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  “Jesus Christ!” the Commander exclaimed at seeing her. “You didn’t think to mention this earlier?” He lifted a short-wave radio from his belt. “Medical team to town square. I repeat, med team to town square, stat. We have a new female, condition unknown.”

  “Relax, I just gave her a sedative.”

  The Commander rubbed his temple. “Don’t tell me you tranqued this one too.”

  “Okay, I won’t tell you.”

  The Commander glared at him. “You’re lucky you’re good at your job, Hale. That’s all I can say.”

  Then he got to work unstrapping the woman. Audrey climbed down from the helicopter and Nix pulled her into his arms.

  “You did it,” she smiled at him, her eyes watery. “I never should have doubted you.” He leaned down and kissed her.

  “We did it. Now let’s go home.”

  Audrey looked over at Drea anxiously. “I don’t know. Maybe I should stay with her.”

  “Don’t worry. Sophia will take care of her.”

  Audrey’s smile tilted lopsided. “Oh, I’m sure those two will get along famously.”

  Mateo walked toward them, dusting himself off and stretching his neck. “Good to know you train your men so vigorously.” He lifted a hand to massage the back of his neck. “I’ll be feeling that takedown for a week.”

  “Oh, poor baby,” Nix said.

  Audrey was more compassionate, naturally.

  She pulled out of Nix’s arms and went to give Mateo a hug. She squeezed him for a good long time. A little too long, if you asked Nix.

  But when she pulled back, the gleam in her eye was for both of them. “How about we go pick up the other guys from the Security Squadron Headquarters and then head home?” She grinned seductively, first at Mateo, then at Nix. “I promise I’ll massage all your aches and bruises till you feel allllllll better?”

  Mateo grabbed her hand and started dragging her across the lawn in the direction of the headquarters and Nix hurried to follow, taking her other hand. “Aw, do we have to go pick up the other guys?”

  Audrey’s musical laugh was the most beautiful, perfect thing Nix had ever heard in his life.

  Chapter 45

  AUDREY

  Audrey hadn’t meant to be a tease. But as soon as they all got home and ate some bread and soup, she was almost falling asleep at the table.

  The guys took her up to bed all right, but just to tuck her in.

  “Get some rest, beautiful,” Clark said, kissing her on the forehead, his eyes so soft it made her want to cry.

  They were all being so gentle and loving. Having all these big, tough men treating her like she was their tender, precious treasure. Not like she was a vase about to break. She saw the difference now.

  And she never in her life could have imagined a love so big.

  “Don’t leave,” she grabbed Clark’s hand when he tried to pull away after tucking her in. The others were at the door. “You’ve all got to be tired, too. Please. I don’t think I can bear to be away from any of you.” Not after everything she’d been through the past few weeks. Thinking she’d lost them forever. Part of her wasn’t sure this wasn’t all a dream and she wouldn’t wake up handcuffed in that terrible closet on the island.

  Graham, Mateo, and Clark climbed on the bed with her and she immediately started laughing as the four of them tried to position themselves in a way where they’d all fit. It was a familiar problem.

  “We need a bigger bed,” Graham observed.

  “No shit,” Clark said.

  “So let’s do it,” Nix said. “Come on, Danny.”

  Audrey laughed. What, where they going to go out and magically find some huge bed at nine o’ clock at night?

  But a few minutes later, they were coming back in with the twin mattresses from one of the other rooms. Audrey smiled, drowsing with her head on Clark’s chest, Mateo playing with her hair, while Nix and Mateo reassembled the frame and put the bed back together. Then they pushed it right up against the side of the king-sized bed. Graham moved onto the new bed and reached out to run a hand down Audrey’s thigh, like he had to make sure he still had access to her. “This will do.”

  “But there’s still no room for us,” Danny complained.

  “There’s more space on the other side,” Mateo said.

  Nix nodded and gestured Danny to follow him. A few minutes later and they came in with another twin mattress set.

  Audrey could barely keep her eyes open. She fell asleep somewhere in between Nix swearing at Danny for dropping the wooden frame on his foot and the mattress toppling over from where Nix had leaned it against the wall, almost knocking over the candle and catching the whole place on fire.

  All the guys started shouting at each other, but Audrey just fell asleep with a smile on her face.

  ***

  She had no idea what time it was when she woke up. Sometime in the middle of the night. Maybe just before dawn?

  The big candle on the bureau was about three fourths of the way burned down.

  Audrey looked around her. All five guys were sprawled out on the new giant bed they’d created.

  Her heart expanded so wide she felt sure it would burst.

  Clark and Mateo were on either side of her and she tried to snuggle back up to them and go to sleep again.

  And tried.

  And tried.

  Thing was… all she could think about were the five big, beautiful men in bed with her. The men who’d saved her, in more ways than one. She’d been so afraid for so long.

  And she hadn’t realized it until today—maybe not until right this minute even—but part of her determination that no one else would die for her was the underlying belief that, well, she just wasn’t worth it.

  She wasn’t worth loving. Not when it cost so much.

  But what the guys had shown her, time and time again, was that it wasn’t up to her. That wasn’t how love worked. Love—real love—was boundless. It couldn’t be held back or contained or put into a nice, little tidy box. She couldn’t control the way they loved her.

  Her only job was to accept their love.

  To open her arms and embrace the way they cherished her.

  And to give them back all the love she had and more.

  She licked her lips, her legs shifting restlessly back and forth. Speaking of opening her arms and receiving love… Her body was positively aching to take in and squeeze around all that sweet, sweet love.

  She bit her bottom lip and stroked down Clark’s arm.

  To his stomach.

  Lower.

  His cock woke up before he did.

  He started growing in her hand and then shifting his hips back and forth. She grinned and climbed down the bed, trying to be careful not to jostle him.

  She wanted to wake him in a far more spectacular fashion.

  He shifted a lot in his sleep, so the sheets were already down around his waist. She pulled his cock out through the slit in his underwear and lowered her head.

  She loved the salty musk of how cocks smelled and tasted. It was so… manly. Her sex clenched as her tongue extended and she licked just the tip up and down over the little slit of Clark’s dick. It twitched and grew longer. She had to fight back her giggle.

  Next she laid the flat of her tongue on the mushroom head and swirled it all around, back and forth.

  Clark’s body shifted and he let out a small groan.

  He was going to wake up any second and she wanted it to be to her swallowing down his cock. Oh, and she couldn’t forget the visual aspect. She quickly pulled her shirt off over her head. The cool night air felt amazing against her breasts and in another second, she had her panties off too and tossed to the floor.

  Then she bent back over Clark’s cock and sucked him in her mouth, grabbing the bottom of his shaft with her hand. She bobbed up and down, increasing her suction every time.

  Clark groaned even louder, rolling so that he was fully on his back. Audrey glanced up his body, expecting him
to be looking down at her. But he still looked fast asleep.

  All right, now this was starting to get insulting.

  She sucked even harder, bobbing so deep he hit the back of her throat. She took a deep breath and then swallowed him a little. His hips jerked upwards and his cock grew even longer. She moved her hand up and down his shaft where her mouth couldn’t reach. God, he must be nine inches long. Ten even.

  She rubbed him more vigorously in concert with her suction, adopting a rhythm that had his hips moving with her.

  “Holy shit!”

  Clark’s sudden shout had her almost jerking off his cock but his hand that shot to her head kept her in place.

  She felt movement all around her as the others shifted awake but she kept her focus on Clark. She gripped his shaft even more firmly and with her other hand, started playing with his balls.

  “Christ.” His voice sounded raw. His hand on her head was tentative, caressing, like he couldn’t believe what was happening was real and he had to keep checking it was really her.

  She’d never felt more powerful or beautiful.

  “Audrey!” he shouted, his hips pumping in and out two more times before his cum erupted down her throat in several great spurts.

  She swallowed it all eagerly, sucking and licking and stroking and trying to make him feel as cherished as they’d all made her.

  He’d raised up on his elbows he came and his stomach heaved as he flopped backwards onto the pillows. “Christ.”

  Audrey pulled off his still mostly hard cock with a little pop, grinning so wide she thought her face might split.

  When she looked around, all five pairs of eyes were wide and focused straight on her.

  She was still perched on her hands and knees over Clark’s cock, so she wiggled her ass back and forth.

  “Who wants to take my pussy first tonight?”

  Danny was closest and he started reaching for her hips but Graham suddenly surged forward and pushed him out of the way. “Me.”

  Graham flipped her on her back and shoved his boxers down in the same motion. Then he lifted her left leg and, without any fanfare, he pushed inside her.

  His face was strained with pleasure, but it was also something else. He dropped an elbow by her head and reached his hand toward her, gripping the back of her neck and burying his fingers in her hair. Then he dropped his face down to hers, forehead to forehead. His rough breaths sawed in and out of his chests.

  And he fucked her.

  God, how he fucked her.

  With wildness and abandon and an intensity she’d never felt from him before.

  There was no counting.

  No measured, orderly finesse.

  He just took her.

  Her pleasure rose up sudden and sharp. When he moved and slanted his mouth over hers, she devoured his lips hungrily.

  His hips were jerky and artless as he punched forward, back, forwards again. His cock reaching deliciously deep inside her.

  “I was so scared—” he whispered harshly between kisses. “When I found out those terrible men had you. I wanted to die.”

  Oh Graham. The hell he must have gone through, waiting to hear back from Nix and Mateo. Not able to do anything about the situation. How helpless he must have felt.

  She kissed him even more furiously, meeting his thrusts with her own, grinding her clitoris against his pelvis each time.

  “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry,” she whispered. And then there were no more words, only the higher and higher pitched gasps as her pleasure bloomed.

  Oh God, oh God, it was coming.

  She clutched his body to hers as it hit. Make him whole, she prayed as the light split her body from her core and exploded outwards.

  She clenched on him and with two more pumps, Graham was growling and shoving so deep inside her she couldn’t help but howl in pleasure.

  She didn’t stop holding him, even when both their pleasure had passed. He clasped her just as tightly. She realized then it would take time to heal the wounds she’d inflicted. Yes, she’d had her reasons, but it didn’t mean the hurt was any less. And she’d happily spend the rest of her life making it up to these beautiful men.

  “I love you, Graham,” she murmured in his ear, stroking through his hair with her fingers. “I love you so much.”

  His head shot up at this, eyes wide. For a long second, he made eye contact with her before his eyes drifted to the side and then shut. He swallowed hard and she could see he was barely holding back some intense emotion.

  “I love you so much,” she repeated, putting her whole heart behind the words. She’d make sure to say it all day every day. Not just to Graham. To all of them.

  Graham nodded and when he breathed out, it was like he was exorcising a ghost. “I love you, too,” he whispered.

  They kissed one more time.

  And then, as if he knew he’d been monopolizing her, he shifted off of her, but he didn’t let go of her hand.

  She looked to Clark. “I love you, Clark.” She’d never said it to him before either. To any of them. Not another day would go by without her telling them, though. Each and every one.

  He nodded, his face suddenly full of feeling. “I—” he broke off. “Me too.” His eyes dropped.

  “You love yourself?” Nix said with a smirk. “Tell us something we don’t know.”

  Clark glared daggers Nix’s way. “No smartass, I love Audrey.” He looked shocked the second the words came out of his mouth, but then he looked at her, blinking several times. “It’s true. I— I love you.”

  She smiled and crawled over to kiss him. She started to pull back but he clutched the back of her head, extending the kiss.

  She laughed into his mouth but kissed him back.

  “I love you too, Audrey,” Danny said enthusiastically. “You know I do.”

  Clark finally let her go and she turned with a wide grin for Danny. “I know you do. You were the one with the courage to say it first.” She laughed. “It scared the crap out of me at the time.”

  “Oh,” Danny frowned. “Sorry.”

  “No.” Audrey climbed over Clark’s prone form to him. “Never apologize or take it back. It meant so much to me, even if I didn’t think I could accept it at the time. I love you, too. I’m sorry it’s taken me this long to say it.”

  The grin that took over Danny’s face was so bright the whites of his teeth rivaled the candlelight.

  Audrey laughed and threw her arms around his neck. “I love you!” she shouted. “I love Danny Hale!”

  “I love Audrey Hale!” he yelled back just as exuberantly, lifting her in his arms and swinging her back and forth.

  She giggle-screeched but soon her giggles were cut off by his mouth. He kissed her deep and it wasn’t long before his cock was bobbing against her pussy. She reached down and directed him inside her.

  He growled low, grabbing her ass and settling her down on his lap as he sat back on his heels.

  “Ohhhhhhhh,” she groaned. The angle was sooooooo good. Why hadn’t she ever tried this position before?

  Danny guided her by her ass up and down on his cock. She threw her head back, breasts in his face and rode him. He pulled her nipple into his mouth and sucked hard.

  Thirty seconds passed.

  Then a minute.

  Then two.

  And Danny just kept pumping calmly in and out, not seeming like he was having any trouble keeping himself in control.

  “You’re doing it,” Audrey gasped as her pleasure rose again.

  When she looked down at him, he let go of her nipple and met her gaze. And for once, all the easy-goingness was gone from his face. He looked at her with the intensity reminiscent of Graham’s. “I just think about what it was like when I thought we’d lost you. And suddenly it’s the easiest thing in the world to hold back. Because being back inside you. Audrey, I never thought I’d have this again. I’m never going to take a second of it for granted. And I always want every moment with you to last an eternity.
”

  Audrey’s heart did that thing where it felt so full she thought it was gonna explode again. Too much. Seriously, this was all too much. How could one woman contain all this love? All this happiness? It was fundamentally unfair to the rest of the universe.

  But she would never be so ungrateful so as to sabotage the love these men wanted to lavish on her again. Her job was to accept. To accept and to love them back with her whole heart. She kissed Danny deep and they made love.

  And made love.

  And made love.

  Audrey didn’t know how long it was later when she felt her third orgasm of the night cresting—twenty minutes? Thirty?

  “I’m coming,” she whimpered restlessly, moving more quickly over Danny’s cock. “Come with me.”

  “Not yet,” he murmured. “Just a little longer.”

  “Now,” she said.

  “Just a little longer.”

  “Now,” she demanded, clenching her sex on his cock with all her might. “You give me your cum right this second, Danny Hale. I want to feel your seed so deep up inside my core I’ll feel it heating me for a week. I want to feel that giant, gorgeous cock of yours thrust and pulse and absolutely just lose your—”

  Danny roared and shoved in as deep as he could go, several quick jabs and then she felt it, the quick rush of his release, which tipped her over the edge as well.

  “Fucking finally,” Nix said. “Mateo, get the lube.”

  Audrey only had a chance to give Danny one last brief peck before Nix was dragging her off him and pulling her onto the side bed.

  He laid back and she straddled him, laughing at his urgency as he slung her leg over his hip Then he paused. “Shit, babe. You’ve been fucking for almost an hour now. We can take a break and let you catch your br—”

  “Are you gonna get your cock in me or am I gonna have to start finger-fucking myself?” she asked with a lifted eyebrow.

  Just like she knew it would, her dirty talk made Nix’s eyes darken so they were almost black. He smacked her ass, making her yelp and then giggle.

  Nix entered her with one deep stroke. She’d been readied by the other three guys, but Nix’s girth was always a bit of a surprise. A very, very pleasant one. She cried out as his huge cock stretched her wide and hit that spot so deep up inside her that only he and Clark seemed to be able to hit.