Every Night Forever
“ Dante wondered. A glance at his brothers told him that they didn’t know why she was crying either, but the tears were genuine and her sorrow was palpable. Locking them down here for the remainder of the weekend to seduce her had seemed like a good idea at the time, but now, with her tears scenting the air like saltwater, he realized they’d made a misstep somewhere along the line; more than one, most likely. He climbed up the low platform bed, which they’d covered with soft furs and blankets... just for her while she slept, and pulled her hands away from her eyes. Her soft brown eyes were bright with tears and she took in a gasping breath and tried to extract her wrists from his grasp. “Why are you crying, Lys? You have to know that we’d never hurt you.” Fresh tears spilled over her cheeks. “Please don’t do this, Dante. I’m not a toy. I couldn’t bear to be cast aside. Please,” she begged, in a voice that could only be considered fragile. She started crying in earnest again, but stopped fighting his hold. Mason came up on her other side. “Why would you think we would cast you aside, love? We’re not in the habit of doing that with our woman.” Shuddering as she tried to hold her sobs back, she looked at Mason with wide eyes. “What?” Cairo moved closer to the end of the bed. “Of course, Alyssa. Why the hell do you keep saying things like ‘toy’? We don’t know what that means.” Dante pulled her up slowly to a sitting position and she clenched the tucked corner of the large bath towel so she was still covered. Her voice was scratchy and raw and Mason walked over to the kitchen area and grabbed a bottle of water for her from the stocked refrigerator. She took a long drink, still sniffling and trying to calm herself, and then she told them everything in a rush, starting with her mother, who hadn’t ever really been there for her, abandoning her to chase after an alpha. Left to her own devices, she’d tried to get attention any way she could, and ended up as a pack toy. “A toy is a whore for the pack, always available for any single male on the full moon or any other time. I was one, until a few months ago when a drunken mistake made me reevaluate my life.” She sniffled, refusing to look at them. “When I stopped having sex, the males wouldn’t even look at me twice. I’d been nothing to them, nothing of value anyway. I was easily replaced and quickly forgotten. And my friends — or the females I believed were my friends — were angry that they had to pick up my slack. The sick thing is that I had hoped that someone might like me enough to get to know me, but when I took my body out of the equation it was like I ceased to exist.” Fury stole through him, and his brothers were no less affected by her words. She wiped at the tears on her cheeks with the back of her hand. “I looked for jobs outside of Havers. I thought,”MoreLess
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