Page 14 of Taken by the Twins (Sombra Demons #7)
CHAPTER 14
FOREVER
DAMIEN
F or nearly three millennia, I clung to the essence that Lucian fed me through our bond so that I didn’t disappoint my brother. But as I found completion inside of my perfect mate— our perfect mate—it isn’t only my side that I share with her.
Releasing a breath as I fold her up in my arms, my cock still buried deep inside of her, I let go of Lucian’s essence while transferring my grip to Tandy’s.
It was purely instinctive. All demon males want nothing more than to perform the essence exchange. Taking that which your female offers you, giving her everything you are, everything you were, everything you will ever be… it’s what we are made to do, and why the essence exchange is essential in finalizing a mate bond.
I still must give her the mate’s promise while pinning her between my twin and I. Though I whispered it to Tandy while I mated her just now, it won’t actually complete our three-way bond until Lucian is with us.
He’s already blessed her with his essence. I’d suspected as much when the essence I held onto all these years seems to slip away without warning. I’d spent some, traveling to the human world to confront Tandy’s former mate, but we are the doppelseers. We are powerful. We are bonded. If I used the essence and Lucian insisted on my return to Sombra, he would’ve passed me more.
But he couldn’t. Not if he already gave everything he had left to Tandy during their mating.
I was content to slip away into the shadows and into madness. Once the tiny spark of essence I had left disappeared, so would I. But then my feisty human mate gave me a reason to continue my existence, and perhaps it makes me as selfish as I’ve long believed I am, but now she has essence given to her from both of her males.
I knew the moment she received it. Tandy gasped, both her eyes and her mouth going wide, and for a moment, they lit up before her lids shuttered close briefly. At the same time, she squeezed my length as her cunt pulsed around me.
As much as I didn’t want to withdraw from her snug body, the way she squeezed me left me unable to do anything but explode. At least, that’s what it felt like. I’ve rubbed my cock until it released seed countless times over the years, but now that it was being to our mate at last?
I was unprepared for how amazing it felt, and as I lift her off of my spent cock, lowering her to her feet, I can’t wait until I can claim her again.
But when I do? It will be with Lucian.
Tandy holds up her hand. “Give me a second. My legs are a little weak. Once I get the feeling in them back, we can go. Lucian’s waiting for us. He sees you’re okay, that I finally got to mate you, and I’d put coin down that he’ll be ready for another round almost immediately.”
She leans against me. “Is this alright?”
It’s perfect .
My heart swells almost as much as my cock is prepared to do. Our dear Tandy… she’s using my essence instinctively, isn’t she? I didn’t say out loud that I wanted to return to Lucian so that we can give her the mate’s promise, but she knew . Just like, courtesy of my essence, she now can speak Sombran…
I allow our mate to lean against me as long as she likes. Through our new bond, I also give her some of my strength. I’d offer to carry her if I didn’t think her pride would have her refusing me, and when she says she’s ready to go back to the cabin after mere moments, I nod and follow close behind her as she sets off.
This section of the shadows had emptied once I made my claim on my former mortal known. The smaller prey beasts might’ve been curious, but they know better than to go up against a male demon. As for any of the lost fully demonic creatures that lurk in its depths… I have our female to protect. They would never best me to get to our Tandy.
Tandy leads the way. After a few steps, though, she pauses and I can sense her sudden curiosity.
“Hang on. How do I know the way back?”
I stroke my hand down as much of her back as I can reach. “Because I do, dear one.”
She turns, raises the tiny strips of hair over her eyes. “Oh? You mate me and now I’m your ‘dear one’, too?”
Precisely. I’m so glad she understands. “You drip my seed, Tandy. That tells all of Sombra that you are now my mate as well. Our mate. You are both Lucian’s and mine, and you are dear to us both.”
Tandy shrugs. “Okay. Never thought I’d be ‘One’ again, but I like it.” She nuzzles against my shadows, sending a renewed jolt of pleasure through me. In all my years, I never knew my shadows were as sensitive as they are, but though I can’t wait to take our mate in my demon form, I will definitely remember that. “Even if you kinda of lose sweet confection additions when you remind me I’m leaking arrival.”
Now that Tandy has both of our essence, she’s effortlessly speaking in Sombran, though I’m not so sure she’s figured that out yet; that, or how she can navigate the woods became my memories are aiding her in doing so. I have, however, and it amuses me how her thoughts in English translate to my language.
She said something about ‘brow-knee points’ and leaking ‘arrival’, though I don’t quite understand what she means by that.
So I ask. “Arrival?”
Tandy makes the most adorable face. “Arrival? What? No. I said ‘arrival’. You know.” She changes the pronunciation just enough that, now, it sounds harsher, like, “‘Kum’?” She gestures under her dress. “Seed?”
Ah, yes. She knows I have marked her well.
I smile down at her.
Her face melts into one of pure delight. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile before,” she says softly. “Looks good on you.”
I drop a kiss to the top of her pretty red hair. I’ve wanted to put my mouth on her again since the day I panicked and fled from her quarters after she put hers on mine. This isn’t her mouth since it’s her hair, but our mate is right in her certainty that we will now have forever.
I’m not worried about the prophecy. Before, I was, but only because Lucian is afraid of something happening to our Tandy before we could finalize our bond. That was my being selfish again. So sure she would choose Lucian, I was prepared to wait for them to accept each other. Now I see that I should’ve given Tandy my essence and my cock as soon as she would’ve welcomed it.
Still, there is time. We are the doppelseers. With our mate to protect and her essence to bolster us, there isn’t anything we won’t be able to accomplish.
Tandy seems sure that Lucian is waiting for us in the threshold of our cabin. She made it clear that my brother only lingered because of his promise to me, and that Tandy used her human wiles to convince Lucian to let her run into the shadowy woods unprotected, but I will remember to discuss that with my brother later.
What if I had been fully demonic? What if I still could turn? I know he has faith in me, but to risk Tandy? We can never allow any harm to befall our mate.
She is right, though. Lucian is pacing along the threshold, but as though he used our bond to find us, he breaks for the shadows right before we exit them.
Tandy waves. “Look who I found?”
Lucian comes to a stop. For a moment, I’m worried that he scents me all over our mate and has sudden regrets about sharing her. He never has, he’s never given me any sign that he wanted Tandy as his own, but I am worried?—
I shouldn’t be.
He lets out a soft roar of his own, dashing over to us. After giving Tandy a quick welcoming squeeze, he claps his hand on my shoulder.
“Brother. I can’t believe it. Your eyes .”
Tandy looks up at me. “Oh, shit,” she says, slipping into English again in her surprise. “I didn’t notice. Damien, your eyes are purple. Both of them.” She swivels back so that she’s facing Lucian. I already know what’s going to say before she blurts out, “You, too, Lucian.”
Purple eyes. We both have purple eyes. As though we were born brothers instead of twins, we each have a matching set of mage eyes…
I would trade them. If it meant I had to carry the mark of the white gaze with me to keep Lucian as my twin and Tandy as our mate, I would trade them… and I know that my twin agrees.
Luckily, we don’t have to. Luckily, Tandy is our mate… or she will be as soon as we claim her.
We no longer share essence. Not while it swirls around inside of our Tandy, but as my brother squeezes my shoulder wordlessly, I know exactly what he is about to do. How many times have we discussed this very night? Without being able to see what mating our female would be like, we imagined it, and now it’s about to come true.
So when Lucian starts to lower his body to the ash, I follow him. As one, we go down on bended knee.
Lucian clears his throat. “Will you accept us as your mates?”
“Can we give you our mate’s promise and make you ours?” I add.
Beneath the nearly full moon over our heads, Tandy’s eyes might be a dull green shade, but they seem to sparkle as she holds out a hand to each of us. “Hey. I’m already pretty stretched out, and as lubricated as I can get. What better time to try taking two demon dicks at the same time?”
Tandy is small. She does not have the physical strength to heft us to our feet, but neither my twin or I release our mate as we return to a standing position.
Neither of us make a move for the entrance to the cabin, though, and she gives us another curious look.
“Oh, you thought I was joking? No. I’m not joking. I’ve been dreaming about this since I gave in and decided that you, you, and me… we’re a thing. The things I’ve seen us do in my dreams… yeah, no. Let’s go.”
Only we don’t. Not yet.
As my twin and I locked our purple gazes together, I know we’re both thinking the same thing.
Is Tandy dreaming? Or seeing a vision?
Is our human mate a visionary like we are? By bonding the three of us together, will we be the trebleseers?
What will this mean for the prophecy no?—
“Hey.” Tandy snaps her fingers. “Chop, chop, fellas. Lucian? Do the hand-wavey thing and let’s get the shadow clothing gone, yeah? Damien? Head upstairs and start fluffing that bean bag thing. If I’m being stuffed by my mates for the first time, we’re gonna be comfy because once you guys get the first fuck out of the way to claim me, we’re going to explore each other the rest of the night.” Her lips quirk upward. “I’m a very vivid dreamer, and there are quite a lot of things I’m dying to try out.”
Every Sombra demon knows the mate’s promise.
The demon duke of Sombra is the only known bondmaster existing in our realm. We asked him how our being twins would affect it. Haures’s believes that, if we say it exactly as it’s been written since the beginning of time, we will bond our mate to us all the same.
But that’s not what Lucian and I have ever wanted to do…
For as long as I can recall, we had an image of bonding our mate to us. Like Tandy’s, it might’ve been something we fantasized over so often that now it’s become our truth. It does not matter.
With Tandy between her two males, we finally have her where she belongs.
Lucian is sprawled out on his back, leaning into the well of the large nest that will always support the three of us while we mate and we sleep. Once we were all naked, our Tandy instructed him to lie down and turn to shadow. I watched in fascination as she climbed on top of him, their chests pressed together, as she slowly worked his cock inside of her cunt.
She writhed on top of him a few times, making sure he was completely seated before she arched her back, presenting her bottom to me.
Reaching behind her, Tandy uses her wee human fingers to spread herself open wide.
Our mate is stunning, but seeing her pretty pink cunt stretched around my brother’s shadowy cock? I nearly spill and I haven’t even worked myself inside of her yet.
No. My seed belongs to Tandy, and before I lose control again, I lay my hand on her skin.
Before I took her earlier tonight, I noticed a chill whenever I dared a fleeting touch. Now? She feels the same as me, and when I start pushing the head of my cock inside of her, she’s actually pleasurably warm inside.
I groan, and she echoes the sound. “That’s it, big guy. Take your time. It’ll seem tight and the two of you might have to… um… adjust a little, but I can take you. I’m sure I can.”
A flash of Tandy in a position similar to this, only with a pink cock in her cunt and one in her bottom flashes through my mind. I banish it just as quickly, swallowing my rising envy even as I slowly feed another inch inside of her newfound heat.
“You have done this before,” I can’t help but grit out.
She wiggles back, helping me by taking even more of my shadows. “Don’t be jealous, Damien. I can promise you, while I’ve done a lot, taking two cocks at the same time in the same hole… this is a first for me. Throw in the fact you two are my demon mates and, oh yeah. Never done this before but, fuck me, we’re going to do this all the time so long as you guys can make it so you fit just like this. The pressure and the shadows… fuck. I’m gonna come just like this.”
I glance down as she continues away in English, wiggling enough to create some sort of movement between our three bodies. To my amazement, she’d done just what she said she would: she’s taken both Lucian and I at the same time.
It is impossible to thrust; at least, not the way I did when I was the only cock in her snug cunt. Tandy is doing all the work, pinned on our lengths as she is, but between the connection I have with our mate and my brother… I agree with Tandy. I am about to ‘arrive’ quite quickly.
Through our twin bond—because it seems as if my dear brother has been struck speechless by the sensations traveling through us—I can tell that Lucian agrees.
“Our soul will be yours,” I promise Tandy in Sombran, beginning the modified mate’s promise..
“Our heart is in your hands,” continues Lucian, gasping out the words.
Taking pity on my brother for he didn’t yet get to ‘arrive’ tonight, I say the next line of the vow: “Our lives will be forever intertwined.”
At the same time, my twin and I finish the vow by telling our mate, “I give myself to you. We give you everything.”
And as the bond between Tandy, Lucian, and I finalizes just as we both purposely release our seed inside of our mate in unison, that’s exactly what we do.