Roran pulled a sugar bowl out of the cabinet. “We never did with Vitas.”
“And we shouldn’t with the young…” Master Rilen halted and tapped his nose. “With Mistress Kimber.”
“There’s a condition, though.” Master Roran continued.
“That you put pants on?” Master Rilen snapped.
Master Roran offered him a rude gesture and turned back to me. “That you stop addressing us formally in private like this.” He leaned forward and put his chin on his fist. “After all, I’m sitting here buck naked after being caught fellating my mate.”
Master Dorian roared from the doorway.
Still naked.
“You are all treating her like she’s our equal!”
Roran pulled the milk out of the icebox. “Isn’t she?”
“She wears the robes of a master,” Rilen said.
They were doing the twin thing, talking nearly on top of each other’s words, as if it was just one thought between them.
“She walked into my apartments, unannounced. Unwelcome.”
Chuckling, Roran pulled the tin of tea out. “Come does mean come, in whatever context.”
I groaned. “Oh, gods.”
Rilen leaned in. “No mystery that command was for me.”
“No! Oh, gods!” Embarrassment pinked my cheeks.
“Look!” Master Dorian gestured to me. “Look at how put-out she is by sex!”
“It’s not the sex! It’s the number of swinging dicks flopping in the breeze! I would have left peacefully!” I reddened even further at my own outburst. I was just waiting for death by embarrassment at this point.
“Nothing in that room was swinging or flopping.” Master Dorian grinned cruelly. “It was all just hard and thrusting.”
I slumped in the seat. “I’m going to go die now.”
Master Dorian chuckled. “Next time, use your magic, girl. Reach out and find out if I’m busy riding a cock.” He turned to leave the room but paused. “Keep your eyes off my ass if you can.”
He said it so naturally that I had to look. I whimpered—both from being so gullible and because of the firm, round backside he sported as he walked away. “Shit.”
“I have never heard you swear so much as I have in the past five minutes,” Rilen said.
I put my head in my hands. “Because I’ve never been this close to death from embarrassment.”
Roran walked over and proffered a mug of tea. I reached for it absently, but it wouldn’t budge. I pulled harder and watched Rilen roll his eyes.
“Oh no.” I finally paid full attention to what Roran was handing me.
His balls were tucked neatly inside the rim of the cup.
I snapped my eyes up to his, and he was laughing, hard. “Teabag,” he managed to squeak out in his laughter.
“Sweet Savior, Roran.” Rilen shoved him away from me. “The girl was just traumatized by you sucking away on Dorian. Do you really think that it’s necessary to prank her with your balls in her tea?”
“Yes.” He cackled, taking the mug back to the wash basin. He returned a moment later with a new mug.
“Nutless tea, my dear.”
I was sorely tempted to ask for a shot of whiskey, but I was also afraid of what body part Roran would put in that.
Chapter Six
Kimber
The covers of the bed rustled and slipped back, the bed dipping. I opened my eyes and found Elex settling into the bed with me.
I glanced at the timepiece on the nightstand.
“All day, Elex?”
He nodded in the dim moonlight. “I am sorry. There were some major breakthroughs today, and I needed to be there to supervise.”
“Anything you can share?”
“No.” He was brusque but softened a moment later. “Actually, yes. I can share everything with you because you’re part of the council now.”
I rolled to face him. “So what was so important?”
He sighed. “Now?”
“Why not? We have no obligations in the morning, do we?”
Elex rolled to face me. “The fellows in the department have found a way to predict the temblors and tremors that have been happening. I had to oversee some of the experiments.”
My gasp was small but stunned. “Really? Predict?”
“Yes.” His grin was huge. “We’re not sure how accurate or how much time it’s going to give us, but even just a little warning will at least get the residents to safety in their own homes.”
I grasped his hands. “That’s wonderful!”
“Yes, it is. I’m so glad I was a part of this. The system uses all new technology we’re developing to read the ground. It’s exciting.”
Silence fell for a moment, and Elex found my hand and held it. “Kimber, I’m going to be called away a lot in the next few weeks. I want this system working, and we’re going to be testing it. If it comes back positive for indicators, I’m going to have to go. No matter what.”
“I understand.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to be here—”
“Elex, it’s fine. We’re both doing things for the greater good. There are going to be times I can’t be here, either, and you have to be good with that, as well.”
His hand caressed my cheek. “This isn’t going to be an easy life.”
I nodded. “I know. I’m okay with that. I just wish it could have waited a little while longer.”
Edging closer, Elex whispered his offering. “It can always be safe in here. With you and I in this cocoon of sheets and blankets.”
The kiss was welcome. Slow and soft, he made no demands of me. It was just a sweet low kiss that went on and on for a long few minutes.
I felt…bold. Elex liked to be in charge, but I needed him right now. I snaked my hand around his hip and pulled him closer to me.
His smile played on his lips. “What’s this?”
“I want you,” I whispered against him.
“Mmm, a little horny?”
Hot and bothered from all the huge cocks that were swinging around me today. “More than just a little.”
“Good.” I felt his fingers on the silk of my sleep shirt, finding my pussy.
For the first time in my life, I had crawled into bed without underclothes. It felt decadent and sexy, proved to be the absolute right decision.
“Oh, I like this, Kimber,” he breathed, his hand finding the hem of the shirt and working it up.
He didn’t bring it up far. As soon as he could, his fingers found the soft lips and traced them.
“Elex…” My core trembled at his touch, and I let out a breath, slowly.
I found his cock, soft and warm in the bedsheets, and I wrapped my hand around him. I used my palm to stroke his dick to life, little by little, a small pet here, a careful squeeze there. Rubbing my thumb over his tip, I was rewarded with a jerk and a rush of blood to quickly raise his erection.
His fingers never stopped moving over my sex.
“You have such a pretty pussy,” he whispered. A finger dipped inside before he went back to tracing the folds. “Ride me, Kimber. We’re both too tired to play games, but I want to be inside you.”
Kicking the covers back in the same motion, I hiked a leg over him and straddled his thighs as my hands caressed his pecs.
“Clothes off,” he hissed. “I want to see those tits.”
I tossed the shirt away in a heartbeat and brought my hands back to his now hot and hard cock. My palms stroked leisurely over the velvet-on-steel erection.
I had never been needy or forward before with the men I had bedded—or those who had bedded me. I always let them set the pace and happily enjoyed the ride.
Now, I was starting to think I had been missing out on a lot of fun.
Rising up on my knees, I pressed his shaft to my entrance and lowered myself onto him, just a little at a time. I savored each small distance I pulled him in, delighting in the sensation of being possessed by him. Enjoying the push of his erection as it opened me up and intruded deep into my channel.
Finally, I was seated on him and him in me. I rocked my hips, lightly, forward and back. I had no interest in rushing this. We were both tired, and this was exquisite.
What kind of lover would Master Dorian be?
I swallowed my gasp of shock. That was not a question I wanted floating in my head when I was riding another male.