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Rix laughed. “Needy little thing...”

“Not needy. I just...things could be different and I like that.”

"We're in your life anyway," Devil pointed out. "The only thing that's different is that you know who we are now, so you can approach us if you want to."

She wanted to. Fantasies of seeing her seven danced in her head and she smiled. “Okay. Who is taking me home?”

"That hasn't changed," Devil said, looking sad. "Until you've had formal approval, we can't let you see where we are. But I promise you, we'll be around. Someone will stop by this evening to check on you and bring some food."

She nodded. “Then let me go...” She turned when Emerson grabbed her and kissed her sweetly.

“Sleep well, our little victim.”

She giggled, blushing, and heard Kendrix groan.

"Sleep well," Stitches said, and several of the others murmured the same as Emerson took her up the stairs and away to where the black car was waiting.

Chapter 19

Two days later...

“So how was your Halloween Odyssey?” Fiona asked. “I mean, I know you won’t really tell us, but we miss you on our Halloween chat.”

Unsure what she could actually say for real, she just smirked. “It was a good time, as always.”

“Seriously, I don’t understand why you just won’t tell us what you get up to.” Fiona pouted and Carlee laughed.

“Because Pet is getting fucked and she doesn’t wanna share.” She shook her head. “Girl, keep your secrets; they make you glow.”

They were on their weekly video chat, and she missed her friends. Fiona, Carlee and Victoria, the four of them were in four different cities and, for the most part, only had each other. They all worked, or went to school still, as Victoria was getting her Master’s, Fiona her Doctorate, and aside from that they didn’t have much of a life aside from time with each other.

“So, Vic, how’s the thesis coming?” she asked and the conversation changed to that for a few moments, before Carlee changed it to her big contract with the design firm she was working with. It was mundane and normal, and she wished she could tell them about the seven. They already thought she had some kinky lover that had some Halloween fetish, and they seemed to accept it, but who knew what they would say if they found out it was seven sexy as fuck men with severely insane kinks? No, it wasn’t time to say anything to them, so she let them speculate.

“Shit, I gotta get to work,” Fiona said. “I have class tonight, so don’t expect any texts.”

“We know.” Carlee nodded on the video. “I’ll check in once this contract is finished. Should be around Friday.”

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