If we make it through this alive, I won’t make that mistake again. I’ll tell them every single day, especially on the good days—especially on the days when I don’t think we might die. I’ll tell them just because. Because it’s true, and it’s worth celebrating.
Kingston’s smile beamed like a spotlight, and I blinked at the brightness of it before his lips found mine.
“I’m glad as hell to hear you say that, Pipes.” His voice was teasing, but there was a note of truth in it too. “I can’t really imagine my life without you in it anymore. I don’t fucking want to.”
“Come on,” Jayce said, and I was vaguely aware of the door opening behind me.
I was drawn inside by the four men, and as soon as the door shut behind us, my other three mates joined Kingston, surrounding me with hard, hot bodies. Jayce knelt to one side of me, using his low vantage point to tug off my pants, then running his hands up and down my legs, massaging the muscles of my calves, biting at the sensitive spot behind my knee, then trailing his tongue up my thigh and making goose bumps erupt on my skin.
Kai nudged Kingston out of the way, and in a testament to the bond the four men now shared too, my dragon shifter mate yielded his treasure to his friend, dropping his head to suck on my neck as Kai kissed me with ravenous hunger.
Xero tugged on my shirt, pulling it up and over my head when Kai and I broke apart for an instant. When Jayce rose to claim a kiss of his own, walking me backward toward the bed, the other three men quickly shucked their clothes too.
My hellhound mate settled me on the bed, draping his weight over me as he kissed me deeply. When he rolled off to get rid of his clothes too, I reached out eagerly for the men around me, brushing my fingertips over hard muscles and smooth flesh. I sat up to kiss Xero, losing myself in the free-falling sensation, and when I felt a warm body behind me, I sank into it.
Jayce held me propped up in his arms, my back to his chest, cradling me between his legs. He tugged me back until we were pressed flush together, and I could feel the hardness of his cock at my back.
“This is what we want,” he murmured into my ear as we looked at the three other men gathered around us. “It’s what we all want. You.”
“I want you too. All of you.”
Happiness and desire lit the faces of my bond-mates, and Jayce brushed my hair over one shoulder. He ran his lips up the curve of my ear, nuzzling against me and nipping at the soft shell.
“Hey, Pipes?” he whispered, his voice rough. “I love the fuck outta you.”
His words poured down my spine like warm honey, and I arched against him, grinding back against his hard-on as my chest rose higher into the air. All the men around us let out low noises of approval, gathering close as Jayce brought one large hand up to play with my breasts, sliding the other down across the plane of my stomach and over my mound before his fingers found my pussy.
He worked my clit skillfully, massaging it fast, then slow. Then his fingers delved lower, sliding through my folds.
“Open up for us, baby. Let them all see you.”
I did, opening my legs eagerly until they were resting against the insides of Jayce’s, giving all the men a perfect view of my dripping pussy. Jayce’s fingers continued to explore and tease me, spreading me open for all of them to see before pulsing a finger inside my channel.
When Xero crawled forward, lowering his head to run his tongue down my stomach, I sucked in a breath. I thought Jayce would pull his hand away, but he didn’t.
Instead, he kept touching me even as Xero’s mouth joined in.
The two of them worked together, communicating in some way I couldn’t identify, coordinating their movements as Jayce slid his fingers inside my core and Xero sucked on my clit—then switching, so that Xero fucked me with his stiffened tongue as Jayce’s fingers blurred on my clit, moving so fast it left me panting with need.
“Fuck. Oh, God, fuck!”
My hands flailed for something to grab on to as I rode Xero’s face and Jayce’s hand. They had teamed up with me plenty of times before, but this was new and so fucking delicious I was already writhing in their arms.
Kai caught one of my hands and held me steady, and Kingston gripped the other. My vampire mate caught my gaze, his own eyes shifting to the slits they became when he gave in to his craving for blood, to his fallen nature.
“Piper…”
The word was a question, and I jerked my head up and down in a nod. “Yes. Please, yes!”
His jaw clenched, but for once, he didn’t seem to fight his cravings. He didn’t hold back. His teeth extended, and he bit down on my wrist, letting my blood flow into his mouth. Pain flared, a shock that seemed to travel all the way through my body. But the pain only heightened the pleasure, and as Kingston brushed his lips up the line of my other arm, I gave myself completely to my mates, letting them carry me away in a rush of sensation.
The pain where Kai’s teeth had penetrated was already fading, replaced by the pure pleasure of feeling him drink from me.
It was a wholly different kind of pleasure than the feeling of Xero lapping at my clit, of Jayce tugging at my nipples as he teased my slick pussy with two fingers, or of Kingston peppering kisses across my collarbone.
But all of those sensations together were too much for one body to contain, and I hurtled over the edge of oblivion, crying out loudly as I came.
My body shook in their arms, but they all held me steady until the waves of sensation passed. Kai released my wrist, lapping up the remaining blood before kissing the unbroken skin.