4. Kiar

Chapter 4

Kiar

I had watched the group gathering to sleep, the scene so domestic I started hissing despite myself, annoyed by their behavior.

“Come lay down so that Sun can sleep on you,” Clem ordered, and the irritation in me grew.

“Since when do you tell me what to do?” I demanded.

Clem blinked his wide eyes at me, looking perplexed, but instead of needing me, Bracken, the huge bastard, laid himself down on the barren ground and invited Clem and Sun both into his embrace with eager arms.

Sun smirked, not even looking at me, and fury roiled through me. That bastard!

I watched them getting cozy until the sounds of their even breathing filled the air, and then, furious, I slithered away through the thick trees, over the rough earth. My skin was itching, either because I wasn’t used to having a physical form or because I needed to molt. Either way, it added to the discomfort that was building within me.

This new arrangement... It was dangerous.

I’d accepted the human, far too easily into my circle. I had been blinded by his unwavering bravery and foolish belief in himself... I’d wanted to protect him and patiently teach him to take both of my cocks at once—not so that I would feel pleasure, but because I knew he had never experienced anything like it before. He had never experienced anything like any of us.

Therein laid my true issue.

None of us knew how to handle each other. We were all so different. Bracken had tried to teach me how to be Sun’s master. However, though I was loath to admit, he was better at it than me. The bastard seemed to know just how to keep Sun and Clem both happy enough with little effort, whereas for me…

I paused where the game trail I’d followed led to the drop off of a small cliff. In the distance, I could just make out the prison we had escaped from. From here, it was nothing but a black shadow in the light of the rising sun.

I let out a small breath. We had escaped from that hell. I was living once more. I should not be angry.

“What are you doing?”

I stiffened and swiveled to see Sun standing behind me, hidden by the trees. He met my gaze with his sharp, unreadable eyes and my stomach knotted.

“One of the flying nocs might see you standing in the open like that,” he reminded me offhandedly.

“Let them.”

He watched me for a long moment and then tilted his head, assessing me curiously.

“Is that what you want?” he asked. “I have seen soldiers lose the will to continue to fight, but you do not strike me as that type.”

The thought alone nearly made me laugh. But I was in too bad a mood for that. I gritted my teeth shut and continued to glare.

“Why did you come after me?” I demanded. “Weren’t you cozying up to the other two for the night?”

“Yes, and it was quite nice and warm, but it wasn’t as safe as it seemed. All of you seem to have forgotten our situation. You hold some of my soul now, Kiar, and I hold some of yours.”

He sighed heavily.

“Either way, we should remain together. I do not want to know what will happen if we lose you.”

“Surely Clem will bring me back,” I said, dismissing him.

He watched me for a moment longer.

“You know he said that if one of us dies, we all do, right? Or are you being stubborn on purpose?”

My cheeks heated but I bit my lip to stop from arguing even more, especially because it was true.

“I feel like I’m missing something,” Sun mused. “I thought we agreed to work as a team.”

“Yes,” I spat. “One where me and Bracken do all the work while you and Clem fuck .”

My heart pounded at the injustice, but Sun suddenly laughed.

“Is that what the problem is?” he demanded. “You really are jealous? I’d thought as much.”

I snarled, desperate to deny it, but the argument died on my lips because, dammit, it was true.

“Well, come here, then,” Sun said, as though that settled it.

Fury rolled through me at his flippant suggestion at the same time that his words made my cocks thicken.

I slithered to him, close enough to feel his breath on my skin, and lifted myself over him.

“Is this funny to you?” I demanded, and damn him, he laughed again.

“Yes,” he admitted, but the smile turned into a hard frown. “I have been fucking nocs . You have no idea what this is doing to my psyche. I fear I am losing my mind, and with each passing day, I find myself more and more beholden to you three. More invested and confused. So yes . I laugh. As should you, a giant naga who wants my affection.”

I snarled again, and moved suddenly, wrapping around him with wicked speed. I pinned him with force to the tree he stood before, forcing the air from his lungs.

“I do not want your affection!” I growled and crushed our lips together.

My forked tongue stole what air was left in him, and his hands, pinned by the wrist at his hips, gripped my tail.

When I pulled back, he gasped and met my gaze with hazy, dark eyes. I felt his cock harden against my coils, and a different kind of growl rumbled through my chest.

“I am so sick,” he whispered and pressed forward for more, claiming my lips and tasting my mouth until my hands were tangled in his long hair, my body uncoiling enough that he was able to yank his arms free. He used them to pull me tightly against him with surprisingly strong hands around my waist.

I hoisted him up with the thick, midsection of my tail, spreading his legs around my waist while I held him up with it, still keeping him pinned to the tree. I was desperate for more as his hunger and enthusiasm for me soothed all the unpleasant feelings I’d had over being excluded from his lovemaking with Clem.

My hands traced his lithe body, feeling the muscles and bones that would soon smoothen out with the food we had been hunting. The rags that remained of his outfit were easily pushed aside.

He moaned as he was exposed to the early morning air.

“I’m going to teach you to take me,” I whispered roughly. “All of me.”

I pressed one of my cocks to his hole, feeling it tighten in anticipation against my tip.

“Now?” he gasped, and I nodded, pushing into him.

He arched, holding his breath until I slid into all of his glorious, silky warmth. Once I was fully seated, his body shuddered, relaxing around me.

My other cock remained in the open, nestled against his backside.

“One is big enough,” he argued weakly, but I shook my head and pulled back, intending to see how much he could stretch right now.

“Wait,” he gasped, his eyes widening. “Not yet. Please. Loosen me first.”

I groaned and nodded, encouraged by the fact that he did want me to try.

Slowly, I began to take long, slow thrusts into him, using only one cock.

His head fell back on a moan, his lips parting. I could not resist flicking my tongue into his open mouth, tasting him.

He fought against my coils, instinctively trying to ride me. I liked to hold my partners in place while I fucked them, though, so I only allowed him enough space to wiggle and buck against me, like an animal trying to escape my hold.

As his moans escalated, his cock, trapped between us, began to seep precum. I could taste it in the air with each flick of my tongue and had to squeeze my eyes shut at the onslaught of pleasure. He felt too good. Too perfect against me. If I wanted to do more this time, I would have to act now.

“You’re ready,” I gasped. Then, lifting the tip of my tail between us, I spat onto it. It would have to do.

With that, I pressed the tip right to his hole, where my cock was still buried deep.

He didn’t argue, but he did stiffen as I forced it inside.

A ragged moan left him, and his head dropped onto my shoulder as he clung to me tightly, trying to relax as I began to stretch him.

I shut my eyes, breathing through the intense feeling as my cock was wedged against my tail within him. It wasn’t as natural a fit. The tightness was almost too much.

“It’s too much,” he grunted, echoing my thoughts.

I withdrew my tail slightly, and he sagged a little in relief.

“Like that,” he gasped. “Keep it there and keep fucking me with your cock.”

How unexpected that I would follow a human’s orders, but nothing in this world could stop me from doing exactly what he wanted right now.

I drew my hips back and then slid it slowly back inside, feeling the difference while my tail was kept inside his hole.

His head fell back, thumping against the tree.

“It feels so good,” he whispered, and his dark gaze met mine with a twisted smile. “See? I’m losing my mind.”

I pressed forward, claiming his lips again as I began to fuck him with renewed vigor, not stopping until he was coming undone, wordless noises leaving his lips in a stream as he came, his entire body twitching and stiffening.

I kept going, my fangs accidentally digging into the flesh of his neck as I finally could not take it any longer and finished, emptying deep inside him.

Sadly, my second cock remained outside while it spilled, but it didn’t matter to me this time. Progress had been made. His hole had opened wider. My fluid was soaking his insides.

“Yes,” I whispered against his skin. “Take my seed, my sweet Sun.”

He moaned softly.

For a long time, we remained like that, holding each other up, feeling our breaths even and hearts slow.

In the wake of our passion, Sun looked so soft and gentle, and a feeling overwhelmed me that I had never felt so strongly before. I felt protective .

It was undeniable. I wanted to protect Sun with everything in me. I wanted to keep him safe. I wanted to give him all parts of me.

It didn’t make sense, but it was my truth and, in that moment, I couldn’t deny it.

I didn’t even care to. Instead, I kissed his soft lips for the first time outside of sex and found that they tasted better than any kill, better than any power.

When I drew back, Sun’s fingers reached out and traced the white strands in my otherwise black hair. Perhaps he was thinking of how similar we were in so many ways. Both servants for our kings. Both warriors. Both here despite our enemies’ best efforts.

“It’s getting light,” he whispered. “We should get back to the others before they worry.”

I nodded and gently uncoiled from him.

He shook a little on his feet but remained steady enough to arrange his clothes to somewhat cover him.

“Come,” he said.

Another order.

It didn’t matter.

I followed.