When we reach the door to the gymnasium, everyone stops to look at us. The roar of the crowd dims to more of a purr. I feel like I am in one of those nightmares where you feel like everyone is looking at you. Only I’m awake and everyone is actually looking at me. This isn’t my imagination! “Uh,” I
Wyatt and I slowly circle each other, neither of us ready to make the first move. As I’ve been trained, in part by the women fighters of the underground tournament, I let the background noises, the roars and jeers of the crowd, fade away into the background. Instead, I focus fully on Wyatt. Every
Smaller, we thought, than a ponytail. Unfortunately, for all of his misses, Wyatt catches me here. I jolt back, captured. He roars as he throws me head first toward the floor. I lift my arm to save my head, but my body collides with the full impact of his throw. The breath knocks clean out of me
When I blink my eyes open, I’m in my bed in the Pyramid. Steven is beside me, resting on the edge of the bed. My ribs ache, but the pain isn’t so all-encompassing this time. It’s more a dull thrum, present, unavoidable, but not overwhelming. “You have several broken ribs,” Steven says. He delivers
“Please get back in bed.” “Chloe, please.” “You need to rest.” And finally, “You are as stubborn as Neil is.” Eventually, I make to Neil’s room. The door is open, a nurse and Beau are inside. “What the hell is this?” Beau demands. He jumps to his feet. “Steven?” “She wanted to see Neil,”
The ceremony to remove Wyatt as the Hayes’s Beta, it turns out, is not all that formal. It mainly consists of all of the brothers and a witness to the declaration of dismissal. We don’t even have to dress up. Thank the Gods. I really doubt I could squeeze my broken and battered ribs into any kind
“You don’t think he’s still here?” Beau asks Archer. Archer’s face tightens, grim. Without a word, he heads for the door. Beau, cursing, starts to follow. “What’s happening?” I call after them. “Stay here, Chloe. Stay with Neil,” Beau shouts back. Mia starts to fuss more. “She’s hungry,”
Wyatt – a spy? For Alpha King Hayes? “We found all of these in his room,” Beau says. “He left them out everywhere, sitting there like he wanted us to find them. Bastard is mocking us.” “Here,” Archer says, shuffling through the papers. “List after list. Our schedules. The girls we’ve seen. The c
“Archer…” I start, but I’m still not sure. I don’t want to ruin the surprise. After all, he could just be guessing. The taxi pulls up in front of City Hall. Stepping out onto the sidewalk, I’m immediately bombarded with the flashes of cameras and the shouts of questions. “Mrs. Hayes!” the call f
“It hasn’t even been that long since I left them,” I tell Archer as he and I ride side by side in the back of a truck away from the border lands and back towards home. “But everyone’s so anxious.” I can feel it through the bond. “Can you blame them?” Archer asks. “Their mate is living a life as a
“You’ve been fucked all night, but it’s not enough, is it? You need this dick.” He takes himself in hand and slowly begins to stroke from base to tip. A bead of precum glistens at his slit. I lick my lips, desperate to taste it. “You want to suck my dick, slut?” Archer asks. He steps closer to m
When I awaken, I’m cradled in the safety of Neil’s arms, my cheek to his chest with him carding his fingers through my hair. Lifting my head, he pauses, watching me as I take in our surroundings. This bed has gotten lower somehow or… wait… “We broke the bed,” I say, looking around. “Yes,” Neil
“Show me,” he says. I know what he’s asking me to do. Slowly I place my hands on my shoulders, then trail them down, gently massaging my breasts. I pluck my nipples, gasping. It’s only partially for show. With how much I’ve explored my body while sleeping with these brothers, I know exactly what I
I’m not sure how long I’m on that roof, with Beau holding me in his arms. Gently, he licks at the mark he’s made as if attempting to soothe it. It’s already healed, I can tell, though it never really hurt when he gave it to me. The opposite, actually. “You really are incredible, Nanny,” Beau says,
After snooping, his ear pressed to the door to Steven’s lab, Beau storms back toward the living room where his other brother’s await, furious. “He’s fucking her!” Archer tenses at once, sharing Beau’s outrage. Neil seems annoyed but remains infuriatingly calm like normal. “We’ll each get our t
He glances back at me like clockwork. This time, his eyes widen, seeing my new position. His nostrils flare, scenting the air. I’m not unaffected either, not by any of this. The brothers feel a pull to me, but I feel that pull four times over. I want their bites. I need their bites. That they
As the four brothers look at me with desire burning in their eyes, exhilaration and anticipation rush through me. For so long, I worried about who my mate might be and how I could manage to stay with the Hayes brothers. Now that I belong to them – almost officially, soon as I have their bites – I ca