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“Did I hear you claim that you were the one whose consent was needed in matters of my ass, worm?”
He squeaked out an affirmative.
She narrowed her eyes and started to strip off her clothing right there, on top of him, then strode naked to the nesting room. “Crawl after me, and I will show you the error of your ways.”
He whimpered and used his hands to do just that.
Rada threw a look over her shoulder and tilted her head. “Well? Who wants to help me teach Skadi a lesson?”
I was the first one through the door. My gift could wait. If the pink flush in her cheeks was what I thought, all our plans were about to change.
RADA
Ihad no idea why I’d thought being a goddess would make my life easier. Maybe if I wasn’t mated to seven of the most infuriating males ever created…
Goran cleared his throat. “Ma bohinya? Do you need sustenance before you punish your ice god? I have some of the lemon and custard tarts you enjoyed at our commitment ceremony.”
“Where?” I spun on my heel when he removed a metal box from the top of the ice block that served as a table in the nesting room. He held out a tart, and I ate it in one bite, then swallowed, and jumped up to thank him properly. He caught me just as I smashed my mouth to his and kissed him, crumbs falling around us.
“Delicious,” he growled while I picked a big crumb off his beard and ate it before kissing him again.
“Messy,” Lex tsked.
“Yes,” I agreed, but my stomach was still growling. He picked up another one, feeding it into my mouth. “Why didn’t anyone tell me how hungry I would be now?”
I was whining and I wasn’t proud of it, but the week had gone wrong ever since I convinced Frol to carry me and Lusca to the coast to pick up some gifts for my mates. It had taken longer than I’d planned to get everything organized, and I’d gotten my timing wrong on one part of the anniversary gift. I pressed a hand to my stomach, pretending it was only hunger causing the turmoil within.
Goran backed me up to the side of the hall, so that the wall of ice along my back cooled me. I opened my eyes as he rained down kisses on my neck. Over his shoulder, Kellin and Lachlan had frozen in place, their eyes darkening as their nostrils flared. They’d noticed.
Slowly, like they were circling some kind of prey, Kellin, Lachlan, and Serak began to take off their clothes, dropping the pieces at the edge of the nest.
“Omega, may we enter your nest?” Lex asked smoothly. I nodded. He and Lusca stripped quickly, then stepped onto the fabric-covered floor of the recessed nest. They moved the pillows at one edge of the enormous bed away from the ice stairs that led to the large bowl that was covered with blue, purple, and turquoise cushions in the softest fabrics, and plush blankets for warmth.
Not that I needed warmth. Sweat beaded on my brow. Skadi snarled and began to rise from the ice. “You’re in heat? How?”
“Did I say you could stand, Snowflake?” I sighed, as if I were disappointed. He knew better.
“Your scent,” was all he could rasp, his eyes glowing. “You brought on your heat.”
“Happy anniversary, boys.” A trickle of sweat dripped between my breasts, and Goran chased it with his tongue. The others groaned and stripped away their remaining clothing.
Lex rubbed one of the pillows on his bare chest and down his body, drawing my eye. He’d gotten slightly more muscular, and oddly, even a couple of inches taller, since the claiming. His beauty still shocked me, and I couldn’t look away as he put a hand on his hard cock and pumped slowly. “Is this our present, Mina? A week of endless fucking?”
Lusca reclined on some of the pillows in the background, his deep blue eyes heavy-lidded, humming something that seemed to travel through the ice between us and up through my body, singing in my blood. My clit grew swollen, the slick on my thighs trickling down and dampening the tip of Goran’s cock.
“Best present ever,” Lachlan purred. He licked his lips, eyes fastened to the place where Goran’s cock was stretching me, slowly sliding in. The heat of my Warlord in front of me and inside me, and the ice behind me, was almost unbearable.
“A heat cycle that will last until you all beg for mercy,” I promised, gasping as another of Goran’s rungs rubbed inside me.
Serak was the only one to frown. “Is it a… fertility cycle?” All the others went still. Goran even stopped breathing.
I laughed. “Goddess, no. It’s everything but that, though. I thought we’d practice for the day. See which one of you might deserve to go first—”
“Mine.” Teeth bared, Skadi stood, looking at Goran like he might rip him off me. Or rip off his cock.
I tsked. “Lusca? I suppose Skadi needs his gift first. He’s having trouble following directions.”
Lusca laughed. “You’re right, beloved.” He strode to the chest he’d carried in, opened it, and removed a set of what looked like velvet ropes. I let Goran kiss me thoroughly, my scent filling the room, as Lusca and Serak sunk the metal loops at the ends of the ropes deep into the ice at four places on the floor.
