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“Yeah Babygirl, you can just come up to the police station and I’ll take fingerprints and send them off and you’ll have to fill out paperwork.” He stops for a second and glances at the kids, seeming to figure out how to ask whatever he needs to ask. “Is there anything that might come up that will need to be taken care of?”

Even though I hear his question, it doesn’t register. I’m stuck on the fact they actually seem to care, since it’s such a foreign feeling. The only people who ever cared about me after my parents died were my grandparents, and since Paw-Paw died it has been just Maw-Maw. Saige was always too worried about her next fix.

It continuously blows my mind at how thoughtful they all are. It’s going to take some time to get used to all of this, and all of them, plus trying to manage my triggers. Oddly enough, I really haven’t had too many issues. I think it’s because I actually trust all five of them and they haven’t even raised their voices at me or the kids. It’s refreshing.

I’m smacked in the face with a roll. I look up and everyone is staring at my grandmother who is grinning like the cat that got the canary. “Daydreaming, are we? We are waiting on an answer.”

“No,” I frown at her. “There is nothing. I’ve never been in any type of legal trouble or even arrested for anything.”

Maw-Maw tuts at me, wagging her finger like I’m a naughty child. “Now granddaughter, that’s not exactly true, now is it?” She is looking way too pleased with herself at the moment.

Glaring at her, I stick my tongue out. “THAT DOESN’T COUNT! I was sixteen and it was a prank. Besides, the charges were dropped!”

All the guys look at me with varying looks from shock to humor but of course, Silas the trouble marker is the one to speak up. “So our sweet Isla isn’t so sweet after all. What did you get arrested for, hmmm?”

Rolling my eyes at the funny looks they are giving me, I shrug my shoulders resignedly. “Well if you must know, I egged and TP’d the house of the old gym teacher at my high school. In my defense, he was an ass and a pervert and it was justified.”

Odin looks me dead in the eyes and practically growls, “What did he do?”

Sighing, I reply, “Well it was a list of things. He was always too eager to ‘help us’ stretch, or he would wait like five minutes after we started changing and come busting into the locker room for random reasons, like claiming we forgot items or someone was needed in the office. He would ‘accidentally’ brush up against our chest or ass. Then, sophomore year he threatened my sister and told her he would fail her if she didn’t…” I stop for a second, remembering my kids are sitting close enough to hear.

Bodie, Orin, and Maw-Maw all reach over and cover the kids’ ears quickly so I can finish. I lower my voice just in case, as I continue, “He said she had to suck him off and let him take her virginity. She of course told me, and I told him I’d burn his house down with him in it, and his only comeback was that I didn’t know where he lived. So I found his house, and I didn’t just egg and TP it, I spray painted the walls and his car with ‘rapist’, ‘child molester’, and ‘pervert’. I’m sure he painted over that or cleaned the paint up before the cops saw it. That’s why he dropped the charges.”

My grandmother is actually beginning to turn red, she looks so pissed. “Hey, can one of you take the kids to go grab some popsicles? They’re in the big freezer in the walk-in pantry.”

Bodie jumps up, walking around to put Vivi on one hip. “Yup, come on my little monkeys, let’s get some popsicles. Wait,” he pauses to look back at Maw-Maw. “Can they have them with their allergies?”

Maw-Maw’s face softens a bit looking at my red-headed hunk. “They are the ones you made for the picnic when we went fishing. Since we didn’t have time to eat, I put everything up.”

He nods at her and leads the kids away, and she turns on me the minute they are out of the pool house. “ISLA CLAIRE AARON, why the hell am I just now hearing about this?”

“It was only a month after Paw-Paw died, and I didn’t want to worry you with anything else. Saige was starting to get into trouble with drugs and the cops, and you were crying every night. So I took care of it,” I tell her honestly, shrugging like it was no big deal.

She deflates a little at that. “I understand why you did it, but it has always been my job to protect you, not the other way around, okay? Seems to be the running theme with you, child. You never told me about Corin either. That’s going to stop, do you understand me?” She stops and looks at the four remaining men.

“Let me make something very clear. If any of you hurt Isla or those kids, I will make you live to regret it. I can afford to pay someone to take care of–shall we say, problems–in not very nice ways, and if I have to I will. I would do anything for my family.” She turns back to me, and continues her lecture, “If I would have known Corin was doing what he was, I would have put a stop to it. I will not let you or those kids go through that again. Do all of you understand me?” she asks, looking at each of us.

Five very quick replies of “Yes ma’am” have Maw-Maw nodding once, decisively putting her metaphorical foot down. It's kinda amusing that the guys are terrified of my tiny grandmother, but shit, so am I.

After that wonderful conversation, we all finish our dinner real quick then help clean up all the food and dishes. Bodie and the kids are sitting on beach towels while the kids eat their treats and I decide I want to float on a raft for a bit, not that I’ll tan or anything. I’ve been floating around lazily with my eyes closed for about ten minutes when I feel hands running up my legs.

My eyes snap open and the only people still in the pool are Silas and Callum. The latter is standing at the foot of the raft rubbing my legs.

Silas is standing beside me stroking himself through his shorts. “So Wildflower, you’ve been driving us all crazy floating around with all that skin showing. Emma took the kids to get dry and watch a movie in the media room so the guys and I played rock, paper, scissors. Me and the big lug over there tied. Now that we have you, what are we going to do with you?”

Callum’s hands are getting higher and higher with just the right amount of pressure, I look at both of them and smirk, “Well I hope you’re going to make me cum so I don’t have to do it myself later.”

Silas dives for me and yanks me off the raft, throwing me over his shoulder. “Hey, I can walk you know!” I tell him indignantly. All of a sudden, I feel a SMACK and a slight stinging on my ass, and I can’t help but moan. Callum laughs when he sees the look on my face.

Once we get in the house, Si stops and spins in a circle. “Where is your room?”

I tap his ass, the only part of him I can reach in my dangled position. “Put me down and I’ll show you, caveman.” He slowly slides our fronts together as he sets me down on the floor. I set my hand on his chest, lingering over his rapidly beating heart before I push off against him and turn to sprint towards my bedroom.

I hear two husky growls as they chase after me, but I can tell they aren’t trying to catch me yet. Just as I make it into my wing and through my bedroom door, I’m caught around the waist and spun around. Callum slams his lips to mine then uses one fist in my hair to pull my head back, exposing my neck for him to lick and nibble at.

“Want to play, Kitten?” he asks, untying my top with his free hand, while Silas kneels down and drags my bottoms over my legs. Once they have me naked they waste no time in pleasing me in ways I have only read about in my smutty books.

Callum claims my mouth again, while Silas brings his to my center. I feel his tongue part my folds, and my knees would have buckled if Callum wasn’t holding me up. Callum alternates between licking and sucking my nipples while Silas attacks my pussy like a starving man at a banquet.

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