“NO!”
“All this masculine posturing. So delicious.”
My head jerked around to see Hollingsworth standing by the glass, twirling his little clicker on the end of his finger. He’d pressed down on it, obviously, as the two men were frozen in their aggressive stances.
“Must make you feel all warm inside,” he said, eyes flicking to me.
“Let them go.”
“So they can claw themselves ragged in pursuit of your sweet arse? I don’t think so. Those samples were very helpful, Shannon. May I call you Shannon? They showed us the missing link we’d been searching for all this time—you. We’ve put human girls and shifter girls in with our studs and never got what we wanted, until you. Enough humanity to see the wisdom in cooperating, enough animal to get all of these alphas stirred up. They want you.” His eyes slid over Caleb and Jai. “All of them. The samples you’ve taken have viable sperm in them for the first time, even the reluctant Gaden. There’s something about you that gets under their skin, pricks at their instincts, gets them ready to impregnate you.”
“That’s why you took my birth control out. That’s what you think is going to happen.” I shook my head. “Jai and I will seal the deal, that’ll put Caleb out of the running. I pissed off Nero and Kazimir, so I’m pretty sure they don’t even want to talk to me. Gaden… He’s got some kind of history that stops him from touching anyone. So from my count, you’ll have Jai and maybe Zane, and Jai’ll rip his face off if he tries anything.”
“Will he though?”
I hated the proprietorial way he ran his eyes over the two men, lingering on the quiver of their muscles. They still breathed, but that was it, caught like bugs on pins by his sadism.
“Look at this.” I threw my arm wide, hoping for once he’d fucking show the sense God gave a goat. “Is this not patent evidence?”
“I see sexual competition, a need to be the one to plant their very large cocks in you. I see fear, that one will do so before the other and rule them out of the race.” His smile spread across his fucking face, something that should have told me what was up. “But what if it didn’t?” He watched me as he reached inside his jacket, pulling out another control device, this one made from shining stainless steel. He glanced down at it, stroking the buttons with his thumb before looking back at me almost flirtatiously. I could see his breathing was coming in faster, his voice almost girlish when he spoke. “What if all the barriers and instincts and needs were simplified and refined to just this?” A cry rose and died as he pressed his thumb down with a theatrical gesture.
“N—”
My throat closed down, my chest freezing, my hair standing on end as I felt the cascade come down my spine. When my breath did come, it was in short, sharp pants. He hadn’t frozen me, I could move, but I didn’t want to. Every nerve, every hair stood on end, perking up and paying attention to what was around me in ways I hadn’t before.
“You’re a very special girl. I thought I knew what we had, but our research, our discussions with our chapter houses… Let's just say the excitement over having a captive animage was so infectious, even the most close-mouthed members of the institute became open books. You’re so much more than an animage, and they’re rare enough.”
He told me what I was, what I could be, but the words washed over me. I was body, feeling, need, the fire Jai had lit within me a tiny spark compared to this. My nipples pulled so tight, I was forced to grab at them, to try and ease the pain. But it wasn’t my touch I needed. Slick ran freely down my leg, my cunt knowing what was coming. I brushed against Caleb and fit my body to his, feeling my limbs stretch to take his shape, then ground against his hardness, listening to his gasps. But when his body softened, I slipped past, closing my eyes for moments when he reached for me and pulling free of his grip.
I’d had doubts, concerns, thoughts about how things would go with Jai, but I was blessedly clear of them now. Like the prince in the fairy tale, I leaned up and kissed his frozen lips. Did they feel the same feeling of triumph when the flesh melted beneath theirs, when the mouth opened and great big teeth and a fucking long tongue flicked out?
“Enjoy your little friends for as long as you can.”
We paused, looking through the glass as one at the smirking fool behind it. Jai tensed, wanting to lunge for it, but I held him back. My eyes slid down the natty suited body to where the modest lump indicated just how hot he found controlling us, but he was completely ill equipped for…well anything. I stared at him with the empty, bored, unimpressed stare of women all over the world, when they see some stupid fucking man posturing, man-splaining, or just being a dick, and kept it up until his smile faded. He straightened his tie in a sharp movement, declaring to us his irritation.
“You’ll be screaming in the end. Not from pleasure, but from the pain of being taken over and over. Your and their adrenal glands have been pushed into overdrive. The heat you twitter on about? It’s nothing compared to what I’ll put you through. You’ll burn on the end of their merciless cocks, you stupid bitch, and then I’ll scrape what’s left of you up and keep you sedated until you give me my child.”
I slipped free of Jai, his fingers trailing over my arms as I moved, he and Caleb following like shadows.
“Better run away,” I said, baring my teeth to him. “Go back to your cushy little booth to watch the proceedings and take care of that.”
I watched the urge to slam his hands down on the glass rise and fall, his sneer matching mine, but he only took a step closer, only an arm’s length and a wall between us. I snickered as I watched him fight it, right up until he pushed down on the button, once, twice, more times than I could count. My head threw back as I felt the surge rise, my eyes falling closed.
I felt like the air itself in the room stroked my flesh, so when they did, it made me jump. My nerves were raw and jangling, but when hands cuffed my wrists, pulled them from my sides to run their lips along them, I settled again. Yes… I thought. This.
Caleb growled when Jai swept me into his arms, coming after us like a wolf at our door, but I leaned back, my hair trailing along the floor as I reached for him.
“Shan, it’s time,” Jai said, casting a dark eye at the other wolf.
“Yes, it is.” I drew both of them down as I was laid on the bed and kissed one, then the other, doing it over and over to silence their growls, until they just became pants. They looked at each other now, the hostility still bristling, but it was easy to twist it the way I needed it.
“More,” I breathed, the word ringing inside me like a bell, a clarion call for all of the males in this horrible little box. I twisted, wanting to get up on my hands and knees and just take them, one after the other, over and over until the ache inside me stopped.
Ache. I frowned at that, eyes screwing tight as a sharp slash through my nether regions took my breath away when I paid it attention. It was a warning, a threat. Get cock, or suffer.
“Baby?”
My eyes opened, my consciousness coming back online as I looked up into Jai’s eyes, and my thighs began to rub together as the ache came rushing in. I needed him, needed to be stroked and filled, preferably at the same time.