Twenty-Four

Khush

Dustin wanted to leave his job, and I tried not to show my excitement on my face, but I had a feeling I failed spectacularly.

"I'm guessing you don't mind," Dustin said, a small smile on his face. We were on our way back to our cabin after a delicious dinner, and we'd been walking slowly to enjoy the fresh air and the starlit sky.

"All I want is for you to be happy. As long as leaving your job won't make you unhappy, I'm perfectly fine with it," I promised him, and he glanced over at me, blue eyes sparkling like the stars had taken cover in them.

"I don't really need the job anymore, do I? And I'd much rather spend that time with you or helping around the Sanctuary."

"Yeah, you don't. I don't know if I mentioned it, but the headmaster has a lot of money. Like a lot . And he has investments and stuff, so he's not going to run out anytime soon. He pays for everything around here, and all he asks in return is that we keep the Sanctuary running smoothly and do our part."

"Do you know why he built this place?" Dustin asked the question all of us had asked ourselves or each other at some point in our stay.

I shook my head, glancing up at the sky. My brows furrowed as I realized a part of the sky was...flickering. It was blinking in and out, or were my eyes playing tricks on me?

"Do you see that?" I asked, eyeing Dustin before glancing up at the sky. He followed my gaze, his head turning this way and that.

"Uh. not really. What did you see?"

I squinted at the sky again, and realized the blinking was gone. Huh. Maybe I had just imagined it.

"Sorry, it was probably nothing," I said, returning my gaze to my mate. "To answer your question, I don't know. None of us do, and no one's had the courage to ask him."

Dustin hummed softly, squeezing my hand before letting go and fishing in his pants pocket. He came up with his phone, and quickly flicked through the screen before tapping something out and swiping the screen once more.

"Look!"

It was an email, sent to a person I assumed to be Dustin's employer, because the subject line read 'I quit' while the main text went something like 'I fucking quit because this job sucks ass.' He'd signed it, 'The tired and underpaid employee, Dustin Harvell.'

I couldn't help but laugh as I read the email. It was just so very Dustin.

"I love you," I said, because nothing else could explain just how absolutely besotted I was. Everything Dustin did made me smile, and I didn't think that would ever change. Dustin would make me laugh a month, a year, and a century from now, and I'd just keep falling deeper and deeper in love with him.

"What?" Dustin asked, giving a surprised laugh as he glanced between me and his phone, as if unsure how his email could've elicited that particular reply from me. Didn't he know everything he did made me love him more? I could tell him I loved him for the rest of our lives, and it wouldn't be enough to describe my feelings for him.

I shrugged as he slid his phone back into his pocket, pulling him into my side as we finally reached the cabin. Scrappy took off out the door the moment we opened it, so we left a window open for her as we cleaned up and got ready for bed. Recently, Scrappy had taken up the job of 'guarding' the Forest during the nights, and no one could convince her that she was probably the least threatening being here.

Just like Dustin, she'd won over everyone too, and it wasn't unusual to find her gone for hours at a time as she visited her other 'servants' around the place. She hadn't made it out of the Forest just yet, but I had a feeling the day wasn't far.

After we were ready for bed, we headed upstairs, and Dustin threw himself on the bed as I closed the door behind us. While I had no trouble leaving the main door unlocked or even open, there was no way I was leaving this door unlocked. No one was allowed to see Dustin naked except me, and I'd be damned if I let anyone get even a peek at him. Not that anyone would try, but Silas had a habit of barging into places, so caution was necessary.

"Aren't you going to join me?" Dustin asked from the bed, and I turned around to look at him, letting out a shaky breath as I got a good look at his naked form. Fuck, he was so damned sexy. He held a hand out to me, and I found myself moving closer without conscious thought.

Taking his hand, I slid onto the bed, and he pulled off my t-shirt, leaving me as naked as him. He was kneeling on the bed, and he stayed that way as he slid his arms around my neck and pulled me to him. I lowered my head, claiming his lips in a deep kiss and pouring all my love for him into it. His tongue traced my lower lip, and I opened my mouth to him, inviting him in.

As we kissed, I slowly lowered us onto the bed, lying on my back with Dustin plastered over me. Our lips never separated as Dustin spread his legs on either side of me, his groin rubbing against mine and slowly teasing my cocks out.

I moaned softly as he kept rocking against me, growing harder and harder until my cocks slid all the way out, trapped between my body and Dustin's.

Pulling back from the kiss, Dustin sat upright, rocking gently into my cocks as his lust-darkened eyes met mine. "I want to try something," he murmured, and I said the only thing I could ever say to him.

"Anything you want."

Dustin

I gave him a wicked grin at his answer, and leaned down to kiss him again because I just couldn't resist him when he was being so...him. Khush kissed me back instantly, his lips caressing mine like he'd been waiting for my kiss for years and not just a few moments. I loved the way Khush kissed. He threw all of himself into every kiss, which was why I treasured every single one of them.

"I want to see if I can take you in both my holes at the same time," I whispered against his lips, and he pulled back to give me a shocked look.

"Really? Won't that hurt you?"

Grinning, I reached into the bedside table where I'd stashed supplies earlier—big shoutout to Touya for the replacement lube when I realized mine had expired—and pulled out a small bottle. "I came prepared." Taking his hand, I pressed it against my second hole with a wink. "Literally."

"Fuck!" Khush groaned loudly as he traced my hole, then slipped a finger inside me. I'd prepped a little before dinner when he'd been out, but it'd been a while since I had anal sex, so I would need a lot more if I was going to fit Khush's cock inside me. It wasn't quite as thick as an average human cock, but it was thicker than one of Khush's fingers. I'd need to at least take two of them before I was ready for him.

"Dustin, can I taste you?" Khush asked, his voice rough as he gazed up at me, his finger still working in and out of my asshole.

A soft sound slipped past my lips at his question, and I nodded mutely. He grabbed my hips when I went to slide off him and lie down, and I raised a brow at him, confused.

"Come up here. I want you to straddle my face."

My eyes widened at the image that popped into my head, and blood rushed to my groin as my whole body heated up. If I got any more turned on, I was going to spontaneously combust.

With trembling legs, I knee-walked over to his head, and he palmed my ass as he helped me position myself over him. I grabbed the headboard to balance myself, gasping softly when his nails scraped against my asscheeks.

My breath was caught in my chest until Khush licked a long strip up my hole, the tip of his tongue nudging my cock. I let out a shuddering breath, hanging my head between my shoulders and then moaning when I caught sight of Khush's flushed face. He looked up at me, his yellow-brown eyes heated with pleasure and slightly glassy, and I found myself caught in his gaze, unable to look away as his tongue slid inside my hole while he inserted a finger into my asshole once more.

He set up a slow, steady rhythm as he pushed in and out of both my holes in perfect sync, and I moaned loudly, my legs trembling with the effort to hold myself up.

As if sensing my struggle, Khush lengthened his tail and wrapped the end around my hips, taking the weight off my legs until I was basically hanging over him. I could've dropped my hold on the headboard and I still would've been completely stable, but I didn't because it felt like it was the only thing keeping me from floating away as Khush continued his pleasure-filled assault, sliding another finger into my asshole as his tongue played with my cock.

"If you don't get inside me in the next five seconds, I'm gonna come," I threatened in a voice that sounded nothing like mine. It was rough and breathless, and so full of lust.

Khush groaned, and the vibration almost sent me over the edge. I gritted my teeth to keep from coming, and then scrambled to balance myself when Khush used his grip around my hips to move me back over his groin.

He lowered me until my weight was back on my knees, but left his tail where it was.

His face was a sight to behold, all flushed with his chin dripping in saliva and my pre-cum. I wanted to kiss him and taste myself on his tongue, but before that, I wanted to feel him inside me.

"You set the pace," Khush said, his voice strained as I wrapped a palm around his cocks, jacking him for a moment before I positioned myself above him.

I bit my lower lip as I slowly sank down on him, taking one of his cocks into my asshole. It was a tight fit, and it burned a little, but it also felt amazingly good. It was the best kind of pain I'd ever felt—second to Khush's bite on my neck the other day, though—and I pushed through it, rocking over him a few times before taking his other cock inside me.

I felt stuffed full, and it was the best feeling in the world. I started moving, slowly at first as I adjusted to the dual pressure, but soon I found my rhythm.

A loud moan escaped my mouth when Khush almost folded himself in half, sandwiching me between his torso and tail as he pulled me into a kiss. He took over thrusting inside me, his hips undulating with every push in a move that was half-human and half-snake. The remainder of his tail was wrapped around my torso—though it was shorter in length than it'd been before—and once again I was almost weightless.

I kissed him back hard, humming when I tasted myself on his tongue, my fingers scratching against his scalp as I kissed him again and again, never wanting to stop.

When I had to pull back to breathe, I arched my neck, offering it to him as I begged him. "Bite me, Khush. Mark me. Please."

The growl Khush released at my request was almost animalistic in nature, and he pounced, flipping us around in one smooth move as he buried his face in my neck, licking and tasting the skin before he pressed his lips against the spot he'd bitten before. He dropped a few soft kisses on the spot before pulling back, and I moaned loudly, squeezing around his cocks as his fangs sank into my skin, filling me with so much heat it felt like I'd been set on fire from the inside.

Khush put his mark on me, and I made a vow to myself that I'd never let it disappear completely. Every time it started fading, I'd ask him to mark me again so I'd always have the proof of his love on my skin.