Impossible levels of heat wrap around my body. I look down at my skin, expecting to see flames. From the outside looking in, nothing is wrong. But I cry out nonetheless from the pain shooting through me.
My legs bend under me, and my body catapults itself into a standing position. Nyx and Ambrose are suddenly standing next to me as well.
Her magic is almost impossible to fight. It feels like pure pain, not a battle of strength. She uses pain to make my body bend to her will. But I have to know whether she can really do this.Can she make me fuck them?
My body slams into Nyx’s chest. It’s rough, uncontrolled, and jerky.
“Sorry,”I whisper through Ambrose’s head to him. Already regretting taunting her.
She was going to leave us alone. I didn’t have to do this.
“Don’t—she won’t be able to. You’re right.”
“But what if she does? What if she forces us?”
“Then you keep playing the memory of what we just did together in your head while it happens. You know that I want you desperately, whether I have control over how it happens or not. That Ambrose wants you. That you want us. You don’t think about anything else. This is just a test. A test to see how strong she really is,”Nyx says.
“We don’t regret this. No matter what,”Ambrose adds.“Plus, there is no way she’s making either of us hard anytime soon after we just fucked you like that.”
“Speak for yourself,”Nyx says, and I can feel his arousal already lengthening against my stomach.
“Kiss,” the demand comes, pouring into us.
Our lips collide.
There is nothing soft, tender, or controlled about it. Our lips technically touch, but she doesn’t separate our lips. Doesn’t force our tongues to touch.
“She can’t do it. She’s not strong enough. We’re stronger,”Nyx says.
Pride wells inside me. I’m still in control. I still get to choose my mate. She can’t force me…
Pain explodes. The earth shakes. Nyx and Ambrose spin around me. Slamming into me. Suddenly, they’re both hard. Both are trying to penetrate me.
I panic.
No, I can’t. I can’t do this. This can’t be happening.
I was strong enough. Her magic was fading. I saw it.
“You want us. We want you. It’s okay, love.”
“It’s not. It’s fucking not,”I sob.
“Do it,”Ambrose shouts to Nyx.“Do it now!”
“Make it stop. Just make it stop!”I scream.
And then a different kind of control twists into my mind—Nyx.
Shadows and ice fill my mind.“Sleep, sleep until it’s over, Lumi. Dream of something that makes you happy.”
Chapter 38
Lumi
Moonlight filters through the canopy of trees, reflecting softly across my cheek. I close my eyes, letting it settle over me—cool, familiar. Then the first snowflake lands on my lashes.
I smile.