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I sighed in pleasure when he entered me inch by delicious inch, raising my hips to take more of him inside me. With my hands around his neck, we stared into each other’s eyes and spoke without words. Words were without meaning here, only tongues and touches and our bodies joining.
He nuzzled my neck, stilling himself over me once he was fully seated inside me. “Gods,” he shuddered, “you feel…”
“Yes,” I whispered back. I wrapped my legs around his waist, hooking my ankles at the small of his back. “Take me, Fadon. Gods, please.” My body felt like a vessel overflowing, and if I didn’t release soon, I’d combust.
He moved then. With our hands now intertwined behind my head, he moved like a god crashing to shore, his thrusts full of intent, strong and sure.
I tried to keep my sounds quiet, but it couldn’t be helped. Not with so much pleasure, not with what Fadon was doing to me. I cried out, turning my head to muffle the sound into my shoulder. His thrusts picked up a faster rhythm and I was lost. Nothing else existed but us. Even if my parents and all the Ongahri, all the staff were to walk in right then, I would be so, so lost.
“Sierra… I need…” He released his hands and set one lightly against my throat. I arched my back, giving him better access.
“Fadon Trajan, I claim you as my mate. Now bite me.” No eloquence from me. I needed it, needed him.
Fadon was much too lost himself to form words. His mouth came down on my neck, the opposite spot to where Lucius’ bite mark was. He sank his teeth into my sensitive flesh. I felt him swell inside me, felt the spilling of his seed, and cried out again, pleasure filling me along with the pain that felt so good.
My release rose and rose, and I gripped Fadon so as not to be swept away. I felt him then. Inside my blood, meeting my soul. I let him in. Felt his strength, his character that was so steady, like ancient oaks in a forest, like pillars of granite in a temple time had forgotten. His love for me, his joy, the hope of, at last, finding a companion.
The ribbon of our joining, our bond, wrapped around me, flowing through hidden chambers inside my soul.
We were one.
And in the ocean of my being, I felt not only him, but Demos and Lucius. Finally, all three of my mates were home.
“I love you, Sierra. Not only are you beautiful on the outside but in.”
“And I love you, Fadon.” Through our new bond, I threw that love back at him.
His eyes widened. “This… bond is unlike anything I could’ve imagined. I can feel you.” He sounded awed.
Smiling, I touched his cheek. “It’s amazing, isn’t it?”
His throat bobbed, his eyes flicking over my face. “Amazing.” His knot inside me was loosening, and now he rocked in gentle lulls. “I don’t want to stop.”
“Well, perhaps we can go one more round. Then we either need to find an empty closet or… oh.” His thrust hit a spot that had me rolling my eyes back.
“Yes, one more.”
*****
Afterward, and with bitter-sweet reluctance, Fadon walked me to my room. I needed to freshen up—a quick wash and a new gown and a serious brushing of my now-knotted hair. At the door, he took out my osnat from his pocket and gently clasped it back around my neck.
“Lucius must have known you’d have more than one mate,” Fadon said, touching his claiming mark with a finger.
“How so?”
“There are two empty settings beside the stone in the center. Here.” He tapped the stone in question.
Surprised, I felt the smooth warm stone myself, trailing my fingers over the spaces beside them. “You’re quite right.” Had Lucius known I’d one day have all three of them as my mates?
“Once this is over,” he said, taking my hand and kissing it, “Demos and I will shop for our own stones.”
“Yes…. once this is over.” I sighed, coming back to reality. Being with Fadon in Father’s study had shut down what we were facing, the war to come, the elemental lost to pain and trapped somewhere in the Basilica like a prisoner. “I hope it’s over soon.”
“Don’t be scared. It will end and we will be victorious.”
I could only nod at his conviction. Inside, however, I was wary. I couldn’t help but feel that this was just a prelude to a new life, one fraught with a slow, dawning dread that I felt in my bones. Whatever we were going to face, I just knew it would come at a steep price. I prayed to the gods that that price wouldn’t be paid by the people I loved.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
