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Rallan

I ’m sitting up in bed, tracing lines up and down Simone’s back when Vex returns from his meeting on Earth. I hear him stomping around in the bedroom next to ours before he comes in. His eyes fall on how naked I managed to convince Simone to get tonight.

I promised her back scratches until she fell asleep and her tunic came flying off. I also may have known Vex was coming back tonight, and I wanted to see if he would be upset with his mate naked and wrapped up in my arms.

“Clever.” Vex rolls his eyes as he leans in the doorway. He crosses his arms over his chest, and his lips flatten into a tight line. I don’t stop stroking Simone’s back or watching as she breathes in and out. After a few moments of silence, Vex decides to say more to me. “Is she still mad at me?”

“She was not mad at you,” I tell him, knowing he might not believe me. “She was scared because her soul clings to yours even though I am right here and eager for her to need me just as much.”

Vex looks taken back for a moment, before he relaxes against the doorframe even more. “What did you two do while I was gone?”

“Well, she used many colorful words to describe me and my neverending need to be inside of her. Then we worked on the houses, and at night, we did everything the same as always. Why? Did you think I was going to bed her while you were away?”

“It crossed my mind,” Vex says, pushing away from the doorway to come sit on the bed with us.

“It crossed mine as well,” I tell him. It crosses my mind most moments of most days, so it is not like I am telling him anything he doesn’t already know. “She will be happy you are back.”

“Will she?” Vex looks at me, his hand reaching out to stroke Simone’s back, taking my place. I let him because he has been gone from her for many days and needs this connection.

“She cried for you when you left,” I tell him.

It is not that I want him to feel bad. I want him to realize that our mate cares for him just as much as we care for her. She may be terrible at showing it, but her soul needs us both more than she will ever tell us.

“I didn’t want her to cry.”

“I know this, and she knows this,” I say. “She went looking for you right after you left. She wanted to apologize for what she said.”

“She doesn’t need to apologize,” Vex says, his teeth clenching tight.

“I told her this, but when she decides something, she is not one to be easily swayed.”

“Well, I’m sorry I wasn’t here to listen to her apology.”

I wave away the worried expression that is now on his face. He needs not worry because I have handled it. Just as I handle most of our mate’s fiery moods. “I convinced her the best way to apologize to you would be to bed us. I think she was very receptive to my suggestions.”

Simone snorts. It’s the first sound that I’ve heard from her in a long time. I look down at her with narrowed eyes and crinkled brows. How long has she been awake?

“We know you’re awake now,” Vex sighs. “You can stop pretending.”

“If I stop, will you keep rubbing my back?” Simone’s voice is muffled against my abdomen.

“I’ll rub your back for as long as you want, so long as it means you want me near you,” Vex says, his voice filled with the conviction of a male who has been without his mate for a long time.

“Plus, the longer he does it, the longer I can feel your tits against me,” I add, making sure they are aware that I am still part of this mating.

Simone shifts on top of me, probably now aware of just how sensitive her breasts are and how much she likes how they feel against my scales. I can feel her nipples hardening against me, telling me where they are pressed against me.

“You are aroused at me reminding you of how bare you are?” I ask, teasing her because her other mate is back, and maybe we can do something about how badly we all need one another.

“How bare is she?” Vex asks, his eyes falling down her body. The blanket is thrown over her lower half, but she is without her shorts, just like she is every night. Vex knows how she sleeps, so he is only asking as a way to get Simone even more worked up.

“Pull the blanket down so you can see,” I tell him. I interlock my fingers in Simone’s so she cannot try to hide from us now that we’ve finally gotten her naked, in bed, and willing.

“Did you two plan this?” Simone asks, her voice higher pitched as the blanket is dragged down her body.

Her fingers flex between mine, telling me I was a smart male in holding her hands.

Her backside is pleasant to look at, but I know the front of her is even better.

What I really want is to flip her over, spread her thighs, and get a better view of what’s between her legs.

“I didn’t plan any of this,” Vex says as his fingertips trail further down her back until he’s cupping her backside. Tendrils of his energy splinter from his grip and skate along her skin. Simone moans against me, her lower half wiggling in Vex’s hold on her.

“I planned it all, and it ends with us both filling your womb,” I say proudly, not caring at all that either of them might think it too forward.

I have been without my mate, without any relief for my poor disused cock, for too many days. It is time, and even Simone must know this because she’s moaning and nodding her head like she is eager to be filled by two males.

“Before we do that, I think I need to repent for how I treated our mate,” Vex says, his grip tightening on her hips as he flips her onto her back.

I hiss as I watch her arch her back and show herself off to us. Even Vex doesn’t seem upset about me touching her, admiring her.

I told him he just needs to be close to her when it happens, and he will be fine. I think he is finally believing me because when I go to cup her breasts, he does not say anything. No, his eyes glow in delight, and then he is crawling in between our mate’s legs and spreading her wide.

“Repent with your mouth,” I tell him. I let one of my hands slide down Simone’s stomach until it is between her legs.

She is wet and warm and so needy for us.

I run my fingers through her slickness as a hiss escapes my lips.

When I am able to silence it, I spread her lower lips with my hand.

“I have wanted to see how you can pleasure her with your mouth for many days.”

Simone gasps as she realizes that I want to hold her open while her other mate helps her find her pleasure on his tongue. Her gaze becomes glassy, and her lids heavy as she relaxes against me.

Vex doesn’t need much prompting before he grabs her thighs and holds her tight to him. He works her like a male who knows his female inside and out. He has been with her for much longer than me. He has had time to catalog what she enjoys and to master it.

He flicks his tongue over the bundle of pleasure between her legs, and she gasps and moans his name.

He sucks it into his mouth, growling softly as his tongue laps and suckles at her wetness.

Simone cries out for him over and over until she is begging him not to stop.

He pulls back, his chin covered in her slick and a wicked glow in his eyes.

“Do you want to see something that will make her scream?” Vex asks me, his eyes burning bright as he stares down at Simone and how she’s trying to reach for him to pull him back down to her core.

“More than anything,” I whisper, not knowing what it is that I am agreeing to witness.

Vex’s true body emerges in an instant. It shifts form until almost all of Simone’s body is covered in glowing white tendrils of energy.

The glowing tendrils begin to vibrate, and Simone throws her head back to scream her pleasure. I do not care much that I have no idea what he is or what he is doing. I only care that he can make our mate feel like this.

“Hold her through it,” Vex’s disconnected voice speaks from somewhere as his body continues to vibrate across Simone’s skin.

She writhes underneath me, her mouth open in a silent plea to Vex not to stop. I wrap one arm over her chest, holding her against my body. The other moves to her head to stroke her cheek as she starts to come down from whatever it was Vex just did to her.

“So, so good, fuck, so good,” Simone whimpers and moans as she starts to regain some of her ability to think and speak. Her whole body goes limp in my hold, and her eyes flutter open to look up at me. She smiles a small genuine smile that has my cock straining against her back.

Vex appears between her legs as his tendrils slide from her body and make up his body again. “Your turn.”

“I cannot do that,” I say with wide eyes. “I do not even know how I can compete.”

Simone wriggles in my hold until she is on her knees. She locks her arms around my neck, bringing her face close to mine. Vex is right behind her, a hand on her lower back, like he needs to touch her so that he does not forget that she is with both of us and does not need to be upset.

“He can’t fuck me, Rallan,” Simone says my name, and all other thoughts leave my mind. “He’s not like you in that way. So you need to do that for both of you.”

“Say my name again,” I beg, my hand going up to her neck, pulling her mouth close to mine.

I do not care about the reason Vex cannot bed her in the same way I can because he can do things I cannot do. Simone barely gets the first sound of my name out of her mouth before I kiss her, or more like I flick my tongue into her mouth and swallow up my name on her lips.

Simone pushes at my shoulders, and when I have had my fill of her, I let her pull away.

“Fuck me, Rallan,” Simone says with a determination in her eyes that would have me releasing this instant if I were a weaker male. “Please,” she begs, and I can do nothing but give her everything she needs.