His grip on me tightened. "The hell you are."
As the others moved to surround me, I yanked out of his grasp and stepped back, facing the group of them. I pulled myself up to my full height and lifted my chin, the picture of all kinds of stubborn. "I'm going. She told me to bleach the ground when I left so none of you could follow me. That's not fair to you, so I'm not doing it. But I'm going, and you don't have any right to stop me."
"We don't have any right, and we're not going to force you to stay with us," Hudson said. "But we have every right to be concerned about you. We're pushing too hard? Fine. Tell us. You just did. It's not safe. She's not safe. She hasn't been right since Becca died."
"Lillian always sucked, but that broke her," Gabe frowned.
Leo reached out to me. I took his hand and he drew me into his arms. The others followed him, a big huddle of puppies. "We're just worried about you. We already suffered one loss, Sadie. Can you blame us for being jumpy?"
"I could blame you, but it wouldn't be right," I said, leaning into his chest. Then I smiled up at him. "I could take all your minds off of it, for a little while."
Gabe and Hudson gave quiet growls. The pack of alphas around me tightened in formation and I squirmed out from them. "Catch me if you can."
And off I ran, straight into the house. They'd been there for a week or so, I'd lived there a huge portion of my life. I knew every nook, every cranny, and I was going to use them to my advantage. I took off for the nearly hidden linen closet upstairs and heard feet pounding behind me. I ducked away, dove through a bedroom door, and listened to those feet trot off in another direction.
For now, at least, they were using their eyes not their noses. When they did, I'd be in trouble. And to be perfectly honest, I was surprised that my distraction had worked. My men were wonderfully smart.
Too smart for such a ploy. Xavion caught me around the waist as I burst out of the bedroom, intent on the linen closet. He cheered out to the others, "I got her!"
I laughed and demanded he let me go, squirming in his grasp. Delight and the promise of carnal pleasure pulsed through me, my connection with the rest of the pack burning with lust. He carried me into my bedroom and I grabbed him by the hair, kissing him as he bore me into the mattress.
Gabe showed up first, our first-time duo completed once more. He chucked his shirt across the way, stripping himself as he came toward us. Xav growled at him, pulled him close, and pressed him into me as well.
Leo was next, his eyes snapping with feral intent. He prowled to the bed, climbed on it, and I reached for his top. My hand caught it, grabbed the front, and tore the buttons off. They scattered across the mattress, me, and the floor, and I pulled him down with the rest of us.
It wasn't until Hudson joined that the fervor of the room changed. He came to me as I waited, sitting up in the bed and staring at him. Slowly, he left his shoes by the door and watched as the boys surrounded me. The three of them were on their hands and knees, their fingers spread upon the surface of the bed as if they intended to keep him from joining us by taking up as much space as they could.
His eyes narrowed and he strode across the room, a king among kings, and looked down at me. Like the first picture I'd seen of him, it took my breath away. I met him, eye to eye, and he descended on me. His teeth snapped into the mark on my neck, breaking and refreshing it. Hands tore at my clothes, shucking them from me in a thrilling, breathless instant. I arched off the bed as someone's teeth bit into a nipple, a cry of agonized ecstasy bursting from my throat.
On my little twin bed, in the room I'd grown up in, I'd dreamt of terrifying monsters; feral animals, who would tear me apart. And in that perfect moment, they did. Hudson shattered me in twain, Gabe brought me back together, and Xavion and Leo took turns ruining and fixing me time and time again.
I lost track of who was where, knowing only that someone was between my legs hilted deep in that sweet spot. A second alpha was busy marking me as his own, taking what Hudson had already claimed on the opposite side of my neck. A third offered himself to me and I took that beautiful, uncut, dark cock into my mouth. The fourth was fixated on my pleasure, demanding that I writhe and buck in time with the others.
And I did. My body was no longer my own, falling to pieces under the needs of my men and loving every moment of it.
Over and over again I was filled, filled to bursting. Each of my alphas took their turn, and I took their knot. While we were tied, the three that remained loose kept me occupied. Kisses were exchanged, hands explored, and I was completely enraptured by their flesh as they were mine.
When, at last, Leo lay over my back completely exhausted, his knot buried deep within me, the pack collapsed as one. We fell to the mattress, which was far too small for all the hijinks we had just kicked up, and panted for all we were worth. Every inch
