32. Sadie #2
Frosty cinnamon, warm chestnuts, and rich pine wrapped around me in a luscious fog.
When my core finally stopped fluttering, Cobra dragged his fingers out of my heat and brought them to his mouth.
Xerxes gave my nipple one last pinch and kissed the back of my neck softly.
“Shit, that was hot,” Ascher growled.
He gripped his tattooed dick in his hand, white cum dripping down his fingers.
Jax stood unnaturally still, nose flared, with a massive erection tenting his sweatpants.
The world had a dreamlike quality as Jax stalked across the room and grabbed Cobra’s hand.
Slowly, Jax dragged Cobra’s pale fingers into his dark-pink lips and wantonly licked my cream off them.
“Obviously,” Jax drawled, his deep voice imitating what I’d said a few minutes ago.
“What?” I asked, legs shaking from my release as exhaustion from the sexual onslaught of the past hours made me want to curl up and sleep for days.
Jax slowly dragged his tongue across Cobra’s jeweled fingers, gathering up every drop.
“Obviously Sadie has a praise kink. Little alpha likes to be bossed around.” Jax arched an eyebrow, reminding me of his large body kneeling over me as he shoved his pierced dick down my throat. “Don’t you, love?”
Xerxes chuckled, and Ascher began to pump his cock again in his fist.
My skin erupted in goose bumps, and I looked away from the men as my face burned with embarrassment.
An uncharacteristic wave of self-consciousness twisted my gut, and I pushed myself out of Xerxes’s hold.
Were the men making fun of me?
On shaky legs, I stumbled around the room with my head down, looking for my sweatpants.
The aftermath of my orgasm left me feeling raw and vulnerable.
All the men were still in a pack without me and were able to communicate with each other.
It hadn’t mattered before, but now it seemed vitally important.
Were they just using me for sex?
I found a pile of ripped clothes and awkwardly flung the tatters over my frame.
“I’m gonna go talk to Aran,” I mumbled under my breath as I moved to the door.
Jax blocked my path, and he gripped my arms. “You misunderstood, little alpha.”
Warm chestnuts saturated the air with musky sweetness. “It was an honor to have you beneath me, and you have nothing to be ashamed of.”
He dragged his thumb over my lips and pressed a soft kiss to my forehead.
“You’re perfect for us, and we’re going to make you ours.
We just need to sit down as a group and clear the air.
It’s a lot to expect you to handle all of us at once.
” He pressed featherlight kisses across my closed eyelids.
“We don’t want to overwhelm you. Is that okay with you, sweetheart? ”
I nodded, warmth infusing my chest as my anxiety drained from me.
Jax wrapped me in a bear hug and held me tight, pressing gentle kisses to the top of my head. “I love you,” he breathed quietly in my ear.
“Love you too,” I whispered as I relaxed into his warmth. “You’re right,” I sighed. Chestnuts really were a superior nut.
He said quietly against my hair, “You’re our sweet alpha. We’ll figure everything out, love. We just need to trust one another.”
Cuddled against his chest, I said, “Trust has to be earned.”
Jax smoothed a hand across my forehead and pressed another soft kiss there like I was a delicate flower that might break. “It will be. We’re not giving you up, Sadie.”
Frost nipped at my skin as Cobra stepped close to us and whispered in my ear, “Oh, and Kitten. I will tease you until I decide you’re ready.” He smirked down at me. “Perfection takes time.”
I couldn’t help the shiver that trembled through me, and I mumbled, “Don’t press your luck, you psycho.”
Cobra’s tongue traced the shell of my ear. “You will tell me you love me too, Kitten. Or I will do things to your body that will make your time with Xerxes seem tame.”
I gulped and leaned forward, cold air nipping at my exposed chest as I whispered back to Cobra, “Is that a threat or a promise?”
Cobra hissed. “Oh, Kitten, it’s a fucking threat.”
I squeezed my legs tighter together and tried to ignore the emerald gaze that was slowly trailing over my exposed body.
Xerxes groaned, “We need to get her proper clothes.”
Ascher snapped back at him, “I still don’t get why you had to bite her so many times. Sun god’s tits, your fucking handprints are wrapped around her throat.”
“Jealous much?” Xerxes’s honeyed accent was a smooth drawl.
Cobra snarled, “She was my fucking kitten first. I don’t care what happened here. I want to make it clear to everyone that she is mine .”
I rolled my eyes at his petulant tone. “I’m not anyone’s.”
“YOU’RE MINE!” Cobra screamed and whirled around, slamming his fist against the wall.
“Don’t be rude to her,” Xerxes growled.
“Well, violently fucking Sadie against a wall as you took her virginity was rude ,” Ascher snarled back.
“My kitten. Give me her. Now.” Cobra tugged at my arm and tried to pull me out of Jax’s arms. He’d lost whatever pretenses of civility he’d pretended to have.
Jax and I sighed heavily at the same time.
I pushed out of his grip. “Moment’s over, you’re all drama queens, and Cobra, you’re joining Aran and me in therapy.”
Cobra snarled, “I’m not talking to some quack doctor about the fact that I own my kitten.”
I clapped my hands in his face. “I’m choosing to ignore that, so I don’t stab you. Also, I’m going to find Aran right now so I can talk shit about you.”
“Well, I’m going to talk shit about you with Jax,” Cobra taunted back.
I rolled my eyes.
“Remember that I fucking owned you first, Kitten. If you forget, you will pay.”
What. The. Sun. God. Was wrong with him?
I curled my hands into fists and counted to ten.
It didn’t work.
I roared as I shifted into a saber-toothed tiger and stalked across the room.
Cobra hissed back a laugh, jewels transforming into shadow snakes as I cornered him against the wall with my massive furry body.
Before I knew it, I wrapped my mouth around his neck, arm-long fangs grazing his flesh as I shook him back and forth like a doll.
“PUT HIM DOWN, SADIE! SHIFT BACK NOW!” Jax alpha-roared.
I dropped my prey and instinctually shifted back into my smaller form.
Suddenly, Cobra’s hands were wrapped around my throat, and he choked me. He lifted me up by the neck and threw us both against the wall.
“You like this, Kitten? You want it rough?”
I kicked him in the knees and body slammed him into the wall.
Cobra whispered in my ear, “Don’t pretend to play rough, little Kitten, because you won’t be able to handle what I give you.”
There was a loud smack as Jax ripped Cobra back by his hair and threw him across the room as he roared, “You better not be threatening her!”
I marched and grabbed my ridiculously tattered clothes, pulling them around me like a regal cloak.
“Please, we both know that I threaten him .”
With as much dignity as a woman who had just shifted into a tiger and shaken a man in her mouth like a doll could muster—which was terrifyingly little—I marched out the door.
There was a loud crash and yells behind me, and it sounded like all four men had started to fight one another.
I rolled my eyes.
They could work through their issues without me.
Still, as I walked down the hall, happiness bubbled in my chest as I thought about Xerxes telling me he loved me, and how amazing the sex had been.
The grand window at the end of the hall showed that it was nighttime, and a storm raged outside.
I opened my bedroom door.
The room was empty and dark.
“So,” a deep voice said from the dark.
I screamed with surprise.
“The slut has returned.”