"You deserve to live your best life. You deserve to be loved," the werewolf explained as he circled the room, powering on more lights. "And you have a right to bite the shit out of anyone who tries to take that from you." He chuckled.

Listening to him play the showman, I suppressed a tremor. Theatrics aside, could I perform in bed with two close friends, all my insecurities on display? Zyr stepped toward Aurie and lifted her shirt over her head, tossing it aside. Her face glowed with nervous excitement as she followed him with her eyes.

"To be truly free, we give up something. To be free," he continued, "we lose civility to the capricious whims of our most primal selves. You have to be ready for that. You say you want just enough to transcend the mortal coil and get the experiences you missed when you were alive."

"Exactly. I'm ready," she assured him.

"And what are you willing to give up? Are you willing to be uncivilized? Untamed?" he whispered as he gestured for me to get in bed.

I could no longer keep my shivers at bay. With a flick of his fingers, he directed Aurie to climb on top of me. It was like a fever dream. She drove her hands through my hair and pulled me to her lips. Her body followed the back and forth drive of her kiss, and I tried to slow the grinding, but the blood had already rushed south. I was almost dizzy with vulnerability.

Zyr swore in a sexy undertone and settled in bed beside me. Was he touching himself? I peeked when Aurie dipped her head and gave my nipple an experimental flick. He had stripped down to nothing but boxers. I saw him grab a handful of his erection through the fabric. My vision dimmed as my eyes rolled back with Aurie's hot mouth closing over my quivering breast.

"Ah, gods," I sighed as she moaned.

"That's it. Let yourselves go," Zyr coaxed in a husky voice.

Aurie asked softly, "How do you like to be touched?" Her voice was seductive. It seemed electric. Her fingers grazed my emerging hard-on. Groaning, I wrapped her hand around my cock. A faint reddening of her cheeks gave away her shyness, but she let me guide her. In fact, she tightened around me as my erection grew.

I was caught off guard when she got the hang of things and slid her other hand between my legs. "What are you doing?" I breathed, clenching my thighs, but Zyr cupped the back of my knee in a bid for me to relent.

"Give it a chance," he whispered.

Smiling, I tried to catch my breath. "Are you as willing to try new things?" I asked. I sensed his exhilaration and uncertainty at the question, but he nodded anyway.

"Hell, why not?" he asked faintly enough for me to wonder if I had heard him right.

I had no clue what had made the self-disciplined law enforcement officer change his mind about sleeping together. I half-sensed he thought he could pull out whenever he chose, but we were, each of us, bound by weeks of holding back. Now that it was started, it would be completed tonight.

The detective tugged my legs apart and leaned over to kiss me. Aurie eased a slick digit into my sheath while gripping my dick. At the same time, Zyr toyed with the nipples her velvet tongue had left hardened.

Rapture. Any question of performance went out the window. This wasn't a show; having two lovers at once was a helpless but thrilling capitulation. My body jerked and quaked, chasing the feeling, arching off the bed.

"Take everything off," I gasped against Zyr's lips as I clutched his throat. His maddening kiss swallowed the command, but I increased the erotic chokehold until he pulled back to stare, an inferno of passion in his searing gaze. "I said get naked," I ordered.

With a wolfish grin, he left the bed and came back nude. "Satisfied?" he asked. I devoured him with my eyes. He rose on his knees near my face as if he read my mind. I reached for his throbbing member and caressed him with expert finesse, surprised when Aurie mimicked what I was doing.

I hitched in a breath. "Gods, Yokai!" Looking down at her in bliss, my inner erogenous zones contracted. I was soaked. So much so that her fingers were glazed. As spasms rippled through my erection, I begged for distraction before I blew my load.

Zyr pushed his member to my lips, the diversion I needed. I gazed at him in reverence, sucking his cock, ready for it when he gripped a fistful of my hair. Then, the eye contact. He was a master at it. Ah, Senpai. I languished deeper in a love affair going nowhere.

Two aimless crushes. Feelings I had suppressed for my roommate burst to the surface, as well. Aurie's exploration of my sex made me hum around Zyr's rod. As her questing digit plunged into my waves, I pictured my mouth like a hot ocean washing over him. All he could do was endure it. The same way I was enduring her. Them.

My hands joined the hurricane of my lips and tongue. Middle finger dripping wet, I squeezed Zyr's ass, and his entire frame stiffened. I didn't force the issue, but I gently probed the puckered entrance until the fellatio made him weak.

"Give it a chance," I replayed his words back to him.

Our charged stare intensified. I waited for him to trust me. Chuckling, his nod was barely perceptible, but it was enough. I slowly pushed my finger inside of him, almost to the second knuckle. He released a shaky breath, and I knew I had found his sweet spot when a gentle tap changed his sigh to a shuddering howl. His erection drizzled my lips with precum. I lapped the nectar.

Yet, my attention was split. From my periphery, I watched Aurie rocking between my legs with her hands on my body. She licked her lips, and I quirked a brow at the way the expression on her face divulged her fantasies.

"Don't resist," Zyr murmured with a grin, seeing it, too.

"I'm not!" She blushed. He clutched her chin and gave her the kind of look that made superheroes weak. Her laughter broke into a husky whimper, eyebrows knit with craving.

"You can do it," he coached.

"Show me how." Her dark orbs glittered with interest when he tangled his hands in her hair to guide her. Her eager mouth went straight to my erection. Up, down, and around in an erotic carousel.

Shuddering, I paused milking Zyr's hot, throbbing cock to watch the way she let herself be taken over. The way her ebony curls spilled against his tanned skin turned me on. Her satisfying grip around the base of my shaft trapped the blood, but her oral threatened to release the floodgates.

"You're doing beautiful, honey," Zyr showered her with praise. "Take all of it."

At his command, her kiss engulfed me. "Uhn, Aurie! Fuck, yes," I sobbed. Her mouth was humid as a thundercloud. She maneuvered lower to flick her wicked tongue over my pussy, and my hips bucked in shock. No one had ever. I had never allowed it. "Fuck!" I whispered hoarsely.

But I let her do it. And I took it out on Zyr. I resumed the blow job like my life depended on it. He gushed more precum as I turned up the heat.

"Hah! I'm about to..." He groaned, unable to finish the statement. I didn't care; I kept going.

Aurie tossed her hair over her shoulder and laved my clit faster. A flurry of sensations gathered in my pelvis, so much better than using a showerhead. My under-sexed body tasted mind-blowing pleasure on another's tongue. I writhed to meet her. Her soft hands still teased my erection, and every movement felt like impending orgasm. I rode it out, but—deluged with Zyr's emotions, too—I couldn't sustain it.

I let Zyr go and clutched Aurie's face to stop her. She languidly made eye contact as she traced my pulsing dick along the outline of her lips. Seductive wasn't the word for it. Oh, you're gonna be impossible to give you up, aren't you? I thought.

Given respite, Zyr dragged himself from the brink of climax and repositioned behind her. Lifting her shapely derriere and making her arch her back, he buried his face in her pussy. She danced back and forth on her knees. The tantalizing sounds of what he was doing to her, combined with her poignant arousal, made me ache for completion.

"I want you," she uttered.

"Me?" I asked.

Zyr rose with a growl and shoved her into my arms. She glared over her shoulder at him, but his irises had the tell-tale yellow glow of wildness. He wasn't upset. He was semi-transformed. It excited her the same way it did me. "I want you both," she moaned. I barely had time to register her response before she straddled me and brought me to her entrance.

"Wait, Yokai, this isn't my forte," I admitted.

"Shut up and make love to me." She impaled herself on my erection, and with a grunt, I plugged seamlessly into the tight recess. But, clenching my eyes shut, I knew I wouldn't last a second if I let her remain on top.

"Ah! Aurie!" I sighed as I rolled her to the bed. She squeezed her legs around me, elevating her pelvis to take me deeper. I was drowning in her fast-moving river when Zyr spread me like the pages of a book to push his way into my life story. With that, the circle was complete.

I was lost. I might've been falling. Behind my eyelids, I saw unwanted flashes of the impersonal performance sex I did for a living. Hotel rooms. Rich men. Emotions tainted with the knowledge whatever was received wasn't freely given.

But this wasn't that. This was the unfamiliar feeling of being wanted for desire's sake. I wouldn't get anything in exchange except memories. During the lonely nights in the future, the memories would have to prevail.

I rocked in and out of Aurie, and her provocative undulations met my thrusts. Gazing at her was like staring at a work of art. Her curly mane spilled across the pillows. She thrashed her head, her lips parted in throaty affirmations. Every other word was 'oh, yes,' 'oh, god.'

Simultaneously, Zyr clutched my shoulders, riding me harder from behind. My sex constricted around him as he slammed into me, quickening my ardor in a way I had never experienced. I was ready to transcend my "mortal coil."

When his wet digit probed my ass, I bucked faster, unable to stop. The intensity made my cock spring from Aurie's saturated womanhood. Zyr frantically wrapped his hand around my dick and jerked me off.

"Zyr, Zyr—wait!" I clamored, but it was too late.

I cried out, dousing Aurie's quivering stomach with my ejaculate. I desperately rubbed her clit to make up for the fast release and was rewarded with an unexpected geyser of sweet girl cum. Emitting a crescendo of moans, Aurie dragged me to her lips, and her orgasm exploded in my consciousness brighter than dynamite. Her ecstasy set off another one for me.

Gods, why? There was no maybe—I was definitely falling for them.

Zyr released a primal grunt and plunged to the hilt as he poured his load inside. I felt his hot spunk fill me up, and my orgasmic orifice sucked every drop. It was like time suspended as we basked in the ambiance of pure passion.

Until we collapsed. Three damned souls. One of us already dead.