24. Benji

E veryone was powerless against Blood Feud and manicures. It was this series about kinky vampires and witches written by people who completely misunderstood vampires and witches. It was the hottest of hot messes. Pair that up with this delicious soup, salad, and some boba and we had her laughing again in no time.

She seemed mortified about what happened when she woke up, but we all got it. Pax and I were held by the Coalition, too. Cas nursed us through our recovery. Dionysus got it, too. If my little monster needed me to whip out badly written kink vampires and my skills with nail polish, I would do that until she felt better.

We stayed up way too late watching TV and laughing. Dionysus and I kept poofing out to get treats. I woke up with my face buried in her hair. No snakes. We knew we needed to be careful waking her now, so we let her wake up on her own.

I let out a little growl when she stretched and ground her ass against my dick. My mark was humming against her shoulder. I had to mark her two ways. There were my teeth marks on her shoulder and then my shadows made a tattoo of my wolf paw print near Cas's on her hip.

That bit of my shadows in her connected us and so did her flower and snake tattoo over my heart. She was in a good mood. Relaxed, well rested, and she'd forgotten feeling bad about punching Dionysus when she thought she was still in the basement of New Eden.

"Little monster, I can feel you're hungry, so you might not want to be grinding against my cock like that," I growled.

"Especially not with me still in bed because if the two of you start, I'm going to join in," Pax purred.

"Where are the others?"

"Cas is doing the alpha bear daddy thing and cooking for his pack. I'm guessing he kidnapped Dionysus to learn your favorite foods."

"I haven't decided if that's cheating yet," I said. "On one hand, all's fair in love and war and you should use all your resources. On the other, it's kind of morally reprehensible to creep on your mate with her other mate instead of just asking her. Tell me all your secrets, little monster."

She laughed and kissed me, but I was serious. I wanted all her secrets. I'd tell her mine, too. I wanted to jump in her brain and we could learn all about each other in an instant, yet I didn't really have that kind of magic.

But I'd take all the kisses for now.

I groaned and kissed her deeper. Pax started kissing her neck and then there was this boner killing noise from her stomach. Yeah, nope. My mate needed food. Even more so than usual since the shriveled prune man tried to starve her. I hoped he was still drinking lemon juice and mineral oil and his asshole was on fire. I wanted him to suffer before I could kill him.

I grabbed Pax and Medusa and poofed us to the kitchen, because her stomach was making noises and this was a fucking emergency. It couldn't wait for her to walk across the house. She needed food now.

"Oh, wow, tits and balls. You're going to traumatize Calamity," Jezebel said, covering Calamity's eyes.

Ugh. Cas needed to give us a little warning he was inviting the super squad over while we were still in bed. It was morally reprehensible I couldn't poof us to the kitchen naked in my own house. Besides, her tits and my balls were glorious.

"You can peek, Sugar Tits," I winked at Athena.

She just scowled at me and waved her hand. We were all clothed. I'd give it to her. She had excellent taste in clothes and she dressed us in the styles she'd seen us in before instead of dressing us like her dolls. I appreciated that. I wasn't going to forgive her and stop calling her Sugar Tits until Medusa did, though. I was committed to being mad at people who did bad things to her.

"Not that I was complaining about the view, but why did everyone come to breakfast naked?" Dionysus asked.

"Her stomach growled," Pax said.

"It was literally an emergency."

"I could have gotten dressed and walked. I'm usually hungry when I wake up."

"Pbbttbbt. If you're hungry, it's an emergency."

"You do get cranky when you're hangry," Dionysus said.

"Yeah, I think the Coalition fixed that when they tried to starve me to death."

"You boys are going to want to focus your rage instead of just sitting here ranting about it because Medusa still has a lot to learn," Megaera said.

"And I get your mate bond is new, but you're going to have to realize it's not an emergency if she gets a paper cut."

"Yes, it is," I growled. "I'll set that piece of paper on fire for that."

"Eat up because Medusa needs fury lessons while everyone else comes up with a plan for the Coalition."

Yeah, I could do that. I was going to brutally murder Hannibal for starving her, but I had a vested interest in seeing the Coalition go down. They hurt me. They hurt Pax and Medusa.

They might have killed my parents. It was the not knowing that killed me. We'd been trying. Everyone in Cas's network had been asked if they were kept with them, but I didn't exactly have any pictures to pass around. I'd been holding on to the memory of their faces and someone had sketched something for me, but I was seven the last time I saw them.

Yeah, we all had reasons for wanting to take them down and my shit attention span was laser sharp when it came to the Coalition and my people. Medusa needed to learn.

And we needed to pool the resources of several powerful people to help her.