,” Vorzyr uttered on a sexy growl.

I gave them a suspicious squint, heart hammering just a little harder now—not from nerves, but from excitement. From the way they were all looking at me like they were mere split-seconds away from descending on me.

Fuck, yes.

Nyx stepped forward, his eyes practically sparkling and his horns pulsing. He gestured at the door. “After you, Halo.”

I grasped the knob and turned it, then pushed the door open and stepped inside.

What I saw stole the breath from my lungs.

They’d created a special shared bedroom for all of us.

It was absolutely breathtaking.

And it stood apart in the best ways imaginable from the rest of Solumira.

It was drenched in warmth, color, and magic.

Our magic.

Vaulted ceilings arched overhead, crafted from rich black beams. Navy silk panels draped from them.

The bed was massive, easily accommodating the four of us, draped in silver midnight sheets and a plush comforter.

The headboard stole my attention immediately—it was carved with magic-infused inlays: rose-gold for Kai, crimson for Vorzyr, vibrant-blue for Nyx, and silver for me.

Each wall had been touched by one of them.

Kai’s corner was all clean lines and floating bookshelves, a softly glowing sconce casting a soothing warmth.

Nyx’s side had trailing vines woven through blue silk drapes.

Vorzyr’s was wrapped in flame motifs and deep reds and golds, a hovering orb hanging from the ceiling like a dragon’s heart.

This was a room meant to live in.

To belong in.

“I can’t believe you guys did this. Wow, this is truly amazing. Incredibly beautiful,” I breathed.

“So beautiful,” Kai said. In a blink he was there, whispering at my ear, his tone changing in a way that made my core clench with delicious anticipation, “Just like you, our dirty little slut.”

“Kai,” I groaned.

“That’s right. Tonight is a callback to that filthy fucking that makes you drip into your sexy lace panties for us.”

In the next second, a spark of Vorzyr’s magic had the drapes encircling my wrists and yanking them above my head, a cry of surprise escaping me at the unexpectedness of it.

“What a gorgeous display,” he growled.

I chuckled. “If you think these will hold me, my boys, I—”

“We know they won’t,” Vorzyr told me.

Kai nodded. “But we also know that you’ll let them hold you so we can ravage every fucking inch of you.”

“The way you deserve, Halo,” Nyx said, ripping his shirt off, then doing the same with the rest of his clothes in the very next beat.

Vorzyr pulled off his white henley, then reached for the fly of his maroon leather pants, only to be stilled by Kai suddenly right in his space.

He held Vorzyr’s molten gaze as he popped open his fly for him then teasingly drew down his zipper, achingly slowly in a way that had me basically fucking salivating. Kai smirked at me, knowing well what he was doing.

When he finally shoved Vorzyr’s pants down to his lower thighs, my dragon was panting, his cock springing free.

“Hard as fucking granite,” Kai groaned.

He jerked him roughly, too roughly on purpose, making Vorzyr grunt and try to step back instinctively, but Kai grasped his balls with his free hand, holding him to him.

“Nuh-uh, take it like a good boy.” He gestured with his head in my direction.

“Look at her watching your big, glorious cock being roughed up by me.”

Vorzyr’s eyes locked with mine, a whole lot intensity flaring, so much so that it had me squirming in need and pulling at my binds.

“Scent her. I bet she’s already dripping for us.”

Vorzyr’s nostrils flared, and then his eyes were hooding. “Motherfucker… yes. So wet. So potent. So needy and ready for us.”

“Let’s make her more than needy. Desperate and begging, I’m thinking.”

Kai pulled Vorzyr to me by his cock, right in front of me.

Then he released him and moved behind me. With a spark of his magic, my brown suede jacket, along with my socks and boots were gone, and I was just in my black strappy tank and blue jeans, my bare feet sinking into the soft, lush carpet.

He reached down my tank with both hands either side of me and slid his fingers beneath the cups of my black, silky bra.

Vorzyr opened my pants and pulled them down.

He went for my panties, but Kai ordered, “Leave them on and slip your cock inside, grinding all over her. But no entering.”

“Kai, fuck…”

But Vorzyr was too immersed to argue, and he peeled back the side of my panties, then slid his cock beneath the fabric, sliding sideways over my pussy.

“Mmm… yeah,” Kai uttered. “You’re gonna come all over that beautiful cunt.”

I saw him give a nod, then Nyx stepped up behind Vorzyr and started kneading his ass cheeks, while sliding his cock right between them, teasing but not entering.

Vorzyr cursed and started pumping his hips, the friction, combined with Kai getting rougher with my breasts and pinching and pulling at my nipples, eliciting a scream from me.

“Love your cries of bliss, beautiful slut,” Kai breathed at my ear, before nipping it.

I bucked my hips against Vorzyr, watching his jaw tighten and his eyes roll back in his head.

Nyx ground rougher and faster.

Vorzyr’s breath hitched and a snarl tore from him as he rutted harder, the now soaking wet silk of my panties sliding wildly against him, coating his cock, coating me. Fuck, I could feel him throbbing against me.

Pleasure surged and I threw my head back against Kai’s shoulder.

He chuckled darkly, then started slapping my pussy and Vorzyr’s cock all at once.

“Motherfucker,” Vorzyr growled, digging his fingers into my hip, then squeezing my breast brutally, adding to all the overwhelming sensations, the sights, the sounds of pleasure from them all, the dirty talk, the cursing.

As Kai bit at my throat, I watched Nyx slicking his tongue over Vorzyr’s. “Come all over her.” In the next second, he dropped to his knees, spread Vorzyr’s ass cheeks open, then dove inside, and I heard him lashing him with his tongue and eating his ass.

“Luscious!” Vorzyr roared, employing his supernatural speed, his cock becoming a vibrating force of motion inside my panties, so much so that they started to rip.

The talons on his left hand dropped and he raked them down my stomach, drawing blood all the way down, stopping just shy of my pussy.

His eyes shone as he realized I’d dropped my shield for him so he could make me bleed. I knew how deeply it called to his primal side. And, honestly, it did a hell of a lot to me as well.

He licked up the blood ravenously. Mmm.

“Come,” Kai commanded, his slaps coming violently, making me buck and Vorzyr lose his fucking mind with me. “Fill those whore panties.”

With a guttural roar, Vorzyr’s rhythm broke and then he exploded, hot cum spraying all over my pussy, coating me in the stickiness.

I trembled as it slicked across my clit, then I came shrieking and pulling at the binds trapping my wrists, fucking my hips back and forth between him and Kai.

Vorzyr held me to him, resting his head on my shoulder, panting and trembling from the intensity of it all.

“Just getting started,” Kai whispered at my ear.

He didn’t let me come down, obviously wanting to keep the pleasure high going, because then he was sauntering in front of me and guiding Nyx over beside Vorzyr. He shed himself of his clothes with a snap of his fingers.