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“No!”

“Hell no!”

“Fuck no!”

All three men voiced their displeasure simultaneously, making me roll my eyes in defiance. It’s almost like they’d forgotten how little control they had over the decisions I made, if we couldn’t make a decision together then I wouldn’t let them make one for me.

Backstory?

We woke up this morning feeling more refreshed and connected than ever—all thanks to the marking ritual and some mind blowing sex—and we all blurted out the same idea at breakfast as a result. Of course we said it in different words, but the crust of the matter was that it all pointed to luring out the Shahato.

It was decided that we needed to set a bait for them they way they’d done to us a number of times because the only way we could crush them once and for all is if we had the upper hand for once.

However, the second I offered to myself as bait, they all seemed to lose their shit and shut down the whole thing without even bothering to listen to the well thought out plan I’d de