Free Van, Becca - Alpha Panthers [Terra-form 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Becca van Page A

grazed, red skin around her ankles.
    April tried to push his hands away, but he just gave them a slight admonishing tap and kept up his perusal. She was about to push him away again but was stopped as Ben came up to her and Saxon’s side. He took her hands into his own larger ones and studied her raw palms. She flinched when Gage and Saxon growled loudly and Ben let out a large roar of his own. She tried to cover her fear by struggling to be free again. She turned her head away from them, and that was when she noticed the group of men scowling at her from a few feet away. God, was she never able to do anything right? It didn’t matter what she did or didn’t do, she was the one everyone seemed to blame. Well, maybe she should just let them. Why the hell should she care what anyone else thought of her, or believed her to be guilty of? She had done nothing wrong. They were the ones who had betrayed her, and Gage was the worse culprit of them all.
    April was at the end of her tether, and to find the group of men scowling at her, as well, was the last straw. She had never even met them, so why should they be so pissed at her? They had no justification as far as she was concerned. She pulled her hands away from Ben, kicked her legs, and wiggled until she began to slide down Saxon’s body to the ground. He released her when her bare feet hit the ground and took a step back from her when she scowled at him and then Gage and Ben.
    “I am not going back with you. You are going to help me get back to my own home,” April yelled at the men standing in front of her. She had to tilt her head back quite a ways so she could see their eyes. She was getting a pain in her neck but was not about to show any sign of weakness. She was going to let them have it with both barrels until they knew how displeased she was with them, especially Gage.
    “No, we are not. You are our mate. You will live in our home and do as you are told,” Gage rapped out.
    “Why the fucking hell should I? You don’t trust me at all, do you? Why should I take orders or listen to you, when you don’t want to hear anything I have to say? You are such a fucking hypocrite. I don’t even like you. None of you have done anything to gain my trust or given me your trust in return. All you want is someone you can fuck then discard when you’ve finished. Well, I am not going to be used that way. I will not be a convenient receptacle for your seed. I am not a broodmare. You can go back to your precious Vanessa and fuck her all you want. I think if you ever touch me again I would be physically sick.” April was gasping for breath when she finally finished her tirade. She had been so full of anger at their treatment of her, which had made her ire consume her and take over. She couldn’t actually remember what she had just said, but knowing herself, it hadn’t been pleasant.
    “How did you know we had been with Vanessa before we found you?” Saxon asked quietly.
    “Oh, so now you’re interested in what happened with that bitch. I don’t know whether I should give you the satisfaction of answering you, but maybe if I do you will understand how I work. I would never, ever hurt anyone without provocation. That bitch had great delight in telling me that you belonged to her. She said I was nothing, because I wasn’t even from your plane. When I didn’t retaliate or even answer her back, she grabbed a handful of my hair and spat in my face. Of course, now I know she deliberately provoked me into retaliating, and that is what you caught me doing when you found me standing over that vicious bitch with her hair in my hand. You didn’t even ask me what was wrong,” April yelled when Gage nodded his head, contradicting her. “You asked me what in God’s name I thought I was doing, then you crushed my wrist under your hand, using your brute strength to get me to let go of that bitch. You comforted her, and while she was crying those crocodile tears to get your sympathy,