Chapter Nineteen
Between Neph and his mates’ ability to drift, plus Zorion’s powers of teleportation, the entire group was transported to the banks of the lake above Gaia’s Falls in only a few seconds. Once Cade regained his equilibrium and the nausea of the drift passed, he looked to Numa for directions, only to see her shell-shocked expression as she realized everyone in their group was expecting her to take charge.
He started toward her with a worried frown. “Sweet pea, tell me what you need.”
Her brother stepped close and looked down at her. “What is it? It’s not like you to shy away from leading. You were always a natural. It’s part of your nature as a green.”
“I know. And it’s the reason I am the only one who can complete this ritual. It isn’t taking charge that has me all wound up. It’s the impact it is going to have on all of you,” she said, facing Cade and the other two ursa males who Cade knew were every bit as enamored of the green-eyed beauty as he was.
“We’ll be yours. I call that a win no matter how things shake out,” Cade said.
“Don’t forget we’re ursa,” Theron added. “You do us a great honor by choosing us. No other ursa save the ones mated to your siblings can claim as much.”
“And you are all willing to share me with a god?”
Cade lifted his brows and scratched his beard. “Well, we need to make sure things are kept fair, but now is hardly the time to decide on a rotation. If his godliness bogarts you, the other four of us will happily take him to task. But the way I see this going is we all get you at the same time. Unless you don’t think you can handle us …” He shot her a playful grin.
Numa inhaled sharply, her green eyes glowing with fresh desire at that suggestion. “Oh, I can handle you. I look forward to Dion’s return to prove just how much I can handle.”
He closed the distance between them and rested his hands on her shoulders. Inside the depths of his consciousness, Zephyrus stirred, his arousal accompanied by a warm breeze that tugged at the bindings in Numa’s hair.
Sliding the edge of his thumb across Numa’s jaw, Cade peered down into her eyes. “What do you say, sweet pea? Ready to get this going?”
Bekim and Theron moved up behind her, one pressing a kiss to her shoulder while the other kissed her cheek. “Just tell us where you want us,” Bekim said.
Her body warmed beneath his touch, and Cade had to resist bending to kiss her lush lips. He needed to hear her answer first.
“Inside me,” she breathed finally, and hell if that didn’t send his blood pumping straight into his cock.
Cade was only dimly aware of the rest of their group spreading out around them to guard the perimeter. All he cared about was the feel of Numa’s sweet curves against his body and the urgent tug of her fingers at the waistband of his pants.
Deva was safe now, and his entire reason for being was in his arms, struggling for the second time that day to get him naked. He didn’t even flinch when her talon came out and swiped through the thin silk at his waist, making quick work of the tie. His cock sprang free, and she went to her knees as though in worship.
“Only hold back until I say so,” Numa said, her lips grazing the swollen head of his cock. Behind her, the other two knelt and were working her clothes off her body, sliding the straps off her shoulders and pushing the fabric over her hips.
A cloud of swirling iridescent smoke flowed around them, slipping in a shimmering sheet beneath Cade’s feet. He followed the trail with his eyes to where it originated from a very curious, pale-haired Asha, who seemed intent on watching and just as intent on conjuring a luxurious bed of blankets and pillows for their lovemaking. As his attention wavered under Numa’s eager tongue sliding up and down his shaft, the others faded from his periphery as a darker veil drifted down around them, lending privacy from prying eyes.
“Come away, sister,” Zorion was saying. “Let them work.”
Cade didn’t give two shits who saw. With any luck, Gaia herself was watching as Bekim and Theron both fell to their knees beside Numa and added their own tongues to the mix.
“Oh, sweet Jesus,” Cade muttered and let his head fall back. He struggled to remain standing, but wouldn’t have moved for the world as one mouth bent lower and wrapped its wet lips around his balls while the other sucked on the head of his cock. Numa’s deft hands and talented tongue worked his shaft for a moment longer, then disappeared, leaving the two men going at it on their own.
Bewildered by the change, Cade opened his eyes and looked down to see Numa rising with her green eyes shining.
“Shall I mark you in the ursa fashion or the dragon? Your preference.” She extended her talons and gently raked the edges across his chest. Small tufts of the thick blond curls on his chest fell away from the razor-sharp extensions. Either way, it was going to hurt, but with a pair of the most talented ursa mouths steadily working him into a frenzy, he didn’t think he’d care much one way or the other.
“Both, baby. I want everything you can give me.”
“We’ll start with a dragon mark for each of you,” she said. “One to match Dion’s.”
She slipped around to his backside and he shivered in ecstasy at the feel of her warm breasts pressed against his back. She brushed her lips over his ear, her tongue tracing the outer shell. “I’ll give you something else I gave Dion that he seemed to enjoy.”
Her feet nudged at his ankles, urging him to widen his stance. He obeyed, the action itself a promise of an experience he had yet to have in her presence. A soft sigh escaped her mouth as she pulled away from him, and with one hand, gripped his left ass cheek to spread him open. Another, firmer grip from one of the men encompassed his other cheek, and he found himself more exposed than he’d ever been in his life.
“Open,” she said softly, and he looked down to see Theron’s slips part and a thick, oblong, and very recognizable shape slip between them. Cade’s cock twitched under Bekim’s tongue in anticipation of the thick plug’s intrusion.
He groaned when the cool, blunt tip touched his opening and Numa applied gentle pressure to ease it into him.
“Better than my cock?” Zephyrus asked.
“Gaia’s tears, so much better,” he said.
“Hmm?” Numa asked and he realized he’d spoken out loud. “You like this? Which of the others would you like to replace it later while your cock is inside me?”
A pair of interested grunts sounded from below, both of the others keen on his answer.
“Sweet pea, if I’m inside you, they can all take turns.”
“I like that answer,” she said, slipping her arms around him and pressing her cheek to his shoulder. “You have no idea how happy that makes me. There is no going back after today. I want all of you to be happy.”
He let out a groan as his need built under the ministrations of the pair of mouths on his cock. “Baby, I’m guessing you won’t let me come until that mark’s done. I’d really love it if you would get on with it. I adore you. Breezy boy fucking loves you. We sure as fuck hope there’s no going back, because we’re in this for the long haul.”
Laughing, Numa kissed the side of his neck. “Good,” she said huskily. “This will hurt. I’ll give you the ursa mark after I’ve tasted your Nirvana.”
Even though he could tell she was quick about it, she’d been right—it hurt like the fucking dickens. It was like the lash of a whip striking in a blur over the span of his shoulders and down his spine. The pleasure of the tongues between his thighs only dulled it so much, but in between lashes, she would pump the plug in and out of his ass until he ached for another strike of pain to go with that unbearable pleasure.
Cade bit his lip with the effort of holding back until Zephyrus rumbled inside his head, “Open your eyes, look at the sky.” He obeyed, fixing his attention on a puffy white cloud and the nearby Silas tree rustling in the breeze with the roaring rush of the waterfall just beyond. The brief distraction helped and the soles of his feet stopped itching, though his balls felt even heavier, and it didn’t help that one of the other boys was eagerly sucking on them one by one.
The pain ceased with a wash of cool air against his back and the scent of pine and wet earth. Then Numa was urging him to the ground. Bekim and Theron fell back, reclining against an enormous pile of cushions. He found himself pushed back against another pile with Numa’s flushed face looking down at him.
She moved to straddle him, her warm thighs sliding against his hips, her nipples tinged green as her dragon nature bled through her human form. It was the surest sign of how close to her own limit she was, and he meant to push her even closer.
Cade bent his knees and rested his hands on her thighs, sliding them up until he could glide his thumbs along the juncture that was already glistening with evidence of her arousal. Her breasts rose and fell, and he surged up to grasp one nipple between his lips, his passenger eagerly urging him on.
Numa let out a shuddering sigh when his thumbs parted her and he found her swollen clit with the pad of one. Releasing her nipple, he let out a low growl of need. She was so warm and wet, his thumb easily sliding around and around her slick nub. He slipped his other thumb down between her folds and found her entrance flooded with even more delicious essence.
As he pushed his thumb into her, she arched her back with a rough moan. His cock kicked hard against her backside, more than ready to fill that sweet, hot tightness once more.
“Sweet pea, as much as I’m dying to fill you up again, I want to remind you that the rest of us got shorted our turn to drive you crazy. I think it’s our turn for that now, don’t you?”
She opened her eyes as she canted her hips into his touch, forcing Cade’s thumb to penetrate her deeper. A cute crinkle appeared between her brows and she bit her lip, muffling a little grunt when he pressed harder at her clit. “I can hold back. Do your worst.”
With a grin, he shot a look past her to Theron and Bekim who still watched avidly, loosely gripping their erections in their fists. He tilted his chin up and they moved. Theron slipped between Cade’s legs and gave Cade’s cock another stroke before wrapping his arms around Numa’s torso and cupping her breasts. He nuzzled at her neck and she sighed, leaning back into him.
Beside them, Bekim settled on his knees, looking at Cade earnestly. “This is better than a dream come true,” he said, and leaned down to press a kiss to Cade’s lips.
He groaned into Bekim’s kiss. He tasted of Numa and, strangely, of Cade’s own sharp essence, but then they had joined her just after he had left. Perhaps they’d had time for a taste before their interruption.
The flavor of Bekim’s lips turned his blood molten as he realized how close a bond they would have if they pulled this off. He had gone from nothing to everything in the span of a day. Overcome with the fiercest gratitude for their acceptance, he gripped the other man by the back of the head, tangling his fingers in Bekim’s thick hair and plunging his tongue deeper. While they kissed, Theron’s cock rubbed against his, but then the sensation shifted.
Hot, wet heat met his cockhead as Numa rose up and pressed him to her core. Theron slipped his mouth around Cade’s balls again as Numa slid down his length, the mélange of sensations so exquisitely sensuous he bit down on Bekim’s lip hard enough to draw blood.
Bekim only chuckled and deepened their kiss, his sweet blood mixing with the other flavors on Cade’s tongue.
Breathless from pleasure, he released Bekim’s mouth and inhaled to refill his lungs. He held the other ursa close, their foreheads together as he regained his breath and forced himself to refocus to avoid shooting his load into Numa before it was time.
“Let me taste you,” he said, looking up into Bekim’s eyes. “You got a taste of me. It’s only fair.”
Bekim’s gaze heated and he nodded. He rose up and shifted positions. As he moved, Cade looked up at Numa, who was riding his cock with tortuously slow undulations of her hip. He narrowed his eyes at her and reached up to tweak her nipple. “You’re holding off until we say so, right? If we’ve gotta wait, so do you, sweet pea.”
Soft, rhythmic exhalations puffed out of her with each downstroke, and she nodded. His gaze lingered on her for several seconds, too enthralled by her enjoyment of his cock to tear his attention away. Theron’s bearded face appeared over her shoulder and he whispered into her ear something Cade couldn’t hear over the sounds of her panting breaths and his own pounding heart.
“He asked if she’d like to feel you both inside her,” Zephyrus said.
Intrigued by the question, Cade propped himself up on his elbows. “Can you take us both, sweet pea?”
Beside him, Bekim chuckled. “It’s one of her favorite things. Guaranteed to make her scream.”
Cade’s brows lifted and he reached for her. “Come here and give him room,” he said, pulling her down to lay against his chest. She remained poised above him with her hands braced against his pecs. He could feel Theron repositioning and spread his thighs wider to accommodate the other big ursa. Numa hunched lower, and Cade took advantage of the proximity of her lips to capture them in a kiss. She sank into him with a moan, kissing him back and clinging to him with both hands.
She tilted her hips up, sliding partway off his length and the hot, hard shaft of Theron’s cock pressed against the underside of his. Cade let out a muffled moan of pleasure. Gaia’s fucking tears, this would be good, and like nothing he’d ever felt before.
“I crave to share her with you this way,” Zephyrus said. “To have my cock slide against yours inside her sweet depths. To feel her between us.”
“This time is mine,” Cade growled.
Inside his head, Zephyrus chuckled. “As it should be. I wouldn’t dream of depriving you of the experience.”
Then Numa was sinking back down his shaft and her channel felt even tighter, the hot, throbbing length of Theron’s cock creating a fresh and delicious friction that had Cade’s head spinning with the need to come.
“Give me that cock,” he growled at Bekim, who seemed every bit as distracted by the two cocks filling Numa, despite not being one of them. His attention jerked back to Cade and he grinned, rising up on his knees again to give Cade easier access.
Cade twisted his torso just enough to take the man’s cock in one hand and eagerly wrapped his lips around the thick head, lapping at the fluid that had escaped and savoring the delicious remnants of Numa’s essence still clinging to him. Bekim twisted his hips in rhythm with Cade’s sucking.
“Gaia, yes,” Bekim said, tangling his fingers in Cade’s hair to guide himself deeper. The tip of his cock nudged at the back of Cade’s throat, and he opened wider to take more of him. He’d missed this level of wild abandon with a lover, something he hadn’t experienced since since Lennox was taken from him. He didn’t think he’d ever find such love again. When Bekim slipped out of his mouth and bent to give him a desperate kiss, he knew he’d found the mates he had longed for.
These two ursa were as perfect for him as they seemed to be for Numa. Cade craved at taste of them both like he couldn’t believe. When he bent again to take Bekim’s cock, the other ursa shook his head.
“Fuck no, man. If you start again, I’ll come, and I don’t want to do that until after she’s marked me. I’m happy pushing her to the edge, though.” He shot Cade a wink before dipping his head to lavish his attention on Numa’s breasts once more.
Cade lay back, forcing himself to focus on the clouds and not on the perfect, tight clench of Numa’s pussy around his cock and Theron’s. After only a few more strokes, Theron let out a gasp and jerked away.
“Fuck, I’ve got to cool off before I lose my shit,” he said. “Bekim, swim?”
The pair of them stood and dove into the water, leaving Cade staring up at Numa’s flushed face.
“I wish I could see your aura … could know how close you are.”
“I can help with that,” Zephyrus said. “If you close your eyes and listen, you can hear the music made where her aura resonates with yours.”
Cade did. At first there was only splashing from the pair of swimming ursa. With Zephyrus’ coaching, he focused his attention on the sensation of Numa’s body as she settled against his chest again, her hips twisting with a delicious little swirl that had his blood pressure spiking.
Beneath it all was the strong, repetitive cadence of her heartbeat pulsing in tandem with his own, and from that rhythm, another sound emerged as subtle and ever present as the wind through the trees of his beloved home, or the roaring persistence of Gaia’s Falls. But this sound was much closer, surrounding them and only them, like a constant melody that took up residence in his mind. Once he’d heard it, he couldn’t unhear it.
Cade moved his hips, pushing slowly into her again, and the tempo of the song changed with her heartbeat and the cadence of her breaths. His own changed too, the pair of them creating a harmonic field he believed he could touch if he reached out to it. Keeping his eyes closed, he did just that, lifting a hand from Numa’s back and holding his arm up. He felt it then, as surely as he felt the ground beneath his back—a field of potent energy that heated his skin when he brushed his fingers along its edge. It felt stretched to the point of nearly breaking. As he pumped his cock into her once more, the sensation stretched farther, and Numa let out a whimper and a sigh.
“So close,” she said, lifting up and bracing her hands on his shoulders.
Cade opened his eyes and gazed at her in wonder. “I can hear them … our auras. Like a constant note held by the most beautiful voice. How long will it hold?”
“A little longer,” she said, though the tightness in her voice told him she was likely already at her limit as much as he was at his.
“Numa, this isn’t our only chance to get it right, is it? You haven’t even marked the other two yet.”
“This is just the start, but hold on … please hold on.”
Her muscles tightened around him and she let out a gasp, her entire body growing still as if any movement would set her off. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her back to him, nuzzling his lips against her temple. “As long as you need, sweet pea. You say when and I’m there.”
Gaia, but he hoped it would be soon.