Intertwined: love, fire and sacrifice

6. Leaking

* This chapter starts with light steamy content, signalised with asterisks. * 

 Liv

*** “Mmmmmmm… Master. Laius….” I say in a panting hazy voice. I don’t even know if I said it out loud or through our bond. My mind is so foggy, I am so lost in the throes of our raw lovemaking. Heck, I am so over-sensitive today.

I feel my mind getting so hazy, as if it were totally nude, exposed. No walls, no restrain. Just pleasure. Wait…. No walls. The walls that I put between me and my other mates had just melted in my o*gasm. Bloody heck! No, no, no… I raise these walls again.

I hope they haven’t heard my cries. I imagine how it could feel, not seeing your mate for more than 5 days and having the bond closed, and then it’s open just for you to hear her coming desperately in the arms of another man.

“Are you alright, Sugar?” I hear Laius voice penetrating the fog that now covers my mind. I just nod or at least I think I did so.

“I will make you come again, Kitten.” His deep and hoarse voice says. I moan in response. It wasn’t exactly a moan of pleasure, just pretty much the only sound I could express.

Everything else is quite blurred, his words and movements. The only thing that I could feel is another huge explosion of pleasure taking my body soon after I heard his words. 

steamy content is over ***

Then I feel his strong arms carrying my barely conscious body to our bed. He wraps me in his embrace, kissing my hair, my eyes, my nose and my chin lovingly.

“I will run a bath for you, Sugar.” He says.

I only nod in response, my eyes are barely open. He leaves me and a whine escapes my throat, my drowsy body wants to be surrounded by its mate scent and warmth.  His scent of fire and musky wood. He soon comes back and flips my body over, I can feel his very gentle touch as he spreads some kind of balm on my skin. Massaging my whole body, but lingering on my butt, thighs, ankles and wrists.

My mate tending to me makes a warm light spring in my heart and I let out a series of soft whimpers and mewls. I hear his mouth-watering chuckles and could feel my lips curl up into a smile.

Before falling asleep, I feel him cuddling me in his arms and sending me his love through our bond. My sweet hot mate.

….

When I woke up in the morning, the first thing that popped up in my mind was what happened. Damnit, I let the walls down. Better said, the walls were crashed down and quite probably Avalon and Elric listened to me. They did listen, if their side of the bond was open, what I suspect was the case for the both of them.

I have to go back to the upper realms, go back to them. But I can’t leave Laius here. The way Avalon and Elric might be suffering is not comparable to what Laius is facing right now. He needs me. He needs to be the only one for some time, that’s the only way for him to heal. I can’t let Laius suffer, being consumed by those horrible things I saw and felt through our bond. I can’t leave him; he needs me more than my other 2 males right now.

I just so hope that by having the bonds close, Elric and Avalon will feel better soon. Avalon should be doing fine without the mate he doesn’t even like tho. But my heart clenches painfully when I think about my Elric. 

I am such a terrible mate! Goddess! I knew I couldn’t nail this mate thing. I knew I was not going to be good at that. I'm not like Cali, aunt Astoria, mom or Sienna. A bitter sensation of guilt is striking me. I added even more to their agony. I am a natural disaster.

I look at Laius, he has two possessive arms around my waist and is still sleeping deeply. I would be sleeping too, after all, I am still beyond exhausted from last night. But guilt woke me up. Well, guilt is a good alarm clock, that for sure. And heck! I hate alarm clocks. I try to move away from his grasp, but he just brings me closer and mutters in his sleep, “mine.”

Dominant ‘alpha’ males never take a break of their possessiveness, not even while they are sleeping. It’s a full-time job. I wonder if it doesn’t tire them… probably not, the buttheads do it as naturally and automatically as they breathe. I’ve 3 of those to know it quite well. I should be holding speeches and organising workshops about it. That would be nice, I’ve always wanted to have a job, I find it so human.

Another pang of guilt makes me heart clench. I need to do something about my wall-falling and moans-leaking. I try to get out of my devilicious male embrace again. No avail. 3rd time is a charm, Yeah! I did it and he frowned in his sleep… Own, how cute! Stop ogling Livia!! Yes, I embraced the talking to myself thingy. When you have 3 mates, apparently that is one of the best cope mechanisms. Better than deny the bond, sit back and cry or run away to the hills at least.

I try to stand up, just to almost fall on my face. But Laius strong arms catch me before I kissed the floor.

“Sugar, what are you doing? Come back to sleep… I told you that you won’t be able to walk for some time.” He says in a sleepy husky voice as he tucks me in his embrace again. He smirks at me. Probably he is very proud of the outcome of our Dungeon Games. I hug him back. I am so exhausted and feeling light-headed. I just slept a couple of hours and standing up was definitely one of my bad ideas.

I burry my face in his chest trying to find comfort and gather my bearings, as he strokes my hair.

I open my bond with Elric very slightly and murmurs into it “I am so sorry.” Then I close it immediately. I can’t deal with his reply now. I am already sinking in guilt. I do the same with Avalon. In few minutes I slumber into my dreams. 

Dreams filled with guilt.

………

Avalon

I was having another sleepless night, tossing and turning on my bed, changing positions again, but it didn’t help. I knew that nothing would help. I need my mate back. The bond between us is strong and being without her was affecting me more than I care to admit. Since she left, I was still sleeping in our bed, surrounded by her intoxicated scent of Vanilla and Fresh Water. But it was becoming faint and soon will fade away completely. And I’ll be left with nothing.

I closed my eyes hard again, clenching them, chasing my sleep. Suddenly I heard her voice inside my mind.

“Mmmmmmm… Master. Laius….” Her voice sounded breathless and she was panting. F*cking hell! the only time I could hear my mate’s voice in more than 24 hours, is when she is coming. When she is coming for another man. For that bloody blasted prick!

I got off of the bed. I won’t be able to sleep anytime soon.

Rage consumed me. I went to Galvin’s chamber to order my second in command to gather my army. I will get ready to invade Hell. I also have to talk to Elric about it, and ideally join forces with him to take my mate, our mate, back and crush Laius like an insect.

…

I didn’t waste any time. There was no time to lose and my urgency to have her, be with her, punish her was only growing. A Couple hours after I heard her voice in my mind, I was already working with Amalia, Galvin and Linus in a strategy to take my woman back.

“You will take back what is yours, King Avalon!” Galvin affirmed.

My attention was taken away from the planning, when I heard her voice inside my mind once again. A soft and shaky whisper this time.

“I am so sorry.” The bond was only slightly open, but I could feel her regret, her gloom.

“Livia!!!” I shouted back through our mental link. But it was too late, she only opened her side of the bond long enough to mutter those words.

I scrubbed my face agitatedly, as I felt a surge of anger and frustration overtake me.

I have to have her back. Soon.

………

Laius

During the next few days, Liv didn’t talk about Avalon and Elric at all, it was only the 2 of us. But I could clearly notice that my Sugar isn’t fine by looking at her eyes, which are growing duller every day. I can feel her sorrow through our bond, even though Liv has left it barely open lately.

For sure she doesn’t want me to know what she is feeling. 

But she couldn’t hide it. She whimpers softly in her sleep and calls Avalon’s and Elric’s names. Every. Single. Blasted. Night.

It pains me twice, to know that I am not enough for her and to see her suffering. I know I can’t do anything to stop the mate-pull that draws her to those 2 with its magnetic force. But time and distance will weak the bond, the pull. It has to.

She will feel better soon.

Besides that, she should see her family and the whining witch soon. I’ll ask Medeia to arrange toys, games and movies for Lelea before inviting them.