InkBorn (InkHaven Academy Book 2)

by Kenna Bardot

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  Walking into the apartment, I held the knowledge that it would be my home after I graduated the next day.

  Forever and a day with my men. It was home, because it was ours. I felt comfortable there. It welcomed me more than InkHaven ever did, regardless of the special place the school held for me.

  I would be bringing in more things than the guys, thanks to what I inherited from Lottie. I hoped one day to return her things to her sister, but that was a worry for a different day.

  I stood at the doorway to our room and examined the bed happily. After adding Vali and Cel, it became just the right size for us.

  It was perfect. Like the way we felt together was perfect.

  I knew it the second I flopped back onto the mattress, sighing happily. I'd never had the opportunity to spend the night sleeping on it - a fact I planned to remedy quickly. Hands grabbed my pants, tugging them and my panties down my legs while I giggled.

  Apparently sleep wouldn't be happening quite so quickly. I glanced down, finding Emerson at the foot of the bed. Cel pressed his lips to Emerson's neck as the smaller man climbed up between my legs. Vali reached down, sitting me up long enough to strip my shirt and bra off quickly as he sat beside my head.

  I had a moment.

  One moment where I thought back to the woman who’d been confused and alone, heading to InkHaven without any idea who she was and what she was going to do. How humiliated she would be to be naked in a room with six fully clothed men.

  But the Kaia I'd become?

  She reveled in it.

  I reached up, grabbing Emerson around the head and drawing him down to me so I could kiss him. His groin settled against mine, even with his pants, and I felt the moment he hardened and bit his bottom lip playfully in response.

  "Get naked, my darling Emerson," I ordered, and he chuckled at me. Cel's hands grasped the bottom of his shirt, taking it over his head and tossing it to the floor.

  "So demanding," Gale teased, running a hand through my hair at the side opposite Vali. "Are you going to steal his cock next, Thief?"

  Cel's hands worked Emerson's pants down his legs, and Emerson’s helped him get them over his knees by lifting up.

  "I can't exactly steal what's already mine, now can I?" I wrapped a hand around Emerson's shaft, giving a firm tug so that he leaned over me where my legs spread. I leaned up to kiss him again, watching as Ronan handed Cel the bottle of lube that saw frequent use. The bottle cap popped, and Emerson groaned when Cel's fingers found his ass and prepped it to take him. I pulled him toward me, rubbing his length against my core.

  I got wet quickly - always ready for my men.

  I took him inside me, and Cel shifted to press himself to Emerson's ass. Squirming beneath him, I found myself not-so patient with the time it took to work someone of Cel's size into an ass. Emerson smirked at me, though he moaned through it. Once Cel had sheathed himself he backed off a bit, and Emerson did the moving between us. Thrusting into me pulled Cel out, and when he withdrew from me he filled himself with Cel.

  I groaned, loving the way he felt as he danced himself in and out of me in that fluid way only Emerson could manage.

  "Turn her over," Vali demanded, and the rustling at my sides drew my attention to the other guys undressing around us. Emerson withdrew, and I whimpered at the loss, but turned over regardless.

  "What do you want, more than anything right now?" Alec Gaius asked Emerson, and I bit my lip happily. I loved that they were making Emerson such a centerpoint for our love-making.

  He deserved it, needed that love. Emerson drew me up to my knees and pushed back inside me on a long groan. "All of us," he whispered, fucking himself on Cel's dick as he fucked me. "Connected. Do not care how."

  "Well, then," Gale whispered, taking the lube. “Time to hop off.” He chuckled, tugging me forward until Emerson slipped free of me. Cel wrapped a hand around Emerson’s length, taking up the duty of making sure he had plenty of pleasure for himself. Gale spun me around, as he slid under me so that I found myself face to face with Emerson. He kissed me as I straddled Gale, sinking down on his length on a moan. Alec Gaius knelt beside us, and Emerson pulled away to draw him into his mouth.

  Taking my chin in his hand, Vali slid into my mouth. I whimpered around him. My eyes drifted back to Emerson, hearing Emerson's throat working and found him with Alec Gaius pressed deep into his throat. A hand at my hair tugged me off Vali, and then Ronan surged in.

  Cel still fucked Emerson as Vali drifted away from my face. He accepted the lube from Gale, getting himself wet before he wedged himself into my pussy next to Gale. I groaned long and low, and Alec Gaius shifted to switch to my mouth.

  A hand hit the crease of my butt, working lube into my ass. Ronan left my face too, moving to where Vali prepared me for him. He had to squat to accommodate the other two men already inside me, but his strong, long legs were capable. He worked himself inside quickly, not giving me any time to adjust to the three of them inside me before they found a rhythm. Vali drew out as Gale and Ronan fucked into me simultaneously.

  “Gods,” I cried, voice shaking around Alec Gaius’ length. Alec Gaius withdrew and placed himself between Emerson and I as he took turns using each of us. I moaned, grinding myself back on the men at once and loving that feeling of fullness that sparked through my core.

  The way they'd positioned us, I stared at Emerson's face while we both took the others. Our eyes connected, and I was fortunate enough to see the love I felt for him reflected back at me in his stare.

  The kind of love worth killing for.

  Drawing off Alec Gaius, I pressed my lips to Emerson's and kissed him deeply. He sighed, and when I pulled back drew Alec Gaius into his mouth.

  "I love you," I murmured to Emerson unnecessarily, kissing him briefly again. He took Alec Gaius’ head into his mouth, while I licked at his shaft, and we worked him over in tandem with one another. Vali wrapped an arm around my waist as Cel let out a long groan and came. His fingers hit my clit, stroking me to an orgasm of my own that left me shuddering between the warm flesh of all my men surrounding me. Gale finished next, collapsing beneath me and letting the other two have their way with me. His body shook with aftershocks, no doubt oversensitized to the feeling of Vali sliding against him inside me after his own orgasm.

  Alec Gaius thrust into my throat, going deep once I was his sole focus. Ronan moaned behind me, flooding my ass with his cum.

  "Gods," he whispered, pulling out. His hands spread my cheeks while Vali pumped into me, and I could feel liquid dripping out of me, his stare an almost tangible thing with the way he liked to fixate on the sight. Alec Gaius pulled out of my mouth, and disappeared to go behind me.

  Vali pulled out, and he and Gale repositioned so that Vali was underneath me. Alec Gaius drew me up and wrapped an arm around my shoulders as he forced me to straddle Vali’s hips and take him back inside me.

  "Where do you want me, woman?" he asked, and I could feel him pressed to the flesh of my cheeks.

  I moaned at him as Vali kept thrusting.

  "Where baby?" he repeated.

  "My ass," I groaned. "Fuck my ass, Alec Gaius."

  "Fuck yes," he groaned and slid inside. Where Alec Gaius usually took me somewhat gently, he fucked me hard from that first glide. He pounded in and out, keeping sync with Vali to fill me to bursting. “My favorite place to be. Buried in this tight little ass with Vali filling up your pussy.” His hand caught me around the neck, keeping my back pressed to his chest and my back and neck arched against him. "Oh Gods!" I shouted, feeling them both deep inside me.

  Emerson stood, abandoning his brief cuddle session with Cel in favor of joining me. His hand stroked my hair affectionately, tilting my face up to kiss me. When the head of him pressed to my lips lightly, I opened for him. The taste of the two of us melded together, and I drew him hard and deep into my throat with a swallow.

  "So fucking beautiful," Vali grunted, reaching up with both hands to cup my br
easts in his hand and pinch my nipples. I shattered on a muffled scream, damn near convulsing between them with the force of my orgasm.

  "Good girl," Alec Gaius groaned in my ear, and I felt Vali fill me with his heat. Alec Gaius tugged at my hips and lifted me off Vali so that Emerson slid free of my mouth. My knees hit the bed between Vali’s feet, my face at his groin and Alec Gaius pressed me to him with a smirk. "Clean him off, dirty girl. Since you like the taste of yourself so much."

  Vali groaned when my tongue hit his shaft and wrapped his hand in a fistful my hair to press me down further to take him inside my mouth. I moaned at the dirtiness of it. Emerson’s length hit me in the side of the face as he dropped down to kneel, and I turned my attention back to him. Alec Gaius never left my ass, pounding hard and deep with a better angle. He pumped his fingers inside my pussy, making an obscene sound from the wetness Vali and Gale had left behind. A thumb circled my clit, working me until I came again, moaning around Vali's softening length.

  Alec Gaius moaned as he came, filling me up again. I felt him spread my cheeks again, wincing when he pulled out from the stretched hole and watched himself drip out of me.

  Men were weird.

  I tugged away, giving Emerson a playful shove so that he landed on his back. Straddling his hips, I took him back inside me with ease as I pressed my chest to his and kissed him. I rocked my hips on him, rolling them in that way I’d learned from him, and never letting our lips separate for longer than it took to breathe. His eyes held mine, all that love between us pouring from him to me and vice versa. When his eyes shuttered and he came inside me, I buried my face in his neck to breathe his scent deep.

  The rest of the men cuddled around us, and I relaxed into the knowledge that no matter what life threw at us, we were together.

  They were my home.

  Epilogue

  Kaia

  "Kaia Wren Shaw," Headmistress Ho said with a smile as her eyes met mine from across the space. I stood from my seat, grinning at Cel where he sat next to me and releasing a deep sigh. It would be the last I saw of InkHaven for ages, and I couldn’t wait to be done with it.

  I could feel eyes on my back, and the familiar sensation made a tingle of awareness pulse through my veins. I bit my lip to stifle my smile, determined to be serious in the face of my Reaffirmation.

  Mendez stepped forward with a polite nod, gesturing me on to the jar. "I believe you now understand how this works, Miss Shaw," he murmured, fighting back a smile of his own. My lips tipped up involuntarily.

  Because I did.

  I stood in front of the jar, my hand leaving its place at my side and moving toward that jar that had started everything. Like called to like, and before my hand made contact with the Air at the top of the jar it was engulfed in my magenta Air. I smiled at it, pronouncing my sect loudly for the Order members in attendance to hear. The magenta surrounded me like being engulfed in flames, somehow warm and soothing despite the tumultuous quality of it billowing around me.

  As suddenly as it had risen, the Air returned to its place within the jar, leaving me suddenly bereft with the absence of the increased connection to Zeevar.

  Mendez glanced down at my left hand where I held the hilt of my sword that now lacked a sword.

  My hand clutched that hilt tightly, even though I still throbbed with the pain of my Conduit shattering - a phantom limb forever lost to me. He glanced down at where the etching on the hilt was freshened, renewed.

  "Security," Mendez said with a sad smile.

  "Congratulations, Miss Shaw," Docent Ho announced. "You have been deemed worthy of the Security Sect." Her smile was proud, despite the brittle quality as she stared at my hand in pity.

  Maybe one day I'd find another Conduit that called to my Air.

  Maybe not.

  I returned her smile, brushing off the pain and returning to my seat. My eyes found Emerson's, unable to miss him where he stood clapping and applauding as obnoxiously as possible. There was no doubt that my most outgoing of men had a difficult three years ahead of him. But even still, I knew the worst was over with. And he was strong enough to survive whatever InkHaven threw at him.

  My eyes found Gale's next, standing near the podium and applauding politely, though his grin was solely for me. And then Alec Gaius, Ronan, and Vali came into view as I sat with the other graduating students. The pride there could have melted my heart into a puddle of goop. When I sat, Cel's hand found mine and squeezed, bringing everything full circle.

  "Congratulations new Mages of the Order of Zeevar!" Headmistress Ho announced, as I'd been the last to complete my Reaffirmation. "Sally forth and make us proud as graduates of InkHaven Academy."

  The graduates stood to the sound of hushed, almost reverent applause. Cel and I made our way to where I'd last seen Alec Gaius, Vali, and Ronan. I nodded at Mar as I passed, blowing a kiss to her mockingly.

  As it turned out I found Otto before the guys. He reached down and stroked my hair affectionately.

  His voice cracked as he smiled at me, and whispered, "She'd be so proud of the woman you've become."

  "I hope so," I sighed. "I am who she showed me I could be. I’d never be here without her." He stepped back, making his way over to Mar to undoubtedly offer her the same words of wisdom.

  Off to the side, Cel hugged Blythe tightly, and I walked over to congratulate her.

  “Glad everything has turned out well, Kaia Wren.” She smiled at me, sweetly. And I loved Cel, I really did, but sometimes I wondered why he had never been interested in Blythe.

  I hugged her, hard. “Thank you, Blythe. I’m just sad we didn’t become friends sooner.”

  “We have the rest of our lives, Kaia Wren. And, anyway, Cel just mentioned we’re practically neighbors!”

  I gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before she walked away.

  Alec Gaius stepped into my space and gave me a hug. "Let's go home, baby," he said gently. I nodded, letting him take one hand while Vali stepped up and took my other.

  Ronan, not one to be outdone, shouldered his way in to plant a kiss on my lips. I refrained from shaking my head, tossing a smile at Gale and Emerson as they joined our group and fell into step with Cel behind us as we made our way out of InkHaven.

  And into the rest of our lives.

  The End.

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