11. ~Jonah~

11

~Jonah~

He was unhinged.

Fuck, he was coming undone.

All over her. For her.

It was clear he and Kill had fooled around earlier tonight. I had no clue of the specifics, but the fact it had happened at all when Kill rarely ever went in for that, said a hell of a lot. The fact Asher hadn’t been able to wait to come to me showed just how volatile he was tonight. He’d obviously tried to take the edge off with Kill, but it hadn’t worked. It had just been a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound kinda deal.

I was the only one who’d ever seen him in this state, so I was the only one who could recognize what it really meant, and how dangerous it fucking well was.

It happened whenever he waited too long to come to me to unleash all that shit inside him, when he was about to explode all over the place and destroy everything and everyone in his path.

The thing was, it hadn’t been too long. So something must’ve happened.

And that something must’ve been tonight.

Killian had filled me in on Asher picking up the skull ring for Aurora tonight, but that couldn’t be what had set him off. That was a cause for celebration and it had been his idea, he hadn’t been pressured into it. So, he’d also made another stop along the way when he’d been off-territory earlier. Fuck. What the hell could it have been to have gotten under his skin this much?

Aurora grunted and pulled her mouth from his and I winced as her bottom lip came away bloody. He’d gone too hard, bitten her brutally enough to draw blood.

The worst part was, this was just the start, he was just approaching the on-ramp.

My cock jerked in my jeans as I watched him sweep his tongue over her lip and lap up the blood, groaning as he tasted her. And then he twisted his hand in her hair, holding her by the roots, right to the scalp, as he sucked on the little wound, making her whimper and buck on his lap.

Kill kicked me under the table, jarring me.

One look, combined with what I already recognized was going down, had me giving him a chin lift, then pushing out of my chair.

In the next beat, I was behind Asher.

I licked the side of his throat, catching Aurora’s eye and noting her liking that a whole lot.

Mmm, fucking yes to that, baby.

I ran my tongue up his jaw, biting the underside, before licking my way back down his neck. I reached in front of him and ripped his shirt open with a rough jerk that had buttons flying everywhere as it exposed his ripped chest in all its glory. I dug my blunt nails into his pecs, hard enough to leave half-moon marks in their wake, and hard enough to divert his attention.

He pulled his mouth from Aurora’s and released her hair.

And by then, Kill was there, swooping down and kissing her in that all-consuming and seductive way of his. Less ravaging beast with him and more devouring fanatic. Well, more like devotee with the way he was when it came to her.

He grasped her hips and lifted her off Asher, placing her on her feet, against the table.

Asher went to move, to bring her back to him, but Kill distracted him by jerking down the straps of her sexy lace dress and baring her breasts.

Taking it a step further, as was always a real good idea when it came to Asher, he wrenched her hair back, making her arch her back and effectively present her breasts to him. And then he sucked on her soft flesh, his tongue lashing over her nipple, then nipping, then sucking again, alternating between the two. Aurora moaned out as he tended to her, holding her in a harsh grip that seemed to turn her on all the more. Hell, I knew it did. Been there, done that with her.

Reaching over from behind Asher, I tore open his belt and popped his fly.

He groaned as I pulled his cock out and gave it a vicious squeeze. Just how he liked it.

He was already hard as fucking stone, pre-cum dripping from the tip.

I moved to the side of his chair, holding him at the base, then leaning in and lapping at his crown with my tongue.

He was still fighting his desire to go to Aurora. He had her in his sights now, ready and raring to go, to fucking well tear into her.

But me and Kill weren’t gonna let that happen.

Not when he was this worked up.

He’d hurt her.

Actually, he’d destroy her.

She could take a lot, no doubt. But this was different.

Kill noticed that look sparking in his eyes.

The danger there.

The fact that it hadn’t died down yet.

He released one of her breasts with a pop, then pushed the hem of her dress up, all the way to her stomach, exposing a pair of hot-as-hell black lace panties.

Bringing that smoothness of his to the table, he pulled them down her legs and off her ankles with one easy move, then spread her thighs.

My cock jerked as I watched him lower to a crouch, then dig his fingers into the soft flesh of her thighs, then yank them open, exposing her very wet cunt.

He eyed me over his shoulder, giving me a look I understood.

I nodded back, then he told Aurora, “Watch, darlin’. Don’t look away.”

She squealed as he dove between her thighs and lapped at her juicy cunt.

And then I gave her that certain something to watch, swallowing Asher’s cock right down to the root.

“Fuck,” he grunted as I went hard and wild right off the bat, eating his monster cock alive, my tongue swirling like a relentless whirlwind, my throat tightening with swallow after swallow to squeeze him and hold him deep.

And then I brought my teeth into play, grazing his shaft, then biting at his crown, followed by some real brutal sucking that had him jolting in the chair.

“Oh God,” I heard Aurora gasp, and I looked out to see Kill eating her out like a wild thing, while she watched me deep throating Asher right in front of her. It was getting her off, big time. With Kill’s mouth and tongue working overtime, she’d be coming her brains out any moment.

I shot a look back at Asher, his hooded eyes fixed on hers.

Challenging her.

Getting off on each other’s pleasure.

Killian grunted and I caught sight of Aurora digging her nails into his scalp, then riding his face.

A dark chuckle escaped Asher. “There’s my little beast. Come out and play in all your glory. We’ll make it well worth your while.”

She jolted as Killian must’ve thrust his tongue inside her tight little hole in protest to Asher’s goading.

Yeah, he was really worried about her dark side. Especially after that basement thing. And because of Asher.

The thing was, repressing it wasn’t going to help either.

She just needed to release it in a controlled way and in a safe environment.

Well, safe when it came to the three of us didn’t exactly go together.

Maybe an understanding environment was a better way of putting it.

Because we did.

We got all the shit that came along with that darkness.

We felt it down deep.

We’d battled it our whole lives.

Our fathers had made sure of that when they’d made us into monsters.

“Oh, shit, Killian!” Aurora cried, bucking her hips wildly, trying to spread her thighs wider.

A guttural groan sounded from Asher that had my cock jerking in my jeans.

His fingers sank into my spiky hair.

Figuring he was gonna take control and fuck my throat the brutal way I got off on, I was surprised when he grabbed onto my strands and yanked me off his cock instead.

I choked, saliva and pre-cum dripping down my chin as I gazed up at him, confused.

He pushed out of the chair and rose to his feet, taking me with him.

Releasing me, he shucked off his jacket and his ruined shirt, leaving his tie around his neck. As he kicked off his shoes and socks and went for his pants and boxers, I stripped naked too, in record fucking time, anticipation thrumming hot through my veins and taking me over.

Aurora’s building shrieks were just fueling that.

“Fuck,” I ground out, watching her grinding her hips frantically. “Make her come, Pretty. Make her fucking come all over your face.”

He stuffed two fingers into her cunt.

He twisted them, then drew them out roughly, then fucked back into her deep, before twisting again.

“Yes! Yes! Oh my God!” she screamed, throwing her head back.

Her sexy body went rigid, then she shrieked out into the night, shuddering, and coming for us.

Kill wasn’t done, though, wanting to push her further, and she shoved at his shoulders, trying to push him off, clearly too sensitive after just coming.

But Asher was there then, yanking him back.

Kill fell onto his ass, licking up her cum from his lips, still all blissed-out, and he stared up at Asher with glazed eyes.

“I told you where I want you, my good little cunt licker.” He opened Kill’s pants, shoved them down to find he was going commando, then pulled his cock out. He reached onto the floor where his suit jacket was now and pulled out a bottle of lube. Then he was slathering Kill’s cock with it.

“Ash… fuck,” he groaned as Asher pinched his piercings and toyed with them, before resuming making him all slippery.

When he was done, he put the lube on the table near Aurora.

She went to get up and he grabbed her hand and helped her.

But then he yanked her to him, banding a hand across her breasts, imprisoning her, while Kill rose to his feet.

“Chair,” Asher ordered.

Excitement lit Kill’s eyes as he understood what was about to happen, and he kicked off his pants, then sat down on the chair, grasping his hard cock at the base.

Asher nibbled at Aurora’s throat and sucked hard enough to make her cry out.

He pinched her nipples in turn, until she was twisting in his hold, but rubbing her thighs together at the same time, caught in a pleasure-pain paradox. He slapped her cunt so hard she shrieked, and I was surprised there wasn’t a red handprint left.

“Fucking right you’re not going anywhere,” he growled at her. “You’re ours.” He pulled on her hair, wrenching her head back so their eyes locked. “Do you hear me?”

“Yes,” she gasped, barely able to talk from all the stimulation.

“You’re going to take Killian’s cock up your ass now.”

“God,” she choked at his words. It turned into a shriek as he slapped her cunt again.

“You’ll feel those piercings of his scraping your tight little hole. Burning and hurting as that thick cock tears your asshole open. But you won’t stop. You’ll keep burying him deeper until your desperate ass swallows every fucking inch of him.” He licked the side of her neck, making her tremble with unbearable need. “Won’t you, Aurora? You’ll get off on every moment of becoming his dirty little ass slut.”

“Asher,” she uttered, all breathily.

He released his death grip in her hair and stroked it softly. “Yeah, that’s right, little beast.”

He shifted his grip around her, then guided her over to Kill who was stroking his cock and watching the scene, beside himself just like I fucking well was.

“Slap your hands down on his thighs,” Asher ordered.

She did it, making Kill fist his cock harder as he locked eyes with her.

Asher snatched the bottle of lube up, then eyed me.

I got the message and spread her ass cheeks open. “Sweet little asshole, Princess.”

She shuddered as Asher swiped some lube across her winking hole.

He trailed it around her rim, then eased inside to the tip.

Holding it there, he waited for her to adjust, then pushed in deeper.

Aurora keened and squeezed Killian’s thighs as that finger drove in further to her depths.

Kill leaned forward and kissed her, distracting her and soothing her.

It was good timing, because Asher then plunged another lubed finger in, sliding in beside the other, then stretching and pulling, twisting.

I licked my lips, my cock going crazy at the sight of her tiny little ass swallowing his fingers, being teased and abused.

He pulled away, then told me, “Spit.”

I grinned, then spread her cheeks a little wider and spat right on her hole.

She jolted and moaned, “Mmm, fuck.”

“You like Jonah spitting in your spread open ass?” Asher asked. He gave me the signal and I did it again.

That same moan came from her.

He fisted his hand in her hair, pulling her from Killian’s mouth. He growled at her ear, “What a dirty little whore. And dirty whores deserve a thorough ass-fucking.”

He spun her around and slapped her thighs apart.

Then he lifted her onto Kill’s lap, facing us, reverse cowgirl style. “Sit on that cock, sweetheart. I want it lodged deep inside that tight little ass of yours.”

A dirty little smirk played on her lips as she braced her hands on Kill’s thighs and slowly started to lower herself onto his cock.

She gritted her teeth as she drove him deeper, pausing every few inches.

Kill moaned and stroked her hair, kissed her neck, fighting what had to be an overwhelming urge to thrust up, or grab her thighs and slam her down right to the hilt.

Asher grasped my nape and shoved me into her spread open cunt.

She shock of it had Aurora losing her grip on Kill’s thighs, and slamming all the way down onto his lap instead, his cock ramming deep inside her ass.

“Ah! Fuck!” she cried out.

I didn’t give her a second to get used to it, or freak out, I just dove in, lashing her dripping cunt with my tongue.

I went feral, breathing her in, licking and sucking her juices, only to start all over again and making her drip for me. I rolled my tongue over her swollen clit, over and over until she started bucking her hips, effectively fucking her ass on Kill’s cock in the process.

“Shit! Shit! Please! Oh, fucking fuck!” she screamed out.

When Kill started to move, grasping her ass and fucking her up and down his cock, she lost it, snarling like a wild animal, roaring, screaming, as Kill and I worked in concert, me thrusting my tongue deep and stilling when she was too close to orgasm. Nah, we wanted to draw this out, edge her until she was out of her mind with her need for us.

As Kill and I played, Asher stepped up to her side and grasped the back of her head.

And then he was wrenching her down onto his cock, making her take him right to the back of her throat. I knew well what a feat that was, what a struggle. In the best way, though.

Aurora gagged and spluttered around his shaft as he basically skull-fucked her with absolutely no mercy.

She fisted my hair, then took control, grinding me into her cunt, taking her pleasure in the hottest fucking way.

She was screaming around Asher’s cock in the next second.

He grunted, his eyes rolling back in his head as the reverberations shot along his shaft.

Kill picked up his pace, fucking her ass rapid-fire, and she gave as good as she got, meeting his thrusts and bouncing on his cock like a jackhammer.

Fuck, yeah.

Asher pulled out of her mouth suddenly.

She coughed and choked, saliva trickling down her chin.

He slathered it all over her cheeks, nose, and lips.

“Harder!” she screamed for Kill.

Asher grinned. “You’re gonna feel him deep in your ass for days, little beast.”

“Yes!” she cried, lost to the twisted pleasure of it all, begging for more. “Do it! More! Fuck my ass. Fuck me, all of you!”

Asher rammed back down her throat, threading his fingers behind her head and holding his cock real deep, making her throat convulse, her body too, twisting, even as Kill pounded into her like a madman.

He pulled out abruptly, then rammed back inside, doing it over and over, choking her out.

The sounds were another level.

She came all over my tongue then, riding my face and squealing around Asher’s cock.

“Ungh,” Kill called. “I’m gonna come. I’m gonna come in your sweet ass, darlin’. Fuck, yeah. Fuck.”

He threw out his hand and dug his fingers into the back of Asher’s hand holding her head.

“Yeah! Ungh… I’m coming.” He threw his head back and roared, his other hand grabbing her hip and holding her to him as he shot his load up her ass.

Asher pulled out of her mouth and wiped his cock over her cheek.

I pushed to my feet, licking some remnants of her juices off my lips.

As she started to sink against Kill, all blissed-out, Asher snagged her around the waist with his good arm and lifted her off him. He pushed down on her back, bending her over, then spread her ass cheeks and nodded at Kill.

“Eat.”

Kill licked her ass cheeks, then trailed down to her thighs, lapping at the trickling cum.

“Ah!” Aurora cried, trembling, and grabbing onto Asher for support.

“Push it out. Push that hot cum out. Give him a feast,” Asher ordered, slapping her ass cheeks in turn until she complied.

I shifted and watched as Kill’s cum oozed out of her gaped hole.

He got up close so it dripped onto his tongue.

Fuck me.

I couldn’t take it, I was there in the next second, licking her hole too, right beside him, our tongues clashing.

I moaned out at the taste of her ass and him combined. My cock was raging, I was losing my shit.

“Oh my God!” Aurora cried.

Asher released her ass cheeks, then stepped around to her front. He dropped to his knees and hooked her leg over his good shoulder.

Then he dragged his tongue through her folds.

As Kill stepped back, finished eating, I continued on, lost to it, thrusting my tongue into her ass and fucking it.

She squealed at the dual sensation of me tongue fucking her hole and Asher eating her out.

She was shuddering in seconds and shrieking as she came.

As I pulled back and rose to my feet, I saw Asher doing the same, holding his hands to her hips to steady her in her wobbly-legged and sex-dazed state.

He went to lift her up then, but grimaced and released her, grasping his bad shoulder.

Yeah, he’d already overdone it tonight as it was. Hauling her across the table in that rough and sudden move obviously hadn’t helped. Not to mention, whatever he’d done with Kill earlier.

I saw his eyes flash as he started to do that thing where he called on his twisted and depraved side to manipulate pain into something workable, into an asset, sometimes even pleasure.

Before he could do that all the way and enter into an even more dangerous headspace, I jerked down Aurora’s bunched up dress, pulling it all the way off, so she was standing before us for our viewing pleasure naked, aside from her leather boots.

She let out a squeal of delight as I hauled her over my shoulder.

It had both Asher and Kill’s rapt attention on us as I strode over to the pool with her. They followed as I slapped her ass. Even as I stepped up the intensity until each slap was leaving a red-raw handprint, she continued to moan in pleasure, no sounds of protest whatsoever. Instead, she squirmed on me, trying to gain some friction on her needy cunt.

“Nah, baby, it’s my turn now. I just made your ass nice and slippery for me and now Kill’s opened you up, my cock’s gonna feel real good slipping into that tight little hole.”

She trembled with anticipation.

But that was the least of it.

Aurora was another level, as we’d all come to learn really well.

The next thing I knew, she was wrenching herself up, throwing all her weight backwards in a hella impressive move, and then she was grasping my shoulders, digging her nails in for good measure and making me hiss.

When I tried to shove her back over my shoulder like before, she clamped her thighs around my waist in a death grip, preventing me from moving her, unless I hurt her. Crafty little minx knew I wouldn’t do that.

As soon as I stopped trying, she took the opportunity to flip back out of my hold, landing in a deep crouch.

With her naked, that was an amazing sight to see.

A growl from Kill and a snarl from a more unhinged Asher made it clear they were right there with me on that.

Noting the full attention from the three of us on her, she didn’t blush, or even try to cover herself in any way.

She just stared back at each of us in turn, those sexy electric-blue eyes hooded.

Holding our attention with a sly tilt of her lips, she reached down, her breasts bouncing, as she slowly and in the most erotic show I’d seen in a while from anybody, eased her boots off.

One at a fucking time.

Slow and sensual.

Even Kill, who’d just come his brains out moments ago after having the pleasure of fucking her sweet ass, was rock fucking hard again.

A challenging glint lit Aurora’s eyes as she watched the three of us move in closer like predators on the verge of ravaging their prey.

She blew us each a kiss in turn.

And then she spun around and ran.

Oh, fuck.

She was asking for hell to rain down on her.

Calling us out.

She fucking well knew it, no question.

Because she knew us now.

I watched her reach the pool, then shock the shit out of us all as she did a swan dive into the deep end. Water rained down all over, as she disappeared beneath.

She burst up in the next moment, her breasts bouncing.

I licked my lips as she pushed her wet hair out of her face, droplets cascading down her body. She shook out the drenched strands, her smoky eye makeup smudged in a really sexy way.

“Jesus Christ,” Kill breathed, stroking his piercings. Our gazes clashed and he smirked.

Interesting.

While I was momentarily distracted by that, I wasn’t aware of Asher making a beeline for the pool. By the time I regained my focus, he was dipping into the water and wading toward Aurora.

I stalked over there, feeling Kill at my back, and watching as Asher was able to use the water to his advantage to lift Aurora up without hurting himself again. He grasped her by her hips and floated backward until his back hit the edge of the pool. She dug her nails into the back of his neck as she rose up on him, then slammed back down onto his big dick, screaming out as she took him balls deep right away.

He didn’t hold back this time, knowing she could take him now.

He rammed into her like a man possessed.

And she… well, she fucking well lost it, not just meeting his thrusts, but challenging them, and taking things further and further, as she raked her nails down his chest, drawing blood. I almost shot my load as I watched her lap it up, then bite down on his good shoulder, making him snarl like the animal he was. Fuck me.

I was sinking into the water in the next beat.

Asher saw me coming, looking out at me as she scraped her teeth down his throat, while he took back control of the fucking and pounded into her at a punishing pace that had her moaning and growling while she marked his throat.

He ceased his thrusts and angled her perfectly for me as I stepped up behind her and spread her ass open.

She stilled and craned her neck, her eyes blazing as she realized what I was about to do.

I teased her rim with my tip, then dipped inside, pushing forward an inch, and gritting my teeth at the intense grip.

“Fuck, yeah,” I ground out.

She pushed back on me, inviting me in, and I drove in further.

She choked out a gasp and Asher wrapped his hand around her throat, stroking the pulse point, drawing her attention back to him, while I worked my cock deeper into her ass.

“You’re so fucking beautiful when you own this part of you. So fucking beautiful, sweetheart,” he crooned at her.

I frowned and caught Kill’s eye as he joined us. His steps faltered, indicating he was as shocked as I was by Asher’s words to her.

When it came to sessions like this, he was all about the dirty talk. Not… this.

Kill shook it off and sat down on the edge of the pool, spreading his thighs. He stroked his cock as he watched us.

“Oh, God,” Aurora moaned as I finally seated myself balls deep in her tight little hole.

Asher resumed his thrusts, this time slow and deep, grinding into her, making her throw her head back.

I eased out a little, then drove back in, and she bucked on us, beside herself. “Yes! Fuck! More!”

I winked at Asher and he smirked back at me.

And then we gave it to her, alternating our thrusts as we fucked her ass and cunt like savage things, the push and pull of the water making it that much more intense.

She slammed her hips back and forth like a feral thing, screaming and nearly crying in pleasure.

Pleasure hummed through my cock, my balls drawing tight, as her tight little ass squeezed my shaft like a fucking vise.

Asher slid his hand down between her legs and played with her clit and those screams turned to hoarse shrieks. A full body shudder took her and Asher grunted as she came around his cock.

I saw him gritting his teeth, trying to hold back his release, even as he didn’t slow his vicious thrusts for a second.

“I… I can’t,” she panted as we continued to fuck her through her orgasm, and Asher continued torturing her clit, even in its over-sensitized state from just coming. “Shit… one… one second,” she begged.

“Too late for that,” Asher growled.

Kill was there in the next second, grasping her hair, and shoving her head down onto his cock, diverting her attention.

He released his hold and gave her control, just stroking her hair softly, as she sucked on his cock like our good girl. As she found her rhythm and sank back into the depravity, he slapped his hands down on the edge of the pool and threw his head back, her tongue swirling, slathering, then sucking on his piercings, before she took him right to the back of her throat.

It was pushing me closer and closer to losing control as I watched her throat work as she swallowed around him, making him roar out his pleasure, the chords in his neck straining at his effort to hold back for the big finish.

“She’s got me,” I gasped to Asher. “Fucking shit, brother.”

He smirked.

Then he started raining down slaps on her cunt, water splashing violently, and Aurora screaming around Kill’s cock.

“Fuck! Fuck me, Aurora! Yeah!” Kill bellowed.

Asher didn’t let up.

Her asshole clenched around my cock.

Too much.

Too fucking much.

I was done.

I dug my fingers into her cheeks, her muffled, spluttering shrieks taking me over the edge and beyond as I shot my load deep in her ass, bellowing out my pleasure.

Kill was next, cursing, as he spurted down her throat.

She pulled back, choking and still trying to gulp it down in spite of that. Damn, she was something.

I slid out of her ass and on one hell of a sex high, I went for Kill, grasping the base of his still semi-hard cock, then suckling at his piercings.

His eyes shot wide and he bucked in shock.

But it was only for a moment, when I started licking up the cum that Aurora had missed.

“Ah, shit, J,” he gasped.

He collapsed onto his back and surrendered as I slathered his shaft, every fucking inch, cleaning him and torturing his spent cock at the same time.

As he moaned and groaned, then ground his hips, I saw Asher looking on in his peripheral vision. His thrusts became uneven, and he buried his face in Aurora’s breasts as he growled, then came inside her. It set her off and she grabbed at his hair and shoved him tighter to her as she screamed out in ecstasy.

I grinned and gave one final tongue lashing to Kill, then broke away.

“Jesus,” he breathed, rolling onto his side and holding his hand out to Aurora.

I gave her a little push to help her out of the pool in her dazed state, then she went to him and curled her exhausted body around his on the ground.

Asher was slumped against the side of the pool, trying to conceal a grimace.

Yeah, he really had hurt himself tonight.

I hooked my arm around his waist and pulled him out of the pool with me.

As I staggered to my feet and gave him a hand-up, I told him, “Give me a second. I’ll get you something to take the edge off.”

He really was spent, because he simply nodded without any further protest.

Tonight really had been full of surprises.

“You know,I didn’t need that much help, right?” Aurora told us sleepily.

I smiled at the sight of her slumped against her headboard wrapped up in a vibrant-pink bathrobe, while Kill sat beside her, applying some more of Asher’s ointment to the bloodied marks on her throat and clavicle.

After I’d left the pool area to grab Asher those meds, and also brought four towels with me, we’d all sprawled out around the patio table, basking in the afterglow and idly shooting the shit.

When Aurora had been close to passing out, we’d taken her upstairs and helped her shower. After, we’d dried her off, along with ourselves, putting on pants—boxers in my case—then Asher had applied his ointment to the marks she’d sustained during our fuck fest earlier. Kill had taken over when he’d stepped out a few moments ago, finishing up.

I shot a look at the open bedroom door and frowned.

He’d said he’d needed to grab something quickly, but he’d been gone several minutes now. Had he passed out from the pain meds?

I was about to go check when I heard his footsteps coming back down the corridor.

With that, I turned back to Kill and Aurora.

“It wasn’t about needing help,” he was telling her as he put the ointment down and wiped his hand with Asher’s supply of medical wipes. “It’s about us wanting to give it to you, and you deserving it, darlin’.”

She smiled and snuggled against him.

I climbed onto the bed and sat in front of them. “He’s right, baby. You took a lot tonight too.”

A smirk played on her pouty lips. “And I enjoyed every moment of it.”

Kill chuckled.

“Right back at you,” I told her, grinning.

“Seconded,” Asher’s voice came from the door. I craned my neck to watch him sauntering around to the other side of the bed. “Our little beast was out in all her glory tonight.”

I noticed that he was unsteady in his step and his eyes were glazed. The painkillers had kicked in, big time, for him. No wonder he’d taken a long time to come back.

He eased himself onto the other side beside Aurora. “You gave us a gift tonight, now we have one for you,” he told her.

Ah, he was going to do it now.

That’s what he’d gone to get.

When he’d entered into that dangerous headspace earlier, I’d figured it had been off the table for tonight, that he’d do it at a later date now.

Clearly not.

Hmm. Lately, things with him hadn’t been as easy to gauge as they used to be. When I’d been sure he was going to zig, he zagged, and vice-versa.

Ever since Aurora had entered the picture.

Well, maybe, a combination of her and him deciding to finally wage this long-coming war.

Kill looked on excitedly as Asher held his closed hand in front of her.

“A gift?” Aurora asked, taken aback. “No, you don’t have to do that.”

“We do,” Kill told her.

“Absolutely,” I said.

She looked between us, frowning, not knowing where we were going with this.

When her eyes darted back to Asher’s hand, he opened it to reveal… nothing.

He grinned.

“Seriously?” Kill groused.

“Patience, darling boy,” Asher teased playfully.

Then he swept his hand over his palm, cupped it, twisting and shit, doing his hand magic.

I smiled as it had Aurora chuckling.

With one final flourish, a lot like a jazz hand thing, it appeared right on his palm.

The skull ring.

The symbol of our brotherhood.

The familial unit we’d built beyond our own blood.

The tight knit circle of trust and loyalty it symbolized.

“Is this…” Her gaze darted to each of us, our rings, and I saw the moment the realization set it. “Wow,” she breathed.

Asher took her left hand and carefully slid the ring onto her index finger.

“Perfect fit,” Kill said. “Just like you. With us.”

“You’re a part of us now, Aurora,” Asher told her.

Emotion swam in her eyes.

She smiled at each of us in turn, beaming at us.

As Asher ran his fingers over her ring, she clasped them tightly to her as she made him a promise that Kill and I had taken until tonight to realize he needed so badly, “I’m not planning to go anywhere, even after the mission is done. I’m not leaving you.” She sucked in an unsteady breath as that emotion got the best of her and she confessed, “I can’t.”

I smiled and watched the tension leave Asher.

Kill looked like a kid on Christmas morning again.

As he nuzzled against her, Asher enveloped her on the other side. I moved over and wrapped myself around him, the four of us relaxing with one another and just taking in the significance of the moment, and the big deal it was that Aurora Blackthorn was now an official part of us.

There was no going back now.

No escape.

She was ours.

Come hell or highwater.