by Sam Crescent
The only time she’d been alone was at night, and that was when the pain of her loss always hit her the worst.
Her dreams were filled with nightmares.
Seeing her mother hurt.
Her father torn apart.
It was all just too much.
She moved to the edge of the forest and glanced back at the house. No one had followed her, so she entered the darkness within.
The coolness of the trees had her wrapping her arms around herself as the chill settled into her bones with every step she took.
She kept on walking, hoping that with each step she’d be able to find some solace, some comfort, anything but this sadness.
Luther hadn’t touched her since that first night. Neither had Billy, Ryan, Luke, or Noah. They hinted at their needs, but if someone else was taking care of them, she didn’t know.
Time passed, and she kept moving, turning left or right to take different directions. When she found a fallen tree, she sat on the branch and stared at the ground.
“It’s okay, Lucia. It’s okay.” She stared at the ground as the memory of her mother’s screams to run filled her head. She covered her ears, trying to ignore the pain that surrounded her.
She didn’t know how long she sat there, eyes closed, waiting for the pain to disappear, but when she opened her eyes, she struggled to see immediately.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Luther asked.
She turned toward the sound, but suddenly she was wrapped in a strong pair of arms.
“Luther? What are you doing?”
“Billy is out of his freaking mind. We all were. We didn’t know what happened to you.”
“I went for a walk.”
She heard the fear in his voice, and she shouldn’t be happy about that. It made her a horrible person to know that he cared.
“It’s too damn dangerous to go out for a walk. We don’t know if the humans are still tracking you or what.” He cupped her face, and she saw him clearly. “What the hell were you thinking?”
“I didn’t mean to scare you. I wasn’t thinking. Not at all. I needed some time.”
“You’ve been crying.”
“I can’t get the memory out of my head.”
“I know. I know, baby.”
The tears filled her eyes once again. She had gone from a woman that rarely cried to a woman that always seemed to be crying, and she hated it. “Why would they do that? We weren’t hurting anyone. We didn’t hunt. We were a safe pack. A happy pack.”
“Some people are just monsters.”
She pressed her face against his chest, a sob erupting from her mouth. Luther held her as she let go and just cried. She held onto him.
The pain didn’t lessen, not one bit.
“I’ve got you, baby. I’ve got you.”
The tears kept on falling until finally, she couldn’t cry anymore. The pain was still there, but she couldn’t keep letting it all get to her.
Luther cupped her face, wiping away her tears, and she forced a smile to her lips.
“You don’t have to hide your pain from me.”
“I’m not hiding. I just—”
She stopped as they heard a twig snap and the unmistakable sound of people talking. Luther jumped over the tree trunk, and she followed him. He pulled her behind her, and she’d finally adjusted to the darkness. There was no mistaking the males that were approaching. They held guns.
“We need to bring the fucking dogs to track them.”
“Yeah, but we’re entering bad territory. We need more than a couple of rifles to be here. A couple of buddies of mine went hunting on this land and never made it home.”
“What happened?”
“Don’t know. Bodies were never found.”
Her heart was racing, and she felt the tension within Luther. She didn’t understand why he didn’t just jump them.
He held her close to his side, neither of them moving.
“The guys probably had it coming. Especially if they thought they could take on some wolves by themselves.”
“Don’t disrespect the dead. How many wolves we got now?”
“On the last count? Twenty at least. We’ve got a couple of young ones, and they’re going to be trained.”
“The more wolves we find the better the price.”
“Come on, this place is giving me the creeps. I feel like someone is watching me.”
They spun around and headed back in the opposite direction.
Neither she nor Luther moved.
Only when they were sure the coast was clear did they get up.
“Come on, we’ve got to head back home and now.”
He didn’t let her go, and they ran through the forest. She saw she’d gone so far away from home that it was no wonder the humans had caught up with them.
Why were they hunting wolves?
And more importantly, were they going to come back with more weapons and with dogs?
Dogs were traitors.
They sniffed them out way too easily, but there was nothing they could do about it. Also, how did they know they were on Knight land?
So many questions and she saw Luther was worried. He couldn’t hide that.
****
When they got back home, Lucia refused to leave his side. Billy was pissed that she’d walked off, and as they sat in the sitting room, tensions were running high.
Clearly the guys had been berating Billy.
Luther had gone in search of her the minute he knew she was missing. What pissed him off the most was Billy didn’t have a clue when she’d left. He’d not reported her missing until he’d finished all of the weeding and was in fact heading inside to finally spend time with her. Sometimes Luther wondered about Billy, not his loyalty, but how he preferred to get work done first, but he tended to enjoy a singular lifestyle for the most part.
“Can we all please focus right now?” Luther asked. “I get that you’re all pissed at Billy.”
“Don’t be,” Lucia said. She stood up. “I was the one that walked away from the house. Not Billy. You can’t blame him for this.”
“He should have been watching you,” Noah said, speaking up.
For the first time in his life, he heard the anger in Noah’s voice. Luther didn’t think Noah had an angry bone in his body and would smile all the way to his grave. Clearly, he was wrong.
“Why? I’m not in danger here.” Lucia looked at each of them.
“Clearly you are if humans are trespassing on our land,” Ryan said.
“I was far out. I’d gone walking for miles, and I wasn’t anywhere near the house.” Lucia looked toward him. “Tell them.”
“She’s not wrong.”
“Don’t care. You belong to us. You’re a Knight now, and we take care of you. If he kept an eye on you, you’d be fine,” Luke said.
Lucia’s growl filled the air, her frustration evident as she glared at each of them. “You know what, I’m glad Billy wasn’t watching me because I was able to think. From the moment I’ve been here you’ve all been surrounding me. I’m your mate, and you know what, that’s great. I get it, but I needed time to breathe. None of you were giving me that. You were all just telling me who was staying with me today. Billy, thank you for doing your work. I really appreciate it. As for all of you, if I’m your mate you’ve got a hard time showing it.” She stormed toward the door.
Luther’s dick was incredibly hard just from watching her. He wanted to bend her over the nearest sofa and take her, hard.
“What is that supposed to mean?” Luther asked.
She turned to look at him. “It means I may belong to you, but I’m not theirs. They don’t want me and fine, but you shouldn’t be telling a girl one thing and doing another.”
“What does that mean?” Noah asked.
“Figure it out.” She slammed the door closed, and Luther smirked as she started to stomp upstairs.
“I don’t know what that means. Do you guys?” Noah asked.
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nbsp; “It means she wants us to mate with her,” Ryan said, looking toward him. “Am I right?”
Luther nodded.
“We’ve been giving her space. I will never know what a woman is all about,” Luke said.
“I’ll leave,” Billy said, stopping the conversation.
It was such a dramatic turn that Luther wasn’t sure he’d heard him right. “Why would you do that?”
“I didn’t take care of her today. I got my job done so I wasn’t worried about you being pissed at me. I got it done, and she found time to leave. I was irresponsible. I will leave the pack.”
“You’re not going anywhere.”
“I don’t think I can handle your judgment because of this.”
“I won’t be judging you. You heard her. She needed time to think. She thanked you for doing your work. I’m not going to throw you out. You’re pack, and we’re going to need you if the humans come back. Besides, you want to leave, you go on upstairs to that female and tell her you’re leaving. Tell her that you’ve had enough and you’re going.”
“I can’t do that.”
“Exactly. We all need you. We all fuck up from time to time. There’s nothing you can do about that. She needed the space, and we’ve given her too much time to become accustomed to us. It’s time for her to see what being mated to the Knight pack is all about. Before we head on upstairs though, we need to talk about this problem.”
“You’re sure they didn’t just stumble onto our land?” Ryan asked.
“No, they were looking for wolves. They mentioned having dogs as well. This is bad. Really fucking bad.”
Noah cursed. Billy shook his head.
“We’re going to have to be ready,” Luke said.
“Do you think the men that took Lucia’s pack tracked her down?” Ryan asked.
“That I don’t know, and I refuse to speculate about who it could be. Whoever it is, they know about wolves. They knew what they were tracking.”
“Luther, I know you don’t like talking about it,” Billy said, leaning forward. “You got to tell us what happened to you.”
“That is not necessary here. The moment I think it’s a real threat, you’ll all be the first to know.” He cut that little trip down memory lane off short. He wasn’t interested in revisiting his past. “From now on, I want us all to stay close. When I check the borders and land, I’ll have one of you with me, but I want you to stay separate from me at all times but far enough away to keep an eye on me. Three of you will always be at the house. The first sign of trouble, you get Lucia out, understood?”
“You think we’d be under attack?” Noah asked.
“I’m not taking any chances, so I’m going to treat it as such, got it?”
“Yes.” They all spoke up at the same time.
“Good.” He ran fingers through his hair. “I think it’s time for us to go and deal with our mate.”
His cock wouldn’t relent. He wanted inside her again.
One week he’d given her, and now she was going to belong to all of them.
Chapter Eight
Finishing in the shower, Lucia felt revitalized. The scent of the forest no longer clung to her skin, and she was able to think a lot clearer. She’d needed that time away from them, to be able to handle the pain that was filling her head.
Her pack was gone.
She doubted there would ever be a time when she didn’t hurt just by thinking about them. They were her family.
Now she had a new one, and they didn’t want her either.
Turning off the water, she wrapped a towel around her body and wiped the steam from the mirror. Her eyes no longer looked puffy, and the dirt she’d gotten on her face was gone.
However, she still looked incredibly sad, and she didn’t know why.
They don’t want you.
Pushing those thoughts aside, she took a seat on the toilet, simply because she needed to sit down. She’d gone from no mate to five, and her mother had always told her men had such strong appetites, especially wolves.
So far, her men didn’t even struggle in not touching her, so what did that say about her? Was she not good enough for them?
Even Luther.
He’d taken her virginity, but it wasn’t like he was coming back for seconds from her.
“Get a grip, Lucia. It’s fine. It’s all fine.”
Pushing the doubt and the negativity away, she thought about everything else.
Getting to her feet, she entered her bedroom, the one they’d all given her, and paused.
All five men were in the bedroom.
Each of them completely naked.
They were spread out around the bed, their hands on their dicks as they worked them up and down their length.
“What’s going on?” she asked.
Her body had gone from dead to alert within a matter of seconds.
“We want you. Never doubt that,” Ryan said.
“We wanted you to have time to heal. You were tired from your escape,” Noah said.
“After Luther claimed you, he said that there’d been blood, and he wanted you to be ready for all of us,” Luke said.
“And we didn’t want you to think that we just wanted sex. It’s why we’ve all been with you. I’d hoped to enjoy a nice lunch with you today. I’d organized it so we could eat out on the patio where I weeded, but I wouldn’t be able to do that knowing I still had a job to do,” Billy said. “I didn’t ignore you. I know I did, but I didn’t mean to ignore you. I was working hard to get the job done.”
“I’m sorry,” she said.
“Not a night has gone by or a single moment, Lucia, where I’ve not wanted to come to this very room, and to have another taste. You are perfect in every single way,” Luther said. “You want to blame someone for them not coming to you, blame me. I was the one that gave them the instruction they were to let you heal.”
“You need to stop being the one barking out orders.”
“I like it too much. We all know that it’s not going to happen. I’ll do what I want.” Luther winked at her.
She turned and stared at each of them. The energy in the room was intense.
They all looked at her as if she was something to eat.
A sexy morsel for them to devour.
“You all want me?”
She loved seeing them all nod.
“Good. Come and get me.” She dropped the towel, and their moans echoed around the room. Her nipples tightened at the sound, and Noah was the first one to get to her.
She wrapped her arms around him as he kissed her, hard. His hands ran down her back, gripping her ass as he drew her closer to him. His cock pressed against her stomach. Within seconds, another was at her back, and two others were at her sides, touching her. Ryan was at her back, and he moved between her and Noah’s body.
He cupped her pussy, and she broke from the kiss to cry out as he slid a finger inside her.
“She’s so fucking wet,” Ryan said.
“I told you. Tight as well,” Luther said.
Their alpha stood close but gave them all enough room to touch, to explore, to know each other.
Luke was to her right and Billy to her left.
Releasing Noah, she ran her hands down each of their bodies until she cupped their cocks. This time their sounds of pleasure filled the air.
She had no idea what she was doing.
Both men gripped her hand and showed her exactly what they wanted, and just how much pressure to use as she worked their dicks, running her hands up and down the length.
Ryan kissed down her back as Noah started to suck and lap at her tits. She whimpered all of their names, all the while aware of Luther’s gaze on her.
She was held up like a sacrifice, and she loved having all of their attention on her.
“Open your legs,” Luther said.
She did so without thought and then cried out.
Billy and Luke were gripping her hips and holding her up as Ryan licked from her asshole
going to her clit, circling the bud.
Fingers dipped inside her, and she was so wet the sounds filled the air.
“Just how we like it,” Billy said. “So wet. So fucking perfect.”
The fingers moved from her pussy, and the two men at her sides gripped her ass, spreading the cheeks.
Ryan teased her own arousal across her puckered hole.
Her tits tightened, and Noah bit down on each one. The pain and pleasure drove her wild and crazy for more. She didn’t want either of them to stop as they continued to stroke her.
There’s no way she could ever leave these men.
Not now.
Not after being mated to them.
They owned a part of her, and she wasn’t about to take it back from them.
As Ryan worked a finger into her ass, she cried out from the instant hit of pleasure. There was pain as he worked past the tight ring of muscles but also incredible pleasure, something she couldn’t even describe as he worked her ass.
She wanted more.
She didn’t want any of them to stop.
****
Luther knew how sweet she tasted, how hot and tight her pussy was. Watching as Ryan lapped up her pussy and teased her ass, he couldn’t get over how good it was to see her enjoying their ministrations.
Noah’s touch had her nipples nice and tight.
As for Billy and Luke, their cocks stood out, and it didn’t look like they were long from coming themselves.
Noah urged her to the bed, and he sat down so that she had no choice but to straddle him.
Ryan followed behind with Luke and Billy doing the same.
“I want to taste you,” Lucia said, looking toward Billy.
He moved up the bed so that he was close to her head. Luther watched as she wrapped her lips around his length.
“I’ve never done this before,” she said, pulling off a second later. “You’re going to have to tell me what to do.”
“Oh, fuck, you said that would be one of the hottest things she’d ever say,” Billy said, turning to look at him.
“Told you. Tell her what you like. Lucia is not shy,” he said.
Lucia glanced back behind her at him, and he winked at her.
