Reckoning: A Reverse Harem Tale (Mountain Magic Book 3)

the lack of a shower made me think about another lack.
"Nikolai, what are we doing for a bathroom?"
"Tree?"
"I'm a girl."
He laughed. "Go behind tree."
"Burr."
"You are mage. Use your magic. It will be fine."
"Right." He did have a good point. "How about a kitchen?"
"Have some ideas. I will work on that tomorrow. Have to hope the wolves get a deer tonight. Doc got a few things for breakfast, I think. Will work it out."
"Okay."
"Now, it is possible to create canvas and bindings from other materials, but takes a great deal of effort. Much easier to simply shape existing canvas. I will teach you other method some time, for now, join your magic with mine and follow along."
I did enjoy this method of learning magic. His energies melding with mine caressed our bodies, reaching places we couldn't touch with only our hands.
When he stepped behind me, pressing his chest to my back, and putting his arms around me, the awareness between me and him heightened. Electric tingles spread up and down my body, originating where he pressed into me and setting all my nerves alight.
"You know," I whispered, "It is more distracting with you pressed into me. Thought you wanted to concentrate."
"I can concentrate while aroused."
I leaned back into him, knowing his self-control wasn't amazing and rubbed my ass against his firm erection.
Nikolai moaned. "If we weren't about to get snowed on…" He growled.
It was my turn to laugh. "So, the spell?"
Nikolai grumbled but returned to our magic.
Doc had finished making the bed and lounged on it. I avoided looking directly at him, though I could feel the heat of his desire through our pack bond. I might lose my control if I did, and I also didn't want to get snowed on.
Nikolai and I melded our magics together more tightly than we had yet managed before. I caught my breath, a little intimidated. "Is it supposed to be like that?"
"Sometimes, yes. It is rare. Demon left you with some gifts, also our magic already resonated strongly. Is good." He kissed my cheek then turned his attention back to the spell we shaped.
"This spell reshapes the canvas. Is harder if you don't know exactly what shape you need. I am very familiar with yurts. Goes like this."
I memorized everything Nikolai did as my lavender and his deep blue magic sank into the canvas. Shivering as the cloth changed under our direction, I vaguely recalled a kids' movie about a mage accidently bringing inanimate objects to life. It hadn't gone well for the mage, and I suspected anti-supernatural politics had fueled the popular cartoon.
Nikolai rested his cheek against the side of my head. "Doing great."
Once the canvas had reshaped, Nikolai showed me how to craft another spell to lift the canvas onto the frame. Then, he showed me how to bind it with the rope and secure it.
"Now, we cast a few extra spells to make weatherproof. Yurts without mages are weatherproof but use different methods to achieve this. We cheat."
Once we had finished, he kissed me again before pushing a little of his magic into me, arching my back and almost making me orgasm right as I stood there.
"Speaking of cheating," I gasped out as my legs buckled. He grabbed my arm, as if he had been expecting that reaction.
"Complaining?" he asked, voice mischievous.
I shook my head.
"Good. We should not keep Doc waiting then." He scooped me up in his arms, my legs still too weak for me to protest. Suddenly I figured out the obvious. Nikolai wanted me and Doc at the same time. I didn't know how that would work, but I trusted Nikolai. It wasn't like I hadn't already done things with more than one of them at once, but this was more intense. I fully intended to have sex with Nikolai and I was pretty sure he was on the same page as me by his urgent strides as he carried me into the yurt.
"Do you want me to leave?" Doc asked when Nikolai set me gently down on the freshly made bed. I pulled off my shoes when Nikolai stepped back. Doc was already barefoot.
"No, of course not," Nikolai replied. He glanced at me and I shook my head.
Nikolai shed his jacket and boots then frowned and waved his hand. Blue motes filled the air and my breath no longer fogged the air as it warmed to a comfortable temperature. "Forgot that one."
My breath caught as he pulled his shirt off. Though he wasn't as overtly muscular as the werewolves were, Nikolai had hard, lean muscles from a lifetime of wielding a sword, along with his magic. I wanted to trail my hands up those muscles and trace the scar that ran from his collarbone down across his chest, ending on his opposite hip.
Doc's gaze roamed over the mage, too, drinking in his exquisitely hardened body.
Nikolai climbed on the bed and I scooted toward Doc to give him space. He studied us for a moment before his lips turned up and his dark brown eyes sparkled with a hint of blue from his magic.
He reached for me and I moved into his grasp, getting my wish to run my hands up his sculpted muscles as he met my lips with his. His strong hands clutched at my back and I dug my nails into him. Nikolai groaned appreciatively and devoured my lips. After a moment, when it was still just us, Nikolai paused.
"Doc, you do understand how this works, yes?" Nikolai looked over my shoulder at him.
"I have an idea," Doc said dryly.
"Then perhaps you would do us the favor of touching one or both of us?"
"I wasn't sure."
Nikolai smirked. "Surely you've done this before?"
"In a group? No. Well. Yes. But no."
"Which is it?"
I laughed and claimed Nikolai's mouth again before he could get more frustrated or embarrass Doc more.
"Group sex, no? Group lots of other things that eventually lead to sex but haven't yet, yes," I answered Nikolai after pulling back from the kiss.
"What Sofia said,"