Charming the Alphas (Hex My Heart, #5) by Talina Perkins

We’re grown men and can handle ourselves in a fight.”
    Goddesses, if they didn’t look like chocolate to a PMSing woman. She could lick every part of their bodies and still want more. That’s enforcers for you. Thinking everything comes down to brute strength. She almost rolled her eyes.
    “What we can’t handle is you in danger.” Zane settled on her right, elbows braced on his knees and gaze locked on her. “Baby girl, sooner or later you can tell us about what happened tonight. But right now, I think we have more pressing issues at hand.”
    The way they surrounded her, infused her with their strength and pegged her with those scarlet eyes, she almost believed everything would turn out just fine. Her breath came faster and her knee started to bounce. Lucian reached out first, but she pulled out of his reach. If he touched her, she’d jump both of them. Not one piece of clothing would keep her from fucking her men until none of them had a drop left to give. That had her cheeks flushing.
    Both men eased off the sofa, took a knee and briefly glanced at each other as if agreeing on some kind of secret. Lucian palmed her hand first and then Zane.
    “Marabelle Lucrecia Winters...” Lucian started, his tone soft yet firm. Oh, he invoked the power of her full name. Now there was no way out.
    Zane carried on from there, “Will you be our mate for now and forever? Will you carry our mark and be our lover?”
    Yes. Yes. Take me now. I don’t care how or where.
    “Our friend, our witch for life?” they asked in unison.
    Oh my goddesses. Words could make her peak. Her eyes widened. That link Lucian had talked about zinged to life and jolted her straight in the heart with an amazing amount of love. She swallowed several times and still she couldn’t find the words to answer how much she wanted to say yes.
    She’d died twice tonight. Only there was no coming back a second time. Because when love took over you never wanted to come back from the brink of happiness. You wanted to fall in, let it take you away. Far, far away where nothing evil could ever taint the pureness of something so special.
    She smiled and opened her mouth to answer and that’s when her heart lurched against her chest and the world turned crimson.

CHAPTER SIX
    S he slowly let her eyes drift closed. For an inexplicable moment, she ceased to exist. An empty void where nothing survived swallowed her as if she stepped out of her body and nothing felt the same. Smell, touch, even words held no real meaning.
    Inside, she felt everything. Possessive, passionate need. Love and denial. Anger. They all mixed and collided together in a furious ball of energy until her true vision saw nothing but a sea of angry red.
    Marabelle’s chest heaved, but she couldn’t pull in the sweet air her lungs begged for.
    Fingers tightened around her. Everything gradually came back into focus.
    “Marabelle.” Lucian held her hand, but Zane didn’t wait. In one swoop he had her in his arms and pinned against this chest in a warm embrace.
    Nose to nose, he held her gaze. “If we don’t do this now we could lose you and that would kill us both.”
    “No, wait,” she pleaded.
    “Baby girl, we can’t. You have to see that.”
    That wasn’t what she meant. Looking between both men, her words rushed out. “I don’t want either of you to do something you’ll regret. What if something happens to me?”
    “We meant every word we said. There’s no doubt on our part.” The unasked question hung in the air between them. Cupping her face, she stilled and allowed Zane to feel the warmth of their connection and the love she had for them. Slowly she leaned in and with every inch she closed everything turned trivial. There were no dragons, no High Council or schemes to uncover. No weird magick books or anything wrong with her. There was just her and her men.
    Slowly. Deliberately. Zane dissolved the inch of space left until not even air could fit between them.
    Hades on fire,