motions since there wasn’t a lot of room. The whole time, they both continued to thrust into me and I kept playing with my nipples as ordered.
A wave of pleasure began to build inside of me, but every time I got close, Colden would back off and the wave would recede, like the tide coming in and going out. Only I desperately wanted the waves to crash against me, wanted to lose myself in the raw power of my own pleasure. A sound almost like a whine began leaking from me as they filled me over and over again.
Finally, even though Colden tried to back off in time, it was too late. The cascade of my release had started, and it would take nothing short of a miracle to stop it this time. As Rory thrust into me again from behind, it launched me into a stratosphere of pleasure I didn’t know could exist. It was so overwhelming that I didn’t scream, at least not audibly.
My orgasm drew theirs forth, and as my own body spasmed with release, I could feel their cocks jerking inside me as they enjoyed their own. Vaguely, I heard shouts of my name and grunts, but overall, it was like I was thrown from my own body and existed solely in this sea of intense pleasure that I’d never known could exist.
I wasn’t even aware that I had collapsed—well, that we all had collapsed—onto the bed until a little while later when I finally felt like I was coming back to myself and the world seemed to come back into focus.
“That was…” My voice was hoarse, though I didn’t remember screaming, but who could say at that point. I’d been so lost to sensation that I could have summoned a demon and not realized it. Maybe I did though, looking at Colden lying there breathing heavily, I could see what looked like lines of lava on his skin. Some of the skin on his face was red, and when I looked, I saw his hands were as well, just like he’d told Buttercup in her store. When I softly traced the lines with my fingertips, he groaned and his dark eyes flickered open and met my own.
“Are you okay?” Colden asked as he rolled onto his side to look at me, running the tips of his fingers over my cheek bones and down the sweaty skin of my neck.
I nodded.
The bed shifted behind me, and I turned to see Rory getting up. “Just getting a washcloth for you,” he said over his shoulder to me.
I shot him a quick smile before turning back to Colden and asking, “Are you okay?”
“I fed from you. I haven’t done that in bed, since I first discovered I could use the crowd’s energy when my powers manifested as a teen. I’ve never actually fed during sex before.”
“Is that why you’ve got those veins all over?” I asked.
He nodded. “Usually, people don’t notice because I’m under the spotlights and the veins aren’t bright enough. I don’t take a lot from the crowd, just what I need, since I perform regularly enough. But feeding from you was like sipping champagne and eating the best caviar. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give you up, Neve, not unless you want to break the mate bond.”
Just the thought of that sent a pang of pain and fear through my heart. I shook my head. “That’s the last thing I want.”
16
Seren
As I walked out of Neve’s apartment, I had to fight the urge to go back in with every fiber of my being. She was in there with her three other mates, and I was walking away. What did that say about me?
I wanted to break the mate bond, to just tell her to leave me alone, but every time I thought about it, my chest tightened and I felt the pain that I would cause her and…I couldn’t do it. Maybe it was just me being selfish, wanting a mate, even if it was a witch with three other mates, but part of me already cared about her, even as another part still disliked her, or at least didn’t trust her.
The part of me that cared about her though? That part was getting stronger and more demanding with every passing minute, with every beat of my heart. When Niklaus had said it felt like his heart started beating for the first time, I realized that was exactly how I felt after