by Eve Newton
“May I?” Cole asks, with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
Devon leers at me, but says to Cole, “I am feeling generous. Have at,” as he withdraws from me and lets Cole have a turn with his true sire.
I am astounded that Cole asked. I didn’t think he would ever want me this way. But I am fully on board. It beats Shifting every time one of them wants to make love to me.
He slides into me, looking deep into my blue eyes with a lustful look that makes me shiver in delight. Once again, Devon eyes never leave where Cole and I joined. I find it so erotic; it makes me thump around Cole within seconds of him entering me.
“Fuck, I love you,” I say to Devon and get a slap on my arse from Cole after he pulls out and turns me around. “You too, baby,” I add with a laugh as he roughly enters me again. This time, I take Devon in my mouth, sucking him to the point of no return as Cole growls loudly, climaxing ferociously, digging his fingers into me, bruising me briefly before I heal.
Devon follows soon after, spurting down my throat in hot, delicious bursts that have me groaning and wishing for another orgasm to rip through me. I don’t get it yet though as Cole withdraws and lays me on my back. Devon instantly goes down on me, flicking his tongue against my clit, but Cole places a hand on his shoulder and says, “I want my sire back now.”
Devon sits up, the disappointment but a brief flash on his face as I Shift, before he goes back to his task. Cole kisses me and tugs on my nipples and it is my undoing. I thump against my older charge’s mouth, arching my back so that Cole can take my nipple into his mouth. He grazes his teeth over my peak, then kisses me all the way up to my neck, where he chomps down viciously, tearing at me, making me howl with pain before the pleasure of it kicks in.
“Fuck,” Devon breathes as he watches. He is very intent on seeing everything that Cole and I are doing and, while it makes me curious, it is also fucking hot.
“Kiss me,” I demand, and he does without complaint, swirling his tongue around my mouth so that I can taste myself.
Cole releases his bite, his fingers finding my clit, which he flicks deftly, making me shudder in response. He pulls me away from Devon, and I start to protest, before he shushes me and sits back, pulling me onto his lap, facing outwards. He kisses V.A. and she flutters madly across my back in delight. He giggles and settles me onto his cock, placing his hands on my hips to get me to move over him.
Devon is in front of me then, kissing me, his hands in my hair before he drops his mouth lower. He snaps his fangs down and feeds from me desperately, mewling like a starving kitten, before he releases me and drops his mouth even lower. Over my breasts, down, down to my clit.
I gasp in surprise and then moan in utter bliss as he takes his tongue to my clit again, while I pump up and down on Cole. Oh, it would be so easy to slip him out of me and let Devon suck him off, but it has never been discussed and I doubt either one would go for it. Especially Cole. But the thought of it brings the first wave of pleasure, before the second one hits me in a double rush as my two boys bring me to a mind shattering finish together.
My only thought in the aftermath is: this is perfect.
“I love you,” I murmur to Cole as we three lie on our backs panting at the top of the bed.
“I love you too,” he murmurs back. I turn on my side to Devon and put my hand on his chest as I still need to feel him, and he takes it in his own.
“Do you know what makes this an even sweeter deal?” he asks, blue eyes glinting wickedly at me and then at Cole who has turned onto his side to feed from me.
“What’s that then?” I say with a smile because I am certain I know what he is going to say.
“It’s a Wednesday!” he says in glee and Cole bursts out laughing, ripping his fangs from my neck in the process.
“I couldn’t have said it better myself,” Cole says, raising his hand for a high five to which Devon grins and gives him. Honestly, men are just so silly.
“Indeed,” I say. “I wouldn’t go rubbing it in though. He’s getting itchy.”
“Itchy? What do you mean?” Cole asks.
“He gets like this every hundred years or so. Itching for a fight. In fact,” I turn back to Cole, “He might be the perfect one to take you out if you still want to go.”
His eyes flick to Devon’s, then back to mine. “Yes, I still want to go. But I don’t want to go with him. That might be a bit too much of an experience for me,” he says with a small smile.
“Take you out where?” Devon inquires pseudo-innocently.
“Nowhere,” I say at the same time Cole says, “Hunting.”
Devon’s eyebrows shoot up. “Oh. I…err…oh.”
“Exactly,” I say with a sigh.
“Don’t be judgy,” Cole snaps at me then rounds on Devon. “I am sure you will have, if not already, the same situation with Jess.”
Well, can’t say either of us can argue with that.
“I have in fact been lumbered with this problem with Jess,” Devon says slowly. “But I expected it of her. You never seemed to be concerned with it.”
“Don’t call it a problem,” he says sullenly. “I was doing what Liv wanted me to. But I can’t keep being so restrained. It’s too hard.”
“Sorry,” Devon mutters. “I know how you feel.” He looks at me and I let him say what I know he wants to, “I will help you. It will be difficult for Liv to take you.”
I chew my lip, trying to push myself further into the bed as they stare at each other across me. I feel like I shouldn’t be here and that is quite awkward.
“Thanks,” Cole says then, clearing his throat as he senses my discomfort.
“Moving on,” Devon says, also clearing his throat, “I suppose I should go.”
“No,” I say holding him back. “You’re staying. Please. I am not ready to let you go yet.”
He nods happily at me. I kiss him as I snuggle under the covers and they both follow suit. Ah yes, us three in a bed I am comfortable with and can accept.
Chapter 5
They both fall asleep a couple of hours later, but I am wide awake. For the most part because I am not risking going back to sleep in case I end up back as E.A. I am now sure I inadvertently switched us and that she inadvertently switched us back. After what they said, I am not amused that she was reluctant to go and even less so about what she got up to. Mind you, she is going to have some explaining of her own to do when she wakes up to the two in her bed. Which brings my thoughts back to Sebastian. He looked so hurt. What did she say to him? What did he say to her? Oh, I am going to have to go down there and say something to him, try and make it right. I really, really do not want to go down there. I would rather take on all thirteen of The Thirteen then go and face her music. Stupid, stupid woman.
That reminds me, no one has mentioned The Thirteen since I got back. It must not have made an appearance. I wonder if it knew it was her who had already defeated it and not me, the weak one, and so it stayed away? I guess we will find out soon enough now that I am back. Just not tonight, I beg. Just give me the rest of tonight with my two beloved boys. I stare at both of them sleeping and my heart fills with such love for them. I can’t go back to that world where they aren’t. I wonder if she will go and find Cole now? That thought both comforts me and creeps me out. Oh, stop thinking, woman, I cry at myself. I have Cole and Devon in my bed together and I am sitting here worrying about crap that can be dealt with later. There isn’t going to be much of a later with them here like this, so I need to do something about it.
Well, I don’t need much convincing after that, as I reach out and stroke and lick both of them awake and we silently take each other, not wanting words to disrupt our deepening bonds to each other.
I must eventually fall asleep as I awake suddenly, thankfully still in my own world, because I am being taken advantage of in my sleep. I grin and wiggle as I sigh, stretching my arm out for Cole to drink from me. He raises his head from the nipple he was sucking on and obliges me as Devon continue
s to lick my clit, pulsing his fingers in and out of me.
“Just repaying the favor,” he murmurs as Cole drops his fangs into me.
“Mm, a girl could get used to this,” I say, and Cole’s eyes snap to mine.
Releasing me, he says, “You would like that, wouldn’t you? Both of us in your bed every night.”
“I wouldn’t say no,” I say slyly. “I propose that once we get back to L.A., we buy one of those orgy beds for one of the guest bedrooms. Have sleepovers.” I struggle to keep the smile off my face as Devon snickers and Cole looks amused.
“Yes, well, remember what I said on the way down here. Bear that in mind when you go shopping,” he says wickedly.
“I haven’t forgotten,” I say sternly. “Although there will be none of those sleepovers of any kind.”
“Such a hypocrite,” he says gently as he kisses me softly and Devon resumes his task of bringing me to the brink of pleasure with his tongue and fingers before he lifts my hips and slides into me to push me over the edge as I continue to kiss my husband.
After satisfying Cole and pausing to have a quick feed from both, I finally look to see what time it is.
“Shouldn’t you be at work by now?” I ask Cole as it says 8:04.
He looks at me closely. “No, remember they don’t need me today…oh, right,” he says looking away.
Oh, right indeed. Seems this conversation was had with her.
I glare at him and Devon jumps up. “Well, I had better be off. Shit to do, and all that,” he says evasively, as he wanders into the bathroom and turns on the shower.
I frown at him and then turn my attention back to Cole. “Did you talk to him yet?”
He shakes his head. “Haven’t had time. I will, soon.”
“So, they don’t need you, why?”
“Location shots,” he says shortly.
“Hm, so I have you all to myself today?” I say.
“So, do I have you all to myself today?”
I sigh. “I suppose I need to go and speak to Cade. He must be wondering what was up with me yesterday. Assuming she even went out with him.”
“She did. She told me.”
“What else did she tell you?”
“Not much. Not big on the conversation. Guess she was afraid of fucking up. What I don’t get is why she wanted us to think she was you?”
“So, she could do you, obviously,” I state, a bit worried about where this topic is headed and bam, just like that, it lands exactly where I don’t want it to.
“But you told them, right? I mean, after you discovered what had happened.”
“Err…” I say, looking away.
“Liv? You didn’t tell them?” he asks, sitting up now as Devon comes back out of the bathroom all freshly showered and looking very appealing right about now.
“Didn’t tell them what?” Devon asks as I cringe.
“You didn’t tell them?” Cole asks me again. “Liv!”
“I’m sorry. I tried. It was weird and I was completely disconcerted and then I discovered neither of you were there and that she was Empress and had a daughter who was in love with – you will never believe - Lance and…this, this whole other thing. I’m sorry. I was trying to figure it out and then it was too late.”
They are both staring at me in varying shades of shock. “She has a daughter? Who is in love with Lance?” Devon asks as Cole snaps, “How was it too late?”
I look between the two of them and Cole asks again, deathly quiet, “How was it too late, Liv?”
If I could cut my own tongue out of my head, it would be the more attractive option than having to answer that.
“How?” he growls at me as he gets up to put his sweats back on and with epically bad timing, I answer him just as CK pops into existence, “I slept with her Constantine.”
To say the pair of them look homicidal is an understatement. Devon, after picking his jaw up from the floor, beats a hasty retreat–the lucky fucker–and I am left alone with them.
“You, what?” Cole asks, almost as if he is expecting a different answer.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper, “I didn’t mean to, it just sort of happened.”
Now I realize here that I am being untruthful, but no way am I admitting that I wanted to do it and even less so am I admitting that I also had her Sebastian. That goes with me to my grave. Which, by the looks of it, is going to be way sooner than I had hoped.
I am desperate to play the blame game by stating that he slept with other me, but he claims he didn’t know. I was all sorts of conscious of my decision and unfortunately, he knows that. I look beseechingly at him, keeping my eyes firmly away from CK. I daren’t. I just daren’t even look at him yet. Nobody moves as we stare at each other. His hurt is palpable, and I want to reach out and comfort him, but I know he will reject me, and I don’t want that, for either of us. I pull the sheet up to my chin as I become very aware of my nudity and as he still doesn’t say anything, I make the bold and stupid move of shifting my eyes to my sire.
They are completely black and like two death rays, they pin mine in place and now I can’t look anywhere but at him.
“Would you care to explain exactly how that happened, Aefre,” he says in a tone that suggests that if I don’t care to explain, tough shit.
“I can, I can explain,” I say as my brain scrabbles to remember how it happened. “I was asleep, and I woke up and he was next to me. It is, after all, his bed.” I make this point to two stony faces. “He was apologizing to me for something that he did. Something that hurt her a lot. She hadn’t forgiven him, and he was asking me to forgive him. He looked so sad as he remembered how she looked at him.” I chance a quick look at CK as I know how he felt when I looked at him a certain way. Nothing. Okay. So, I continue, “I wanted to offer him some comfort. You must understand that I had a bond with him. Just as strong as ours,” I say to him. “Just as you had to her,” I say this to Cole. “I leaned forward to kiss him and he took it in the way that his wife would have intended. I got lost in it momentarily and then…” I trail off as I am sure I don’t need to explain further.
“I see,” CK says.
Cole looks at him. “Oh, you see, do you?”
“I do. I can say with some degree of certainty that the other me is not that much unlike myself. If I was in bed with Aefre and she leaned over to kiss me, I would probably do the same. I am also acutely aware of the effect I have on her. We already know the bonds remained intact when they switched and therefore, I know what she would have felt. However,” he then states as he catches me looking at him gratefully, “as usual, your misguided charge side got you into trouble by trying to make him feel better. When will you learn, Aefre, that it is NOT YOUR JOB?” He roars the last three words at me as he takes a menacing step forward and I shrink back, pressed against the wall clutching the sheet to me in a useless defense.
“I’m sorry!” I yell back. “I’m sorry that I don’t like to see you in pain. Any of you or any of your alternate selves.”
“Not a good enough defense, my sweet.” He steps forward again. “It is bad enough that I have to share you with everyone here, now I have to share you with him, too?”
“No, of course not. It was once. One time.” Liar, liar pants on fire, my brain sings to me. Good thing I’m not wearing any then.
“Liv,” Cole says quietly. “I can understand that you felt a bond with him, but I don’t get that you would consciously do this to me. To us.”
“Cole, I’m sorry,” I say, forgetting now about CK as I shuffle forward with my sheet. Ah, screw this, I need to get dressed. I Astral off the bed in a foggy swirl and reappear fully clothed in front of him. “Please, baby. Forgive me. It was stupid and I wasn’t thinking.” I take his hands and he lets me but just barely.
“You knew I wasn’t there and instead of being sad about that you go off and fuck your sire. What a fucking surprise,” he says bitterly. “Once again, you chose him over me.”
“I would hardly say
that, my boy,” CK says, interrupting. “Seems she chose someone else entirely over both of us.”
“Stop it. Both of you. I didn’t choose anyone over anyone. It was a mistake. A horrible, horrible mistake. Please forgive me.” I step closer to Cole and he steps back.
“Not this time, Liv. Not as easily as that.”
What? Well, now the pointing finger is coming out, damn the flimsy argument.
“You fucked her, and I forgive you,” I say softly. “I know you say that you didn’t know it was her, but do you know how much that hurts? That you couldn’t even tell?”
Oh, I am such a manipulative bitch, I am going straight to Hell. To Hell, I tell you, as he looks back at me, his beautiful, angry gray eyes changing to sad light blue ones. “I knew something was off, I did,” he says to me. “It never even occurred to me that someone else was in your body.”
Here’s where I wish that we were discussing this alone, as CK coughs and says, “Christ, Aefre, that is a new low.”
I glare at him as Cole frowns at me. “Get out,” I snarl at CK. “My husband and I are talking.”
“Not anymore,” Cole says as he pulls his hands out of mine. “I can’t deal with this. I’ve tried, Liv, I really have. I promised you, I wouldn’t leave you, but you’ve just made it too fucking hard to keep that promise. I can deal with him,” he glares at CK, “but an other one. Fuck, no. The line has been crossed. I’m done.” He steps back even further as my heart leaps into my throat and my hand goes to my mouth. He looks at Constantine and says, “She’s all yours.” He looks back at me with a half sneer, half grimace, and adds, “If you still want her.”
Chapter 6
“No! Cole!” I screech as I step forward, but he holds his hands up and strides to the bathroom, slamming the door behind him. “Cole!” I yell, walking forward myself but CK grabs my arm and Teleports me out to a different suite. An empty one.
“Let me go!” I say as I struggle in his grip. He squeezes tighter and sinks his claws into my bare arm. Fuck that hurts. I scowl at him as not only is he hurting me, he has also cut off my ability to Astral. “Let me go,” I say again. “I have to go and make this right.”