Chapter 303: Zev Marked Lilith
"I don’t know what I’m going to do!" Lilith sobbed. "I’m so angry at you...I’m so hurt...and I don’t know if I can trust you..."
"Then don’t trust us," Nicholas said, and he pulled out and flipped her onto her back. "Just feel this."
He thrust back inside her and this time the angle was different, deeper, and Lilith’s eyes rolled back.
"Feel how perfectly you fit around me," Nicholas continued, his hips snapping forward in a rhythm that made coherent thought impossible. "Feel how your body responds to mine. Feel the bond between us singing."
Lilith could feel it. Could feel everything he was feeling through their connection....his guilt, his fear of losing her, his desperate love.
"I feel it," she whispered.
"And?" Nicholas demanded.
"And I don’t know if it’s enough."
Nicholas groaned and his rhythm faltered. Then he pulled out and Sebastian was there immediately, entering her before she could catch her breath.
"What about this?" Sebastian asked, his hands gripping her hips hard enough to bruise. "Is this enough?"
"Sebastian..." She whispered.
"Tell me you’re going to stay," Sebastian said, and his voice was wrecked. "Tell me you’re not going to leave us for Victoria."
"I can’t...."Her voice came out broken.
Sebastian’s hand slid between them and found her clit, rubbing in tight circles until Lilith was gasping and trembling. "Tell me."
"I don’t know what I want!" Lilith cried, and she was sobbing now, overwhelmed by sensation and emotion and the bonds pulling at her from three different directions.
Sebastian groaned and thrust harder. "Yes you do. You just don’t want to admit it."
"I’m scared..."
"I know." Sebastian’s forehead pressed against hers. "I’m scared too. Scared you’re going to choose her over us. Scared we’re going to lose you before we ever really had you."
"You lied to me..." She said, her voice shaking.
"I know," Sebastian said. "And I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you if you let me. But you have to choose to stay first."
He thrust into her one more time and Lilith came apart with a sob, her power flaring and cracking the mirror on the opposite wall.
Sebastian pulled out and Lucian was there before she could recover, lifting her easily and positioning her so she was straddling him, his cock pressing against her entrance.
"My turn," Lucian said, and his eyes were completely gold now. "And I’m not going to be gentle."
"I don’t want gentle...." Lilith started, and then he pulled her down onto him and the words dissolved into a scream.
He was bigger than his brothers, stretched her more, and the slight edge of pain mixed with pleasure made her vision blur.
"That’s it," Lucian groaned. "Take all of me."
He set a brutal pace immediately, his hands gripping her hips and moving her exactly how he wanted her, and Lilith could only hold on.
"When Victoria comes for you," Lucian said, his voice rough, "are you going to choose her?"
"I don’t know..." Lilith gasped.
Lucian’s hand slid up to wrap around her throat...not squeezing, just holding. "Think very carefully before you answer. Because I’m losing control right now. Zev wants to mark you and claim you and make sure you can never leave. And if you tell me you’re going to walk away..."
"What?" Lilith challenged, even through her tears. "What are you going to do?"
Lucian’s smile was sharp and feral. "Mark you anyway."
Then he pulled her down and his teeth found her throat.
The bite was sudden and brutal and overwhelming. Lilith felt his teeth break skin, felt the bond starting to form between them, felt Zev pouring everything he was into the mark.
But she had not said yes.
She had not given permission.
And even as the pleasure tore through her, even as her body responded and the bond started snapping into place, some part of her mind was screaming that this was wrong, that he should have waited, that she should have been the one to choose.
The bond completed with a force that stole her breath. She could feel Zev now...wild and satisfied and finally at peace and the sensation of all three bonds humming together was overwhelming.
But with the bonds came power.
More power than she had ever felt before. More than when Nicholas marked her. More than when Sebastian completed his bond. This was all three bonds together, fully formed, and it was too much.
The power built in her chest....hot and violent and absolutely unstoppable....and she tried to contain it, tried to push it down, but it was useless.
It exploded outward in a wave that shook the entire room.
Windows shattered. The bed frame cracked. The walls spiderwebbed with fractures. And through it all Lucian held onto her, his teeth still in her throat, protecting her even as everything fell apart around them.
When the shaking finally stopped Lilith felt consciousness slipping away from her, the overwhelming surge of power and sensation too much for her body to handle.
The last thing she felt before darkness took her was Lucian’s arms wrapping around her, and his voice in her ear saying something she could not quite hear.
Then nothing.
"Lilith!" Nicholas was there immediately, pulling her out of Lucian’s arms and checking her pulse. "Fuck...she’s out cold."
"The bond," Sebastian said, his voice tight with fear. "It was too much. Three bonds completing at once..."
"She’ll be fine," Lucian said, though he sounded uncertain. He touched the fresh mark on her throat and felt the bond humming strong and solid beneath his fingers. "The bond is complete. She just needs to recover."
Nicholas looked at his youngest brother and his expression was grim. "We have a problem."
"I know," Lucian said quietly, looking down at Lilith’s unconscious form. "When she wakes up, she’s going to realize what we’ve done. That I marked her while she was angry and hurt and not thinking clearly."
"And Victoria is going to use that against us," Sebastian added.
"We have three days," Nicholas said. "Victoria gave us three days. And now we’re going to have to spend those three days convincing Lilith not to leave us when she wakes up and realizes we’ve completed all three bonds."
"If she wakes up hating us...." Lucian started.
"She won’t," Nicholas interrupted. "The bonds won’t let her. But she might choose to go with Victoria anyway out of spite."