I took off my jacket slowly. Let it fall to the floor. "You okay, beautiful?" Kael asked softly, his breath warm against my neck. "I’m…" I didn’t finish the sentence. Because there was no word for what it meant to be in that moment, between them. It wasn’t just desire. It was destiny. It was belonging. I turned to face them both. They circled me like the world had shrunk to this one sacred corner, where desire wasn’t whim, but an inevitable truth. Lean lifted my face with a single hand, fingers under my chin. "We don’t have to rush." "I don’t want to rush," I said. Kael caressed my back with the back of his hand, slowly tracing upward along my spine to the nape of my neck. I shivered again. We moved into the living room. The couch was behind us. It wasn’t enough. We sank do

