blood.
“What
happened?” she cried. There were going to make a mess all over the nice floor,
but she didn’t say that. Their well-being was more important than something
that silly.
“We fought
those bastards off, like usual,” Adrian snarled.
“Bath,
please,” Jonathan said.
Sibyl headed
toward the stairs, but the blond wolf grabbed her arm. “No. In the back room.
There’s a shower area near the sauna.”
Her heart
pounded in her chest, but she headed toward the sauna. All three werewolves
followed. A beautiful bathroom was tucked next to the sauna with four different
shower heads. The wolves stepped under the water and washed the mess from their
skin. Gabe stood on his own now, though she saw the cut on the side of his head
once it was clean.
Sibyl
watched and made note of all their injuries. Adrian’s leg was deeply scratched,
causing him to limp. Jonathan had gashes and teeth mark on his arms and along
the strong muscles of his chest. Besides Gabe’s head wound, he also sported a
large bite on his powerful shoulder.
They did all
that for her. Sibyl’s eyes welled with tears and she ran out of the room,
swiping at them. She had to do something in return – help them anyway she
could. She grabbed the first aid materials from the bathroom upstairs and ran
back to them. When she burst into the room, slightly out of breath, all three
wolves were comparing injuries.
She frowned.
“Sit down. And stop poking each other!”
All eyes
fell on her, and Gabe smiled. “Are you giving us orders?”
She set her
mouth into a pout and shrugged. “Maybe. I – I have to tend to your wounds
before lunch. So please, sit down.”
“That’s more
like it,” Adrian said and sat. “You can see to me first, girlie.”
Sibyl’s
cheeks heated. “That’s more like what?”
“What a mate
would say,” Gabe said and kissed the back of her head.
She took a
deep breath to calm the pounding of her heart and the heat in her panties. Then
she got to work on their wounds. Adrian flinched when she dapped his cuts with
peroxide.
“Will those
wolves come back?” she asked, wrapping his leg tightly.
Adrian
snorted, and Jonathan shrugged. “We hope not, but we’ll always be here to
protect you if they do.”
She turned
to the blond wolf and motioned for him to come over. Jonathan did.
“Why?” she
mumbled. “Why protect me at all.”
“Stupid
question. You’re our mate, remember when we claimed you last night? Or should
we do that again?” Adrian said with a smirk.
Gabe rolled
his eyes. “It’s what mates do, Sibyl. Like a husband would protect his wife,
we’ll protect you with our lives. We belong together.”
Her heart
nearly jumped into her throat, and her fingers trembled as she finished with
Jonathan’s injuries. He kissed her hand and stood up.
Gabe sat
down in his place.
She stared
at her boss and dabbed his head wound first. “I’m sorry to put you through so
much trouble. Maybe you shouldn’t have claimed me at all if this is what
happens.”
The alpha
wolf caught her wrist and shook his head. The dark red hair fell into his green
eyes. “Don’t say that. We would fight a hundred wolf packs for you. Your our
mate. Our only mate – and that’s the way it is, Sibyl. Stop assuming this
was some fluke.”
She tried to
pull her hand out of his grip, but he was too strong. “But I’m not worth it.
I’m just – look at me!”
All three
wolves stared at her. “You’re hot,” Adrian said with a dangerous smile.
“Beautiful,”
Jonathan said, his blue eyes twinkling.
Gabe’s
fingers traced up her thigh, under her dress. “Perfect,” he said.
“But how
could you think that?”
Adrian threw
his arms up into the air. “Because you are. Fuck. It’s not like we can unclaim
you. Do you think we’re lying or something?”
Sibyl
shrugged and cleaned Gabe’s shoulder wound. How could she explain to three
gorgeous men all the hurt she’d been through? All the pain inflicted by