Page 93 of The Last Aether

That dug an ice pick deep into my heart. As if I could feel the emotional wall Phoenix was erecting between us, even across this distance.

Riven’s lips ghosted over my hair. “He’ll come back. I promise.”

I leaned into Riven, to his words and his heat. I needed it now more than ever. That reassurance that he was here and safe. That we would find a way forward no matter what lay ahead.

I tipped my head back so that I could meet Riven’s eyes. “Need you.” I let my gaze drift to Kai and Atlas. “All of you.”

“You’ve been through so much,” Atlas began.

I gripped his shirt, pulling him to me and swallowing his words with a kiss. I poured everything into it. All the things I didn’t have the words for, the desperate need to feel my bond and to reconnect with these men I loved.

Riven’s arm hooked around me, his hand slipping beneath the band of my pajamas. His fingers dipped into my heat, teasing and toying. I moaned into Atlas’s mouth. Feeling both of them only stoked the fire deep inside.

Kai let out a groan. “You’re killing me.”

His fingers latched onto the buttons on my pajama top, quickly undoing them. A second later my breasts were free.

Riven’s other hand reached up, his fingers circling my nipple. “The perfect shade of pink.”

Kai leaned down, his tongue swirling around a tight bud. “Just like strawberries.”

My hips shifted, seeking more of everything they were giving.

Riven slid two fingers inside me and my body shuddered with a mixture of relief and want. He pumped them in and out, swirling and twisting.

I panted against Atlas’s mouth. He chuckled. “She likes that, Riv. Can’t even keep kissing me she’s so distracted.”

I nipped the bottom of his lip in retaliation, but Atlas only laughed harder.

Kai’s mouth left my breast and I arched up trying to follow it. He grinned. “Good to know you’d miss me if I was gone.”

I scowled at him, but then Riven made a stroking motion with his fingers that had my mouth falling open and me gasping for breath.

“Shit. I have to see,” Kai said. His fingers hooked in my pajama pants and a second later I was completely bare.

Kai’s gaze was riveted to the apex of my thighs, Riven’s fingers pumping in and out of me.

Sparks danced over my skin as he and Atlas watched. Their eyes on me only drove me higher, tightening everything inside me.

“Riven,” I breathed.

“Tell me what you need.”

“All of you.”

He knew what I meant. That I needed to feel not just his fingers but him.

A second later his fingers were gone, and he was lifting me onto his lap but facing me away from him, towards Atlas and Kai at the end of the bed. Riven tugged down his pajama bottoms and slowly lowered me onto him.

My jaw went slack, and my eyelids fluttered with the delicious stretch. There was a rightness with the contact. A knowledge that I had let down every wall with the person I’d been holding myself back from the most.

Riven rocked his hips, arching up into me with testing thrusts. I met him move for move. Slowly, we found our rhythm.

Kai reached out, palming my breast. “Never want to forget this image. Cheeks flushed with pleasure. Eyes glassy.”

Atlas’s hand dipped down, finding my clit as Riven fucked me slow and deep. “I’m burning it into my damn brain.”

I let out a keening noise as Atlas hit the perfect spot.