Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse-Chapter 454: Hearts To Heart

I felt the bed shift beside me as someone crawled in. "Do not wake me up unless the world is ending," I grumbled, not bothering to open my eyes. I felt the warm breath of the man in front of me as he softly chuckled. "Scratch that," I sighed, rolling over so that my face was burrowed into Ronan’s chest. "The world has ended too many times. Let’s just not wake me up."

I felt the body behind me pressing against my back as his arms wrapped around me. "I promise I won’t wake you," Dimitri assured me. "Just close your eyes and get to sleep. Even if the sky collapses, Ronan and I can still hold it up for you."

Ronan let out a soft grunt, letting me know that he was listening to our conversation. However, when I tried to shift to look at him, both sets of arms held me tighter. Giving up, I closed my eyes and fell back asleep.

I had something to tell the guys, but for the life of me, I couldn’t think what it was.

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The next time I woke up, it was to something hard grinding into my lower back as Dimitri softly kissed my shoulder and neck. "Shh," he whispered in my ear when he felt me wake up. "I didn’t mean to wake you up. Go back to sleep."

"I want to be awake the first time you fuck me," I yawned, my nose rubbing against Ronan’s chest. "After that, it depends on your skill."

"You want that?" asked Dimitri, his entire body frozen. "You want me like that?" It almost hurt my heart to hear him so uncertain, but I simply rubbed my ass against his cock.

"I do," I answered as Ronan chuckled. "I just forget about it sometimes. Does that make me a bad person?"

"Not at all," assured Dante as he entered the bedroom. "We’ve just been taking our cues from you, so when it seems like you aren’t interested, we don’t force the issue."

If my eyes weren’t still closed, I would have probably narrowed them as I glared at Dante. "Then let’s just assume that you have an open invitation unless I say no, okay? That might get rid of a lot of confusion."

"Just to be clear," purred Désiré as the mattress by my feet shifted. "You want us? You want us to fuck you?"

Nodding my head, I shifted just enough to let Dimitri have better access. "I want you," I said. "I want you to fuck me. I want you to take control of all that, so I don’t keep forgetting it. I was thinking of making a schedule or something so that I could remember, but then that seemed weird."

"We’ll remind you," assured Beau from across the room. "Trust me, we’ll remind you." ƒrēenovelkiss.com

"Is now a good time to tell you that I am officially joining your harem?" chuckled a completely new voice. Startled, I bolted upright in bed, smacking Ronan and Dimitri accidentally, as I looked around the room for the newcomer.

"Eric?" I grunted, blinking rapidly as I tried to get the sleep out of my eyes.

"As your husband, I think I need to be involved just as much as the others," chuckled Eric as he walked toward the bed. Pulling Ronan’s shoulder, Eric dumped him unceremoniously on the floor before sitting beside me. "I want you," he said, a flash of uncertainty on his face. "I want to be by your side for the rest of eternity. I want every part of you, both what I know and what I don’t know. I have wandered around the world for millennia, waiting for my other half, and the moment I saw you, I knew that you were the one I was missing."

Blinking rapidly, I really didn’t know how to reply to his words. In some ways, I felt the same. I hated the confusion when he was around. Sometimes, it felt like he wanted to be my big brother, and other times, I could have sworn he was flirting with me.

But I really didn’t understand subtle cues....

"How about I put it this way," chuckled Eric as he studied my face. "We are married, and you are stuck with me for all eternity. I am never going to leave you alone, so get used to it."

Once again, his words caught me off guard. "I really didn’t think that you liked me like that," I muttered under my breath even as the rest of the guys chuckled.

"It was kind of obvious," smirked Chang Xuefeng from where he was leaning against the wall, his arms and legs crossed in front of him. "At least to the rest of us. We thought it was obvious to you, too, but clearly, we were mistaken."

"Okay," I grunted, narrowing my eyes at all the guys. "Let’s just make it simpler, yeah? From now on, tell me what you want. I am not a mind reader, so unless you actually take the time to explain shit to me, there is no way I could know what you are thinking."

"I love you," announced Dante out of the blue. "I have since you entered my dreams back in the Dragon’s Lair. I didn’t tell you because I thought you were just putting up with me."

Apparently, it was take a shot at Hattie this morning, because that confession came right out of left field.

"Same," grunted Dimitri, nodding his head. "I’ve loved you ever since I found you under that tree. Since that moment, I have been yours."

"But—" I started, my eyes widening as I looked at Tank.

"Don’t look at me like that," chuckled the massive man. "I’ve been a puddle at your feet since you walked up to the gate during the snowstorm. But unlike these idiots, I know that you love me, too. You just don’t actually know what that looks like."

"I don’t remember you," announced Luca, his words like a splash of cold water drenching me. "Part of me doesn’t feel anything when I look at you, but an even bigger part is fixated on you. I count your breathes when we are in the same room. Pictures of you dancing in my head from memories that disappear like smoke. I can’t say that I love you, not like the others can. But I want to love you. I want to be beside you, in whatever capacity you are willing. Please, don’t abandon me."

I was about to open my mouth to respond, but the sound of furious pounding at the front door interrupted our moment.

"Whoever it is," I growled, moving around Eric to get out of bed. "They are a dead man."