"This is not how I wanted to tell you what I did for my team," he grumbles and then releases a slow deep rattling sigh. All the tension is released from his body when I climb into his lap and hold him close.

I grip his face in my hands, forcing his eyes on me. "That's the past. I won't allow you to go back to that life. I don't mind you using seduction to get your way, but don't use your body unless you are with me and the men I call mine."

"Who's that?"

"You, Carter, Riggs, Storm, and Jensen. The five of you are mine. Four you have always been my boys. Ya'll might wanna get to know Riggs. If haven't gotten into my pants and my heart, I don't think I would have let you guys back in. I was so furious and held onto it for so long."

"And now?"

"The walls came crumbling down like the city of Jericho's did. I knew I had to let go of the anger to remember how to be in love."

"I never stopped loving you, Doll. I'm yours. It was your face I'd see at night or when trying to escape what I was doing."

"You are mine," I say and then kiss him.

I break the kiss when I hear Carter open the bathroom door. I look back at him. "You are mine, too." I get off of JT to lead a fully dressed Carter to sit beside his best friend on the bed.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Sawyer was right as usual. I know better than the others what it's like for my body to be used. Whatever Razor told me to do, I did. If that meant fucking someone, that's what I did. I'm not used to having the freedom to be with people I care about most. To have sex with those of my choosing instead of who was chosen for me, but only if Razor allowed it," Carter expounds nervously.

"I wouldn't do anything to you that you don't want. You didn't tell me to stop, so how was I to know it would make you mad," JT explains sincerely.

"It felt amazing. That thing you do with your tongue. I'm not sure I want to know where you learned. I did enjoy it and I always thought I was straight, so I was confused. I shouldn't have taken my inner turmoil out on you."

"Bruh. You're still straight. Just because you like a blow job, doesn't mean you're down taking a cock up your ass or that you are in love with another man. It's just sex and Sawyer told me to wake you up nicely. I've always enjoyed receiving head in the mornings, so I thought I would treat you." JT says with a shrug of his shoulders as if it's no big deal to him.

"If you do it again to anyone, I want to watch next time," I proclaim. "What did her do with his tongue?"

"It's difficult to describe," Carter hedges.

JT winks at us both. "I'll do it to you right now. My philosophy is everyone deserves orgasms in the mornings," he purrs.

"Breakfast!" Storm rumbles from somewhere in my apartment. I guess I didn't lock the door last night, but I could have sworn I did when I went to get the ice. How did he get in?

I dart up, stomping across the floor when I open the door, I yell, "Storm Diesel Bensen you better have not broken my door again!"

I look around to find him and Riggs in mid-pause of a plate being handed over. My eyes narrow at them and Storm continues to place it on the bar top, while Riggs returns to cooking bacon.

"What happened last night? You what beat the crap out of each other, and now your friends?" I query.

Jensen wraps his arms from behind me and kisses the top of my head. "Good morning, Juliet. How did you sleep?" He questions knowingly.

"Carter and JT fucked my brains out last night, so I slept like a rock," I tease to see how the others would respond.

"La. La. La. Our virgin ears don't need to hear this," Kassius sasses from the couch.

"Virgin? Yeah right. I know better. We've had this discussion. Glove up, sons." The teenage boys groan at Riggs's words while I'm swooning over the fact he called them sons.

I walk over to the couch to find Katie in Ash's lap while he braids her hair. Darius sits between Kassius and AC schooling them on how to play his favorite dungeon version of this pixelated block characters game. Something about crafting, mining, and killing things. I kiss the tops of all their heads.

"Look you guys are having a good morning. How good are they, Dare?"

"AC follows my directions, so he is really good. Kass sucks. He either gets blown up by Creepers or dies in the lava when he isn't killing by going wherever he wants to instead of staying with us," my eight-year-old son explains.

"Wow, sounds like he is even worse than Jeremey," I comment and Darius agrees.

"Line up for food!" Storm thunders.

Storm and Riggs set up the food on the bar top so everyone could fill their plates and then go sit down somewhere. I'm at a loss because the teenage boys took to making for my children as well as themselves. Tomorrow they will be off to Venin Federation Academy. I'll miss the helpful monsters. 

As we sit down to eat I ask again, what happened last night that made Storm and Riggs so chummy? They are even sitting beside one another eating. I'm so curious. 

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