Claimed (Book Four of the Castle Coven Series): A Witch and Warlock Romance Novel (7 page)

The fire in the seating area was banked low. By its rather sullen light, she could see Kieran’s frame curled up on the couch. Some part of her absently thought that it was just as well she and Piers were inviting him to bed; otherwise, he would have woken up quite cramped.

Kieran looked up at her approach. His eyes went wide when he realized that she was naked. He seemed frozen in place as she crossed the floor to his side.
 

She thought he would speak, that he might protest or send her away. Instead, he only watched her as she knelt on the floor beside him. He flinched a little when she raised her hand to stroke his hair. He didn’t move as she kissed his forehead, his cheek and the bruise under his eye. When she dropped her mouth to his, however, he wrapped his hand around her wrist to hold her still.

“Hailey,” he rasped, “what in the name of the nine hells do you think you’re doing?”

“Exactly what I want to do,” she said softly. “I want you. I love you, and I always will. Will you come back to bed with me?”

He sat up, the blankets sliding down around his hips. His chest was bare. She had forgotten how thickly muscled he was, how dense he felt when she was close to him. He had the body of a warrior. She longed to touch it the way that she had all those weeks ago.
 

“What does this mean?” he said softly.

She wondered if there was a little bit of fear in his voice. It occurred to her that ever since he had realized that she and Piers were together, it must have felt as if he had been looking at something he could never have.

“It means whatever you make of it,” she said. “I’m with Piers, and I love him. I love you too. I want to give you what I can give and to have you in the way that feels right to me. Will you come?”
 

She could tell that there were a thousand questions in his mind, on his tongue. Instead, he leaned down to kiss her with a softness and a reverence that made her want him forever. She could kiss this man until the stars fell down into the sea. It still wouldn’t be enough.

She took his hand in hers, pulling on it so that he stood. When he did, she realized that he was as naked as she was. Silently, she led him up the stairs. Together, they entered the bedroom.

Inside the door, Piers had dimmed the lights. He was stretched out on the bed, the blanket thrown across his hips the only concession to modesty. He was leaner than Kieran though still quite muscled. Hailey realized that it was fairly impressive that he had tried to stand against the bigger man at all.
 

“I was beginning to get worried,” he commented.

“That I would stay gone?” she teased.

“That you would freeze,” Piers retorted. “Are you both ready to come to bed?”
 

In response, Hailey slid in beside Piers. Then she turned and offered her hand to Kieran, who stood at the edge of the bed. He wasn’t a man given to embarrassment or shyness, but now he couldn’t seem to meet their gazes.
 

“Come here,” Hailey said, her voice nearly a whisper. “You’re wanted, you’re loved.”
 

Piers nodded behind her.
 

“Come to bed. There’s nothing keeping you out but your own fears”

Hailey wasn’t sure whose words it was that convinced him. With a breath that was almost too soft to be a sigh, he slid underneath the covers with them. He reached for her. She rewarded him by moving closer to his body. It was at once familiar and new to her. She pressed her face against his chest, simply taking in the scent of him and the feel of him.

“Oh I have missed you, love,” she murmured.

She felt him shift against her before he ran his shoulder from the point of her shoulder down her arm to her hip.

Piers chuckled softly as he came to press against her back.
 

“I like this,” he said, his voice just a hair off from a growl. “I like having people around who want to please Hailey.”

“That’s what I want to do. I am not as interested in pleasing you,” Kieran said with a hint of heat.
 

“Oh? That’s a shame.” Piers’s voice was innocence itself. “I don’t mind the idea of pleasing you at all.”
 

Hailey didn’t know what Kieran’s response to that was going to be. She decided she didn’t much care. She squirmed up to place a deep kiss on Kieran’s mouth. At the same time, she reached behind her to slide her hand down between Piers’s legs, wrapping her hand around his half-hard erection.

Both men gasped and were wordless, which was what she had intended. She drew back from Kieran and pulled her hand away, smiling even though she knew that they couldn’t see it.
 

“We do have to be up early in the morning,” she commented. “I think that it would serve all of our best interests if we started doing what it is we want to do right now.”
 

The words were barely out of her mouth when Kieran’s hands ended up in her hair, holding her still while he kissed her mouth hard. There was a barely restrained savagery to his motions. He had been without her for a long time. She could feel his erection against her thigh. She moved her leg enticingly against him. She wanted to let him know that she wanted him, that there was nothing that was barred from his touch and his want.

With Piers’s hands running up and down her body, she put her focus into kissing Kieran. It felt as if it had been years since they last touched like this, since they had drowned in each other’s bodies. He was dense and powerful in a way that Piers wasn’t. He could be overwhelming.
 

After the first onslaught, his mouth gentled against hers. He kissed her with care, but there was still an urgency to it. He wanted her, but he wanted to please her more. There was something almost beseeching about the way he touched her.

Encouraged by Piers’s touches, she pushed herself over him, straddling his hips. His cock was trapped against her belly. She ground down on him, forcing a groan from his lips. There was something wild about riding him like this. She held his satisfaction in her hands, but she didn’t have to give it to him, not yet.

She felt Piers move behind her. He wrapped her wild red hair in his fist, pulling it away so that he could kiss the back of her neck. She shivered when his wet lips touched her sensitive skin. She was so taken with Piers’s mouth on her that she flinched when she felt Kieran’s hands come up to cup her small breasts. He ran his calloused thumbs over the erect peak of her nipples, making her writhe and press down on him.

“I can feel how wet you are,” Kieran murmured. “I can smell how much you want this.”

“I want both of you,” Hailey found herself whimpering. “I want both of you so much…”

Piers’s laugh was dark and full of promise.

“Then that’s what you’ll have, little darling. We want to give it all to you.”

She could feel Piers’s cock pressed against her back just as she could feel Kieran’s on her belly. She blushed furiously at the sensations, but they were far too intense to deny.
 

“I…I want to use my mouth,” she stuttered. “While one of you takes me from behind.”
 

She felt as much as heard Kieran’s breath go shallow and fast. Piers’s cock grew even harder.

“Well, well, I do like a woman who knows what she wants,” Piers said, a laugh in his voice.
“Come on, let’s get set up for that.”
 

“You speak as if we’re setting up camp,” Kieran said, his voice barely above a growl. Piers seemed unperturbed.

“Sex is an activity, and like any other, when you make the right preparations and do the right setup, things can go very well. For example, come here.”
 

Hailey watched, eyes wide and mouth slightly wet as Piers reached for a condom in the night stand. Instead of handing it to Kieran, however, he opened it himself. Kieran was as still as a statue as Piers smoothed it down Kieran’s cock. When it was on, Piers ran gentle fingers down Kieran’s erection, a slight smile on his face.
 

“Come here, Hailey…”

It wasn’t quite Piers’s command tone, but it was close enough that Hailey came to attention. Piers settled himself against the headboard of the bed, his legs sprawled so that Hailey could crawl between them. He took her hand and wrapped it around the base of his erection.

“I’m going to put my hand on the back of your head. I’m not going to push you, so just do whatever you like, all right, love?”
 

She purred at the touch of his hands in her hair, and she lapped at the tip of his cock. She relished the taste of him. When she was ready, she suckled on the tip, making him stiffen and moan.
 

Just when she was wondering what Kieran thought of all of this, Piers gestured to him.
 

“Are you waiting for a formal invitation, Major?”
 

The bed shifted as Kieran moved closer, kneeling between Hailey’s legs. She felt his hands on her hips lightly, almost tentatively. When he brushed the tip of his cock against her wet slit, she nearly moaned with it.

She needed him, she wanted this, why was he denying her? She pressed her hips back against him as if doing that would encourage him forward. It made him hiss with arousal. She felt him take his cock in hand and guide it into her.

She was so open and wet for him that he slid in easily, drawing a cry from both of them.
 

“I…don’t want to hurt you,” Kieran said through gritted teeth.

Hailey raised her head long enough to twist her head around to look at him.

“You won’t, love, I promise you won’t. I just need you now, please…”

Something in Kieran unleashed. He withdrew from her almost completely before sliding back in. He did it with such force that she was pushed onto Piers’s cock, taking him deeper than she had before.

As he had promised, Piers’s hands never forced her down or caused her to choke, but he did clench his fingers in her hair.

“You feel amazing, Hailey,” he whispered. “Gods above, you feel like heaven.”
 

Hailey was pinned between the two men that she loved most, giving them pleasure with her body. She twisted and moaned, wanting to tell them how good it felt, but Piers apparently thought it meant something different.

“Use your hand on her,” he said to Kieran. There was a command in his tone that Kieran snapped to obey. In less than a second, Hailey felt Kieran’s skilled fingers at her slit, pulling her open. At the first touch, her whole body twisted with pleasure, making both men groan.

How connected we are,
she thought.
We are feeling all of this together.
 

She had enjoyed bringing both of them pleasure, but now she could not concentrate on it at all. Instead, her body was a channel for her own pleasure. The feel of both of them inside her drove her mad. She loved the idea of being so filled, of having them both take their pleasure with her. Kieran’s fingers on her own body made her arch. She couldn’t control the way that she was moving and bucking. However, with her body pinned between the two of them, there was no where she could go.

Being helpless between two of the most powerful men that she knew was intoxicating. She could feel her own arousal soar higher and higher. Soon her whole body was shaking. Her climax pushed her over the edge in a blinding flash of sensation. The pleasure was so intense that she nearly lost consciousness for a moment.
 

Behind her, Kieran thrust into her one last time, his hands gripping her hips with a nearly bruising intensity. He was saying her name over and over again, telling her he loved her, that he wanted her.

She pulled away from Piers’s still hard cock to rest her forehead against his hip. His hands were in her hair, stroking and comforting her. Distantly, she was aware that Kieran had pulled out of her. She rolled over to her side, simply trying to catch her breath.
 

“Let me…let me take care of you,” she tried to say to Piers. Now that her body was cooling slightly, she felt guilty that she had not brought him to a climax as well.

Piers’s laugh was soft.
 

“I would like to spill inside you, love. May I?”

She nodded, almost sleepy in how satisfied she was. She felt Piers shift as he sheathed his own cock in a condom. He climbed over her, carrying most of his bulk on his arms when he rolled her to her back.

She felt exhausted but so satisfied as he pressed inside her.
 

“I wish I could come again,” she murmured. He leaned down to kiss her.

“Another night, we’ll keep you up and make sure that you feel every bit of pleasure that your body can tolerate. That’s what I want you to have.”
 

Hailey draped her arms around Piers’s neck, drawing him close.

“I want you to come now,” she said, her voice as soft as velvet. “I want you to spill. I want to think of there being nothing between us so I can feel how hot it would be.”

Piers tensed at her words, thrusting into her harder and faster. His movements became frenzied. At the last, he planted his mouth over hers when he thrust one more time. She could feel the deep groan he made and the way his body shook as if he were under a lash.

He pulled away from her to lie on his side, though his hand stayed knotted in her hair.
 

Hailey turned to look at Kieran, who sat on the edge of the bed, watching them.

“I don’t know what to do now,” he said.

Hailey smiled.

“It’s easy,” she said with a yawn. “Come to bed. Sleep with us. That is all you have to think about right now.”
 

Kieran looked like he was prepared to resist for a moment, but then he nodded. He crawled into the bed, resting next to her. After Piers had cleaned himself up, he came to lie down on her other side.

As she drifted off to sleep, she thought of how lucky she was, and how loved. She thought of the nervous way that Kieran had looked at her at the last, and she found herself wondering if he would respond to Piers’s pleasure at directing things the way she did.