We had decided I would be sealed to Caed first for two reasons: one, he was in my life first, and two, we knew once Gabriel's bite set, the frenzy would not be controlled. I stayed kneeling between them. They towered over me and with the wings hovering, anxiety started to creep in. Caed realized it immediately as he put his hand on my back and folded his wings down. I felt him look at his brother and Gabriel followed suit. I was working extremely hard to control my breathing. I had no idea how hard this was going to be. They tried to warn me.
Caed sat down in front of me. He gently pulled my hair to the side and looked deep into my eyes. He asked me if I was ready. My mouth felt like cotton and I swallowed hard as I nodded. He caught my face in his hand kissed my lips, long and hard. He tilted my head to the side and started kissing my neck. I felt things start to get fuzzy. Now this, I thought, felt right. His body jerked and he growled as he sank his teeth into me and held hard. It must have been the magic because the pain was excruciating. They told me this bite would be different but I had no idea how different. Caed had bitten me hundreds of times and it had never felt like this. I cried out but he just pulled my face tighter and held me harder in his teeth. Was this Caed? He had never hurt me like this. It was getting worse by the second and just kept going on and on. Every time I felt like I couldn't take it and tried to pull away, he just growled like a dog with a bone, held me tighter and bit down harder. He finally released his bite and blood spilled out of me freely. He pushed me onto my back and was hovering over me, wings out. His eyes were glazed and he didn't look like the Caed I knew, at all. His canine teeth were elongated and his blue eyes were nearly black. He leaned down and kissed my mouth hard enough to split the skin of my lips. He had me pinned down and was starting to rub up against me, trying to get his hands under my dress as electricity started crackling all over his body. I saw Gabriel grab his shoulders and pull him back. Caed growled and snapped his teeth at Gabriel, shrugged him off and came at me again. Gabriel got a better hold on him this time and yanked him off me. Caed shook his head and seemed to come out of it a little bit. He moved forward and licked my blood from the bite, then he licked his thumb and pressed it over where his tongue had been on the wound. He kissed my neck again and sat on the floor against the wall with a look on his face I had never seen. It was part hunger, part terror, and part exasperation. He just looked down at the floor and stayed there with his head in his hands. If this was the way Caed reacted, what the hell was Gabriel going to do to me?
I caught his movement out of the corner of my eye and didn't even have time to react before he bit into my neck on the opposite side of Caed's bite. His bite was also excruciating, but it didn't feel ominous like Caed's had. He held me for a moment then, repeating what Caed had done, licked my blood off me, licked his thumb, and pressed it against the wound. I caught his stare. I could tell he was working hard to maintain control. He had lust in his eyes but he was calm. He touched my shoulder and I felt my own canine teeth elongate.
Before I knew what I was doing, I attacked Gabriel's neck and set my teeth into his flesh. He grunted in shock and pain, but held still as I sank my teeth deeper into him. I started pushing myself up against him and rubbing his cock through his pants, trying to get my hands inside them. He grabbed my shoulders and shook me hard as he yelled my name. I sat back on my heels and looked at the bite on Gabriel. Blood dripped down my chin. I needed more. I went for him again but he stopped me by grabbing my face and saying "lick it" in a commanding voice. I did what he ordered. Then he put my thumb up to my mouth and told me to lick that. I did and he pressed it along his bite. He stepped back and gave me a bewildered look.
Caed pulled his head up and looked at me. I was on him like lightning and had my teeth in his neck. He yelled, pushed me back and was on top of me. We were both dazed and angry. I had to taste his blood. I licked and licked at the bite wound. The blood started to slow so I bit him again. This time it was too much. He grabbed my dress collar and ripped the front down to my navel. Then he started biting me over and over, my breasts, my arms, my stomach. He looked up, my blood on his face, and ripped the rest of the dress off me. He bit one of my legs as he took his pants off and he was buried into me within a fraction of a second. I wasn't in control of myself, either. My body reacted wildly to his and, as I met his blows, he bellowed as he spilled himself into me. I came as soon as I felt the hot rush of his semen and we collapsed. Gabriel stood over us with a look of annoyance. He told me to lick Caed's bite and seal it with my thumb. Is that what we had been doing? Caed left the bed still looking disoriented and angry. He sat back down on the floor, leaning against the wall, watching me with black eyes. I looked up at Gabriel and watched the hunger rise as he pushed me back onto the bed. There was a searing hotness between my legs and I could not get Gabriel inside me fast enough. My body was in no more control than it had been with Caed. I wanted to taste Gabriel's blood again and as he started to move in me, I bit down on him yet again. He yelled "What the fuck, Lyra?" and the Gabriel I knew came boiling to the surface and lost the leash on his control. He fucked me wildly and so hard I thought he was going to pound through me. I wrapped my legs around him to get him in deeper and he hammered into me even harder. It did not take long before I felt my body flush with heat and I completely lost myself. Gabriel's nostrils flared and he roared loud enough to shake the mountain as he came deep inside me.
GABRIEL
THESE TWO! Despite all Caed's concern, I knew I was going to be able to maintain control. Who would have thought Mr. Control and Miss Try Not To Get Blood On My Dress were the actual animals in the room? Between the three of us, I didn't know how many bites there were. As far as the dress, it was on the floor, ripped to shreds, and it definitely had blood on it, as did the sheets, the bed frame, and the wall. I lifted her up and laid her head on the pillows. She was practically unconscious as I slipped in behind her to spoon. Caed looked up from the floor and, in no better condition than her, crawled to the bed and climbed in.
LYRA
I woke up the next day, sore from all the bites and with a banging headache that felt like a terrible hangover. I stumbled to the bathroom and spent at least an hour in the bath trying to recover and get at least some relief. When I got out, I looked in the mirror at all the bites and bruises, some of which were already starting to fade. I looked at my neck and sure enough, each side had a raised, angry, red bite mark forming. We were sealed. I smiled and went to get dressed.
When I got to the kitchen, Caed had made breakfast. He was smiling like a fool. Gabriel huffed and rolled his eyes but I could tell he was smiling on the inside. Caed bent forward and kissed the scar he had left on me. He breathed deep through his nose and his eyes met Gabriel's. l looked up at him, sensing something. Now what were these two hiding from me? I didn't really care. I was trying to keep my head up off the table. We ate breakfast in silence. Both my mates were figity and I was cranky. I left the table and went back to bed. I didn't wake until evening. I don't know what those two had done all day, but they were definitely up to something. I sank into the couch. I at least felt human again.
