Rhyndor still hurt. Each time he moved, his whole body protested, but he’d grown determined to get up. He’d spent over a week of days in bed, sleeping most of the time. He experienced vile dreams, and no wonder. Every time he let his mind dwell on the disgusting piece of Celine living in him all these years, he shuddered. A small part of him remained terrified that more of her resided in him, lying in wait to strike, despite Rhiannon’s assurances she’d checked him and used powerful magic to draw any remaining darkness out of him.
The good news was he and Callum had their mate. It seemed his dying, however briefly, clarified her feelings and made her want to stay. But once again, he worried about it. What if she merely reacted to the moment and regretted her choice a few months or years down the line?
He sighed and pushed up on the pillows. And this was why he needed to get moving. Staying in bed was doing a number on his mind. Making him fret and whittle like an old woman.
After carefully pulling on some sweat pants and a T-shirt, he headed downstairs to find Callum in the kitchen, working on his laptop at the table.
“Hey,” he went over and kissed his male on the top of his head, breathing in his familiar scent. They needed to talk. Rhyndor had some things he needed to get off his chest. But first, he needed coffee.
He made a pot as Callum clicked away in the background. “What’re you doing?”
Callum turned and glanced at him. “I’m making sure we’ve got everything sorted so we can do what we want in the coming months. We need to all sit and talk and decide where we want to be based. Lilly wants to open an animal shelter, so we need to purchase some land. The issue is, do we stay in the States? Or do we come back here and buy some land near one of the clans?”
“She wants to open an animal shelter?” News to him.
“Yup. We’ve talked quite a bit while you’ve been resting. How are you feeling?” Callum stopped what he was doing and turned to give Rhyndor his full attention.
“Better.”
“But not great.”
No point in lying; his mate would see through him. “No, not great. Not yet.”
“I wonder if you need more healing?”
Rhyndor shook his head and held up a coffee mug, proceeding to only make one for himself when Callum shook his head. “Nah. Rhiannon says it will take time, is all. Listen.” He took his cup and went to sit by Callum. “I need to talk to you.”
“Sounds ominous.”
“It isn’t.” He sat and blew on his coffee before taking a sip. Ah, heaven. Strong and rich, with only a touch of milk, just how he liked it. “I find shit like this hard to talk about, but I’ve been thinking a lot laid up there in bed. I want you to know how much you mean to me.”
Callum started to say something, but Rhyndor held up his hand. “I worry that because you had to find Lilly for me to get my warrior side back on track, you think you don’t mean as much to me. You do, it’s simply different. I’ve always felt you can take care of yourself, you know? My feelings for you are the same but different. If it makes any sense at all.”
Callum smiled at him and leaned over to place a soft and lingering kiss on his lips. “I get exactly what you mean. I understand you care for me as deeply as you do her. But I also guessed bringing a young female whom we were matched to into our lives would reignite your protective instincts. I wanted her for myself, of course. One inhale of her scent, and I was a goner. But I also wanted her for you, and what I believed she’d do for you. The ironic thing is, it looks like she might be the one protecting us when it comes right down to it.”
“That powerful, huh?”
Callum nodded. “Not on Rhiannon’s level…yet. But the females think she’s powerful enough to be a clan Warder if she ever wishes it. They’ve been training her while you’ve been convalescing. Not sure she does want to be a Warder, though. She wants to visit her sisters often, but I don’t think she wants to live amongst a clan. And she does keep going on about this animal shelter she wants to build.”
“Christ, we’re going to be overrun by kittens and puppies,” Rhyndor groaned.
“Yep, and worse, we’re going to have to hire human helpers, which means being careful to keep our identity secret. It’s going to be a bit of a pain in the arse.”
“But we’re going to do it.” Rhyndor took a sip of his coffee.
“Of course we are,” Callum laughed. “No choice. Our mate wants it, we’ll give her it.”
“We’re so fucked.”
“Yes, we are.”
Neither of them sounded too worried about being fucked, and Rhyndor, for one, didn’t give a shit how many waifs and strays Lilly wanted to adopt, so long as they were together.
The female in question breezed into the room and gave a cry of delight. “You’re up! I’ve been so worried about you.”
She ran to him and gave him a hug and a kiss, then turned and kissed Callum too. “I’ve been thinking.”
“Yes.”
“I love it around here. I like Scotland, too. But I love it around here more. And yesterday I went with Mia and Steffan, to see Mia’s home by the sea. The Welsh coast is bloody lovely. The mountains along the coastline give it so much drama. Steffan says he’s grown to love it as much as Mia.”
Rhyndor shot Callum a glance. He still worried about leaving Lilly with Steffan, despite their supposedly having buried the hatchet. Lilly caught his look and nudged his arm gently.
“Rhyndor, you laid down your life for him. You died. For him. You don’t think he’s grateful? You’ve got an ally now. Mia says he’s done a complete 180, considers himself in your debt. Besides which, my sister won’t let her mate harm a hair on my head. And…I’ve a few tricks up my sleeve if anyone tries to harm me.”
He grumbled under his breath but let it go.
“As I was saying,” she continued, “I went to see Mia’s home. And I think I’ve fallen a little in love. It’s beautiful. So, so stunning. And I’d love to be near the ocean. We can buy a property with land, open a shelter, and be near the sea. We’d also be close enough to the clan to visit. And Nathan, Dom, and Claire come to see their Welsh friends often.”
Her eyes shone, and Rhyndor loved seeing her so happy, but he still couldn’t trust it. He didn’t know what the fuck was wrong with him, but he kept waiting for it all to end. It felt too good, too much. He didn’t deserve this. Yes, he’d tried to right the wrong he’d done. But he’d still allowed himself to be weak enough to be enchanted all those years ago, and he’d let himself host a piece of evil for centuries without knowing it. He’d always feared it, but why hadn’t he definitively sensed her in him? Maybe he was evil too.
Part of him, deep down, worried he was tainted somehow.
“I can see the cogs turning,” Callum said dryly.
“What’s wrong?” Lilly frowned at him.
Not sure how to put it into words, Rhyndor stared morosely at his coffee for a moment before speaking. “I’m worried you don’t truly want this. Us. It’s a reaction to what happened, and it’s natural, but you’re not thinking straight.”
“I am thinking straight,” she insisted.
He shook his head. “No, I don’t think you are. You saw what came out of me. Once you’re over the shock of me dying, you’ll not want to be with someone like me. You need an honorable male, not one who allowed himself to be used by someone like Celine for so long.”
“Oh, fucking hell.” Callum shot out of his chair. “I thought we were done with this shit, Rhyn.”
“No. Not done at all. You saw it, Callum. Jesus. To think she’d lived in me all this time. There’s got to be something wrong with me. I’m worried I’m evil.”
Lilly gasped. “You’re the opposite of evil. You’re the best person I’ve ever met.”
“Thanks,” Callum mumbled.
“You’re the second-best, okay?”
He laughed. “Yeah, good enough.”
“You’re a good person.” She came to stand by him. “I’m a powerful dragon, you know? More so than my sisters, which I think secretly bugs Mia.” She laughed. “You should listen to me, I know things.”
He wanted to believe her, he honestly did. But he still found it hard to accept he deserved anything good. All his time with Callum, he’d been waiting for the other male to leave. He didn’t want to spend his time with Lilly doing the same, but old habits died hard.
“Hey. You’re not a bad person. You risked it all to help Steffan. You had things lining up for you, we had our mate, and you risked it to help Steffan. To me, that makes you too good,” Callum huffed.
Lilly nudged at Rhyndor and slid herself between him and the table, climbing onto his knee. The feel of her in his arms heated his blood, despite his aches and pains. He’d been missing her and Callum. They’d left him alone to heal, and the bed felt too big, too empty.
She snuggled on his knee, and he groaned as part of him came to life, suddenly insistent and demanding as her scent hit him. “I think you’re a good male, Rhyndor,” she whispered in his ear. “But right now, something tells me you’re feeling a little bad.”
“You have the worst lines.” He pulled back to look at her beautiful face and couldn’t resist planting a kiss on her full lips. “Between you and him, you’ll be the death of me.”
He laughed at their stunned silence. “What? Too soon?”
“Way too soon.” Callum came over to him and took his face in his hands. He gave him a kiss on the cheek and then a much harsher, more demanding one on the lips. “How much pain are you in, exactly?”
“Not so much I can’t be distracted.”
“Come on. Let’s go upstairs.” Callum reached out and pulled Lilly off his lap and then pulled Rhyndor into a standing position.
He led them both down the hall, shooting quick, heated glances their way. When they reached the end, he didn’t take them to the room where Rhyndor had been recuperating, but to the room he’d been sharing with Lilly.
“We’ve been ever so good while you’ve been out of action. No playing around whatsoever.”
“I wouldn’t have minded,” Rhyndor said truthfully.
“We wanted to wait for you,” Lilly told him.
They reached the bedroom, and Callum pushed the door open.
“There is something we need to discuss.”
Callum looked serious, which worried Rhyndor because the guy hardly ever looked serious. “What?”
“Because of the way our shadow dragons merged, there is a risk when we get physical that our real dragons will merge. That we’ll mate, essentially. Rhiannon discussed it in detail with Lilly and me while you were recovering. The breathing our fire into you thing was part of the plan, and even that makes us more closely bonded. But our shadows also merged with Lilly’s, which is quite dangerous from a bonding point of view.”
“You guys did a brave but stupid thing,” Rhyndor admonished. “Your shadow dragons may have been harmed, killing your real dragons and maybe killing you completely. Not to add that this magic is not too well understood, and from what I know, you’re more at risk from Celine in the future if she comes after us. Or when we go after her.”
“Who was going to harm our dragons?” Callum laughed.
They made light of it, but if one of their shadow dragons was killed or harmed, then their real dragon died along with it. Some believed if a shadow dragon was locked out of your body by magic, it could never return and would be cursed to wander the in-between for all eternity. They’d taken a huge risk.
“I still don’t quite get the difference.” Lilly frowned. “I saw two dragons. One brightly colored but ethereal and one a dark shadow. Are you saying the cloudy one is real, but the shadow one isn’t?”
“It’s more complex than that. Some believe that we have more than one soul. Our cloud dragons are our light souls, and the shadow dragon is a deeper, more hidden part of our soul.” Callum smiled at her. “Our cloud dragon comes out more, for example, when we bond. Only powerful magic can bring the other dragon out. The shadow dragons are more complicated, and I don’t fully understand it myself. It’s to do with powerful and dangerous magic. But we’re okay and always would have been because no one in the room, or this clan, wanted to harm us. Lilly’s right, Rhyn. These guys see you as a hero now. Steffan is no longer in pain or at risk from Celine’s poison, and it’s due to your sacrifice and great courage. You need to start seeing yourself as others do.”
Callum’s words warmed him, but Rhyndor knew it would take time to stop viewing himself as weak or somehow bad. But he hoped with time and with his mates’ love, he’d be able to do so. He still needed to find Celine, though. And now he’d hopefully have an ally in Steffan. Rhyndor would only be able to fully relax about his mates’ safety once the evil creature no longer walked this earth.
Right now, he needed to make sure Lilly understood what might be about to happen. “You get it, that if we fuck and our dragons come out, that’s it? You’re bonded with us. No walking away. Or at least not without a great deal of pain.”
She nodded, and her eyes were bright. “I get it. I understand, and if I’m honest, I want it. I’m not bothered about the official clan ceremony. The thing Claire and her men did, maybe one day, but not right now. But if our dragons merge, then I think it would be wonderful. I’ve discussed it with Mia and Claire, and ever since the whole shadow dragon situation, I’ve felt a faint echo of you both within me. I want the full thing. I want to feel you both, here.” She placed her hand over her heart.
Something snapped in Rhyndor, something seismic moving aside, and letting all the feelings he’d kept repressed flood through him. His power filled him, and his heart beat hard for the two people by his side. He was done locking himself down and trying to stop their intense bond.
Done trying to be the one putting the brakes on this. Done trying to be chivalrous. Done trying to stop something they all clearly wanted. He reached for Lilly and pulled her into him, tangling his fingers in her long, luscious hair. She sighed into him and pressed up close, pillowing her generous breasts against his chest.
Callum came to stand behind her and swept his large hands up her waist, the sight sending all the blood in Rhyndor’s body south.
“I want you to…” She looked right at him and flushed. “I know if you and I…if we do it, then it should trigger the process. Callum says you’re the dominant male, so you and I get it on…you know…fully.” She cleared her throat.
Damn him, her hesitation and nerves at saying the words should have dampened the fire within him, but it simply made it roar with need.
She wore a long T-shirt and nothing much else from what he saw, except for the ridiculous fluffy slipper boots on her feet. Callum wore loose sweats and a hooded top. Rhyndor motioned for Callum to get undressed, and the male complied with haste.
“Take those stupid boots off,” he ordered Lilly with a grin. They were kind of adorable.
She kicked them to the side, and he ran his hands up her silky thighs, noting the way her nipples pebbled under her cotton top. Damn, she was responsive.
“I think you were trying to say, when you and I fuck, we will trigger the mating bond. Yes?”
She nodded, her cheeks turning an adorable shade of pink. He loved her shyness, but he loved the way she lost her shyness once she got turned on even more. Wanting to get her there, he bent his head and sucked one hard nipple into his mouth through the thin cotton covering it.
She gasped and arched her back into him, offering more of herself to him. His dragon roared, but he held himself in check. He didn’t want to hurt her, and she was so small compared to him. So delicate. Unlike Callum, who stood behind her now, nude and hard as a rock.
Rhyndor’s blood pumped hard and fast in his veins. In all his long, long life on this earth, he’d never been here. Never taken a mate, never experienced the bonding moment when the mating occurred.
Lilly curled her fingers into his hair and pulled him closer. Yes, he wanted this, her all hot and bothered and needy. Callum groaned and swept her curtain of dark hair to the side, kissing and licking his way up her neck. She let her head fall farther to the side, her eyes fluttering closed.
Rhyndor took his shirt off and lifted her up in his arms, ending Callum’s worship of her neck. He carried her to the bed where he sat on the side and put her down, straddling his lap. In one smooth motion, he swept the T-shirt off, up over her head, and pulled her into him. Skin met skin, her breasts pressed against his chest, and he groaned as he claimed her mouth, his arms around her back. Her own arms came up and around his neck, and they kissed as if starving. Tongues licked and teeth clashed. It wasn’t polished, but it was hot and needy and better than perfect.
“Gods, you two look amazing together.” Callum sounded strained.
He’d get his soon enough, but right now, Rhyndor needed this. He’d been holding himself back with Lilly, too scared to initiate the bond to do what he wanted. Callum hadn’t needed to in the same way. And so Rhyndor took what he’d been denying himself. He tasted her and kissed her and ran his hands all over her gorgeous skin. Up to the nape of her neck, brushing the hair aside, down her back to cup her buttocks, back up again, then out to the side and down her ribs, letting his thumbs brush under her breasts as he went.
She began to wriggle and move around on his lap. Her warm core came right down over his aching cock, and he suddenly hated his sweat pants, resenting the material between them.
Do this right, his human brain reminded his reptilian brain. He slowed his breathing and lifted Lilly from him before he lost control completely. He placed her back on the floor and intended to get her onto the bed, but she surprised him as her deft fingers undid the drawstring at his waist and pushed his pants down his legs. He wore no underwear, and his cock sprang free, thick and straining.
He kicked the material bunching at his ankles away, and Lilly came to him, wrapping herself around him, her scent covering him as her skin caressed his. Fuck, he shook where he stood. Fingers trembling as he held her, trying to be gentle, trying to be good.
Heavy, warm arms came around him from behind, and Callum whispered in his ear. “We’ve got you. Let it go, Rhyn.”
How did he read him so well? It wasn’t just finally having Lilly in his arms, but fully letting down his guard with Callum. Something he’d never done before. Not once in their decades together, if he were honest. He’d always held part of himself back. In some ways, he’d been alone for most of his life, centuries since the bitch had enchanted him, and now he stood on the precipice of letting others in. Really letting them in. He’d never felt this way, and it rocked him to his core.
Emotions battered him, threatening to tear down his walls. Threatening to end the male he’d been before and make him someone new, someone reborn.
He closed his eyes and kissed Lilly, inhaling her scent and Callum’s as the male held them both wrapped in his arms. He flew, more than at any time in his dragon form, and he soared, but at the same time, Callum held him grounded and safe.
Like a fissure cracked into the earth for centuries, Rhyndor’s heart split wide open, and his fire poured into his blood.
Picking Lilly up as if she weighed nothing, he lifted her and placed her on the bed, her head on the pillows, dark hair fanned out around her, a halo of silk. He needed her right the fuck now. He should do some foreplay or something, he knew it, but damn if he didn’t simply need to be between her legs. His cock ached for it, but so did his heart.
Callum was right there with them, kissing Lilly and then claiming Rhyndor’s mouth in a passionate kiss.
Not wanting to hurt her, needing to be sure she was as ready as he, Rhyndor parted her folds with his fingers and stroked her there. Soaked. She was sopping wet, and he groaned and buried his face in her neck. He wanted to be in her, and then he wanted Callum to be in her. He wanted them both to take her, for their essences to mix the same way their dragons’ would.
He looked at Callum and then at Lilly. “Are you ready for us, angel? I want you so bad, and then I want Callum and you to make love after we do.”
Callum groaned and nipped Rhyndor between his neck and shoulder. It sent shivers down his spine.
“Yes, I’m ready, and yes, I want it,” she panted.
He pushed her legs wide apart to make room for him, and then he was there, at her core. She lifted her knees and let her legs fall to the side, and he pushed his way in slowly and carefully. Her eyes fluttered closed, and she sighed as if in relief.
As he slid all the way in, he’d never felt anything so warm and welcoming, and he gritted his teeth to keep himself from pushing all the way in and hurting her. Once he’d seated himself all the way inside, he gave an experimental hitch of his hips, and she groaned.
Opening her eyes, she smiled at him and then turned to Callum and motioned for him to come closer. “I want to touch you, taste you,” she told him.
Rhyndor watched as her small fingers wrapped around his bonded male’s not inconsiderable girth, and his brain nearly went offline. She pulled Callum in closer, literally leading him by his dick, and all three of them laughed. It lightened the almost too intense mood for a moment, and Rhyndor gathered himself together. Got control of emotions threatening to spin out of control.
Lilly lifted her head, turned it to the side, and licked a long stripe right up the length of Callum’s dick. “Shit, keep that up, Princess.”
“I will,” she went from licking to kissing and sucking at the head of him as she began to work him with her hand, too.
Rhyndor hitched his hips and moved properly, and she responded in kind. Soon they’d built a rhythm, and he swore he’d already entered Neffee because surely nothing could feel better than this.
He had his mates with him, both of them, here in this room, and all three of them were joined by a circular tide of ever-rising lust. It was intense, hot as hell, but also oddly comforting.
He’d come home.
*****
Lilly felt her orgasm build, and despite the discomfort of holding her head up, it only made her want to suck Callum in deeper. Her need to keep all three of them connected drove her to lift her head higher.
“Oh, fuck.” Rhyndor grunted as he thrust into her, all gentleness gone, and she wanted it gone. Wanted him this way. Elemental and stripped down, his harsh face twisted with pleasure, chasing his need.
She was going to come, Rhyndor in her, Callum twitching in her mouth. Her males’ tastes and scents all around her, it became too much. She threw her head back, letting go of Callum for a moment, and cried out as it hit her, so intense and hard it obliterated everything sexual that had come before this moment.
“Beautiful,” Callum groaned.
He started to come, too. All over her chest as he helped her, pumping his own dick with his hand where hers had stilled as she lost all motor control to the pulsing pleasure swamping her.
Rhyndor thrust hard twice more and stilled inside her, and she felt him swell and then he spurted inside her hot and heavy.
Something within her stirred and fluttered, and she recognized it for what it was after her experience the other day. Her dragon.
A wrench at her sternum, and then there she was, her beautiful dragon, breaking free and floating out of Lilly.
Two more ethereal creatures joined her as they ascended. The three of them danced and twirled around one another a moment as she watched in awe. And then they joined together, mixing the essence of their souls into one beautiful mass of color and movement, and it was so beautiful, she began to cry.
And then her dragon broke away, hurtled toward her, and slammed back into her body.
Lilly wasn’t alone anymore. The moment her creature entered her, she knew she’d never be alone on this earth again. Two magnificent and powerful auras resided within her now. She sensed Rhyndor and Callum deep inside. Their presence anchoring her and calming her.
Rhyndor lifted his head, and his eyes were full of so much emotion. He looked at Callum and then back to her.
“We’re together now. Mates, for always.” He bent his head and kissed her, pulling Callum in too, until all three were trading kisses, sloppy and uncoordinated and wonderful.
“I love you both,” Callum said when they finally broke apart. “I get that I tend to play the fool, but I love you both so fucking much.”
“Me too. I love you both, too.” She finally let herself say the words.
Rhyndor growled and pulled them both into him, smoothing his hands over Callum’s back and hers as he ran his nose first up her throat and then Callum’s. “You’re both mine now. And I am yours.”
Callum sighed. “Oh Lord. I wanted the dominant side to come out, but we might have to keep him under control, Lilly. He might be impossible from now on.”
She giggled and brushed at her eyes as some more tears threatened.
“I want you to make love to Lilly,” Rhyndor ordered Callum.
So, he did. Twice, in fact. And then all three of them took a shower together, and things got messy in there, as well.
Hours later, the three of them lay in bed together, Callum reading some horror story, her reading a psychological thriller, and Rhyndor doing one of those heinously difficult crosswords with the cryptic clues.
“By the way, I saw a house today,” Rhyndor remarked casually. “Here.”
He reached over Lilly and grabbed the iPad from the nightstand. He swiped the screen and tapped something in with his fingers and then held the tablet up so both she and Callum could see. It showed a big white house on what looked like a cliff overlooking the sea, and beyond the strait, the mountains.
“It’s near to Mia’s house. About ten minutes by car. It’s got five bedrooms and two bathrooms and a pool. It also has four acres of land and outbuildings. I’ve already asked my lawyer to look into it and see if we can get planning permission for a kennel. Shouldn’t be a problem as there are no immediate neighbors.”
Eyes once more prickling with pesky tears, she turned and looked at Rhyndor’s beautiful face. “Wow. It’s stunning.”
Then she saw the price tag. Over £800,000? No way. They couldn’t.
“Erm, guys, it looks lovely, but it’s too expensive.”
Callum shrugged. “I like the look of it, and it isn’t too costly. We have more than enough money—and nothing to do with it. You want to do something good, something to make a difference, and I can’t think of anything better to spend our cash on.”
“Agreed.” Rhyndor turned and leaned over her to give Callum a soft kiss on the lips, but it soon became heated, and the men groaned into one another’s mouths.
“We haven’t had any fun together yet in all this.” Callum tugged at a strand of Rhyndor’s hair.
“I think I can do something about that.” Rhyndor kissed him again, hungry and demanding, and she began to get wet as she watched them.
“But first, why don’t I put in an offer on this beauty, make sure it doesn’t go, and if the legal stuff all comes back okay, we can go take a look in person and see if we want to make it ours.”
She squeaked in surprise. “Put in an offer? Before we’ve seen it in person?”
Callum shrugged. “It looks pretty damn perfect. And if we go see it and there’s some reason it doesn’t suit us, we simply withdraw the offer. This way, at least we have our gloves in the ring.”
Rhyndor started to laugh, and she joined in. “What?” Callum looked from one to the other.
“Hat, it’s have our hat in the ring.”
“Oh.” He shrugged.
“Come here.” Lilly pulled him in for a kiss, her heart overflowing with love for him. They wouldn’t be here if not for Callum. He’d been the one to make this happen, and in some ways, he held the three of them together. The glue in their relationship.
She couldn’t wait to go see the house and hopefully buy it—and then start her life with the guys in earnest. And in between, there’d be a lot of training of her magic with Rhiannon and Kate, and maybe some lessons with Nathan, who everyone informed her possessed powerful magic himself.
She’d go home soon, too, and visit her parents. Maybe try to build the relationship with her mother she’d always wanted. And once they’d settled into their new home, she’d have Missy come stay. Although, the guys might find it a strain having to pretend to be human for a few weeks.
She bit her lip, and Rhyndor tracked the movement. “What? Something’s bothering you.”
She smiled at how well he’d come to understand her already. “Not bothering me as such. I thought if we did get the house, how nice it would be for Missy to come visit. But it might be hard for you guys to pretend to be human for the two weeks or so she may be here.”
“It’ll be easy if we’re doing it for you.” Callum yawned and stretched, the movement showing off his gorgeous arms.
“That simple?”
“That simple,” Rhyndor echoed.
And it would be, she realized. She’d come to understand a while ago that these men would lay down their lives for her. Now she understood they’d do the trivial things for her, too. Like making her friend welcome in their home. The home they were only buying so she could achieve her dream and open an animal shelter.
Her heart felt so full she worried it might burst.
“Now, how about we all get naked again and have some snuggle time?” Callum suggested with another yawn.
“You seem a bit tired for snuggle time,” Rhyndor said.
Callum shrugged. “We can have lazy snuggle time. Just all warm and cozy under the covers as we rub against one another, and if, say, my hand goes there…”
She yelped as clever fingers tweaked a nipple.
Callum shrugged again. “Can’t help myself. Come on, let’s snuggle.”
And they did.
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