Oh, gods help her! Gwen put her hand on the wall to her left, steadying herself and taking a deep breath. Her legs shook. Hell, her whole body shook. What the heck had just happened in there?
She’d been in control. Liking the game. Enjoying taking the initiative and shocking the shit out of Cade. And it had all been so good. So very, very good. But then Jay had gone down on her, and Cade had done that. Spanked her. Hard enough to sting and not truly hurt, but she’d never experienced it before. And the way he’d done it… No discussing it. No safe words. No real pain but very real control.
Shit, it had messed with her head. It turned her on so much, she’d come like crazy. But it also scared her because it hadn’t been some sort of game. It hadn’t been like the time a casual hookup of hers had tied her up and fed her different foods while she’d been blindfolded and then spanked her with her hairbrush.
This had been somehow raw. Real. He’d done it because he knew, deep down, it would make her come. He didn’t have to ask her. Cade knew. And the fact flat out terrified her.
Add in the second fact that the two men had turned her on more than she’d ever been in her entire life put together, and Gwen found herself in deep trouble. In over her head and not sure where to turn. She could hardly talk to her mum about this. They were close, but come on.
On unsteady legs, she walked toward…shit, she didn’t even know where she was sleeping. As if by magic, a male appeared and gave a slight bow.
“Would you like me to show you to your room?”
Yes, she would. She needed a shower and some time and space to process this turn of events.
The next afternoon found Gwen still holed up in her room, hiding away.
She’d eaten with the guys the previous evening but taken care to sit near her mum and as far away from them as she could. Then they’d all watched a movie. She couldn’t retell the plot if her life depended on it because, all the way through it, she’d been hyperaware of Cade and Jay. Of their strong bodies, handsome faces, and gorgeous scents.
Like a chocaholic surrounded by Belgian chocolate delicacies and not able to touch them, she’d only been able to think about the two males in the room with them. At times, she literally sat on her hands to stop from reaching out to touch one of them. And they’d seemed so damned relaxed and unbothered by her presence.
Today, she’d avoided them altogether as best she could. After a morning of reading, she’d showered, washed her hair, and left it to dry in the breeze from the open windows as she wrapped herself in a warm nightgown.
Lara came to see her, and they chatted for a while. Her mother seemed as distracted as Gwen, and she hated the new distance between them. If this was what being mated meant, she didn’t want it. Never wanted her close relationship with her mother threatened in any way. Lara excused herself after a while, saying despite a night of sleep, she needed some more rest.
So very tired of all the worries in her head, Gwen decided to take her mother’s example and rest some more herself, see if she could get rid of this odd, dreamlike malaise which had overtaken her. Instead of good rest, though, she tossed and turned, haunted by erotic dreams. So hot and heavy, in fact, she needed to go wipe between her thighs because they were sticky with her lust. Ugh, she hated being this needy person. She took off her dressing gown and pulled on a T-shirt style nightdress. Perhaps she was sick? Coming down with the flu? She certainly ached.
A rap at the door startled her. Self-conscious because of the whole wanton woman thing, she pulled her nightshirt right down and went to the door. Opening it a crack, she smiled at Cade on the other side. As soon as she saw his ridiculously hot self, all her simmering pissed-offness disappeared. All her doubts went poof, up in smoke. Her certainty she’d walk away from this and them faltered and came crashing down.
“You’re all stressed out.” Jay popped his head around the door and grinned, adding to her happiness at seeing them.
She raised one eyebrow. “I suppose you’re here to suggest a way I can unwind? And it involves the three of us doing filthy things, I imagine?” She kind of hoped so, despite it not being the cleverest idea.
“Or…coming for a swim?” Cade cocked his head at her.
“A swim? Where?”
“In our pool. We have a jacuzzi, sauna, and steam room too.” Jay’s grin got wider if that were even possible.
“Shut up.” She didn’t believe them.
“Come.” Cade held his hand out, and as if under his spell, she took it, no questions asked.
They walked down the corridor, turned left, then right. Wow, how big was this place?
Finally, they came to a glass door, and the familiar chlorine smell of a pool hit her nose.
“Here we are.” Cade opened the door, and she gasped.
A pool lay sparkling in front of them, the water gorgeous under the many twinkling lights scattered across the ceiling like electric stars. Wooden lounges lined one side of the pool, covered with thick cream mattresses, and by the door stood a rack full of towels, fluffy white dressing gowns, and soft slippers.
Cade handed her a pile of soft white goodness. “Here you go.”
He took one for himself, and Jay grabbed a pile of supplies too.
The guys headed to one of the lounges, put their stuff down, and began to strip off. She frowned and gave a small cough.
“Erm, I don’t have a swimsuit.” She glanced down at her nightdress apologetically.
“Don’t need one. We swim naked here.” Jay smiled at her. He was acting all innocent, but it didn’t fool her for a moment.
“Naked, eh?” She rolled her eyes.
“Always have,” Cade said. “Only us here, after all. No one else uses this pool. But if you want, you can swim in your nightdress.”
“Sure is nice to feel the water against your skin, though,” Jay added.
She bet it would be nice. She loved swimming and being in the water, but she always wore at least a swimsuit. And often, as it was the British Isles, a wetsuit to keep the cold out.
What would it hurt? They’d seen her most intimate areas. Then she remembered her damned scar. They hadn’t seen it before. They would if she got nude in front of them but not if she stripped with her back to them and dived into the water. Mind made up, she gave them a prim glance. “Turn around please.”
Jay smirked but did as she asked. Cade let his gaze linger on her for a long beat before turning around himself.
She tore her nightdress off, flung it to one side and executed a perfect dive. Happy they couldn’t see how hot and bothered they’d got her either, she called to them. “You can come in now.”
“Why the modesty?” Jay asked as he took his own clothes off.
Cade shrugged out of his jeans and T-shirt, and she wanted to sigh in wonder at his gorgeous, half-hard dick. It wouldn’t look out of place on a stallion, for gods’ sakes, hanging down his thigh all long and thick. She wanted to lick it all over again, but instead dragged her mind out of the gutter and forced herself to look away.
“She’s trying to hide the fact she’s been wet for us ever since we all had a little fun together,” Cade said as he jumped into the pool.
Swimming alongside her, he stopped and grinned. “Won’t work. I can smell your desire a mile off.”
She flushed and turned away, but strong arms pulled her back into the hard wall of a broad chest. Large palms covered her breasts, and Cade whispered into her ear. “There’s nothing to be ashamed of. I’ve jerked off three times while you’ve been resting and showering this morning, and I’m still fucking dying to touch you all over again.”
Oh, well…when he put it like that… She sighed into his touch as his lips found her neck and kissed her there. She wanted him, couldn’t deny it. And Jay too. These two males tempted her beyond anything she’d experienced in her whole life, and why would she want to walk away from that?
While she’d been tossing and turning and worrying, a thought had kept recurring. Her mum matched the clan leaders, and if Lara decided to be with them, then she’d be based here. In the Cornish clan. As would Gwen if she gave in to her desire for these two males. Whereas yesterday, the idea of being with Jay and Cade meant the possibility of losing her mother. Now, with the events of the day, things were different. If Lara chose to be with Awen and Lucien, she’d be here, all the time. As would Gwen. They’d still be together, albeit in a different way.
What would have happened if her mum had met Awen and Lucien and Gwen hadn’t found a match? Would her mother have decided to be mated, left Gwen out in the cold? Something told Gwen that, despite never having agreed to any males before, Lara might be persuaded this time. And Gwen might not have been welcomed into the clan leader’s home due to her lowly birth. If she didn’t take Cade and Jay, would she end up alone anyway?
“Don’t be sad.” Cade kissed her neck again, making her shiver.
How did he know?
“I can pick up your mood easily,” he said into her hair. “I don’t want you to be sad. This should be a happy time. We could have it all. You, me, and Jay. Your mother with Awen and Lucien. None of us is old school. You females wouldn’t be trapped or controlled. You’d have males who loved you, wanted to protect you, but not control you.”
Could it be? Could they make it work without her losing her precious autonomy? If they could, she’d be one happy dragon female.
Jay joined them and floated on his back by her. He turned to her and gave her a smile. “Yeah, don’t be sad, babyface. This news with your mother means you can have it all if you want. And what Dragonea female gets to have mates who surf? You’re one lucky beyotch, do you know that?” He exaggerated the word bitch and winked when he said it, and she couldn’t help but smile at him.
Jay with his gorgeous eyes, so soulful and alive in his face. He was one beautiful male, and she’d never get bored of looking at him.
“Race you?” he offered.
Without waiting to give him a signal, she agreed to his challenge, Gwen dived under the water and powered to the end of the pool. When she was about to touch the sides, something grabbed her foot and pulled her back. She opened her eyes, ignoring the sting of chlorine, in time to see Jay touch the side and stick his tongue out at her.
“No fair.” She surfaced, spluttering, “You cheated.”
“You cheated when you raced off without giving me an answer.”
She smacked the water with both her palms, sending a spray flying into his face. He yelled and dunked her, so she surfaced and grabbed him from behind, trying to get him under in return. And then she realized she was horsing around with him, totally nude. Her breasts pressed against his broad shoulders, her bare mound pushed up against his lower back. Mortified, she let go and began to back away, only to connect with a hard wall of muscle.
“Oh, now don’t go getting all shy just when things were beginning to be fun.” Cade chuckled in her ear, and then he swooped her off her feet and carried her to the far end of the pool where the steps lay. They weren’t those horrible metal steps you got in public pools, but they were built in to the pool itself, and he climbed out easily with her in his arms.
She gave a squeak and tried to cover herself. “Put me down.”
“Nope.” He shook his head.
She swatted at him, but she may as well have been trying to push a boulder uphill for all the good it did her.
“What are you doing?”
“Showing you something.”
He walked around the pool, took a right, and pushed open a frosted glass door. She gave a delighted little exclamation of surprise. Jay was right alongside them, and he grinned at her response.
They’d entered a steam room, but it wasn’t like any she’d seen before, and she’d been to a fancy spa or two with her mother. The bench was a glittering, deep-gray granite, the walls jet-black tile. The ceiling was black too, but with a thousand tiny lights sparkling away. The lights weren’t in a uniform pattern, and consequently, they gave the appearance of stars twinkling in the night sky. In three recesses, gently glowing candle lamps softened the room’s vibe. Two plants that must surely have been fake to survive in these temperatures stood sentry by either side of the door.
Cade let her slide down his wet, warm body to the floor, and she wandered over to the plants. Touching one, she frowned when she realized it was real. “How….”
“Magic.” Cade shrugged. “One of the Warders grew them for me and gave them some dragon magic. They can withstand superhigh temperatures.”
Funnily enough, despite being dragon, she didn’t like getting too hot herself, and already the steam room began to feel oppressive with its humid heat. Then another thought occurred to her. She stood nude in front of them, no bits of clothing around her middle like before in the study. No water to hide her. She glanced down her body at the horrible scar on her hip.
Jay followed the action with his gaze, and he reached out his index finger to trace the scar she hated. Dragons were kind of perfect. They healed well, and she hated this mark of her difference. “Who did this?” he asked.
“No one.”
“No one? Nasty scar from nobody?” Cade put in.
“I don’t want to talk about it.” The room began to seem more oppressive by the second, and she fanned her face.
“You don’t like it in here?” Cade cocked one eyebrow.
“It’s beautiful, but the heat. It makes me feel unwell after a short while. Always has.”
“Unusual,” Jay said. “For a dragon.”
“Do you like the cold instead?” Cade asked.
“No. I like being somewhere in the middle. A hot tub is good. Steam rooms, saunas, not so much.”
Gods, it really was hot in this damned room. She stared at Cade and Jay, all glorious and clearly aroused in front of her, and the heat spiked higher.
“It’s not merely the steam room, baby.” Jay shot her a sympathetic look. “You’d better get used to being hot and bothered.”
“Maybe I’ll go home and cool down,” she shot back.
Cade huffed out a short laugh. “Good luck with that plan, sweetheart. Won’t do you a damn bit of good. You’re going to feel this way until you scratch that itch.”
“Not if I go far away and never see you again. It will fade, won’t it? In time? The yearning?” Panic filled her at the thought she’d be like this forever if she didn’t mate with them.
A flash of anger slashed across Cadan’s features. “Why do you fight this so hard, Gwen? Fuck, I want to bite you. Mark you and make you ours so that no matter where you go, you’ll always feel us.”
Half of her wanted to run away, and the other half wanted to drop to her knees and beg him to do just that.
“Come here.” He crooked a finger at her, and as if under a spell, she did as he instructed and walked over to him.
Cade sat on one of the benches and pulled her down onto his knee. He didn’t ask permission or go gentle. Those big arms of his wrapped around her, and he pulled her into him and kissed her as if his life depended on it.
She lost all track of reason. All her objections about the situation and her worries just floated away as she soared on a cloud of elation. Her body thrummed and throbbed with need and want. Her core fluttered, and Cade broke off the kiss to stare at her, his nostrils flared.
“Fuck, you want me, don’t you?”
She nodded because she wasn’t a liar.
“And Jay.” Cade jerked his chin to where Jay stood, watching them with predatory eyes.
“Yes. Both of you.”
“And we want you.” Jay came over to her. “I need to be in you so bad, Gwen.”
She wanted it too. Not sure whom she wanted more, she glanced between Jay and Cade. She could take them both. She’d tried anal and liked it, and she’d always had a fantasy of taking two men at once. But something told her to do so now would be stupid and dangerous. Would tie her to a commitment she wasn’t sure she could handle. Christ, she hated being so out of control in this situation.
“I want to fuck you, but I don’t think I can. Not while you’re not sure you want this.” Cade lifted her up and rubbed his hard cock up the length of her soaking slit.
She moaned and dropped her face to his neck, breathing him in.
“Why not?”
“You know what happened to one of those sisters, right?” Jay supplied as he came to stand behind her, playing with her hair and sending shivers up and down her spine. “She and her males ended up bonded without having had the mating ceremony or deciding they were definitely headed in that direction. It’s freaked out a lot of dragons. Seems if the match is strong, then the old rules we thought applied, don’t.”
“And you don’t get matches much stronger than this,” Cade supplied. “Not physically, at least.”
“I wanted to take you both,” she groaned.
“Jesus, Gwen. Say some more shit like that, and I swear to the gods, I’ll fuck you till you scream. Consequences or no.” Cade nuzzled at her shoulder and gave a small bite there.
The sensation made her cry out and want more. She didn’t know why, but more than anything else he’d done to her, her body liked that. It instinctively wanted more.
“Gods, do that again. Bite me again. Harder.”
He gave another light nip and shook his head. “You don’t even know what you’re asking for. Your body and mind are at war. Your heart, your soul, your damned cunt, they want us both.”
She flinched at his use of the c-word. And damn her, she might hate the word, but her body still responded.
“But you keep letting your mind get in the way as you work through a thousand permutations as to why this won’t work.” Cade sounded angry, and he pushed her off his knee. He didn’t let her go, though. Instead, he parted her legs roughly and pushed two thick fingers into her. She spread her legs even wider, wanton and unashamed in that moment.
Cade worked her, angling his fingers and pressing into her until he found that spot inside her that made her crazy. “Oh gods.” Her head tipped back.
Jay sat on one of the benches and spread his legs. “Bring her here.”
Without even pausing, Cade removed his fingers, picked her up, and placed her between Jay’s legs, her back to Jay’s chest and her legs spread open.
Jay put his arms around her and hefted her breasts in his palms. “Love these tits of yours, Gwen. You’re so lush. Like some fucking tropical forest of hotness, all for us.”
“Gods, you two have filthy mouths.” She felt drunk as she drawled the words.
Cade sat on the bench in front of her and parted her folds. “You’re soaking, swollen, and pink. Prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.”
He pushed two fingers back inside her and began to pump them in and out. Every stroke in, he pressed on her G-spot. She’d never been so exposed in her life. Or so turned on.
“Open wider for me,” Cade grunted.
Jay’s hands left her breasts, and he pulled her thighs farther apart before using his fingers to part her folds.
“Yeah, hold her like that,” Cade ordered.
Now he pushed a third finger in, and she sighed at the wonderful stretch. He pressed hard on her G-spot, making her writhe. Fuck, she felt as if she were on the edge of coming so hard she might pass out or pee. And she’d die if the latter happened.
She tried to squirm away, close her legs. “Oh no, you don’t. You’ll take it all.” Cade looked like the devil himself with the flickering light of the nearby candle lamp playing over his harsh features.
“I’m going to…” she panted, unsure of what she was going to do. Come. Explode? Implode, maybe? The sensations were too much.
A fresh press on her G-spot and she moaned as more slickness ran out and covered her thigh.
“Oh gods. Oh gods. Shit.” She panted and moaned, and then she was coming. So hard, her vision went starry with a thousand tiny pinpricks of light. Her pussy sucked Cade’s fingers in, and he pumped her ruthlessly as she contracted around him, her arousal positively soaking his hand.
When it ended, he pulled his hand free, and she rolled to her side on the bench, squeezing her legs together and enjoying the aftershocks.
Jay petted her hair, kissing the top of her head, and Cade ran his fingers down her legs soothingly.
Regaining some of her composure, she sat upright and fixed Cade with a hard stare. “What was that? Some sort of hate finger-fuck?”
He shook his head. “I could never hate you.”
“But you’re angry with me.”
“I’m…surprised by you.”
His words took her by surprise, and she furrowed her brow. “Why?”
He gave a lazy shrug. “I thought you were a daredevil. The girl who jumped in both feet first. The girl who risked it all to catch a wave. And yet, here you are. Scared and timid. Standing on the precipice and afraid to jump. Maybe you’re not who I thought you were.”
Without another glance her way, Cade turned and left the room. He’d still been rock hard, and she’d been looking forward to taking care of it. His words stung, his leaving even more so, and stupid tears filled her eyes.
***
Jay wanted to murder Cade with his bare hands, but first, he needed to take care of a shocked and upset Gwen.
“Hey, don’t take what he says to heart. He’s a mercurial bastard, and at times he lets his temper get the better of him. Come on, let’s get you into a dressing gown and out of this steam room before you melt.”
He guided her out of the room, pretending not to notice when she swiped at her eyes. If he knew Gwen at all, he thought she’d be the sort of female who didn’t want a fuss when upset. More the kind who’d like it ignored, the same as he would.
He grabbed her a robe and gently wrapped it around her shoulders, then got her a glass of water. “Here, drink. You’ll be dehydrated.”
After a few moments, she began to look a little better. “Shall we get dressed and go cue up a movie?” He had no real desire to watch a film, but he didn’t want her left feeling so distressed. So, for an hour and a half, he watched some movie without taking any real notice. He talked about inconsequential stuff and fed her snacks and drinks. Right at the end of the film, Lara came into the room, yawning and drinking from what looked like a glass of wine.
Great. The mother had turned to sleeping and drinking as a way to deal with all this shit.
Still, her appearance gave Jay the opportunity to slip away. Once out of the room, he stalked to Cade’s bedroom door and, without pausing, stormed straight in.
Cade was sitting on the bed, doing something on his laptop.
“You bad-tempered fucking bastard,” Jay roared. “How dare you treat her like that?”
Cade shot him a cold glare. “That little girl needs to understand what she’s doing and that she’s playing with fire.”
“And you need to fucking understand that you’ll ruin this for all of us if you push too hard and fast.”
“I’m not pushing!” Cade shot off the bed and prowled around the room, pacing as he breathed heavily. “Pushing would be to take her and give her the bite now. Do you see me doing such a thing? I walked away. Let her stew in her own juices.” He gave a nasty smirk. “Literally.”
Jay didn’t even think. If he had, he certainly wouldn’t have pulled his arm back and punched Cade in the face.
Cade didn’t even flinch at the blow, but he did stop and stare at Jay. Something almost akin to wonder shone in those dark eyes of his. “Wow. You hit me.”
“Yes, and I’ll do it again if you keep talking about her in such a fucking way. I know you can probably kill me if you wanted to, but I’m not going to let you treat Gwen like this. You owe her an apology, and you’ll damn well go and give her one. Right the fuck now.”
Cade stared at him, breathing hard, and Jay prayed the dragon would settle on the side of not killing him, what with their being bonded males and all.
Moving as fast as lightning, Cade closed the small gap between them and grabbed Jay, one large hand on either side of his face. Jay’s breath stilled as he waited to see what the hell Cade would do.
Nothing could have prepared him for the warm lips that descended on his in a hard and demanding kiss. Nothing.
His mind whirred to catch up, even as his body responded immediately. His cock hardened, and what the fuck was that all about? They didn’t do this. They absolutely did not play this way. Neither of them cared what other males did, but the attraction for the same sex wasn’t something either of them felt much, if at all.
When Cade broke off the kiss, Jay panted as he tried to gain his composure.
“What the fuck was that?” he exploded.
Cade had the audacity to shrug as if he’d merely made his coffee a different way. “Don’t know. I liked the feisty side of you, and the urge kind of took me.”
Then his eyes darkened with memory. “And you holding Gwen like that today, holding her open for me. It turned me on something fierce. I guess it made me think of us all being together. I suppose she’s awakened something in me I hadn’t felt before. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.”
Jay wasn’t sure he didn’t want Cade to do it again. “You can maybe do it again.” He turned away, face burning.
A warmth covered his back, and lips found his neck. “I want to, which freaks me out as much as it probably does you. But at the end of the day, I’m not a coward, and I’m not going to run away from it.”
“What’s this?” They both spun around at the low, feminine voice.
Gwen stood in the open doorway, staring at them both. Shit. Would it be an issue for her? Not that they’d done anything more than kiss and say they might, maybe, want more. Possibly.
“Erm…he kissed me.” Jay made the confession as if he were a blushing, virginal bride, damn him.
Gwen raised an eyebrow and looked from one to the other.
“Nice.”
“Excuse me? I thought you might not approve. Call it a hunch.” Cade turned his body fully to her, and Jay did not admire his broad shoulders or tight backside. He just did not.
She grinned. “Me too. When I thought about it, I imagined I’d prefer it to be all about me. But I like the idea of you two together. Gets me all hot and bothered. And, frankly, you’re too much for a girl to handle on her own. I’ve been thinking about how hot it would be, you two touching each other.” She ran her gaze down both their bodies. “Stroking one another.”
“Fuck this. I’m done.”
Cade picked up Gwen, who squealed, carried her into the room, and kicked the door shut behind him with his heel.
He strode across the room and placed her on the bed.
“I want you so bad, Gwen. If we do this, there’s a risk we’ll bond without the mating ceremony. It happened to Steffan. But today, I went to our most powerful Warder and asked her to ward against it. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s like a magic condom, if you will. It gives us protection against this going too far. I want to fuck you, but if you say no, I’ll walk away right now.”
Jay realized he was holding his breath as he watched Gwen’s chest rise and fall, her eyes wide and her lips parted. Some sort of internal battle raged within her as he stood there, still as a statue.
“I want you too. And what you said earlier, you’re right. I am a risk-taker. I don’t run away from things, and I’ve been running away from this because I wanted to protect my relationship with my mum. But the more I’ve been thinking, the more unhealthy that seems. I love her, don’t get me wrong. She’s my best friend and more like a sister in some ways than my mum. But our relationship is strong enough to face one or both of us falling in love and pairing up. Even if this thing between us doesn’t work out, and Mum ends up with Awen and Lucien, I’ll still be her daughter and her best friend. We’ll still do stuff together, just maybe not as much traveling. It’ll be just fine.”
He hated that she still thought it might not work out between them, but he supposed it was a huge leap that she’d started to see how she and her mother could have their own relationships and still be close.
Cade gave a low growl deep in the back of his throat and smiled. “Is that a yes, Gwen?”
“Yes,” she breathed.
Cade grabbed her ankles and pulled her down the bed, spreading her legs as he did. She wore a short skirt, one she’d changed into before their movie, and it rode up, revealing she wore no underwear. Damn, their mate was a minx.
Whoa! Their mate. Jay already thought of her as such and didn’t think he could change it. If she decided not to be with them, he’d hate it. Cade, though, he thought the male might go ballistic if Gwen walked away from them.
Crawling up Gwen’s body, Cade bent his head and kissed right between her legs. He didn’t mess about, though, with a lot of foreplay. Normally, Jay might try to slow things down and cool Cade off for a while, but Gwen was so primed for them. Her sex was swollen and pink, her breath coming in rapid gasps.
Cade shucked his clothes off in record time and climbed onto the bed, onto Gwen. He didn’t take any of her clothing off, merely pushed her skirt farther up her legs before impatiently shoving them apart.
He brought his mouth onto hers in a rough, demanding kiss, and she moaned into it. Suddenly a little awkward, Jay wasn’t sure what to do.
Cade solved the problem by beckoning him over. “Gwen, do you want to take Jay in your mouth while I fuck you?”
“Yes, please.” She licked her lips and smiled up at him, and Jay lost the awkwardness right there and then.
He began to take his shirt off, but Cade stopped him. “Stay dressed but take yourself out.”
Kinky fucker. So only Cade would be nude, while he and Gwen were clothed. The dynamics of such a thing should somehow make Cade the more vulnerable one, but he wasn’t. The male was completely and utterly in charge. Something Jay liked more than he probably should.
Running his big cock right up Gwen’s soaking slit, Cade groaned and licked her neck before biting there. “So want to bite you.”
“What’s with the biting?” she gasped.
Jay chuckled as he approached them on the bed. “It’s an old-school thing. Some dragons bit their mates to mark them and also because the bite drives you mad. Like the most pleasurable itch you can imagine. Makes you want them all the time, at least, at first. Or so legends say. Half the time we don’t really know why Dragonea do the things they do.”
“The bite’s for real, and it does drive you insane.” Cade gave her a nip, and she squirmed under him. “See?”
“Maybe we can hold off with the whole biting thing for a while.” She gestured between the three of them. “This is more than enough for a girl to contend with. I don’t know how your poor human playthings survived you guys.”
“They weren’t our mates. Didn’t feel the same to them. Or to us.” Cade nibbled her ear, and as he did, he shocked the shit out of Jay when he pulled him into them and took hold of his cock, which Jay had just freed.
“Here, gorgeous. Open wide.”
Cade presented Gwen with Jay’s dick, and for a moment, Jay felt as if he ought to apologize or something for the male’s bad manners, but Gwen grinned and reached for him. She brought him to her perfect mouth, and the moment she sucked him in, he lost all his concerns about manners.
“Gods, you two are gorgeous together.” Cade watched them with hooded eyes.
With one smooth move, he thrust into Gwen, and her body shimmied from the movement, making her tits bounce and Jay’s mouth water.
“You want this hard and fast, or do you want me to take it easy this time?” Cade whispered the question in her ear.
Stopping her all-out oral assault on his poor, straining dick for a moment, Gwen lifted her head. Looking at Cade, she smiled. “I love it hard and fast.”
“Had an inkling you might.” Cade lifted her thigh, pulling one leg up and over his hip, giving him better access, and he pushed into her, hard. Gwen sighed a drawn-out yes and turned back to Jay, her eyes already hazy with lust.
They soon set up a perfect rhythm, and Jay knew he wouldn’t last long. Not with Gwen sucking him like she wanted to swallow him whole, while she moaned around his cock on every thrust from Cade. Cade soon began to lose his rhythm too, which told Jay he wouldn’t be far behind.
Just as Jay felt his balls begin to churn with his encroaching orgasm, Gwen pulled her mouth away and gave a scream.
“Oh, fuck. What’s happening? I’m coming. Shit.” She yelped a little and wriggled as if trying to move away.
Cade stopped moving. “Babe, what’s wrong?”
“It’s burning…electric…too much,” she panted.
“Oh, that.” Cade began to move again as she dropped her head to one side, her breath coming out in heaving gasps.
“That’s just dragon sex. Get used to it, baby.”
She came like crazy, and Jay couldn’t wait for her to calm down and maybe get back to his dick. Because the sight of her flailing on the bed, her eyes rolling back in her head as Cade gave a grunt and lost his shit too…it proved too much. Jay grabbed himself, and just like the other day, as soon as he took hold of himself, he began to come. He came all over the pillow, getting some of it in Gwen’s hair.
Needing her next to him as soon as it was over, Jay pulled his clothes off and climbed onto the bed, pulling Gwen into his arms. He relished the skin-on-skin between them. Cade rolled over to Gwen’s other side and spooned her, and as he did so, his hand trailed along Jay’s forearm, making him want so much more.
“Come here.” Cade turned Gwen’s face with two fingers under her chin, and when she faced him, he began to kiss her. Gentler now, and it looked deep and intimate to Jay. He soon found out how deep and intimate, when Cade broke off from kissing Gwen and reached over her to kiss him.
Jay groaned into the kiss, unable to help himself or the way he reacted. And when he did, Cade swept his tongue into his mouth, claiming, tasting. By the time the kiss was done, Jay was hard again and under no illusions that he and Cade were merely platonic. Not anymore.
Crap, his life was about to get complicated because Gwen was enough to handle on her own, and now he had a male like Cade to take on, too. He’d be gray before they were done with him. Still, it would be worth it.
Soon, the other two began to doze, Gwen making soft little snoring sounds that made Jay smile. He tried to do the same, but he couldn’t unwind. Not wanting to disturb them, the third time he turned over, trying to get comfy, he decided to get up.
Turning right out of the room, he went down the corridor to the front door and stepped outside, taking in the fragrant night air. Despite the feel-good hormones zapping around his body, he couldn’t relax. He felt as if he stood on the edge of something momentous, and it scared him. He wanted it, but wanting something didn’t stop it from being frightening. In fact, maybe the only things worth having were the ones that scared a person soul deep.
Movement to his right had him whipping his head around. Four males came out of the wooded copse to the right and back of the house. He frowned. They couldn’t be human, but none of the dragons of their clan would be skulking around their house at night.
“Hey.” He spoke, wanting to break the foreboding atmosphere that had suddenly descended over the area.
“Lookie here. Jago, Jago, Jago.”
A man he didn’t recognize spoke his name with a sneer to his full lips. Full lips in a face that seemed somehow familiar. And then it hit with sickening clarity. Full lips, square jaw, big blue eyes, and hair that still looked blond, not gray, in the moonlight. Genes were powerful things, and the male in front of him certainly had plenty in common with him.
“Father?”
Searing pain hit him, the back of his head struck with sharp force and pain as severe as if it were about to split open. White exploded behind his eyes, and then his world went dark.