Tanner prodded her lips open and thrust his tongue, sweeping the cavern of her mouth with skill. Matthias's penetration deepened, and she moaned at the invasion even as she pushed back, seeking more. Tanner's tongue and his hand cupping her breast were a constant distraction, and before she knew it, Matthias had pushed his finger in all the way.
"This is better than anything I imagined." Matthias's voice was thick, his arousal obvious. "Keep loving her, Tanner. Fucking her mouth with your tongue, licking her and pinching those tits. God, Ava, you have the most incredible body."
His words did as much to her libido as his hands, and soon he was thrusting his finger in and out, slowly at first, pushing past the tight flesh of her anus and jolting her with the sheer pleasure.
When he added a second finger, however, she tensed.
"Shh, relax, baby." Matthias panted as he angled deeper. "Tanner, maybe you ought to kiss her lips."
Ava wondered what he meant since Tanner hadn't stopped with her mouth, when Tanner surprised her by moving back. He lay down on his back and scooted under her. He put his head between her legs, holding onto her thighs for leverage while she stared down at his massive cock. Rosy with desire, his erection begged for her lips, and she took him in her mouth at the same instant he settled his lips over her clit.
"Beautiful." Matthias pushed that second finger deeper, fucking her with two digits.
The pleasure spiraled until she felt on the verge of orgasm. And without warning, both males stopped their pleasurable attack and moved back from her.
"What--"
"Now, we fuck you."
Tanner nodded at Matthias and knelt, watching. Ava stared at him, caught by the beauty and love in his gaze as he watched Matthias push inside her.
Much thicker than his fingers, the intrusion hurt. But Matthias was slow, and he waited until she was comfortable enough before he moved further.
"Push out, Ava. Focus your muscles and accept me." His hands clenched her hips as he invaded her body, stretching her virgin tissue. The pain faded as a feeling of fullness enveloped her. And watching Tanner's cock bob in anticipation, seeing him touch himself as he watched, set her off.
"I want more," she gasped when Matthias sank an inch deeper.
"And you'll have it." She'd never heard Matthias's voice so low before. "Christ, you're so tight, baby. So warm. Feel it."
She saw Tanner's eyes shine nearly white as sensation stole through both her and him. Ava cried out as she felt her body and Matthias's at the same time. The painful pleasure of being stretched and of silken walls gloving flesh. Of taking and being taken.
"God, Matthias. I'm going to come," Tanner growled, fisting his cock faster. "Let me in,
lefne.
"
"Yes, we both need to be inside you when we come." The words from Matthias were guttural, his beast close to the surface. "Tanner, lay down."
Tanner immediately lay back. Matthias pushed himself balls deep, making Ava moan before he pulled completely out.
"Take him inside your pussy," he ordered.
Tanner held himself for Ava as she slid over him, and he closed his eyes as bliss poured over them all. Somehow, they'd begun broadcasting their feelings. Ava wasn't sure how Tanner and Matthias had done it, but she realized Tanner felt himself inside her as well.
"Ava. You're feeling
me.
" He thrust upward and she jerked, her clit pulsing at the brush of his pelvis against her. "Matthias, now."
Matthias gently pushed Ava flat against Tanner and spread her ass cheeks. Pushing two fingers inside her again, he stroked up her ass, feeling through the thin membrane separating his fingers from Tanner.
"Fuck," Tanner shouted, thrusting again. "I can feel you, Matthias, you and Ava touching me." He opened his eyes and stared at Ava, and she was amazed at the connection she felt. She
was
Tanner and Matthias. They were her and each other. Feelings and sensations coursed through her like life's blood, confusing her with a need so sharp it felt painful.
And then Matthias interrupted them by pushing his cock into her ass and sandwiching her between the males.
"Oh, yeah," he grunted as he continued to push. "Feel me, Ava. Feel Tanner, the both of us inside you." More and more of him entered her, until he lay perfectly still over her and Tanner, braced on his hands. "I need to move," he groaned.
"Me, too," Tanner gasped, rubbing her clit as he trembled under her body.
"Someone move before I lose my mind," she whispered, needing completion.
Tentatively at first, Matthias and Tanner began thrusting, trying to find a rhythm to suit them. They found it quickly, and began fucking her in tandem. Two males, one female, joining closer than bodies as their souls cried out to one another.
Ava felt as if she watched from above. Her heart soared as her body wept for them both, needing to come more than she needed to breathe. Fullness, completion overtook her as a sense of claiming lay over the trio. Matthias's strong scent overwhelmed her, and Tanner was whispering something she didn't understand.
"Now, Matthias, now," he groaned and began coming, rubbing against her clit with enough pressure to set her off.
Ava joined his ecstasy, pulling and pushing at Tanner as she absorbed his seed, and then Matthias shouted and spurt, washing her with his cum. They lay locked for what seemed like forever, as both males jetted into her hungry body.
The moment her last shudder stilled, Matthias and then Tanner pulled out of her and laid her gently on her belly. Matthias left the bed only to return with a warm, wet washcloth. As he tended to her backside, Tanner pressed kisses over her shoulder and mouth when he leaned closer.
"Okay, Ava?"
She mumbled something, but didn't know what she said. Her lethargic body felt like jelly, her limbs refusing to do more than lay against her body.
"I think we wore her out, Matthias." Tanner laughed, his joy enough to waken her. The sheer delight she saw in his gaze had her heart hammering. Though their connection had faded, she could still sense a part of him that she'd never before felt, and a part of Matthias as well.
But she focused on Tanner, awash in his heady satisfaction, his sense of belonging.
"Oh, Tanner. You're so beautiful to me." Light shone like a star around him, and she looked at him with her Dracon sense, immersed in the feelings around and through them. As if a mystical switch had been thrown, Ava felt everything Tanner wanted to say but couldn't. "Oh, Tanner. I love you, too."
Silence descended before Tanner crushed her in his arms, kissing the breath out of her. Stunned by the passion that flared again so quickly, she kissed him back, belatedly realizing she'd declared her love for another man in front of Matthias. When Tanner moved from her mouth to her neck, she turned to see Matthias's reaction.
But all she saw when she looked at his face was happiness. The Dracon radiated with contentment, his eyes surprisingly wet with unshed tears.
"Thank you, love," Matthias said softly and bent down to kiss her, running his hands over her hair. "Such a beautiful gift should not go unrewarded, hmm, Tanner?"
Tanner paused to stare at Matthias in bemused wonder, his uncertainty both understandable and heart-wrenching. "You, ah, you don't mind?"
"Mind that Ava loves you? Why should I? You're a worthy enough mate, aren't you?"
Tanner glanced down into Ava's face. "I pray to God I can be."
As Ava returned his somber stare, she couldn't help puzzling over this new development, much as she was pleased to have found someone, finally, to love. Her feelings for Tanner matured, but her feelings for Matthias stayed the same. She loved Tanner, yes, but she still loved Matthias. And the prince had no problem with Tanner loving her, was even, in fact, hinting at a mating?
But the sheer satisfaction coming off of Matthias in waves told her she'd missed something. Considering Matthias had wanted her to help lure Tanner closer, why then was he so happy to have lost out to Ava? And why didn't she feel worse that she loved another Dracon? Because Ava didn't feel bad. Ecstasy consumed her at the reciprocal love flowing between her and Tanner...
and Matthias.
Her mouth agape, she stared at the prince. "But that's impossible."
Two mates?
Matthias gave her a small frown and smiled widely at Tanner. "Isn't it amazing what good sex can bring? Truth in the form of a loving Dracon."
Tanner stared from Matthias to Ava, but he couldn't seem to stop touching her. He held Ava in his arms but continued to stroke her, a sign of possession and belonging that only secured her notion that Tanner had indeed claimed her as a Dracon did his mate. Why then, did she sense a second, subtler claim already on her? And more, one that lingered over Tanner as well?
Trust me, Ava.
Matthias voice in her mind gave her an even bigger shock.
All will be well. Tanner loves you. Believe in that if you will nothing else.
Apparently, Tanner could hear Matthias as well. "It's true,
lefne.
I don't know what just happened between us, but I know it's real. The connection I felt as soon as I met you has become something more, something true. I love you, Ava." He sounded both surprised and awed, and his amazed laughter was infectious.
Matthias and Ava joined in his joy, and ignoring Matthias's scheming for the moment, Ava not only accepted Tanner's hug but returned it. "And I love you, Tanner. Now how about we try that Ava-sandwich thing again?" Just the thought of it had her juices flowing. "But this time you and Matthias switch places."
"My thoughts exactly," Matthias murmured, watching Ava and Tanner with a hunger his body couldn't conceal.
Not quite
all
your thoughts
, Ava acknowledged to herself.
You manipulated both me and Tanner, and not that I would even want to be angry about it, but why? Do you really think you can have two mates? Or am I just imagining your part in this?
Matthias winked her way before pulling her from Tanner. "Now aren't you glad I came for you? If I hadn't, you never would have met Tanner."
Tanner chuckled and watched Matthias lower Ava onto his body. Thoughts jumbled, but the puzzle of Prince Matthias wasn't enough to overcome the sexual frenzy beginning anew. And then Matthias and Tanner were inside her, and everything else could wait.
They stretched the return trip to Dracon Mount into another week, playing more than driving. The trip proved unexpectedly enjoyable, conversation with Ava stimulating as always. But Tanner had been pleasantly surprised to find how much he enjoyed Matthias's quick mind. The awkwardness that had been present between them might never have existed. Though they still shared Ava at night, both men found pleasure in her body, and not with one another. If the urge to touch Matthias plagued him, Tanner tried to ignore it and focused on Ava, the first person to ever truly love him.
And even after he'd confessed that he was half-human.
She had shrugged, not caring in the slightest, and talked about getting a pizza! Ava really did love him. Tanner. A Dracon with human blood. A half-breed lowly security guard.
He never would have believed it if he hadn't felt her mind and soul, bonding with her. The feeling was one that occurred between mates, what he'd often heard described by other Dracon. Ava made him happy. Tanner could have easily stared at her or listened to her voice with his eyes closed the rest of the trip. For once he didn't question fate, but accepted it wholeheartedly. The joy in just being near her astounded him, and he wanted too much for it to continue to doubt the inconsistencies surrounding their mating.
To doubt why he didn't mind Matthias being so near all the time. Why he always wanted the prince to touch him, or why he found pleasure in being touched by the male. The possessiveness that should have turned him into a raving monster, watching Matthias fuck Ava, was never there. Instead, he felt their pleasure as if it were his own. And the longing to hold Matthias as he held Ava, to touch the prince with the love Ava and Tanner shared...
The thoughts gave him a headache, and he once again locked them deep in his mind, not willing to dwell on anything that might mar his contentment.
"And there it is." Matthias pointed at the large stone appearing like a mountain as they drove past the opening gates into the heart of Dracon Mount. The surrounding trees' leaves were caught between yellow, orange and red, and fell in gales as the autumn wind blew. Mountains beckoned them home, providing concealment and the wonderful swell of welcome as dragons flew in the sky, glimmers of gold, red and green that swooped and dove in ragged bursts of playful fun.
"Funny, but I didn't miss this place until we arrived." Ava sat up in the backseat, a silly grin on her face that touched Tanner at his core.
Even he felt the pleasure of returning to the keep, and it was more than just delivering Matthias safe and sound. Perhaps his mating with Ava had skewed his reasoning, but it felt as if he too were returning home. Tanner, a Dracon who'd never lived anywhere longer than two years at most, suddenly felt welcome and warmth from stone walls and the thought of Dracon he'd barely met a month ago.
"I want you two to come with me, if you wouldn't mind." Matthias turned to them both, his gaze somber. "Ava, I know that you want time before you see your uncle, and that you're concerned there might be some unwelcome reception from those not familiar with what really happened between Emmaline and the Draka.
"And Tanner, you'll no doubt want to see Lucas and give him a report. But do me a favor and keep Ava company while I let Ferin know I'm back, okay?"
Tanner and Ava shared a puzzled glance. Matthias seemed to be closing himself off from them, and that joy in their return faded with it. Almost as if... Tanner stared at Matthias through a narrowed gaze.
"What?" Matthias blinked innocently at him.
No, it wasn't possible Tanner had mated with both Ava
and
Matthias. Dracon took one male or one female to mate. Never two. No doubt Ava's reminder that her uncle awaited her had dimmed her enjoyment in being back. And that's why Tanner no longer felt so glad to return, which made sense since Dracon Mount had never been his home to begin with.