I woke to the soft murmuring of someone saying my name. Sage was still laying half on top of me where she had scooted after she had fallen asleep. Her leg was bent up over my hips and her arm was wrapped around my shoulders and tucked behind my neck. The breaths she let out brushed against my neck where her face was tucked against my shoulder. "Dante," Sage murmured again.

"Hmm?" I hummed.

"You're groping my ass." She spoke matter of factly seeming to still be partially asleep.

For some reason, my half-asleep brain decided the right course of action would be to not lift both hands into the air but to squeeze them to determine which was holding her very luscious behind. A sharp pain stung at my neck. Did she just? "Did you just bite me?" I asked exasperated.

"Hand on my ass still." She grumbled before kissing the spot she bit, "Sorry." She added after.

Barely awake still I slid my hand up to her waist and promptly fell back asleep.

"Dammit, Dante," Sage grumbled, sounding exasperated, waking me up again.

Without her having to tell me this time I realized my hand was holding her ass again. This time my hand had wandered up the hem of Maddox's shirt and was now holding her bare butt in my hand. "Are you not wearing underwear?" I asked.

"Didn't have any on." She answers with a shrug that I felt rather than saw.

For some reason, I didn't take the hint to remove my unwanted paw from her very warm derriere. Until she growled, "I will bite you again."

"I let you get away with the first one. Try it again and I will bend you over my knee and turn that sweet ass of your red." I punctuated that statement with a squeeze.

Sage gasped and her hips lifted just slightly in response. She liked that idea. Then there goes my dick rising to attention like a morning flagpole. A thrill went through my body when she pressed her teeth against the skin of my shoulder. She paused not going further than just the gentle placement of her teeth. "Shit." She groaned and rolled away from me onto her back.

Her head popped up and she looked around. "My wings are gone." She said, before sitting up.

"They retracted not long after you laid on top of me," I told her before turning to face the little minx.

Her lips pursed together, "Sorry."

"Roll over," I demanded.

Surprisingly she listened without complaint. She made a startled sound when I lifted the back of the shirt to her shoulder blades. I ignored the fact she was naked under the thin shirt and looked at the V-shaped scar starting at the top of her shoulder blades and ending halfway down her back. "You've got scars," I told her perplexed.

Most Arcane species healed so fast they didn't scar and if they did it was minimal. Hers were quite severe but were the pale white of old scars. I reached out and ran a finger over one of the raised lines. Sage's whole body stiffened and jerked. "Fuck, that's more sensitive than the actual wings." She gasped.

The corner of my lip tipped up into a smirk before I leaned forward and ran my fingers over both scars from top to bottom. She bucked and her hips rolled. "Dante." She moaned.

"Want me to stop?" I asked her.

"God no." She gasped.

Faster than I'm sure she could even process, I rolled onto my back and yanked her on top of me. Blinking, she looked down at me from her position straddling my hips. A devilish smirk raised the corners of my lips. My hands slipped under the back of her shirt skimming over her ass before they ran over the scars on her back. A gasp escaped her lips and her hips instinctively rolled against mine. Her eyes rolled back in her head as I raked my nails over them. A pleading moan burst from her. Nails pushed into the skin of my chest through the thin sleep shirt I had worn to bed. Her movements became faster and more erratic. "Please." She begged.

"Please what?" I asked, running my nails up this time.

"Fuck me." She gasped.

I paused for a moment which caused her to whimper. What I wouldn't have done to oblige to her request as she ground herself against my cock. "Not today baby." I cooed to her, thrusting my hips up to meet hers. "You're not thinking straight right now. When I fuck you, I don't want there to be any regrets."

She whimpered again. "Dante." She gasped my name.

"I know baby I know."

Sitting up I wrapped one arm around her hips pulling her tighter against me. My other hand rubbed at the raised lines at the middle of her back. Her body jerked uncontrollably. With my arm wrapped around her, I helped her keep pace. She slid up and down the length of my cock. Tingling in the base of my spine alerted me that I was going to come too. My nails dug into her skin, and she jerked against me, "I'm going to come." She gasped.

Leaning into her I took one of her nipples into my mouth through the thin shirt fabric and bit it sharply. A loud moan escaped her before her head was thrown back as she writhed in pleasure. I pushed my hips up towards her, finding my own release. Releasing her nipple, I pushed my face against her shoulder as I groaned, "Sage." When our bodies stopped tensing, we fell back onto the bed.

Sage sprawled out on the bed next to me breathing hard before she covered her face and started cursing. "Stupid fucking idiotic horny little hormonal bitch. What the fuck is wrong with me? They are friends, not orgasm robots."

I laughed at that. A glare was thrown my way. "Just shush and enjoy the afterglow," I told her.

"No," she said but relaxed back into the mattress anyway.

I watched her out of the corner of my eye as she frowned at the ceiling and mouthed words to herself. Her head jerked a little when she really got frustrated with whatever she was thinking. "What are you worried about?" I asked her.

I was rewarded with another glare. "That my friends will decide that they don't want to be my friend anymore because too many orgasms come attached." She snapped.

Maybe the best response wasn't to scoff at that but that's what I did. "If you made that offer to Aiden, I don't think you would ever be able to get rid of him."

She rolled her eyes, "Says the other friend that I've made come in their pants within the last two days."

"My pants thank you. Besides, I started that whole thing. What's really bothering you about it?" I asked.

She bit the corner of her lip, seeming to think about it before shrugging. "I like you guys a lot and sometimes I feel like I like all of you a little more than the bounds of our friendship allows." She let out a sigh before covering her eyes with her bent elbow.

"Look, the guys are crazy about you. I thought they were stupid at first. Maddox warmed up to you right away and he barely ever likes anyone. Aiden seems more open and focused on the world around him now. Caden doesn't rob you blind every time you're within pickpocket range. Then there's me and I'm my normal controlling self but now I drag you into that with the guys. I doubt you'll be getting rid of any of us anytime soon." I tell her honestly.

She turned towards me and smiled. "Thanks."

I put my hand over her face. "Don't look at me like that."

She laughed and rolled over onto her back. "I'll try."

I decided we need a subject change, so I brought up something I noticed during activities. "How much do you weigh?"

She looked over at me, "You know you're never supposed to ask a girl that. And I don't know. We never had a scale at home, and I just never really thought about it. Why?" She tilted her head in the way she does when she tries to puzzle things out.

"You're really light. When I picked you up you weighed less than you should for your height and build."

Her brows furrowed before they raised. "So, you're saying I'm lighter than I should be for my size. Like a bird is lighter so they can fly better?" She brought up a comparison I hadn't thought about.

"Exactly. Honestly, that makes the most sense." I agreed.

"We can see if Maddox has a scale before we head back but I really need to get to work today." Sage sighed.

I was surprised to find myself disappointed in having to leave the small haven that Maddox's cabin was to all of us. The reality was always just hiding right around the corner to jump out and say boo. I resigned myself to my fate before getting out of bed to get cleaned up and ready for the day.