Page 268 of Shadowblood Souls: The Complete Series

After feasting and dancing until my head spun with giddiness, we find ourselves back at our apartment. Outside the door, Zian scoops me up into his brawny arms.

“This is a thing people do when they’ve just gotten married, isn’t it?” he asks. “Carry the bride over the threshold?”

I tip my head against his neck. “I think so. Sounds good to me.”

He does carry me inside—and then straight to my bedroom. As he sets me down on the massive bed, the rest of my new husbands gather around us. Snowball mews in greeting, and Griffin clucks his tongue at her soothingly before easing her out and shutting the door.

Andreas lifts his eyebrows, but his voice has gone husky. “I believe there’s also something about the wedding night.”

Heat courses over my skin. I reach out to all of them. “I definitely don’t want to skip that.”

“Good.”

He reaches over to unzip my dress, trailing his fingertips down my back as he does. I tip my head to kiss him while tugging at Zian’s shirt to encourage it off him.

I felt gorgeous in my wedding dress, but I’ve never felt as stunning as I do with it stripped off me and set carefully aside on a chair. All of my men’s gazes rove over my body as they yank at their own clothes. The hunger in their expressions stirs even more inside me.

Jacob speaks against the current of urgency in the air. “We shouldn’t rush this. Riva deserves all the enjoyment we can give her. Everyone should have a turn to bring out all their talents and make it a night to remember.”

Zian lets out a faint huff. “And you figure you should go first?”

Jake doesn’t let the teasing comment rile him up. He looks at Andreas. “I was thinking we’d go in the order we found our way back to her. That seems fitting, don’t you think?”

Andreas’s eyes shine with eagerness. “I’m not going to argue.”

The first man I ever experienced bodily pleasures with eases me back on the bed. Drey bends over me to trail kisses down the side of my neck and across my clavicle. “My powers aren’t much good in bed. So, I’ll just bring out all the other talents I’ve honed.”

A soft laugh tumbles out of me, hitching when Andreas closes his mouth over the peak of my breast. The heat of his breath tingles through my flesh.

He strokes the nipple to stiff attention with his tongue and teeth until I’m whimpering. I run my fingers into his thick curls and grip his shoulder.

He fondles my other breast in tandem with the attentions of his mouth, sparking giddy quivers all through my chest. Then he tugs my panties down. With one nip, he bows farther down and buries his face between my legs.

I gasp with the flood of exhilaration that comes with the very first swipe of his tongue over my sex. Andreas hums, the vibration sensitizing me even more, and grazes his teeth over my clit before sucking hard.

More bliss bursts through my nerves. I tip my head back with a gasp, and my other guys scoot closer on the bed.

They might be letting Drey take the lead for his turn, but they’re not sitting out completely. Zian closes his large hand over my breast, strumming the nipple Andreas had to abandon. Dominic nibbles the shell of my ear. Jacob strokes the curve of my ass, and Griffin kisses the crook of my neck.

Delight ripples over me from all sides. I whimper and sway into Andreas’s mouth, biting my lip against the rising swell of need.

He delves his fingers inside me to pulse against the most sensitive spot inside, and I shatter apart. As I quake against his lips and tongue, he laps me through the first wave of the aftershock and then surges up over me.

I raise my hips instinctively to welcome him in. Andreas slides into me like coming home, like we were always meant for this—because we were.

“Nothing matters except this,” he murmurs against my ear. “Nothing matters except us. No matter what else we’ve been through, I’m the luckiest person on the planet to be here with you.”

“One of the luckiest,” Jake puts in. “There are five of us.”

I can’t restrain a giggle, even though it turns into a moan partway through as Andreas drives deeper. “Six. Me too.”

It’s not the most coherent statement of devotion I’ve ever managed, but I think they all understand. And moments later, I’m spiraling off into my second orgasm and not thinking about anything much at all except how fucking lucky I definitely am.

Andreas mutters a ragged curse and follows me over the edge. As we rock to a stop, he kisses me long and hard, the musky flavor lingering on his lips only heightening the sensation.

When he draws back, Dominic eases closer to me with a sly glint in his eyes. He trails one of the tentacles he’s extended from his back over my chest. “I know exactly what talents I can bring to the table.”

I reach to cup his jaw and pull him into a kiss of our own. Then I keep his head tipped close to mine as I say, “Everything about you makes me happy. The extra appendages are only a bonus.”

He chuckles and presses a sucker over one of my nipples. The jolt of pleasure that comes with its suction proves just how much of a bonus they can be.

Dom doesn’t rush into the act any more than Andreas did. He lets both tentacles tease my chest, belly, and hips while he worships my lips, jaw, and neck with his mouth. As he swipes his tongue over my throat, one of the sinewy tendrils drifts even lower.

It traces tantalizing patterns along my inner thighs. Each bit of suction makes my skin quiver in anticipation. Then he slips the tip right between my folds.

My hips cant upward in anticipation, a thrill already shooting through my nerves.

Dom claims my mouth again while he pushes the tentacle deeper. He balls it as it goes, letting it stretch my channel to delicious effect as only he can.

When he settles one sucker over my clit, I can’t hold back a moan. He drinks it in and kisses me harder as he pulses the tentacle inside me.

I had no idea I had this much capacity for pleasure in me. With each thrust, Dominic sends me soaring closer to a third release. Pleasure sweeps through my body, setting off pangs of desire from my core all through my limbs.

I clutch at him, writhing with need—but a deeper hunger overwhelms my craving for release.

“I want you to come with me,” I mumble against his lips.

With a stifled growl, he flips us onto our sides and tugs my leg up over his thigh. His tentacle pulls out to slick across my ass, and he plunges his rigid cock into me at just the right angle to make me whimper.

The flick of his suckers against my back opening has me gasping even louder. I buck with his strokes inside and out, tangling my fingers in his silky hair.

“Could never want anyone else,” he rasps out, and groans as I clench around him. We careen over the edge together, our sweaty foreheads coming to rest against each other.

Jacob teases his fingers over my hair, but he doesn’t push for his turn. He waits until Dominic pulls away from me before tucking his arm around me and flipping me up and over so I’m straddling him.

Jake grins up at me with unusual openness, flexing his hips so his erection rubs against my clit. “We’ve had a lot of good times in this position.”

My giggle comes out breathless. “We have.”

“I think I can top them all, though.”

Of course he does. But I’m not going to complain.

I lean over to kiss him, and he glides his hands down the sides of my body to my thighs. With a firm but careful movement, he aligns our bodies and presses up into me as if he was never meant to be anywhere else.

I’m already so sated, but Jacob’s mix of gentleness and power is turning me on all over again. I kiss him harder and arch back to take him deeper—and another touch trails across my back.

Jacob’s fingers are still massaging my thighs. The contact doesn’t feel like a hand anyway.

I glance over my shoulder to see his discarded dress shirt floating behind me. The soft fabric of the sleeves skims over my shoulder blades and down my spine, provoking a tantilizing shiver.

When I turn back to Jake, his grin has widened. “There’s more than one way to add extra appendages to the mix.”

I can only see a few hints of the effort he’s putting into manipulating his telekinetic talent in the slight tightening of his jaw and the focus in his gaze. The sleeves wrap around me to stroke over my breasts as Jacob brings his actual hand to my clit.

More bliss engulfs me from some well deep inside. I tip my head back with a moan. Jake’s touch is everywhere, his shaft filling me at just the right angle.

We crash together faster with the teasing of my nipples and my clit, and I shatter apart yet again, crying out. The shirt falls away as Jacob surges up into me to chase his own release. He groans and pulls me close.

With a grunt of mild consternation, Zian eases my sweat-damp hair back from my shoulder. “We’ve been working our wife hard. She should get to just relax and enjoy the moment.”

I understand what he means a few seconds later when he lifts me in his arms. He braces me against the headboard, my legs wrapped around his hips, my body held up securely by the strength he emanates.

Zee nuzzles my cheek and teases his fingertips over my hip with the delicious prick of his wolfish claws. “You ready for me?”

I couldn’t be more primed after the three lovers I’ve already taken. I sling my arms around his neck and kiss him tenderly. “Always.”

With a shaky breath, he brings us together. His cock is always a stretch, but tonight it fills me with only the faintest of burns and a rush of pleasure.

A mewling sound slips out of me. I kiss him again, more emphatically, and he starts to move.

Zian makes good on his promise to do all the work. He rocks into me, gripping my hip with one hand and responding to every twitch of my muscles to know just the right pace to send my pleasure spiking higher.

With his other hand, he keeps his claws out. The pricks of delight that are just shy of painful ripple along my side, over my thigh, and up to my breast with the sharpest spark across one nipple.