Chapter 2
TWO
CLAYTON
Kaiden rushes down the stairs just in time to catch her before she hits the snow as she blacks out. I still can’t wrap my fucking head around her being here !
Tyler whistles through his teeth, snapping me out of my downward spiral. “She is fucking gorgeous.” Jealousy surges inside me. I grind my teeth and force my face to remain stoic and not bite my son’s head off for finding a girl his own age attractive.
“Carry her in,” I say to Kaiden. “Tyler, grab her bags,” I bark as I turn and stalk inside the house, trying to wrap my head around what the hell I’m going to do. I was never meant to message her when we matched on that stupid app, she was the one who reached out to me first. I planned to ignore her message and forget all about it, but I couldn’t resist and we’ve been talking for months. We were supposed to meet for the first time over the winter break but then Van called and told me he was bringing his girl home. I haven’t seen my son for years, so of course I pushed our plans to accommodate him, his friends and their girlfriend. I just didn’t expect Tess to show up here.
“Where do I put her?” Kaiden asks. I whirl around and narrow my eyes.
“She isn’t a fucking toy, Kaiden, she’s a person,” I snap.
He just shrugs, Tess clutched against his chest. The sight of her wrapped in his arms has me clenching my fists at my sides. We’ve not only FaceTimed every night, we’ve seen parts of each other that I wish I wasn’t picturing right fucking now.
“Put her on the couch,” Tyler says as he kicks the door closed behind himself, both her bags clutched in his hands. Kaiden obeys without complaint and lays her down gently. Needing something to do to distract myself, I move around the sofa and toss another log into the fire. “Who the hell is she?”
I face both my sons and find their gazes laser focused on Tess, who is laying on the sofa looking like a sleeping angel. Those luscious plump lips that I have spent many nights picturing wrapped around my cock are slightly parted. Her long lashes are resting on her cheeks, her hair fanned out around her like a halo of darkness. The phone camera from our FaceTimes didn’t do her justice, she is more beautiful in person.
“I’m guessing she is the best friend of your brother’s girlfriend,” I lie.
“I’m dying to see what Van’s girl looks like,” Kaiden adds with a devilish smirk. Tyler turns to him and raises his brows in mischief. I sigh and scrub a hand down my face.
“Van will cave both your heads in if you so much as look at his girl wrong. You know he’s a territorial bastard,” I say. Both of them laugh. I bite back my growl, knowing that this is typical for the three of them. Kaiden is the oldest out of the three, Van is the middle child and Tyler is the youngest.
“Oh, I plan on rubbing baby bro the wrong way,” Kaiden says, making Tyler laugh. I shake my head at my sons. This break is not going how I planned and I can only imagine what Van is going to say when he finds out I’ve been having phone sex with his girlfriend's best friend!
“Hmmm.” I snap my gaze to Tess as she begins to stir on the couch, both the boys remaining silent as they focus on the raven-haired minx who has plagued my thoughts every night for months. Tess may look like a fallen angel, but the girl has the mouth of the devil and enough filthy wants to rival a BDSM club. The things she has begged me to do to her when we finally meet would have a priest blushing. Her eyes slowly blink open. My breath hitches and lodges in my throat as I wait. She keeps her gaze focused on the ceiling as her body stiffens. I watch with rapt attention as her chest slowly rises but doesn’t fall for a couple of seconds.
She darts her tongue out to moisten her lips and I find myself biting back a groan. She sits up but keeps her gaze straight ahead. My heart pounds against my ribcage as she throws her legs over the side and slowly turns, her eyes locking with mine. All the air rushes out of me when I don’t see anger in the depths of those intoxicating green eyes—I see need.
“Hi, Clayton,” she says quietly. Both my boys snap their heads toward me, but I ignore them as I smirk at the beauty on my sofa.
I stuff my hands in my pockets and smile slowly. “Hello, little minx.” Her eyes round. I don’t miss the way she subtly clenches her thighs or how her hands grip the cushions of the sofa. The tension in the room is charged with something other than unease now, there is the distinct scent of sexual need pulsing between us. Her being stuck here with me for the next couple of weeks is going to end badly for her pussy, because there is no way I’m not going to sink my cock inside that beautiful pierced, little pink cunt. Seeing it on FaceTime drove me insane with need.
Yeah, she has her hood pierced and that shit drives me mad.
“You two know each other?” Tyler rasps out, clearly surprised by this revelation. I raise a brow at Tess, prompting her to answer. She nibbles the corner of her lip, debating how to respond. She releases her lip and pushes her tongue into her cheek and faces my sons. The moment she takes them in her eyes widen.
Her mouth parts in a silent gasp. “I… holy shit,” she breathes out. Tyler just stares at her with a cocky grin, while Kaiden crosses his arms over his chest, flexing his muscles. Both my boys know they are good looking and aren’t above using that to their advantage.
“Cat got your tongue?” Kaiden teases.
She snaps her mouth closed and shakes her head. “I’m Tess,” she blurts out.
“I’m Tyler and that’s my brother Kaiden. I’d introduce our dad but it appears you already know him.” She sinks her teeth into her bottom lip and nods.
“How?” Kaiden pushes.
She sucks in a sharp breath then pushes to her feet and extends her hand to Tyler who takes it in his own. “I guess we’re past being strangers since I’ve seen your father spill your siblings in his hand.”
I choke on my own fucking spit!
Tyler’s brows leap to his hairline. Kaiden’s jaw hits the fucking floor. Tess turns her head toward me and winks. I shoot the little minx a look that I hope portrays I'm going to punish her for that.
“You’ve fucked our dad?” Kaiden blurts.
Tess shakes her head. “Not yet,” she answers without skipping a beat. I keep my face blank as both my boys snap their heads toward me. I’ve raised my sons to embrace themselves and who they are without remorse. I’ve never disciplined them by smacking or hitting, I allowed them to learn from their mistakes and never once judged any of them. I never turned my back on Van when he left. I knew he would go out into the world and find himself and what made him happy. My boys know they can always come home. Tyler and Kaiden aren’t like Van, they don’t enjoy the company of others. Don’t get me wrong, my sons frequent town and sow their wild oats, but they always come home.
“You want to fuck our dad?” Tyler chokes out.
Tess purses her lips. “Would you be opposed to me being your new stepmom?” This fucking girl has a quick wit.
“Yeah, considering I was just picturing all the ways I wanted to bang you when Dad and Tyler crashed for the night,” Kaiden says with a smirk.