lube and applied a tiny squiggle on my palm before stepping in.
I felt him against me as I moved closer, my hands shaking as I avoided his hand, and then closed my fingers over his knot.
He let out a strangled groan, his free hand slapping down on my shoulder, holding me where I was, but I wasn’t going anywhere. I hoped like hell I could explain this to Jai, that it wouldn’t kill anything between us, but I couldn’t stand to watch this. There was something so fucking lonely and mean about longing for someone your whole life and then being forced to jerk off in front of them. And while I was going to try and blame it on the mood or this place or whatever, I felt a flush of heat wash through me.
“Shannon…” Caleb rasped as I caressed the taut lump, “sweetheart…”
I stared into those eyes as I tightened my grip, slowly squeezing, then releasing, then squeezing again. His mouth curved around until it hovered over mine.
“Yes, yes, just like that. Don’t stop.”
I heard Jai’s desperate pleas in his voice, but before I could get too far down that rabbit hole, Nero surged forward with the specimen jar. Caleb’s hand went around the other man’s wrist, jerking it closer and the jar with it.
“That’s it, sugar. So close…”
I watched Nero’s eyes go wide as Caleb thrust his dick into the jar, forcing him to hold it still as the wolf shifter began to twitch. I squeezed harder, faster, pressing down with the palm of my hand, until he let out three short pants and then that was it.
There was a curious kind of intimacy to the moment as Nero and I were attendants to Caleb’s pleasure, soothing him through the waves that shook him, watching his dick shoot over and over and over into the receptacle. An intimacy that was somehow lost when the final shudder came. The silver in the wolf shifter’s eyes receded, and he saw me for the first time.
“Fuck…” He jerked back, leaving Nero to take care of the jar, screwing the lid on and putting it to one side. “Fuck, Shannon. I am so—”
“Don’t,” I said, shaking my head for emphasis and kept on shaking it. My view of the tiles below swung back and forth as I fought to keep my head still. I backed away, just like he was, and felt better the minute my feet moved so I kept on doing it. I walked out of the bathroom, out of Caleb’s cage, away from the scent of pine and wood fires which now clogged my nose, and into the open area between the cages.
“Hollingsworth!” I shouted at the top of my lungs. I repeated the name, over and over, until my voice began to crack.
“Shan, love. What’s up?” Jai said, pressing himself against the glass. “Shan? Talk to me.”
I didn’t. I just waited until I heard the clatter on the stairs, then walked over to the wall closest to them.
“Who they hell are you to shriek at me like a fishwife?!”
“I can’t do this,” I said, cutting through the fuckhead’s bluster. “Not on your schedule. I can get your samples but—”
“But?” He looked about himself with an irritated air. “But? There’s no but here, only done or not done, and from my observations, you’re half done.” He dug around in his pocket theatrically, extricating his fucking zapper. “Do I need to incentivise you?”
“Do I need to incentivise you?” I shot back. “You want to use that sperm to impregnate, right? I assume me first.” He watched me coolly from behind the glass, but his lack of reaction was heartening. “You said I have to come to get pregnant.”
“Shannon…” Jai growled, his hand slapping down on the wall. “You don’t need to do this.”
“You don’t want samples so much as their sperm inside me.”
“Oh, fuck yes,” Zane interrupted.
“Let me take things at my own pace. You’ve watched me and how far I’ve gotten. I can’t make myself have sex with these men, as well as be multi-orgasmic at your say so. You can electrocute all of us over and over, but still no baby. Do you want me pregnant or not?”
I knew I’d won when I saw the muscle in his jaw flex, but what kind of victory was this really?
“I’ll get at least one sample from one of the guys a day, and you’ll get at least one from each guy before the end of the week.”
A faint growl