Chapter Forty-Nine

We went home and hugged our children. We kissed them and told them how special they were, how much they were loved. Then I showered.

I felt filthy. As if Naraka had tainted me. No, not Naraka. Katila. I shuddered and hung my head under the spray.

“Tima?” Kirill whispered as he opened the shower door. His hand went to my back. “Youve been in here for too long.”

“Sorry.” I stepped out of the water and squeezed out my hair.

There was a lot of it, and I had loved it since Id first become a goddess, back when I took Aphrodites magic. Her Beauty Magic made my hair thick and glossy, so easy to brush. But I suddenly wanted to chop it off, especially that stripe of starlight. Just cut it off and become someone else. Too bad it didnt work like that.

“Im tired, Kirill.”

“I know.” He eased me into his arms and folded over me even though I was wet. “Ve all are. But ve must go on for each other and ze children.”

“Yeah,” I muttered into his chest. “Can we go on tomorrow?”

He chuckled and pulled a towel from the rack to dry me off. Well, dry us off. “Da. Tomorrow ve vill be strong. Tonight ve vill be veak together.”

“I like that idea.” I lifted my head, and he met me halfway.

Now this was what I needed. I groaned into Kirills mouth and pulled at his boxer shorts—all he had on. Kirill growled at me and lifted me by the thighs, jerking them apart to settle around his hips. Forget the foreplay, he was in me in two seconds flat, both of us needing the connection. And then my back was against a tiled wall, and my husband was driving into me.

Thats right. This is why I do it. Kirill. His hands on my skin. His body inside mine. His growls in my ear. Kirill and the others I love.

“Rude,” Re said.

I looked over Kirills shoulder to see Re standing in the bathroom doorway.

“You were supposed to check on her, not have sex with her.”

Kirill snarled at Re over his shoulder and kept thrusting. I giggled and held on.

“Theyre having sex,” Re said, waving at us while he spoke to someone in the bedroom. He grimaced. “I know theyll finish eventually. Thats not the point.”

“Re, do you mind not ruining this for me?” I asked.

“Oh, thats it! Now your ass is mine.” The Sun God strode across the bathroom, removing his underwear—gold briefs—as he came.

His golden rod sprung forth, ready and eager. I snorted when I saw him stop at one of the cabinets to fetch some lube and rub it over his cock.

“Are you going to share, Lion God?” I asked.

“Nyet.” Kirill kept going.

“Do not make me blind you,” Re said.

Kirill glanced over his shoulder at Re and winced. “Too late.”

“Yes, I am glorious.” Re waved his hands down his impressive body. “Im also horny. So, if you could just angle her—”

“Ugh!” Kirill cried in annoyance. “Fine!” He adjusted his hold on me and paused his thrusting. “Hold on, Tima.”

“Okay.” I got a tighter grip on Kirills shoulders, and he straightened, taking me off the wall, then turning toward Re.

Re was instantly at my back, his lips on my shoulder and his hands at my waist. Moaning, he spread my lower cheeks and slipped between them. As he nuzzled my neck, his cock nuzzled my rear entrance, teasing me with little prods. Re knew how to please every inch of me, and he always made sure I enjoyed myself before he got too carried away. It didnt matter how horny he was.

“Re!” I cried out as he entered at last.

“La-la,” Re whispered in my ear and then went still, waiting for Kirill.

Kirill grunted and set the pace, easing forward then back, working up to the speed hed been at. Meanwhile, Re did his part to hold me aloft and also kept a perfect rhythm, pulling out when Kirill entered and vice versa. In less than a minute, I was rocking between the men, my nerve endings shrieking in pleasure.

“So its to be the bathroom tonight?” Viper asked as he came into the room naked.

Moaning, I looked over to watch Viper head for the enormous, sunken bathtub. It was more like a swimming pool, with several flat fountain heads instead of spigots to fill it with. Viper turned on the water, then headed down into the tub, rubbing his thick cock as he went. He found a ledge with a view and sat down to enjoy the show.

“Well, if hes going to watch, we all will,” Trevor said as he walked in with Odin.

They joined Viper in the bathtub, each man taking a separate sunken seat. With magic helping those fountains, it didnt take long for the water to rise over their waists and hide my view. Still, the water was clear and there were other things to look at. Like their amazing chests.

I cried out and flung back my head as my first orgasm hit, but I didnt look away from the men in the water. They made it even better. Took me even higher. And I must have made it better for Kirill because he roared shortly after I came and locked up against me. With a sigh and then a kiss, my lion withdrew. Kirill jumped into the tub and grabbed a washcloth from the basket near the edge. He wasnt the only one washing up. The other men had decided to use the time to bathe. So I had four beautiful, sudsy gods to stare at while I enjoyed myself.

“Well, if youre going to watch, we might as well give you a show,” Re said.

He turned to face the tub, then leaned back and lifted me so that I lay on his chest. This brought my ass up, spread my thighs wide, and put us on display. The other men groaned and the sound of splashing came as Odin and Viper jumped up on the floor and sat down with only their legs in the water. Without the water to wash away the soap, they kept their cocks slick and stroked faster.

“Fools,” Trevor muttered and climbed out of the tub but not to sit on the edge. He came up to Re and me, then knelt before us. Before me. With a wolfish grin, he slipped a finger into me and pumped it gently. “How about a little kiss, Minn Elska?”

“Oh, fuck,” I whispered. “Yes, please.”

My men werent squeamish about going where one of them had already gone, if you get my meaning. Trevor pumped his finger into me while he bent forward and sucked my clit into his mouth.

I screamed.

Re groaned, shuddered, and sped up.

My body jerked against Trevors face, but he didnt care. He just added his tongue to the kiss. The wet heat of it lapping at me between bouts of him sucking and rubbing was enough to send me into another climax. Trevor eased back, knowing me well enough to give me a break after an orgasm like that.

Then Re pulled out and twisted to aim away from Trevor. He came on the floor, holding me tightly against his chest the whole time. Finally, he lowered me to my feet, made sure I was steady, then turned me around for a kiss. He took so long that Trevor was growling by the time he was done.

The gentle lover was gone.

“Mine now,” Trevor, my alpha lover, demanded and pulled me away from Re.

I went to my knees with him, but was quickly turned about and pushed onto my hands as well. I braced myself, preparing for a wolf mating. Sure enough, Trevor slid into me and immediately started a wild pace, our flesh slapping together in a rapid tribal beat.

No one tried to join us, not when Trevor was like this. Technically, he was my dominant lover, above all others. That made his word law when it came to intimacies with me. But Trevor was such an easygoing guy that he normally didnt enforce alpha law. It was only when Wolf came out to play that things got serious.

I looked over my shoulder and saw the honey glow of Wolf in Trevors eyes. Trevor was there, but taking a backseat to his animal half. Although he was a part of Trevor, Wolf was a completely separate personality. He was an alpha in every way and didnt take shit from anyone, not even me.

“Hey, Wolf,” I purred.

He growled at me and bared his teeth. “My mate.”

“I love you.”

That softened Wolf for a second and his baring of teeth became a smile before vanishing. And then he said, “I love you too, Mate.”

There. That was what I wanted. I liked connecting Wolf with his emotions. Once I got my “I love you,” I could get as wild as him. Bracing myself, I shoved back to meet his every thrust.

The slapping of flesh came from behind me but also to my left. Kirill was hard again and stroking himself, though not as aggressively as Odin and Viper worked themselves. He knew hed have to wait a bit to get me back under him. But hed have me again that night. And I would have him. I would have them all. Because they were mine. My mates.

Theyd almost been taken from me again, but either luck, destiny, or the whim of a trickster god had saved us. We hadnt been the strongest this time and our victory wasnt a full triumph, but we were all alive and that was enough for me. It was enough to make me want to celebrate. So as the Wolf took his mate and reaffirmed life through sex, I embraced my own wild side and joyfully celebrated. I shrieked and screamed and came so hard that I couldnt hear the voices in my head telling me that even when they were dead, my enemies could still be a threat. If Katila could come back, anyone could. Zeus. Jerry. Oh, fuck, Aphrodite.

No. Not now. Tomorrow Id think about what it all meant. Tonight was the time to rejoice. To, as Kirill said, be weak together. This was one weakness I could enjoy. A weakness that didnt take, only gave. And there was no avoiding it.