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“Come on, sweetheart,” Adan cooed at her. He had a way of calming her down that Casimir and I needed to learn from. “Let’s go to bed.”
She nodded, reaching out for his hand. My bed was the closest, despite our decision to use Cas’s earlier. It didn’t matter, did it? But when we got to it, she hesitated. We were all being affected by the newness of this, but she looked over her shoulder at me and grinned a bit and, immediately, I realized maybe I had underestimated our girl.
“This is your bed,” she said, and I walked over and wrapped her up in my arms. She leaned into me, rubbing her face along my shoulder.
“Every bed is our bed now, Karelis. Come on. All of us need rest, and I need to hold you. I’m sorry we didn’t get to you sooner, mate.”
She turned and cupped my face with her hands and then touched Adan’s arm and then Cas’s. “You were all looking for me—that’s all that matters. I knew you would.”
We piled into the bed. Me on one side of her and Adan on the other. Cas stood there for a minute and then decided to lay his head on her stomach, his body between her legs.
Our mate began giggling. “You know, I’d pictured this scenario a few times in my head, and honestly thought I would be a bit claustrophobic.”
“And now?” Cas hummed in her ear.
“My wolves are content and so am I. You three make me feel safe. I’d been having some doubts about whether or not you were my mates, but the thought of losing you or you getting hurt, well, I don’t give a flying fuck what the Light Kingdom says. You three are mine.”
We chuckled at that and I reached over to flick off the one lamp in the room. Silently, we lay there together. I leaned forward to kiss Karelis’ cheek more than once and the third time, she turned her head and met my lips with her own.
“Do you think the girls that took Karelis are somehow connected to the lights?” Adan asked after a span of not talking.
“It all seems a little coincidental. Those girls knew the exact time that you were down there alone? Or were they down there torturing someone else and stopped when they saw you?” I asked.
Cas turned to face the ceiling. I didn’t know how my friend could think at all with his brain while he lay between our mate’s legs. “It’s unlikely they are connected. Other than their bully reputation, those girls’ elevators don’t really go up to the top floor. That’s probably why they are so aggressive. It makes up for their self-hate over being behind and probably getting bad grades and generally being stupid.”
Karelis snorted. “Remind me not to get on Casimir’s bad side.”
He turned and nipped at her leg, making her yelp. “No matter what, you’ll never be on my bad side, mate. Never.”
“When did you know that I was yours?” she asked all of us.
“The first time I saw you,” I answered. “Adan and I were in the administration office. I told Cas about you that night. But he didn’t meet you until we saw you in the dining hall days later.”
“I’m still mad about that,” Cas commented.
“Mad about what?” I asked.
“About you two meeting our mate before I did.”
Only Casimir would be jealous of such a little thing. His competitive side went right along with the warrior upbringing.
“Have any of you been to the Urban Academy? What’s it like? I was only there for long enough to be sent here,” she said.
All three of us had. Sometimes, if we were good boys, Urban Rehab Academy and the other UA would get together for shifter classes, or sometimes there was some fancy Shifter Council member there. And I had actually been a student there for a time.
“It’s so much better,” I started. “We could live in a big suite, much bigger than this one.”
“Or get an apartment near Asher,” Adan added. “An apartment where we could do what we wanted, when we wanted.”
“Wouldn’t that be expensive?” Karelis asked. “We could all get jobs and pitch in. I’ve never had a steady one, but I could.”
All of us chuckled. I said, “Mate, there’s no reason for you to get a job.”
“Why not?” she asked. I began thinking of ways to tell our mate that I had a trust fund, but nothing sounded quite right.
“Because our friend Blaze is loaded,” Cas put in helpfully. “And the rest of us aren’t bad off, either.”
She frowned. “But that doesn’t mean I can’t do my part. I’m not going to be some leech.”
