Page 14 of Untamed Monster

“Your brother can take care of himself,” Dad said calmly, and now I understood why Sabbath’s college choice was being allowed. It was because of Dad, and Pops would give Dad nearly anything he wanted. “And we’re all going to support his decision, understand?”

“But—” Wraith started.

“I said we’re going to support his decision,” Dad repeated, his tone ringing with finality. “We have let you boys do what you want, even if it might have nearly cost this family everything.” He shot pointed looks at us quadruplets. I tightened my arm around Rain instinctively. Rain would have never outed our family because it meant they lost access to me.

And Rain was addicted to having me near.

“I don’t like this,” I said, looking at Sabbath. “Anything we can do to change your mind? I don’t like you away from the family.”

Sabbath shot me a sickly-sweet smile, being his regular bratty self. “Awe, you care, Vargas?”

I scowled. “We all care, Sabbath. College is a whole different ball game. Are you prepared for that?”

Sabbath scowled. “I’m not fucking weak.”

I rolled my eyes at his dramatics. “Never said you were⁠—”

Rain squeezed my arm, and I looked down at them, frowning. They shook their head. “Let him be,” he whispered. Turning their head, they smiled at Sabbath. “I’m happy for you, Sabbath. I think you’re going to love college. Where did you decide?”

Sabbath beamed, happy to have someone on his side. I sighed, irritated Rain had disagreed with me. But I’d never let them know that when they were in this state. Instead, I just dropped a kiss to the top of their head and grabbed the cookie, feeding them a bite.

“Harvard,” Sabbath proudly announced.

I swung my gaze to him, genuinely surprised. Onyx dropped his fork. Wraith damn near choked. Ike just… sat there, always more robot than human.

Pops was smug as fuck because even if he truly didn’t want Sabbath going far away from home, his son being accepted to Harvard was still something to brag about.

“Congrats,” I said, meaning it. “If it’s Harvard, then… fuck yeah. Go, bro. And if anyone fucks with you…”

He rolled his eyes, but he was smiling. “I know. Call home.”

I nodded once. Rain snuggled back into me. I tightened my arm around them and set us to swing once more.

Epilogue

Rain

“Raindrop, I need you to wake up.”

I moaned in protest and pulled the pillow over my head. It felt like I’d fallen asleep only mere minutes ago. My body was sore, and I was exhausted in only the way Vargas was capable of making me. After he spent hours taking me apart and fucking me every which way he could get me, I’d literally passed out after the final orgasm.

Wait.

I slowly pulled the pillow off my head and rolled onto my back to look up at my husband. Rubbing my eyes, I sat up and yawned, wincing at the pain in my back. “Why are you up?” I croaked.

After nearly a year together, I knew it wasn’t like Vargas to leave the bed when I’d hit subdrop. He stayed, and he didn’t budge unless he either had to use the bathroom and absolutely couldn’t hold it a second longer, or I was waking up and he wanted to hydrate, feed, and bathe me.

“I have a surprise for you,” Vargas said, his grin maniacal. My frown only deepened because how did he have a surprise for me? A glance at the clock on the nightstand showed I really had been asleep for only about thirty minutes. Fuck. What the hell did he have up his sleeve?

“Can it wait until morning?” I complained. I loved surprises, especially ones Vargas gave me. But I was tired and just wanted sleep and cuddles.

“Not really, no. Pops won’t hold onto it that long.”

What?

“What does your pops have to do with this?” I was too tired to try to piece anything together. My eyeballs were practically throbbing, and I had half a mind to throw a fit to get my way. Vargas would cave eventually if I did, I was pretty sure. It might earn me a spanking—and not the fun kind—but more sleep would definitely be worth it.

“I couldn’t have gotten this without him,” Vargas said. “Just come on, raindrop. I’ll even dress you. I have a chocolate milk and your favorite gummy bears waiting for you in the car. You can eat, drink, and nap on the way, okay?”