Playing for Keeps (Pack Heat Book 5) by Sam Hall

Author:Sam Hall [Hall, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

So this was how we came to be ushered into a massive compound, instructed to shower and dress by a tense-looking Ophelia. We did so like chastened children. Well, they did. I was well and truly still in rebellious teenager mode.

“We didn’t do anything wrong,” I insisted. “Everyone there was a consenting adult.”

“In the club? Yeah,” Shaun said grimly, towelling himself off with rough motions that made me step in and take the towel from him. He went very still as I reached up, drying off that body, that beautiful fall of blond hair, much more gently. When I pulled it away, his hand whipped out, holding my wrist and pulling me close. “Things run to plan here, always stay the same. Usually, it’s comforting, but… The focus of Sanctuary is on the safety of the women.”

“And somehow we’ve threatened that?” I asked, incredulous.

“You… We made them feel what we felt. Every damn adult in the town, I think.”

“Which was insanely hot,” Axel said. “I’ve fucked and been fucked, but I never knew that’s what it felt like for women.” He tossed his head back, looking somewhat shell-shocked. “That was…transcendent.”

“But we didn’t have their permission,” Ethan said grimly. He stood a distance away from us, then pulled on the provided shorts and T-shirt.

“You… You don’t have to stay.” I had to force the words out, everything inside me screaming the opposite, but I had to say this. “Like, I don’t want you getting into shit because of me. I have a job to get back to, a friend who’s probably rung the cops, thinking Shaun kidnapped me. I can GTFO once this blows over and—”

“No.”

Arms went around me, and I was tugged up against Shaun’s body, his lips finding the mark he’d left on me with unerring ease, but it wasn’t pain I felt when he brushed it, more an echo of that former pleasure.

Axel, on the other hand, looked a little shaken.

“Your heat is broken?” I nodded, because it was, sort of. It’d been remarkably short, but I felt like I was in the driver’s seat right now. “The agreement is that we stay until your heat is done, unless you wish otherwise.” His eyebrow slid up slowly in question. “What do you want us to do, Bec?”

Stay. That was definite, I felt it beating hard in my chest, but for some reason, it caught there. Axel watched me struggle, swallow, my head twisting, before he reached out and placed a big hand on my sternum.

“What do you want? This is Sanctuary. It’s safe to ask for what you need. Just tell us. You were so fucking brave before, reaching for what you want.”

I might have infected the whole town with the equivalent of spiritual Viagra, but Axel, there was something different about him. When he spoke, he cast spells, drawing my answer out of me before my inhibitions could hold me back any more.

“Stay. Please. If you want to. I mean…”

“I’m not going anywhere, ever,” Shaun assured

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