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“Daddy Lars?” I said with a smile. “I know you’re bloody bossy, but sometimes you’re going to have to trust that a yes is a yes.”
“I want…” My voice cracked on the words. “I need to claim…” I stared deep into the eyes of each man in turn, taking in their intent expressions. “I need to claim this sleuth as mine,” I said, slowly and clearly now.
The four of them all communicated differently. Thorn said everything that was on his mind, where Lars mentioned everything that pissed him off. Koda measured his words carefully and used them when he needed to. But Alaric? He spoke with actions, not words, and so it was my job to decode what his actions were saying to me.
You must be exhausted and I… I need you: not this place, not this town, just you.”
Each member of the sleuth was all powerless to disobey our mate’s order
“Did your mother-in-law just volunteer to do meal prep for your upcoming orgy?” Holly whispered as we waited in line. “Because, damn…”
“It was a lovely thing and all very noble. But I don’t need noble.”
“You guys have done something to me, because I wasn’t sporting lady wood 24/7 before this.”
“Oh no,” I said with a quirk of my lips. “What will I do with all the multiple orgasms?” “Cheeky wench.”
A flood of love, commitment, a desperate, desperate need to care for me.
"Oh god…” I groaned, every muscle in my body aching, but it was that good ache that came from doing something awesome.
“I’ll love you until the world grows cold and the sun burns out,”
“Holy fucking smackdown, Nat,” she said, eyes wide as she poured us both a cup of tea. “Karma is a bitch, and so are you, apparently.”
“I’m gonna be an aunty?” I nodded sharply, tears filling my eyes, closing off my throat and preventing me from speaking. “Oh my god, I can’t wait to start teaching it to run with scissors.”
I’d broken up with Paul much more easily than I had my town, because there was a lot more there for me to hold onto. But the friends I had, the people that really counted, they’d always stay in my heart.
