Chapter Fifty-Three #2
I don’t realize my feet are moving to return to her until I’m already standing in front of her, cupping her cheeks and using my thumbs to wipe away her tears.
I stay with her until the rush of hormones settle and then I kiss her forehead when she quiets.
“It’s cool,” I finally say before I let her go to leave and hunt down her fries and ice cream.
By some miracle, I actually find pistachio-flavored ice cream, and then I return to her hilltop mansion to watch in horror as she sprays cheese on top of the ice cream like whipped cream while shoveling fires inside her mouth.
“I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m scared,” Seth says after he and Thorin join us by the pool where Aurelia was sunning herself when I returned.
She’s got on a two-piece bathing suit now, and her hair is pinned in a high bun as she lounges on one of the patio chairs.
I’m sitting on the one next to her with my legs thrown over the side and my arms braced on my thighs as I watch her dip a fry inside the cheese and ice cream and then devour it one bite.
“It’s so good,” Aurelia moans.
“We’ll just have to take your word for it,” Thorin retorts as he watches her stab the ice cream with a spoon and then lick it clean.
Aurelia grins like she knows she’s grossing us out, and it brings her even more joy.
The baby seems to like it too if the way her stomach changes shape, the skin rippling and bubbling from his excited kicks, is anything to go by.
His…
It’s when I realize I don’t even know the sex. There are a million questions I have, but my broken heart won’t let me ask any of them. I don’t want her back, I whisper to myself. I don’t want her back, I don’t want her back, I don’t want her back.
Maybe if I say it enough times, I’ll start to believe it.
The door to the guest bedroom creaks open the next night, and not one to be caught slipping, it wakes me immediately, but I pretend to still be asleep as I listen to the soft footsteps pad across the room until the visitor is standing by my bedside.
I peek an eye open with one hand under my pillow, but when I see Aurelia standing there wearing nothing but a gray grunge graphic T-shirt from Thorin as if we’re back at the cabin, I release the gun hidden there.
“What’s up?” I ask groggily as I roll over and rub my eyes. “Why aren’t you sleeping, Goldilocks? Something wrong?”
My room overlooks the pool on the first floor, so the light from the pool casts a soft glow inside the room allowing me to see her shattered expression.
“I need your help again,” she says shyly. Before I can ask her what’s wrong, she reaches out in the dark and fumbles for my hand. I close mine around hers the moment I feel her soft, slender fingers in mine, and then she’s tugging my hand toward her.
I think she’s about to tell me something’s wrong with the baby until she not-so-shyly slips my hand between her thighs, forcing me to feel the juices gathered there. “Aurelia… Where are your panties, baby?”
“I lost them,” she whispers as I play with her pussy. She’s fucking soaked.
“I know you hate me,” she sobs as I explore her lower lips with my fingers. “I know I don’t deserve it, but please. Just this once. I need you.”
Grabbing her waist without a word, I pull her onto the bed, twisting to plant Aurelia on her back inside the cradle of the pillows and blankets. “Are you sure?” I ask, knowing it’s the hormones that brought her to me. “You might regret it in the morning.”
Aurelia places her hand on my cheek. “The only thing I regret is leaving you.”
My gaze drops down to her stomach, and I place a trembling hand on the side when I realize I want to believe her. “So what are we having? Do you know?”
“A boy,” she answers immediately. I crack a grin that makes her smile too, like my excitement is infectious. “Yeah, I thought you might like that.”
“A girl would have been cool too.”
She rolls her eyes, her tone disbelieving. “Yeah right.”
“Nah, I’m serious,” I say honestly. “It wouldn’t have mattered because she would’ve been mine.”
Aurelia beams at that. “That’s cute. Thorin said the same thing when I told him.”
“Wait…” I stare down at her accusingly. “You told Thorin about the baby and not me?”
Goldilocks gives me a dry look. “He asked.”
“And let me guess, Seth knows too.”
“Of course,” she answers lightly. “Seth asked the first night you guys arrived.”
Damn, I was the last to know, and it’s my own fucking fault for being stubborn. I’m stuck in my head when Aurelia starts squirming impatiently. “Khalil,” she whines. “Are you going to fuck me or not?”
“What do you want me to do?” I ask as I bend to kiss her naked thigh.
“I don’t want to hurt you.” I already know what I want to do to her.
I’ve known since that first night, but I need to know how far she’s willing to let me go.
It’s not like at the cabin either. Here, she holds all the cards, and I know it gives her a little thrill ordering us around for a change.
“You’re not going to hurt me,” she grumbles. “You’re going to piss me off if you don’t get your dick in me.”
I’m pushing up her T-shirt when I pause to kiss her hard on her lips. “Don’t tell me what to do with my dick,” I warn.
“Fine. I’ll go to Seth’s room.” She pushes me away and swings her legs over the bed. I watch in amusement as I let Aurelia think she’s getting away before I give chase. I catch her at the door and then pick her up before carrying her through it.
“Fine,” I growl into her neck. “Let’s go to Seth’s room.”
Realizing she might have bit off more than she can chew once again, Aurelia squirms to get away while I carry her down the hall to the alter’s room and push inside.
Unlike me, he doesn’t wake up, because he crashed from a sugar coma.
He and Aurelia gorged themselves on sugar and fried snacks for dinner rather than the balanced meal her chef arrived to prepare before leaving.
After eating the chef’s cooking, I finally understood why Aurelia never bothered learning how to cook.
Seth is lying on his back on top of the covers when we enter. His head is turned and his arm is hanging over the side of the bed. He’s still wearing his clothes and shoes.
I carry Aurelia over to the bed and set her down.
Seth jerks awake when he suddenly feels her weight, but then I see his confusion clear when he sees that it’s her.
Since he doesn’t like the dark, the lamp next to the bed is already on, so I dim it until the room is mostly dark but still cast in a soft glow.
“Seth,” Aurelia says breathily as she reaches for the button on his jeans while I pull off Thorin’s shirt, revealing her naked body underneath. “Seth, fuck me.”
He isn’t hard when she pulls him out, but that quickly changes as the sleepy edges fogging his brain recede and she leans down to put her lips on him. I can hear his groan and her suckling him in the dark as I shed my shorts and join them on the bed.
“What brought this on?” Seth struggles to ask while Aurelia deepthroats his dick.
“She’s horny and too impatient for pillow talk, so I brought her to you.”
“Yeah? You want to be fucked, sweet girl?” Seth forces her to release his dick and Aurelia lets him go with a wet pop. “I’ll try not to take it personally that I was your second choice for a human vibrator,” he mumbles as he flips her onto her back to get a good look at her.
“I promise you’ll be my first choice tomorrow,” Aurelia says and then squeals when he bites her.
Seth shoves her thighs apart and then takes his now-hard dick in hand to plow into her but quickly realizes it’s awkward with her belly in between them, so we carefully arrange Aurelia on her side until she’s trapped between us with Seth at her front and me behind her.
I’m eager to watch, so I let Seth go first, and it’s all I can do not to hit him when he fits his crown at her hole and plunges inside her.
“Shit, yeah. Missed this,” he groans. “Missed you, Sunshine.”
Aurelia lays a hand on his cheek like she did to me while he works himself inside her. “I missed you too, Seth.” Her hand leaves Seth’s cheek and I feel her grab mine, bringing it forward to cup her breast. “You too, Khal.”
“You fucking better have,” I say as I kiss gently down her arm. Her skin is already becoming slick with sweat, and I wonder briefly if we’re overheating her before she pushes her ass back against me and my attention shifts to that part of her body while Seth fucks her.
Damn, I want it bad.
But I’m woefully short of lube and I’m too fucking impatient to get creative, so I grab her thigh and seize Seth’s thrusting dick at the base.
I feel him snarl when he catches on to what I want and then glances at Aurelia who’s tense now, before reluctantly pulling out of her.
I’m there in an instant, replacing his dick with mine, and Aurelia begins to moan once more.
When I feel the tightening in my balls, I pull out and Seth takes over fucking her pussy.
Aurelia moans loudly from the sordidness of it all, and I grin down at her. “Oh, you like that, do you? You like the way we take turns, Goldilocks?”
We make it so speaking is impossible, so she nods eagerly.
Seth pulls out again and grunts like it pains him, and I start fucking her again.
We continue this back-and-forth, driving Aurelia and ourselves crazy until I slap a hand over her clit and work the engorged nub until she’s coming while clinging to Seth.
Once we’re both at the brink and there’s no turning back, Seth and I take our dicks in hand, stroking furiously until we erupt. We paint our girl in our cum, re-staking our claim so that there’s no question left that she never stopped being ours.
After we’re spent, Seth and I lie there fighting to catch our breath. It’s a few minutes before the room finally quiets and only a few more before Aurelia lifts her head to whisper one word.
“Again.”
Aurelia makes us ride her through the night, dozing off just to wake up half an hour or an hour later to roll over to one of us to slake her lust. The sun is coming up when she finally falls asleep for good, so I climb from the bed, careful not to disturb them as I redress and step outside the room with my phone in my hand.
I return to mine and stare at the number dialed in my phone before I take a calming breath and force myself to press call.
The line rings three times before a gruff voice answers. “Poverly Construction. How can I help you?”
My next breath shudders out of me at hearing my father’s voice for the first time in a decade. And then I speak. “Hey, Pops.”
Later that morning, I’m still reeling from speaking with my parents, who were happy to know that I’m alive but disenchanted with me for staying gone for so long. The conversation had been short but emotional, ending with me promising to come and see them soon.
It went better than I imagined and worse than I imagined at the same time.
Thorin, Seth, and I are crammed together on Aurelia’s couch, sitting shoulder to shoulder with our arms crossed as we stare down the uncomfortable man next to her who looks like he’s not happy about our presence.
The feeling is more than mutual.
The disturbed look on his face tells me that Tyler Westbrook knows exactly who we are and he doesn’t approve of us being here to take back our girl. Like we give a shit.
Aurelia’s glaring at us since none of us say shit to his ass after she makes the introductions, and he offers a reluctant, “Nice to meet you.”
Seeing Aurelia upset at the chilly reception, though, Seth’s soft ass is the first of us to crack, giving a reluctant, lazy wave.
“’Sup, Tyler. I’m Seth. That’s Khalil and Thorin.
” He throws a thumb at each of us. “Don’t worry about them.
They just don’t like you very much. You’ll meet Zeke later, he’s sleeping right now.
But if you’re a very good boy, you’ll never have to meet Bane. ”
“Bane…” Tyler says before his voice trails off. “Wait, there’s five of you?” He glances at Aurelia, who just awkwardly rubs her nape.
“Yup,” Seth says without elaborating.
Westbrook will figure it out soon enough.
If it didn’t mean scaring the shit out Zeke—or Aurelia—I’d wake him up now just to see the smug fuck run in the other direction. I’m told he’s a pretty decent guy, but I don’t like anyone I wouldn’t die for sniffing around, and I just know that fucker used to have feelings for her.
How could he not?
Aurelia’s beautiful, smart, talented, and fearless…
I feel a little nudge inside my chest when I hesitate on her final quality that made me fall head over heels in love with her.
Loyal.
Aurelia’s loyal.