by Callie Rose
Tomorrow loomed before us, a terrifying unknown. I didn’t know if we’d manage to find Xero, or whether all of us would make it out alive even if we did. There were so many things to fear in that unknown, but right now, I didn’t want to think about any of that. I just wanted to be with the men I loved. The men I needed.
Xero’s absence pricked at my heart, and it made me want to hold the three bond-mates I still had left even tighter.
Our ragged breathing filled the room, and Kai’s eyes burned with an inner fire as he dropped to his knees just like I was, meeting me in a passionate, demanding kiss.
He brushed his lips along my jaw and pressed a kiss to my ear before whispering, “My turn.”
“What?”
My brain was turning to mush as my other two mates joined us on the floor, hands sliding between my legs, lips devouring my skin, teeth scraping my nipples.
“You played with my ass.” His voice was full of dark promise. “Now I get to return the favor. I want that pretty back hole, Pipes. You can fuck Jayce at the same time. You can suck Kingston. But I’m claiming your ass.”
A shiver moved down my spine, and Jayce groaned as he felt more wetness seep from my pussy. He was sliding his fingers through my folds, gathering sticky arousal to smear over my clit, flicking and massaging the hard bud.
“Yes,” I blurted, tilting my head in an open invitation to my vampire mate. “Please. Take it. Take me.”
I felt his body react to that, and his lips left my ear as he dragged his nose down the column of my neck, inhaling deeply as if drawing in the scent of my blood. His teeth scraped just enough to draw fine lines across my pale skin, and when he lapped at the cuts, a deep wave of pleasure moved through me.
Spinning around on my knees, I pressed against Jayce’s chest, urging him down onto his back. He went willingly, his blue eyes alight with happiness and want as he pulled me with him, bringing me down to straddle his lean waist.
He hadn’t softened at all—none of the men had—and I lifted my hips and positioned him before sinking down onto his thick length.
My whole body shuddered at the sweet sensations, and I gripped him tight with my inner walls as I began to ride him. Then I glanced over my shoulder at Kai.
“What are you waiting for?”
There was a teasing lilt in my voice, and it obviously worked just as I’d intended. The vampire moved like lightning, coming up behind me and fisting my hair in one hand, turning my head so he could kiss me deeply. His sharp teeth cut my lips, and he sucked and lapped at the blood as he kissed me.
“Oh, fuck, Piper,” Kingston groaned. “I could watch you do this all damn day.”
I didn’t want him to just watch. I wanted him to be part of this too, as connected to me as Kai and Jayce were.
Wrenching my already healed lips away from Kai’s, I turned to look at the dragon shifter. He was fisting his cock, working the shaft in long, hard pulls. My gaze tracked from his face all the way down his sculpted torso to his dick, and I must’ve looked like I was starving, because he chuckled.
“Let Kai inside you first. Then I’ll let you have my cock.”
I moaned out loud at that, and the tension building between the four of us tightened even more. I draped my body over Jayce’s, losing myself in our kiss as Kai’s fingers slipped through the wetness of my arousal. When I felt him breach the tight ring of my ass, I groaned, pushing against the intrusion, welcoming the bite of pain mixed with pleasure.
“You like it, don’t you?” he murmured, his voice rough. “Is that why you stuck your finger in my ass? To show me what you wanted?”
I mumbled incoherently into Jayce’s mouth, but it didn’t seem to matter that I didn’t answer with words. My body was answering plenty well for me, begging for more as my muscles clamped around Kai’s finger. He took his time warming me up, preparing me, sliding a second finger in alongside the first and slowly beginning to fuck me with them.
It was only when I began bumping into his hand, demanding more and more and more, that he finally withdrew his fingers, leaving me covered in a sheen of sweat and completely breathless.
When the thick length of his cock slid through my messy juices, brushing against the spot where Jayce impaled me, I bit my lip, burying my face in Jayce’s neck and clinging to him.
Kai’s cock was bigger than his fingers. A lot bigger. He worked his way in slowly, and with every inch he took, I felt more full, more completely overwhelmed by my two mates. I gasped against Jayce’s warm skin, running my lips and teeth over the junction of his neck and shoulder before moving down to bite at his collarbone.
When Kai bottomed out inside me, I couldn’t hold back anymore. The pleasure that’d been building up inside me, filling every part of me with need, broke open like a dam. I whimpered and writhed in their hold as I came, my body twisting and grinding between theirs—trapped, with no way to escape the torrent of ecstasy.
They rode me through it, fucking me in short, gentle thrusts, but as the orgasm faded and my body relaxed, letting them move more freely, Kai gripped my shoulder with one hand and my hip with the other.
“Can you take more, Pipes?” he asked. “Can you take us really fucking you?”
I was nodding before I even spoke. “Yes. Yes.”
It was all the encouragement they needed. Jayce thrust up hard into me from below, and as he withdrew, Kai slammed into me from behind, rocking my body between them. I could feel their cocks brushing against each other inside my body, separated only by a thin wall, and I let myself move with them, my motions dictated by theirs.
My eyes were rolling back into my head, but still, when Kingston approached, his cock held firmly in his fist, I strained forward to lick it with the tip of my tongue.
“You and your damn lollipops,” he muttered, but there was amusement and affection behind the strain in his voice.
I let the motion of my body dictate how I sucked him, sometimes losing his cock entirely as the men below and behind me drove into me hard and fast.
Wet slaps, groans, and primal grunts filled the room as we worked ourselves into a frenzy, grasping and thrusting and grinding against each other.
Kai suddenly fell out of rhythm, driving into me one last time before his cock pulsed in my ass, thickening and jerking.
“Fuck!” Jayce bit the word out as he pulled me down hard, impaling me as he exploded inside me too.
The feel of their cum spilling inside me made a combination of pleasure and power surge in my veins, and I dropped my head, wrapping my fingers around Kingston’s cock as I panted out my release, my abs contracting over and over.
Kai pulled out first, and I felt a gush of wetness as I was lifted off of Jayce, their cum spilling down my legs. Warm, strong hands laid me on my back on the rug, and I blinked my heavy-lidded eyes open to see Kingston straddling my body, his thick, angry-looking cock gripped tight in his fist.
“I’m gonna fuck your tits, Piper. Hold them together for me,” he rasped, his voice like sandpaper, as if it’d taken every ounce of control he had to hold out this long, and the thread was finally about to break.
Heat flared in my belly, and I bit down hard on my lower lip as I grabbed my breasts in both hands, pressing them together and massaging the aching flesh, feeling my hard nipples press into my palms.
Kingston moved up my body just enough to find the space between my breasts with his cock, thrusting hard and fast as I tilted my head to lick and tease his broad head on every upward stroke.
“Fuck. Oh, Jesus fuck…”
He came on a groan, pulling back and jerking himself quickly as sticky ropes spattered across my chest. I arched my back, moaning and grinding my hips against empty air as a fresh wave of power and pleasure ripped through me.
Kingston leaned down to kiss me fiercely, palming the back of my head and lifting it off the rug as he delved his tongue into my mouth. I could feel his body shaking with the aftermath of his release, and when he collapsed beside me, the other two me
n were there too.
I lost myself in a cocoon of warm bodies and hot breath, too sated and exhausted to even think about covering up or cleaning up.
Not yet.
I wanted to stay messy and sticky and satisfied for a little longer. To stay in this safe place where nothing but pleasure and love existed.
But the challenges we would face tomorrow hung over me like a storm cloud, and as I blinked up at the cracked ceiling in the semi-darkness, I knew there was nothing I could do to keep the danger away.
If we wanted Xero back, we would have to face the darkness.
Chapter Five
It was a two-day journey to reach the fortress in the underworld city.
We could have ported over, but Michael warned us that magic sensors might pick up on it. It wasn’t worth the risk. Besides, we’d already walked this far. It almost seemed like cheating to use magic now, after so many days of trudging across the fucking underworld landscape.
At least nothing bothered us and no creatures approached us as we walked. It seemed like the wildlife avoided this place as much as the fallen hermits did. The landscape flattened out once we got through the pass, making the journey even easier.
We were close enough to the fortress that we walked in the early morning shadow cast by its high walls when a sudden stabbing pain pierced my head.
“Ungh!”
I dropped to my knees as the searing pain ripped through my skull, turning my vision red.
“Piper! What’s wrong?” The men were by my side at once, touching me, running their hands over me. I sucked life force from them, desperate to make the pain go away. It subsided just enough to let me speak.
“My head,” I gasped. “Oh, God, it hurts!”
“Is it the smoke?” Kingston asked.
“No, we’d all feel that,” Kai said.
“Something psychic, then. Your succubus powers make you empathic a little bit, right, Piper?” Jayce’s voice was tight with concern. “This is a torture chamber. There’s got to be a whole lot of people in pain in there.”
That made sense. I breathed deep and centered myself, anchoring to my guys. It helped, but only a little. My head was still pounding too much to think clearly.
“Fuck. We’re too exposed here,” I rasped. “We need cover. And a plan.”
Kai and Jayce each took one of my arms and led me toward the fortress. The headache intensified, and I pushed it away again. I couldn’t afford the distraction. Not right now. Not when we were this close. We crouched beneath the blood-red boughs of a thorny shrub, and I settled my aching head against the oily black stones of the fortress wall.
“Jayce, you’re fast. Um… do a perimeter check. Entry point. Anything vulnerable and unguarded.” I struggled to get the instruction out and wasn’t entirely sure that anything I’d said made sense.
But my hellhound mate kissed me hard, bringing me out of my daze for a second. “You got it, Pipes. Be right back.”
He morphed and loped away like a shadow. He was hard to see in his hellhound form, like he was something you notice out of the corner of your eye in the dark after watching a scary movie. Your eyes would refuse to focus on him, and the faster he went the harder he was to see. I lost visual after a few seconds, but I could still feel him like a second heartbeat.
“So what’s the plan?” Kingston looked at me. “We just go in?”
“Fly over,” I murmured weakly. “Don’t get caught. See what we’re working with.”
“What?” His chiseled features contorted with surprise. “They’ll see me! I’ll definitely get caught.”
I pointed up at the sky. Wild dragons drifted lazily through the air like vultures, blowing out the occasional fireball. “Blend in,” I whispered.
He didn’t look happy, but he nodded determinedly. He ran a knuckle down my cheek before shifting in a whirl of scales and wings. As he flew away, I closed my eyes against the searing pain in my skull. Kai wrapped his arm around my shoulder and kissed my forehead.
“You’ll be okay,” he promised. “You’ll be fine.”
Reaching up weakly, I hooked a hand around the back of his neck, pulling him closer. I kissed him, my succubus side seeking strength and power, and the part of me that still felt human just seeking comfort and closeness. Kai’s arms encased me, and I rested against him.
We waited in silence for the other two to return, exchanging the occasional kiss when the pain got too bad. It didn’t take very long, maybe an hour or less, before they found their way breathlessly back to the little hollow under the boughs.
“Nothing,” Kingston said bitterly. “Can’t get in over the top; those spikes are fractals. They’re forging weapons in that lava pit and tossing bodies into it. Tons of people everywhere.”
“I found something, but you aren’t going to like it,” Jayce said with a grimace.
“Will it get us inside?” I asked roughly.
“Well, yeah.”
“Then I love it. What is it?”
“Looks like a sewer runoff. There are a bunch of them. Most of them have metal grates inside, preventing anything but small pieces of debris from getting through. But one of them looks damaged. I went inside a few yards, and it goes all the way up to a utility hall. It’s super narrow. We’re going to have to go through it sideways, but there has to be an opening into the fortress somewhere in that passage.”
Kingston grimaced and Jayce looked pale as he spoke. Fuck. Disgusting grime and tight spaces. Their worst nightmares.
“It’s the only way in.” Jayce shrugged helplessly.
“Of course it is,” Kingston groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“You’ll live,” Kai said shortly.
But I had already dragged them through hell for long enough, and the guilt was beginning to wear on me. I met Jayce’s gaze. “Do you want to wait out here?”
“What, like a lookout? Do we need one? Who’s going to be patrolling the sewers? There weren’t any guards there when I looked.” His brow furrowed in confusion.
“I just meant if you aren’t comfortable—”
He lifted a hand, cutting me off. His usually relaxed, easygoing expression tightened into something fierce and determined.
“Look, Piper, nothing’s comfortable about this. It’s a jailbreak, not a spa. If I wasn’t planning on going all the way with you, I wouldn’t have come at all.”
I glanced up at Kingston, who was glaring at me just as fiercely as Jayce. “You heard the man,” he growled. “We’re getting Xero out of this place. Together.”
I smiled, almost ashamed of myself for doubting them. A wave of gratitude swelled in my chest, cutting through the pain that still roared in my head.
“All right then,” I said, forcing myself to stand. “Let’s do it.”
The sewer was about a thousand times worse than I had imagined it from Jayce’s description.
Everything was coated in a thick layer of foul slime, and the smell of it burned my throat and made my eyes water. We slipped and slid as we made our way through the chute, holding onto each other whenever we could, trying unsuccessfully not to touch anything around us.
Those efforts were rendered utterly futile when we reached the utility hall; it was such a tight squeeze that my ass and breasts slid along the walls no matter how I positioned myself. Hot, stale air made me wish I’d been turned into an undead thing instead of a succubus, just so I wouldn’t have had to breathe.
Jayce led the way, followed by Kingston, then me, with Kai bringing up the rear. It was slow, suffocating work, but after a while, I felt the whisper of fresh air against my cheek.
“There’s a draft,” I whispered. “Look for doors!”
“Got one,” Jayce said a moment later. “Stay back and stay quiet. I’ll check out the situation.”
I could hear the barely suppressed panic in his voice, and mentally commended him for not just charging through the door as soon as he found it, just to get out of this confined space. He slid the stone panel a
side, and a powerful breeze flowed into the hall, filling my desperate lungs with new air. He slowly disappeared, then ducked his head back in.
“It’s a closet,” he whispered excitedly. “And it’s empty. Come on!”
We piled out of the hallway into a utility closet large enough for all of us to stand without touching. It felt luxurious after the utility hall, almost excessive. The pull in my gut grew so strong that I began walking without thinking, and I was a heartbeat away from opening the door when Kai captured my wrist.
“We can’t save him if we’re caught,” he murmured, worry glittering in his eyes. “Careful.”
Releasing his hold on me, he pulled the door open barely a crack and peeked out.
“It’s a long, wide, stone hall,” he whispered. “Torches on the walls.” I could practically hear the eyeball in his voice as he added, “Very dramatic. No people that I can see. Anybody sense anything?”
Jayce inhaled deeply through his nose, then shook his head ruefully. “Nah. Although I can’t smell much besides the sewer all over our clothes. That’s fucking up my senses.”
“Shit.”
He chuckled ruefully. “Yeah. Literally.”
Ew.
He wasn’t wrong though. We all stank. And not only would that fuck up his senses, making it harder for him to detect any threats, it would make us a lot more likely to be discovered.
“Everybody’s wearing their vest, right?” I asked, sweeping the three men with my gaze.
“Yeah.”
“Take your tops off. Nothing we can do about the pants, but we can at least get the smell away from your nostrils.”
As quickly and quietly as we could, we stripped out of our tunics and shoved them into a corner of the storage closet under a barrel. Jayce went to the room’s door and directed his nose toward the hallway, inhaling again. Then he backed away, shaking his head.
“Can’t smell anybody. I’m not sure—” He pursed his lips. “No, it’s fine. I don’t think anybody’s out there. Piper?”
All I could feel was Xero. He was so close now, his presence was like a bright light, washing out the image in front of me. I did my best to focus, but I could only get a vague sense of a lot of people.