Chapter 15

Samael replaced Orion's fingers with his, gently tilting my head for me to accept him. "Are you sure about this?" he whispered against my mouth.

"Trust me," I said, hoping he could read between the lines.

I was going to hold as much of Orion's sunlight as I could. I would dose him when I was ready, with the twins' help.

It wasn't going to be easy.

But I had an advantage. Orion thought I was human.

I wasn't. Not entirely.

My goddess spirit stirred inside of me, seeming to remember what it felt like to hold all of this power inside my chest.

The burn was somehow familiar. It was like having a molten star inside my heart rippling with power, always trying to get out.

Half the battle was learning how to contain it. That was why my goddess side hadn't wanted to wake up.

I recalled how I had trapped Lucifer, how I had briefly felt the entirety of my power.

It had proved to be too much. It would have consumed me had I tried to handle it without knowing what I knew now.

So when I had given Balthazar my magic, I'd kept my own goddess power for myself and put her back to sleep. No deal would allow me to part with it. It was simply who I was. It was my spirit.

And it belonged to me.

All this time holding on to Orion's sunlight had taught me what it was like. It had reminded me of a time that Asher had told me about.

I'm made to hold power.

I'm made to endure it.

I'm made to burn.

Sam must have seen the resolve in my eyes, because he finally gave me what I wanted. He closed his mouth over mine.

That was when Orion pushed in. I'd forgotten how big he was.

I screamed and Sam immediately swallowed up the sound. The pleasure spiked as Orion stretched my body to accommodate his size, forcing me to release a thread of sunlight I had intended to hold in, but it would only enforce the guise that I was doing what my demigod had asked of me.

He thought I was going to force the twins to hold his power. They might be Purgatory's most powerful angels, but they weren't gods.

They weren't meant to hold on to this fire.

Sam groaned into my mouth as he endured the sharp heat, and my body trembled with both the fight and the pleasure as Orion gently fucked me.

"Is she crying?" I heard Azra ask with a note of panic in his voice.

A pained hiccup left my throat as Orion pushed in farther, responding to the way I clenched around him in need. "I'm okay," I said. "I need… I need more," I whispered into Sam's mouth, then kissed him harder. I fought his tongue with mine and he matched every stroke with confidence and power.

He trusted me, and maybe it was the sort of trust I didn't deserve.

But for Sam, I had been a goddess all along.

Worshipping me was all he knew how to do.

I felt his prayer on my lips as he said my name, as he lavished me with attention while Orion's thumb found my clit.

I nearly imploded from the touch and another sliver of sunlight escaped me, making Sam hiss in response.

My demigod's massive body was in the way. So, of course, I failed to stem the throbbing pleasure when I attempted to clench my legs together. Orion knew I was fighting it, and he knew exactly how to weaken me enough to fail. He had stopped fucking me, but he was halfway inside, his cock pulsing just inside my entrance and making me tremble.

"Azra, Sam," I begged, needing a distraction. I couldn't climax, or else I'd release all of the sunlight I was holding and I hadn't figured out how to handle my own yet. But I was almost there. "Which of you can hold it best?"

I would give up a little, just temporarily.

Then I would find a way to take it back.

Sam kissed my cheek, then exchanged another one of his glances with Azra. The brothers' voices rumbled in a quiet argument in that ancient language I couldn't understand, going back and forth until finally Sam spoke to me.

"I'll take it, beloved," he said against my mouth. "Just tell me what you need me to do."

"He'll share it," Azra countered, his whip now appearing between us as he pointed it at his brother. He ran the tether across my exposed breast where Orion had pulled down my dress. "Tell us what to do."

I bounced my gaze between the identical twins while Orion watched, holding still while I made a decision.

I'd always been able to tell the two apart, but right now they seemed equally determined to share this load.

"I need both of you to be touching me, intimately, while Orion… while he fucks me hard enough to make me come." I blushed as I said it. I was asking two brothers and a demigod to share me more than they ever had.

"Like this?" Azra asked, pushing Orion's fingers out of the way to replace them with his own. I tightened as he rolled his touch over my clit. Then he glided the whip over my breasts, pulling it away until he could lean down and press a kiss on the tingling flesh.

"Y-yes," I said, turning to Sam as he licked my lower lip.

"And this?" Sam asked, joining his brother to place his fingers on top, adding more pressure, as he slipped his tongue inside my mouth.

Fuck.

All I could do was hum in agreement.

My skin burned as the twins prepared me, then Orion began to move. My skin heated and I shivered as I pressed my mouth harder against Sam's.

"Come for us, star," Orion said, pushing farther in while the twins tortured me, quickly bringing me to the edge.

Orion thrust all the way in, then stayed there.

My entire body heated up as Sam drank in my moans, and I hated myself when I started to beg.

I wasn't sure what I was even begging for.

"Please," I said, rolling my hips, or attempting to, because now I was pinned and couldn't move. The folds of my dress blocked my view as both brothers touched me, taking turns until I wasn't even sure whose hand was whose.

Azra's tongue flicked my nipple while Sam's tongue mimicked the motion in my mouth.

It was making me crazy.

My entire body filled with heat, the sunlight beating against my closed eyelids, demanding to come out.

A rumbling inside my chest rattled me like I was an earthquake about to split the world apart. Orion was too big.

The twins were too competitive.

It all felt too good.

"Relax, little star, you're doing so well," Orion praised as he began to pump into me—thrusting in long, deep strokes that made my body shake. "Come on my cock; there's a good girl," he growled. "Come on their hands. Let it all go."

I couldn't contain it as Orion instructed me in explicit detail. The climax washed over me and my body shattered.

The sunlight spilled out—and not just Orion's.

Mine, too.

I sucked it back in before it had a chance to obliterate my beloved angels. Sam's teeth sank into my lower lip and Azra's mark stung my breast. Orion thrust deep inside of me, growling as I forced the sunlight where I wanted it to go.

Into him. Just enough to make him glow. Just enough to make the demigod remember his home.

And the rest… I kept for myself.