MAGDALENE’S POV

“Mum are you seriously leaving me with them?”

Mum took the last drag from her cigarette and crushed it beneath her heel. “Moses is finally taking me out, are you suggesting I take you along?”

An ache stabbed through my head immediately. “Mum I can’t survive!!” I pleaded. “Those guys are scary. I can’t even survive a day with them. Can’t I stay at some guesthouse?”

She rolled her eyes, obviously frustrated. “Marg don’t question me! It’s our first honeymoon after marriage, and this is the best time to get used to your brothers! For how long will you avoid them!?”

Brothers or should I say stepbrothers. The thought of them still felt foreign.

Two months ago, we moved into Alpha Moses Ernesto’s mansion and my constant heart palpitations started then. I was scared of his sons… No. Not that they never noticed me… they did but we lived in different worlds even though under same roof.

I couldn’t look them in the eyes for two second straight… they were intimidating as hell and also very hot as danger. Every night, my dreams would betray me with fantasies I’d never admit loud. I mean dreams where they saw me, talked to me and…

Now, Mum was going on a honeymoon with their father, and was leaving me to them all alone!!?

“Marg ” Mum’s voice called me calmly. “You know the kind of shits we passed through after your dad’s death? Now that we have a better life, the least you can do is try”

“But Mum….”

She eyed me in a way that signaled the end of discussion. Two years ago, My father died and his family abandoned us. I love the fact that she moved on but these stepbrothers…

“Fine” I muttered. “I’ll try to adjust”

I helped mum take her bag, while she went to call the Alpha.

Since she’d given me a final warning, I knew she didn’t want to hear anything more about my concerns. Despite being twenty years old, I still had a respect and fear for mum that I can’t explain as most of my friends started living alone at my age.

While waiting at the parking lot to bid her final goodbye, a Rolls Royce pulled up. Gamma July, one of my stepfather’s quadruplets exited, smoking but looking handsome as well as scary as hell.

He cast a look of curiosity at me as he stopped — probably the first time he’d acknowledged my existence since we moved in. I held my breathe, and stared back at him without any words, frozen like an idiot.

My heart skipped a beat. Only if I could get to…

“Fuck it!” July sneezed and left like I didn’t worth his greeting.

Mum appeared with Alpha Moses just as July left.

The Alpha patted my shoulder. “Your mum told me about your fear of the boys. You don’t have to worry about anything. This is an opportunity to get close to them and make them your brothers for real”

Make them my brothers? What a joke..

“Alpha I can’t just…”

“Marg …” Mum warned before I could finish, and I kept quiet immediately.

“Have a safe trip and call me if anything comes up” I resigned finally.

Mum smiled and hugged me. “Now that’s my good girl. Enjoy yourself”

“Mmm”

I watched them board the car, and leave me alone to my doom.

My admission to the university hadn’t come through yet, and I had basically nowhere to go. I know no one around here!

“Face your fears Magdalene” I recollected what Dad would have said in this kind of situation.

I walked back into the mansion, ready to lie in bed all day and binge Netflix, when I heard a groan from July’s room.

“‘July?”I wondered aloud, but shrugged and decided to leave. But my heart couldn’t be at rest. What is he doing?

Unable to contain my curiosity, I got up and tiptoed to his door. Thankfully April, August, and June the other brothers weren’t home yet to creep me out.

I stopped before his door and heaved a long sigh. “it’s okay Marg …Get close to your brothers” Only if mum and Alpha Moses knew how much I’d been close to them in my dreams.

I vehemently shook my head. ‘He doesn’t even acknowledge you!’

Then I knocked on the door. “Hello? Did you need help?”

No response. I thought of leaving, but something still held me back. What if he needed help?

The groan sounded more like a moan, so I pushed the door the door opened without knocking anymore.

I staggered back at the scene before me.

He looked back immediately. “What are you doing here?” he barked.

My jaw dropped in shock and utter dismay. This was worse than real fantasy. This was REAL!! July who’d never said more than two words to me was now naked in front of me and….

“Ma.. Ma$turbating?” I asked aloud and foolishly because I seriously didn’t know what to say.

He didn’t look shocked. Some rows of his braided hair loosed, and I saw the trail of hair from his chest down to…

“I’m sorry” I quickly apologized and turned.

‘Fuck it Magdalene!!!! Why did you enter his room without knocking twice!!” I yelled in my mind.

“Why did you come in here?” he asked, spreading dread down my spine.

“I.. I actually thought you… maybe you needed help…maybe?”

Since my back was turned to him, I couldn’t see his smirk, but I heard the sound of it. “So daring. Ma…. Marggi right?”

“No. Marg. Marg, as in Magdalene” I corrected him, still shivering like a naked baby left out in the snow.

He was silent. I automatically believed he was done talking, so I took a step. “Then. I’m leaving…”

“To where?” his voice suddenly stopped me, I froze.

Why was he asking me such questions? Where else would I go? “I mean, seems like you’re busy. I should leave….”

“You came in to help me right?”

His voice started to scare me again, and the dreadful feeling I used to have whenever I saw him or his brothers intensified. “Y…Yes. I thought you needed help…”

“Then help me” He demanded. “Turn around”

My heart seized. “H.. Help you?” my breath almost got lost as I slowly turned after asking that and saw that he was still naked! I threw my hand to my face immediately. “Please cover up”

I wasn’t too experienced with the opposite sex as I never had a boyfriend before due to my strict mum. But I saw plenty things at college, watched a lot of X rated movies and had read several Magazines under the influence of my friends.

“Why acting like you never saw a naked male before?” He scoffed again. “Help me bring my wolf down”

Through my half close eyes, I saw him point to his bulging cock. It stuck like a gear handle and the cap so pink like a lollipop. ‘Damn you Magdalene! He’s your brother!’ I scolded myself quickly and shook my head.

“I don’t think I can help you with this”

He took a step closer, the heat radiating from his body warmed against my body, and for the first time since I knew myself, I felt so horny like I was reading one of those sex Magazines.

I stepped back immediately. “I better go. We’re siblings now and we shouldn’t…”

“You’re not my sister, Magdalene!” He affirmed, almost sounding like a command. “Will you help me or not?”

Why should I help him? How would I help him? By sleeping with him or what? “No” I confessed. “I don’t do things like this”

“You can go”

Even though this was what I wanted to hear, it still felt hurtful but I shook it off. I should leave indeed.

I turned to the door, and reached for the handle, but something suddenly held me back making me stop.

It felt like a pull.

I stopped. Slowly turned back only to see the line I’d dreaded the most and had wished would appear only when I met someone that I loved.

The mate bond!!!

July was still naked and his other hand was on his cock, perhaps ready to resume stroking but the bond was tied to his other hand. He froze mid- motion, his eyes widening as he stared at the red glowing thread between us. “What the fuck….”

Panic seized my heart. Mate? July is my mate?

“You can see it too?” I whispered, my voice trembling.

He dropped his hand from his cock, the cocky smirk completely gone from his face. For the first time since I knew him… July was shaken, threatened and surprised. “This couldn’t be right”

“I know” I agreed quickly, my blood running hot and cold at the same time. “This is bad. You can reject me or anything. I don’t have a wolf and we’re…”

“Step siblings” He finished, but his eyes were locked on the bond, watching it pulse between us. He took a step closer and it looked like the glow became brighter. “Fuck”

I should have stepped back, ran or push him back or something… But my feet wouldn’t move.

“Did you feel it?” He asked, his voice now sexier and naughtier. “The bond between us?”

I nodded, not trusting my voice.

July’s jaw clenched. He looked like he was fighting something internally, his hands flexing at his sides. “Tell me to stop imagining your body, Magdalene”

“What?”

“Tell me to stop and I will” his eyes finally met mine the intensity there made my knees weak. “Because if you don’t… I’ll do what we both want and will both regret”

My breath caught. This was my out. My chance to run back to my room and pretend this never happened.

But God help me, I didn’t want him to stop.

“I..” I swallowed hard. “I don’t want you to stop”

The words were barely out of my mouth before he closed the distance between us. His hand cupped my face, thumb brushing my cheek as he searched my eyes. “You’re sure about this? Because once I start, I don’t stop”

“July…” I breathed and somehow, his name on my lips was his cue.

He kissed me hard and desperate, liked he’d been starving for it. I gasped against his mouth and his tongue swept in, claiming and demanding. My hands found his chest feeling the heat that matched my own.

“Damn! You taste better than I imagined” he whispered against my lips.

“You imagined?” I managed to gasp out.

His laugh was dark, sexy. “You think I didn’t notice you watching us? Those little looks you thought we didn’t see?”

His hand slid down and grabbed my breasts. “I noticed Magdalene… I saw you”

He squeezed my nipple through my thin shirts. A gasp escaped my lips because I had no bra on!

“Fuck it. You’re so big!” he complemented, his thumb brushing over my nipples through the fabric.

“July…” I moaned, my head falling back.

“Say it again”

“July…” I whimpered, and felt him shudder against me then suddenly stopped, breathing heavily, and grabbed my hand.

“Grab it” His eyes pleaded, his hand commanding mine to his bulging cock. “Deal with it as you deem fit”

“I…” My hands had caught the 7 inch warm cock. I gasped because it felt so good, then he pulled my head and tried making me bend.

“Now be a good girl”

MAGDALENE’S POV.

I never thought I’d be on my knees, gagging on July’s cock at my first time.

I had little experience with males, I expected July to push me out for being clumsy but instead, he moaned my name and pulled my hair as he urged me to suck him faster.

A part of my mind kept whispering that this was wrong, but my other side loved this as hell.

When he came into my mouth, July gave me a kiss on the forehead. “Now, that’s how you be a good girl”

I forced a smile and hurried out of his room immediately.

I locked my door behind me and sank to the floor, my back against the wood.

The taste of him still coated the walls of my mouth, no matter how many times I swallowed, I couldn’t make it go away.

What had I done!?

I stumbled to the bathroom and rinsed my mouth three times, but it didn’t help. Nothing could erase him from my mind, and the way he’d groaned my name like I was the only thing keeping him alive.

The mate bond glowed brighter….

No. I had to sleep. I really needed to sleep. Perhaps all these would just be a dream, as it had always been.

My ringtone blared, jolting me awake from my dream of July.

I reached out to my bedside, where I normally take my phone every morning, but it wasn’t there.

‘Urrgh!’ I groaned as I remembered I’d dropped it on the table.

I grabbed my phone from the table without checking the screen.“Hello?”

“Marg where are you? I’ve been calling since forever!” Mum’s voice rang out.

I instantly snapped awake. “Mum?”

“Oh my, Magdalene! What were you doing?”

My heart thumped. What did she mean by what was I doing?

“I… I was sleeping and…”

She huffed impatiently. “Dammit, Moses just got a call that April got drunk at Nero Club”

I gulped hard. “So…??”

“So…?” Mum scoffed. “This is your chance! Before he called the other brothers, you go there and help him out!”

Panic seized my heart. “Mum I can’t just pick up a drunk guy from a club. What if he …”

“This is an opportunity to get close to him. Now, take a cab and pick April at Nero Club.” Mum finalized, and before I could protest, she ended the call.

I checked the time. It was 9: 00PM— which means I’d slept for the entire afternoon trying to forget what I’d done with July — what I’d let him do with me.

Twenty minutes later, I was showered and dressed, my hair still damp as I left my room..

If I didn’t heed what mum suggested, she would know, and seriously, I can’t deal with her anger. Not now, not ever.

July’s room was locked, and the other person at home was June, cutting laps in the pool.

I got out of the mansion within some minutes, trying my best not to think of July and luckily I got a cab that took me to Nero Club quickly too.

Getting there, I was astonished by the number of youths and people of my age clubbing. Bodies pressed together on the dance floor, and in some corners, some were shifting partially — eyes glowing, claws out, and others looked at me in a way that made my stomach churn.

I stopped for a moment. How was I supposed to find April in this kind of rowdy environment?

I tried calling Mum back, but her phone went straight to voicemail. This added to my perplexity, and I had no other option than to enter the main dance area.

“Hey,” Some males called. “Wanna fuck with me?”

I didn’t dignify him with a response. “Go fuck with your mother”

Usually, I didn’t mind the attention — it was flattering. But tonight, it felt suffocating. All I wanted was to find April and get him home.

I was on the verge of giving up when a hand suddenly tapped me from behind.

I whirled around, ready to tell another perv to fuck off, but it was April.

He staggered drunkenly. “Hey, pretty lady. Did you have a wolf?”

I heaved a sigh of relief. “I came to bring you back. Come with me please”

I reached out, trying to grab his hand but he brushed it away. “Am I ugly?”

Urghhh! How much I hated dealing with drunkards. But I smiled and still tried to get him. “You’re very handsome. No female can resist your charm, now can we go home?”

“No!” April snapped. “If I go back, I’ll have to sleep in that house knowing she’s there… I can’t fuckin touch her!”

Her? Which woman was at home? But I managed to put my arm over his shoulder and lead him to take some steps as I replied. “If you see her again, try to tell her your mind”

He suddenly stopped abruptly. “No! I can’t talk to her. May and July say she’s our sister!”

Wait. “What?” I looked at him shockingly. April was saying he had his eye on me and I was the ‘her’ he’s trying to avoid?

“No. Let’s get you home first” he must be saying these because he was drunk…

Through his other jargons, and staggering, we made it out of the club to the parking lot.

The parking lot lights were steady, unlike the purple and red club neon lighting in the club.

He pulled away from my grip to look at me. I didn’t flinch. Drunkenness might not let him know it’s me.

But I wasn’t so lucky. April gasped. “Marg… Magdalene?”

“You’re drunk let’s get you back home” I panicked but retained my stance.

His eyes shifted dramatically darker, and the drunkenness seemed to fade away. “Marg, it’s you?”

I stepped back. “April, let’s go home,” I warned, sensing some bad vibes. “I really have to get you back home!”

April stumbled forward and grabbed my hand, he reeked of whiskey and something else I couldn’t interpret that made my pulse spike and quicken my heartbeat.

“I get hard when I think of you” he slurred against my neck. “Every fucking night, it’s torture that I don’t get to make you moan my name”

Like what? I wanted to scream. These brothers aren’t normal. First, it was July, and now it’s April? Would I have been scared of them if I’d known they were this vulnerable?

I twisted my hand. “You’re talking nonsense, April. Let me go”

His grip was tight, and thankfully, a wall was nearby. He pinned me against it lustfully. “You’re more than my sister” he whispered.

“April…” I was about to say but the pull… I stopped and looked down at my hand, and just like earlier with July, the golden bond had appeared again.

My heart slammed as I watched the bond slowly trace its way to April’s wrist.

He also gasped as he saw this but smiled happily. “See. We’re mates”

“No” I whispered as if denial would stop the glow. “You can’t be my mate…again!”

Two mates. TWO. And both were my stepbrothers.

This wasn’t possible.. the bond was supposed to be scared, one person destined for you. Not… not this. Not multiples. Not brothers.

What the hell is happening to me!?

“April, reject it,” I pleaded immediately. “Reject this damn bond, April!!”

He laughed sadistically and approached me again. “Over my fuckin dead body will I reject you”

Before I could grasp anything, April was kissing my neck and whispering. “Huh… I’ve imagined this for days!”

A tear slipped free before I could stop it. ‘Why my stepbrothers?’

April’s kiss spread gradually to my chest. I pulled back this time. “No April. We can’t …”

“Says who?” he growled, cutting through my words as his hands ripped my shirt apart.

Thankfully I was wearing a bra now. But April bent down to my level and buried his face in my pushed-up breasts, his breath running down my whole body.

“April…”

He sniffed through my words. “Urggh. You smell fuckin so good…”

“But we have to…”

“Forget about home”

He lifted his head and bent down to pick me up in a bridal style into his car.

If I were told this was the same drunk guy from earlier, I would deny it.

He opened the backseat and dropped me there. Took a little effort to get on top of me, and for a moment, I could see his black wolf through his face and with those eyes…

He was hungry. Damn, so hungry for me, and despite everything, I wanted him to devour me. Even though I’d hate myself later.

MAGDALENE’S POV

“Fuck it” April cursed, as his hands pressed my breasts softly, and occasionally played with my nipples.

I couldn’t help it, I didn’t stop him, I moaned softly with each press and he loved it so much.

April had snapped from the drunk and emotional mess to a seductive charmer.

He bent his head and sucked my nipples ravishingly, making me wetter than I’d ever been.

“April…” I gasped as he moved over to the second breast to give the same treatment.

He moved from my breasts, back to my neck, nuzzling a particular spot then stopped. “I’m itching to mark you right now…”

Still gasping, I found myself surrendering. “Then do it…”

“…You don’t belong to me alone” he whispered. “A Gamma must never mark a mate that doesn’t belong to him alone”

But he pressed his lips onto mine and kissed me delightfully while his hand toyed with my nipple again.

“But I want to suck every corner of your body right now” he declared after the kiss and I submitted to him.

April’s mouth traveled down my body slowly, torturously. He kissed every inch of my stomach, my hips, the inside of my thighs. When he reached between my legs, I gasped his name.

He looked up at me with those dark eyes, his wolf barely contained. “Beg me”

“Please….” I whimpered.

And then his mouth was on me, and I couldn’t think anymore.

My thigh, then the sensitive spot between my legs…he suddenly stopped.

“I want more, Marg “ he whispered against my hair. “But not here…”

“…but…” I stopped.

He rose and pulled me out and help me adjust my dress, even though that, I wanted more! I just couldn’t say it and I didn’t ask before we left the parking lot.

I woke up to meet myself in the middle of the bed in my room, all alone.

Birds chirped outside while sunlight seeped in through the opened window.

I got up, and picked the phone to check time. “12PM!. 21 Missed calls from mum and 10 from Alpha Moses!!”

My heart seized with panic, I ran my hand through my hair, as I instantly dial mum, but she wasn’t picking up.

“Pick up!!!” I cried. Missing mum’s calls, Alpha Moses’s calls, something must have happened…

Both of them were unreachable, making me panic more.

My mind flashed to what happened yesterday between July, April and I. Could it be that mum has found out or…

No. I rushed toward the door. Either July or April would know something.

As I walked through the hallway towards July’s room, my mind was calculating … what would I tell mum if it’s true that she’s found out.

I stopped before July’s door since it’s the first room after mine.

I heaved prayerfully before knocking on the door steadily.

First knock, No answer and I wondered… was he masturbating again?

I shook my head immediately at that crazy thought and knocked again.

“Hello?” I heard beside me.

I stopped to see it was June, half naked, sweat covered his body, and his dressing showed he was coming from the gym.

“Oh. Hi”

His brows furrowed. “July and April left earlier today for some urgent business. Any problem?”

“Damn!!” I cursed aloud, making his frown deeper.

“Is there a problem?” June asked again.

I managed a smile. “No. No problems, I just wanted to ask…” I paused. Was June the right person to even ask if Mum or the Alpha called?

Despite my fear of my stepbrother, June and I rarely talked to each other or even meet. It was even rare to seen him talk to his brothers.

“Its’s nothing June” I quickly confessed. “I just wanted to ask if he has…” My voice was stuck again. Why did I…

“If he had what?” June pressed.

“If… if he had…had a razor” I said what came to my mouth in a rush.

June scrutinized me critically. His gaze sent me these kind of chills, that made me wonder what he would look like smiling.

“A razor?” He frowned. “Out of the blue why did you need a razor?”

Urghh!!! I wished he knew the kind of tight spot I’m in right now.

But still I couldn’t tell him, so I deepened the lie — just anything to get him off me. “A razor to shave my armpit and…and yunno”

He raised the corner of his lips slightly, almost a smile but he kept it.

“Alright fine. Come, I’ll get you one”

My heart tensed up. Follow him to his room too? What if…

He’d turned and took a step already but suddenly stopped and looked back abruptly. “Why are you smelling like that?”

Smelling? I raised my arm to catch which smell but I caught nothing. I looked up. “Smell like what?”

“You smell like July and April” he answered, his face now twisted up.

The tension automatically died down as he said this. “Oh. I was sent to pick April from the club and July… July…”

“Let’s go” he cut me off. “You don’t have to explain to me”

His attitude was very strange as well as annoying.

I went after him as his room was after my own. In the process, I kept dialing Mum but she was still unreachable and I kept my phone as soon as we got to his door.

He must really have trust issues given the way he pulled the key from his shorts pocket and unlocked the door.

As soon as I got into his room which was filled with gym equipments and sport aesthetics, he pointed to the bathroom. “I have a new razor in the toothbrush basket”

“H…Hun…” I scurried past him to the bathroom.

His bathroom wasn’t as big as mine but still took me a while to find the toothbrush basket and get the razor.

Just as I turned to exit, June was standing at door staring at me, denying my exit.

I was taken aback… “What…What happened?”

“Why are you smelling like July and April? He snapped almost in a stoic tone.

I blinked. Why was he asking the question again. “But I answered at the hallway that…”

He stepped away from the door and walked towards me. “We both know that’s a lie, dear sister”

I bit my lip. He’d caught me. But how could I tell him about the mate bond?

He reached out and grabbed the razor. “You don’t even need this so why taking it?”

Just as his skin made this little contact with mine, the casual mate bond sparked into ignition again…

“This is insane” I whispered. “Not anymore”

June also froze, his entire body going rigid. For a long moment, he just stared at the golden thread connecting us.

‘Fuck’ he growled. It was the first time I’d ever see him curse.

“June, I…”

“Don’t!” He held up a hand. “Just…give me a second to process this”

He turned away, running both hands through his hair. I could see the tension in his shoulders, the way his wolf was pushing at the surface.

Finally, he turned back. “July and April are also your mates, right?”

I nervously nodded.

“This is not possible” He agreed. “But first we must find out why…”

The vibration from my phone interrupted it. I checked and it was mum.

Adrenaline rushed to my body. “Excuse me” I plead and slipped out of the bathroom to the room.

The beat of my chest felt as if a drum was placed there as I hurriedly asked. “Mum…”

“What happened to you? You aren’t picking my calls!” she screamed.

“I… I was sleeping”

I could hear Alpha Moses’s voice in the background. I still don’t know the reason for the calls but waited until she replied. But she was engrossed in the conversation I didn’t understand.

“Mu…Mum?”

“Oh yes….” She paused again. “Marg let’s talk later. Our flight is ready, we’re coming back home” Then she ended the call.

My heart slammed. Coming back home?