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“Promise me you are looking for me, and that this is real?” Araiya looked up at River with so much hope in her eyes, then looked over at Mac.
“I promise. We will always look for you lamb, always.” River leaned down to kiss her forehead again, but Araiya shifted, and his kiss landed on her lips. Both froze, eyes open, staring at each other. Then something shifted, and her eyes fluttered closed, and River tightened his arms and repositioned, so he had a better angle to kiss her more thoroughly. This went on for a few moments before Mac coughed, and both pulled away. They stared at each other for another moment before River wiped a tear from her face. “What’s wrong?”
“I have so much regret. I regret leaving you, I regret leaving Shavon and putting myself in the position to be taken.” Araiya gave a small smile, as she turned to look over at Mac. “I regret leaving all of you.” She reached out and cupped Mac’s face. She shook her head and then banged it off Rivers shoulder. “It was hard not knowing if you were looking for me. Wondering if I would survive long enough to be found, or if escape was a possibility. But I think…I think knowing you’re looking makes it harder now.”
“Why?”
“I don’t think I am going to make it. I think this was a last-ditch effort for my soul to reconnect with yours before my body gives up the fight. I don’t have much left and I can feel myself fading.”
“But you’re okay…” River trailed off as he looked down at her devastated face. “You have to be okay…” River put her down and turned her. Araiya caught sight of Mac and he looked solemn. Mac understood.
“River, look at me. How do I look?” Mac stopped River while keeping eye contact with Araiya. “I need you to really look at me and tell me how I look.”
“You look fine, normal, why does that matter?” River circled Araiya since she wouldn’t turn to face him, and he saw a tear fall. He watched on as tears slowly trailed down her face.
“How did I look right before we were here?”
“What?”
“River, you’re the smartest fucking man I know so I need you to take a fucking moment and listen to what we are saying.” Mac reached a hand out and cupped Araiya’s face. “It’s okay Firebug, I understand.” He wiped a tear away with his thumb.
“You looked like shit, but I was healing you. So, you were looking better.”
“But here?”
“Here you look good, like before you took on her powers.”
“Yes, so if I look perfect and normal, then she would too, but somehow her hair is red, like even here something comes over. I burned off my skin and I am fine, but Firebug here has blood hair.”
“I healed your skin, just not all the damage inside, but I get it.” River paced away and gripped his hair before coming back and wrapping his arms around her. “Fuck. How bad is it?”
“It’s not that bad. Korine is keeping me alive, and the drainage has lessened. Korine cleans me up after I come back and binds everything. I don’t see much, but the way she cries lets me know it’s not great.” Araiya smiled up at River. “At least I was able to have my first real kiss from you, and I got to see two of my mates before the end.” Araiya stepped toward Mac. “Now I know we have kissed before for a power transfer, before everything went haywire. But I would really like a kiss from my mate, Mac. One that doesn’t kill me is preferable.” Araiya chuckled.
A tear fell as he looked away, “I would never say no to you Firebug, but I want you to know how sorry I am.” Mac picked her up and hoisted her legs around his hips. “I will follow you beyond the veil, through the ether and into the misted forest.” Araiya’s eyes widened at that. “I have been to the in-between and I will be with you every step of the way. You will never be alone.” Mac ran his hand down her back and cupped her around the thigh to steady her. His other hand held on to the back of her head as he leaned in to kiss her. It started softly, but the fire ignited between the two, and by the end, Araiya had both of her hands wrapped around his hair.
“You can’t mean that.”
“I do.” Mac leaned his forehead against hers. “And I know my brothers, and they would follow you beyond the veil without a second glance. You are ours, Firebug.” Mac kissed her tears away before he sealed his lips on hers again.
River watched on as the two kissed, he watched as Mac changed position and Araiya opened up to him. He thought he would be jealous seeing his mate kiss and react to another, but inside he felt content. There was no jealousy, no hatred like he worried, seeing her in the arms of Mac just felt right. Watching on as their passion came to a head, he felt himself stiffen and he adjusted. He was about to interrupt when they both started to glow faintly purple.
Mac couldn’t get enough of his mate, she tasted of smoke, and cherry. Tart, yet sweet, smoky, yet fresh. She let out a small moan, and his dragon rumbled with his need to claim his mate. Araiya moaned again and shifted against his already hard length, causing Mac to release a moan of his own. Everything thing felt more sensitive, his skin alight with tingles causing him to shiver as she ground into him. He went to pull away, but she held him close and continued to kiss him.
“I wouldn’t pull away yet Mac, I think, even in this dream scape, she’s accessing her power in you. I think staying like that will be beneficial for both of you. You both might last a little longer. Hopefully she can take enough back so she can stay alive until we can find her.” Mac grunted and resumed kissing his mate. He wouldn’t go any further, not without her permission and not in a damn dream walk. But he was going to enjoy having his mate in his arms. He lowered them on the ground and adjusted them so that she was straddling him. He ground her against his length more, and he groaned again.
Araiya was out of control. The fire in her body was driving her insane. Her skin was flushed, nipples pebbled. She felt how wet she was and yet instead of embarrassment she just wanted, no she needed, more. She needed his hands on her skin. She waited for him to touch her again, but after River had said she was accessing her power, his hands stopped.
Once they were on the ground with her straddling him as they kissed, he stopped touching her, stopped holding her, and that wasn’t working. She ground herself against him harder, causing him to groan. She moaned against his lips, and still nothing. She untangled her hands from Macs hair and traced them down his sides searching for his hands. She felt him tremble beneath her and she felt empowered. No longer was she the same ugly girl she had once thought of herself. Now she was a woman, a woman who knew what she wanted, and what she wanted was her mates.
She felt along his arms and pulled them to her. She guided his hands to her breasts and squeezed her hands around his. All of them moaned at her wanton display and she ground against him again and smiled against his mouth. Mac took over squeezing and she held out another hand to River. She didn’t care if this was her first experience with them, she didn’t care it was a dream, what she cared about was having her mates’ hands on her body as she burned.
River knelt next to the pair. He ran his hand down her spine, making her arch away from McKenna’s lips but press her breasts into his hands harder. “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on, lamb.” Araiya turned toward him, and River took the opportunity to kiss her. Mckenna leaned up and wrapped his lips around one of her nipples through her top, causing her to moan into Rivers lips.
Araiya didn’t know whose hand was whose. Two pairs of hands were rubbing and pulling at her, and they each had their lips on her, and she was a blaze of need. She tried to catch her breath as River moved his lips to her neck. She panted over both men, as they licked and sucked at her. River pulled at her top before pulling away and looking at her. He made sure she focused on him, and he pulled her top up a little higher and waited again. Araiya nodded and lifted her arms up so he could pull it free.
Mac took the opportunity to run his hands over more of her bared skin. He traced his lips and tongue over and under the top of her wrapping. River moved and knelt behind the pair to have a better angle. His arms came around the front and he ran his hands up her sides until his hands slipped under and cupped her breasts. Mac slipped his hands behind and cupped her ass, guiding her to grind harder against him.
Her top wrapping became lose and started to slip down. Araiya grabbed at it to hold it in place and Mac pulled away to look up at her. “Firebug, if you want to stop, we can stop. We would never rush you to make this decision or take this step.” Mac pulled his hands to her hips, while River leaned closer and wrapped his arms around her waist.
“We waited for you for thousands of cycles lamb, waiting until your ready isn’t a feat for us.” River kissed her shoulder and nudged her head.
“You wouldn’t be mad if we stopped?” Araiya turned and angled her head to look at them both. “You aren’t upset at my inexperience?”
“Why would you think we would be mad lamb? No mate, or real man should be upset if their woman wanted or needed to stop until she felt comfortable. Being intimate needs everyone to be comfortable. Would you force one of us to touch you or push us to do more?”
“I made Mac touch me…”