“All right,” she said. “No one should come out this way any time soon.” She stepped toward us, and I moved forward, drawn like a magnet.
She kissed me first, so long and lingering I almost forgot I did need to get some talking in before we moved on to any other activities. Then she turned to Seth. He stroked his hand over her cheek and leaned in with a tenderness that made me feel weirdly off-balance.
I should be jealous that he got to have her as much as I did. But some part of me wasgladshe had a guy who clearly worshipped her as much as I did, just in some ways I wasn’t as good at yet.
She needed me, but she needed him too. She needed all of us.
She leaned into him as she looked back at me, his arm still around her. “What was it you needed to tell me?” she asked. “Why were you worried someone might be tracing your movements with magic?”
“Well, I had a little visit from Mr. Cortland today.”
Rose’s eyes widened as I recounted my conversation with the asshole and his accomplice, her jaw tightening when I repeated the insults he’d thrown at me. “I kept my cool,” I finished up. “I think I convinced them I had nothing to do with the phone getting stolen or with you. But… I figured it didn’t hurt to be careful. And I don’t know how much he’s keeping an eye on you too.”
“Maybe more than I realized. The way you described the woman with him… That sounds like our new estate manager.” Rose rubbed her mouth. “Of course, it wouldn’t bestrangefor him to ask my dad for help with his missing phone, or for Dad to ask her to go do it… But yeah. I don’t like it.”
“What do you think our next steps should be?” Seth asked.
“For you guys? Nothing, right now,” Rose said. “Keep acting as if everything’s normal. But be extra cautious if you see him around. I’m… I’m going to be talking to my dad tonight. I’ll know the whole truth one way or the other by then.” She paused and sucked in a breath. “That’s partly why I wanted to see you. I’d like to have as much power as I can stored up, in case things go wrong. If you don’t mind, ah, contributing.”
The reason was dire, but the understanding of what she meant stirred up that flame of desire inside me anyway. I stepped right up to her, setting my hand on her side just below Seth’s arm. The warmth of her, the heat that flared in her dark green eyes, was too delicious for me to ever imagine resisting it.
This, this part I was good at.
“Take everything you need, angel,” I said, and bent my head to kiss the side of her neck.
Chapter Twenty-One
Rose
Itipped my head to the side as Damon marked a scorching path down my neck, and Seth was right there, ready to meet my mouth with his. As their heat enveloped my body, my spark shot up through my chest with a fresh rush of energy. The magic sizzled through me alongside the bronze-y scent of Seth's skin and the hum of pleasure in Damon's throat as he reached my collarbone.
He didn’t stop there. In one swift movement, he yanked down the straps of my tank top and my bra, baring my breasts almost all the way to the nipples. A sigh stuttered out of me as his mouth continued downward.
Seth claimed my mouth even more deeply. As his tongue slicked over mine, the arm he’d looped around my waist slid up under my shirt. With a flick, he undid my bra completely. His other hand stroked up over my belly to tease the underside of my breast.
His thumb reached my pebbling nipple at the same time Damon’s lips did on the other side. Damon grazed his teeth over the peak of that breast and Seth swiveled his thumb, and a whimper broke from my throat. Flames of pleasure washed through every nerve. I was drowning in sensation and soaring on it all at the same time.
A jolt of need that had nothing to do with my spark spiked up from my core. I ran my hand down Seth’s chest to cup the bulge straining his fly. He groaned against my mouth. Then he was tearing his lips from mine to tug my top right off me. It and my bra dropped to the ground with a faint thump.
Damon captured my mouth, squeezing my nipple between his fingers at the same time. Pleasure raced through my chest. I whimpered, and he took the opportunity to tangle his tongue with mine.
Seth nibbled his way down my chest, stopping to slick his tongue over my breast. He lingered there until I moaned, lost in the pleasure the guys were provoking together. Then he continued on, down, down, his fingers hooking around the waist of my jeans and easing along the sensitive skin of my belly to the snap. Without hesitation, he popped it open and peeled them off me. He nuzzled the front of my panties, his nose brushing my clit.
“If you taste half as good as you smell, this is going to be heaven,” he said in a rough voice.
“She’s heaven, all right,” Damon said. He played with one nipple and then the other as his other hand teased down my back to squeeze my ass. His fingers dipped between my legs from behind. I gasped as he tested the damp fabric between my legs.
“God, angel,” he said with a groan. “So fucking ready.”
I whimpered in agreement, pressing my lips to his again. Seth kissed me through my panties and then yanked them down to devour me skin to skin. A cry wrenched out of me as he swiped his tongue over my clit. My spark blazed and pleasure swelled, singing through my veins.
I reached for Damon to pay him back in kind. He pressed his erection against my eager hand. “That’s right,” he muttered. “Oh, fuck.”
Every caress of Seth’s mouth against my sex was building the wave of bliss inside me, but I already knew that wasn’t going to be enough to satisfy me. I curled my fingers into his short, tawny waves and tugged him up for another kiss, lips to lips. Damon slid his hand around my thigh to finger my clit and then dip inside my opening. I rocked against his hand, still kissing Seth. My own hand fumbled with Damon’s jeans.
He jerked them open and stepped out of them, kicking them and his boxers to the side. My fingers closed around the silky skin of his rigid cock. He made a strangled sound as I stroked him from base to tip. The head of his cock was already slick with precum.
“You want this?” he said, and plunged his fingers even deeper inside me. “You want it here?”