Page 26 of Pleasantly Undead in Dark River

The little girl swallowed deliberately and grinned. Damn she was cute, and it changed her face completely from a small shadow to a normal, happy kid. I was determined that they would all smile again, or so help me, I was going to track down their alpha and castrate him.

We put them in Tex’s room, all together in Tex’s queen size bed, and streamed Disney movies. Nico had bought them a week's worth of outfits, pajamas, toothbrushes and combs, and then thoughtful things I would have never thought of: backpacks and soft teddy bears. Flashlights to keep away the monsters in the dark.

I settled them in, and they continued to watch me with wary eyes. “If you guys need anything, we’re right outside. We’ll be awake because, well, we are vampires and we are night creatures. So just yell, okay?” I paused at the door and looked at Christopher. “Is there, uh, anywhere you actually want to go? Family? Grandparents or Aunts or something?”

Christopher shook his head. “No. We belong nowhere.”

I smiled softly at him. “Well, that's not true anymore.”

I shut the door most of the way, though left it cracked a little. The guys were all seated around the living room. Judge was sitting on the couch, running his hands through Tex’s hair as he sat on the floor between his knees. Lucius was giving him a weird look. I tensed, wondering if he was going to have a problem with it.

He turned to me and raised an eyebrow. “Is the snake shifter an Incubus too? Because I think he has broken one of vampire-kinds most feared killers.”

Everyone turned and stared at him, and X got the giggles again. “Did Lucius the Bloodletter just crack a joke? Maybe you’ve broken him too, Love, with the power of your magical vagina.”

I flushed bright red and glared at X, who waltzed over and kissed me like he had every damn right. Which I guess he did. I curled into him and he moaned. “Soon, Love. Soon I’m going to wrap this beautiful body in ribbons and fuck you in every position I can think of.” He gave a put-upon sigh. “Might be hard now we have kids, and all that.” He thrust his hard dick into my lower stomach. “Who am I kidding? It’s already hard.”

Judge rolled his eyes. “X, it’s too fuckin’ early for your dick jokes.”

Nico sat beside Walker, so I went over and smooshed my butt between them. “Is it bad I just want to put this problem on the back-burner for like a month?”

Nico stroked his hand through my hair and I tried not to purr. “Not at all. But it probably isn’t in their best interest to be in limbo that long.”

Lucius came around, standing with his back to the wall, even as X walked over and laid down by my feet, his head in Tex’s lap.

“Pet me, Snakelet. That looks nice.”

Tex looked from me to Judge, and then back at me. Then he shrugged and started scraping his nails down X’s scalp. The man in question moaned loudly and closed his eyes. It was pornographic. My pussy throbbed and then the shifters all groaned. Brody sighed heavily from his place in the armchair. “Seriously, Pup. Don’t make him feel good or he’ll be pushing for an orgy instead of working shit out.”

X muttered something under his breath that sounded like “Killjoy,” but Brody was right. Though, I briefly wondered how an orgy with seven guys would actually work. I mean, Judge and Tex would be fine, because they were as into each other as they were into me. And X would flit anywhere there was pleasure. Would I be trapped between the bodies of Brody and Walker, or maybe between Nico and Lucius. The idea of two identical bodies fucking me at the same time made a shiver of pleasure run down my spine.

“Rainey Day, whatever you are thinking about, I need you to either stop or get naked and let me fuck you over the back of the couch. Your choice.”

X rubbed the front of his tactical pants, his dick tenting them. “I vote option two. And then that orgy.”

My eyes dropped to Lucius, whose fangs were out, and his mouth was open a little as if he was eating the lust in the air. Would that be enough to keep him sane? I didn’t think so.

But it was enough to bring me back to the present. “Sorry. You’re right, Brody.” I took a deep breath and told my errant vagina to calm her flaps because we had responsibilities now. It wasn’t just a twenty-four seven fuckfest.

“What is the problem?” Lucius asked, frowning.

Judge rolled his eyes. “You dropped three children onto our doorstep, Lucius. Three shifter children. The problem is what do we do with them?”

He frowned again. “They are a gift. You said you liked the omega.”

He really didn’t get it. I stood, and Nico’s fingers lingered on my spine, a small warning. I smiled over my shoulder at him as I walked over to his mirror image. “I do like them. But they are people, Lucius. You can’t give people as gifts.”

He frowned. “People have been giving other humans as gifts for centuries.”

Well, I couldn’t argue with that. It was reasonably recent in human history that slavery was abolished. To a vampire? That would have been like yesterday. “You’re right, but it’s kind of frowned upon now. They have feelings like you and me. They deserve to be free, not treated like a hamster or something.”

He bit his bottom lip. “So you actually don’t like them.”

I stepped forward, and put a hand on his arm, stepping into his body. I could feel the tension in the men behind me, but I couldn't explain it to them, but this Lucius? He didn’t make me feel scared. I didn’t think he would hurt me purposefully. Was I still going to tread carefully so I didn’t get Carol Baskined?

Fuck yeah.

He looked down at me, his eyes watching me carefully. “I think you giving them to me is the best thing ever. It was a noble thing to do, even if you didn’t mean it to be. They will have a life now that isn’t one of servitude, and that’s a gift without price. So thank you.” I lifted my hand and pulled his face down toward me, and then kissed him softly. He tasted like strawberry bubblegum, and I was so surprised I almost pulled away. When his hand slid into my hair and he deepened the kiss, I felt like he was drinking me down. He could really kiss, and it left me breathless.

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