InkBorn (InkHaven Academy Book 2)

by Kenna Bardot

  I waited for the two men to move, but they both seemed content to stay buried in me.

  "Fuck us, baby girl," Cel murmured, sliding his hands down to grasp my ass cheeks and spread them for Vali's gaze. He lifted me, helping me go just far enough that no one came free from my body, and then pressed down so I sank down and filled myself with both of them at once.

  "Fuckkk," I hissed, listening to Vali chuckle in my ear.

  Asshole.

  I did it again.

  And again.

  My breaths came in sharp pants, and when Cel wrapped his lips around my nipple, I came - pulsing around them in a vice grip.

  "Fuck," Vali groaned, pushing me forward to lay against Cel's chest. Cel kept at me with slight little pulses, limited in movement by our positions, but Vali shoved himself into me hard and fast, chasing his own climax. When he emptied himself inside me, he paused to lean over me and press a kiss to my shoulder before he drew back. The sound of Emerson's orgasm at the foot of the bed followed soon after, and I watched as Alec Gaius' throat worked to swallow all of him.

  Apparently done with letting me relax, Cel tugged me off his lap and turned me over. I supported my weight as he was no doubt expecting, lifting my back off his chest, and sinking down onto him when he pressed himself to my ass.

  He hissed out a breath. "Your ass feels even better when it’s filled with cum, Little One." I flushed at the vulgar language, though one would assume I'd have gotten used to it by that point.

  Alec Gaius came over with an arrogant smirk, and he knelt between my spread legs. "Hi, baby," he murmured, pressing a kiss to my lips. I scoffed out a laugh, realizing we hadn't even said hi. No doubt we had no time to lose with our rule-breaking visit.

  "Hi," I giggled.

  "Cel," he acknowledged, and rubbed his head through my slit before thrusting inside me. "Oh so wet for us, Kaia Wren," he teased, licking his fingers and pressing them to my clit to rub in a circle until I whimpered and writhed. "Do you like having that big dick in your ass?"

  "Yes!" I cried out, and Alec Gaius kissed me again while he took turns alternating thrusts with Cel. He pulled back when he felt Emerson approach us, and I widened my eyes at the smaller man. When we had a time crunch they usually honored the rule that no one got off a second time until everyone got off once.

  Well, except for me.

  But Emerson didn't approach me, just gave me that trouble-making grin of his and leaned down to whisper in Alec Gaius’ ear. Whatever he said made Alec Gaius grin, and Emerson nodded his head at Ronan and Gale. They approached the bed, coming to kneel by my head. Ronan took my hands so I fell back against Cel's chest and wrapped one around each of their dicks, reaching forward to tug at my nipple.

  "What's going on?" I asked, even as I gasped at the way Alec Gaius was building heat in my core again with those fingers in my clit and my body stuffed with him and Cel.

  "Just relax, Thief. We've got you," Gale murmured with a dark grin. "It will feel good, I promise."

  "What?" I gasped, feeling Alec Gaius withdraw from my pussy. His fingers still worked at my clit, applying more pressure. Then his head slid down to press up against Cel's. I felt my eyes fly wide open, shaking my head and squirming in Cel's lap as I tried to escape.

  "Shhh, woman. Emerson and Gale have both done it before. You can take it for us," Ronan groaned, staring at me to make me settle and giving a harsher pinch to the nipple he tormented. I gasped, thinking of hard limits, but nodded and turned my eyes back to Alec Gaius.

  He smirked at me. "That's our dirty girl. You gonna take two cocks in your ass, Kaia Wren?"

  I whimpered but nodded, feeling Alec Gaius slide his length against Cel's more fully until his head hit the stretched skin there. He held himself steady, applying pressure until my flesh started to ease back for his entry.

  I squirmed, fighting the pinch. "It's too much," I protested.

  "Push out," Gale ordered, and I focused my breathing to do as I was told. Alec Gaius made more headway that way, slipping his head inside suddenly.

  "Fuck!" I whimpered, pressing a hand to his chest in an effort to get him to wait. But he didn't give me any reprieve, gliding his full length in next to Cel who groaned a long, deep sound in my ear. When Alec Gaius’ groin touched my core, he finally paused to give me time to adjust. Tears stung my eyes, and it was Gale who looked down at me with sympathy.

  "It gets better. It will feel good, I promise. Just like the first time you took us there."

  I nodded, already feeling that sting lessen to a dark, burning desire as Alec Gaius kept those fingers working at my clit. He finally pulled back, and then he and Cel found their rhythm. One in and one out as they slid against each other inside my ass. I tipped my head forward, wanting to watch them.

  "Spread your ass for us, baby," Alec Gaius ordered, and my hands drifted down to take a cheek in each hand and spread. "Fucking love looking at that pussy." He brought his hand down on it with a loud smack that made my clit throb as I shrieked.

  “Ohh, dirty girl likes that.” Alec Gaius smirked at me and repeated the motion making me jolt against Cel. His fingers spread my lips so he could stare down at me as he glided in and out of my ass, always alternating with Cel’s shallow thrusts.

  "Gods, so perfect for us," Ronan murmured by my head, and I let my head fall back over Cel's shoulder so I could look at him. He stared at the spot between my legs in admiration.

  Gale turned my attention back to his shaft, letting me toy with his length while Ronan watched.

  "Fuu," I mumbled around Gale, and he smiled down at me happily.

  "Told you it’d feel good."

  Smug bastard.

  Cel came on a long groan underneath me, flooding me and dripping out of me as Alec Gaius kept going until the other man finished. Then I was moving, flipped off Cel to lay on my side. Alec Gaius came up behind me and slid himself back into my ass, Ronan pressing to my front to hike my leg straight up and take me. Alec Gaius slid a hand around my waist to play with my clit while they alternated with me, fucking me in a slow, leisurely pace that left me breathless. Gale repositioned himself, and I drew him into my mouth - happy that the change in position meant I had better access to him.

  Ronan came inside me on a roar, biting into my shoulder and setting me off into another orgasm. Gale followed soon after when Ronan pressed kisses to his leg and reached up to cup his balls for me.

  Alec Gaius took the opportunity to fuck me harder, groaning his "love you, Kaia Wren" into my ear as he scorched my over-sensitive flesh. Emerson was waiting with a wet towel for me when he pulled out and released the last of the deluge of fluid they'd left inside me, and it was one of those moments where I couldn't be certain I'd ever loved him more. The cloth was cool and soothing against me, and he smiled at me when I turned my sleepy eyes to him in thanks.

  "I think it's probably safe to say you liked that." He smirked.

  I narrowed my eyes at him.

  Just had to harsh my mellow.

  ✽✽✽

  "Gods, Finn," Ash laughed, serving as the door guard that day. He hauled his door open, and I stepped through with a smile. "I feel like the two of you are quickly becoming attached at the hip."

  I rolled my eyes, fighting that urge to smack him on the back of the head that often made itself known when I was in Ash's presence. "Isn't that kind of the point? I'm meant to be shadowing him."

  "I've seen shadows before, darlin'. He ain't always quite so up their ass." Ash smirked. "I imagine this has something to do with the ultimatum from Daniels?"

  Finn turned to glare at Ash with wide eyes and shaking his head so slightly I’d have missed it. I slowly tilted my head to look at him. "What's he talking about?"

  "It's nothing, Kaia. Just Ash running his mouth." He shrugged, moving forward into the Temple and leaving Ash in the dust.

  "Finn, wait!" I protested, scurrying forward to catch up with his longer stride. I grabbed his arm, and he turned towards me. "I want the truth."


  Finn sighed, running a hand through his hair in frustration. "It's not a big deal, really."

  "Tell me," I whispered in low, harsh tones.

  "Daniels told me if I touched you he'd break my face," he paused. It should have horrified me, but honestly I expected no less from Ronan. I accepted that Ronan was always going to be possessive and jealous, so I couldn’t be too bothered. At least, not until Finn spoke again, “And he demanded I give reports to him on what you're doing here and who speaks to you. He wants you to be given the less dangerous duties, which we always give to students anyway so that didn't impact anything. He said he didn't want you taking on anything you couldn't handle."

  I felt a sinking sensation in the pit of my stomach, felt my fists clench at my sides. "Anything I couldn't handle?" My voice was a soft whisper, but the menace in it was unmistakable.

  "Don't read into it, sweetheart. I don't think he meant any harm. He just worries about you," Finn's voice lowered, softening as he stared at my furrowed brow. I had the strongest urge to cry, but couldn't. Not while I was proving to everyone, most of all myself, that I could be and was a full-fledged Air Mage. Ronan had made a mockery of me in the place where I was going to do the rest of my shadowing as a Fourth Year.

  It'd been hard enough to be that pathetic girl who needed coddling for the time she spent as a student in InkHaven Academy. I wouldn't survive being in any Temple for thirty years if Ronan would always undermine that. I'd been content doing Temple duty, and I'd felt like I'd finally found a place where I might be an equal, and maybe belonged as much as the next Mage.

  That was gone, and I didn’t know if switching temples could change it for me. I sniffled, because I wouldn't cry. Letting the others see me as fragile wouldn't help what was undoubtedly my reputation as a weak, stupid woman thanks to Ronan.

  “Why did you agree?" I asked. Somehow the answer was important.

  "Have you seen Daniels?" He huffed a laugh, wrapping a hand around the back of his neck. "I'm sorry, Kaia. Really, but he's terrifying. Especially where you're concerned."

  “I understand it now. Why he was fine that the two of you knew about my being an Earth Mage. Dammit, I should have seen that it was so uncharacteristic of Ronan to be so fucking calm. He told me to trust you because he knows you kowtow to him. You basically head the Air Mages in a temple and you kowtow to him? He’s been in Security barely for a year!”

  He winced, like I’d physically assaulted him. “Kaia.”

  I interrupted. "How do you get him the reports? Are they verbal or written?" I unclenched my hands, steeling myself against the press of pain in my chest.

  There had been a time when I needed Ronan and Alec Gaius to protect me, but I wouldn't let that time bleed into my life as a Mage. I couldn't allow it if I wanted to hold any respect for the person I became.

  "Written," he said with a sheepish smile. "Ash passes it along to him at the end of the day." I nodded, taking his hand and dragging him to the back rooms, ignoring the looks that others gave us. I picked up a piece of paper.

  "This what you use?"

  "Yes," he said with a nod. I released his hand, jotting down a note of my own for Ronan. I folded it, sealing it inside one of the envelopes on the desk. I handed it to him, and he took it and examined. "What does it say?"

  "Does it matter?"

  "Well, I mean, I'd like to know he isn't going to slaughter me in my sleep the moment he reads this," Finn answered.

  "It says 'stay home," I answered. "He's set to visit InkHaven this weekend - visitation day - but now I want him to know he isn't welcome. He'll come anyway, because he clearly doesn't give a shit about what I want."

  "Is it really that serious?" he asked, rubbing his hand through his hair.

  "How many people know what he said? Did he do it in a private way? Or was it as public as I imagine it was knowing Ronan?" I stared him down until he turned his eyes away. He didn't answer, but I knew what the answer was regardless. "I thought as much. So everyone here thinks I'm this pathetic excuse of a girl who can't do anything. Probably even a majority of the Security sect knows."

  "That's not true! We've all seen how useful you are around here."

  I swiped at my eyes - I was not going to cry. "I just wanted a fresh start. Away from all the bullshit of when I went to InkHaven and how late I was to become a Mage. He took that from me by making sure it followed me here. Followed me to my future." I sniffled again, turning from the room and going back to the main space. I took up my designated post, relieving one of the other Mages from her duty so she could switch it up for a while. Finn came out a moment later, and stepped up to the doors and knocked. Ash and the other guard opened them, and Finn handed him my envelope.

  I knew Ronan would be pissed. He did not take well to other people telling him what to do. Ironic, considering he was the bossiest man I knew.

  I didn't care.

  He hadn't cared when he'd taken my independence from me. He should at least spend the next few days suffering the way I would with the knowledge of what he'd done.

  ✽✽✽

  My World had been rocked on its axis one too many times in less than two years. I sat in the gardens, stroking a finger down Charlie's back so that he fluffed happily where he perched on my leg. The girl who'd come to InkHaven was lost and confused, alone and terrified. She wouldn't have protested Ronan's interference too heavily.

  But I was no longer that girl.

  After surviving so much loss, how could I ever be that girl again?

  I'd picked up the pieces of my soul after I'd thought them shattered and irreparable. I'd survived some unknown number of attempts on my life.

  The guys loved the Kaia I had been. They loved the Kaia they needed to take care of and protect constantly, but with every day that passed, I moved further and further away from her. If there was anything I knew, in the deepest part of me, it was that I was no longer content to be their kept pet.

  I needed to be my own person. If they couldn't understand that, if they couldn't accept that change, then the Kaia I'd become wasn't the woman they needed.

  And that meant I would lose them.

  I stood from the bench and made my way back into the school. Gale's door was open, and he sat behind his desk, working. From how quickly he shot up the moment I entered, it became quite obvious that he had been waiting for me. "Where have you been?" he asked, rising from his seat. "Emerson has been looking everywhere."

  "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you. I just needed some time-"

  "Kaia, I know you're upset with Ronan. I don't blame you. I'm upset for you, but someone wants to hurt you." He cupped my cheeks, but I stepped back from the affection the same way I'd been doing for two days. "Sweetheart, I'm not Ronan. I don't understand why you're punishing us along with him."

  I went to the center of the room, fiddling with my hands at waist-level. I'd debated showing Gale how hard I'd worked with Cel, how hard I'd pushed myself every moment of the days I spent at the Temple. It felt like showing my cards too early, but I needed someone to understand.

  I didn't want to lose them in order to save myself.

  It would break me all over again, and who knew who I would be when I came out of that dark place again.

  "I want to be your equal. All of you," I whispered.

  "You are!" Gale protested, moving to meet me in the center of the room.

  I shook my head. "I'm not. If I were, I wouldn't be the only one needing protection." My hands drew a sphere between them, drawing on the Air to make the red wisps appear between my hands.

  Gale's eyes drifted down to my ball in confusion, and his eyes widened when I let my vine extend to tap the edge of it. Purple sparked within the red wisps, vines and thorns growing around the edges as he watched. "I'm not useless anymore, Gale."

  "I know you aren't, Thief." Gale stared in fascination as my red and purple orb swirled with the green plant life. With one hand, I tossed the orb at the corner, letting it collide just as I pressed my hands
together. The Air wisps disappeared, leaving the Earth to fuse itself to the wall. The vines grew to thick branches under my attention, even from a distance. They grew and sprouted leaves, until a large tree stuck to the walls, the branches swaying in the non-existent breeze. Those leaves sang their own song, calling to me. I approached it while Gale watched, and the moment my fingers touched one of the leaves, the tree burst into a flowering bloom.

  "I understand wanting to keep me safe, I do, but Ronan went behind my back and broke my trust. He didn't respect me enough to be honest with me, and he undermined me in a way that it will take me years to repair. He may be in charge in the bedroom, but he never would have done any of that to one of you. Only me.

  Gale looked back and forth between my tree and I, before nodding. "He did. I've got your back in this Kaia." I gave him a grateful smile, though it felt like it only meant half as much as normal. "But please tell me you aren't leaving a tree in my classroom."

  I chuckled, drawing up another orb between my hands. This one grew larger and larger, and when I set it on the floor, I watched as the tree unraveled and returned to the orb. Then the orb shrunk until I could crush it into non-existence between my palms. "Earth creates. And Earth destroys."

  "Well, that's not morbid or anything." Gale rolled his eyes as I chuckled.

  Thirty

  Kaia

  It was really a miracle that the guys I had at InkHaven let Mar serve on guard duty, but then again, Emerson and Gale were more lenient and even though Cel was pretty intense, he had no choice but to comply since he was the minority. Sitting in the library and moping with a girl friend was far more relaxing than having the guys look at me like I might explode - particularly because I knew that whatever happened between Ronan and I was going to affect all of them.

  Her not-so-sly glances my way however, were becoming less and less appreciated as time passed. I dropped my stylus onto my parchment and glared at her. "What?"