“Come on, runt, that skirt would go down to your ankles. What is our last name anyway? I hate the one they gave me in the foster system.”
Whoever decided to stick Lizzie with the last name Feltersnatch was just setting her up for a whole string of stupid nicknames. Mine wasn’t much better at Horr. We used to joke they did it on purpose just to torture us. I had a feeling whatever came out of Ariel or Odelia’s mouth was going to be Lizzie’s new last name unless it was somehow worse than Feltersnatch.
“Lizzie Belcourt has a nice ring to it if you chose to use our last name,” Odelia said. She said it like she desperately wanted Lizzie to take her last name.
“Lizzie Belcourt it is then. Come on, runt. Let’s go outside and see what your trigger is for fire too. Gideon, come with us.”
I thought Lizzie would understand me not going out there with them and possibly getting set on fire. I went back inside with Bash, Chase, and Zed. They didn’t’ seem to want to be set on fire either. Or, maybe they just wanted to spend more time with me. I liked that idea better.
Chase went straight to his laptop. Bash grabbed me and hauled me into his lap. I wanted to fight him, but as soon as he wrapped his arms around me and I was pressed against his chest, I realized Bash didn’t just have a sexy voice. He smelled like pure sex too. I heard him chuckle when I groaned and just leaned back into his chest. Normally, I could resist anyone, but every single one of the Horsemen made my body tingle.
“Are you two trying to kill me?” I asked when Zed grabbed my feet again and started rubbing them.
I was like this limp little noodle in a pile of leather, muscle, and sex. Zed gave me this evil little grin and worked his thumbs in the ball of my feet. He knew exactly what he was doing to me.
“What do you think, Bash? Think we can get her to whimper and beg?”
“What the fuck? I’ll kill you.”
I said that like a total wimp. I might as well have been whimpering. I said it dreamily and with no conviction at all. Now, Chase was laughing. He’d better not be laughing at me because he wasn’t the one sending me some weird Horsemen pheromones. That’s what this was. They were sending some weird cosmic shit at me. I wasn’t getting up though. This was nice as hell.
“We can all make her beg later. I’ve gotten into Mattan’s security system. To use a Tabby and Lizzie word, the man’s a creeper. He’s got nanny cams in the maid’s room. His maids live in the house. He’s got cams in the showers.”
“Ew! Zed, have you figured out his punishment yet?”
“Not yet. It has to be just right. But this gives me ammo. Do we know what Drake and Mattan are up to?”
“I have a feeling they are meeting in a secret room with no camera, but…wait for it. He uses the same password for everything. I can get into his computer.”
“I could kiss all of you,” I purred.
Bash’s cologne was overwhelming me. It was probably called something like Epic Sex Magic because that was how it made me feel. Zed had moved from my feet and was massaging my calves. Chase was getting into Mattan’s fortress. Yeah, I definitely wanted to fuck all of them, even Gideon, who wasn’t here. They’d said things along the lines they’d be up for it too and they’d been flirting this entire time.
Could the Lamb have a group thing with the Four Horsemen? Asking for a friend.
Chapter 17
It had been a long day, but I couldn’t sleep. Chase was still trying to get past all of Mattan’s firewalls, but Lizzie and Ariel were getting really good with their fire. Lizzie hated smoking, but she decided to do parlor tricks and show me how she could blow smoke rings out her mouth now. I warned her if she set anything in the house on fire, I was going to start calling her the Dragon Lady. That was what we called our foster mother the first time we met. She was a chain smoker and spent all the money she was supposed to spend on us on Marlboro Reds.
I should have been passed out, but I couldn’t sleep. It was Gideon’s turn to guard me. The rest of the Horsemen took the rest of the house, and someone would sit with me while I slept. Gideon always sat on a chaise across the room, and his eyes never left my bed. My bed gave him an eye on the door. I felt safe with all of them watching me. Gideon always had his sword with him across his lap.
I missed snuggling with Bash and Chase and Zed’s massages. Gideon never touched me, but he was always staring at me. I couldn’t sleep, and I wanted to know what Gideon’s touch felt like. I wanted to know if he smelled as soon as the others. Bash smelled like straight up sex, Chase smelled like burning leaves, sandalwood, and musk, and Zed smelled like citrus.
I padded out of bed and walked over to the chaise Gideon was sitting on. For once, he didn’t stare at me; he stared at my feet.
“What is it, Tabby? I prefer you under the covers when you sleep in clothes like that.”
“I can’t sleep,” I said, feeling unsure of myself for once. Now that he commented on my sleeping apparel, which was just an old tank top and some tiny shorts, I felt bad about wanting to sit in his lap and having him hold me.
Gideon’s eyes started on my toes and trailed up my body until they met mine. I could have sworn his green eyes were glowing, but they seemed to soften a little in the darkness. He set his sword aside.
“Would you feel better if I played with your hair?”
“Only Lizzie has before.”
“No boyfriends?” he asked, patting the seat next to him.
I laid down and rested my head on his lap. “I’ve never met a guy I wanted to get serious with before. No serious boyfriends. I’ve had booty calls and fuck buddies, and some of them got attached, but I ended it.”
“You don’t want to fall in love, Tabitha?”
I thought I didn’t. I thought I was fine with just getting my rocks off. Maybe all the boys I’d met still had cooties until I met the Four Horsemen. Now that I knew if we stopped Drake, they would be staying, I wanted to keep them. They were hot as hell and managed to be funny, sweet, and sarcastic at the same time.
I closed my eyes when his hands started running through my hair. This was nice. Different than with Lizzie. I swear I was about to start purring like Drake did when he was a cat.
“Don’t get attached to us, Tabitha. I know how everyone acts around you, but they know what is going to happen.”
My eyes flew open. “How about you tell me what is going to happen? Did something happen with the other Lambs?”
“Not the other Lambs. They were all children, and we only ever looked at them like sisters. We come into the world almost at the same time, and it’s like we’re connected. We always fall for the same woman. We are connected when it comes to things hurting us and dying. What always happened was that the woman would pick one of us and the other three would die of the broken heart. That would kill the one chosen too.”
I bit my lip. That was certainly rough, and I didn’t want to kill any of them just because I wanted to get in their pants. And I was starting to feel like I wanted more than just getting in their pants for all of them. I knew part of that was because I never had anyone wanting to protect me before. I was probably projecting my issues on them, and I’d end up killing them.
Gideon’s thumb traced my lower lip, and I shivered. I’d done more than my share of a freak show in the bedroom, but that had to be one of the most erotic things anyone had done to me, and I had all my clothes on.
“None of us know if we all just have the same taste and it never ends well, or there’s something cosmic about it. We aren’t technically supposed to be on earth, and there’s not much that can kill us, so a broken heart does it. The other three need to learn to behave around you. I shouldn’t be doing this now.”
I bit his thumb, and he groaned. I could feel his erection growing where my head was rested in his lap. “This isn’t the dark ages, or whenever it was, you were last here. Different relationships are being recognized now. What if you had a woman that was into all four of you and saw you as different men?”
“Tha
t’s not human nature—”
“Says who? There are entire porn channels for that now. Those are my favorite.”
Gideon let out a little growl, and he pulled my hair a bit. So, finally, I found something that got him riled up. “Tabby, I don’t think the apocalypse, the Four Horsemen, the Antichrist, or Satan was quite prepared for you. I’ll admit, we’ve never met an adult Lamb yet and the ones we did know, we met as children and guided into adults. You’re quite the naughty little minx even without all the leather and tattoos.”
I nipped at his thumb again since I knew it turned him on. Riled up Gideon was my new favorite Gideon. That bulge under my head was promising, and he was panting like any minute, he was going to rip my clothes off and fuck the shit out of me. God, that would be so hot. If it sent the rest of them running to my room, I was all up for a fivesome.
“The four of you are ones to talk with all the leather you wear.”
“Yes, but none of us quite have bodies like you do,” he panted pulling my hair again.
Damn it, if he wasn’t going to make a move, I was. I wrestled myself into a sitting position and straddled his lap. “None of you have bodies like I do?” I teased, grinding against his erection. My shorts were thin and already sticking to me I was so wet. “The four of you have bodies that would make any girl sin. I’m shocked anyone in history was able to pick just one of you. You’re all fucking gorgeous, and none of you make me want to stick my boot up your ass.”
Gideon didn’t stop me. He rested his head on the back of the chaise and squeezed my ass. “You and those boots, Tabby. I’d take one up the ass just to get you to take them off. Do you wear those around the house to torture us?”
“Oh, I think all of you are doing a little torturing of your own when it comes to me, don’t you, Gideon?” I asked, grinding into him a little harder.
Jesus fuck, I was about to come just from doing this and that had never happened to me before. I hadn’t even kissed him yet. I hadn’t kissed any of them. If I got to fuck them, I’d probably turn into a pile of goo.
Gideon’s head snapped up. “I can’t make love to you tonight, Tabitha. I can tell you’re close. Use my body and come, love.”
I was clutching his shoulders for dear life. I wanted more. If I couldn’t have him, I wanted more. “Will you at least kiss me?” I gasped.
Gideon moved like lightning. He didn’t just kiss me; he consumed me. I’d never been kissed like that in my entire life. It was passionate, raw, and primal. Gideon bit my lower lip, and I came undone. I bit him back and rode out my orgasm. I buried my face in his neck. Gideon smelled good too. He smelled like lavender. When I finally calmed down, I started laughing.
I pulled back and looked him in the eye. “Is that some special skill you get as a Horseman of the Apocalypse? Make a girl come that hard when neither of you is naked with just a little bite.”
“Ah, Tabby. I lost control and shouldn’t have done that. Tomorrow, it’s going to be game on with the others. You just think they were flirting with you before. And seeing as what happens to us when you do pick, none of us is going to give you what you want,” he said, tracing my bottom lip with his thumb again.
Gideon seemed under the impression I was going to choose eventually and they were going to die. No, now that I knew what was going to happen, I wasn’t picking. I had three jobs now. Stop the apocalypse, destroy Drake, and convince all four of them we needed to have some sort of polyamorous kink thing going on.
My mind was already spinning with fantasies.
Chapter 18
Part of the reason I was having so much trouble sleeping the night before was that Lizzie wasn’t with me. She’d almost instantly bonded with Ariel learning to blow smoke like a dragon and decided to spend the night at her mother’s house. I knew she wouldn’t move in there permanently. Lizzie would stay there a good while getting to know everyone, but I don’t think Lizzie’s mouth could form the words she still lived at home and she’d want her own space. If it weren’t with me, she’d be close by.
Lizzie wasn’t there when I went down for breakfast, but four smirking Horsemen were sitting at the table eating eggs.
“Tabby, you know I’m Conquest, right? Couldn’t you get the urge to fool around with me first? Gideon wasn’t even trying!” Chase said, winking at me. I knew he wasn’t mad, but he wanted his turn.
“My fingers aren’t just good at rubbing your feet,” Zed said waggling his eyebrows.
“If just holding you in my lap does that to you, you should see what I can do with my tongue,” Bash said, winking at me.
I cocked an eyebrow at all of them. Gideon was with me all night. He slept in bed with me after a lot of convincing. He didn’t have time to get all chatty about what we did.
“Can you talk to each other in your heads like Drake did with me when he was in the cat? Can Drake still do that?”
I was shocked Gideon kissed my knuckles in front of the others. “I tried to warn you last night. We can talk telepathically, but we never do about this. It’s part of what happens when the woman we love chooses and why I told you we shouldn’t. They can feel it. And Drake can talk telepathically. I’m shocked he hasn’t tried by now. If he hasn’t, he’s plotting something.”
I’d deal with Drake in a minute. They’d all thrown down some sort of gauntlet knowing what was going to happen if I chose before we’d dealt with Drake. I already knew I didn’t want to pick. I had this huge fantasy in my head about playing house with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They all brought something I liked to the table.
I threw down my own gauntlet. “So, before Lizzie gets here and we start dealing with our Drake problem, why don’t we go do everything you just suggested? Together.”
I’d finally found something to shock these four huge warriors. Oddly, they didn’t fight or get jealous. They were shocked I’d suggested that in the first place and it had rendered them all speechless. We all just sat there in silence. I issued the challenge. It was a solution for them being able to live out full human lives with no hurt.
It seemed like endless silence. It looked like they were figuring out if I was serious or this was actually possible. They didn’t have time to say anything because Lizzie, Ariel, Odelia, and Esther came in with a girl I didn’t recognize. It had to be Esther’s daughter Natalia because I already knew she dressed like me from Esther. Not exactly, but she had a fondness for black leather and black eyeliner. Natalia was tall and wasn’t owning it in a good pair of fuck me boots.
And Lizzie! What the hell happened to Lizzie? Lizzie gravitated towards blonde college girls going through their experimental phase who were just using her. It was always the same — some preppy blonde girl with huge boobs who treated her like shit.
Natalia wasn’t blonde. Her hair was dyed black, and Lizzie never went for the whole goth look before. Natalia wasn’t seventeen like Ariel. Natalia looked like she was my age. And Lizzie looked like she was super into Natalia. Did breathing fire totally change her taste in girls? Screw the Horsemen and their inability to talk at my suggestion for group sex. I needed to talk to my best friend.
“Can I borrow Lizzie? If you’re all done eating, you should get to work trying to figure out Mattan’s plans.”
Esther just smiled at me. “I’ve already figured out some of Mattan’s plans. We’re going to have visitors here later. Now, I suggest you go talk to Lizzie and come back soon.”
Esther looked like she saw through both of us. I wondered if my mother were still with us, I’d not be able to get away with anything with her. It hit me right then I’d never know that because Drake killed her. Probably to set things in motion to get me here. After I talked to Lizzie, the first thing on my agenda was figuring out how to kill Drake without hurting Lizzie or Ariel.
As soon as we were alone, Lizzie wasn’t herself. She squealed and grabbed my arm. Lizzie just did not get that excited about anything.
“Isn’t Natalia amazing? Esther stayed over with us and brought her.
I didn’t go to bed until six this morning because we were up late just talking. She’s perfect.”
“Yeah, but she’s just so different than anyone I’ve seen you go after before.”
Lizzie shrugged and told me something I apparently hadn’t figured out on my own yet. “Those were revenge fucks. All those girls who thought they were using me to go through their little bisexual phase, I was using them. That is the exact kind of girl that tortured me in middle school. They think they meet a desperate lesbian willing to put up with their shit while they figure things out. I made all of them beg for it. They were the ones dependent on me. When they decided they were going back to dudes, it was no sweat off my back. But when their new boyfriends were going down on them, they were always going to remember how good I was at it and they screamed my name and begged me.”
“It sounds like you want to get serious with Natalia. What changed?”
Lizzie just squeezed me. “Literally, everything. Odelia is amazing when you get to know her. I don’t blame her for what happened to me. My little runt of a sister is a badass with that flame we have. I ended up in the same foster home as you for a reason. You’re my sister too. I have a purpose now. Me, you, and my real family, we’re ending the fucking apocalypse and stopping the Antichrist. I thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives serving drinks at that bar until our tits started sagging and no one would tip us, then we’d have to go be phone sex operators or something.”
“I’ve made a decision about relationships too. I want one with all four of the Horsemen. Don’t you think it would be awesome to live in this house with all four of them?”
Lizzie threw back her head and laughed. “Well, aren’t you just a greedy little bitch. How do they feel about that?”
“Total silence when I bought it up. Gideon gave me a mind-blowing orgasm with both our clothes on without even touching me.”
“Do they have some sort of psychic penis that’s better than a vibrator?”
“No, Lizzie. I’ll give you more details later. Right now, we need to worry about Drake. You’ve got the fire down, anything with the prophecy?”
My Cat is The Antichrist Page 9