The desire on Dom’s face as he eyeballed Malcolm was plain to see.
As was the satisfaction on Eric’s as he watchedher. Oh hell, he wasn’t finished.
“And now we come to a truly joyous occasion.”
The anticipation in the crowd swelled. Vicki felt dizzy waiting for Eric to drop his bomb. She just knew it wouldn’t be pretty.
It wasn’t.
“Once I catch my new queen, you’ll see why she’s the one who’ll bear my young.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Everyone froze. The murmurs turned into shouts, growls, and howls.
Dom and Malcolm gave her wicked smiles. Sean swore, as did Logan and Jesse, which must have irritated Kate because she turned on her heel and left the area. The pair raced to follow her.
Vicki glared at Eric. Did he really think she’d accept his announcement without an argument? She opened her mouth to retort but paused when he stripped down to nothing. Anger and arousal merged, the way they normally did around him. He changed into hisguer, and the rest of the unchanged Ravagers followed suit.
She backed up a step. “I don’t think—” Vicki jumped when Eric made a grab for her. Acting on instinct, she pulled the crowd’s energy and molded it into a force she could use. Thrusting her hands out, she used the gathered power at those closest to her. Setting off a small, invisible explosion, she knocked several Ravagers to the ground. Definitely time for her to go.
She shot into the woods, her heart in her throat, and wondered how best to avoid this mess snowballing into one giant SNAFU. Except a large part of her didn’t want to escape. It wanted worthy males to catch her, to take her, to possess her, finally.
So not normal.
God in heaven. Just days ago, she’d made one wrong turn and ended up sitting at the wrong table in the wrong bar. From that Eric thought he could just keep her? So what if he’d been the best sex she’d ever had? Or that the idea of having sex with him and Dom together made her wet just thinking about it?And Malcolm, don’t forget him.She hated to slut shame herself, but she couldn’t escape the notion that desire for so many men at once couldn’t be right. Hell, before she’d met her Ravagers, she’d been celibate for nearly a year.
She wanted to blame her raging desires on being marked. Better that than to admit she wanted to sleep around with a bunch of hot Voiders—males now covered in fur and sporting erections.Damn it.Several ran on either side of her, and she increased her pace. How the hell could they run with an erection, she wondered hysterically as she turned to dodge a Ravager reaching for her. What if whoever caught her could keep her, and the Ravagers who found her first weren’t Eric, Dom, or Malcolm?
Yanking another burst of energy from those closest to her, she slammed those in her periphery into a tree and ran faster. Using the reserves she’d tucked away, Vicki resonated power and nimbly raced over the ground, seeing through the scattered moonlight as if it were daytime.
She continued to move, losing more and more of her pursuers until she wanted to laugh at the sheer elation of her escape. Vicki couldn’t believe being hunted down like a wild animal could feel so liberating. Yet here, in nature’s embrace, she felt the call of freedom reaching out to her. To let go of her control and simply let the wind take her was joyous.
A little too joyous.
Caught up in the rapture of her flight, she failed to notice the solid form directly in front of her.
She ran smack into Eric, who rolled with her as he took the brunt of their fall. Before she could move, Dom was there. Claws and hands pulled at her clothing, yanking and tearing with brutal efficiency until she lay stark naked, pinned between Eric’s and Dom’s aroused frames.
They were both hard and hot, thicker and longer in this form. Despite the alien feel of their coarse fur against her skin, she wanted to fuck them more than she ever had.
“No!” She squirmed between them to get free, not wanting to surrender so easily.
“That’s it. So good.” Eric moaned and stood. His erection was enormous. “Never give in, do you?”
“Fuck you,” Vicki rasped, barely able to voice her rebellion through the lust rolling through her. Her teeth felt too large in her mouth and her tongue stumbled over the threats she wanted to make. The press of males nearing made little sense as her body filled out, grew, and pricked her with new sensations.
“So fucking hot,” someone said, someone familiar. But she couldn’t see through the darkness. Then pain, her head splitting in two. And then, once again, she could see everything. Colors were sharper, scents keener, sounds precise.
Dozens of Ravagers surrounded her, growling and groaning with surprise, with lust and with excitement.
“My mate,” Eric thundered as another Ravager moved too close for comfort. He flung the male into the darkness, and Vicki heard him land with a solid thump. But the overwhelming sensations coursing through her body made little sense next to the devastating need for something more.
“Don’t forget this one,” Dom said as he threw Malcolm to the ground. Malcolm wore bite marks all over his neck and chest. He rose on unsteady legs, his cock thick, his balls tight and his belly shuddering as he stared with hunger at Eric.At her.
Eric smiled at Malcolm but quickly returned his attention to Vicki. “Come here, pet.”
“Not your pet,” she rasped in a deeper voice than she should have had.
