Roman
When Flynn comes back from his shift he doesn’t say shit about me hoarding Anna against the wall in my arms. He lays in a free spot in the middle of the bed after waking up the next two to take their shifts patrolling the area we’ve claimed for ourselves.
When morning comes everyone is silent around the table. Flynn is snarling to himself as he waits for me talk. Because they already know it’s coming. After what they did to her last night , they didn’t deserve her. Maybe I didn’t either. No, I definitely didn’t deserve her. But I wasn’t set on ruining her either.
Anna cries when it all finally errupts. Seven men arguing with one another and fists hitting tables. Flynn telling me to take my whore and leave if I didn’t want to stick to the fucking rules. A few of them say we all need to calm down a bit and talk again later. A few saying we should vote on whether or not I get to stay. Hawk is silent and that just pisses me off even more. He doesn’t pick a side even though I know he doesn’t want me gone.
“Get over it , you’re all done with her and I’ll fucking kill anyone that fucking touches her.” I growl and Flynn glares at me.
“Not if we kill you first” he threatens and my jaw clenches as Anna sits there crying and her eyes darting back and forth between everyone.
“I’ll make your little bitch watch and then rape her over your dead body. Use your blood as lube when I fuck her in the ass” Flynn grins at her as Anna whimpers.
“Would you like that bitch?” Flynn snarls at her.
“Enough.” Hawk finally speaks up.
“It’s your own damn fault it came to this. What the fuck did you expect would happen after you all fucking did that to her?”
“Shut up and suck Romans cock since you’re already down there with your nose up his fucking ass.” Flynn growls at Hawk.
There’s more arguing and yelling and threats from Flynn. The others argue too, but at least they’re not threatening me or Anna.
“Let’s go” I say and stand and hold out my hand for Anna.
“I want my meat.” Flynn says.
Meaning Anna. As if we didn’t just argue for an hour about the fact he wouldn’t be laying a fucking finger on her.
“It’s my fucking day. I want the whore.” He says and stands. Anna pushes into my side and hides her face in my chest. My arm goes around her.
“I dare you to come take her from me. Go ahead. And see what fucking happens.” I say to him as everyone watches us just stare one another down.
Then I move with Anna , taking her with me.
Me, Brandt, Hawk and Anna go down to the river for cleaning up and to wash the sheets that they fucking raped her on last night. I try not to fucking storm back to the cabin when I see spots of blood on them. I’d take. Her virginity. They’d just fucked her hard enough to make her bleed. I wanted to kill them all. And Flynn the most.
The rest of them are gone and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried about the state of things right now. Worried about the others teaming up against us to overthrow my decision of keeping Anna all to myself.
I knew it’d probably be better to come to some fucking compromise, but right now I was too fucking livid to consider it. Having ONE fucking woman, in the middle of the wilderness among seven men, it wasn’t right to deny them. But it wasn’t right what they did to her. Whether she agreed to exchange her body for safety or not. They hasn’t held their end of the bargain. They’d fucking taken her all at once. Brutally enough that there was god damn blood on the bed sheets. So It’s up to me make sure it doesn’t happen again. To keep her safe like I promised I would.
She quiet at the river. We all are. I don’t miss the way Brandt doesn’t take his eyes off her body as we wash up in the river. Hawk doesn’t either. Anna is fucking stunning. If a man closes his eyes and pictures the perfect woman, he sees her. Yet. She wasn’t a woman. She was only seventeen. But I’d made her one anyways.
I lift one of my shirts for her after her skin is dry from us all standing in the sun or lounging in the grass while we dried off. All of us just looking around or off into the distance and not saying a god damn word.
She lifts her arms and I slide it down over her and she looks up at me.
She blinks and keeps looking at me and I lift my hand behind her head and lean down and press a kiss to her forehead.
“Youre safe with me Little Anna” I remind her and she swallows and nods , my lips brushing her forehead and I press another kiss to them.
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Two days later.
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It’s clear there’s still a divide between the house. The bit of worry I had about them doing anything stupid has dissolved mostly. But they’re still pissed about not being allowed near Anna.
I haven’t touched her other than to kiss her before bed last night. And I was grateful for the way her mouth moved against mine to kiss me back.
She’s talked less since the morning where everyone went off the rails. She’s always with either myself , Hawk or Brandt. When I was on patrol with Brandt last few nights I was sweating the entire fucking time thinking about the possibility that they all might hang up on her again and Hawk , the fucking asshole, would let them just do it again. I should just change up the patrol groups, but I didn’t want to let on that I was worried about them taking advantage of her when it was only Hawk with her. Because if they didn’t already have that idea in their head. I definitely didn’t want to put it there. I’m sure they’ve thought about. And I’m sure Flynn has probably tried to convince the other to do it. But Flynn is the only one of us with a few fucking screws loose. And it only became more evident when we made it out here at the start of the epidemic. Then it was crystal fucking clear when Anna came.
When I walk into the bedroom after patrol I find her cuddled up to Hawk. The last few times, I found her pressed to the wall away from him. She hasn’t said it, but I knew she was mad at him for not protecting her against what happened. But it looks like they’ve made up.
Brandt wakes up the next two and we both climb into the bed and he slides in behind Hawk and I slide next to the wall behind Anna. Her little body stirs and my hand slides to her hip and I give a gentle tug and she turns over from cuddling up to Hawk and into me instead.
I know Hawk wakes up because I see his eyes open and staring at the back of her head. Then they’re on my eyes and I just stare at him. Silently conveying that it’s his fault and how can he blame her for preferring my arms instead of his? He shifts and turns the way and I press a kiss ontop of Anna’s head. She lifts her head and presses a kiss to my jaw and then tucks her head back under my chin and falls back asleep.