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“I heard it somewhere. I think it fits well.” My mouth is moving, but my head is blank.

I jerk a bit when two warm palms cup my face. “Piglet.” Raph’s breath hits my lips. His green gaze is deep and clear, and I give him a fragile, trembling smile before covering my mouth with my hand as my eyes fill with tears.

“Fuck. Babe, you’re upset. Was it too much?” he asks, looking…worried? “Or did you really want to try the death by a hundred cuts?”

“A thousand,” Gabe corrects him.

Raph flips his finger at the glass wall, which is clear now. I can see all of them gathered there, looking at us.

“Great job, you guys,” Linda cheers us on. And although I should be horrified by what just happened, I can’t stop smiling.

It starts with a snort, that soon turns into a hysterical laugh. I feel fucking overwhelmed by everything. In the last two weeks, I was attacked twice. My office was trashed. I discovered I was experimented on when I was a kid and taken away from my real fucked-up family. A serial killer entered my life with the intent to murder me. My boyfriend was kidnapped, and I had to save him. I shot my first gun. I helped stage the death of a cop and I just backed my boyfriend into killing the Rope Killer.

Raph pushes me to his chest and keeps whispering nonsense in my ear, making me slowly calm down. He’s getting good at this.

“I’m okay,” I croak, swallowing audibly.

“Yes, you are.” I can see Meg nodding on the other side of the glass.

“We’re all insane in one way or another. Debauched as well,” Rami adds with a smirk.

“Are you talking about your kinky online history?” Uri halts behind Meg, planting a kiss on her head. Rague follows him, looking inside the FUNS room. “Head off? Shit, I missed the best part.”

“It was epic.” Linda smiles brightly.

“Not bad.” Gabe shrugs.

“Fucking C-3PO, that was Highlander shit right there!” Rami mutters.

“Highlander used a sword. But damn, I really wanted to see it done with an axe.” Uri sounds really bugged from missing it as well.

The banter keeps going among the family when Raph asks me, “Are you okay?”

I lift my head and try to give him a small smile.

“I feel… overloaded.” I let out a long sigh. “But I know I’ll be okay eventually. With you.”

He nods and gives me an open-mouthed, all-tongue, short-but-swoon-worthy kiss.

“I promise you, from now on I’ll always put you first,” Raph whispers on my lips. I breathe his words inside my chest and tuck them deep, close to my heart.

“Go take a shower. Uri and Rague will clean this up.” Linda has both her thumbs up. I really like her. Also, I don’t want to think about what the cleanup entails.

“Why me?” I hear Uri complain, and then he lets out anouch!

“Shower and then let’s go home.” Raph directs me toward a door on the right.

“Yours or mine?” I ask.

“Ours.”

Epilogue

RAPHAEL

I feel fucking alive. When was the last time I’ve had this feeling? Ah! This morning, when I fucked Michael against the kitchen counter.

And now? He is trying to suck my cock dry. “Yeah, like that. Fucking love your mouth.”