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It was understandable why he’d think that; I was usually careful to avoid public displays of affection with any of the three of them, at least when it came to those casual, intimate touches that implied a relationship deeper than sex. I’d spent so long cultivating my reputation as a strong, independent woman to be feared and respected without relying on men that I’d shied away from all affection. But I was past that now. I was too fucking in love to care.
I forced my lingering fear back in its box where it damn well belonged. He wouldn’t ever get the satisfaction of seeing me scared again, that was a goddamn promise.
We were all piled into Zed’s bed this time, and Lucas had woken me up with the push of his thick cock into my pussy from behind. I hadn’t even fully woken up, grinding back onto him while still floating in a light sleep, until Zed had started sucking on my breasts, biting my nipples, and making me cry out. When they were all done—each needing to take a turn making me come on their dick—we just lay there in a comfortable, naked, cum-soaked pile.
“A little birdy gave us a location where Chase was storing his prizes, and we took a little visit the other night while Lucas was taking a trip down memory lane with you.” “And we didn’t just find this,” Cass rumbled, smirking. “We also found a Guardian vault key.”
“You deserve to be spoiled, boss. Now let us spoil you some more before we need to get up.” He slid back inside me with a breathless moan, and I clutched my Desert Eagle to my chest, hugging it like a psychopath as Zed fucked me between Lucas and Cass. I couldn’t have created a better scenario in my wildest dreams. It was goddamn perfect.
“Will you and Zed teach me to shoot?” She gave me a hopeful look. “I wanna learn from the best, and that’s you guys.” I grinned. “Don’t let MK hear you say that; we’ll end up with Steele and Zed in a pissing contest.” Seph barked a laugh. “Let them; you could beat them both blindfolded. You’re the ultimate badass, big sister.”
"A completely understandable and normal human reaction," Lucas finished for me, pulling back far enough to give me a firm look. "And not one that needs apologies."
"I'm okay," I mumbled again, sounding weak and exhausted. "Of course you are," Zed replied, soft and caring as he stroked my hair. "But sometimes it's okay for the cracks to show. We don't judge you for it; we just want to be there to share the pain. To help put you back together again."
"Exactly that," he murmured. "You're not alone, Hayden. We're here, no matter what. Nothing you could do—nothing we could ever see—will change that. Nothing. Not fucking ever. All Chase achieved here is to make us hold you tighter, to love you harder than ever before." Zed huffed a laugh. "Too fucking right."
That night, the Copper Wolf Vodka Distillery blew up. I watched the video footage from one of the parking lot security cameras, feeling hollow inside. There was no point in rushing out there; the damage was done.
"I can't just let him burn down my empire while I sit here and twiddle my thumbs, Cass," I protested, also fishing around for some clothes. It felt stupid having an argument while totally naked. He snatched my bra before I could reach it, holding it away from me. "You're not," he barked. "You're being sensible and not playing directly into his hands. He can't come for you here; this place is better than Fort Knox now. While you were gone, Zed had every fucking window replaced with bulletproof glass, and the locks would even keep me out—if I didn’t have the right thumb print. Chase can't touch
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"What do you want to do about Anarchy?" Cass asked, already tapping out a message on his phone. Blowing out a heavy breath, I tugged my stretchy tank top over my head. "Let it burn," I finally decided. "It's too late to save it now."
He'd
"Close your eyes a moment, Red," he told me, fingers stroking through my hair. "I'll wake you up if anything changes, but right now it's safe to sleep."
I'd never felt more like a damsel in my entire life, locked up in my castle, helpless, while a fire-breathing dragon destroyed my empire.
"Hey, you," he murmured, his voice husky and his eyes sparking with heat. "Are you okay?" I frowned. "Of course I am. Are you? On a scale of one to furious, how are you feeling about losing your house last night?" "Are you kidding me?" he asked with a sharp laugh. "Fuck the house; all the important things survived." I nodded my understanding. "Yeah, that was lucky getting all the cars out unscathed." Zed gave me a flat glare. "You, Dare. You were the only important thing that was in that house."
Anarchy was salvageable; the individual fires hadn’t caught fast enough to burn everything down.
The Copper Wolf office had come off the least damaged, the building's sprinkler system having kicked in fast enough to prevent any structural damage and stop the fires from spreading to other floors.
It'd
Better yet, he turned it into a publicity event and invited journalists to witness the wrecking ball smashing through the once rock-solid structure. With Hannah's help, it was spun into a front-page story, and I happily posed for "happy couple" shots with Zed as we bullshitted about our grand plans for a rebuild.
"Will you rebuild everything? Or just focus on Timber for a while?" I sipped my Champagne and gave her a smile. "Since when did I admit defeat, brat? Hell no, I'll rebuild everything Chase has taken from me and then double it. This time next year, they may as well give me a key to the city."
I'd rather keep my sex life just as active as it currently was for as long as it could possibly last. Hopefully forever. I wanted to be gray and wrinkly with my tits swinging all over the place while those three men fucked all my holes at once. Hell yeah, that was my idea of a happily ever after.
Nix trailing behind like a loyal bodyguard... or lovesick puppy. Unclear.
"Dare, did you forget your panties?" I grinned. "This dress didn't lend itself to panty lines."
"Oh, Angel. You're drenched."
"Oh fuck," I muttered with a laugh, realizing they actually intended to finger-fuck me together. Why was that so damn hot? "Just sit back and watch the show, Angel," Cass ordered with a smirk. "Lucas has been practicing this just for you."
They headed inside, but I stayed out there a while longer, watching the unmarked police cars driving away into the night with an unconscious Chase Lockhart secured within. Only when they were finally out of sight did I draw a deep breath, feeling like I could breathe again for the first time in years.
The snare had caught its prey at last. Now it would be a test of our months of preparation to see that the rabbit never shook loose.
I took a moment to soak it all in. To appreciate how far I'd come. Only six months ago, I'd have rather shot myself in the foot than admit I needed help.
"Copper Wolf Distillery was leveled, huh?" Archer asked after a while. I nodded. "The buildings, yes. The brand? Hell no. It'll be back up and running in no time." He smiled slyly. "You'll need new advertising images when you relaunch." His gaze slid back to where Madison Kate was seated on a couch between his friends. Steele's arm was around her waist, and Kody played with her fingers as she chatted with my sister. They were so in love it almost made me gag. Almost.
Cass quirked one brow. "Don't you have a fight coming up, D'Ath? All that beer won't be good for your fitness." Archer gave a low laugh. "Nah, I canceled it. Kate's got some meetings in Pretoria she can't miss."
I reached for my drink, then chuckled when my ring caught the light. Suddenly it made a shitload more sense where Zed had gotten his hands on red diamonds. Madison Kate owned one of the world's biggest diamond mines.
He kissed me like we were totally alone in the room, then whispered in my ear about what he wanted to do when the club closed for the night. After all, we'd made a pact to christen our bars together.
My hand still cradled his nuts, and I slid a finger back to press the strip of flesh behind his balls. He came with a shout, filling my mouth with his cum and making me swallow quickly to avoid choking.
Cass just took it as permission to go slower, stroking the lube up and down his dick and making me jealous of his hand.
"Oh yeah?" I retorted, my gaze following Cass as he moved around to the couch behind me. "What are you gonna do about it, Daddy Cass?" Zed gave a strangled noise beneath me, his fingers gripping my hips tighter. "Oh shit," he laughed. "Dare..." "Zeddy Bear," Cass rumbled, seeming to ignore my question as he settled himself behind me. "You're comfortable in your sexuality, aren't you?" Zed scoffed, "Absolutely." "Good," Cass replied in a darkly dangerous voice. Oh shit. "Because things are about to get... real snug."
My eyes widened, and I gave a startled gasp as he started to push his lubed-up dick into me. But he hadn't taken the plug out of my ass. Nope, he was going in right alongside Zed, inside my pussy. "Cass!" I yelped, my hand tightening around Lucas's dick. "Shhhh," he replied, grunting as he pushed in further. "I've seen you take Lucas's monster and beg for more, Angel; just relax."
If I was insatiable, what the fuck was Lucas? Oh, right. Nineteen.
"Want more?" Zed offered, ever the gentleman. I nodded against Lucas's chest, groaning again. "Yes. Fuck yes. Give me more." Because clearly I was a masochist.
Hannah came to meet me at Nadia's, our temporary office for the day, and Zed accompanied me so we could run through the reopening plans for Anarchy, Club 22, and the newest gem in our collection, Malebolge.
"Cassiel told me you're looking at renting the old D'Ath mansion in the interim to get you out of the hotel," Nadia said with a smug smile. "There's more than enough space there for all of you. And like I said, it's only for two weeks"—this was aimed pointedly at Diana—"until the school term starts, then Diana goes into the boarding school at Shadow Prep."
She snickered, and her escort for the day, Lincoln, looked like his brain was short-circuiting as he took in my demure knee-length skirt, cream silk blouse, sheer pantyhose, and, of course, my pearls. I fully intended to clutch at them in horror as Chase’s crimes were presented to the jury.
“You look like a sexy librarian,” Lucas murmured in my ear, his hand touching the small of my back. “I’m gonna be hard every time I look at you today.” Cass grunted in amusement. “You’re hard any time she breathes, Gumdrop. Besides, she’d need a pair of glasses to complete the sexy-librarian look.”
Yes, I was putting Chase through an actual legal trial to punish him further. Yes, I could have just had him killed at any point that he was in holding in the last three weeks. But a huge part of me needed this level of vindication. I needed his crimes to be aired out and for a court to condemn him for what he’d done. And not just what he’d done to the hundreds of people—children—he’d trafficked over the years, but to me. To make up for the years of abuse and the stains left on my soul. This trial was about more than appearances. And Seph knew that. She knew deep down I wasn’t a ruthless,
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I smiled a smug, satisfied smile and offered a small wave to the female driver with a long, silver-white ponytail looped through a uniform cap. She smirked, her blood-red lips curling up as she gave a finger wave back. Then she tipped the brim of her hat lower before accelerating the truck down the street, carrying Chase out of my cities… and my life.
Cass just grunted and loosened his tie. “I fucking love you, Red,” he muttered. Then his eyes narrowed at Zed and Lucas. “You two aren’t half bad, either.” Zed snickered, but Lucas grinned and launched himself at Cass in a bear hug. “Grumpy Cat looooves us!” Cass and Lucas joked and teased each other all the way back to the car, but Zed hung back and looped his arm around my waist as we walked. He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t need to. My turbulent soul was finally calm. Finally at peace. For the first time in my whole life, I was completely happy.
The absolute best way—scratch that, the only acceptable way—to be woken up at dawn was with a massive, hot, hard dick pushing into your sleepy cunt. Followed by multiple orgasms at the hands of your three legally wed husbands on the morning after your marriage in a temple in Tibet, of course. Un-fucking-beatable.
I was helpless to refuse them anything when they put their minds to it. And with polyandry legal in Tibet, I had no real reasons to refuse. Fuck knew I loved them enough.
“Stacey, sweetheart, could you show Rex that gorgeous garden we discovered yesterday?” Rex screwed his face up. “What the fuck do I wanna see a garden for?”
TWO YEARS LATER
QUEEN
