They didn’t let me leave the bed for most of the next day.
Morning light had barely touched the windows when Kieran woke me with his mouth between my thighs. Rian and Cassian were already there—one kissing me slow and deep, the other marking the soft skin of my breasts with teeth and tongue. By the time the three of them had taken me again, the sheets were ruined and my voice was hoarse from crying out.
They fed me. They made me drink water. Then they started over.
It wasn’t until late afternoon that Kieran finally spoke the words I had been waiting for without knowing it.
We were tangled together in the center of the bed. My head rested on Cassian’s chest. Rian’s fingers traced idle patterns along my spine. Kieran lay on his side facing me, silver eyes steady.
“The bond is already ha
