Page 16 of Nine Inch Nasty (Hemlock Academy #9)

Delaney

I'm really not sure who to attack first. Have you ever been in a situation where you're completely surrounded by the most attractive men you’ve ever laid eyes on, they're all hungry for you and only you, and you've kind of just done some hero bitch thing and saved everybody and you're feeling pretty good about yourself?

If not, then don't worry about it. But if you have, that's exactly what I've got going on right now.

My twins naturally push everyone out of their way so they can get to me, sandwiching me between them. It's gonna take some time later to fill everybody in on what they missed when they were clouds, but I reckon we have that time now.

I just want to kiss everybody and hold them now that we're done being yanked around.

I will absolutely admit to feeling stupid that Shelly was able to do me the way she did, and I have a feeling she stole some power from her family line that she was never meant to touch in order to accomplish it.

So maybe I can be a little generous with myself for not figuring out this any faster than I did.

Ash is a little wearier to approach me, but when he wraps his arms around me, I know it's only because his lion is riding him hard to do unspeakable things to me, and he's trying to control himself.

He is furious. And he has every right to be.

Pretty sure we're all going to need some therapy after this.

Zac seems a bit lost, standing with his parents and trying to comfort them, side eyeing his sister, and I can tell that there's guilt there too for my sake.

I hold out my hand for him to join us, because I don't want him to get lost in all the noise and confusion happening right now.

It's not often that all of my mates are together in one place, and some of them don't even know about Spencer yet.

I should probably do something about that, yeah?

Spencer's new to us, so he tends to try and sit in the background where he thinks he won't bother us. He doesn't know his place yet, he doesn't know how our dynamics work, because he hasn't been around all of us yet. But he's mine, and I need to help him figure it out.

“So, I don't know how conscious any of you were while you were vapors, I'm sorry it took so long for me to figure out Shelly’s game, but having you all back here, I'm really happy.

I'm happy that we can start figuring out how to move forward as a group, and what rules we want to implement in this new family we get to build together.

“I know everybody here comes from very different backgrounds, but we have time to figure out who we want to be as a bonded group. I know not all you were around when it happened, and in case you missed it, Wil is officially mine, and I also found my final mate in Spencer.”

There's clapping and cheering with that, and then, because they're all so adorable, they push Spencer up through the massive group so that he's next to me, all of them demanding Spencer and I kiss.

Spencer raises an eyebrow at me, then wraps an arm around my waist and dips me, his other hand promptly securing his face to mine.

It's romantic and sweet and in this moment, surrounded by all these men that I'm fortunate enough to call mine, I know everything from here on out is just going to work out.

With these guys behind me, how could it not?