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“I keep thinking you need protecting, that we need to be careful, respectful, but you don’t want that.” Ash ground out every word, his grip on my throat tightening. “Everything Mum tried to teach us was wrong. You don’t need to be treated like a lady. If we put you on a pedestal, you’d jump right off and drag us down with you into a freefall. So if you want all of it, every single thing we’ve got, you take my brothers’ knots.” My moan of anticipation was muffled by him as I felt Jax and Ronan grind deeper, my whole body screaming with the effort of letting them in. “And you drink down every fucking drop of my cum while you do it.”

My hand was snatched up and wrapped around his knot because Ash’s was hot and hard beneath my touch, as if it’d been swelling for years. His cock jumped in my throat, the first salty blast of pre-cum warning of what was to come. Jax’s fingers moved like lightning, teasing my clit so I perceived everything as pleasure and nothing of pain, right as Ronan’s fingers plucked at my nipples. I was overstimulated, overstuffed and somehow nothing before in my whole life was as perfect as this.

Then Ash had to go and top it off.

His hand slapped down on my skull, right as his breath grew ragged and he shifted the angle of my head so there was a straight line between my lips and my throat, and that’s where his cock went. I’d never successfully deep throated anyone, but I did now, Ash’s growl reverberating through the two of us once he lodged it in my throat.

“Fuck… fuck…” He pulled back regretfully, letting me suck in a breath before he was back again. “Here it comes. Swallow my fucking cum.”

And as he burst in my mouth, my body followed his lead, clamping down on the two of his brothers, their strangled sounds music in my ears, as the four of us were swept up in a wave of ecstasy.

When we collapsed onto the bed, the only sound for a while was our noisy gasps as we caught our breath. I was locked down tight by Jax and Ronan, both men cradling me close as my heart raced. But not to be outdone, Ash settled down at my head, resting it on his stomach as he stroked my hair.

“Sometimes I think I don’t know you at all,” he said in a sleepy voice. “You’re not the girl next door. You’re some kind of vixen, come to lead us into debauchery.”

“I’m your mate,” I replied, eyes closed, sleep ready to claim me. “There’s no other woman that’s perfect for you like I am, so I think that says as much about you as it does me.”

“Perhaps it does.” He brushed a butterfly kiss along my lips, but before I could return it, I drifted off to sleep.

Chapter52

“Well, well, look what the cat dragged in.” Gun smirked as we all straggled into the kitchen, the other Murder Daddies doing the same, even if Lois didn’t.

“Leave them alone,” she said, flicking her tea towel at her mate.

“What?” Gun looked utterly unrepentant. “I didn’t say a thing about the fact the boys have lost that pinched look on their faces.”

“And Stevie girl looks like she’s walking bowlegged.” Donk watched me sit down, his and the other dad’s eyebrows shooting up as I did so very, very carefully. “You alright, love? You look like you need a couple of ibuprofen and a lie down.”

“Lying down is what got me into this position in the first place,” I replied with a wink, which resulted in the dads laughing and Lois frowning.

“What did you do?” she snapped, eyeing her sons. “I told you—”

“They did exactly what I wanted them to.”

Omegas didn’t spend much time around each other as a rule, our instincts often meaning we would clash, neither party able to give ground. But I’d never felt that with Lois, not until now. She stared at me, the frown deepening rather than smoothing away, looking at me like I was a stranger, not the orphan who’d lurked in her kitchen.

“You know you’re like the mother I never had,” I said, and she softened slightly at that. “You were probably the only female role model I had growing up, but…” Her fingers tightened around the tea towel, the knuckles blanching white. “But I need different things than you do. What happened last night makes me ache in all the right places and I don’t want to lie down with some pain killers.” I looked around the tables at my mates. “I want to do it all again before the ache fades, if Ash can keep his head out of his arse.”

Both Jax and Ronan snorted at that, but the man himself just watched me steadily, those cogs of his whirring again.

“C’mon, Lois.” Gun dragged her down onto his lap, her hands going up into the air, fluttering like leaves before settling. “You know exactly what she means. You’ve been ridden hard and put away wet more times than I can count.”

She went to splutter at that, breath sucking into her lungs, but before she could get a word out, the big man brushed his lips against the back of her neck, then nuzzled into the curve of it, breathing her scent in.

And that’s when I felt I saw the real Lois, the adult one, for the first time.

She melted into her mate’s lap, the pretty omega who just wanted her family to be happy, in the arms of her big, bad mate. I watched her let out a long sigh before turning to me.

“As long as Stevie consents to everything that happens and the three of you make sure she’s happy and comfortable, then…” She forced herself to smile. “You’ll get no complaints from me. Though…” Her eyes hardened then as she stared at her boys. “If she comes to me with any concerns, we’ll be sitting you down for a stern talking to.”

Gun stifled a smile at her blustery words. It was a little like a chihuahua yapping at you. It was supposed to be all tough and scary, but was instead just cute.

“Well, now that’s sorted,” Blue said, putting his elbows on the dining table. “We’ve got news about the MCs.”

“We’ve got news too,” Ash said. “The company responsible for Rush is sending some people over and they should be arriving…” He looked at his watch. “Shortly.”

“So are the MCs,” Blue said, much more seriously. “Though that’s a little more complicated than we thought. They’re willing to take your money.”

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