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“What are you thinking?” Fox asks.

“I’m thinking I’d like to relax in my bedroom with you.” I glance around. “All of you, I mean. If that sounds like something you’d …”

I trail off in relief when they all start to nod at me.

It would have been awful to have that offer turned down.

I get to my feet. “I’ll go make the bed. I’ll come back when I’m done.”

I slip past Fox and out of the room.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Lita

Itakemytimemaking up the bed, spreading the sheets all over the floor of my bedroom. It doesn’t feel very soft when I’m done, but without a mattress there’s nothing more I can do about that.

I head into the bathroom and change into a nightdress, feeling strange about doing this during the day while I should be working in the kitchens with Alina. The whole town thinks I’m dead, which is the official reason why I’m home today, but she made me flush when she told me to be careful in ASL before she left for work.

She trusts her son and his brothers. She wouldn’t have let them into the house if she didn’t.

I don’t think she was worried about leaving me alone with them.

She knew they were my mates before I believed they were real.

I’m pretty sure she was only warning me so I wouldn’t rush anything I wasn’t ready for.

But the truth is, I feel ready for a mate.

I’ve been ready for that for a while now.

I just didn’t expect to find out I have four of them.

Especially not four huge, beautiful monsters of men.

They’ve already proven themselves to me, by saving my life and taking care of a deadly threat to my pack. I trust them, with my heart and with my body.

I don’t want to be careful with them.

I leave the bathroom and step into the living room doorway in the flimsy nightdress.

It’s probably obvious that I’m not wearing underwear, but I’m still more covered than they are.

“I’ve made the bed,” I tell them, before I turn and go back into my room.

I close the drapes, but it’s bright out and some light still gets in.

It’s nowhere close to dark in here.

I move into the middle of the ‘bed’ I’ve made with the blankets, and I sit down, waiting.

Shadows move in the hallway before Snake walks into the room.

He looks at me and signs, “Can I kiss you?”

It’s so sweet. I nod, and motion to him to come closer.

He comes over and sits down across from me, sitting cross-legged like I am.

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