This was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. I loved sex with my guys, but this…was something more. Bryan was animalistic in his reaction to the way I dug my nails into his shoulders. He bared his teeth and growled—literally growled like a wild beast—and continued to bite my lips as he drove into me.
“Do that again,” he moaned deep. I hadn’t realized I’d bitten his shoulder. I did it again, sinking my teeth into his flesh without breaking the skin. He hissed and thrust faster, his pace crazed. It pushed us higher until my back pressed against the cool ceiling. I welcomed the contact, my body too hot to control the fire inside me. If I called the element while we were connected like this, it’d seriously injure him.
He used our new position to his advantage and trapped me against the boards, slamming into me over and over. My muscles shook. My body tightened around him, swallowing him, pulling him in deeper. It was like he was in my head, doing everything exactly right to drive me to the brink and beyond. My orgasm hovered right below the surface. I trembled, unable to hold back my fire much longer.
“Bryan, we have to stop. My fire—”
He kissed me, silencing the rest of my words and rendering me speechless. I met his tongue thrust for thrust. It only increased my shakes. The fire was coming. I was coming. It was going to happen simultaneously.
“Bryan,” I whimpered as the first sparks flared to life. My fire had surfaced.
“Yes,” he hissed and drove harder, seemingly excited that my fire had started to burn him.
Only… It hadn’t.
Flames appeared in his gaze just as they had with Leo right before he’d collapsed. Panic tightened my chest. “Bryan?”
“Call again. Heat me up. Heat us both up.”
“A-are you sure?”
“Do it, Katy.” He thrust hard, shattering my reality.
I screamed out his name as the climax consumed me, the release so powerful, so earth-shaking, I saw stars. Fire flickered around us, dancing on my skin before jumping to his. Instead of him hollering out in pain, he sucked in a deep breath as the flames sank in. I called water to ease the burn, another element he couldn’t control. A thin layer of ice covered him. That too sank into his skin.
“Yes,” he hissed again. He continued to fill me in rapid strokes until his own climax took him. He growled and bared his teeth again as he pumped until he had nothing left.
Slowly, we descended until we both had our feet firmly planted on the floor.
“That was…” I trailed off, not finding the right word. I’d called two elements he didn’t have the power to call, and neither hurt him. I didn’t understand.
We stood there trembling in each other’s arms until noise outside the room caught our attention. He pulled back and held my gaze for an eternity. Gone were the flames, but that didn’t make his look any less heated. “Sounds like the guys are home.”
“Sounds like it,” I agreed and stepped out of his embrace. “I guess we’d better go say hi.”
Once we were presentable, we took each other’s hands and walked out of the bedroom to join the others. We both stopped as we entered the room. It was only Leo in the living room. Rob was out on the porch, while Clay had to be in the bathroom.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“Uh…” Leo rubbed the back of his neck and colored hard. “The ward, uh…”
“We felt everything,” Clay explained as he walked out of the bathroom, a flush in his cheeks. “When Bry’s volcano erupted, all our volcanos blew. Know what I mean? Don’t get me wrong. I like big O’s just as much as the next guy. I just don’t want to be in the same room with the other guys when my volcano erupts.”
Bryan and I exchanged shocked glances. Could that be why elements he didn’t have the power to control didn’t hurt him when we were touching?
Just how connected did the wards make us?
6
As we headed into the weekend and most students went off campus to visit friends and family, I stayed at the academy since all my friends and family were here. Stace was away on Council business and couldn’t be reached, but did tell us Renee’s coven was just west of the barrier, so today, Bryan and I would venture into the woods beyond the barrier to seek her out and ask her to reverse the protection spell.
As cool as it was to sense each other—like when I had a burger waiting for Rob when he’d shown up unannounced at the dining hall, or like when I had a new cardboard crown waiting for Clay after some students pranked him by burning his old one—it was just as equally uncool to sense each other, as with Bryan’s burn when the Barbie bitches dumped coffee down my front. Or how all the guys felt Bryan’s orgasm—which was still disturbing—when we’d had sex. Could they feel mine as well?
I didn’t want to think about that and instead went back to the cold scrambled eggs in front of me. I’d already devoured the potatoes and bacon, leaving the healthiest part of breakfast for last. I’d never been a big fan of eggs and pushed them around on my plate until finally giving up.
Dropping my tray off at the wash station, I then grabbed a blueberry muffin on the way out. They were Bryan’s favorite. He didn’t usually eat breakfast, but he’d make an exception for a blueberry muffin.
It was cold, the steam of my breath swirling above me, but at least it wasn’t raining. The sky hung low, the gray clouds thick as they settled across the grounds. Just another lovely February day on the island.
I already knew Bryan was behind me before feeling him, the ward allowing me to sense his presence. I turned and held
