Page 35 of Lila

Mateo

Idon’tknowwhohurt my mate, but if I ever see him, I’ll kill him. One look at the others tells me they’d be right there with me. It’s actually reassuring to know I’m not alone in this. They have my back. I could get used to this. Being part of a family unit. Not forced to face life’s sucker punches alone.

“We’re not like your ex,mi reina. We won’t get tired of you. We won’t leave you for another woman. We could never dream of hurting you in any way. Hurting you hurts us,” I tell her, stroking her back.

“I’ve never felt this way about anyone. No matter how much they wished I would,” I mutter, thinking of Alejandra for the first time all day. Normally, I curse her in my head nonstop, but from the second I laid eyes on Lila, she’s been all I could think about.

“Ahh, sounds like you had a psycho ex,” Jett says sympathetically.

“Is there another kind that would curse their ex for breaking up with them?” I arch a brow.

“Oh my god! Is that what happened to you?” Lila cries.

“She only wanted me because of my family’s influence. When I told her I was done, she went psycho, as Jett would say.”

“Damn,” he murmurs.

“Yeah. She said she had plans and she couldn’t let me ruin them. Then she turned me into my chinchilla and took away my ability to shift back. To get rid of me for good, she threw me through a portal. I landed in Silver Springs and have been trying to figure out how to get back home since. Gods know what she’s done with my family.”

“Where are you from?Who are you?” Luca demands, scrutinizing me. “Why would she go through all that effort to get to your family?”

“My full name is Fernando Mateo Alonzo Baro. I’m the heir apparent to the Verdant throne.”

Gasps echo around me and I sigh as I brace myself for their reactions. Except when I look at my mate, she doesn’t have the same calculating gleam in her eye that Alejandra always had when she looked at me. I’m ashamed to say I mistook that look for love for too long. By the time I figured her out, it was too late. But Lila doesn’t look at me like that. There’s nothing but love and sympathy in her eyes.

“That must be stressful. I’m sorry you were used like that. But you have us now. We’ll never let anyone use you again,” she vows as she cups my cheek, and the guys all murmur their agreement.

“Thank you,mi reina,” I whisper as I get lost in her eyes.

Suddenly, our lips are touching, and my brain short circuits. Just the soft brush of her lips against mine is enough to set my blood on fire. She starts to back up but I thread my fingers through her hair and hold her to me as I deepen the kiss. Light explodes behind my eyelids as my tongue swipes hers.

Grabbing her hips, I twist her, without slowing our kiss, so she’s straddling me. She gasps into my mouth when I pull her down on my erection. These basketball shorts do nothing to contain it so her pussy grinds right over my head. I trail my lips down her jaw to her neck, stopping to suck the skin just behind her ear.

“Oooh,” she moans as she tips her head.

My eyes flick open to find the other three men watching us with heated eyes. They’re all jealous they’re not in my place, that much is obvious, but they don’t look mad that I shifted our conversation to sexier topics.

I skim my hands up her back, bunching up her shirt as I do. “I think someone wants to join us,mi reina. What do you say?” I grin and nod behind her. Her eyes widen and she turns her head.

I know what she sees. Three men ready to tear her clothes off and do filthy things to her.

“I don’t mind sharing,” I whisper in her ear even though I know the twins heard with their shifter hearing, and tug on her earlobe with my teeth.

“How?” she breathes.

“However you want,mi reina. They can touch you, kiss you, while I taste you,” I lick my lips at the thought. “Or we can take turns. They can watch while I make love to you, wishing it were them, then one of them can take over and make you come again, and again, and again. Until everyone has had their turn with you.”

“Ohh,” she moans. “We can do that…” She bites her lip as her eyes flick back and forth between the four of us.

“Which one,mi reina?” I quirk my lips.

“The touching one. Everyone. Touching me.”

I swear the moment the words come out of her mouth, the others jump up because suddenly there are hands all over her gorgeous body.

“Lila, if you’re sure you’re ready, we should move this to my room,” Luca says from beside us.

The twins back off as Lila nods and I stand. Her legs instantly wrap around my waist and I follow Luca to his room, the twins trailing behind. Luca opens the door and I head straight for the California king bed taking up most of the room. Kneeling on the bed, I gently lower my mate to the mattress. The mattress shifts on both sides as I kiss her neck and bunch up her shirt.

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