The next few days passed in a blur of runes and sparkles, chants and words of power, but to my genuine surprise, by the end of day six in our training, Austin was already letting me work with ink.

“Can we stop for the day?” I yawned, rubbing at my tired eyes and stretching my neck. “I’m starting to feel like an old lady from sitting at this damn table all day.”

“A little longer,” he pressed, and I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Austin. I’m not working all night to help you win our bet. We already worked through dinner, and I am done. Unless you want bitchy Kit to come back out to play, I suggest we call it for the night.” It was not an idle threat. Despite my accelerated learning and knowledge retention, I still got just as cranky and tired as before, and we’d already almost come to blows a few times when he’d pushed our lessons into the evening.

“Fine,” he growled. “But you’d better be willing to haul ass tomorrow. There is no fucking way I am letting you tattoo me. You don’t even know how.”

I smiled at him, feeling evil. “Well, you’ll just have to teach me. Right now, I’m going to go join the boys in the hot tub.” Pushing back from the table, I groaned as I stood up, feeling my tight muscles from being in a chair for so long. “Go sleep or something, Aus. You look like shit.”

Austin muttered something in response, but it was too quiet for me to hear as I staggered my aching ass through the house to the outdoor hot tub.

It had been a particularly cold day, so Wes and Caleb had made a beeline for the hot tub as soon as they’d finished, and I could hear them horsing around as I drew close.

“Kitty Kat!” Caleb greeted me as I stepped outside and closed the glass sliding door behind me. “Austin finally let you free?”

“Uh-huh,” I yawned again, wrapping my woollen cardigan around me tighter and shivering. “It’s way colder out here than I thought. Maybe the hot tub is not for me tonight.”

“Not in here, it’s not,” Wesley grinned, submerged up to his shoulders in the steaming water. Admittedly, both of them had a pink flush to their cheeks, and I could feel the heat from where I stood.

“Fine... I’ll go change and be back in a sec then.” I shivered again and looked back to the house.

“Why?” Caleb challenged. “There are no neighbors for miles, so no one other than Wes and I would see if you just came in nude.”

He had a point... and it wasn’t like either of them hadn’t seen me naked before.

“Where is everyone else?” I asked as I quickly stripped out of my clothes and slipped into the water before I could feel the cold too much.

“Cole and Vali went to go do dragon things,” Wes told me, grabbing my hand under the water and tugging me over to sit beside him on the little bench seat.

“Huh.” I was impressed. “Good for them. They really seem to be working well together now.”

Caleb snickered. “If you mean neither of them has hit the other in a couple of days, then yeah, they’re getting along great!”

“I suspect they’re hoping you’ll bond one of them next, so they’ve been busting their scaly butts mastering their new forms in preparation,” Wes said quietly, slipping an arm around my waist and pulling me closer into his side. They hadn’t been lying to me; the water was so hot it was almost too hot, but it was the perfect contrast to the cold weather. Almost like a Scandinavian health spa or something.

“Smart boys,” I murmured, sinking down deeper in the water and letting it relax my tight muscles. “How about Alpha?”

“Went into town a while ago to restock the coffee and get some food.” Caleb seated himself across the tub from us and grabbed one of my feet under the water, rubbing it with strong fingers.

“Excellent. More coffee.” I hummed happily, resting my head on the edge of the tub and letting my eyelids shut.

Both boys were in their swim shorts, but I didn’t feel awkward being naked at all. Caleb was totally right that there were no neighbors, and I highly doubted Austin would be creeping around watching from his room. He’d been so wrecked, I wouldn’t have been surprised if he was already asleep.

The three of us soaked in silence for a while, the only sounds coming from the bubble of the jets and little moans from me as Caleb worked up my calves from my feet. Wesley had his head resting on the lip of the tub beside mine, but we were both so relaxed we were almost asleep.

Or I was anyway.

“Those noises are driving me crazy, sweetheart,” Wes whispered after a really long time. My lids cracked open, and I turned my face a fraction to look at him with a sultry smile.

“Sorry?” I teased, and he rolled his eyes.

“No you’re not,” he told me, and I winked.

“I’m actually kind of overheating, but I know if I get out I’ll be cold again and want back in.” I rubbed my eyes and pressed my cheek to the cool edge of the tub as Caleb released the leg he’d been rubbing.

“Just sit up on the edge for a few minutes to cool down,” Caleb suggested. “That’s what we have been doing.” He demonstrated by standing up and perching on the edge of the tub, leaning his back against one of the pillars it was positioned between on the veranda.

“Oh, good thinking,” I enthused, seeing another convenient pillar behind the corner Wesley was sitting in. “Wes, move.”

Switching places, I hauled my steaming body out of the water and perched on the flat ledge, leaving my legs in the hot water to keep from getting too cold.

“Oh wow,” I groaned. “That is actually amazing.” As I watched, steam rose from my scorching hot skin and misted into the cold night air.

Neither guy responded, and when I looked over, I found them both watching me with lust and longing clear in their faces.

“Maybe you should have grabbed a swimsuit after all,” Caleb muttered, adjusting his shorts and shifting uncomfortably on his perch opposite me.

I gave him a flirtatious smile. Or what I hoped was a flirtatious smile. I still couldn’t see my own face when I did these things so was really only guessing how it would be perceived.

“Would you like me to go inside and cover up?” I teased with absolutely zero intention of doing so. It was Wes who replied though.

“Shit no,” he exclaimed, still submerged in the tub up to his shoulders. “Er, I mean... unless you want to, that is.” His face was flushed and probably not just from the hot water, which made me snicker. He was so confident when we were alone together that he must have forgotten Caleb was with us.

“Nope, I’m pretty comfortable just like this.” I met his eyes and ran my tongue over my teeth as I grinned. I’d only ever shared with River and Cole before, but I knew Caleb was open to the idea... Was Wes? Even just a little bit?

Caleb was clearly on the same wavelength as me because he nudged Wes with his toe to get his attention. “You look like you have something on your mind, bro. What’s up?”

“Me?” Wes darted his gaze between Caleb and me, then down my naked body and back to Caleb. “Nothing.”

“Want me to leave you guys alone?” Caleb offered, despite the clear hard-on straining at his swim shorts.

Wesley looked undecided and darted his gaze back to me once more. I met his conflicted eyes and just shrugged, telling him silently that it was his choice. The two of them would be able to feel my enthusiasm, even if I couldn’t feel theirs.

“No, you’re good,” Wesley responded to Caleb eventually, having made up his mind, and I didn’t even bother trying to hold back the surge of excitement that ran through me at his words. Once he’d decided, it was almost like he shook off that lingering bit of awkward Wesley, and the confident man I had grown used to in private was back.

“So?” I prompted, watching him with hungry eyes as he glided through the steam toward me. No further words were needed though, as he reached me and nudged my legs apart so he could kneel on the step between them.

Meeting my curious, excited eyes, he trailed a wet hand up the inside of my thigh until he reached my naked center. His fingertips brushed gently over my sex while his other hand pushed me to lean back on the pillar once more.

Doing as he had silently instructed, I leaned back, arching my hips forward a tiny bit to allow him better access. Across the tub, my gaze met Caleb’s. He held mine steadily, leaning back against his own pillar even as his hand reached into his shorts to free his rock-hard shaft.

The first touch of Wesley’s lips to my throbbing pussy made me want to cry out, but I muffled it with a groan instead. The last thing we needed to do was have Austin yelling at us to keep it down. Not that I would have minded him watching... Ugh, actually that thought just turned me on even more.

Wesley’s hands gripped my thighs while his tongue danced a strong beat over my swollen clit, dragging soft moans and gasps from me. Desperate for more, I hooked one leg up and over his shoulder, pulling him in closer as my breathing picked up to match my building orgasm.

Across the hot tub, but still clearly visible through the steam, Caleb stroked himself while his heavy-lidded eyes watched Wesley licking, sucking, biting at my pussy. The added visual of watching him pleasure himself was driving me wild, and I knew I was going to need more.

Something had triggered in my sexual appetite since meeting these guys. It was like I was just constantly in heat, whether I needed the magical recharge or not. I’d been working so hard the past week on my magic with Austin that I’d barely had any alone time with the guys.

But I intended to make up for it.

“Shit, yes,” I gasped as Wesley slipped two long fingers inside me, pumping into me almost in unison with the strokes of Caleb’s hand on his own cock. “More.”

Wesley, I was quickly finding, was an exceptionally attentive lover. He was so in tune with what my body wanted during sex that it was almost like he was inside my head. He wasn’t, of course; I’d already asked him about it. He was just really perceptive to my body’s signals, so when I asked for more, I had barely even finished the word before he’d added a third finger.

“Christ,” I moaned, feeling all my nerves lighting up, and I slipped my hands into his hair to grip his head tight against me. I couldn’t have stopped the orgasm if I’d tried. It swept me up and crashed over me with an intensity that really did make me cry out loud this time.

Spots danced across my vision as pleasure exploded up through my body, leaving me panting and light-headed in its wake. The moisture on my skin was freezing, thanks to the cold night air, and my nipples were hard as rocks and so sensitive they almost hurt.

Caleb was still working himself over with his hand, but I could tell he wasn’t far from coming himself, so I unwrapped my legs from around Wesley’s face where they’d ended up and slid back into the water.

“Switch,” I ordered him, jerking my head to the ledge I had just abandoned.

Wes said nothing, but licked his lips and did what I asked, sitting up on the edge of the hot tub and allowing me to free his erection from his wet swim shorts with hurried hands.

“I think someone is watching,” he murmured quietly as I took him into my mouth, sucking and swirling while my hand gripped his base. He didn’t sound uncomfortable about it though, so I just shrugged.

“Let them,” I panted, pulling back long enough to look up at him while my hand slid up and down his rigid shaft. “If you’re cool with that?”

“Uh-huh,” Wes gasped, tipping his head back and letting me do my thing as my mouth closed over him once more.

“Smart move,” Caleb commented, his own voice tight with impending climax himself.

It wasn’t long before I heard him finishing behind me and only a few short moments more before Wesley’s breathing sped up and his shaft twitched.

“Sweetheart, I’m close,” he panted, making as if to pull back, but I held him tight, sucking hard and feeling his ejaculation hit the back of my throat as he came. My tongue ran circles around him, keeping him in my mouth while he shuddered through his orgasm before I finally released him.

“Holy crap,” he gasped, looking wide-eyed at me, then past me to Caleb.

“Yup,” Caleb snickered, and I felt him slide back into the water with me. His cool hands slipped around my waist, and he spun me to face him. “That was seriously hot, Kitty Kat.”

Without even a second’s hesitation, Caleb took my mouth with his own, kissing me until I felt like I might collapse in his arms.

Even though it had been far from the most explicit act I’d ever engaged in, I was alight with excitement. While I was crazy into each of my guys individually, together was a whole other ball game. One I intended to play... a lot.