Chapter Four – Claimed by the Exile

My body was still trembling, my thighs sticky and raw from Damon’s mouth, my chest flushed where Lucian had sucked me, my lips swollen from Kael’s brutal kiss. Every nerve ending screamed, too sensitive and too hungry all at once.

I should have felt shame. Or fear. Or at least confusion.

Instead, when Kael stood over me, chest heaving, eyes glowing like wildfire, the only thing I felt was need.

“You’ve gone too far,” he snarled at his brothers, his voice breaking the night like thunder. His body trembled as if he was barely holding back his rage. “She’s mine. Not yours. Mine.”

Lucian wiped his mouth lazily, grinning. “Your mouth says mine. Your scent says ours.”

Damon didn’t smile. He never did. He just crouched down beside me again, his dark gaze swallowing me whole. “Stop lying to yourself, Kael. You feel it as much as we do.”

“I feel nothing!” Kael snapped. But his fists were clenched, his cock still straining against his pants, hard and leaking from watching them touch me.

Lucian leaned closer, his voice a taunt. “Then why is your cock about to split your leathers? Why were you about to shove yourself inside her before we arrived?”

Kael growled so deep it shook the leaves, but he didn’t answer.

My own voice trembled when I spoke. “I don’t… understand any of this.”

Three pairs of golden eyes snapped to me at once, and my breath caught.

Damon reached out, his fingers brushing my jaw, tilting my face up. His touch was gentle, but his gaze was steel. “You don’t have to understand yet. You only have to feel.”

Kael shoved his hand away, dragging me against his chest possessively. “She doesn’t belong to you. She doesn’t belong in our world at all. She’s human.”

“She’s ours,” Lucian countered easily, crouching low so his face was level with mine. His smirk softened into something sharper, hungrier. “The bond doesn’t care if she’s human. It doesn’t care about exile, or thrones, or rules. It only cares that we need her.”

Kael’s chest rose and fell against my back. I could feel the storm in him, the fury, the hunger, the war between what he wanted and what he feared.

“I won’t let you break her,” he rasped. “Her body—she’s too fragile—”

“I’m not,” I whispered, surprising myself. My voice shook, but the truth rang in it. My body still pulsed with aftershocks of pleasure, and yet I ached for more. For all of them. “I’m not fragile.”

All three froze.

Kael cursed, low and violent, before spinning me around and crushing his mouth to mine. The kiss was savage, desperate, his tongue fucking into me like he meant to own every part of me.

“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” he growled when he tore his mouth free. His hand gripped the back of my neck, holding me to him. “If I take you, Raine, I won’t stop. I won’t ever stop.”

“Then don’t,” I whispered.

Something in him snapped.

Kael ripped his leathers open, his cock springing free, thick and hard, the head slick with need. My breath caught at the sight, fear and want colliding in my chest.

“Fuck, yes,” Lucian groaned, his own hand palming his erection through his pants as he watched. “Do it. Claim her.”

Damon’s eyes burned, his voice low and final. “She’s ready.”

Kael growled again, but it wasn’t rage this time. It was hunger.

He shoved me down onto the forest floor, his body covering mine, his cock pressing hot and heavy against my entrance. My legs spread instinctively, trembling as I felt just how big he was.

“Kael—” I gasped, nerves sparking.

His lips crashed to mine, silencing me, his hand gripping my thigh and hitching it higher around his waist. “I’ll be gentle,” he rasped against my mouth. “The first time.”

Then he pushed inside.

The stretch was brutal. My back arched, my cry muffled by his kiss as my body fought to take him. He was thick, unyielding, filling me inch by inch until I thought I would break.

“Fuck,” Kael snarled, sweat dripping down his temple. “So tight. So fucking tight.”

My nails dug into his back, tears springing to my eyes from the pressure. “Kael—”

“Breathe, Raine,” Damon’s voice came, deep and steady by my ear. His hand stroked my hair, his mouth brushing my temple in a strange, grounding comfort. “Let him in.”

Lucian’s hand slid down my side, his grin sinful. “Relax, sweetheart. You’ll love it.” His thumb found my clit, circling slowly, sending sparks of pleasure through the pain.

I gasped, my body clenching, and Kael groaned deep in his chest as he sank the rest of the way in.

“Mine,” he snarled, biting my shoulder hard enough to mark. “You’re mine.”

The pain melted into heat, the fullness overwhelming, and when he began to move—slow, dragging thrusts that stretched me further with every stroke—I moaned helplessly.

“Fuck, yes,” Kael groaned. “So good. So fucking good.”

Lucian leaned down, sucking my nipple into his mouth, biting gently, while Damon’s lips brushed my ear again. “Feel that? That’s your Alpha claiming you.”

Kael’s thrusts grew harder, faster, the forest echoing with the slap of skin, my cries, his snarls. My body burned, stretched, consumed, every nerve alive.

Lucian’s thumb rubbed my clit harder, faster, and the pressure coiled tight, unbearable.

“Come on her cock, Raine,” he urged. “Show him how much you love being fucked by your Alpha.”

I shattered, screaming Kael’s name as pleasure exploded, clenching tight around him.

Kael roared, driving into me deeper, harder, until his body convulsed, his cock pulsing as he spilled inside me. His teeth sank into my neck again, marking me, owning me.

When he collapsed against me, panting, my body was wrecked—sweaty, trembling, claimed.

But Lucian wasn’t done.

He tugged Kael back roughly, smirking down at me. “Move over, brother. She’s not finished yet.”

Kael growled, protective, but Damon’s voice cut through. “The bond won’t rest until all of us do.”

Kael cursed, rage and hunger mixing, but he shifted aside reluctantly, still holding me against him as if to shield me even while giving me up.

Lucian’s pants hit the ground, his cock thick and eager, precum glistening. He stroked himself once, groaning, before positioning at my entrance, still dripping from Kael’s release.

“You’re wrecked already,” he murmured, his grin wicked. “But you’ll take me too, won’t you, sweetheart?”

I whimpered, too dazed to think, my body aching but hungry.

“Yes,” Damon said softly, answering for me. His hand stroked my hair again, his dark eyes unreadable. “She’ll take us all.”

Lucian slammed inside in one brutal thrust.

I screamed, my back arching, my nails clawing at Kael’s arms where he held me. The stretch was easier now, slick with Kael’s seed, but the force of it left me gasping.

Lucian groaned, his mouth biting at my throat. “Fuck, so wet. So ruined. Perfect.”

He fucked me fast, hard, every thrust jolting through me, Kael’s grip anchoring me, Damon’s voice grounding me, the world spinning.

The pleasure built again, unbearable, my body writhing between them.

“Come again,” Lucian demanded, pinching my clit, biting my breast. “Come on my cock, Raine. Now.”

My scream tore through the night as I came again, harder than before, shaking, clenching around him until his rhythm faltered and he groaned, spilling hot inside me.

When he pulled out, Kael’s arms tightened, his growl low and feral.

But Damon was already untying his pants, his dark gaze locked on me like a vow.

“She’s not just yours,” Damon said softly. “She’s ours.”

Kael snarled, but didn’t stop him.

Damon slid inside slower, deeper, his control terrifying. His cock filled me to the brim, his thrusts measured, deliberate, hitting a spot that made me see stars.

“You’re ours,” he whispered against my ear. “You’ll never escape it.”

Kael kissed my temple, Lucian sucked my nipple, and Damon’s cock drove into me steady and relentless until my world shattered all over again.

When Damon finally groaned, spilling his seed inside me too, I was shaking, wrecked, my body marked by teeth and cum and bruises, every inch of me theirs.

Kael gathered me against his chest, his voice a growl in my ear. “They came to take me home.”

Lucian smirked. “And now she comes with us.”

Damon’s eyes burned. “Because she belongs to us. Forever.”

And as the forest held its breath, I knew it was true.