cursed. She moaned, her lashes fluttering down. She’d just begun to curl her soft digits around his shaft and tug him free when the knocking began.
*****
“Em! It’s Drei! Open the damn door, man!” Drei pounded harder on the wood. Cat scrambled off him, clutching the shirt closed over her breasts. Her eyes were wide and she was breathing raggedly, fingers pressed to her lips. The fingers that had just been about to wrap around his cock. Em shoved a hand through his hair as she stared at him with startled, soft eyes.
“Just a sec!” He spoke through gritted teeth, climbing reluctantly to his feet, and yanked the zipper all the way up on his jeans. He winced at the uncomfortable restriction. He turned to Cat, who still looked dazed and tousled. “Why don’t you go into the bedroom? There should be some sweats in the dresser. They’ll be big but...”
She was already scampering out of sight. He winced at the door shut hard. Em crossed the apartment in two long strides and threw the front door open. Drei shoved past him, knuckles scraped and a long gash on his right cheek.
Grig looked no better, his lip puffed and split and a huge purple bruise covering one side of his ribs. Both men were stark naked and blood spattered.
“Shit.” Em shoved a hand through his hair. “You guys stay here.”
“We need clothes, Em.” Grig indicated his nakedness, as if Em had missed it. Em rolled his eyes at his younger brother.
“Yeah, I noticed. But Cat’s in the bedroom.”
Grig’s dark brows rose. He cocked his head, his long hair brushing his shoulder, and sniffed. Em knew his brothers could both smell the tantalizing musk of Cat’s arousal. He narrowed his eyes as Grig opened his mouth.
“Stay. Here.”
He ducked into the bedroom. Cat was sitting in the middle of his bed, a pair of his sweats on. She’d had to roll both the waistband and the ankles. The fabric was stretched tight across all those soft curves. Em’s jaw clenched.
What he really wanted to do was peel them back off of her and finish what they’d started. But what he had to do was go back out there and deal with his brothers and whatever had happened with the vamps outside 5tM.
“Is...” Cat gulped, not meeting his eyes. “Is everything alright?”
“Yeah. Stay in here for a bit.” He exhaled a long breath, scrubbed a hand over his face, and yanked two more pairs of sweats and two t-shirts out of the dresser. “I’ll call you in a minute. Okay?”
When she finally met his eyes, hers so dark a purple they looked almost black. Heat crept through his veins. It wasn’t regret he saw there, though there was a twinge of embarrassment - at being caught by his brothers? - but longing. Craving even. Her fingers curled into the bedspread, and Em realized she was holding herself back from reaching for him.
Hell. His own hands clenched on the fabric of the clothes as pulsing desire spread through him. His cock ached. They’d been so close.
“Okay,” she whispered huskily. Em forced himself to spin on his heel and leave. Another second in that room and he wouldn’t care that both his brothers were in the living room. He’d spread her out on the bed and fuck her until neither one of them could move. He closed the door behind himself and chucked the clothes at Drei.
“What happened?”
Drei glared. “Em.” Grig snickered and elbowed Drei.
“Leave him be, Drei.” Drei crossed his arms over his chest.
“We got three of ‘em. But that one Icy motherfucker skipped out while the others swarmed us.”
Grig tugged on the t-shirt. “Coward.”
“What does that mean for me?” Cat asked from behind him. Her voice stroked up his spine. He couldn’t bite back the low growl that rumbled out of his throat as Grig’s eyes widened.
“I thought I told you to wait in the bedroom until I called you?” At least Drei and Grig had pants on.
She