Virgil [Marius Brothers 8] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour ManLove) by Joyee Flynn

friend needs help and that’s why I called and now things have gotten out of hand and I need your guidance and wisdom.”
    There was a pause. “Is it his son you’ve mated?”
    “Don’t you dare tell her that,” Virgil hissed, rolling over and giving me a death look. But of course, opening his mouth had the opposite effect because the Queen could hear everything probably.
    “I’ll find Desmond and Elena and we’ll be there shortly,” Queen Magdalena told me. “We’ll fix this, Mareo. Whatever you have done cannot be so bad that he can’t forgive you. We will fix this.”
    “Thank you, my Queen.” She disconnected the call and I turned to face a pissed-off Virgil and a freaked-out Foma. “I wasn’t going to tell her. I just brought up the despelling of blood because she would have to be here for that and it was the best reason to get her here so they could hear everything you came up with on what’s been going on.”
    He narrowed his eyes at me. “Like I could believe a word you said after you drugged your own mate .” Foma gasped as Virgil leapt out of bed and headed to the bathroom. “Get out of my room and get ready for the company we have coming. I don’t ever want to speak to either of you again.”
    “Virgil, please,” I begged as I scrambled to my feet and hugged him from behind. “I’m sorry. It was my idea and it was just supposed to be a little bit to get you to open up. You were so scared around us and we were sure you were our mate and we panicked when we heard you were leaving in a few days and yet you couldn’t even be around us. We didn’t know about your addiction and we never meant to have those effects.”
    He shoved me off of him and stared at me in horror. “I don’t remember telling you that I thought I was addicted. Now you’re going to tell everyone that. You’re obviously not trustworthy.”
    “No, we wouldn’t ever tell a soul or betray our mate like that,” Foma assured him, moving next to me.
    “No, you’d just loosen him up with some werewolf blood so I’d be horny and needy but not a big enough bastard to seek out help from others than my mates when they were here,” he snapped. I winced as he got it exactly right. He stormed into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
    “He’ll calm down,” I whispered as I moved to pick up my clothes. We needed to get out of there before he came back. Upsetting him any more right then would be the worst thing possible. “He’s under a lot of pressure and with whatever is going on with his family he feels alone and now like we betrayed him. We couldn’t have known that. He’ll see that we’re on his side and want him for who he is. He’ll come around.”
    “Except he’s not staying here but a few days,” Foma reminded me as we quickly dressed before leaving.
    “Then we’ll have to follow him. Even if that means leaving our jobs and lives here and taking up service to the Queen, we have to show Virgil he’s worth whatever sacrifice to us.” I paused after we were in our room and pulled Foma into my arms. “I’m sorry, my love. I thought I knew what I was doing. I thought this would work. I thought this would give us our mate.”
    “I thought so too,” he sighed. “It was risky but we couldn’t have known all this extra stuff or that we would give him too much. We know the truth about him being our mate and have claimed him. We’ll just have to do whatever we need to to show him we’re worthy of him now. We can do this.”
    “We can.” I gave him a soft kiss, loving how Foma melted against me when I was tender with him like this… Even after all our years together. “We need to get ready for the Queen and pack a few bags in case we need to leave in haste.”
    “You shower first then because we never behave when we shower together,” he joked, giving me his best attempt at a smile.
    “Luckily we heal so fast or I’d still be sore from the fucking our mate gave me,” I chuckled.
    “He’s an