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  Talhrn held out his hand and Dee smiled as he helped her stand. “They hate being left alone. The small one is Missy and the other is Boo. I’ve had them since they were pups. Come, I’ll show you the barn and the animals while we feed them.” Before she stepped away from him, Talhrn lifted her up and kissed her lips.

  “Umm, I’ve been wanting to do that for a while.” He teased and put her down swatting her ass. “Show us your animals.” Dee laughed and stuck her tongue at him.

  “Little Kitten, I can think of many things to do with that tongue.” Not warning her, Talhrn stripped her of the sweater and coat she wore, baring her breasts to their view.

  She screeched and covered them with her arms. “Talhrn, what if someone stops by?”

  “Drop your arms, Dee. Never cover your body from us,” Marquis ordered as they moved towards the barn. “There is no one around. If you scanned the area, you would know this.”

  Stopping, Dee put her hands on her hips and glared at Marquis. “Excuse me, I did scan. I do every time I come here to make sure dear old dad isn’t here. So don’t give me that attitude and, for your information, when I’m home some of the pack does drop by to play cards every so often.” Dee started towards the barn, but Marquis circled his arm around her and stopped her.

  “I didn’t mean to offend you.” He bent his head and sucked her nipple into his mouth.

  “God, you have to stop. I need to...” Dee moaned and grabbed a handful of his hair and tried to yank his head back, which only increased Marquis’s need to dominate her.

  “Wrong move, Little Kitten.” He stared at the barn and worked his magic. The animals were now fed, but what he found in the barn had him smiling. “Tell me, Kitten, what is that little room off to the left, in the barn?”

  Dipping down, Marquis flipped her over his shoulder, the rest of her clothes disappearing as he grabbed onto her ass cheek and squeezed. “Answer the question, Dee.” He slapped her butt, bringing a yelp out of her.

  She lifted herself up and stared into his face. “I’d rather go into the house. We can always play later.”

  He nodded and all three of them moved back towards her house. Once inside, Marquis slid her down his body, but held onto to her, kissing her lips softly. “Show us your home.”

  “Come. I want to show you something.” She grabbed Marquis’ hand and reached out for Talhrn. Automatically he took it and held onto it as they stepped into an open area. “I hate having rooms all closed up, so I’ve had contractors over the years take out as many walls as possible. Of course, I kept the bedrooms closed, but they too are larger than they were.” She released their hands and went to a thin closet.

  “I collect dragons and anything to do with Vikings. You could say I have a thing for them.” The skin on her face brightened a little as she carefully pulled out a metal sword. For a minute Dee sat on the floor, running her hand over the blade.

  “My Hope found this actually.” Dee looked up into his eyes as she stood dragging it. The thing was almost as long as she was and he could tell it was heavy as she dragged the tip behind her. “She said, ‘Mom you have to buy it. He needs it to save you.’“

  He stepped up to her and cupped her cheek. “When I first met you, I knew Hope was thinking of you somehow.”

  Reaching for the grip, Talhrn took the sword into his hand and lifted it up to look at it. Down the middle of the blade was an etched pattern he’d only seen a few times while in the care of the Tetraheros. “He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy, who is not, will be victorious.”

  “I’ve heard of that saying before. The man who made these weapons was a bit weird but big like you. This is just one of the things he had hanging in his shop.” She shrugged. “Who knows, maybe it was fate.”

  Leaning down, he kissed her cheek. “Thank you. This is beautiful and I will treasure it always. It’s even more special because your daughter helped pick it out.” Lifting her chin up, Talhrn kissed her lips softly, tracing them with his tongue, before slipping into her warm haven.

  With her tiny delicate hands, Dee slid them up his chest and around his neck. Her whimper only hardened his cock to the point where he swore it was ready to explode, but now was not the time for that. Lifting his head up, he nipped her nose.

  “Todd, why don’t you go and start some breakfast for us, Marquis, maybe tonight we should introduce our meru to our family?”

  “What?” Dee jumped back, almost tripping over her own feet. “I never said anything about meeting your family. I’m not ready for that. The last time I went to your planet, Mom was almost attacked by some psycho.” She waved her hands and moved away from all three of them, but stopped all of a sudden.

  Her eyes got big and Dee glanced down at her stomach, before running to the bathroom not making it.

  “It hurts!” She screamed and was lifted into the air before either of them could reach her.

  “Todd, meat and anything with lots of protein. Our meru is going through the second phase. Marquis start a nice cool bath,” Talhrn ordered as he hovered next to Dee while her body went through the change. He’d hope with her carrying their blood, she would have skipped this part in the bonding, but that didn’t happen.

  “Don’t worry, Little Kitten, I’m here.” He watched in horror as her body convulsed. Every muscle, bone and tissue was changing in her body.

  “Remind me to kill my mom!” she screamed as her body slammed into a wall. “Make it stop, please. I’ll go to the family dinner, I promise,” Dee cried and begged as another wave of tremors racked her body.

  This time Talhrn grabbed onto her and held her so she wouldn’t hit the wall. “I’ve got you. I’m sorry, Dee. I’d hoped you wouldn’t have to go through this.” He buried his head into her hair, holding her tight as she cried.

  Both Marquis and Todd kept checking with them while they did what was ordered, looking absolutely helpless as he felt. Their sora had been right, their hearts were bound to her and right now each one of them was aching something fierce.

  For over an hour, Talhrn held her as her body adjusted to its new form. “I’m so sorry, Little Kitten.” He finally sunk to the floor with her in his arms as the end was close. “I didn’t think you would experience this and such a horrid amount of pain.” He buried his face into the crook of her neck and held her tight as the seizures slowly started to dissipate.

  His own body shook at how much this upset him. It wasn’t enough that his meru was tormented night and day by her psychotic father, but now he and his weru had brought the Metasis’s Fury down upon her.

  At his distress, both Marquis and Todd surrounded both of them in their arms, holding him and Dee.

  “Talhrn?” Dee’s voice was a whisper. “I’ll be okay. My mother did inform me.” She reached under him and cupped both sides of his face, trying to lift his head.

  Slowly, Talhrn turned to her and she gasped. “Oh, Talhrn please don’t cry for me...” She leaned in and kissed each of his cheeks.

  He’d never cried, but yet here his Little Kitten was kissing away the evidence. “You shouldn’t have gone through the passage. If I’d known...” The anger he’d kept inside hissed out in the last part of that sentence.

  A small snort had him staring at her. “Please.” Dee tried to sit up, but Marquis and Todd still held onto them tight. “Um, guys could you let me go? I really would like to sit up...Maybe a nice hot bath too.”

  Both Marquis and Todd slid down on the floor next to them, staring at her as she arched and stretched her arms over her head. For someone so small she was powerful in her own right. “Talhrn...” She turned her full gaze upon him as she carefully straddled him. She sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose.”I really need a bath, so let’s make this quick. You...” She pointed at his chest. “…are different from the others of your kind. You even told me that. Why wouldn’t the whatever you call it be different? I made it even though I stink like hell and I’m sore, but other than that I survived. So stop fussing.” She leaned in and kis
sed his lips softly.

  “Now, I really need my bath. Marquis, will you help me up? And, no, don’t pick me up, I stink. I don’t want to get any of this goo on you. Already, Talhrn needs to shower now.” She looked behind her and held up her hand for him, but he circled his arms around her and jumped up in one swift move.

  “We will all take a bath with you. The three of us need to be close to you right now, Little Kitten,” he admitted to her as he carried her down the hallway towards the bathroom. Both Marquis and Todd followed behind them.

  Until they made love with their meru, the three of them would not let her out of their sight. The bonding was almost complete. The final stage was their love making and tonight they’d consummate their union.

  Chapter Eight

  As they headed towards the bathroom, Dee glanced up at Talhrn as he stepped into the enormous tub that was not hers. “I like what you did with the new tub, but don’t you think it’s a bit much?” Dee smiled.

  Even though every inch of her body hurt, if possible even her hair, Dee wasn’t about to let her men know. They already felt guilty enough for what had happened to her.

  “And I always will too. Nothing you say or don’t say will change that. Don’t think I don’t know how sore you are because I do. I feel what you do now, we all do.” He handed her to Marquis as he sat in the warm water, then reached for her again as Marquis and Todd sat around the small pool-like tub.

  “You’ll not be keeping things from us, Little Kitten. It’s our duty to take care of you. If I even think you are hiding something from us, your punishment will not be a pleasant one.” The warm water covered her and she moaned.

  Ignoring that last comment, Dee closed her eyes as all three of them started to rub every inch of her body under the water. Over and over they washed and worked at loosening her muscles and cleaning the gel-like substance that had eased out of her pours during the change. Dee tried to lift her hand up, but it felt like a wet noodle and plopped back into the water.

  She lifted her head and stopped her words. The water was a grayish color, dirty and smelly. “This is really gross. Umm could you maybe give us clean water?” Dee shivered.

  Talhrn laughed as he shook his head. The dirty water was replaced with clean. “Now, what were you going to say?”

  Once more, Dee started to ask him about the punishment, but shut her mouth and jumped up. Water went everywhere, but she didn’t care.

  “Don’t get too comfortable with them daughter, soon they will meet with the same fate as your other tricks,” Koti broke through the barrier she had put up to block his entrance to her mind.

  Stepping out of the tub, Dee forgot about everything around her. “I’ll kill you before you ever lay a hand on them!”

  A towel was wrapped around her, drawing her attention. “Come and get us, Koti, or are you too scared to do your own work.” Dee heard Talhrn’s threat right before the connection from her father was severed.

  “No! How am I supposed to find him?” she snarled.

  From behind, Todd lifted her up into his arms and carried her out of the bathroom and into her bedroom. He set her down and pointed to the corner of her room. “Go. You will kneel facing the wall and you know the position. I want those legs spread, hands behind your back, and your head down. Not a word will come out of your mouth. Our orak will deal with you when he is finished with Koti.”

  She took a step towards Todd and snarled. Before Dee could think about what she was doing, Marquis appeared behind her ad if out of nowhere. He wrapped his arm around her and flipped her onto the bed where he started to spank her.

  “You will never threaten any of your werus!” Six hard slaps to each cheek, before he picked her up and set her down in the corner. “Think before you do anything. Now resume the position.”

  With her ass on fire, Dee knelt down trying to stop the tears from falling. She took a quick peek behind her as she separated her legs and hooked her arms behind her back. Todd glared at her, but she could see the hurt in his eyes as well.

  “I’m sorry...” He didn’t say anything, but Marquis stepped in front of Todd.

  “Turn around, head down. Don’t make me repeat myself again,” The anger in his voice, Dee couldn’t hold back anymore. Tears fell down her cheeks and they rolled down onto her breasts. She had hurt them all.

  Her body was still sore and weak. Dee didn’t know how, but in the last two days her men had come to mean everything to her. Talhrn, with his Viking body and personality was not only her master, but her heart. Marquis, with his silent, but deadly mannerism, left Dee shivering at the way his gaze traveled down her body not caring if she noticed him. He knew she belonged to him and nothing except death would take him away.

  Then there was Todd. His mouth was always running, but underneath she’d seen the vulnerability inside him. Sure he could kill without a thought, but Dee could see it cost him much to open up to her and she had just blown it all.

  In the last hundred years, Dee had never done something so stupid and hurtful to anyone, let alone her men, if they still wanted to be her men. She sat there with her head down and remembered the first time Todd had cornered her in the kitchen of her Mom’s home.

  “Tell me Little Kitten, do you sleep in the nude?” he’d asked her as he circled her and ran his hand down her arm.

  It had taken her a few minutes before Dee could even consider a comeback, he had her so excited. That night even her favorite vibrator did not help the ache inside her.

  Not knowing how long she sat there, Dee yelled and moved, her leg, cramping up bad. “Great, another thing against me,” she cried out and fell onto her butt as she reached for the leg in question, but Todd was there before Dee could do anything.

  He picked up her leg and started working the muscle. She tried to hold onto the carpet as the pain shot through the muscles. A groan escaped and she so wanted to pull away from him, but she didn’t. Dee knew to work through the pain was the only way the charley horse would go away.

  “Easy, I know it hurts, Little Kitten,” he tried to reassure her as he worked the muscle in question.

  She nodded. “Thank you.”

  Kneeling down next to her, Talhrn gripped her chin in his hand and held her gaze. “Do you know what you did wrong?”

  Taking a deep breath, Dee looked down. “I didn’t inform you about Koti in my head. I’m sorry, Talhrn, really I am, but I’m so used to his little attacks I didn’t think. Then when he threatened all of you, well I kind of went crazy inside.” She looked back up.

  “The picture of what he did to the last man I was with flashed before me, but it wasn’t his face, it was yours in all that blood,” her words were a bare whisper and her bottom lip quivered, afraid she’d blown it with them.

  “Stop.” He squeezed her chin. “Whatever happens between us we will never leave you, Dee. We will get angry and sometimes hurt, but we’re not walking away from you. You are our meru and the keeper of our hearts.” He turned his gaze to Todd. “How is her leg?”

  “The knot is gone, but she needs to get up and stretch it for a while.” Todd released her leg as Talhrn helped her up onto her feet.

  “Shit!” She yelped and would have fallen if Talhrn and Todd were not there helping her.

  “It’s cramping again.” Dee gritted her teeth and slowly tried to walk around the room as both men held her up between them.

  After a few minutes, Dee let out the breath she’d been holding and bent her leg. “I think it’s okay now,” she sighed and stepped in front of Todd, kneeling at his feet.

  “I’m sorry for growling at you earlier. I wasn’t thinking, Todd. Every time he invades my head, it’s like being controlled in a bad way.” She looked down at her hands. “I get so scared that I lash out at anyone around me. I know it’s wrong, but it’s like he knows how to trigger the cat inside me.” She rubbed her face and eyes.

  “It’s like he’s violated me. I don’t really like being whipped like I usually have gotten at the dungeon, bu
t I always feel so dirty and unworthy to be around anyone.” She looked up at him. “Please don’t hate me.”

  He growled before reaching down and scooping her up into his arms. “Little Kitten, we could never hate you,” he murmured before covering her mouth with his. Todd slid his tongue into her mouth. He tasted of mint as he took control of the kiss.

  Up and down he brushed his tongue against hers, her breasts brushed up against his chest and Dee circled her arms around his neck, holding on tight to him. He broke the kiss and stared at her. “I will always be there for you, Dee. All of us will be, but you have to turn to us when you are threatened so we can help.”

  Sitting on the bed, Todd held her as Talhrn took her hands into his. “If something were to happen to you, we’d cease to exist. Once the second stage of the bonding is complete, our fates are sealed with yours, not that it matters. If anything happened to you, it would cripple us. There would be no coming back.” He leaned down and kissed every one of her fingers.

  “Koti will never again be able to enter your head. I’ve traced the path he used and I’ve blocked it. If he wants to try anything, I’ll be there waiting for him. Come here, Little Kitten.” He lifted her up and sat her down on his lap facing him.

  “You’ve had a rough day today and I’m not going to punish you for what happened. But I won’t be so forgiving again if you neglect to reach for us. Understood?” He waited for her to answer.

  “I’ll try, Talhrn. I’ve been alone for so long...” she sighed.

  He lifted her up and stood her in front of him. “You will do it, now come. You need to eat.”

  As they walked through the hallway, Talhrn took in every room as they made their way to the kitchen. “I can see you’re surprised. It has four bedrooms. I did have a basement dug out which is wider than the house and I also have a tunnel underground going to the barn. I couldn’t get rid of the animals, they so remind me of Hope.”