She shifted inside me, and we pushed Aaron back, his fingers disengaging with a rough tug that had me wincing, but she showed nothing. He seemed to sense the change in mood, his eyes flashing greener, watching us prowl over his body. When we clasped his dick in our hands, he gasped, and I saw fangs poking through as he panted, his eyes trained on our mouth as it came closer and closer. We licked the head of his cock like it was the most delicious thing in the world, making sure the soft swipe of our tongue slid across the entire swollen crown, filling the indentation on the top and tasting the salty residue, then swirling around to trace the flared edges.
“Jules…” His voice was strangled, forced out between pants that only grew more pronounced as our hand dropped lower. We carefully caressed his silky scrotum, then cupped them as our mouth slid down.
“Fuuuck!” he groaned as our tongue stroked him, the mix of saliva and venom creating a low simmering burn. It didn’t seem to faze him, as his hips jerked in time with our movements. “No!” he snarled finally, just as his cock began to flex in my mouth, twitching with what was gonna come. He pulled my head away, smashing his mouth against mine.
“You are ready?” my Tirian asked through my lips. Her voice sounded weird and echoey, as if coming from far away. He nodded. “You know what this means?”
His head cocked slightly to the side, green eyes boring into mine. “It is now?”
She nodded, and I felt it then, the wild pulling sensation in our chest that had me reaching for him without even noticing. Those alien eyes glanced down to where my fingers linked with his before receding to leave just Aaron. I watched him for a moment, saw the hitch in his chest, then he turned his head away, leaving the great muscle of his neck there, open and vulnerable. I was surprised to feel her shift us over him with care, climbing over him until we crouched, weight balanced on the balls of our feet and the hands we gripped his shoulders with. One slipped down, between our legs, grasping his thickness and bringing it away from where it was pulled tight against his abdomen.
“Take me,” Aaron said. She paused in rubbing the head of his cock against our wetness, a low rumble building in our chest. His eyes slid around to us. “Take everything I am. I hold nothing back.”
When I felt the surge of her anger, I jerked my Tirian back as if on some kind of dog chain, and I was shocked I was able to.
The gall…!
It’s not. It’s a human thing. He’s saying he’ll give us everything, keep no boundaries, hold nothing back.
He should not anyway. Those others—
Are human. I’m human. We are cursed to be all too aware of the ways we can hurt each other, and we develop a bunch of complex rules to deal with them. That’s what we are, what you’ve fused yourself to—something I’d like to know a whole lot more about, by the way. He’s basically saying he’s going to put all the human protective shit to one side for you, us. You’ve got no idea how hard that is. I glanced over to where Aaron waited, no doubt wondering what the hell was going on in our mind. He’d just offered us everything, and we were digressing for side arguments. Let me do this, I said.
No, you will—
Yes, I will.
I would have liked to have been in a more sure place, to have spent a bunch of time hanging out and getting a sense of each other, but like everything in Sanctuary, it didn’t run on Jules time. Instead, faced with no doubt the same worries, Aaron made this simple, but devastating offer. He held out a hand and asked me to jump, no matter what lay below, to hold on to each other and find out, then deal with what came together. When I moved forward, it was just me again, so I drew in close and rested my forehead against his cheek, listening to our breath for a moment.
“Of course, I will,” I whispered, accepting his offer, no matter how belatedly, and catching the choked back sob in his chest when the words registered.
I moved smoothly now, my cunt over his cock, my mouth over his neck, in the oddest, yet somehow most natural clinch. My fangs snapped down as I engulfed him, blood and venom running down his skin.
I pulled back, resplendent above him, chest adorned with the rivulets of our mating, hips rolling in slow sinuous movements. When he stared back at me, his eyes had returned to hazel and it was just me and Aaron again. Strong hands gripped my waist, then he shuffled under me until I was basically sitting on his lap, except for one crucial difference. A differ
ence that had me draping my arms around his neck and him clasping my hips. I stared into his eyes and he into mine, and then we moved.
We didn’t look away once, not as he thrust up, stretching me to my limits, not when I bore down, drawing him in deep. We rocked, a long slow lope, and I watched the twitch of the muscles around his eyes. When his lips parted, I leant forward and claimed them.
Because there was a special gift to being mated that I had never experienced before in my life. Perhaps I was an insensible dick before becoming Tirian, or just with the wrong guys, I don’t know. All I did know was that the bond allowed for more, so much more. His body, his hands, his dick, it didn’t matter. We floated, becoming diaphanous and all-encompassing, until I could no longer just feel Aaron, but all of them. Points of light in the cloud that was us, I could feel every single one of my pack and their reactions, from lustful, envious, or incandescent love, fusing together until all that remained was us. When we came, that pleasure shot out and sent shock waves through all of them, going on and on and on, and the feedback loops of their surprise at the feelings provoked yet more responses in the rest of us.
Reality came back slowly. First, the sound of birds chirping, then the rustle of leaves, then I opened my eyes and saw Aaron’s smile. He was radiant. He’d meant it, for this moment at least, he let everything be there on display. Of course, being me, I was struck by a need to protect that, not wanting to see that face grow shuttered as Slade’s had. This was all happening so fast and I—the anxious overthinker—was gonna roll with it.
I liked the way his hands shot up to stop me when I disengaged from him, only relaxing when I lay down on the leaves beside him, our bodies slotting together again as if made to do just that.
“Jules—” he started, but words failed him. Of course, they did. They were so manifestly hopeless when trying to describe something like this, all the best poems and songs lacking, even when they got the closest to it. We just lay there, staring into each other’s eyes until they came.
I wasn’t surprised to feel the others come and cluster around, taking a seat in the dirt with us. Slade clapped Aaron on the shoulder with a smile, and Brandon dropped a kiss on the top of my head. Even Finn looked pleased, albeit stiffly so.
“So, looks like we aren’t going to maintain that place in the spotlight for long,” Jack said, pulling Hawk to him and kissing his temple. “Our girl’s always gotta be the centre of attention.”
“Shut up, Jack,” Hawk said, but he hugged his mate to him.
“No one can outshine you, Jack,” I said.
“Said by a woman with cum running down her leg? High praise indeed.” But he softened his words by crawling over and kissing me. “You seem in an awful hurry to take mate bonds with your pack,” he said when he finally pulled back. “Anything I should know?”
And there I saw it. Vain, snarky bastard that he was, Jack had just gotten some kind of certainty last night with Hawk. He had to be worried about my Tirian’s shitty schedule, because I was. But I was tired and sore and full—of love or Aaron’s cum or both, it didn’t seem to much matter—so I spoke to him and hopefully my Tirian as well.