“We smell you, little fluff,” Finn says.
“You need us,” Flint says, in answer.
“Let us in or we’ll huff and we’ll puff and blow this house down,” Forest chimes in.
I snort, shaking my head. I guess Forest is the funny one.
“Don’t call me that, and you better not huff or puff or anything to my house. That’s a command. Now, like, sit or something.”
I hear a bark of laughter. “She thinks we’re dogs,” Flint says. He’s got the deepest voice of them all, and I can’t help but think he was the one with green eyes. No, I know it.
“We kind of are,” Forest responds. There’s my blond. Crap, did I just say my blond?
“Listen here, pretty eyes.”
How does Finn do that? He holds so much command in his voice. It makes my skin break out in goosebumps. “We can kick the door open, or your sweet fluffy ass can open it for us.”
“No.”’ I stomp my foot.
“All right. But you’ve left us no choice,” he replies easily.
“I’m standing in front of it!” I shout.
“Fuck,” Finn growls.
“She’s a clever little thing,” Forest adds.
Flint doesn’t say anything, making my worry for him grow.
“Flint, did they hurt you when they attacked you on the porch?”
“He’s a big bastard, he’s fine,” Forest answers for him.
“Flint…Flint!” I snap.
“Why don’t you open the door and see for yourself?” I ignore Forest, since I’m sure no one ever does.
“Gosh dang it, Flint, you answer me right now.”
“Sorry,” his deep voice says. “Love hearing you say my name, sweetheart.”
I bite my lip, liking his answer.
“Will you guys do something for me?” I ask softly.
A chorus of yeses comes swiftly.
“Will you…” My voice cracks.
“Little Fluff.”
“Sweetheart.”
“Pretty eyes.”
My eyes water even more. They all have freaking names for me. It’s adorable.
“I think I liked ‘sweet fluffy ass’ more,” I tell Finn, trying to reassure them all I’m fine. When I’m kind of not.
“Anything you want.” I can tell he means it. Anything I want. I don’t know how, but I do.
“Can you give me a few minutes alone? Not long,” I rush to add. I hear a few groans. “I need to get myself together. There’s a small shed about forty yards left. Sheriff Dominic keeps it stocked.”
They all stay so quiet that I wonder if they did as I asked. I’m guessing not. I know how protective mates are.
“I promise I won’t leave the cabin.”
I give a half smile at their collective snorts. They’re so in tune with each other. I’d hate to think that I’d turn friends or even brothers on each other.
“For you, we’ll do just about anything, but know we’ll be back in about thirty minutes with a chainsaw. We’re getting in there. You hold that promise of not leaving the cabin, or when I catch up with you, I’ll tan that sweet fluffy ass.” Finn says.
I hear them move off the porch.
I grab the door handle, wanting to throw it open and yell at them to come back, but I stop myself. My body feels like it’s on fire. I reluctantly let the handle go, walking over to my bed and dropping down to it. My wild curls fly everywhere and I blow them out of my face.
I don’t know how long I stare up at the ceiling as my mind goes everywhere. I’m scared to open the door with them on the other side. What if everything goes wrong? I could be losing something I’ve wanted for so long.
They all sounded so adorable and I want them all. A moan slips free and my hips rise. Crap. My body is taking over, or maybe my mind is finally catching up with my bunny and we’re finally seeing what’s in front of us. We have to open the door.
Chapter 7
Finn
After my vow to her, we all still stand there for a moment. We each take another deep breath, trying to get more of her scent in. Our hands press to the cabin, and our heads rest against it. We want to be as close to her as possible, even this small distance making us yearn for our mate.
This is about to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but she’s right. We all need a second to cool down and figure out what’s happening here.
Forest lays his hand down on my shoulder. “Come on. Let’s go see if there’s a chainsaw and some pants in that shed.”
I nod, turning around and following my brothers. I knew where it was. Dominic and I had run this land before once when we first came to Gray Ridge and he showed me all around. It was a while back, so this little rabbit must be fairly new in town be
cause I would have smelled her that day.
“When we get there, we need to talk this out. Get our shit straight so when we get back to that cabin we can put on a united front with her. Or she’ll have our balls and we might not get anywhere with her.”
“She can have my balls anytime she wants. Fuck, I don’t even want them. There so goddamn blue, and not from the snow either.” I look over at Forest and shake my head, fighting a smile. Leave it to him to try and make us laugh when we all feel like we are being ripped in two. I didn’t know a person could feel so many things. I rub the center of my chest, trying to ease the ache.
I glance over to Flint, who’s on the other side of me. The fucker has a smile on his face. Forest must notice it too, because he calls him out for it. It’s strange because he was the one who lost it with his howl, probably waking up our whole fucking town. Though when Flint gets to the end of his rope, he explodes.
“What’s with the giant smile, asshole? Our mate won’t even come face to face with us.”
“We know where our mate is, that should be reason enough to smile. We found her. She’s real.” Then Flint puffs out his chest. “I brought her pleasure.”
I smile with him. I haven’t seen him this happy in a long time. Our mate has been with us for twenty minutes and already she’s healing our family.
I stop dead in my tracks. Flint and Forest look at me funny.
“You two realize when you talked about her you said our mate. Both of you. I just thought of her as ours, too.”
Flint looks down at the ground for a second as if he’s thinking. When he looks back up, he still has that smile on his face.
“I’m not even shocked, really,” Forest adds. “Wasn’t it just hours ago we were bitching about what would happen if we split up? That we’re a family. We’re not blood brothers, but we’re more than that it looks like.”