Nikolai smirked, lifting up the skirts of my dress, his finger sliding up my thigh, finding his bite, caressing it as I sighed, leaning back into him, my legs spreading for his touch.

He kissed my ear, then down my neck as my body warmed, my eyes almost closed as the carriage moved toward the city.

Derik and Braxton knelt down in front of me then, and I tried to sit up to see what they were doing, but Kai pinned me against him, his fingers still on the bite.

“They need to claim you too,” he breathed against me, and I sucked in a breath as Derik and Braxton...