by Abby Blake
But every thought melted away as Lilly dropped her shirt and bra and revealed her beautiful body. He’d been the perfect gentlemen when she’d showered, but now that he knew what he’d been missing he had no doubt she’d never shower alone again. He reached for her, running his hands over her soft flesh as he learned her shape, memorizing the hills and valleys of her gorgeous body.
She stepped back into his arms, curled her fingers under his shirt, and lifted the material over his head. He claimed her mouth, kissing her savagely, his need to stamp his ownership on this woman suddenly overwhelming. She moaned and pulled him closer, possessing him as thoroughly as he did her.
They dragged the rest of each other’s clothes off frantically, the need, the obsession to take their relationship to a new, higher level catching Jed by surprise. Never had he imagined that Lilly’s need would match his own.
He caressed her all over, his hands sweeping rapidly over her warm skin, as he walked her back to the bed. She fell backward, taking him down with her. Jed landed on top of her, planting his palms on either side of her shoulders so that he wouldn’t crush her with his weight. She wriggled, moaning as his hard cock pressed between her thighs.
He was about to push inside her, his need overwhelming, his heart and mind completely focused on loving his woman, but a small spark of sanity held him back.
“Condom,” he groaned, lifting away from her, his heart pounding, hands shaking, breath faltering as he pulled away.
“Shit,” Lilly said on a half laugh. “Please don’t take this the wrong way.” She glanced around the room, almost as if she were searching for witnesses to her next words. “I have some in my purse.”
He laughed in relief. “Thank god,” he said on a panted exhale.
“It’s not what you think,” she said quickly. “I’ve been carrying them since before Devlin and I broke up. I just never got around to throwing them out.” She grabbed the little plastic wrappers and held one up to the light, apparently checking the expiration date. “We’re in luck. They still have several months.”
A suspicion was worming its way into his brain, and before he could reconsider the impulse he asked the question that was on his mind.
“Is this your first time since Devlin?”
Chapter Four
“Is this your first time since Devlin?”
He’d been trying not to listen in, but he held his breath, waiting, needing to know the answer to that very telling question. Devlin suspected that Jed wouldn’t have asked it if he didn’t think he already knew the answer. He knew Devlin’s hearing was better than a human’s, and despite the fact that he enjoyed teasing the people around him, Devlin had never known Jed to be cruel.
Lilly’s whispered “yes” had him reaching for his cell phone.
“Brody,” he said as soon as the man answered his phone, “is everything under control outside?”
“Of course,” Brody said with a soft laugh. Damn the man. Dragon hearing was even better than Devlin’s own. “Go on. Alex and I will send up the alarm if there’s anything you need to know. You three go and…ah, get some sleep.”
“Thanks,” Devlin said gratefully. “We’ll try to keep the noise down.”
Brody laughed. “Appreciate the sentiment, but I’m guessing that’s one promise you aren’t going to be able to keep.”
“Probably not,” Devlin said, closing the phone connection as memories of Lilly’s incredible responsiveness swirled through his mind. He turned and headed into the bedroom.
* * * *
Lilly wriggled impatiently.
Jed seemed to be waiting for something. He’d rolled the condom onto his cock and then simply lay down beside her on the bed. He kissed her softly, his hands caressing her breasts, his fingers tweaking the nipples as his tongue explored the inside of her mouth, but he didn’t seem inclined to fuck her just yet. After waiting so long for this to be possible, it was confusing as hell.
He broke the kiss, winked at her, and threw a condom over his shoulder without even looking.
“About time you got here,” Jed said as Devlin caught the little rectangular package in midair. He slid onto the bed behind Lilly. Still fully clothed, he wrapped his arms around her middle, pulling her upper body back against his chest, and then pressed a kiss to her temple.
“Do you mind if I stay?”
“No,” she said in a breathy voice as her arousal level climbed even higher. She grabbed his hand, holding it to her, making certain he didn’t misunderstand. Having Devlin here actually made everything more perfect. He breathed a sigh that sounded suspiciously like he’d expected her to throw him from the room, and then moved his hands higher, caressing her breasts. Jed kissed her passionately as his hands moved lower, caressing her stomach softly. She could feel her juices leaking onto her thighs, her breath catching as Jed’s fingers slid over her pussy lips and then pushed inside her.
“Fuck,” he said on a groan. “Lilly, you’re so tight. I could have hurt you.”
He looked over her shoulder, making deliberate eye contact with Devlin before removing his fingers and lifting his hands to her breasts. He painted her nipple with his slippery fingers, kissing her again as Devlin’s hand caressed lower, moved over her pussy lips, and plunged inside.
She moaned at the delicious feeling of having his fingers stretch her long-unused passage, the naughtiness of being touched by two men at once winding her need ever tighter.
“Please,” she whispered, starting to shiver all over.
“Soon,” Jed said as he slid lower on the bed, his tongue blazing a trail of need as he licked down to her belly, and then lower to her thighs. He teased her, his fingers parting her intimate folds, opening her to his torment. He suctioned his mouth over her clit, the incredible sensation dragging a shocked gasp from her throat.
She felt her cream spill onto her thighs, the slippery fluid scorching her as it coated Devlin’s fingers.
“Good girl,” he whispered, pushing his fingers deeper, fucking her harder. She squirmed in Jed and Devlin’s combined hold, her heart beating harder with excitement when she realized they held her down. Devlin pushed another finger into her tight channel, fucking her, stretching her a few more moments before he pulled away.
She moaned her disappointment, but he pressed another kiss to her temple and then slid his hand to her knee, lifting her leg up, opening her pussy to Jed’s questing mouth.
“Come for us,” Devlin ordered in that tone of voice her body remembered so well. Lightning forked through her, every inch of her scorched with the heat of her orgasm, her legs shaking uncontrollably, her eyes closing as wave after wave of nearly forgotten ecstasy crashed over her.
Her body was still quivering, her orgasm still bouncing back through her, the incredible, mindless, thrilling roller-coaster ride finally slowing as they caressed her gently. She was almost back down to earth when Jed moved up the bed and pressed his cock against her pussy.
She gasped, her muscles clenching rhythmically as he slid slowly into her tight channel. He kissed her, her flavor still on his lips as he possessed her mouth as thoroughly as he claimed the rest of her. Devlin held her open, trapping her between them, his own denim-covered cock hard as steel. Her anus clenched as memories of Devlin taking her there stole over her. He’d been the only one she’d trusted enough to try it, and simply put, he’d taught her to love it.
The thought of taking both her lovers into her body at the same time seared through her. Jed moaned, dragging her underneath him more fully, slamming into her pussy harder, faster, pistoning into her body again and again and again.
Heat curled through her, winding around every nerve ending, setting her ablaze with incredible arousal, spinning her orgasm closer and closer and closer. Fireworks exploded inside her mind, the brilliant lights and swirling colors filling her vision as Jed fucked her like a wild thing.
“Holy cow,” Jed groaned as her body gripped him, holding him captive, dragging his orgasm from him. He jolted, his
movements awkward, uncoordinated. He buried his head against the pillow, his full weight falling onto her for a short moment, the feeling of being surrounded by him setting off delicious little eddies of heat low in her belly.
“That was beautiful, baby,” Devlin said. Jed eased his cock out of her body, kissing her softly as he moved to lie beside her.
* * * *
Devlin’s cock was harder than he could ever remember. When they’d been together, their sex life had been amazing. Lilly had responded to his domination, to his kinks, to his outrageous suggestions enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. Lilly had always been the one—the woman who completed him.
“I’m sorry I left y—” She cut him off, pressing her hand against his mouth and shaking her head.
“No regrets,” she whispered. “We’re together now. That’s all that matters.” He nodded, willing to give her anything she asked.
“I’ll be back in a minute.” Jed pressed a kiss to her lips, and then rolled off the bed and onto his feet.
Lilly watched Jed leave the room. “Do you think he’d be upset if you…um.” She bit her lip, the innocent nervous habit far more provocative than she realized. “If you did what you used to do.” The last part was whispered so quietly that there was no way Jed would have heard it all the way from the bathroom.
Devlin grinned. If he’d learned one thing about his mission partner over the weeks they’d been working together, it was that Jed thought outside the box. “He won’t be upset,” he said in a normal tone. “In fact I’m pretty certain he’d like to watch.”
“Really?” Lilly asked as Jed came back into the room.
“Watch what?”
“Watch me spank Lilly to orgasm.”
* * * *
Jed stopped, frozen.
Lilly—his sweet Lilly—liked to be spanked?
Fuck. Could the woman be more perfect?
He stepped into the room, his lips curling into a smile that felt predatory. Lilly watched him, her eyes wide as he stalked closer.
“Hands and knees, Lilly,” Devlin said with a grin of his own.
She moved quickly to comply, lifting her ass in the air, presenting herself to Jed the way he’d always imagined. His cock grew hard so quickly he felt light-headed.
“I told Brody we’d keep the noise down,” Devlin said as he rolled off the bed and started dragging his own clothes off. “Maybe you can keep her quiet while I spank her.”
Naked, Jed moved onto the bed in front of Lilly. He cupped her jaw with his hand, his fingers caressing her lips for a moment as she gazed up at him. “Is that okay with you, sweetheart?”
“Absolutely,” she said in a voice husky with arousal, and then leaned forward to press her lips to his cock. Jed groaned, threading his hands through Lilly’s hair as she dipped lower, taking his cock deeper into her mouth.
She wiggled her ass, urging Devlin to spank her.
Jed watched as Devlin ran a hand over the smooth curve of her ass, warming the skin, preparing her for his handprint. It was a fair assumption that she hadn’t been spanked since the last time Devlin had done it, so Jed was glad the man took his time warming her skin. The last thing they wanted to do was bruise Lilly’s gorgeous ass.
Devlin smacked her softly, keeping the blows shallow but sharp, the noise quite loud in the small room. She moaned, the vibration making Jed groan as Devlin smacked her a little harder, the sweet scent of her arousal growing stronger with each slap.
“Fuck,” Jed growled as he tightened his grip on her hair and started lifting up into her mouth, fucking her face, his loss of control obvious in every jerky movement. Lilly started to shake all over, bracing herself with her arms, letting Jed control the pace. She wriggled her ass, begging with her body. Devlin slapped her harder, again and again, over and over, his hand peppering her ass and thighs as Jed moved faster in her mouth. Lilly shivered violently, moaning brokenly as her orgasm burst over her.
Devlin grabbed the nearest condom, dragged it onto his cock, his hands shaking so badly he almost didn’t get it rolled on before he slammed into Lilly’s pussy. She moaned, caressing Jed’s cock with her lips and tongue as Devlin pounded into her, fucking her, taking her, claiming her the same way Jed had done only minutes earlier.
And then he was coming, his cock throbbing inside her mouth as his seed pumped into her throat. Jed moaned, his eyes closing briefly as Lilly finally released the suction and fell face-first into his lap. Devlin fell forward also, only just catching himself from crushing her to the mattress, but smiling as he apparently managed to stay inside the heavenly warmth of her body. He very carefully eased himself and Lilly onto their sides.
The three of them lay sprawled on the bed, panting for breath as they recovered. Jed could feel a goofy smile on his lips but was powerless to stop it. He hadn’t felt this complete in all of his three hundred plus years. It didn’t matter that Lilly was human. It didn’t matter that their time together would be measured in decades instead of centuries. It only mattered that they were together now.
“I’ll just grab a shower,” he said in an embarrassingly breathless voice. “I’ll take over the first watch while you two get some sleep.”
“No need,” Devlin said as he disposed of the condom and then dragged their exhausted woman higher up the bed and cradled her in his arms. “Brody and Alex have us covered. Grab a shower and get some rest.”
Jed nodded, uncertain of the protocols of sharing a lover. Devlin must have noticed his hesitancy, or maybe shared it, because he shuffled to one side of the large bed, pulling Lilly into the middle, and leaving plenty of room for Jed to join them if he wished.
He dipped his head in acknowledgement and then headed for the shower.
Chapter Five
“Brody said you’d be needing this,” Darian said without a hint of humor as he walked into the safe house and dropped a leather bag at Jed’s feet.
Lilly looked at the bag curiously, but Devlin knew exactly what it contained. BDSM supplies. It was easy to spot a Dom when one knew what to look for. There was no doubt in Devlin’s mind that Darian was highly trained and more than capable of keeping his wife, Amber, very happy. The fact that her other husband was a vampire probably added a whole extra level of kink to the marriage.
Devlin glanced at Lilly and tried not to think of all the things he’d rather be doing than having a meeting with Ronan and Darian from Deeks Security. Technically speaking, he and Jed weren’t working with them on their current project, and as far as the Ruling Body knew Jed had no idea what the privately owned protection and security firm was working on at all.
Ronan handed over a thick folder of computer printouts as he took a seat at the small table. “We were hoping you might be able to help with some of the translation. The fewer people involved the safer for everyone.”
Jed nodded his agreement. Devlin knew that Benjamin had deliberately omitted the finding of Bethany’s journal from his reports. Considering the fact that the orders coming from various levels of the Ruling Body seemed to contradict one another, it was becoming increasingly obvious that the Judiciaries were divided in their opinions. None of the members of PUP Squad Alpha had said it out loud, but Devlin got the feeling they were bracing for the order that would end their protection of the Oracle’s receptacles. Devlin had no doubt that every single one of them would ignore such an order, but life would be far simpler working with the Ruling Body than as disgraced operatives and wanted fugitives. When it came to members of the PUP squads, ignoring the official orders of the Ruling Body could literally be deadly.
Jed flicked through the pages Ronan had given him, scanning the words quickly. He frowned, doubled back, checked a few more words, and then rubbed his forehead as if he felt the onset of a sudden headache. “It’s been a lot of years since I studied the ancient languages,” he said, glancing around the table, “but I’m pretty sure this isn’t all written in the warlocks’ ancient tongue.” He turned the pages around, pointing out several words to
Ronan and Darian. “This word is Latin. It means ‘lost.’ The word before it is ancient Sumerian for ‘knowledge.’ A lot of the text does seem to be in the ancient tongue of warlocks, but it’s peppered with words and symbols from other languages both ancient and modern.”
“There’s French and Italian in there, too, maybe even some of the ancient dragon tongue as well,” Devlin said, looking at the pages over Ronan’s shoulder.
“Damn,” Ronan said with a small humorless laugh. “Bethany made certain the information wasn’t going to fall into the wrong hands. Earlier this week Kali pointed out a passage that seemed to be a load of gibberish. She and Wilson ran it through dozens of translation programs without success. It wasn’t until they noticed a pattern forming that we were able to identify that it had been typed in the English using a non-English layout of the keyboard. Essentially Bethany had been striking the keys as if she were using a standard US keyboard, but it registered as different letters on the screen.”
“The entire thing is going to take years to decipher,” Darian said in a frustrated tone. “I’ve tried every spell I know to try and reveal the information, but it seems Bethany used at least a dozen different methods of concealing the information she wanted to hide.” He grabbed the pile of papers. “Passages like this one are fairly easy to interpret, but then others may as well have been written by a crazy person.”
“Are we sure that she wasn’t?” Lilly asked unexpectedly. All eyes turned to her and she gave them a crooked, apologetic-looking half smile. “Jed told me that the Oracles are usually of paranormal origin. Is it possible that the overload of information in Bethany’s brain tipped her over the edge?”
“That’s just the thing,” Darian said, looking thoughtful. “We’ve always believed that the human mind is inferior to paranormals.” He laughed at Lilly’s quirked eyebrow. “Sorry, I phrased that badly. My point is that the Oracle’s receptacles seem not only to be tapping into the unused parts of the human brain, but to also be increasing their memory capacity exponentially.”