I was at a loss for words, but I was also relieved and excited to see him here after avoiding him all day. I missed him and his pack, even though I didn’t admit that to him yet.
“It was tough,” said Ryder. “After Ethan’s blunder, I thought we blew our cover completely. But when Ethan told them that Jordan was abusing you, they gave you over to us.”
“Oh, thank goodness,” I said, whispering just in case the cameras on the ceiling could hear us. The little red light blinking in the dark reminded me to be careful. “I know who the stalker is.”
“Jordan?” hissed Ethan.
“Yes,” I said.
“I should’ve let Ethan kill him then,” said Ryder, sighing as he lay still beside me. “I need to touch you in case anyone is watching through the cameras. Is that okay, Lacy?”
“Yes,” I said without hesitation. I missed him, and I missed his touch especially. He laid a hand on my arm as we talked for several minutes, catching up. He told me about talking to my mom on the phone and being at my house. “Do you have a plan on how we’re going to get out of here?”
“I do, but it’s vague,” said Ryder. “I’ve seen alpha handlers walk omegas around the compound, and I was thinking we could try that tomorrow morning. Then we make a run for it.”
“Ooh,” I said, feeling excited now. I was so ready to go back home. “But we need to take Olivia too.”
“I’ll try, but my priority is you,” said Ryder, rubbing my belly over the sheets. Ethan was rubbing my back, his hot breaths on my neck. It made my skin tingle and my pussy throb. Ryder pulled the sheet down, and his eyes widened upon seeing my nude body. “Why aren’t you wearing pajamas?”
I gulped as I saw his cock straining against his black bathrobe. They were both wearing a bathrobe, naked underneath, as all the alphas wore around here during their night shift.
“They require us to be naked,” I said, breathing hard as he pulled the sheets down further, and he got in underneath with me.
His eyes roamed the length of my body.
Ethan tugged on my shoulder until I lay on my back between them, naked and covered with the sheets but with them under it with me. I placed a hand over my throbbing pussy, shy for them to look. I was shaved everywhere, but I was still shy around them, even though both had knotted me.
“Did they hurt you?”
“Last night,” I started to say, but my voice shook. I never expected to cry, but I could already feel the waterworks approaching.
“What happened last night, sweetheart?” asked Ryder, his hand steady over my belly, warm and comforting. I could hear Ethan muttering to himself that he wished he had killed Jordan when he got the chance.
“The stalker, but he’s also my ex-boyfriend Jordan,” I said. “He wouldn’t stop touching me even though I cried for him to stop.”
I couldn’t look at Ryder or Ethan. I could already feel their energy changing to hostile anger.
“He’s a sick fuck,” said Ryder.
“It’s okay now,” I said in a lighter voice. I didn’t want them to be angry right now. “I’m so happy you’re here now. You have no idea how relieved I feel.”
“We should have come sooner. Adrian was fucking right for once,” growled Ethan, rubbing my arm.
“Aww, I miss Adrian,” I said, smiling and trying to lighten the mood. I couldn’t let my mood damper them coming here. Ryder kissed away my tears that I didn’t know rolled down my face. I was touched that Adrian still thought of me and wanted to see how I was.
“It’s alphas like your ex that ruin it for the rest of us,” said Ryder. “Not all of us are like that.”
“I know,” I said, letting out a long, shuddering breath.
For a few minutes, we were quiet as we listened to doors opening and closing down the hall. I listened to the alphas breathing beside me. It felt nice to have them beside me, and I felt much safer than I had in days. I felt bad for Olivia, who was probably suffering with some alpha jerk in her room, but she said he wasn’t that bad. He simply cuddled her every night without violating her. I didn’t tell her my experience with Jordan since I didn’t want to scare her even more than she already was.
“We shouldn’t have left you,” said Ethan. “I’m sorry, honey.”
“After we left you that night,” said Ryder, and I could tell he was deep in thought, remembering. I didn’t want to remember all the embarrassing things I yelled at him about. I wanted to forget and start over. “It was hard to let go and forget about you, knowing you were in danger. I shouldn’t have allowed myself to walk out that door.”
“Don’t feel bad because if you didn’t, I would’vereallyflipped out,” I said. “I didn’t want to see reason after what you did to me.”
Tempers were high that night, and there was no way I was going to let the bodyguards stay in my house after getting spanked by them.