Her Viken Mates(39)

I wiped one stray tear from my eye and shook myself from head to ankle, breaking the stranglehold of my thoughts. No. Whatever the answers were, Liam was innocent and I could prove it. He wasn’t going to die, not when I could save him. And now that I’d been inside the Viken security networks, getting back to where I’d been wouldn’t take me long.

Lifting my hand to the bathroom door’s manual control, I was about to wave my palm over the panel when I heard a distinctly feminine voice within.

“Give me that big cock, Rager. Don’t make me beg.”





Chapter Eleven

Bella



“Give me that big cock, Rager. Don’t make me beg.”

Shock held me frozen in place. Clenching my teeth, I swallowed hard. That voice. I knew that grating, feminine voice. I didn’t want to see what was going on in that room, but I couldn’t risk being wrong. Not about this.

Peeking around the edge of the doorframe, I leaned in just enough to catch sight of a naked feminine body walking toward the shower. Rager was out of view, but the woman swaying her hips as she approached the shower was tall and lithe, strong, with long blonde hair hanging free halfway down her back. She held her breasts cupped in her hands like offerings as she licked her lips with an eager smile on her face, waiting for my mate’s big cock.

Thalia.

I hadn’t known her long, but I didn’t know many people on Viken. My three mates, Dravon, Evon’s father, Thalia. I’d spent time with Thalia and I’d trusted her because I trusted Evon. She’d even helped me pick out clothes like a BFF.

Big mistake. I knew someone on Viken had stolen her heart. I wasn’t a social butterfly, but I had managed to catch on to that fact in the short time I’d spent with her. She’d been nice to me, but now? Thalia was fucking Rager?

No. Rager was fucking Thalia.

So who was the woman on the side? Her? Or me?

Pulling back silently, I left them to it and ran on tip-toes to the door. Thankfully, Viken doors slid open and closed silently and Rager—and his fuck buddy—hadn’t known I’d even been there. I had no idea where I was going, just…away.

Stumbling down the hall in a daze, I shivered and wrapped my arms around my stomach as nausea rose to choke me. God, I was such an idiot. I’d fallen in love with these men, totally bought into the lie of the perfect match, the one true mate who would fulfill all of my subconscious desires. A mate, or mates, who would want me as I was. Accept me for who I was.

Love me.

They were supposed to love me. Put me first. Take care of me forever. We were supposed to be a team, a family, an unbreakable unit with an unbreakable bond.

We were matched, for fuck’s sake.

The strangled laughter that erupted from my body held no hint of humor. Pain roared through me like a lion camped out in my brain, rattling my bones from the inside until it felt like even my eyes trembled. I couldn’t think. Couldn’t focus. All I could do was feel, and the self-hatred was getting pretty heavy, weighing me down until I rounded my back and hunched my shoulders like an eighty-year-old woman.

Stupid. I was a freaking genius, right? Could hack almost any system, write complex code in my sleep, and I’d fallen for the oldest trick in the book. They’d used me, used my body, made me believe they cared about me.

I’d fallen in love with them, and that was the worst pain of all. I’d given them everything, heart and body and soul. And the whole time they’d been lying.

Evon chose his family over the truth, and ultimately over me. He’d acknowledged my abilities, but turned his back on them. He’d turned his back on me. I couldn’t live with a mate who denied the truth. Hid it to protect others. It was the very reason I’d traveled all the way across the damn universe, to avoid just this scenario. But no. Stupid shit and petty people were everywhere.

And that included Rager. I ran my hand over my face, tugged on my hair as I walked. Two warriors moved out of my way as I passed. God, Rager!

He was the sweetest one, the gentle one. At least with me. I never knew anyone so patient. If I hadn’t come so quickly, I had no doubt he would have kept his head between my thighs for hours to get me off. He had a quick smile and a hard cock. I’d thought they were both just for me, for his fucking matched mate, but no.

How long had this thing with Thalia been going on? I wasn’t a virgin, and while they hadn’t said it outright, there was no way Evon, Rager or Liam were virgins either. They’d fucked before and obviously Rager had fucked Thalia. Was still fucking her.

It had been a day. A damn day and he couldn’t keep his hands off her. They’d taken me twice in twenty-four hours, and that wasn’t enough for him?