Asher: Dragon's Savior (15 page)

“An omen?” Kiaran told him he’d take it as such. “I think I’d like to see if we can plant a few more on the property. I had forgotten how beautiful they are this time of year.”

They walked back to the house. Their father was there on the porch when they arrived, looking like a man who had been taking it easy. But the closer they got to him, the more Asher could see the lines of worry around his face. Asher hugged his dad, as did the others as soon as they were close enough to do so. Even Essie hugged him tightly to her body.

“I guess you cleaned house.” He nodded at his dad as the rest of them went into the house. Elbert had told them that they would have a feast tonight in celebration. Essie stood beside him as he told his dad what had happened. “So the witch, she’s dead and Kiaran killed her?”

“No, I did.” Essie yawned and smiled. “If you don’t mind, I think I’m going inside to take a nap before dinner. I suddenly feel like I’ve been working too hard.”

He watched her walk to the house. Asher felt his love for her become an almost tangible thing. Asher looked at his dad when he laughed.

“You love her.” Asher nodded. “Good. The two of you need each other. I think I made a good match, don’t you?”

“I do.” He walked with his dad to the swing that had been there for as long as he could remember, only the plank had been replaced over the years. “Dad, she was great down there. And she did what she’d told the mountain she’d do for it. Cleaned the area of all signs of the witch and her coven.”

“But she killed the witch.” Asher nodded, and his dad looked relieved. “I’m glad it was her. I thought for sure that Kiaran would have done it for her, but it had to be her. Were you near her when she did it?”

“I was holding her. Dad, what’s going on? Why does it matter who killed her?” His dad looked so satisfied that Asher was worried. Worried enough that he wanted to go to Essie and ask her what she’d done. “Dad?”

“She’ll get it all now.” He asked him what he was talking about. “The power. All of it. From all of them. You’ll both get it.”

He still didn’t understand what he meant until he remembered what Caroline had told him about Helena killing other witches to gain their powers. But Essie wasn’t a witch, she was a faerie. Before he could point that out to his dad, Asher saw Caroline coming toward them.

“I thought I’d see how it went. I can feel that things went well, but I wanted to see if you needed me when things settled.” Asher was becoming more and more confused by the minute. He stood up to go to Essie when he heard her scream. But before he could go to her, to protect her, his entire body felt like it had been twisted in a vise.

Crying out with his own pain, he begged his father to go to Essie. But he couldn’t make him understand. Couldn’t make any words pass his lips other than the screams of pain and hurt. Dropping to his knees, then his hands, Asher saw blood on the ground in front of him. All he could think about was after all this, he was going to die right here on his hands and knees.

Then as suddenly as it washed over him, it was gone. The pain in his body felt as if it had been a distant dream. Standing up, he felt weird, his body not his own. After several attempts at trying to walk, he finally got his legs to move right, his head to stay straight as he made his way to Essie.

To say he was surprised when he found her in the kitchen would have been grossly understated. But there she sat with a glass of something cold in front of her. As soon as he sat across from her, Elbert shoved a glass into his hands and told him to drink.

“I would if I were you. He threatened to tip back my head and pour it down my gullet if I didn’t.” Elbert huffed at her and Essie laughed. “You did. You said that you’d not have me passing out on you again.”

“You scared ten years off me.” Elbert pointed to his glass with a glare. “I will not let you fall again either. Drink it or I shall call your father in.”

Asher drained his glass. Not that he was afraid of his father, but he was suddenly thirsty. When tea was poured into his glass again, he drank this glass a little slower. He also felt a good deal steadier on his feet when he stood up.

“What was that?” Asher told Essie he had no idea, but he was glad they were both all right. She nodded. “I felt like I was being run on the spin cycle of the washing machine, then for good measure squeezed through a pasta maker.”

“Apt description. And don’t forget the burn in your belly.” She nodded and sipped her tea when he did. “I don’t suppose we could ask someone. Like Elbert here.”

“I would have told you anyway.” He sat a plate of scones in front of Essie and glared at him when he took one. “The miss needs them more than you do right now. And it was the power of the coven. And those that were killed by them.”

Essie ate two of the fresh scones before she spoke. Asher was eating his third one when he got up to get more to drink. He needed sweet, something that he’d never really cared for before. Getting up, he began to raid the cabinets.

“I don’t have a clue what that means. I mean, I’ve heard of it before, like in books and stuff.
You kill the person with power and it shall come to you
.” She said this is an eerie kind of voice that made him smile. “But really. My mother, Helena, was a black witch. I’m a faerie. Why the hell would I have need of her crap? I have stuff of my own I don’t know what to do with.”

Kiaran came in then with a large bag from one of the local stores. He dumped the contents on the table and grabbed three of the three or four dozen candy bars, the super-sized ones, not the little bitty ones, before Asher could. He noticed that Essie took two herself, and he was eating a big bag of sweetish kinds of sour things when he started to feel like he might make it for another hour.

“You have all that they were, like you said.” Caroline sat down and pointed to the empty wrappers on the table. “You crave sweets because of the fact that you’re a faerie and not a witch. We would need something like a salad.”

“Eww. I hate that green stuff.” Elbert hit Kiaran on the back of the head when he made a face too. “I’m just…I can’t seem to drink enough either. I think that is because of the flames we used. Akassa and Zak said the same thing. And so you know, I’m not a faerie. So what is up with my cravings?”

“You’re all part faerie now.” Asher started to shake his head when something hit him. Before he could ask, Caroline continued. “When you became…when the three of you became a family of your own, you took on traits of the rest of you. While Essie can’t shift into a dragon any more than you can, Asher, she can speak to you all. And you, Kiaran, you can use the elements the same as her. The water that she poured into the cavern? That wasn’t just her, you all three did it. And from now on, when one of you are hurt, happy, sad, or even just having a bad day, the other two will feel it to some degree.”

“And sex?” Asher looked at Caroline instead of the other two when he asked. “I mean, when Essie and I are…you know. Will Kiaran be there as well?”

“I don’t know. Has he been until now?” Kiaran said no. “Then it is doubtful that he would be now. I would say, though, that if you wish it, it would be all right. As I said, the three of you are now one.”

Chapter 14

Essie was in the shower later when she thought of what Caroline had told them. They were one, and had been playing around with that fact until late last night. Their combined power was strong, and she was pretty sure that the household would never be the same again. Smiling, she thought of the little garden…well, it had been a little garden that Elbert had behind the house, and how pleased he’d been when they showed him what they’d done. She was still smiling when the door behind her opened.

“Want someone to wash your back?” She said yes and turned to face the tile as she heard Asher get in with her. “You have such beautiful skin.”

Moaning when the sponge rolled down her back, Essie stretched her hands above her head to hold on. Asher was the best back scrubber in the world, and she wanted to enjoy every second of it.

“I’ve been thinking about what Caroline told us. About us being all one.” She nodded but closed her eyes. “Kiaran thought about it too. He’d like to be with us when we have sex.”

“You mean watch us?” She didn’t hear what he said and turned to look at him. But it wasn’t just him, it was Kiaran too. “Asher? What’s going on?”

“He loves you too.” Essie nodded but didn’t move, only to try and cover herself up. But she watched Kiaran as he moved toward her. “I want him to touch you too. Make love to you as I do. He…you’re his mate, Essie. He’s known this since he met you.”

“I’m your wife.” Asher nodded and pulled her hands down from her breasts. He took Kiaran’s hand and cupped her breast as she stood there being held by Asher. “I’ve never…this is very strange.”

“It is, but it’s right too.” Kiaran leaned down and took her nipple into his mouth as Asher watched. She moaned and curled her fingers into his hair as Asher took her other breast. She was holding them to her as a hand slid down her body to her pussy. “You’re wet, baby. You want this.”

The water was turned off and she was pulled out of the stall. They were touching her everywhere, kissing her, fondling her. As Asher lifted her up in his arms, Kiaran kissed her. Essie thought it the most erotic thing that she’d ever had happen to her.

As she was laid out on the bed, naked and a little scared, both Asher and Kiaran stood on either side of her. She didn’t know what to do. Or for that matter what to say to them.

“Do you want me?” Kiaran looked so uncertain when he asked her. “I can leave you now and I will never bring it up again. And you won’t hurt my feelings if you say no.”

“Do you want me?” He grinned at her and nodded to his cock. “I see. But isn’t that a normal reaction when a man sees a naked woman?”

“Not with you. Not ever with you.” He crawled into the bed with her and kissed her. Asher moved in on her other side and pulled her face to him, and looked at her when Kiaran pulled away.

“You all right with this? Really?” She told him she was. “Good. I’m going to enjoy this. Very much so, I think.”

Her body was worshipped by them. Each of them smoothed their hands over her in places that brought her so close to coming that she cried out with it. Her breasts were suckled, bitten, then tugged almost painfully. She watched as Kiaran made his way down her body to her pussy.

“I’ve never done this before.” She nodded and watched him. “Christ, I can smell you. I want to eat every bit of you.”

“Please.” He grinned and lowered his head to her pussy. Asher was behind her now, his body holding hers up while Kiaran settled between her legs. She could see every move he made.

As Asher fondled her breasts again, cupping and squeezing them, Kiaran opened her nether lips. As soon as his mouth covered her, sucking her clit into his mouth then biting her, she came, screaming out his name over and over. And every time Kiaran looked up at her, captured her eyes, she’d come all the harder when he nipped at her.

He ate her much like Asher did, like a man starved for whatever she gave him. Over and over he brought her to peak, his mouth only leaving her long enough for her to catch her breath before he was bringing her again. She was weak with it when he finally sat up. But the moment she saw his cock, thick with need and dripping long streams of precum, she felt her body respond to him.

Essie was moved around then. She was told to lean over the bed and to hold on. She did this and was pleased to see Kiaran was lying in front of her. His crown was purple, his juices making his slide up and down swift and easy. She wanted him. Badly, and she could tell that he wanted her just as much.

Asher was at her ass. His cock was between her legs but not inside of her, and she wanted that more than she wanted to breathe. But asking him to take her only had him slap her ass. Not hard, but enough to have juices run down her legs in anticipation. Essie had never had two men before, had never wanted them. But her need for these two, her love for them as well, was something that she knew was going to be right.

“We’re in charge now,” Asher told her as he rubbed the hot place on her ass. She nodded and licked her lips when Kiaran fisted his cock. To take him in her mouth while Asher fucked her was going to be just what she needed. Leaning down, she rolled her tongue around his crown and tasted his precum. It was hot, hotter than Asher’s, but it was delicious. Taking him into her mouth, she sucked hard, rolling her tongue around him when Asher entered her.

Nothing would have prepared her for the sensation of two men. Both of them well endowed, both of them in love with her, filled not just her body but her heart as well. As she moved her hand to cup Kiaran’s balls, Asher slid his fingers into her pussy as he fucked her harder. She was so close to coming that when she tasted Kiaran’s come filling her mouth, she cried out with her own release, tightening around Asher as he pounded her hard through his own. The second climax she had, this one blowing her head off, she was sure, took her body apart and slammed it back together twice before darkness took her.

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Kiaran held her to his body. Asher was curled around her back, and he wrapped his arm around him as well. They were a family, and more than that, they were going to be together for a very long time. He wondered if his brothers would find mates in the men that they protected as well. He was thinking about that when Essie touched her fingers to his forehead.

“You’re thinking too hard.” He kissed her then; taking her mouth came as natural to him as breathing. “That is a wonderful thing to wake up to, but what has you worried so much?”

“My brothers, their mates.” She nodded and moved over his body, Asher rolled to his back as well. “You’re making me very hard again.”

“You are already hard. I felt it on my leg and it woke me up.” She rocked her hips over him, and he moaned when she touched her fingers to his cock. “I’d like to ride you. I enjoy that every much.”

“What about Asher?” She sat up over his hips, and he held his cock for her. As she slid down over him, Kiaran felt his eyes roll to the back of his head. “Christ, you feel good.”

She rocked over him, a slow cant that made him want to both come in her and make it last forever. Essie took his hands and cupped them to her breasts, showing him what she wanted. He rocked his hips up and down with hers, and watched her face as pleasure seemed to show in every part of her.

“Suck my nipple, Kiaran. I want to come, and you fucking me like this is going to bring me.” Sitting up, he did as she wanted. His cock felt deeper this way, and he held her ass to him as she rode him hard and quick. “I’m coming.”

Her shout had him rolling her to her back so that he could come with her. Asher was awake now, and he was fisting his own cock when he leaned in and kissed Essie. He came then, filling her body with his cum even as he felt Asher come on his back. Kiaran came again when Asher did, his body bowed back over Essie as she screamed again.

Kiaran rolled off her when Asher touched him. He was between her legs even as Kiaran felt his cock harden again. Watching them, seeing them together like this, had him fisting his cock, and knowing that it was her cum that was making him sticky had him coming quickly after the two of them.

“I love you.” Essie kissed Asher, and Kiaran felt a little jealous. Then she turned to him. “And I love you too. Very much. I feel complete now. Not that I didn’t with just Asher, but now…well, now it seems as if I’m whole. I’ve never felt this way before.”

“Me neither.” He hadn’t either. “I knew what you were to me…from the start. But I was…no one wants to be rejected, and once I figured out that Asher was your mate, or husband too, I was ready to leave for a while. Seeing the two of you like you are now, it was too much. Painful, if you must know.”

Asher leaned on his hand, and with Essie between them they talked. Asher told them that he’d thought of Kiaran in bed with them. Not sexually for him; he had no desire for that for now, but he loved watching him make love to Essie.

“She’s enjoying this as much as I am. It’s wonderful and fulfilling, like she said.” Asher kissed her, and Essie put one of her hands on each of their cheeks and nodded. Asher continued. “I don’t know if we’ll both have sex with you nightly, but I would like for us all to sleep together. I’ve been…Kiaran has been a part of me for my entire life, and I’d like for him to be a part of yours too.”

“Of course. But we’ll need a bigger bed. And a bigger room. By the way, are we staying here?” Kiaran had never thought of that. If they left here, he’d be a dragon all the time. And the only way he’d be able to sleep with them was as a part of Asher. “Kiaran?”

“I can be wherever you are.” She could see that he wasn’t telling her all, and when she pulled his face to hers, he confessed his thoughts.

“Then we stay here. If you want?” Essie looked at Asher. “We can build a house that we can all live in, or stay here. But I want Kiaran with us.”

“I agree. We can enlarge this room.” He waved his hands and the room seemed to expand. Kiaran had forgotten that he could do that, make things with his magic. “And the bed is no problem.”

The bed didn’t double but tripled. There was plenty of room for them to sleep together, and even make love if they wanted. Kiaran pulled Essie to him and kissed her. Asher wrapped around them and they all laid there for several moments before Essie spoke again.

“I want a child with you guys.” Kiaran felt his heart start to beat faster in his chest. “I’m not sure how this will work, or even if it will. But I want us to have a baby together and give it the best of what we have.”

“When?” Asher yawned as he continued. “I’d like to wait until we can get settled here first. My businesses can be run from anywhere. All I need to do is update the Internet service here and bring in someone to help in the office. Kiaran, what do you think? Want to have a child with this woman?”

He did. “More than anything in this world.” He put his hand on her belly and felt the tightness of it, and wondered if it was possible that she’d look any more beautiful than she did right now. “Yes, whenever you are ready, we’ll make a child together.”

When they were both asleep, Kiaran got up. He was pulling on his boots when someone entered the kitchen. He looked up at Zak when he sat down. When he was finished, he looked at his younger brother.

“She’s your mate.” Kiaran nodded. “I thought so. Do you think that’s going to be true for the rest of us?”

“I have no idea. I think so. I mean, I don’t know how else it would work if she wasn’t.” Zak nodded. “Are you okay with that?”

“I am, I think. I mean, I have some thoughts on it. I’ve never…what is sex like?” Kiaran grinned. “That good, huh?”

“Better.” He stood up. “I’m going to take a walk and fly for a bit. Do you want to come with me?”

“Nah. But I would like to ask that you soundproof your room. I’m right next door with Jed, and you guys are a little on the noisy side.” Kiaran flushed and Zak laughed. “I’m teasing you. I didn’t hear anything until you came down the stairs. I just wanted to…I’m worried it won’t be that way for the rest of us. To be so much in love that you’re willing to share.”

“We’re not sharing, not really. We’re…Essie and Asher said that we’re one. I think that’s about right. And when we’re together, it’s not like we’re three people making love to one person; it’s all of us enjoying each other.”

“You and Asher have sex?” It wasn’t shocked sounding, but Zak did look concerned. “I’m not sure I feel that way with Jed. I love him, but not sexually.”

“No. Asher and I don’t have sex with each other. But we did have it with Essie. And she’s amazingly…she’s just amazing.” Zak nodded and stood up too. “We’re going to be staying here. Asher is moving his part of the business here tomorrow.”

“I think Jed wants to stay too. He’s been talking about it with Shane and Simeon. They think they’d like to be here too. Closer to their mom and all. I’d like to be where I can see Mom and Dad too. Plus, I have it in my head to try and rebuild the castle with them.”

“That’s my plan as well.” Zak nodded but before he left, Kiaran said his name. When he turned, Kiaran continued, “She loves me. Very much. She said that being with us completes her.”

“I think I’d like that feeling as well. But we’ll see.” Kiaran nodded. And when Zak left him, he went into the yard.

It took him nearly an hour to get to the cave where his mother was. He’d stopped to look at the view from a lot of vantage points along the way, and really looked at the earth surrounding him. He sat on one of the stones nearest her and looked at what she’d done for them. Not the gold and gems, but how she’d protected them.