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And I wanted them. I was dimly aware there was a part of me buried deep that was shrieking in fear at this, that wondered what the hell was happening as my mental state rocketed from one personality to the next.

She, that simple human part, did not want this, didn’t want so many hands clawing at my body, dicks struggling to shove themselves inside me, each man fighting to be the one to claim me.

I shook Nerida’s hand off my arm, which sent the weaker girl flying.

“No, Jules, this isn’t right. Something’s not right,” she babbled.

I looked down on her from a great height.

She was a puny hybrid, unable to shift, the Tirian spirit in her small and crippled by her contaminated bloodline.

She sought to get in the way of me and my fated mates, tried to take from me the power she could only hope to have. I took a step towards the men.

“What the fuck is going on?”

My head whipped around to see the office building door had slammed open, and the delicious scent of a strong male wafted over.

Finn stood within the doorway, glaring out at the host of contenders, fairly bristling.

I noted his stiff-legged stance and the claws forming on his hands with glee.

I glanced back at the men and saw the same.

There was going to be a dominance fight.

“What the hell are you all doing?”

His voice held the whip of an alpha, rocketing around the whole complex and bouncing off the hard unnatural surfaces. Mmm, I liked that.

Sonny stepped forward. My eyes dropped down, tracing a single drop of perspiration as it slid down his rigid chest, following the beautiful lines of his body. He is also a contender ; I thought. Strong, dominant, I could almost imagine myself under him as he ploughed deep within me.

“She wants it. She reeks of it. I get you’ve got a claim but?—”

Finn held up a hand and silenced the other man. Those grey eyes of his bled green when he looked at me. “Is this true? Are they what you want?”

Not quite, I knew that, sure as a stone.

I glanced from the host of men to him and smiled.

I wanted blood and tearing and biting and fighting, and then I wanted to fuck the winner on top of the limp bodies of those who’d proved not worthy.

But one did not tell the males that. They liked to think they were important.

“Jules?”

His hand landed on my arm, and something incredible happened. I felt like I was reset, the human consciousness that had been rudely shouldered aside came back online and looked around in horror.

“Finn...” I whimpered, looking at the rows of hungry men.

What the fuck had I done? The guys, all half gone with lust in the bedroom at home, the blokes here, the married dude.

What the fuck was going on? I heard the chuckle of the black wolf in the back of my mind.

You’re the honeypot, sweetheart. Now be a good girl and lure in those bees.

The coldness rushed back in, not to be denied by a mere male’s touch. I looked down at Finn’s arm, ignoring the utter gall of a male taking me in hand, and said, “You want me, you’ve got to fight for me.”

His eyes glowed bright green, and I met his lambent gaze with equanimity.

I knew I spoke to his Tirian, beast to beast. I watched the moment the man was pushed to one side and the animal came to the fore with glee.

My eyes took in every damn detail of his body as he stripped down.

This was a muscular, competent body, one that could give me strong children.

I glanced over to the group where Sonny was doing the same.

I took in his broader chest, heavier arms, the proud arc of his hard cock. Yes, but so could Sonny.

“You won’t touch her. None of you are going to touch her,” Finn said, his voice hoarse as he tried to hold on to his human form.

It was pointless, but I admired the strength of will it took.

“Whatever this is, it's not Jules. It’s not even her Tirian. I’ve seen her, felt her.

Something else is happening here, and we need to find out what. ”

“I don’t need to find shit but her dripping hole when I shove my cock into her.

You might not like your little human hybrid broadcasting her availability to all of those around her, but this is our fucking chance.

She breezes in and out, stinking of sex, making damn sure every bloke here knows she’s up for it, and you want to take that away from us?

You can fight me, but you can’t fight all of us.

This is happening, you just haven’t realised it yet. ”

“You fucking idiots. None of you are strong enough to take her from me.”

Finn shifted into Tirian form with a well-practised twist of his body. It seemed a much more rapid way to shift than I had experienced. A gigantic white wolf stood in front of me, obscuring my view of the crowd.

“Slade, Brandon, anyone. You need to get down to the main office now,” Nerida babbled into the two-way.

I let her. More contenders would only add to the experience.

Seeing that magnificent body of Hawk’s as he fought for a position by my side would be delicious, as would the chance to put that mouthy little Jack in his place. Then the fighting began.

Finn took the advantage, launching himself at Sonny mid-shift, something the other man struggled to do as efficiently as him.

Finn’s jaws were around Sonny’s throat in a second, and it was only his slower shift that stopped the man from taking him out entirely.

Sonny rallied quickly, the sounds of his snarls music to my ears.

I watched the white and grey beasts battle it out with a smile.

When Sonny’s Tirian went sailing through the air, landing on the ground with an awful thud, I noted the bloody fur as my due and then turned to see who the next contender was.

“Fuck this,” the red-headed guy said. “You’ve been pushing your weight around on this since she got here, using her status as ‘your employee’ to make sure she hooks up with you and your crew. She should have had time with all of us. We didn’t even get a chance to petition!”

Finn regarded the other man in beast form silently.

“You’ve got this coming,” the guy said with a shake of his head, then stripped down and shifted. His wolf was a dark charcoal grey, his eyes gleaming bright in comparison. They circled for a moment, then he launched himself at Finn.

Finn paused for a second, his body tightly coiled before he leapt and grabbed the other Tirian by the throat, the two of them thudding to the ground.

The grey appeared to be winded, his mouth open as he gasped for breath before Finn was on him.

He shook the grey fiercely in his jaws, then tossed him to one side.

He looked up at the crowd, his green eyes meeting every single one of theirs, before he howled his challenge.

The eerie song made the hairs on my arms lift, made my throat ache to join it.

“Fuck this shit. One on one’s not going to work,” said one guy. “Let’s rush him.”

I laughed and laughed as the men stripped, watched them as they took animal form one by one.

“That’s enough!”

All of our heads whipped around to see Kelly standing just outside the ring of men, arms crossed. My eyes narrowed. I couldn’t argue with her obvious power, she’d stopped every single person with two words and held them with the bright green glow of her eyes.

“What the hell do you think you’re all doing? Change immediately and pull some bloody clothes on!”

She’s a threat to us , I thought. She isn’t a little queen, she’s an actual one.

I watched as the men did as she said, shamed faces replacing the masks of lust they’d worn before.

“I don’t know what the hell is going on, but none of this falls within the boundaries of reasonable behaviour.”

“She wanted it,” Sonny croaked, getting to his feet. Blood covered his throat and chest.

“She wanted it,” Kelly mimicked savagely.

“Are we humans now? To play fast and loose with consent? If Julie indeed proved receptive to any of you, is this the way you go about pursuing her?” Heads dropped down at this.

“What would your mothers say? Your grandmothers? Get out of here before you find out.” Satisfied when the men started to move away, she turned to us, Finn now standing beside me in human form and wiping blood from his chin.

My eyes slid over his body, taking in every detail. He looked like some kind of savage god, red claw and fang marks raked across his chest, but they seemed to only enhance his beauty. His nostrils flared, and his head jerked down, his eyes meeting mine as he grabbed my arm.

All of it, the cold, bloodthirsty mindset and the fuzzy lustful one, all dropped away.

I was me again, and I was aghast at what I’d been a part of.

My breath began to race as my eyes flicked around me, taking in the blood and scattered clothes, the retreating crowd.

What the actual fuck? I felt like I’d backed away from a precipice that I’d nearly missed stepping off of.

The black wolf’s laughter rang in my ears, as it had the whole damn time since I’d left the house.

Fuck that guy, fuck him and his opaque shit.

You wanna play games? How about you stop pussying around and tell me what you want, because I’m pretty sure it’s not me getting road rash from having an impromptu gang bang outside of Stores.

You.

Right then , I thought, then looked back at Finn and saw his eyes still burned bright green.

“OK, Finn, you’ve done enough for today,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you get dressed and go inside and wait with Julie as I call Ophelia? Something’s not right. I got a call from?—”

“No, mine!” he growled.

I felt the words reverberate through me from head to toe, his eyes burning into mine. They followed my hand when I placed it on his tight abdomen, still breathing hard from what had happened, and his other hand covered it.

“Now, Finn...”