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Bran had ordered me to have sex with a lot of people while I lived with him, and once I’d gained enough control over my bear some of my partners could be my own choice, I’d discovered I either needed to be in total control, or I needed someone strong enough to keep me from taking that control, but also strong enough to give up a little of his control, so it was a give-and-take.

With Bran, Ialwayshad to submit to him, and at first, that’d meant a whole lot of pain. I’ve learned to be the perfect sex slave because I guess that was necessary in order for me to be able to find control, but I hated it. Detested it. I’m not even a tiny bit of a masochist, but I discovered a decent amount of sadism in my nature.

Was that there before the bear was part of my psyche? I didn’t think so, but maybe.

I cut up with Matty and some of the other ol’ladies, ate my food, and gossiped with everyone.

A little later, Dawg dragged me off to a corner to check in with me. Honestly, I’d been kind of hoping to hook up with himtonight, but then Will happened. Dawg is a nice no-strings night of fun every once in a while, but he’s kind of dangerous because he’s so damned nice. It’d be easy to fall for him, but he isn’t the settling-down type, so it’d be stupid to do so.

“Ya’ll were only about an hour late to the party,” Dawg told me with a grin.

“Yeah. I don’t know if that was your intention, but thanks, if it was.”

He shook his head. “Happy accident. I didn’t think you were in danger of losing control, but you were clearly overwhelmed with all the people jostling you. I knew Will would be in the shower, so we’d have a few minutes in his dressing room for you to take some deep breaths.”

“Yeah. Getting backstage was a little more than I’ve had to deal with since…” There are all these rules about when I can talk about supernatural stuff, and this kind of party, with media in attendance who probably had all kinds of snoopy listening devices was specifically a problem.

Dawg looked around the room and back to me. “Will’s looking for a third for him and Davy.”

I nodded and put my face in his chest so I could speak even lower and be sure he’d hear me. “He mentioned that, but no way is it time to even contemplate that yet.”

“I think silent contemplation could be healthy, but you’re probably right about it being too soon to talk about it. Still, since he brought it up, means he’s probably considering the possibilities.”

“Too soon, Dawg.” My arms were already loosely around him, and I hugged him a few seconds. “Thanks for looking out for me.”

“Can’t really help myself, plus you’re part of the extended family.”

“Right, but you watch out for me nearly as much as Razor does.”

“Will’s looking our way, let’s walk to him. Give the media something else to talk about.”

Chapter 4

Micca

The gossip had been strong that there was a three-way thing going with Will, Hailey, and Ghost for a while, but it’d stopped a few months later when they thought Dawg and Will were a thing.

Dawg is kind of Will’s type, and the most beautiful man I know, so when someone had taken pictures of them talking at a charity event, social media had jumped on there being something between Lord Byron and Dawg.

Which meant if I was actively hugging Dawg and then went to Will and was affectionate, it’d probably get them all started again, especially since Will and I’d been seen holding hands on the way here.

But if Dawg was cool with it, so was I, so I let him walk me with his arm around me to Will, and then I hugged Will and gave him a quick kiss.

“It just occurred to me,” Will said, “that it was possible I interrupted ya’ll when I came out of the shower.”

I told him as much of the truth as I could. “Oh, no. I got jostled kind of rough on the way backstage, and Dawg just wanted to get me away from people to check on me, and figured you’d be in the shower.”

And that’s when Matty came from behind me, wrapped his arms around me, and told Will, “You owe me big time for not telling Micca about you and…” I could sense him looking around, realizing he shouldn’t mention Davy’s name in a roomwith media and influencers aplenty. “She thinks I’m in the habit of keeping secrets now.”

Will smiled. “Razor tells me you’re much better at being trustworthy, so I’ll be sure to tell him what a good job you’ve done helping keep your friend safe.” He looked at me and back to Matty. “But I didn’t mean you had to keep it from your best friend.”

“Dav… My friend told me to wait until you were home to ask you.”

“Ah. Perhaps I can take ya’ll out for a special treat in the coming weeks. I’ll check in with your Daddy and see if we can come up with something.”

“Well, my other friend won’t tell me how big your dick is, so maybe mybestfriend will, now that she knows.”

Will grinned at me, and I told Matty. “Wow, you have no idea how big it is. Scary big. Ginormous.”