Page 42 of Third Offense

I wouldn’t deny my attraction to Ketos, or my intrigue regarding his history and intentions. There might be something between us, but that didn’t detract from how I felt for Auric and Novak.

They were my mates.

My heart.

The other pieces of my soul.

I threaded my fingers through Auric’s thick white-blond hair and held on as his tongue dueled with mine.

Novak’s lips skimmed my throat, pausing to nip at my pulse, while his hands grasped the hem of my dress. The silk slid against my skin, the sensation prickling goose bumps down my legs. Cool air followed, teasing the dampness between my thighs.

I moaned against Auric’s mouth, my blood on fire all over again. It didn’t matter that they’d pleasured me just hours ago. I needed more. So much more. I neededthem. At the same time. Inside me. Claiming me.Owningme.

My nails bit into Auric’s scalp, holding him to me as Novak’s palm slid forward to cup my bare sex. I hadn’t worn any underwear, mostly because it wasn’t mine. And I wasverythankful for that choice now.

He slid his finger through my slickness, humming in approval at finding me wet and ready for them. It was like they’d programmed my body to constantly respond to their touch, their presence, theirgrowls.

I purred, the sound one I only released for them.My mates. It felt louder here, as though I needed everyone in the palace to hear me claiming my males. I didn’t hold back, allowing it to rumble through me into the still night air, rippling over the balcony and to the ocean below.

Auric’s mouth responded to my call, his kiss turning violent and hungry and fulfilling a desire we both shared.

Novak tugged at my dress, ripping the thin straps from my shoulders and leaving me bare between them. With the elixir still fresh in my veins—I’d taken a vial before dinner, as had Auric—my wings were invisible, allowing my back to meet Novak’s chest.

A quiver worked through me at the intimate sensation of having him pressed to my naked spine. I’d never felt anything like it, and I was suddenly desperate to feel his skin against mine.

I tore my mouth away from Auric, turning toward Novak, and captured his bottom lip between my teeth. It was a feral movement, one driven by instinct and intensified by my rumbling purr.

Auric took over my lower body, his fingers finding my damp heat and dragging it backward to my ass. I did my best to relax, to allow him to prepare me for what came next as I all but destroyed Novak’s clothes. He growled in approval, clearly enjoying this savage part of me. But I needed to feel all of him against me. His skin to my skin. His chest to my back as he pumped into me. It was a stark craving that drove all my actions, only abating slightly when I had him fully naked in front of me.

Then Auric’s unclothed chest met my spine, his clothes seeming to have melted away from his body.

And the frantic need reignited inside me, causing me to spin around again.

He grinned, the suggestion in his features telling me he knew I’d react this way and welcomed it. I nearly growled at him. Then I tore through his clothes, and jolted as Novak’s groin met my ass. “More,” I demanded, the sound underlined by my throaty mating call.

It was intense. Carnal. Exquisite. Unlike anything we’d experienced before. Like someone had doused me in a lust spell, demanding I take all my mates and fuck them into oblivion.

Iburnedfor them.

Vibrations rocked through me, my thighs clenching hard as I fought for friction. But Auric’s hands on my hips stilled me. Then he lifted me into the air, forcing me to wrap my legs around him.

There, I thought, arching into his heat and feeling his hardness against my damp flesh.More.

“Fuck me,” I begged him. I beggedthem. Because I needed Novak, too. I reached around behind me, catching his nape and tugging him into me. “Now.”

Novak bit my neck, his chuckle a taunting echo against my spine. But it felt too good to reprimand him. He was touching me. Intimately. Between my shoulder blades. Against my back. Skin to skin.Ohhhhit was tantalizingly perfect, so intoxicating. Enchanting. Drowning me beneath a sea of intense pleasure.

And scents.

I inhaled, the mixture of leather, smoke, and wintergreen wrapping around me, claiming me, and embracing another aroma…ambrosia. Sweet fruit. Delicious.

My mouth watered.

I wanted more of all of it.

Ineededtheir collective colognes to swathe around me entirely.

“Please,” I whimpered, arching into Auric once more.