NOTES:
Some of this gets pretty bloody, but not anything like what happened in the earlier chapters.
This was proofread for obvious errors, but not edited or fine-tuned.
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Turq's power raked through me as he ran the shower scrubby over my back, making me moan. Over the last couple of days it had gotten easier to hold my power in check and then push it into him, answering his caresses. It had actually become fun to reach out while he was in his home office working, teasing us both into a frenzy he would rush out to the pool house to satisfy during his breaks. In an hour his unnamed person was going to be here and I was going to have to learn to loop two people in on the power circuit, and he wanted me almost out of it when they arrived. He said it would make it easier.
The lather washed down my legs and into the drain as his hands roamed over me, making sure all the soap was gone. Every touch called the power out of me, and his body against my back made promises he had already made good on. When I was sufficiently scrubbed, he reached around me to turn the water off, pressing himself against my ass and shoving his power through me again.
We didn't dry off, just stumbled our way to the bed. I pulled him down with me, wrapping my legs around his hips and pulling his power into me as he pushed his body into mine. The circuit flared when he pulled out of me, taking my power with him. It was slow and lazy, made all the more exciting with the power. He didn't have to touch anything else with the almost electric current flowing between us.
I tensed when I heard footsteps on the concrete, and Turq rolled us on the bed so I was on top. "Close your eyes, love. When you feel his power, take it and then feed it back to him. Maintain our own circuit or I'll stop moving."
The asshole would do it, too, so I did as I was told. I closed my eyes and listened to the rustle of clothing as the other man undressed, but when his power reached me I stopped moving on my own. Having Turq inside me and now this new power was almost too much. His hands tightened on my hips, and another set of hands pushed my still-wet hair across my shoulders.
"You have to give it back," Turq groaned out beneath me. "Jesus, loop it back before I break off inside you!"
It took another minute of sitting there, one man under me and the other pressing along my back, before I figured out how to loop the power back to him. My hold on Turq trembled, but we both relaxed as the inequalities balanced. I started to move again, pulling one power into me and letting it flow out to the other. Repeating the process until Turq held my hips as tight against him as he could, his climax making him groan long and low as I continued to manipulate the circuits.
The man behind me didn't last much longer, spilling himself across my lower back and a string of curses in a familiar voice made me tense. His hands on my waist, right above Turq's, stilled and I heard him sigh.
"You said you would tell her," Chaz grumbled.
"She knew," Turq moved me enough to slip out of me, but didn't let me move away. "She was fine until you started talking. That's why I got the good spot this time."
The power trickled away, and I moved slowly out from between them. If this had been some sick form of a lesson to teach me not to blindly sign contracts out of spite, I might have tried to kill the both of them. But the contract was real, and I really would need to know how to heal myself before the council forced me into chambers. I slid alongside Turq, but frowned when he took my hand and kissed the palm then rolled off the bed.
"I feel an awkward personal moment coming on, so I'll go out to the pool until you need me," he winked at me and then walked naked out to the pool.
I rolled onto my back and looked at Chaz, still on his knees near the foot of the bed with our thighs nearly touching. He sighed and moved like he was going to step off the bed, but I stopped him with a hand on his arm.
"Don't," my voice wobbled a little. "I knew it was you the whole time, I just couldn't look at you through it."
"Jezza, I..." he started, but I interrupted.
"Stop, please." His face went blank, but at least he looked at me and stopped trying to leave. "I know what the council is going to do, as much as Turq was able to tell me. I need to know how to heal it, and I need to know how to channel a ton of power while they do their worst to me. I may have signed this contract out of spite, but it seems to have worked out in my favor."
"Did he tell you what we will have to do?"
"What he described isn't as bad as what Asher did over and over."
"You're going to hate us both after this, not just me."
"I didn't hate you, not after a while," his eyes widened in surprise at that. "I hated that you sent me to Asher. I hated that you never seemed to see what he did to me even though I felt it all. After the first few weeks, though, I realized that you healing me after I broke some rule or other was healing everything he did. I started to break the rules just for the relief that would buy for a few hours until you sent me back."