As he watched Tansy and Rye together, Dev vacillated between desire and anxiety. Seeing Tansy on her knees, taking Rye into her mouth, was beyond doubt the most erotic sight he’d ever witnessed. But he knew the content of those holos as well as Tansy and he was terrified she was setting herself up for another meltdown.
She seemed more determined than amorous at the beginning, but as her natural generosity took over he could see she was receiving pleasure as well as giving it. And when Rye slipped his leash and forgot to be gentle with her, Tansy’s whole body softened and she responded to him like a siren.
That was when it occurred to Dev that she was taking her cues from them just as much as they were taking them from her. When he and Rye trod too gently, she became self-conscious, and Dev suspected she felt like they didn’t trust her to hold it together.
Yes, she’d had a meltdown, but her response to that, her way of healing, was to resaddle the dragon and try again. She just wanted to be normal, to be treated as any male would treat his mate, and Dev respected the fuck out of her for that. It seemed that he and Rye would have to find a way to prepare for her meltdowns without her feeling like they were expecting them.
Piece of cake.
Tansy was still kneeling on the floor, not quite recovered, when he scooped her up and carried her to the bed. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders, nuzzled into his neck, and it was all he could do not to crush her to his chest. Fighting the possessive urge, he lowered her to the sheets, but when she retained her grip he stayed where he was, crouched over her.
He nipped lightly at her lips. “Something you need, honey?”
“I was going to ask you the same question.”
Lost, he raised a questioning brow.
“What do you want, Dev?” she asked, her voice a husky whisper. “What’s the one thing we can give you that will blow your mind?”
He grinned. “The way you just blew Rye’s mind?”
She gave him a shrug and an uncertain smile and he realized she didn’t want his choice to be about her, not directly. She wanted to give him and Rye something special, something meaningful on their first night together as mates. She’d gotten on her knees for Rye and now she wanted Dev to take something for himself too.
He suspected that if he made it about her she would be disappointed in him—he could see that in her pretty eyes. There was only one way he could think of to give her what she wanted while still taking care of her pleasure.
Without breaking her hold on his neck, he maneuvered onto the bed beside her and stretched out body to body. Rye positioned himself on the other side a moment later and they crowded Tansy between them.
“What I would like,” Dev said, reaching out to stroke her body breast to thigh, “is for us to celebrate the triangular nature of our relationship.”
Tansy’s face lit up. “How?”
Dev’s stomach fluttered in a surge of anxiety but he didn’t want to let his mate down. “I want the three of us to fuck together. I want to be inside you while Rye is inside me.”
Her eyes went wide and the pulse in her neck leaped into double time. “You mean you in my…um…and him in your…at the same time?”
Dev looked over at Rye, who at this point was the resident expert. “That’s doable, right?”
Rye blinked a couple of times, then broke into a smile that was part joy, part evil bastard, and Dev’s anxiety jumped up a notch.
“I’ll get the gel.” And with that Rye scrambled off the bed so fast Dev opened his mouth to call him back. Tansy’s hand over his lips stopped him.
“Too late now, my love—our mate’s on a mission.” Her laugh was uncomplicated and happy, the sound making Dev feel like he was bathing in sunshine.
Rye sprinted back to stand at the foot of the bed. “On your back in the middle of the mattress, Tansy. Dev, get in between her legs.”
Dev didn’t move, but he couldn’t help smiling at Rye’s enthusiasm. “Eager much?”
His denmate snorted. “Are you kidding? I’ve been thinking about this since we first decided to make Tansy our own. I thought I’d have weeks of convincing to do before you let me anywhere near your ass. I’m taking advantage before you change your mind.” He gestured to the center of the bed. “Hurry up.”
Tansy laughed again as she wriggled into the center of the bed, and Dev knew he’d do whatever it took to keep that lightness inside her.
Crawling between her legs, he drew his knees up, put his ass in the air and hoped his denmate was the accomplished man-whore his younger self was reputed to be. Then he realized he was a breath away from Tansy’s tight little nipples and he decided they’d make a good distraction.
At the first touch of his mouth she arched up, gripping him tight by the hair and pulling him close. He sucked hard, taking in as much of her as he could before easing off with little nips and licks. Working one breast with his mouth and the other with his hand, he set about driving his mate wild.
Then he felt Rye move between his legs and Dev’s concentration faltered. The warm, confident stroke of a male hand across his ass felt strange but good, and he tried to relax into Rye’s rough-skinned touch. There was a momentary pause, and Dev flinched when Rye’s slicked finger circled the most private place a male had.
Giving up the pretense of distraction, Dev dropped his head to Tansy’s chest and did his best to relax. The circling went on and on. It was…nice…but Dev needed more, so he pushed back a little, arching his spine and tilting his ass higher. Another pause. This time when Rye came back he pressed his finger against Dev’s ass. Press, release, press, release, until finally he pressed hard enough to breach that first ring of muscle.
“Just breathe,” Rye said. “This gel has a muscle relaxant in it and it will do most of the work for you.”
Easy for him to say—he wasn’t the one whose virgin ass was about to be breached.
Dev fought the need to clench, panting against Tansy’s breasts as he struggled to relax. The sensation wasn’t painful, but it was uncomfortable. Rye pushed in farther, then retreated a little, pushed again, each time going deeper until Dev felt the press of knuckles against the cheeks of his ass. Rye didn’t stop the movement, and with every stroke the discomfort eased…to be replaced by a pleasant kind of tingle. Then the tingle grew into something more, something dark and pleasurable. Dev picked up his rhythm, and when Rye added a second finger, Dev groaned in pleasure at the burn.
Eventually Rye used a third finger to stretch him, and by then Dev was pushing back hard, biting and sucking at Tansy’s breasts to relieve some of the sexual tension. Rye kissed his way up Dev’s back, his fingers fucking as hard as his lips were soft. When he got to Dev’s shoulders, he kissed his way from one side to the other.
“Lean back, Dev. I want to watch your cock disappear inside our woman.”
Rye’s fingers slipped from Dev’s ass, but his denmate still lay almost shoulder to shoulder, his hot, hard body pressed against Dev’s back. He straightened up, pressed Tansy’s legs high and wide and looked over his shoulder at Rye. “Guide me in.”
Rye pressed closer, wrapped one hand around Dev’s waist, the other around his cock, and lined him up. Slowly, so they could both see every increment, Dev flexed his hips and forced his cock into the tight, silky heaven that was Tansy’s core. When he was as deep inside her as he could go, Dev put one arm under her ass to lift her up and then wedged himself onto his knees.
Rye put a hand on Dev’s shoulder to push him down, and barely a breath later Dev felt the broad, round head of a cock at his back entrance. He fucked into Tansy, slow, soft and shallow, allowing his movements to ease him back onto Rye’s cock.
The gel did its work. Even though Dev’s ass burned and it took a bit of getting used to, his dormant nerve endings woke with a vengeance. The stretch of Rye in his ass and the tight squeeze of Tansy on his cock were like opposite sides of the pleasure spectrum. It was raw, beautiful, and so far beyond any pleasure he’d ever experienced that Dev wasn’t sure he could hold it together. Rye seemed determined to go slowly, and it took everything Dev had to hold back enough to match his pace.
Eventually Rye sped up, thank fuck, gripping Dev’s hips hard and tight. Tansy writhed under them, touching and kissing any bit of skin she could reach. He tried to hold it together, tried to let Rye set the rhythm, but Dev was on pleasure overload. His body was slippery with sweat, his breaths came in heaving rasps and every muscle he had was on fire with the need to move. The tight grip of Tansy’s core became too much to resist and he began thrashing, fucking into her deep and rough while Rye pounded his ass.
He was close—too close—and when he felt Tansy come for him, her core squeezing and pulsing against his cock, Dev lost control. Pleasure formed in a hot, tight knot and held him immobile for a moment, suspending him in an agony of exquisite desire before exploding inside him. Bright sparks seared his body, his balls drew tight and he drove himself to release inside Tansy’s welcoming heat.
As he shuddered through the last of his orgasm, Rye pressed against his back. Wrapping his arms tightly around Dev, Rye came in a shouted, shuddering wave that rippled over every inch of Dev’s skin. His denmate spilled inside him, the hot jets of come stroking the sensitized nerves in Dev’s ass. He could feel every pulse, every jerk and quiver in an intimacy he’d never thought to know.
It took a few moments before Rye slid out of him and collapsed onto the bed. As loath as Dev was to leave Tansy’s body, he eased himself out, rolling onto his side and pulling her close. Rye snuggled up tight against her back and reached out to cup the nape of Dev’s neck.
“All right, my brother?”
Dev smiled, running his hand along the length of Rye’s arm. “Yes. That was wonderful. And so much more than I ever expected.”
Rye leaned across Tansy and gave Dev a hot, possessive kiss, his lips warm and demanding. “Next time you get to fuck my ass.”
Dev had thought he was done, but at those words a surge of liquid desire shot through his body and went straight to his cock. “I’ll look forward to it.”
Rye gave him a cheeky grin and looked down at their mate. “Don’t feel left out, honey. We intend to fuck your ass too.”
Tansy looked so surprised and shocked that Dev burst out laughing. It obviously hadn’t occurred to her that he and Rye would fuck her at the same time. When the knowledge dawned, she didn’t seem all that enamored by the idea.
“Too bad for you,” he said, laughing through the words. “If I have to take it in the ass for the good of the triad, so do you.”
“Now wait just a minute—”
He cut her off with a kiss, and when he felt the curve of a smile on her lips he thought his heart would blow right out of his chest. “I love you,” he muttered against her lips. “I love you and Rye with everything I have in me.” Which, as it turned out, was quite a lot.