Chloe Beale made her way down from the bedroom to the smaller dining room that breakfast had been served to the werewolves every morning for the last two months.

She let out a yawn as she made her way down the stairs. This place was not a place she ever thought she would feel comfortable in but she was starting to feel more at home here. Aubrey had fed off her and Beca every few days but more or less left them alone outside of those moments, Stacie had shown them the layout of the manor and the lands - she and Beca having marked it as theirs every couple of days.

"Oh, good morning." Chloe smiled at Aubrey sitting at the table reading the paper when she walked into the dinning room. She had yet to join them in the morning.

"Morning." Aubrey said without looking up from the paper.

Chloe filed her plate with all sorts of breakfast goodies before taking a seat directly across from Aubrey.

"Where are Anastasia and the little Alpha?" Aubrey asked after a moment.

"Stacie takes Beca out to walk the property in the mornings at dawn sometimes. They mark it and then usually join me for breakfast in an hour or so. I'm just down early today." Chloe explained, adding a bit of cream to her coffee.

Aubrey didn't comment, just turned the paper to the next page.

"What are you doing today?" Chloe asked after a few long moments of quiet.

Aubrey folded the paper down to look at the Beta. When she saw interest there, real interest and not the fake kind she was used to when it came to small talk, she tilted her head.

"You care about my day, do you, Roux?"

Chloe smiled at her. "You're my mate too, right? Sort of?"

"Sort of. Blood companions would be more correct. Stacie is the only one I have marked directly. But with her mark on you and my mark on her, it is a very grey area." Aubrey admitted.

"Will you put your mark on me and Beca one day?" Chloe asked.

"Would you want that?" Aubrey looked a bit amused. Before these two wolves entered her life Stacie was the only one that she ever expected to mark.

Chloe thought about it. "I live in your home, you feed off of my blood, my mates are yours. It feels like I should be yours as much as I am theirs. The only things you and I don't do that I do with them are intimate things."

Aubrey's fangs dropped at the mention of intimate things before they slowly pulled back up. She could smell on both Chloe and Beca Stacie's scent enough that her own desire for them was heightened. Coupled with their taste on her tongue from the feedings it was easy to think of tanking the Beta into her bed.

"Would you want to have sex, Roux?" Aubrey's eyebrow rose.

Chloe's cheeks went nearly as red as her hair. "Do you know how difficult it is to smell you on Stacie or on Beca or myself after you feed and not wonder what it would be like? Because it's really hard not to wonder what it would be like when you sink your fangs into my neck what it would be like to have sex afterward."

Aubrey's lips curled into a smile at the thought Chloe's mind wandered during their feedings.

"Then stay in my chambers tonight." Aubrey offered.

Chloe looked down as she felt a wave of shyness wash over her. "Will Stacie be with us?"

"Not the first time, no." Aubrey set her paper to the side and leaned forward in her chair. "I want to see you for who you are when you have no Alpha in the room."

Chloe nodded her consent at being alone tonight with Aubrey. Beca wasn't going to like it, she didn't think Stacie would either, but it was her choice after all. Besides Aubrey was already taking her blood, her body felt like a natural next step.

"You didn't have to accept Beca and me being here. As much as you and Stacie are bound together you could have forced her to make us leave. And you didn't. Thank you for that." Chloe reached across the table to put her warm hand over Aubrey's cool one.

"The three of you have become a unit. It would have been cruel to separate you after all you had been through." Aubrey turned her hand over to let their palms rest together.

"You aren't cruel." Chloe looked into the green eyes that she always looked into before Aubrey bent her head to feed from her.

"I try not to be." Aubrey replied.

"You haven't been to Beca and me. You could have been and you haven't. Even Beca would have to admit that and for an Alpha to share her Beta, even if she already shared me with Stacie, it's a big deal." Chloe said softly.

"How did that happen? Them sharing you?" Aubrey asked.

Chloe looked away from Aubrey. "Alphas get to pick their mates. Beca picked me but another Alpha challenged her. Instead of letting her defend her claim to me, the pack leadership decided the matter and were going to give me to an older Alpha. Stacie stepped in and marked me. As a blood relative of the pack leader she had the right to any unmarked Beta even if they were already promised. A few months later Beca was accused of sleeping with a Beta who already was marked. Me. Stacie marked her to keep her from being killed. Which is seen as a shame on Beca. Alphas shouldn't let other Alphas claim them. But it allowed Beca and me to be together and we had both been with Stacie. So it allowed all us to keep seeing each other."

Aubrey knew Stacie was honorable but it seemed she used her mark to make the best of a terrible situation. "She has always tried to be a force for good when she could."

"She is a force for good. She got her uncle to accept a lot of things that he wouldn't have without her there. If the infighting hadn't happened I think she might have been named his heir." Chloe said with pride in all Stacie had done.

"She is extraordinary." Aubrey agreed. "It's why I made her my mate. She is stronger than anyone I've ever known."

"She is." Chloe agreed. "But she missed you. A lot. We talked sometimes. She didn't tell me your name but she talked about the woman she had to leave to come back to the pack to keep war away. She told me about how much she cared about you, how much she hoped to see you again one day."

Aubrey made a face. "She did't have to leave to keep war away. There were other options."

Chloe wished she believed that for Aubrey's sake. She turned her head when she heard a low growl coming from behind them. Beca stood at Stacie's side, her hands balled into fists.

"Vampire." Beca still had a growl in her voice as she sat next to Chloe.

"Soumise." Aubrey smirked as she used the term. She had a feeling if Beca knew it meant submissive in French she would violently object.

"I don't like that I don't know what that means.' Beca reached for a cup and poured herself some coffee.

"Find anything interesting on your morning walk?" Aubrey turned her head up to address Stacie.

Stacie sat on the other side of Chloe, trying to read the room and the interaction between Chloe and Aubrey after the fact. "Nothing unusual."

"How many vampires do you have in the woods?" Beca asked. "I can smell them but we never see any."

"There are a few hundred. Most live underground though and come out at night." Aubrey explained.

"Why don't you?" Beca couldn't stop her inquisitive side from coming out.

"The sun holds no harm for the Posen bloodline." Aubrey said simply. "We have mastered the ability to be up during the day."

"How?" Beca questioned.

Aubrey paused, unsure if she should explain to the angry little Alpha or not. Explaining things about herself was always something Aubrey tried not to do even to someone she kept as close as Stacie.

"It's alright Aubrey. You can trust her." Stacie promised.

"My bloodline is very old but it's not all that pure." Aubrey admitted. "My family brings in werewolf and magical blood every few generations to make sure that we do not fall prey to the full effects of vampirism. My mother's mother was part witch and part werewolf." She admitted with a slight curl of her lip.

"Wait, you're part wolf?" Beca asked, her eyebrows to her hairline.

"I am." Aubrey felt her fangs itch to drop but she held them back. "It's why I can walk in the sunlight with only mild discomfort. Why I am not asleep during the day, why I am able to have a more human side to myself."

"So if we had children, they would be vampires too?" Chloe asked, her head tilted.

"They would." Aubrey nodded.

"How would that even work?" Beca snorted.

"Male and female vampires can sire children with their bite and a little witch's magic." Aubrey found it distasteful to speak of such things but the wolves had questions and she found it impossible not to answer. "Male vampires are unable the way a mortal would anyway and once female vampires figured out the magic we found no reason to allow them all the fun."

"Wait." Beca growled.

"Don't flatter yourself, Soumise." Aubrey rolled her eyes.

Stacie looked over at the pair before looking back to Aubrey. She had questions of her own but wasn't sure this was a good moment to ask. Aubrey answering her directly may be influenced with Beca and Chloe in the room.

"Ask what's on your mind, Anastasia." Aubrey turned her head toward Stacie.

"Have you sired any children?" Stacie knew Aubrey not having a direct heir meant someone else had to be named until she did. Which put Stacie in a weaker position long term than she really cared for.

"Unless you had one while you were away, I have not." Aubrey's eyes narrowed just a bit at the question.

"No, Aubrey, I didn't." Stacie's voice was low.

"That will have to change at some point." Aubrey reminded her. "Unless you wish to pass that duty on to another."

"I would rather you didn't have a bunch of potential heirs running around." Stacie didn't care what Aubrey did when she was gone but now that she was back the idea of Aubrey having a child with someone else made her wolf most displeased. "Transitions of power can be messy when that happens."

"I will limit myself to the three of you then." Aubrey agreed.

"I don't like the sound of that." Beca said.

"I've always wanted to be a mother." Chloe lifted her hand off of Aubrey's to wrap her arm around Beca's waist.

Stacie thought about Chloe with a baby in her arms, a smile brought to her face by the image. Chloe would be a good mother - a great mother - if allowed to be.

"When you are ready and your Alphas allow it I will make it so." Aubrey looked at Chloe.

"We don't control her." Beca made a face.

Aubrey just stood up and bowed her head to the three before walking out of the room to take care of what she needed to attend to for the day. She found it best not to engage with the little Alpha if she wanted to get under her skin.

"Aubrey knows that, Beca." Stacie breathed out. "But vampires are nothing if not thoughtful about bonds. Chloe has my mark on her and you're her chosen mate, she wouldn't do anything serious without our blessing."

"I'm spending tonight with her." Chloe whispered.

"What?" Beca felt her heart stop.

Chloe turned to Beca, the arm around her waist tightening. "She and we are bonded to each other, Beca. I want to try and find happiness in all of this. I want us all to try to be happy together."

"You have nothing to say to this?" Beca demanded of Stacie.

Stacie sat back in her chair, crossing her arms across her chest. "It's a good idea." She had to admit Aubrey and Chloe spending time together might be a very good idea.

"You have to be joking." Beca growled again.

"Beca." Stacie got up to get them both a plate of food. "Aubrey is my mate and I'm bound to her as she is bound to me. And both of you wear my mark and her bite. If she can find an attachment point to the pair of you outside of just feeding from you and sharing this home with you, that strengthens all of this." She put a plate in front of Beca before taking her seat.

"Aubrey needs an heir at some point." Stacie reminded her. "And Chloe wants kids, you do too even if you fight the idea of it because you didn't like having to let a male do what they would have needed to."

Beca made a gagging face.

"I do want children." Chloe leaned over to kiss Beca's jaw.

"I know." Beca sighed.

Stacie did too even if that wasn't the point of this conversation. By vampire law any children she and Aubrey had together would take precedence as heir of the clan unless Aubrey named another child as her heir. Which as of right now she didn't have.

"She likes you, Becs." Stacie told Beca. "She wouldn't call you Soumise if she didn't. She would use your name or call you Alpha."

Beca snorted.

"You can't tell me when she feeds on you that you don't feel chemistry with her." Chloe took a piece of bacon off of Beca's plate.

Beca didn't comment because lying to Chloe was something she tried never to do. The problem wasn't she didn't feel anything for Aubrey - inside or outside of being fed on - the problem was she didn't want to feel anything for her.

"The four of us are bound together, Beca. Fighting it won't work at this point." Stacie pointed out.

"Still going to try." Beca grumbled.

—

As the hours ticked by Chloe started to become more nervous about spending the night with Aubrey. She wasn't overly worried about her own safety. She had been alone with Aubrey when she fed from her and came out of the encounters no worse for wear.

Yet walking down the hallway from the bedroom that Stacie and Beca would be sharing for the night, Chloe felt a herd of elephant sized butterflies in her belly. She loved her two Alphas. They were her saviors in a pack that all too often had little regard for the wellbeing of the Betas.

"Come in." Aubrey could hear Chloe's heart pounding outside her door before Chloe's hand could knock on it.

Chloe slipped into the room, leaning on the door once she shut it. Her heart threatened to beat out of her chest just by being in the room. So far anytime Aubrey wanted to feet she had her or Beca go to her study.

Aubrey was sitting with her back to Chloe as she used a cloth to take off her makeup. She was still wearing the dress pants and silk dress shirt she had at breakfast. The reflection in the mirror visible, a gift from the non vampire blood in her veins.

"So you do have a reflection." Chloe moved to sit on the side of the bed while she watched Aubrey.

"Another gift from my mother's side of the family." Aubrey confirmed.

Chloe watched as Aubrey finished taking her makeup off. There was something about the way she carried herself in this room that she hadn't seen before. An ease that Chloe wanted to see more of.

"I know Stacie bringing Beca and I here wasn't part of your plan." Chloe looked at Aubrey's reflection as she used her nimble fingers to braid her hair. "But the part of me that believes in fate believes we were brought to you for a reason. That the four of us are meant to be connected to each other."

"That is a beautiful story to tell our children one day. I had to stop believing in those stories a long time ago." Aubrey looked at Chloe's reflection in her mirror.

"How…Are you…When were you…" Chloe tried - and failed - to find a way to ask Aubrey just how old she was.

Aubrey chuckled at Chloe trying to find tact.

"Anastasia had the same shudder to her speech when she tried to ask me how old I was."

Chloe bit her lip, raising an eyebrow. She wondered if Aubrey would make her ask or if she would offer the information without being asked directly. When Aubrey didn't divulge her age Chloe steadied herself.

"How old are you?"

"Thirty-two."

Chloe was surprised both by the direct nature of the answer and the answer itself.

"Not all vampires are hundreds of years old." Aubrey replied.

"You carry yourself with such confidence, I assumed that came with age." Chloe watched as Aubrey stood up from the vanity and turned to face her.

"Born with too much pride I'm afraid." Aubrey looked Chloe up and down."Anastasia is twenty-four now, am I to assume you are of a like age?"

"Twenty-five." Chloe nodded. "Beca is too."

Aubrey walked over to the bed, standing in front of Chloe. She reached a hand out, her skin cool against Chloe's warm cheek. Her touch was tender as her green eyes locked with Chloe's blue.

"I meant what I said before. I will happily make you a mother one day when you are ready and your Alphas allow it. Both to grow my clan and because I can sense the desire in you to hold a child of your own." Aubrey's hand moved to Chloe's neck, her thumb tracing over bite marks she left.

Chloe swallowed at the feeling of Aubrey's hand on her throat. "They will let me decide when I'm ready. And when you are I will be."

"When a female pair of an Alpha and a Beta want pups, what must be done?" Aubrey wondered. She had a feeling the answer was not one that would be too pleasing to the female Alpha.

"In the pack we were members of? If it's allowed by the leaders, a male Alpha is brought in." Chloe whispered. "Often the female Alpha has difficulties with watching, sometimes to the point of being restrained. It is rarely as enjoyable a process for anyone but the male Alpha. Even if they choose it to have a family."

Aubrey's eyes flashed red with anger at the processes they would have had to undertake. It sounded cruel for the sake of it, something she hated. She wanted to wipe packs like that off of every map she could get her hold on but she had little ability to do so without a cost high enough she could not pay it.

"Nothing I ever do to you should cause you pain." Aubrey promised as she cupped Chloe's jaw and tilted it up. She bent down and brushed a kiss over her lips before she stepped back. "The bathroom is through the door behind you. You'll find something to change into there."

Chloe moved off the bed and through the door, closing it behind her. The bathroom was larger than the one in the accommodations that she and Beca stayed in but not by much. The shower was larger and there was a second sink but otherwise it was much the same ornate stonework that she found so beautiful.

On the counter between the sinks was a simple grey long sleeve shirt and matching sleep pants. Chloe wasn't sure what she expected but she was glad to see it wasn't something that would make her feel exposed. After changing into the provided clothes, washing her face clean and using the toothbrush left out for her, she folded her clothes and put them in the hamper she assumed she was allowed to use.

"Did you find everything alright?" Aubrey asked her spot on the bed.

"I did." Chloe slipped between the blanket and sheets of the bed.

The pair laid on their sides facing each other with about a foot between them. Aubrey's head resting on her hand while Chloe's head rested on the pillow.

"Do you need to sleep?"

"About once every fortnight or so I am compelled to sleep." Aubrey answered. "I sleep most nights out of habit now that Anastasia has returned."

Chloe moved her hand - palm up - between them on the bed. She wanted to feel Aubrey's cool skin against her warm, the feeling of the contrast in temperatures somehow a comfort.

Aubrey's left hand slid over Chloe's as her fingers found spade between Chloe's. Touching the Beta bought calm over Aubrey in a way no one outside of Stacie had ever before.

"Why do you always call her Anastasia?" Chloe asked.

"It's a beautiful name and she was the most beautiful woman I've ever known when I first saw her. The moment I saw her I felt my heart beat for a few seconds. A rare experience to be sure." Aubrey whispered. "You hold such beauty yourself."

Chloe blushed under the complement. "You're one to talk."

Aubrey chuckled softly. "Thank you."

Chloe toyed with Aubrey's fingers, her eyes looking at Aubrey's mouth. "When you offered to have me stay here tonight to do intimate things I assumed once I walked in I would be a fly trapped in a spider's web. I didn't expect laying in bed talking with you. I like it."

"Maybe I like to toy with my meals before I consume them." Aubrey's fangs dropped at the mention of intimate acts.

Chloe's eyes traced over the fangs. "Will you feed from me tonight?"

Aubrey nodded as she moved a bit closer to Chloe. "I do not plan to undress you tonight, Roux. I have ways to bring about intimate acts without the need for you to lay naked under me."

"Where is the fun in that?" Chloe felt her breathing hitch at the intensity Aubrey was looking at her.

"Lay in my arms and I will show you." Aubrey whispered.

Chloe found herself pulled into Aubrey's by her own curiosity. The way they fit together was different than Beca holding her with her smaller frame or Stacie with her taller frame. She and Aubrey weren't that different in size but she felt the strength radiating off of her.

"Close your eyes and just breath in and out." Aubrey's voice took on an almost musical tone as some of her charm soaked into Chloe's blood. The charm would put Chloe into a trance as she fed. The feeling of blood being pulled acting as though Aubrey's hands were between her thighs. It was not something Aubrey did often but it would allow her to feed on the Beta and bring her pleasure the first time in a more controlled way.

Vampires were always standing on the knife's edge of being in control and losing it. Aubrey knew the feeling of that control slipping away from her and what could happen to her lover when she gave in to all of her primal urges. Stacie still bore scars that would never fade on her back from that night.

The charm allowed Aubrey to get a sense of how she reacted to Chloe in the midst of her pleasure and desensitize herself to it before having a more hands on experience. If this was a single night she wouldn't bother with it and force herself to keep her head about her. But this relationship would be happening for the foreseeable future so care was needed to be taken.

The effects of the charm hit Chloe like a ton of bricks. Her body felt as though Aubrey's hands were everywhere even as they stayed on her waist. It was though her lips moved up and down her body even as she felt them planted against her neck.

"Oh." Chloe breathed out. "Don't stop."

Aubrey held her a little closer, dosing her a little more as Chloe gripped her tightly and wiggled against her, rocking against her thigh. She smirked before biting down on Chloe's neck, feeling her mouth fill with blood. The charm affected her in kind if delivered via blood and right now Chloe's blood was full of her charm.

The pair rocked against each other while Aubrey fed. Pleasure washing over them as Aubrey hungrily gulped down Chloe's blood. They clung to each other as the charm leaked into the air Chloe breathed and then by her blood was fed back to Aubrey.

Finally Aubrey pulled back, both a bit sweaty and weak from the pleasure. She licked at Chloe's neck to seal her bite marks before resting her forehead against the Beta.

"How was that for pleasure, Roux?"

Chloe's eyes glowed a golden hue as she opened them to look at Aubrey with a satisfied grin on her lips. "Anytime you want to do that, anytime, I am game."

Aubrey chuckled as she tucked Chloe against her chest so the pair could sleep.

—

Aubrey knew there were others in the room even as her eyes stayed closed. She knew the tempo of Stacie's heartbeat and the other belonged to the little Alpha. She didn't move or give them any reason to believe she was anything but still in a deep sleep.

"Chlo?" Beca whispered as she looked over what of her she could see to make sure she was alright.

"Aubrey wouldn't hurt her, Becs." Stacie stayed on Aubrey's side of the bed.

Aubrey was still holding Chloe to her chest as they had been when they fell to sleep the night before. Both had their arms around the other's waist with their legs tangled, forehead to forehead, a little dried blood on Chloe's neck.

The pair looked every bit the happy lovers they had been the night before.

"Says you." Beca moved on the bed behind Chloe to try to wake her without waking Aubrey.

"Anastasia is right, Soumise. Your mate is unharmed." Aubrey's eyes opened and locked with Beca's. Her hand paused midair where she had been reaching for Chloe's shoulder. "But she is still sleeping."

Beca growled as was so often her reaction to Aubrey.

"Lay down and let her sleep. I took a lot of blood last night and she had a lot of my charm running through her. When she does wake, she could use your arms to turn to as she comes back to herself." Aubrey offered.

"You want me to lay with the pair of you in your bed?" Beca snorted.

"I do."

Beca huffed a bit but didn't want to be thrown out of the room. She moved behind Chloe under the blankets as Stacie moved behind Aubrey to hold her. Her arms wrapped around Chloe's waist even as her arms rested on top of Aubrey's. It was more comfortable than she cared to admit.

"Last night went well." Stacie didn't need to ask to smell the effects of last night hanging still in the air.

"It did." Aubrey agreed. "Roux handled the charm well and my control was never an issue."

"Has your control been an issue in the past?" Beca lifted her head.

"Once. Stacie has a few scars on her back from my hands." Aubrey didn't have the energy to lie to the little Alpha.

"It wasn't nearly as dramatic as you think, Beca." Stacie slipped her hand under Aubrey's shirt to rest her hand against the vampire's skin. "Aubrey gripped too hard and her nails broke my skin. It's the series of scars near my shoulders."

Beca didn't like it very much but she put her head back down behind her mate's. She breathed in, pressing a few soft kisses to the back of Chloe's neck.

"I love her. I have since before I knew what the word really meant." Beca closed her eyes as she spilled her guts to a vampire she still wasn't sure she trusted. "When I was old enough to decide on my mate there was no question who I wanted. I was so proud when she accepted and when her mother agreed. And then I was challenged and never allowed to defend my claim to her. And Stacie saved us both. But I didn't save her. I've never been allowed to save her. I am just an Alpha marked by another Alpha, marked by a vampire now too. No one bares my mark as I was never allowed to mark Chloe. No Alpha at all really."

Aubrey shifted her head without moving anymore of herself than she needed to be able to look at the little Alpha that laid behind the Beta claimed by all of them. She thought about the pain she sensed when the Alpha spoke and the anger that still colored her words even as she was grateful for all Stacie did for her and for Chloe. This was a matter of respect now in her mind.

"Mark me with your mark and I will wear it as proudly as I wear Anastasia. You are an Alpha, Soumise. Yes, you belong to me and to Anastasia but we should belong to you in kind as a matter of respect." Aubrey offered.

"What?" Beca sat up to look at the vampire.

"I am a clan leader and from one of the oldest bloodlines in the vampire world. Allowing your mark on me is of sizable consequence. It will force me to make you my mate and your status will rise to match Anastasia."

Aubrey shifted away from Chloe being careful not to wake her before she took her shirt off to show Stacie's mark on her right shoulder; it was a simple A inside of a circle. She laid on her front to give Beca the chance to place her mark for the first time on another.

"Stacie…I…" Beca looked at the Alpha.

"Aubrey's the clan leader, on this land she is the master when it comes to clan matters." Stacie sat up. "And who she takes as a mate is a clan matter."

"You're still her mate." Beca said.

"I am." Stacie agreed. "But I have no say under vampire law if she takes a second."

"Under our pack laws you do." Beca pointed out.

"What pack?" Chloe whispered, shifting to her back. "They stripped the three of us of our membership to the pack before the war escalated to try to have our allies give us up, remember?"

Beca closed her eyes as she tried to think if she could do it. Mark a vampire as hers. She felt her left hand shake as she traced the pale flesh of Aubrey's shoulder where her mark would go.

"After her, mark Chloe and me, alright?" Stacie looked at Beca. "The four of us are bound to each other. Chloe doesn't have a mark as a Beta but I should wear yours if you have mine."

Beca felt a few tears be brushed away and looked down to see Chloe's doing it. She bent down, kissing her deeply before shifting to reach over her to Aubrey's shoulder again.

"I claim what is mine to take." Beca whispered as her hand transformed enough to mark Aubrey's shoulder with a backwards R inside of a triangle. She bent over Chloe to lap at the blood as she felt herself warm up and then cool down as the mark took hold. The mark on Aubrey's right shoulder shimmered as both understood the place of the other.

Beca marked Stacie and finally Chloe the same way. She cried as she carved her mark into Chloe's skin, years of longing and sleepless nights coming to be realized before her eyes. She wiped at her eyes as she laid down next to Chloe, holding on as tightly as she dared.

"Give me your left wrist, Soumise." Aubrey whispered as she sat up. She kept her shirt off to let the mark be seen by anyone who might look at her shoulder.

Beca held her wrist up to Aubrey who bit down on it, leaving the same mark there as Stacie had. She whispered in Latin her vow of everlasting commitment. Once Beca had her arm back it was Chloe's turn to take on a third mark of being claimed. She did so proudly.

"How do you feel?" Chloe asked as all four laid together.

"Oddly satisfied." Beca gave a shy smile.

"I am pleased to hear that, Soumise." Aubrey shivered when Stacie traced her mark on Aubrey's shoulder.

Beca looked over at Aubrey. "Will you ever tell me what "Soumise" means?"

"Submissive in French." Aubrey said with a raise of her eyebrow.

Beca had to laugh.