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Ash knelt beside me where I was still knotted between them. “You okay?”
Emotion I couldn’t fight swamped me, and my eyes filled with tears. “I think so.”
He brushed away one of the tears with his thumb. “If I didn’t know better I’d be panicked about the tears.” I tried to shake my head, but he kissed me first. “You’re okay, sweetheart. We know. Whatever you need, we’ll make it happen.”
“I don’t know what I need,” I admitted.
There had never been a heat like this, and the couple of times I’d actually spent one with someone, they weren’t around after to take care of me.
Gabriel’s knot loosened, and he gently pulled away. Roman’s knot eased moments later. A blanket draped over my shoulders. I shuddered coming off Roman’s cock and curling into softness.
“What happens now?” The words were absent, almost to myself.
Jace pulled my feet into his lap and slowly massaged them. “I think that depends on you, baby girl.”
Snuggling deeper into the pillows so I could look at them, I took a deep breath. “What do you mean?”
“Well,” Gabriel cleared his throat. “I hope it doesn’t come as a shock that we want you here with us.”
“Live here?”
He turned me slowly on my back so I could see him. The smile on his face was so big I couldn’t help but smile back. “I almost ordered a moving company to go get your things while we fucked you. But I wanted to ask properly.”
I blinked. “Don’t you guys have to rearrange things before you move a whole new person into your house?”
Gabriel looked around pointedly. “I think we have a pretty good start. And since the rest of this floor is empty…”
Pulling the blanket over my head, I curled in on myself until I was a ball. It was all too much to feel and think about. The thought of going back to my apartment alone made my chest ache with sadness. It had been a good home, but I’d been so lonely there, I didn’t want it back.
And still, in a contradiction, letting go of it after so long made me panic. Losing the armor you’d had forever would do that.
Chocolate chip cookies warm from the oven seeped through the blanket as Asher wrapped his body around mine. “Did we lose you, blue?”
“No.”
“Then why are you hiding?”
I allowed him to uncover my face. “Because I want it so much and that’s terrifying?”
In his eyes I saw the understanding I needed. It was scary because I’d been fighting on my own for so long, I still wasn’t used to having anyone to rely on. I had my friends and I had my grandmother, but it was different.
Especially after five years of knowing what could have been and wasn’t.
“Remember what Gabriel said. We’re not going to let you doubt us or this. None of us are going to change our minds, Sloane.”
Sitting up slowly, I leaned against his shoulder and looked at each of my other Alphas in turn. The same conviction lived in each of them.
“It’s okay to be scared,” Ash whispered. “Especially of something so big. But as long as you’re not scared ofus? There’s nothing we can’t handle.”
I wasn’t.
“Move in with us, baby girl.”
Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath and blew it out. “Okay.”
Laughter bubbled out of me. Suddenly I was in a tangle of limbs, blankets, and purrs. From now on I always would be.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
