Chapter 36
Arabella woke as warm lips engulfed her nipple and a hand cupped her pussy.
With a gasp, she glanced around, then down to find it was Eli’s mouth on her nipple.
He looked up at her. “Good morning, Sleeping Beauty. I was going to wake you with my mouth on your pussy, but we hadn’t discussed if me touching you while you were asleep was something you would or wouldn’t like.”
“I don’t . . . I don’t know. This was nice, so I guess I would.”
“I’ll remember that.” He drew the covers back and she realized that she’d gone to sleep naked.
“Thank God the fire alarm never went off,” she said.
He raised his eyebrows at her.
“I would have to rush around finding clothes in the middle of the night,” she explained. “Sorry, I know it’s a weird fear.”
“Not weird. It’s a good point. But we’d always keep you safe. Now, Kellan and Horse have gone for a run so I thought we would have our own workout.” He started kissing his way down her body and she reached for him, running her fingers through his hair.
“Uh-uh, no touching me,” he ordered. “This morning is all about you.”
All about her?
She wasn’t sure how she felt about that.
“But I want to touch you.”
“Not this morning. Put your hands up above your head.”
She raised her hands above her head and tried to find something to hold onto as he tortured her slowly with his tongue and lips and even his teeth.
By the time he drew away from her body, staring down at her, she was a trembling, panting mess.
“Please, please,” she cried.
“Shh, baby. Soon.” He returned his mouth to her pussy. licking her with light flicks of his tongue before moving his tongue faster and driving fingers inside her.
Again, he took her to the edge and drew away.
“No!” she cried, moving her hand down to her pussy. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do. She just knew that she had to come.
“Uh-uh. Did I give you permission to move your hands?” he scolded. “Do I have to tie you up?”
Oh hell.
“Yes!” she cried.
He stilled. “Are you sure?”
There was no way she could stop herself from touching him without help, so she nodded desperately. “Please, please.”
“All right, naughty girl. Just hold on.” He left the bed and walked to the closet, returning with two belts. Then he used them to secure her wrists to the slats of the headboard.
“Don’t tug on them too hard,” he warned. “They could bruise your skin. I don’t have my play bag with me.”
Holy moly.
What was a play bag? Actually, maybe it was best she didn’t know.
“What’s your safeword?” he asked her.
“Red,” she replied.
“Good girl. Now, you’re not going to come without permission, do you understand?”
Was he kidding her?
“I don’t think I can do that,” she said.
“Of course you can,” he said. “You can do anything.”
Damn. All right. Maybe she could.
Then he returned to torturing her. She tugged on the belts around her wrists, then stopped as she realized what she was doing. Her heart was racing and she didn’t think she was going to last as he drove her higher and higher.
Then he pulled back
Killing her.
He was killing her.
“Noo,” she cried as he leaned over to get something out of the bedside drawers.
“Shh, baby. Just getting a condom.” He slid it onto his firm cock.
Ohh. All right. She could wait. He moved over her, resting his weight on his hands as he kissed her. The kiss was fierce. It was a claiming.
And she met that claim with her own, kissing him back just as fiercely.
Then he started pushing his way inside her and she moaned. It was heaven and hell.
Torture and tantalizing pleasure.
He drove in deep, moving back and forth.
Fast then slow.
Carefully, then with hard thrusts that threatened to send her over that edge.
Finally, he reached between them to play with her clit. “Come, baby. Come for me.”
She didn’t need much more encouragement to fall over the edge, her entire body shaking as her cries filled the room. His own moans overpowered hers as he drove himself deep and came with a final thrust.
“Are you sure your wrists are all right?” Eli asked.
Kellan reached over and grabbed a hand, inspecting it as they finished their breakfast at the hotel. They really needed to sort out some accommodation because she was growing tired of hotel food.
“I’m fine.” She could feel herself blushing.
Horse was sitting on her feet and he let out a huff as though in disagreement.
Horse and Kellan had returned just as Eli was undoing the belt from around her wrists.
Then the three of them shared a shower. And, damn, she was going to find it hard to walk straight today.
“I need to go see Ravina this morning,” she announced. “But first I want to go to the house and see if everything is all right.”
They shared a look.
“I need to go back. Mrs. Taylor is letting me cancel the rental agreement without penalty, but I have to make sure everything is clean.”
“I told you that we took care of it,” Eli said.
“I want to check. Please. I would feel better.”
Kellan sighed and nodded. “All right. Then we have dinner at Duncan’s.”
That part was the thing she was most nervous about. Meeting the rest of their brothers.
“Don’t stress about going to see our brothers,” Eli told her. “They will love you.”
“What makes you think that?” she asked.
“Because you’re lovable,” Eli said.
“And we’ll make them,” Kellan added.
Great. Just great.
She stared around the house as she walked through it. The few things that had survived the rampage had belonged to Mrs. Taylor.
Nothing of hers had survived. But, thankfully, she hadn’t owned anything she truly cared about. The stuff that had hurt the most was her baking gear and laptop.
But she could replace all of that. At the moment she was using Iona’s baking equipment. However, she was going to buy her own once she got some more money saved up.
Her phone rang and she was surprised to see Pop-Pop’s name on the screen.
“Pop-Pop?” she asked. “Everything okay?”
Eli turned to glance at her but she smiled and walked outside. There wasn’t anything that needed to be done in the house.
“Just checking on you, my girl. I hadn’t heard from you in a few days.”
“Shoot, sorry,” she said.
“Anything to report? Have they found who broke into your place? Where are you staying?”
“No, they haven’t found them. And that deputy I was telling you about? The one who was a dick? Well, he’s disappeared. Oh, and I’ve got a new friend who is letting me bake in her café like Wilma did. Until we find a place.”
“We?” he boomed. “Who is this we?”
“Oh, well, me and my two boyfriends.” She glanced over at Eli and Kellan who had followed her out. Eli was locking up while Kellan and Horse stayed with her. In the distance she could see Abe walking toward them.
“Two boyfriends?” Her grandfather boomed with laughter. “Well, the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree, did it?”
She had to smile at that. “I guess it didn’t. Still got your two lady friends?”
“More than that, I have a third now.”
“Pop-Pop! How can you keep up with three girlfriends?”
“They keep me young. Hey, maybe we’ll move to your town and I can add some more.” He was still laughing when she ended the call.
Abe waved over to her and she moved toward him, Kellan, Eli, and Horse following.
“Hi, Abe, are you all right?”
“I’m good, dear.”
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“Yeah, yeah. All this fuss over me.” He waved a hand through the air. “I’m fine. But I don’t want him worrying.”
She nodded at his grouchy reply. She knew this was likely hard.
“Thing is, this home has been in my family a long time and my nephew doesn’t want to move in, but I don’t want to sell it to strangers. How about you three buy it?”
His question was blunt and it took her a moment to realize what he was saying.
He wanted them to buy his beautiful house? She sucked in a breath. “That’s such a kind thought, but I don’t know if we could afford it.”
“How much were you thinking?” Eli asked suddenly. She hadn’t realized he’d joined them.
Abe named a sum that seemed way beyond her capabilities. Disappointment filled her.
“You want this house?” Kellan asked her as Eli spoke to Abe.
“I love the house. But it’s too much money.”
“We’ll take it,” Kellan said. “After an inspection.”
Shocked, she gaped up at him. Then over at Eli who was smiling and nodding.
“Inspection won’t find anything. Solid house, this is.”
Abe left and she was still staring at her men in shock. “You can’t . . . why . . . don’t you want . . . I mean . . . what just happened?”
“We just bought a house,” Eli told her, drawing her close to his chest. Kellan moved in behind her. “We’re going to have a home.”
“One you want, right?” Kellan asked
“I love that house . . . but that happened so quickly. What about the two of you? What you want? Can we afford it?”
“We can afford it. Money isn’t something you need to worry about. In fact, we need to have a discussion about your car. The one you have isn’t safe.”
“My car is fine.” She shook her head. “This is all crazy. Are you really sure this is what you want? I don’t want you to do this for me and then regret it.”
“We won’t regret it,” Kellan said.
“The two of us will always be happy wherever you are,” Eli told her.
“Although we’ll be putting in better security. And we need to find out where those noises and lights came from.”
This was nuts.
And yet, it was everything she’d ever wanted.
Maybe she’d had to suffer through hell to get the life she’d always desired.
But it seems it might just have been worth it.