Ben nodded. “Why is he after us?”

“Not us. Aoife,” Adam sighed.

“She’s not human, though. It should be no problem that you two are together.”

“I’ll explain when we get home. We’ll have a meeting. Until then, we have to lie low for a while. Okay?”

Ben nodded. “Fine. I’ll go back home and take care of my blue balls.”

“Sorry.”

Ben waved his hand in defeat and made his way to the portal. The portal would land him close to the woods where their home was, but it would still be a long walk back up to their woods.

Adam went outside of the bubble and Aoife was standing in the shadows, he could see her inky black eyes glinting under the street light.

“You ready?” she asked.

“You got the human off safely?”

She nodded. “Yep. She should have no memory. Uh, Benjamin didn’t come, did he?”

“How the hell would I know that?” Adam asked.

“Well, she’s ovulating, so I thought I would ask.”

Shit.

“I don’t think so. He was grumbling about blue balls.”

Aoife chuckled softly. “Let’s hope it’s not too bad for him. Are you ready to get back home?”

Adam nodded and then scooped her up. For a brief moment, he had the sudden urge to carry her in behind the hedge maze and fuck her. Maybe it was all the pheromones in the air, he didn’t know, but he resisted the primal mating urge. It could wait until he got home. He had a private cabin to do that. First, he had to talk to his brothers about what was going on and whyPrince Ivar was after Aoife. Once that was all settled, he’d take her back to his bed and lick her until she came on his lips.

Then he’d fuck the brains out of his little banshee.

4

Aoife still couldn’t believe Adam had six other brothers and they were all just as burly, hairy, and tall as him. It was apparent that their mother was a fan of the fifties’ musical,Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, because of how she’d named them. Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ethan, Frank and Gideon.

Some of the brothers, like Benjamin, Ethan, and Gideon, looked a little bit more like a mountain ape than Adam did. They had a more pronounced brow and jaw. The others had the softer features like their mother.

She could definitely see the appeal to human women when they were carried off by these behemoths of males and why they didn’t come back. Especially if they were anything like Adam. The Sasquatch scent or love spell, as she heard Ben call it, was potent indeed. There were rumors that the magical black market also killed off young yetis to harvest that pheromone for aphrodisiacs.

It was that potent and valuable.

There was some truth to that, because frankly, after being fucked by bigfoot, she understood the so-called spell. It was thebest sex she’d ever had in her life. It was transcendent, which is why she almost did cross the veil and cross realms during that mind-blowing orgasm.

It was taking everything in her will power not to drag Adam back into the cabin and ride him again. This was all lust on her part. Just thinking about Adam made her wet with need, but he had a job to do. He had a family to take care of. Something she was not used to in her messed-up family. They were all huddled around a campfire in a clearing near the lake so Adam could explain to his brothers who she was and why they were all in danger.

Honestly, she felt incredibly guilty about the whole thing.

It wasn’t fair for her to impose on them. It was her fault for running away and throwing herself at Adam when he offered her a safe haven, but he was so damn sexy, so sweet. No one had ever been so kind to her before. Especially when others just wanted to use her.

Adam didn’t.

And she loved him for it. In fact, she was falling for him completely.

Her body flushed with heat as she watched him. A primal urge overtook her and she wanted his cock buried deep inside her.