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Chapter 10
Ann
The morning trudgethrough the woods is long and tedious because every few yards, every time a bird flaps its wings or a breeze blows through a branch, one of these super-careful guardians of mine yanks me down while the other two assume warrior poses until the “danger” has passed.
The danger of a little bird.Realscary.
It’s been a day and a night since the battle with the trolls. After we’d slept for most of the day, the guys had taken me around the woods, and four more shards had started glowing when I got near them. None of them said anything about it, but I got the sense that the shards' reaction to me was really important. They’d simply collected the glowing pieces, refusing to let me look at them more closely or touch them before we retired to the cave to sleep more during the day.
Dusk, at least, had explained that they always slept during the day, because the creatures couldn’t come here when it was light out. No matter what. He said that even on nights when the moon was full and bright, there were far fewer attacks because it was harder for the Shadow King to keep his creatures together in the light. So, at night the shadow beasts stayed awake and ready for attacks, while combing the forest for the gently glowing moon shards, because until me they couldn’t see them at all during the day, and during the day they rested and prepared for the next night.
They were also even more careful with me that night after collecting the shards too. We stayed in the cave, and all three of them stood like guards at the door all night, while I tried to ask more questions. Questions that none of them answered.
These guys are a frustrating lot...
Now, it’s the crack of dawn, right before the world wakes up, so there are noises that don’t belong to trolls, even though they seem to think they do. They see danger lurking under every blade of grass and every tree trunk. It’s a little frustrating. Not just their overprotectiveness. No, it’s not just all of that. It’s also that I barely slept all the day before, and that right now I wish we were sleeping instead of hiking through the woods.
I’m exhausted enough to sleep right here and now. But I don’t get to sleep under a random tree in the woods, nope, that would be too easy. My only semi-comfortable place to sleep is on a bedroll with one of the guys. And, so far, I’ve slept next to Phantom each night, which is frustrating for entirely different reasons. When we are first falling asleep, Phantom always tries to keep a few inches between our bodies. But when he eventually falls asleep, he always pulls me closer and cuddles into me.
And, fucking hell, sleeping next to a half-naked hunk of a man is like being tortured. I can feel his very hard cock against my ass all night long, and any time I shift, he groans and rubs against me a little.
I should have pulled away from him. I should have kept to my side of the blanket, or woken him up and told him to get his dick under control.
Instead, I held myself still. I maybe even rubbed my ass against him every so often to see what he would do. Part of me wanted to see if I could make him come in his sleep from something so small. I wanted to feel him begin to thrust against me until my own control slipped.
Which is insane.
Just the thought of it makes me ache to touch myself. Several times while we were laying together, I ran my hands along my stomach, debating about whether anyone would catch me. It became such a terrible need that I was undoing the button on my pants when Dusk stirred from his sleep and turned to look at me. I stopped myself before he saw anything, I think, but then he’d woken Phantom up and switched places with him.
And, hell, it must have been as long for them as it had been for me since they had sex, because Dusk was equally hard. It was even more difficult to pretend to be asleep as he adjusted, sighed, and moved around, his hard dick pressed against my ass the whole time. But eventually he too fell asleep, and I was left wondering if I was still adjusting to their sleep schedule, or if I just needed to get laid.
The tightness in my body since then said the latter, and the urge to sneak away and get myself off was building. When it was fully light out, I’d have to seriously consider whether relieving this pressure was worth the possibility of these three hunting me down and catching me in the act.
Probably not, but damn it I’m horny!
“Ann,” Dusk whispers, pulling me down behind another bush.
I sigh and shrug him off, feeling frustrated for way too many reasons.
“It’s just another fucking animal,” I mutter under my breath.
My gaze connects with Onyx’s, and there’s no doubt the bastard read my lips, because he looks irritated.
So, I mouth back at him.You are annoying.
His brows rise, and then I give him the universal sign of annoyance and flip him off.
The big man’s dark eyes darken further, and I swallow, a little too hard. But he just turns away and focuses back on the forest around us. Which is probably a good thing. As irritating as I find him, I don’t think I want to find out what he’ll do if I push him too far.
“It’s nothing,” Phantom says, and we all rise to our feet and start back up.
“What are you doing out here exactly?” I repeat the question, figuring I’d get the same standard answer as before, “walking.”
But Dusk shakes his head, a smirk on his lips. “You really like to know everything that’s going on, don’t you?”
“Uh, yeah, who likes to be kept in the dark?”
Onyx shakes his head and turns away from us.
