by Becca Van
Annie pressed her forehead against Riek’s as more moisture filled her eyes. She tried to blink the tears away, but one spilled over and rolled down her cheek. “I love you, Riek.”
“Oh, baby, I know. I love you, too.”
“How do you know?”
“We’re one unit in mind, body, and soul, remember.”
“Yeah, I keep forgetting you guys can feel what I do.”
“Good thing we can,” Shar said as he stalked toward her. “We’ve been waiting forever for you to tell us.”
“Forever, huh?”
“Yes, love, forever.”
Annie became aware of the cheers and chants. She looked around to see what was going on now, to find her and her men were in the middle of a circle and they were surrounded by warriors.
“Nav Annie. Nav Annie. Nav Annie.”
“What are they doing?” she asked Shar as he snatched her from Riek and into his arms.
“They are honoring you the way they would a victorious warrior.”
“I’m not a warrior.”
“Warriors come in many shapes and sizes, cosmose. You are the bravest female I’ve ever met. You, Annie Tammock, are a true Cardinal warrior. You have just saved us all from certain death.”
Annie gasped in surprise and awe at Shar’s strength. He lifted her up high over his head. One hand was under her ass, and the other was between her shoulder blades. The chanting warriors got louder, and with a final cheer the noise stopped.
Shar lowered her back down and set her on her feet in front of him. Every warrior was down on their bended knee with their heads bowed and their fists over their hearts.
This time she couldn’t hold back the tears, but they were tears of happiness and acknowledgment of their acceptance.
Chapter Sixteen
It had been two days since the challenge fight and battle with the Sytax, and Annie had never felt so free, happy, and loved. Everywhere she went, warriors greeted her respectfully. She’d even been allowed to sit in on the council meeting late yesterday afternoon, and the Elders had asked for her input. She no longer felt like an outsider and had been accepted by everyone. She’d spent her morning in the castle kitchen with Russy learning more about food, and the chefs had even helped out by showing her how to make a couple of her men’s favorite dishes.
She was tired, but it was a good weariness. She felt like she’d accomplished something and planned to learn as much as she could about her new home. Mott had even given her own comm unit, and had downloaded Cardinal’s history on it in English. Although with the translator she had embedded in her head, she could also understand Cardin. She just hadn’t had the time to look at it yet. She was too busy exploring and doing. She always thought the way to learn faster was by actually doing something rather than reading about it, but she would start reading about the Cardinal soon.
Now that the traitors had been found and were dead, she didn’t have to take all her guards with her, just two of them, but when her personal warriors found out she was going to the kitchen, all of them volunteered to be taste testers.
Of course Annie knew that they liked the food, but they liked spending time with Russy more.
She actually found Ardo and Russy kissing in the large storage room off the kitchen yesterday and had quietly backed out so she wouldn’t disturb them. Each of her guards disappeared one after the other and came back looking dazed. Romance was in the air, and she could see that all four of the men were enamored with Russy, as she was with them.
Annie smiled at another quartet of warrior brothers as they greeted her. She was on her way back to their rooms. Sano and Bako were escorting her, but Annie had insisted that Ardo and Davo escort Russy back to her home safe and sound. They had given her wicked smiles and actually thanked her for her orders.
She pushed open the doors to their suite said good-bye to Sano and Bako and slowly shut the door. She chuckled when she saw the two men running along the corridor. No doubt in hurry to catch up to their brothers.
Annie gasped when she turned around. The room was dimly lit, but there were flowers arranged in containers all over the place. The greeting room smelled wonderful, but it was totally empty.
She took a step toward the hallway and looked down. There was a trail of flower petals for her to follow, and they led right to the bedroom. There were four containers of flowers placed strategically around the room, and it was also dimly lit, but again there was no sign of her mates.
With a sigh, Annie removed her clothes and headed for the cleansing room. She wondered if her guys had been called away for some duty at the last moment. The place was rigged for seduction, but they were nowhere to be seen.
She sat down on the edge of the large pool and slid in, sighing as the steamy water caressed her naked skin. She washed her hair and body and then just floated on the top of the water, relaxing.
Annie felt them the moment they entered the bathroom. She didn’t need to open her eyes. She felt them in her heart and mind. Riek was the first to touch her. He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her upright and into his arms.
“Do you know how beautiful you are?” he asked.
Annie shook her head.
“You are, baby, inside and out.” He lowered his head and kissed her hungrily. She moaned and opened to his kiss, their tongues tangling and swirling with their bodies pressed against each other’s.
“So damn sexy.” Baro’s deep raspy voice in her ear sent shivers up and down her spine. Goose bumps broke out when he began kissing and nibbling on her neck.
Riek lifted his lips from hers and moved aside so Mott could take his place. He barely gave her time to take a breath before he smashed his lips down on hers. He plundered her mouth, his tongue sweeping her depths. She kissed him back just as rapaciously until she had to pull away to draw in a gasp of air. Mott released her waist, and then she was being turned in Baro’s arms. Annie slung her arms around his neck and hooked her legs around his waist. She groaned and he moaned when his cock slid against her wet cunt, and she wiggled her hips, trying to get his erection to fill her, but he gripped her hips and held her still.
“I love you, dearling,” he said before kissing her.
Annie opened her mouth wide, gliding her tongue along his. He nipped at her lower lip and then drew it into his mouth, suckling on it.
“I love you, too, Baro,” she said when he released her lips. “I love you all so much.”
“Good thing, baby,” Riek said. “You are all the moons and the stars in the galaxies to us.”
“Oh, you say the sweetest things.” She blinked the moisture from her eyes.
“Are you done with your cleansing, Annie?” Shar asked as he drew her from Baro’s arms and into his own.
“Yes.”
“Are you hungry?” Mott asked.
“Only for my mates.”
Shar growled and began wading through the water toward the steps. She squeezed his wrist before he could take the first one.
“I’ve had a fantasy about this pool.”
“You have?” Shar asked.
“Yes.”
“What is it?” Baro asked.
“All of you making love to me in it.”
“By the Cardinal suns,” Shar whispered, and then his mouth was on hers. He kissed her like there was no tomorrow, their tongues dueling and dancing.”
He moved up to the second top step and placed her on her hands and knees. “Riek, where did you put the Loi?”
Annie looked over her shoulder and saw Riek on the door side of the pool. He lifted a container from the side and hurried back over, handing the Loi to Shar. Shar placed it aside and then ran his hands over her back and ass before dipping into her pussy.
“You’re soaking wet, cosmose. Are you ready for your mates to love you?”
“I’m always ready for you.” Annie mewled when Shar lightly rubbed her clit. Her pussy clenched, and more juices leaked out.
“I’m going to fuck your ass, Annie.�
� Shar gently bit one ass cheek and then the other. He picked up the Loi, opened the lid, and scooped some up.
She groaned when his fingers caressed over her rosette, the nerve endings lighting up with pleasure, and she pushed back against him, begging for more. When he breached her with a finger, she mewled with carnal delight and then cried out as he inserted another and then another.
“I’m coming in, cosmose.”
“Yes. Hurry.” Annie pushed back when she felt his slick cock head against her anus and gasped as he pushed in all the way. She was so full, but it still wasn’t enough. “More. I need more.”
“We’ll give you more, baby,” Riek said.
Shar lifted her from the step, and Riek slipped in front of her. Her mouth watered when she saw his large, hard cock and the umbril swollen as if ready to suck on her clit. She moaned when Shar lowered her onto Riek’s cock and closed her eyes as his umbril attached to her pearl. And then they began to move. As Shar pushed into her ass, Riek withdrew from her pussy. They held her still between them, and they shoved in and out of her holes, increasing the pace of their thrusting hips with each surge forward.
Liquid fire raced through her body, sending her up higher and higher. She was right on the edge of the precipice but didn’t want to go over, didn’t want it ending too soon.
But Riek shifted his hands from her ribs to her breast and pinched the peaks as his umbril suckled harder, sending her over the edge.
Annie screamed as her body shook and shivered. Her internal muscles convulsed around their hard cocks still shuttling in and out of her body. Just as the blissful contractions began to wane, their fangs pierced her flesh, sending her into another orgasm. Her mouth opened on a soundless cry, and stars flashed before her eyes. They each drove into her one more time and shouted as they, too, climaxed, their cocks twitching as they filled her with their cum.
Annie panted and gasped. She felt like she was inside them and they were inside of her. They were connected by spirit as well as body and mind, and she was complete. Her loved spilled out into them and theirs into her, filling her with joy.
Shar licked her wound and then kissed her shoulder as he eased his softening cock from her ass. Riek kissed her lips gently, reverently, and slipped from her pussy.
Baro wrapped an arm around her shoulders and another around her waist. “Are you ready for some more loving, dearling?”
“Yes. I need you and Mott, too.”
“We need you, too, cosmose,” Mott said as he took Riek’s place on the pool step.
She clutched his shoulders as Baro slowly lowered her down onto Mott’s cock. Annie groaned, and his wide length filled her pussy, and then Baro was breaching her ass. No more Loi was needed, not when they had their own natural lubricants and she was already wet from Shar.
She gasped when Mott drew back out of her cunt and moaned as he stroked forward. Baro pulled back from her ass to the tip of his dick, and then he drove back in. Each time they rocked their hips, they increased the pace incrementally until their bodies were slapping against hers and water sloshed all around them.
Annie began the climb back up to the peak. It was slower than before since she’d already come, but no less potent. When she felt a light caress on her clit, she realized Mott’s umbril was about to attach to her clit. The moment it surrounded her sensitive nub, it began sucking firmly.
She mewled and bucked, rocking her hips in time with theirs as the embers began to rage out of control. Annie bent down, fused her lips to Mott’s, and kissed him, hungrily, carnally, wildly. She would never get enough of her men and was glad the goddess Branwen had sent her to them. She was where she was meant to be, with the loves of her life.
Annie moaned as her internal walls gathered closer and closer. Cream dripped from her cunt, mingling with Mott’s secretions. Baro pinched and plucked at her nipples, and then she was flying. She cried out, her body quivering and quaking, her insides clenching and releasing. Mott and Baro bit into her simultaneously, and she screamed as she shot right back up into the stars and beyond.
Baro’s growl of release was muffled against her skin, and Mott grunted as he, too, orgasmed.
Annie slumped down onto Mott, sated and exhausted but so totally full of love.
She sent out a silent prayer and thanks to Branwen for sending her into space to meet her mates when she’d found and put on that gold bracelet.
She never would have imagined anything like this happening to her, but was glad it had. Otherwise she may have never met her Cardinal warriors, and they were rulers, too.
Special things could happen to ordinary people if they only believed and took a leap of faith.
Annie hoped the next person who came across the gold slave bracelet ended up as happy as she was.
THE END
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
My name is Becca Van. I live in Australia with my wonderful hubby of many years, as well as my two children.
I read my first romance, which I found in the school library, at the age of thirteen and haven’t stopped reading them since. It is so wonderful to know that love is still alive and strong when there seems to be so much conflict in the world.
I dreamed of writing my own book one day but, unfortunately, didn’t follow my dream for many years. But once I started I knew writing was what I wanted to continue doing.
I love to escape from the world and curl up with a good romance, to see how the characters unfold and conflict is dealt with. I have read many books and love all facets of the romance genre, from historical to erotic romance. I am a sucker for a happy ending.
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