Page 25 of Taming the Beasts (Crooked Point #3)

Friday

Zoey

I checked the timer for the chicken potpies I’d made. The guys would be home any minute from work, and dinner would be ready and waiting when they arrived. I’d be ready and waiting too.

The fridge was packed. The house was clean. And Emma and I had even made progress on her wedding plans. We were going to hold it in the town square at the gazebo. Everything was all booked for next Saturday night.

I’d been so busy that I hadn’t even gotten a chance to snoop in any of the locked rooms upstairs. Which was probably for the best. I’d already gotten in enough trouble for breaking and entering recently. It would be more fun to be invited into each of my boyfriends’ rooms anyway.

I tied Bennett’s dress shirt a little tighter.

I’d ditched the see-through tank top underneath to show off my stomach.

When the guys got home, I wanted them to want to eat me just as much as they wanted to eat their meal.

And my naughty school girl outfit was perfect.

All that was missing was them being here to teach me a lesson.

My boyfriends had shared girls before. But never a girlfriend. This was as new for them as it was for me. I leaned against the kitchen island, doing my best to strike the perfect pose.

I could already imagine Ace coming up behind me and running his hands up the backs of my thighs. As Huxley bent me over the island.

My stomach actually felt a little sick as I thought about it. Not because I didn’t want it. I did. Desperately. But being so horny for so many hours was really messing with my body. I’d been looking forward to this moment all day. It was like this tension inside of me that needed to be snapped.

The buzzer dinged on the oven. Crap. I hurried over to the oven and pulled out the potpies just as the front door opened.

The guys were laughing about something.

“Is it cleaner in here, or is it just me?” Otto asked.

All five of them rounded the corner into the kitchen.

The sound of Ace groaning behind me made me smile.

I wasn’t sure if it was because the bottom of my ass was out as I grabbed the potpies.

Or because he was excited for the delicious dinner I’d made.

Either way, it was a win for me. I set the potpies down on top of the stove and turned around with a smile. “Hey, boys.”

“This smells amazing, Zoey,” Bennett said.

“Just wait until you taste.” Yeah, I was way too horny for my own good. I wanted to feed them. We were going to need sustenance for the evening I had planned. “Will one of you grab plates?”

Titan grunted in response.

Okay then.

“I’ve got it,” Ace said as he opened up the cupboard .

“I’ll grab us some drinks.” Huxley opened up the fridge and whistled. “The fridge is fully stocked too.”

Otto peered into the fridge. “You’re spoiling us.”

“That’s the plan,” I said.

“You’re always one with a plan, aren’t you?” Titan said under his breath as he walked past me. He opened up the pantry and grabbed a can of soup.

What was he doing?

He undid the top and poured the contents into a bowl.

Was he seriously not going to eat the potpie I’d made for him? Out of spite?

He went to put it in the microwave, but I grabbed the bowl from his hands and dumped it into the sink.

“Sit down,” I said. “I made you dinner.”

Otto snickered behind me.

“Let me guess,” Titan said. “Instead of love being the secret ingredient, you added a big dose of lies?”

“Enough,” Bennett said. “Titan, sit down. Zoey made us dinner and we’re all going to eat it.”

I stared at Titan. You heard him. Sit your big, angry ass down.

Titan grunted and headed into the dining room.

“Sorry about that,” Bennett said. “He’s still cooling off from earlier.”

“I guess so.” I still owed him an apology for lying. I’d tried earlier at the bank, but it had just ended with him shifting into a werecat. It made me nervous to try again.

“Come on.” Bennett slid his hand into mine. “I’m excited to try this dinner you made us.” He pulled me into the dining room as the twins and Otto grabbed everything else we’d need .

We all sat down at the table. And...things were awkward. Everything felt off. This was not how I wanted tonight to go. I was supposed to be showing them how well this worked. Not proving the fact that it would never.

“This is delicious,” Otto said.

I smiled at him. “Thank you.”

Everyone else agreed. Well, everyone but Titan. He was eating it though, so maybe that was progress?

I cleared my throat. “Have you heard back from either of your contacts yet?”

Bennett shook his head. “It’ll be a few days.”

“I’m glad we’re trying to figure out more about the coin. I didn’t trust anything Kebe said. Are we sure she’s even a vampire? You guys can tell, right?”

Huxley shrugged. “We can tell she’s not human. The shift in the air we all felt was definitely her. And everything she said made sense. She seems a lot nicer than Callum though, don’t you guys think?”

Everyone nodded.

Well she certainly wasn’t nice to me.

“It’s interesting that she’s from ancient Egypt,” Ace said. “I was talking to her a bit about our curse...”

“We really shouldn’t be talking to a stranger about that,” Bennett said.

“Right. But what she had to say was pretty interesting. We figured we were cursed by either Baset or Sekhmet. But she seemed to really think it was Baset. She’s the goddess of cats but also the goddess of the sun.

Apparently Kebe heard tales when she was young about Baset creating werecats to defend while the sun was away.

Originally it was to defend the pharaoh.

But then it morphed into protecting others from evil as well. ”

“Evil as in...vampires?” I asked.

“Exactly like vampires. Which is why we all dislike Callum so much. It’s just natural.”

Then why did none of them dislike Kebe just as much?

“That does make sense,” Bennett said.

It seemed like they all agreed that this part of what Kebe said was true. It was only a matter of time before they believed the rest of it. The whole thing just made me feel uneasy.

“Maybe we should have her to dinner,” Titan said.

What? “Why?” I asked.

“So we can ask her more questions about Egypt.”

I was pretty sure he was trying to get a rise out of me on purpose.

“Unless there’s a reason why we shouldn’t get to know her, doll.”

“Oh no,” I said. “By all means. Dine with the enemy. I’m not stopping you.”

He lowered his eyebrows as he stared at me. “You’re the one that stole from us. Doesn’t that make you our enemy?”

“It was part of an elaborate surprise, Titan. And I already tried to apology. I forgave you for what you did to me. Why can’t you forgive me?”

“What you did was much worse.”

I scoffed. “No. What you did was significantly worse. I lied in order to surprise you with a freaking cure. You filmed me without my consent and then blackmailed me. ”

“Don’t pretend that you didn’t love every second of that. You spread your thighs for me without a single protest. And you were begging for me to fill you.”

“Well don’t expect me to ever beg you again.”

He laughed. “We’ll see about that. I bet you’re wet right now, just thinking about me.”

“Fuck you.”

“In your dreams, doll.”

If I was a werecat, I would have transformed right here and mauled his stupid face. But I wasn’t a werecat. So I did the next best thing. I picked up my plate and slammed my portion of potpie right in his smug face.

His shocked expression as the plate fell was so satisfying. I’d meant to apologize to him tonight. But seeing his freshly pressed suit dripping with potpie gravy was what he deserved.

“Food fight!” Otto yelled and threw a handful of potpie at Ace.

I laughed but my laughter died in my throat when Huxley tossed some at me. Oh, it was so on. But before I could retaliate, Bennett lobbed a spoonful at me.

In a few seconds we were all running around the dining room laughing. Except for Titan, who just sat there with his arms folded across his chest.

Bennett tried to catch me around the waist. I squealed and climbed onto the table to get away from him.

But my knee slipped in some of the potpie that had wound up on the table.

And Bennett was able to grab my hips and pull my ass against him. I hadn’t expected him to be so hard. And feeling him had me instantly turned on again .

He grabbed the sides of my skirt and thong and pulled them down my hips. “You owe me a private session, baby,” he said. He slapped my ass with some of the gravy. “Show me what you do.”

He wanted his private session now? I’d thought we’d be a little more private for it.

Bennett sunk into one of the chairs and licked the gravy off one of his fingers as he stared at me.

Jesus. “I need a banana from the kitchen.”

He shook his head. “No. Show me with my friends.”

I swallowed hard.

“I like the sound of that,” Huxley said. He ran his hand down my thigh, spreading the gravy as he went. “What do you say, Titan? Do you finally want to taste how sweet she is?”

Titan didn’t respond. But he also didn’t move from his chair.

And I considered that a mini win.

“So how does this work exactly?” Ace asked me.

“Bennett tells me what he wishes he was doing to me. Normally I’d use a toy. But I guess tonight I’m using you.”

Ace smiled down at me. “You can use me whenever you want.” He slid his thumb across the gravy on my cheek and pressed it into my mouth.

I immediately sucked.

He groaned.

“I wish I was there, stripping you,” Bennett said.

Huxley pushed my skirt and thong the rest of the way down as Ace untied the knot of my shirt .

Otto pulled me up onto my knees, pushing my shirt off my shoulders. And then he undid the clasp of my bra and I let it fall down my arms.

“I want you on your back,” Bennett said. “Spread for me.”

I leaned backward against Huxley. Ace grabbed my knees and pulled up, slamming my ass against the table. He pushed down on the inside of my thighs, spreading them for Bennett. And Huxley stepped back, gently lowering me to the table.

“I want my tongue around your nipples.”