to be yours forever.” She caught my furtive glance to the dragons and turned their way. “That means all of you.”
Three sets of glowing silver eyes stared back at us, but the dragons didn’t move. “We’re fine just watching for now,” Stuart said with a wry twist to his lips. “But trust me, we’ll come when appropriate. For example, if you really want us as mates, you’re going to need to mark those three, and you don’t exactly have the equipment to do it.” He raised a hand and let his talons manifest from the tips of his fingers.
“Mark?” she asked, then gasped as Chayton tugged up her tank top and took her nipple in his mouth, then Eddie did the same on the other side. I wasn’t about to wait a second longer, so I dropped to my knees and began unfastening her jeans while she continued her conversation.
“Do you really want a mating lesson in the middle of this?” Stuart asked, waving a hand at the three of us.
She looked down at me, where I had one booted foot in my hands, tugging at the laces. Then she turned back to Stuart. “Hurry, before I’m too far gone to listen.”
Chayton released her nipple, flicked it once with his tongue for good measure, then looked into her eyes. “Ursa females mark their chosen mates with their claws, then seal the mark with their essence.”
I got her other boot off and tossed it aside, then grabbed the waist of her jeans. April automatically lifted her hips for me to yank them down. Her verdant, fertile scent nearly knocked me over, and my mouth watered with the urge to taste her.
“Ah, I get it. So Stuart’s offering to let me borrow his claws to maul the three of you. That’ll make it permanent, right? What about them?”
“We mark you, sweet thing,” Murdoc said with a grin, then flicked his forked tongue out, wagging it at her. The twin tips glowed faintly with white magic.
April’s mouth dropped open, and she urged Eddie away from her breast. “Hang on, I need a second to think. What exactly do you do with your tongue?”
“It’s like a tattoo,” Gray said. “You can choose the location, but all three of us will need to do it.”
I remained on my knees in front of her, my hands resting on her thighs. Her pussy was barely more than a foot away, the aroma so sweet I could taste it, and I felt like I was about to explode with need. But as willing as I might be to break a few fundamental ursa rules, I wouldn’t do it at her expense. We were talking about a permanent bond between all seven of us, something we all wanted desperately. We needed to do it right.
That thought spurred an idea crazy enough to make me question my sanity. I looked around at the others, realizing how badly I wanted all of them, and how we could form a bond even stronger than we’d ever expected we could have.
“Let them mark you first, and this might sound crazy, but they should mark all three of us too, and each other. And when you mark us, mark all of us, and do it with all our essences mixed.”
“Tate…” Stuart said, his voice cracking. “Are you serious?”
“Dead fucking serious,” I said, standing. “Don’t tell me you don’t want it too. April will still be at our core, but we’ll be bound so strongly nothing could tear us apart.”
“Why does it matter who goes first?” April asked.
“It doesn’t,” Stuart said. “But it’s safer for you if we do because our marks could act like birth control, especially since the seven-way bond Tate’s proposing means they’ll have to fuck you, so all our essences are mixed.”
Her lips quirked. “So that’s what you mean by essence, huh? Is mine just what makes me so wet whenever I’m around you guys?” She spread her thighs a little wider, and Eddie audibly groaned, his gaze fixed between her legs.
“Not quite,” Chayton said. “Your orgasm releases juices far more potent than the honey coating your pussy right now.”
“My honey is what you want now though, isn’t it?” she said in a husky voice, spreading her thighs even wider and tilting her hips up as she directed her attention to Chayton. “You guys want a taste while the dragons get down to business giving everyone their marks?”
“Fuck yes,” Eddie said.
“Then I want it too,” April said. She reached her hand