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The monsters never ceased howling, and I doubted I would sleep. But with the beasts outside and our enemies trapped in the far corner, maybe we were safe enough to try.

For now.

CHAPTER 4

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Rain battered the rooftop.

My eyes popped open as the monsters’ outraged yowls grew urgent. I raised my head to peek outside. Rain plummeted in heavy sheets, yet the monsters remained, not giving up on their future meals.

I shivered as the fierce wind flung the pelting rain into the cave. Angel’s growls turned to whimpers as he backed away from the entrance. He didn’t like the rain.

When I lived in Crack, I prided myself on taming the wilderness. But compared to the Valley of the Monsters, my old wild country was practically farmland.

Axel pulled me against his chest to offer me more warmth, and Zak pressed against my back to do just the same. They’d shielded me from the biting wind with their large, muscled bodies for half of the night. Despite their efforts to lend me their body heat, the cave remained icy cold. If the Void hadn’t nullified their demigod powers, they’d have made us warmer.

I snuggled closer to my mates, waggling my ass.

Axel chuckled. He cupped my cheeks and kissed me deep and hard.

Potent lust swirled in me like a live wire. Liquid fire pooled between my thighs. From a few paces, Héctor and Paxton swept their heated gazes at me. All my mates always responded to my every whim and need, and they knew exactly what a girl wanted.

Our mating bond lay open.

Thankfully, even the Void couldn’t suppress our bond. In retrospect, when I thought I’d lost Héctor to the monsters, I’d been in a very dark place. I hadn’t had the presence of mind to check out our bond, which had never been broken.

Now with the renewed mating fever coursing in our veins, I urgently needed to ride a mate, or all of them. The more the merrier. I licked my lips at the sight of my delicious mates. That was how deep the mating heat had gotten me.

My mates felt it just as strongly, perhaps more so. The unbridled lust in Paxton’s violet eyes burned the brightest due to our unfinished mating ritual. He was the only mate who hadn’t completely mated me—we had been interrupted. The mating call between us had reached its fever pitch until it drove us to either madness, or to finish the mating dance.

A thought slammed into me. The Living Flame in me was but half-formed because the sea demigod and I didn’t close the mating circle.

What if the Flame, one of the most lethal forces in the universe, was fully activated? Would it overcome the Void’s negating power and allow us to reclaim our magic in this realm?

I must mate with Paxton at the first opportunity. I had a feeling that we’d need to do that to guarantee our survival.

Paxton stalked toward me like a predator in heat. “Axel, you’re next on guard.”

“No way,” Axel grumbled, holding me tighter. “You’ll just have to stand guard a little longer while I warm up Cookie. She’s shivering.”

I was shivering, but not from the cold wind. My intense desire for my mates made me tremble. I wanted them, needed them, so much I could barely breathe.

“You’ve had her long enough,” Paxton growled, the threat of violence rolling off him.

“Axel,” Zak whispered by my side. “Paxton is the only one among us who hasn’t…you know.” He gave the war demigod a meaningful look. “It needs to be done as soon as possible. We aren’t facing a normal situation. We might not get our powers back in the Void, but our mate was born in this realm. She has a better chance than us to regain her magic. She needs…Paxton. We must fully support her in any way we can.”

Realization hit Axel’s eyes.

“You want them to do it here with the creeps watching?” he asked, narrowing his eyes at Zak.

“Ew!” I hissed, the idea dampening my heat a little. “We can’t be that desperate, guys.”

“Of course not. No one sees your lovely ass except us,” Axel said, heat and murderous light searing in his amber eyes all at once. “We’ll kill anyone who tries.” He sent a quick, disgusted glare to the corner occupied by Lucifer and Ares. “Perhaps we should force them out into the rain.”

“Engaging in another battle before we fully recover isn’t wise,” Zak sighed. “Go take Paxton’s place, please. Just don’t get in his way while he’s edgy like that. We’ll let him kiss Rosebud for a little while to soothe his thirst. Paxton has been holding back too long and he’s at the breaking point, as you can see. He won’t be his reasonable self if you challenge him.”

Axel narrowed his eyes again. “Then why don’t you go take the swimming boy’s post and I’ll stay here with them?”


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