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“I think she likes it,” Hyde chuckled.

I leaned over and took him into my mouth again, so that three of my mates were inside of me. Not one to be left out, my hand was lifted and then put around Gritt’s girth, his hand directing how hard I squeezed and how fast I stroked him. The four of them moved me together in perfect harmony, and I’d never been so full before in my life. I was stretched to capacity physically but also in my heart. I could feel their devotion through the bond. I could sense their own pleasure mingling with mine.

“Come again for us, Devi,” Quade whispered in my ear.

Their magic coursed through me as I panted, climbing the peak right alongside them. My Void smoke surrounded us, sipping off of them slowly, and making it look like our five writhing, naked bodies were the only thing that existed.

Quade’s hot and cold touch grounded me. Hyde’s life-giving magic heightened my every feeling. Gritt pumped me full of animalistic need, meeting my hunger with his own. And when Render leaned down and bit me again, flooding my system with more venom, I shattered into a million pieces. And they shattered with me.

One by one, we came, and then we were just a heap of bodies and slick sweat and seed, lying next to each other in a pile of limbs where I was their magnet, their center, their sun.

I was the Void again, and I had my mates back. And suddenly, everything in the world was right.





Epilogue





“Hurry up, will you? My brother doesn’t care how you look, he just wants his powers back,” Gritt grumbled from outside the bathroom door. It had taken a full year to get the hang of my powers again, and I was so excited to finally fulfill the promise I’d made when we first met.

I was taking my time, applying my lipstick with care just to piss him off. Damn shifter liked to be an hour early to everything. Which often times clashed with my carefree necromancer, defiant vampire, and overly social elemental.

I opened the door and gave him a cheeky smile. “I’ll hurry if you let me ride your dragon again.”

It was the perfect risk, flying high in the sky with nothing to hold onto but his back. He refused to go out when anyone was awake, too ashamed of his animal to let anyone see. I think that was partly why his animal picked me, he was tired of being held back. In the last few months, I’d gotten to meet all four of his animals. His falcon was greedy, his lion fiercely protective. His scrappy bobcat made me laugh. But all in all, his dragon was my favorite, not that I’d ever tell any of them that.

“Fine. But for gods’ sake, get a move on,” he relented while dragging his hands down his grumpy face in exasperation.

“Are you rushing perfection again, Gritt?” Hyde asked while strolling into the bedroom. He was wearing a graphic t-shirt that said Necromancers Do It Better and tight denim jeans.

Pushing past Gritt, he landed a sloppy kiss on my mouth, effectively smearing my bright red lipstick. “Oops,” he said while pulling away, not bothering to wipe the evidence of our kiss from his lips. “Guess you’ll have to start over.”

I laughed before grabbing a tissue and wiping the smeared mess from my face. I could tell from Gritt’s twitching eye that he was about ten seconds away from going all feral on me, when Quade walked through the door. “You did it!!” he yelled, holding a sheet of paper as he rushed through the door. “You aced your finals!”

I ran out of the bathroom and collided with him, laughing as he spun me around. We both cheered while Hyde danced, and Gritt rolled his eyes. “We all knew she would,” he grumbled.

It had been hard, staying behind at Thibault Academy while they took up their duties as council members. Luckily, they made sure to visit often. The school had never had so many officials on campus.

“Where the hell is Render?” Gritt asked. And in true vampire fashion, he flashed into the room.

“Miss me, Shifty?” he mocked as he walked over to me, eyeing my outfit appreciatively.

“You wish,” Gritt grumbled. They loved each other, their brotherhood something beautiful to watch, despite the playful bickering they threw at one another all the time. There was a certain camaraderie between them that seemed to bring the entire community together. Even in classes, I’d noticed a huge change. Breeds weren’t separated anymore. Elementals sitting with shifters, necros dating vamps. We’d started a shift in perceptions, and I was proud to be a part of something that brought everyone closer.

“Hey,” Render said before kissing me, lightly grazing my lip with the sharp points of his teeth before sealing it shut with a swipe of his tongue.

“Hey, yourself,” I replied with a shiver. “Did you talk to Reed?” I asked. Reed moved to LA and was going to film school. He was feeling particularly inspired, thanks to knowing about all the things that went bump in the night. I missed him, but having council members with unlimited access to portals as my bonded made visiting easier.

“Yes, I did. I told him I’d help with his little movie. Should save him heaps on special effects.”

“Thank you,” I sang before pecking him on the cheek.

“Can we please go now?” Gritt asked. He looked miserable and anxious to get going.

His timeliness was driving me crazy. After a year together, I’d been acquainted with all their unique quirks, and every new layer had me falling more and more in love with them. Like how Render liked to read to school children once a week, his own penance for the life he’d taken as a child. Hyde visited his parents’ graves once a month and left them dead rabbit corpses instead of flowers because it was their favorite undead animal. Quade wrote his parents letters about us, telling them all about the girl he loved, his own way of reminding them how wrong they were for keeping us apart. Gritt was timely, a leader that was always herding us to the best versions of ourselves.