“Sev?”he rumbled.
For one suspended second, the tension between the two males sharpened.Itwasn’t anger,Cassiethought—more like simple awareness.Itwas the sudden understanding that this wasn’t justCassietaking what her body needed…it was also about the two of them giving it together…sharing her whenBeastandBloodKindredweren’t supposed to share mates.
Cassie pulled back, panting.
“We can stop,” she said.“Imean…if you two want to.”
“No,”Raviksaid immediately.Hisjaw worked as though the words were difficult, but he forced them out.“Nostopping unlessCassiesays to stop,” he corrected himself.“Ravikwants.Sevwants.Cassieneeds.”
Severin stared at him for a long moment, then his face softened in a wayCassiehad never seen before.
“Yes,” he said quietly.“Cassandraneeds.”
The bite wound onCassie’sarm throbbed again, impatient and hot and she decided that was enough talking.Leaningdown, she took them back into her mouth.
After that, the world narrowed to taste and heat and sound.ShelovedRavik’srough groans andSeverin’sstrained praise…loved the slick slide of her hands around them, their mingled flavors and the strange, steady relief spreading through her bloodstream every time she swallowed the salty drops that gathered at their tips.
Her body was still needy, but the panic had eased.Theterrible, frantic ache was being answered in small increments, as though every lick and swallow told the virus—or her own immune system, or whatever strange process was happening inside her—that help was coming.
Maybe it should have felt shameful, sucking them both at once…but it didn’t—toCassie, it feltpowerful.
She was kneeling between two hugeKindredwarriors, pressing their shafts together because she had asked them to give her what she needed, and both of them were trembling for her.Ravik, who could rip anInfectedapart with his bare hands, was holding himself still because she told him to.Severin, who hid behind science and control, was breathing like he was about to fall apart.
AndCassiewas the one doing it to them—she absolutelylovedit.
“Sweetheart,”Severinsaid hoarsely.“I’m…fuck,I’mclose.”
Ravik groaned.
“Close too.”
Cassie pulled back, her lips wet and swollen.
“Good,” she whispered.“BecauseIneed you to come for me—both of you.”
Severin’s eyes flared.
“Are you sure?”
Her body answered before her mind could overthink it.Thebite wound pulsed bright, and a deep empty ache went through her—not for penetration, not yet—but for what they could give her…their seed.
“Yes,” she said.“I’msure.”
Ravik’s hand tightened in her hair, then loosened again at once.
“Cassie takes both?”
Cassie looked from him toSeverin.
“Yes,” she whispered.“I’lltake both.”
She leaned in again, pressing them together with both hands and taking the heads into her mouth as deeply as she could.Shesucked and stroked, letting her tongue move between them, feeling both males begin to lose rhythm.Ravik’ships jerked once and stopped.Severin’sbreath broke as he gasped her name.
ThenRavikcame with a deep, shuddering roar.
“Fuuuuck!”he growled.
A heartbeat later,Severinfollowed with a strangled groan that sounded almost like surrender.
