Something poked and pushed at my mind. I knew I was dreaming but couldn't figure out how to wake myself up enough to stop the intrusion. "Hollyn." I recognized that voice. It was straight out of my living nightmare. The master had found me. "Hollyn. You shouldn't have run. And you shouldn't have harmed Mattias. We are coming for you. All of us. The destruction that happens now can all be laid at your feet."I shook my head. "No. No. You stay away. I won't let you hurt them."Talking to that voice was my greatest mistake and would become my downfall. It latched onto something inside me. Something so deep I didn't know where to find it in my own psyche. I lay there paralyzed as whatever it was slid under my physical skin. Like foxtails from the Valley that burrowed in my heels, it slithered and permeated my entire body. It tainted my soul with its darkness. My eyes flashed open as adrenaline poured through my system. I had to get out of here. They were coming. They wer
Hollyn smiled. "No, thanks. They aren't my type."I chuckled, the sound a little strained even to my ears. "Tove, can you get started on finding information?"He nodded and jogged from the room. I looked down at the woman in my arms. "Thank you. We'll make this right. They won't ever harm you again.""Damn right they won't," Tag added. He tugged on a lock of her hair, pulling her head around to look at him. He leaned up, got right in her face. "Not cool, trying to leave under the cover of darkness. We're going to have words about that."She skimmed her lavender gaze all over the planes of his face. They ended on his lips. "Can I kiss you?" She flicked her gaze up to look at his eyes quickly. "Anytime," he said, his rolling thunder voice like a storm that was still off in the distance. He brought his lips to hers. She leaned over to increase the contact, which shoved her ass deeper into my lap. A low, shaky moan left her as Tag opened his mouth over hers. She followed h
"Good. I'm keeping you all, too." She turned her head and sealed her statement with a kiss against Thane's palm. I branded her words on my soul. I'd never wanted to be kept. Never wanted to belong to just one person. Parts of me still thought I didn't deserve happiness. How could I with all the death and destruction on my hands?But this woman...she forced me to live in the light with her. We could be the shade for each other when the light became blinding, but we would do it together. I was never letting her go. This was the one woman I was meant to find. I brushed my lips over her forehead as Thane moved down her body. "What do you call your sex?" I asked. No time for shame or embarrassment. We were going to get to know every single part of her by the time we walked out of this room. A dark smile crossed my face. Or she crawled or one of us carried her out of this room. That would be fine with me, too. Hollyn looked up at me. "My curse." Her expression was open and hone
I knew men liked sex. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why women kept having it. But each year we had more and more babies in the village. Maybe it was just me who didn't like it.But hey, if it meant, I got to walk around naked...they could do whatever they wanted. Especially since Tagan said they weren't going to put their wie-cocks inside me. I had never liked that. I settled in to win a bet that had no possible downside for me. And if it got too bad, then they'd even given me a way out. I had no idea what butterfingers was or were, but I cherished the idea that they'd let me stop everything if I didn't like it. "Are you going to pay attention or just play around in your head, Stretch?" Thane asked from somewhere near my knees. I lifted my head. "Oh sorry. Had you already started?" Oops. I didn't know I was supposed to act like I was participating. They should have stated that on the outset. "Buuuurn," Tove said. Thane just chuckled. "I can take it. I'm jus
It was a close thing, but I gripped the base of my dick so hard I almost popped it off in order not to cum. Watching Hollyn experience her first orgasm, and that it was with all three of us, had fire tickling my belly and tingles spreading through my cock. Her screams trailed off as her body relaxed. She sank into the bed, her chest heaving, sweat glistening on her forehead. She blinked slowly, looking more like she was about to pass out than trying to wake up.I bit her thigh to ease her in the right direction. Her leg twitched as she smiled. "Yes, Toven?"The smoke and sex in her voice sent shivers down my spine. "Nothing. Just wanted to make sure you were still with us.""I'm still here. And I will gladly admit defeat in our bet." She tipped her head back to look at Tag. "Does that mean I have to wear clothes?" She sounded so sad about the idea. He snickered. "You can wear whatever you damn well please, sweetcheeks. But just know, we might be bugging you for sex all t
I pinched the bridge of my nose as a headache set up residence directly behind my right eyeball. "Okay. One more time."Tove heaved a sigh. "I didn't find anything on Alder Valley other than some housing developments in different states. Apparently, alder trees aren't as poplar." He snickered at his terrible pun. "The information on druids and the Grove of the Oaks is spotty at best. There are a couple of groups who use that term in their religious practice, but I can't find any of them near here. The only thing I've found that's even close to being about nature and Druidry is The Copse Initiative. The guys who tried to kidnap Hols. They're supposedly a small subsidiary company of a shell company of a bigger company that's all about trying to bring back more trees after all the deforestation done by big business." "That still makes me sick to my stomach. I might not hold a lot of the values that the Oaks did, but bulldozing forests just to make paper?" Hollyn covered her mouth
"What is it again when you have three of one number and two of another?" Sweetcheeks asked. I threw down my cards on the table with a groan. "Full house." I narrowed my eyes as I studied her. There was no way she was this good. Beginner's luck notwithstanding. She shot me a smile, red brushing her cheeks. "How many hands is this that's she's won?" Tove asked, a look of disgust on his face. "Fifteen?""Seventeen," Thane said. She bounced in her chair, a little butt wiggle thing that was driving me to distraction with how it made her tits jiggle under her shirt. I was going to need another fucking cold shower before I could get to bed. And jerking off in the cold water was my least favorite of all jerk sessions. But I wouldn't wipe the smile off her face for anything in the world. Even calling her a cheater. Which I'm ninety-nine percent sure she is. She's either cheating or been playing for a lot longer than a couple hours. "Maybe we should play for stakes," Tove sai
Keep it cool, man. You're going to freak her out. Keep it cool. Keep it cool. Keep it cool. I couldn't fucking believe that I was the winner at poker. And that even though we were both just going to sleep, I got the girl as the spoils of victory. Nothing spoiled about her. If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that I'd get a smart, beautiful, wildly awesome woman like Hollyn, I would say not to worry about being dorky with computers and numbers and DnD. In the end, it didn't matter. I pushed open the door, hit the lights. They turned to the lowest setting automatically as the windows darkened. My California King size bed looked massive. I almost wished I had a double, hell even a single, so I could snuggle with this crazy, sexy woman all night long. She sank to her knees next to the bed, giving me a mind-blowing view of her ass. "Night night, Tove." She sprawled out on the floor. My brow wrinkled. "What are you doing on the floor, Hols?" I asked quietly.