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“It is a big deal,” Desmond said gently. “And it’s okay for it to feel like more. But you are in charge here. We can take it as slow or as fast as you want.”
Claire nodded, blowing a breath out. “Okay. So tea?”
Desmond went over to a wall in the room Claire hadn’t noticed yet. It looked like a small kitchen with a sink and some glassware on the shelves. He took down a teapot and four mugs as Claire opened the pouch Greta had given her.
A small note was nestled at the top of the pouch and Claire unfolded it. “Animas Tea. Steep for five minutes before drinking. Enjoy.” Claire smiled at Greta’s chicken scratch handwriting and folded the note back up again. She set it off to the side and carefully shook the herbs out of the bag into the tea bag Desmond handed her. Desmond muttered a spell to bring the water in the teapot to boiling and Claire dropped the bag in there.
“I wonder how we can pass five minutes,” Desmond murmured in her ear as he stepped up against her back, setting the teapot down on the table in front of her and caging her in.
Claire tipped her head to the side to allow him better access to the sensitive spots on her neck. “Hmm, I wonder.”
Desmond pressed soft kisses up her neck and along her jawline. Claire squirmed when he captured her earlobe between his lips and nipped it softly. Much to Claire’s dismay, Desmond kept his hands outside the rest of her clothes for the next five minutes. Teasing her while the others watched with soft touches. He cupped her breasts through her bra and squeezed lightly but only for a moment before his hands would trail away to tease some other spot of exposed skin. She wanted to scream when the teapot chimed.
Desmond pulled away from nibbling on her shoulder and grinned a wicked and totally unrepentant grin down at her. “Oops, guess that’s time.”
Claire wanted to hit him but instead she leaned forward and nipped his chest, causing him to jump slightly. “Tease,” she pouted.
“Vicious little love,” Desmond shot back as he poured the tea into the four small cups.
The tea smelled bitter but when the first sip hit Claire’s tongue, there was an unexpected smoky sweetness to it. She drained her cup quickly as did the Triad.
“So we’re just supposed to drink it?” Malcolm checked. “Nothing else.”
“That’s all that was in the instructions,” Claire shrugged.
“Why don’t we do the Fae ritual next?” Desmond suggested. “As you have to do that with all three of us. Then we can move on to the more interesting parts of the evening.” He waggled his eyebrows at her and Claire laughed. He looked very pleased with himself and Claire appreciated him lightening the mood.
“What is the Fae ritual?” Everett asked, coming up behind Claire and letting her lean back into him.
“I take some of your Energy into myself and I give you a piece of mine,” Claire explained simply.
Everett let out a soft chuckle. “I like the idea of a piece of me inside you.” Claire rolled her eyes and smacked his forearm curled around her waist playfully. She beckoned Malcolm and Desmond closer by holding out her hands to them. The instructions for the Fae ritual were sparse on the actual ‘how’ of the ritual. But she was sure she could figure it out.
She closed her eyes and sank into her magic, marveling at how much easier it was to use and guide after accepting it as part of her. Instead of just sitting in her center waiting to be used, it was like she had a new limb. It was justtherewhen she went to use it. No fight, no fuss, no overwhelming rush of it, just there.
She searched deeper for the part of it that controlled and used Energy. When she found it, she guided it to focus on her men. They stiffened slightly but didn’t move as they felt her intrusion into their own magical cores. Her Energy found theirs easily, cuddling up to it like it had been waiting for eternity to join with them. In a way, she supposed she had been.
It wasn’t hard to convince her magic to leave some of her Energy behind in each man or to take a piece of theirs with her. When all three pieces of Energy settled in Claire’s center again though, her eyes flew open as she realized what the Energy exchange had done.
She could feeleverything.
It was like another layer had been added to her bonds with her Triad. She could feel all of their emotions as they stood there, excitement, happiness, love. If she focused hard enough she could separate everyone’s emotions but when Everett ran a hand down her side to rest on her hip, a spark of heat hit Claire’s stomach and the three men stiffened as if they felt it too.
“Ohhh, this could be fun,” Desmond purred, catching on faster than Malcolm and Everett did.
Everett ran his hand across her lower stomach. “You can feel that?” he asked Desmond.
“Not the touch, but the feelings it invokes in Claire,” Desmond said, moving closer.
Claire squirmed, suddenly feeling hot and achy. Was it what one of them was feeling or… “The tea!” Her eyes went wide. “I think the tea had something in it too.”
“Why, what do you feel?” Malcolm growled.
When his voice hit her ears, Claire didn’t have to speak to tell them. They could feel it in her as well. Need.
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Everett’s fingers found the back of her bra and then it was on the floor and his hands were cupping her breasts, rolling her nipples between his fingers before cupping them again and almost presenting them to Desmond.
