“Are you sure about this?” Jasmine asks with a weary look on her face.

“Honey, if you don’t wanna go, it’s fine, but I’m ready for some trouble. Can you imagine how pissed Bjarni will be? He can’t spank me, so he needs to get creative,” Gabriela says as she lovingly strokes her extended stomach. I start laughing at her playfulness. She has been so excited the whole day that I thought she would give us away while Bjarni and Caelius were still there.

“Don’t worry, we’ll be with Sam. Besides, I’m sure we won’t be there that long before they come after us. Depending how today goes, maybe next time we can make it longer,” Aria suggests with a wicked smile. “We can’t frighten them that much the first time.”

“Fine, I’m in. Who’s helping with Orion?” Jasmine asks with a naughty smile. Since singing to him the other day, Orion has chosen me as his favourite person. Every time he sees me, a toothless grin splits his chubby little cheeks, and his beautiful amethyst eyes like his fathers widen in wonder.

“I guess you’re with me. Hey, little guy.” He starts to coo as I stretch my arms towards him. “I think you’ve been around Ceric too long,” I tease, making the women laugh. As soon as I have Orion, I turn, making my way towards the garage where Brielle said she last saw Gunner.

Entering the garage, I see him leaning over the hood of an SUV with no shirt on. He may not be an Elemental, but the man sure is fine. His muscles ripple across his back as he leans forward, making us sigh in pleasure. At the noise, he shoots up from his position, turning as his hand shoots to his gun at his waist.

“Shit,” he mumbles. “You need to give a guy a warning when you walk up behind him.” At our smiling faces, one of his eyebrows raises in question. “What are the five of you up to?”

“Do you know,” Gabriela says with a coy smile, “that you have a really great body? Don’t you think, girls?” At her words, a stunned look crosses his face.

“Do you want to get me killed?” he says. His eyes return to me, and then he turns.

“Oh boy,” Aria whispers, smiling slyly at me and then nodding towards him. Breathing in deeply, I pass Orion to Jasmine and then take a step closer to Gunner.

“Gunner,” I call. He turns his face towards me with a scowl. “I want you to call us a cab. You are then going to drive us down to the gate and wait for the cab to arrive.” At his nod, I continue. “When we leave, you are going to forget that we went out until the men ask you if you know where we are.” Gunner pulls out his phone. He scrolls down and then places the phone by his ear.

After ordering the cab, he closes the hood of the SUV and makes to enter, but I stop him. “Gunner, put on your T-shirt.” I hear the women sigh behind me, and I smile, knowing that they are wondering why I would do that.

As soon as we’re on our way, Brielle and Jasmine start to laugh nervously. “We’re going to get into such trouble, but this is so cool,” Jasmine retorts. “You will save me from your daddy, won’t you, Orion?” He coos at her, making us all laugh.

“Did you tell Sam we are coming?” Aria asks excitedly.

“Oh, shit,” I groan. “I was so excited to get out that I forgot. I will send him a text. I’m sure it will be fine.” A few minutes after sending the text, I get his confirmation that he will be home in fifteen minutes.

When we arrive outside his apartment, Sam is pulling up in his car. When he sees all of us, his eyebrows raise in question. “Are you all running away?” he teases.

“Hey, Sam,” I say, walking into his arms that are already open, waiting to hug me. “I’ve missed you.” Sam has always been a pillar of strength for me. Every time I had issues at home, Sam was the one I used to turn to.

“I’ve missed you too, Nunu,” he whispers as he pats my ass. “Come along now, let’s go inside. I’m sure this is going to be interesting.”

We all make our way upstairs to his apartment. Until a few weeks ago, I was sharing the apartment with him since leaving my old life behind. It was awkward when he brought someone home with him, but otherwise, I enjoyed living with Sam.

Sam offers everyone drinks as we sit on his couch. He wants to know about what life is like at the MC and how we can live with such hotness around us all the time. The girls laugh at Sam’s perverseness and how he tells them how he would like to take some of the guys.

“Which one did you like, Sam?” Gabriela asks cheekily, a twinkle in her eye.

“Oh, doll, such testosterone all over. I was fighting myself not to jump them the whole night,” he teases. “But if I had to choose one, I would say Caelius. I like the silent type. Mmm, yip, definitely Caelius. The things I could do with that body.” He strokes his abs sexily and winks at us.

Gabriela starts to laugh uproariously.

“What are you up to? There is no good coming out of that laugh,” Aria asks with a teasing smile.

“Can you just imagine Caelius’s face when we tell him that Sam has a thing for him?” she replies, and then bursts out laughing again.

“Hey, what’s wrong with me?” he asks playfully as he takes off his shirt. “This here is pure hotness, I will let you know.” He thrusts his hips playfully. “He would think he’s in heaven if he had to get a piece of this ass.” He walks up to Brielle, grabs her hand, and strokes it down his ass. “You see? Pure heaven.”

“For your own health, handsome, I would suggest you not be so liberal with us when the men are around, but otherwise, you go ahead. If you would like, I can also see if your ass is as bouncy as it should be.” Gabriela laughs as he turns his ass towards her and starts to rotate it playfully. “Yip, sure looks supple.”

I shake my head. The way I know Sam, he’s in his element. He loves attention, and the more he gets, the happier he is. “Don’t tempt him, or he will be parading in front of you naked soon, showing off his sorry assets.” I laugh when Sam looks at me with a shocked look on his face.

“Sorry assets!” he grumbles with a playful glare. “For your information, it’s bigger than normal. Don’t play dumb; you’ve seen it before many times, and talking about that, you’ve even felt it.” He puffs up his chest with a proud strut.

“What?” Jasmine and Aria squeak at the same time. “No offense, but aren’t you supposed to be gay? Or are you bisexual?” Aria asks with a confused look.

“Did you two sleep together?” Jasmine asks.

“Yip, Nunu over there and I have slept together lots of times since we were about five. Isn’t that so, Nunu?” he teases. At Jasmine’s huff, he laughs. “But I think what you are asking is if we’ve had sex before.”

All the girls are now looking at him curiously, as if this is the best news they have ever heard. “Well, when we were about sixteen, we made out a few times. You see, Nova was adamant that I couldn’t be gay, so she seduced me at every turn.”

“Ha, wishful thinking,” I tease.

“Oh, really? What was all that skimpy underwear you would wear around me?” he asks teasingly.

“The underwear you bought me,” I say sarcastically. Sam used to distribute newspapers, and every birthday or Christmas, he used to buy me makeup and lingerie with the money he made, saying that if he didn’t, I would never do it, as I was more of a tomboy than he was.

“Come on, Nunu, you know you wanted me,” he teases. Moving over to me, he kisses me on the neck and hugs me close. My skin feels like pinpricks when he hugs me close to him, and the kiss on my throat feels as if my skin is burning where his lips touched me. What the hell? I have always felt comfortable with Sam since we were kids. Why am I feeling this aversion to him all of a sudden? Pushing him away playfully to cover my discomfort, I punch him in the arm.

“So, did you sleep together or not?” Gabriela asks impatiently.

“Nope, we didn’t. We tried, but it just felt too weird. It was like sleeping with my brother,” I say while wrinkling my nose in distaste.

“Have you ever had sex with a woman, Sam?” Brielle asks as she sips her margarita.

“Are you offering, honey?” he asks as he wiggles his eyebrows. Instantly, her face fills with colour as she blushes at his teasing. “Believe it or not, I had sex with quite a few women before I finally acknowledged that I was gay.” I remember that time and how much he tried to like any woman, but it just didn’t happen. He even asked me to persuade him not to like men, but I couldn’t do that. It just wasn’t him, and he would be miserable his entire life.

We hear the rumble of motorbikes approaching, and I see all the women tense, as we know that our time has come to an end. “Well, that was fun while it lasted,” Aria jokes. “Do you think if I jump Brandr as he comes in the door, he will still be upset?” She thrusts her hips playfully, making us all laugh uproariously at her protruding stomach.

“I can always just thrust Orion into Wulf’s arms as he sees us. He won’t moan at me with the baby between us. And then on the way home, I can always seduce him until he forgets how upset he is,” she says as she wiggles her eyebrows.

“I’ll just go straight for the crotch. He’ll forget about everything except my hand,” Gabriela says as she thrusts out her hand and starts to fist and open it a few times.

“You three are so useless. Why try to appease them when the whole idea is to have them hot and bothered, taking their rage out on you? I don’t mind being Ceric’s naughty girl any day of the week as long as he punishes me nicely,” I say while fluttering my eyelashes exaggeratedly.

“Well, at least I don’t need to worry. No one will be angry with me. Maybe I’ll just stay here with Sam for a while and see him parade around naked,” Brielle says with a grin as she looks at Sam teasingly.

“Are you blind?” Gabriela responds. “If Bion’s with them, by the way he’s been eyeing you, you’re not going to get out of this one unscathed, either.”

I jump to my feet and approach the window as I hear the bikes downstairs. Moving the curtain slightly, I see they have all come after us. I feel the others behind me also peeping out. “I’m sorry to tell you this, ladies, but I don’t think any amount of seducing is going to appease the fury on those men’s bodies. I would start hiding if I were you,” Sam says as he starts to move towards his front door.

“Oh, shut up, spoil sport,” I say. I can feel my heart racing as I see Ceric jump off his bike and make his way towards the entrance, and then we hear a loud crash. “Okay, that didn’t sound too good.”

“No joke, Einstein. We’re in so much trouble,” Gabriela says, “but it was so worth it.”

 I hear Sam say from outside the apartment, “Go right in. You don’t need to break my door.” I can hear the nervousness in his voice. Sam may be a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, but he’s not stupid, and he knows when to keep his mouth shut. “I didn’t invite them, just so you know.”

“Tattletale,” I scream so he knows I heard him. The first one through the door is Bjarni, and lordy, the man can make anyone pee themselves just with one of his looks. His eyes go directly to Gabriela, and I see him relax slightly at her presence.

“Hey, babe,” she says quietly, as if nothing happened. I hear him huff in annoyance, and then he throws me an angry scowl as he moves towards his woman. Oh boy, I’m on his shit list.

Wulf marches into the house like a hurricane, his amethyst eyes shining in anger. “What the fuck, angel?” he asks. Jasmine is already standing with Orion. At his father’s voice, he gurgles in pleasure. She approaches and hands Orion to him. At that, I nearly laugh, as she practically did what she said she would. Wulf glares at her over his son’s head, but then softness comes to his eyes as Orion places his chubby hand on his face.

“Don’t you ever do this shirt again,” Brandr roars from the door. “What were you thinking?”

“Don’t overreact. We’re fine,” Aria states angrily. I miss Brandr’s reply as Ceric explodes into the apartment.

When he sees me standing by the window, he scowls. Pointing at me, he growls, “Are you insane coming back here? Do you know what could have happened?” With each word, he advances until he is standing right before me.

“You are never going to do this shit again. Do you hear me? If you want to go out, someone will escort you. I will not have you place yourself and the others in danger again.” With that, he grabs my upper arms, pulling me towards him. His head comes down towards me, and then he freezes. His eyes that were already darker with anger go such a dark brown that I can’t see the pupil. He growls deep in his throat like an angry animal, and then he’s letting go of my arms and looking around.

“Ceric?” What the hell is wrong? I can feel the fury radiating off him. Looking around, I can see that most of the brothers are now in the apartment, and at his reaction, they have also tensed.

“You think you can touch my woman?” His snarl is deep and more frightening for it. And then he moves so fast that I don’t even see until he’s in front of Sam with a hand on his neck, lifting him off the ground. “You’re dead.”

“Ceric!” I scream. “No, please, no.” Rushing towards him, I place my arms around his waist and start to pull, trying to pull him away from Sam. I see Sam’s eyes bulge and his face turning purple as Ceric’s hand tightens around his neck, but then I’m being lifted away from Ceric, and Bjarni has his arm around his neck and waist, pulling him back, while Draco pulls at his arm.