Miren’s mouth trembled as it stretched into a smile. “I think…I love you.”
“You better. Because this is killing me.”
“Then take your pleasure too. I’ll watch.”
Bryn had been so right.
Light from the gibbous moon bathed her skin, making it glow. She lifted a hand, sparkles on her palm, and laid it on the back of Mikkel’s neck.
Mikkel shuddered and groaned, and Renner knew what the merman felt, that flash of witch’s heat that traveled down his spine. Mikkel rutted against her side, the muscles of his back and buttocks tensing and releasing in desperate pulses.
Elias scooted down the bed and then moved between her legs, lifting her bottom from the bed and diving down to stroke her with his tongue.
Her gaze grew unfocused, her mouth opened around a tiny cry.
Renner smiled as he fisted himself, watching as his woman, his witch, drew pleasure from the mermen’s attentions. This wasn’t betrayal, wasn’t cheating, and Renner wondered if he couldn’t manage to share her with these two, at least occasionally in their shared future, because he found he loved watching her come undone. Strangely, knowing he was first in her heart was enough.
It also occurred to him there were advantages he’d never considered to such an arrangement. His brain and body were consumed with arousal and he surrendered his jealousy. It had no place here with her.
Miren shivered, and she covered the one exposed breast with her hand, kneading herself as she began to move, undulating, hips curving upward to meet Elias’s caresses.
Elias groaned and the muscles of his shoulders and arms tightened, to hold her still. He must have sucked at her raw clit, because she hissed a breath and then whimpered, sliding closed her eyelids as more light infused her skin.
He’d never seen anything so beautiful. He knew the moment she came, because she arched and held, then slumped to the bed.
Elias gave her cunt a kiss and then came to his knees. Mikkel did the same. They flanked her, both within reach but bowing to her desires.
Her eyes fluttered open, and Renner gave her a nod. She understood. Doubt darkened her eyes for just a moment before she lifted both hands, turned them toward the moonlight and filled them with glittering heat. Then she reached out and gripped their cocks.
Both men flung back their heads and emitted garbled sounds of pleasure as she stroked them. It wasn’t long before they erupted and streams of white struck her belly and breasts.
Renner let go of his cock and gripped both arms of his chair. He waited while the men slowly recovered, gave her cheeks tender kisses and then used towels to clean her. When they left, they gave Renner nods and slipped through the doorway, leaving him alone with Miren.
Miren drew a deep, lazy breath. “You aren’t angry? Not disappointed in me?”
“How could I be?” he said, surprised at the thickness of his voice. “I gave you my promise. And I will always hold your needs above mine.”
“I don’t need Mikkel and Elias.”
“
We’ll talk about them later.”
She gave him a small nod. He didn’t miss that her hand stroked her skin in a languid up-and-down motion. Her nipples were still beaded, her skin still glowing in the moonlight.
“Do you think you will grow to love me?” she asked, her voice husky. “Me, not the witch?”
Renner swallowed, pushed up from the chair and walked to the bed. There, he settled on the edge and reached for that indolent hand and captured it. He raised her hand to his mouth and kissed the back of it. “Miren, I already do. But I don’t know how to prove it. Other than to promise that if you allow me to love to you, I won’t attempt to claim you. For however long you need, even if you never want to commit to me, I will still love you.”
She pushed up and angled her legs over the side of the mattress. “I should bathe.”
“Don’t on my account.”
She wrinkled her nose. “But their scent is all over me.”
“It will be again. And again, I won’t mind.”
She shook her head. “I don’t love them. Why would you assume I’ll be intimate with them again?”