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“I know you’re acting like me defending myself is some big crime. Like I owed it to that fuck nugget to just let him have his fun and grin and bear it. Well fuck that. I’m not that kind of girl, and I never fucking will be. If someone thinks they can take liberties with me, then they’re damn well going to deal with the consequences. And I don’t give a fuck what you have to say about it.”
And it’s not just me who wants to help her. The others do too. It matters to them. She matters to them, whether they want to admit it or not.
“Love the way you sound… when I fuck you like this,” he pants. “When you scream for me.”
He wrote a word on my chest with our mingled blood, and it stands out in stark red against my pale skin. Mine.
“And what is your relationship to these men?” he asks me. “The four who own this house?” “Oh, I’m fucking all of them,” I reply, keeping my tone even.
“What the fuck is this about then?” “She doesn’t get to touch what’s mine!”
“Yeah.” I huff a little laugh. “Even when I wouldn’t let myself have it, the only pussy I wanted was yours.”
“Fuck, you take me like you’re made for it,” he gasps out, rolling his hips in a move that sends the head of his cock rubbing against that perfect spot again. “I’d do this all fucking day if we could. Just keep you here in my bed, impaled on my cock.”
“You like it,” he says. “Being ours. You fight it because that’s what you do, who you are. You’re a fighter. But you still like it. It gets you right here.”
“I’m not letting you go,” he snarls. “I’m not letting them take you. Not going to let anyone fucking hurt you.” He ties the last knot with an almost vicious tug and then yanks on it to make sure it’s not going to come undone. “I’ll keep you locked away if I have to, but I’m not losing you.”
River plays the melody, and I add to it, building it into a song. Our song.
“He means something to me,” I say, louder this time. “He does. You all do.” “Good.” Gage bites out the word, and I nearly shiver from how deep his voice is. “Because it’s too late for us. Do you understand that? You’re right that this was supposed to be nothing, but you’re fucking kidding yourself if you think that’s all it is now.”
Something that matters, the way we all do to each other.
“You’re ours,” he tells me, and it sounds like a promise and a command all at once. “You’re ours, and we’re yours.”
“I need you too,” I murmur to him, low enough that it’s for his ears alone. “I want more with you. It was always going to be more between us.”
“Because there’s too much of me here,” she murmurs. “I couldn’t just walk away or disappear.”
“Baby girl,” I breathe, “that’s exactly what I wanted to hear.”
