Smuggler’s Contubernium (Mea Lupus Series Book 1)

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by Kahaula


  “I’ll be waiting here,” she smiled gently, “take as long as you need.” I saw patience and understanding when I searched her face. I nodded and brushed the loose strands of her hair from her cheeks. I marvelled at how far she and I had come.

  I walked woodenly through Castra 3. Each step was like the drum beat of a death march. I got to the doors of the Mea Lupus Quarters and stopped. There was no going back after this. They would never believe a single word out of my mouth ever again. This tearful exit of mine would sour after I left, once they realised what I had done.

  “I need to talk to all of you,” I placed my hand on the console and the doors immediately opened. Quintillus stood there waiting with hope and devotion in his eyes. A sad sense of deja vu washed over me. His fists clenched and unclenched at his sides. I took the four steps to him and watched him visibly restrain himself from reaching out to me. “I need to speak with all of you,” I repeated.

  “We’re here for you,” Quintillus’s voice was hoarse and his words softly spoken. I looked away from his pleading eyes. He nodded to no one in particular then raised his hand and turned, pointing down the corridor, “Please.”

  “Where is everyone?”

  “They’re waiting in our quarters,” Quintillus answered. I didn’t hide the tremor I felt at his soft emphasis on the word ‘our’. I blew out a slow breath. There was no happy ending for us. I needed to make a believable exit so I could get my head start. That’s all I was here for.

  We rounded the final corner and the door to their private quarters was already open. I walked in and nearly walked right back out. They were all lined up together at the dining table on the opposite side from the door. Quintillus joined them across from me as I stood there gaping. My mind couldn’t decide whether they sat in judgement of me or as a surprise firing squad. Had they already found me out and I stupidly walked in here thinking I was still one step ahead?

  Breathing in and out slowly I calmed my racing heart. My gaze raked across their faces and I knew my paranoia was baseless. No one looked angry or accusatory. Except for Adohi. But I was pretty sure that was his default setting with regards to me.

  “How have you been?” Oli’s gentle and carefully asked question made the breath catch in my throat.

  “I’ve been okay,” my smile was a bit broken but honest.

  “That’s good,” Aphelele’s smooth rumble made me flick my eyes to his. He genuinely cared about my welfare. They all did. I cleared my throat in the awkward silence that followed.

  “Why did you come back?” Adohi’s brusque question didn’t quite match the suspicion and fear that swirled in his irises. Bhar’s head snapped towards Adohi and he growled in warning. Quintillus pointedly didn’t look at Adohi but his fist clenched so hard his knuckles were white.

  “To say goodbye,” my softly spoken words sucked all the air from the room. Then it exploded in a cacophony of shouts, questions, accusations, and recriminations.

  “This is your fault!”

  “Why are you—“

  “It’s not—“

  “You sack of sh—“

  “—delusional ass couldn’t just—“

  “Enough!” Shouted Quintillus. He turned to me, desperation bleeding from his gaze, “Kara, you can’t be serious. You know what the Ferryman is capable of. If you leave, we can’t protect you.”

  “I’ve been doing fine for two weeks without your protection,” I sighed. I pinched the bridge of my nose then looked up sharply at them, “And I’ve been keeping myself safe—all on my own—my whole life.”

  “Kara we’ve been watching your back the entire time you’ve been gone,” Bhar took a step forward then stopped himself. He looked at me expectantly like he had dropped some bombshell.

  “Oh, I noticed,” I pursed my lips in frustration. “You weren’t exactly stealthy about it,” I mumbled knowing full well they would hear me just fine. Quintillus sighed heavily and rubbed his face. I could tell he was wrung out with emotions, both his own and that which was swirling like a maelstrom around the room.

  “Kara, you have to understand—,” he began.

  “No, you have to understand,” I poured my frustration and anger into every word, “The Ferryman never killed Cassie, there’s a good chance I’ll be spared too.”

  “Are you being serious, right now?” Adohi scoffed. “Is that your plan? To run?”

  “Yes,” I challenged, “I’m going to take my chances and—“

  “And WHAT,” he shouted. He stood up and braced himself on his fists, smashing them into the table. “You’d rather keep running for the rest of your life than trust us?” Adohi’s disbelief and raw pain stunned us all. Real tears welled up in my eyes.

  “I have to protect myself,” I shot back, tears dripped down my cheeks. “All of you think it’s so simple but it’s not!”

  “You can trust us, Kara,” Oli’s agony and hurt slapped into me. They tore me apart and it made me angry.

  “It’s not that simple,” I ground out.

  “Of course it is,” Adohi scoffed. He moved from behind the table and stood in front of me. “We’re here, telling you that we’d do anything for you but instead you’re running away!” His incredulous shout echoed and filled the room. This whole thing was slipping out of my control. I reached for my anger and raised my hand to slap him.

  Adohi caught my wrist and the others stood, taking one step towards us. His touch seared into the skin of my wrist. The heat coming off of his body reached out to me and I bit down on a whimper.

  “It’s not that simple,” my breathing sped up and I knew they could hear the pounding of my heartbeat. “This was never simple.” I used my eyes to beg Adohi to understand me through all the lies.

  “It doesn’t get much simpler than how we feel about you,” Adohi’s sharp beauty softened as he looked at me. He placed his hand on my face and stroked my cheek with his thumb. Bit by bit he pulled me to him with the wrist he held.

  “And how do all of you feel about me?” I whispered my question both hoping for and dreading the answer. It appeared that I was a glutton for punishment because I wanted to hear them say it. If I was doing the crime of breaking their hearts I wanted to know that I had them well and truly stolen first.

  “We’ll show you,” Bhar murmured in my ear. His hot breath on the shell of my ear had me arching my neck to the side. Oli lifted my left hand and kissed my knuckles. Aphelele lifted my right hand and led us all to the giant bed we had shared for so many nights.

  I looked up at Quintillus and let him feel my very real internal conflict, yearning, and pain. He cupped my face with both hands and gently made love to my lips with his. He pulled back far enough to lap up and kiss away my tears.

  The bedroom and the loving bubble we were in felt warm and intoxicating. Hands reached from behind me and tapped my auto-fastener. Another set of hands in front of me pushed my tech suit off my shoulders. I let it fall to the floor and stood there naked before them.

  Adohi’s mouth landed on mine and instead of the intensity I had come to expect, his lips were soft and gentle. Half-lidded I looked into his eyes and saw everything he buried deep inside behind his cynicism and despair. I reached over his shoulder to bring forward his braid. Our fingers locked and unlocked as we worked to free the dark curtain I had only seen once before in that narrow passageway.

  I looked around me, watching as Oli and Bhar followed my unspoken request. Quintillus and Aphelele’s nimble fingers undid my own braids as Oli, Bhar, and Adohi rained kisses all over my body. A distant part of my brain spiked in alarm, knowing the items I hid in my hair were falling to the floor at my feet.

  A wave of safety and love washed over me and all sense of fear was scattered on the warm winds that enveloped us. My wolves are here, I am safe. Adohi dropped to his knees before me and began caressing my hips and thighs. A fist in my hair tipped my head back and I lost sight of him only to be overwhelmed with the hot pulling kisses of Aphelele.

  Bhar kissed along
the arch in my neck down to my shoulder. I whimpered into Aphelele’s mouth feeling two mouths suck and lap at my nipples. Bhar’s cock rested firmly between my ass cheeks as he gripped them in time for Adohi to sit my thighs on his shoulders.

  My wolves worship me on a throne of flesh and love.

  I didn’t understand why my thoughts were so strange. Everything was hypersensitive. My skin felt like cool earth licked by wildfire with every caress. I whimpered and bucked my hips, driving my pulsing core harder onto Adohi’s mouth. I reached to my left and wrapped my hand around Oli’s impossibly thick cock and squeezed him hard.

  How did I know he was there? He cried out and within moments of stroking him he came all over my stomach.

  “Yes,” I sighed with a soul deep contentment as I smeared his cum all over my belly, “Let me be painted by my wolves, inside and out.” What am I saying? Fear and confusion were motes of dust blown away on a fresh breeze of longing and desire. My back arched on a scream as I came all over Adohi’s face.

  “Yes, beautiful one,” Aphelele’s harsh breaths feathered my wrist as he kissed his way up my right arm. Quintillus lifted me off Adohi and gently laid me back on the bed. Aphelele stayed on my right and Bhar on my left. I gripped their cocks in my hands and stroked them in time to Quintillus’s slow thrusts.

  Oli lifted my back off the bed so he could slide in behind me. He held me flush to his chest. Quintillus groaned at the change in angle. Oli kneaded one breast gently, rolling the nipple between his knuckles. He kissed the side of my throat then using the other hand steadied my head, turning it so I could swallow down Adohi’s waiting cock.

  Lust.

  Yearning.

  Hope.

  Love.

  All these emotions went off like concussion grenades. We collectively moaned in ecstasy after each shockwave. A drop of sweat teased its way down my spine, intensifying the heat all around me and in me. Quintillus ground down on my clit with each slow swirl of his hips. He came hard and we both gasped as I followed.

  “Oh, my fire,” Adohi’s pained groans made me suck and lick harder. His stomach muscles tightened and he came deep down my throat. I sucked hard as he slowly pulled his still hard cock from my mouth. When Adohi kissed me, we shared the taste of each other before Oli and Quintillus pulled me away to set me on my knees. The bed dipped as my wolves flowed around me to reposition themselves.

  “Would you have both of us, beautiful one?” Aphelele asked sweetly from in front of me. Bhar’s large hands wrapped around me from behind, his loose auburn hair tickling my shoulders. He caressed my stomach and used both hands to play with the lips of my cunt.

  “I would have you all,” I growled. All around me my wolves rumbled in pleasure. Victory sang in my blood, “my wolves, my contubernium.” I ignored the panic that demanded to know what the hell I was doing. Glory is mine because they are mine. I closed my eyes and basked in this feeling.

  “All yours!”

  Adohi and Quintillus lifted me up while Oli held my thighs wide. Aphelele kissed me deeply. Then I felt them. They weren’t each taking a different place. They were sharing the snug heat of my cunt together. The dull ache of Aphelele and Bhar’s cocks both sliding into me had me crying out.

  Oli rubbed my belly tenderly then slid his fingers in a soft teasing motion around my clit. It was so much at once that before they were more than two inches both in I came hard and fast. I sobbed at the bracing climax but my impatient cunt spasmed and drew their cocks greedily up into my dripping centre.

  Adohi and Quintillus slid me farther down and kept my hips locked so I could nothing except accept Aphelele and Bhar inside me. Deep, aching pleasure made my hips twitch in protest. They fought my body’s attempt to flee from how good they felt.

  “Don’t run from us,” whispered Adohi to my right. His breath tickled my ear and made my inner muscles twitch.

  “Be with us, melli,” whispered Quintillus to my left. His loving kisses pattered across my jaw like warm rain.

  Aphelele and Bhar, always in perfect sync, withdrew and thrust up into me. Their rhythm steady and confident. I was held weightless and immobile for their delicious and deep strokes. I sobbed in pleasure as they steadily increased their pace. Oli’s lips sipped the moans from my mouth with his sweet kisses. Adohi and Quintillus wanted to come all over me but both their hands were on my hips.

  “Painted inside and out,” I hissed in pleasure and tightened my fists over their cocks, matching Aphelele and Bhar’s punishingly fast thrusts. I whimpered as I came, squirting all over my two wolves in me. Adohi and Quintillus followed and came all over my thighs and breasts. Aphelele and Bhar kissed each other passionately. They pressed their foreheads together before they each kissed me and came on a snarl.

  My four spent wolves surrounded me but it wasn’t enough. I whimpered and they immediately caressed me everywhere and anywhere they could reach. They nuzzled my face, neck, breasts, and hips.

  My ache can not be soothed without the love of all my wolves.

  I whimpered again at the feeling of incompleteness. Oli turned me once more, my body soft and pliant in his warm hands. On my knees he faced me towards my four recovering wolves. He wrapped one hand around my throat and squeezed lightly.

  “We give you all that we are,” Oli spoke in Hawaiian but I heard his words perfectly in Imperial Common in my mind. Two fingers slid into my slippery cunt and he curved them up inside me. His palm pressed down on my clit and I was moaning for more.

  Oli rammed his cock in alongside his fingers. I choked out a broken scream. Each hard stroke he increased the feeling of being impaled, cupping me hard inside and out in time with his movements. The orgasm that hit me was painful it was so deep. My head fell forward and my body shivered. Oli wasn’t done.

  “She needs all of us,” he snarled as sweat dripped down our bodies. “Suck Adohi hard again.” The command in his voice, deliciously at odds with how sweet and shy he was in everything else, made me shiver.

  He pushed me forward and I caught myself on my hands. Adohi gripped my hair in his fist and pushed his cock past my parted lips. Where Aphelele and Bhar were tender and caring together, Oli and Adohi were vicious and feral in their love of me.

  Feeling them attack my body from both ends had me quaking in another orgasm. I locked down on Oli and he slammed in one last time before I felt his cum join the others. Adohi ripped me off his cock then pushed Oli away to take his place.

  “I will always find you, my fire,” he growled, “your light will always lead me to you.” He pushed my chest down into the bed and my arms collapsed. Adohi pounded into me from behind, grunting wildly with each stroke.

  The world was a haze of pleasure and heat. More cum splattered on my back and had no idea who’s it was. It didn’t matter. I loved the feel of my wolves massaging their cum into my skin, making me beautiful with their essence. Adohi came on a roar and I whimpered softly.

  I should have felt tired. They should have felt tired. But we didn’t.

  Again and again they came for me, in me, on me. Time had no meaning. Our world was soaked with love, heat, and an ache for completion. But no matter how long or how many times we all climaxed we didn’t stop. We couldn’t.

  I wept in joy and exhaustion. We weren’t individuals, we were pack.

  Twisting.

  Bending.

  Reforming.

  Colliding.

  Hands swept the length of my body. Tongues licked and tasted me everywhere. Mouths suckled and murmured intimate promises. The air was heavy with love and wonder. The scent of my wolves filled me and I knew peace and safety.

  Had it been hours? Days?

  It didn’t matter. We were not yet complete.

  We were waiting, loving each other. Filling each other. Painting my body with their love and devotion. Their worship was a prayer not yet finished, no matter how their bodies begged for rest. None of us could rest until we were made whole again.

  Gaius

  I looked
around the bridge of our Pugio Class ship and saw matching anxiety on Kastur and Pollux’s faces. Pollux coughed at his station and shifted uncomfortably. Kastur looked confused for a moment before he adjusted himself in his pants.

  This was the fastest ship that was available to us when we left New Rome to join our pack mates on Castra 3. It was much too small for my liking. A mateless pack of three would feel comfortable here. For us it had felt increasingly cramped over the last few hours. We were all itching to get back to our pack.

  “Ok, I can’t be the only one feeling that,” Kastur looked down at his cock in confusion.

  “What do you mean?” I asked.

  “I know you feel it too, Gaius,” Pollux added, “Anticipation... desire.” He gulped and shivered.

  “I’m itching out of my fucking skin over here,” Kastur turned to me. His cheeks were dusky and flushed just like his twin’s. “It’s like...,” he paused and raked his hand through his hair, “someone’s waiting for me and I need to hurry up.”

  “I know,” I agreed solemnly. My hands flexed over my navigational controls. We glided in to the Mea Lupus docking bay next to our own ship the Victrix. I was happy to see its much larger and sleeker black hull sitting loyally in the otherwise empty docking bay.

  We quickly exited our borrowed ship and almost jogged to the doors that led directly into the Mea Lupus Quarters. The moment we crossed the threshold all three of us stumbled and staggered. The twins collided softly with the walls across from each other like a couple of drunks stumbling home after a long night out.

  “Do you feel that?” Kastur had a dopey smile spread across his face. Pollux’s brows scrunched up in confusion which quickly fled from his face as his pupils dilated wide. He nodded enthusiastically in wonder.

  I licked my lips and tasted something sweet and tart on the air. We all inhaled in as one and I shivered.

  “Fuuck, what is that, Gaius?” Kastur hit the auto-fastener at his throat and staggered forward. I barely recognised where we were going, I just knew we had to hurry and follow that delicious scent. We stumbled farther along and I realised we were headed to our private quarters.

 

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