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“Time to party!” Loki shouts, and another cheer goes up asDancing in the Moonlightby Jubël and NEIMY starts to play over speakers placed around the clearing.

“I love this song!” I cry, quickly untangling myself from our binding, the guys chuckling at my enthusiasm.

Once free, I then drag them all to the dance floor that’s been set up to one side of the clearing behind us, a buffet table and bar on the other, beautifully decorated tables dotted around, glass jars of fairy lights twinkling on their surfaces.

We dance together, wide smiles splitting our faces, and as I look around to see all the people we love here with us, Jax holding our daughter who squeals with delight as he twirls around.

I can’t help but think that maybe, just maybe, it was all worth it. All the pain, all the uncertainty, all the heartache and trauma.

Because all of that led me to them. To my Knights. To the other parts of my soul.

And I wouldn’t be without them for any-fucking-thing.

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LILLY

Some hours later…

I’m still laughing as Loki drags me into the woods, the sounds of the party dying down the deeper into the trees we go. Moonlight surrounds us, lanterns lighting our way down a narrow path.

“Where are we going?” I giggle, clasping his forearm which feels fucking delicious as it flexes under my grip.

“Can’t ruin the surprise, Pretty Girl,” he chides me, his own teeth gleaming in the moonlight as he grins back at me.

Suddenly, I can see more lights between the trees, and we come out into another small clearing, a huge yurt covered in fairy lights sitting in the middle.

“Loki—” I gasp, pulling him to a stop. “What about Violet? She hasn’t spent a night away from me yet and I—” He cuts me off with a finger to my lips.

“She’s with Lexi at ours, and we won’t be sleeping here so we’ll be back with her before she wakes up. They have some expressed milk just in case,” he assures me, stepping closer until his body is flush with mine and I can feel his heat through my thin dress. “Just for an hour…or three, maybe four.” He gives me a wink and a cheeky grin that I just can’t resist.Cockwomble.

“Okay,” I agree, excitement making my fingers tingle, and my heart rate picking up. I love our daughter more than life, but having some time to be me again, to be us again, feels right and important. So that I remember that I’m still Lilly, as well as a mum.

“Good girl,” he praises, and I shiver, but not with cold as he drags me the rest of the way.

He pushes open the flap, and I step inside, taking a sharp inhale at the beautiful sight before me. Colour is everywhere; bright rugs and cushions dotted around, plus an enormous bed in the middle of the floor, and it’s all lit up with soft candlelight coming from countless tea lights in jars as well as more fairy lights in the roof space.

“Do you like it, Princess?” Ash asks, stepping from the shadows, and I swallow as I take in his naked, tattooed chest, his linen trousers slung low on his hips, and his feet bare as he stalks towards me.

“It’s breathtaking,” I tell him, not taking my eyes off his stunning body, tilting my head upwards as he gets nearer so that I can look into his beautiful, swirling grey eyes.

“I’m glad that you approve,” he replies, one side of his lips tilted up in a half grin that he knows drives me crazy. His long fingers reach out to hook under the shoulder of my dress.

The belt falls to the ground with a soft thud, the sound of the zipper at the back being undone fills the quiet as Loki undoes my dress, Ash pulling first one shoulder down, then the other. The dress pools at my feet in a rainbow puddle on the floor, and I watch as Ash’s face goes slack when he takes in my white corset, matching lace thong, and white suspenders and stockings.

“Do you like it?” I ask, parroting his own words back at him, my voice low and husky at the hunger in his eyes.

“You’re breathtaking,” he repeats my words back to me, reaching out again to run his musician’s fingers across the top of my breasts. My skin pebbles as I shiver under his touch. “I believe that Jax owes you a kiss.”

My breath stutters, heat flooding my core as Jax’s words from earlier fill my mind.

“I’ll get a proper kiss between those sweet thighs later, Baby Girl.”

The man himself emerges from the shadows, and Ash steps aside to allow Jax to stand before me, also shirt and shoeless. His body practically thrums with power, and something in me preens at the sheer masculinity that rolls off him in intoxicating waves. The soft sounds of music fill the air as he sinks to his knees,365by Mother’s Daughter, and I know it’s Loki’s doing as I’ve been obsessed with this artist recently.

I squeak when Jax grabs my arse, his huge hands squeezing my cheeks to the point of pain, and he yanks me closer. He buries his nose in my lace-clad cunt, taking a massive inhale, and heat floods my core, ruining my knickers further as he rubs his face in my scent like a cat. A big, fucking gorgeous cat.

“You always smell so fucking good,” he growls the words, his hot breath brushing over the dampness and leaving me trembling.

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