Chapter 11
Eleven
Voss
B eautiful skin comes into view as the green washes off my jungle flower. I guess I’ll have to come up with another cute nickname that makes her blush after tonight. Going into this I thought for sure all I needed was to get my rocks off and then we could get our diamonds back and be on our way.
After tasting her, hearing her moans and devouring her juices I can’t let her go. We’ve found a woman who doesn’t mind us being brothers. I actually think she got off on us sharing her.
I reach for the flowery scented shampoo and set to washing her hair. The suds erase the tiger on her shoulders. Shayne’s going to cry about that.
Luna quietly lets me tend to her needs. I can tell she doesn’t trust easily. It’s not in her nature nor was it in her fathers.
Which is another thing. How the fuck did our best friend’s little girl become a thief? Fuck, I guess it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination, but still. He’s rolling over in his grave right now and instead of helping her get out of whatever put her in need of stealing, we fucked her.
No. We took her virginity like fucking pirates stealing treasure.
She is a treasure. Ours, in fact. I have every intention of making sure she doesn’t leave our side. Not only because we really need those diamonds back but also because I haven't had my fill of her. Nor have my brothers.
She’s the one. I know it. Shayne and Jasper feel it too. I saw how they touched her. Their expressions of awe and fucking wonder. I know we have set things into motion for our departure, but I can feel her energy connecting with ours in a way I can’t untangle. I’m not sure I want to.
Instead of us ruining her and taking from her as she took from us, she’s flipped the tables on us by just being herself—beautiful and tender. Everything we are not.
I run the conditioner through her hair. Letting it set, I take my time washing every inch of her body. I take a knee in front of her and when I glance up, she’s considering me through curious eyes. When I lift her foot, she lets me settle her leg over my shoulder.
Pleasure and awe ease the creases over her brow. I lather my hands and gently care for her body as she cared for us so well this evening. Watching her take pleasure from such simplicity makes me think she was meant to be with us.
Tiny moans and whimpers let me know I’m doing something right. This is a first for me and I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can to show her my appreciation for the gift she gave us.
“You’re stunningly beautiful, Luna.” I set her foot down and wash her feet, calves and thighs.
Her smile is soft and her expression turns dreamy. I stand and move her under the water, rinsing away the conditioner with a deep scalp massage. With that done, I set to work on other areas. I move her out of the water and come to stand behind her.
Her skin pebbles with a rush of goosebumps everywhere my soapy hands caress. Black lashes fall over perfect skin tinged with light pink. My hand slides over her hip and I let her feel my hard length against her ass.
“Mm, Voss,” she moans.
“Shh, jungle flower. Just take the pleasure of my touch.”
The weight of her breasts shoots another rush of blood to my cock. It was already hard, now I’m losing my mind with the need to bury my length in her hot channel again.
She leans her head back on my shoulder, turns her head and I take her lips in a fervent kiss. I can’t resist her silent need. I angle my head down, tip her chin up farther and savor her essence. Her tiny inhales and exhales stroke over my soul, binding us together. Maybe she feels the connection, too. From the way her eyes flit open and our gazes lock, I’m going to say she noticed our aura blend.
“I need you again, Voss, but I don’t think my body can.” Her blush is not from the hot steam or water.
“We have all the time we need. I’ll wait to have you when you are ready.”
She lifts her head, but doesn't step out of my arms when I think she will. Instead, she turns her eyes up to mine. “You speak as if we have more than this one night.”
“We do. Why do we have to say one night and done? There is nothing holding us back from you. Except you,” I say honestly.
“My father?—”
I turn her to face me. “Is gone. We should have stayed in contact, but he didn’t want us anywhere near you and your sister for a reason. We have a lot of bad blood from our past. Enemies we probably don’t even know about. He understood that.” I press a kiss to her lips and run the pads of my fingers over her delicate jawline. She shudders and I marvel at the hardness of her nipples.
“I always wondered why he talked about you all the time to my mom but never brought us together like a big family. He thought of you as brothers. It just never made sense. And here I am showering with one man he wished for me to never meet.”
“Does that make us a dirty secret of his or yours?”
Her smile shoots arrows straight to my heart.
“Both.”
“We were many things before we became fences with your father. Many things.”
“Where do we go from here?” There’s a hint of disbelief in her tone. Confusion pulls her brows together and the gray of her eyes darken. She places her hands on my chest and I feel the electricity hum between us. Vibrations of our connection simmer just under the surface. It’s a new feeling I’m growing to love fast.
“Let’s start with the truth. Why did you take the diamonds?” I take the side of her face in the palm of my hand and she leans into it. “You were meant to be mine. Ours. You trusted us tonight with your body and your heart.”
She drops her hands. Wide glittering eyes hold me captive. She opens her mouth to try and deny the heart had anything to do with what happened tonight, but I place a finger over her lips before she can sully the recent memories we made.
“You know it’s true, my little jungle flower. Trust us one more time and I swear we will all be there for you.”
Delicate hands slide up my wet chest and settle over my heart.
“Trust you?”
“Your father trusted us when it came to a lot of things. I only wish we could have stopped him from getting killed. The deal was wrong from the beginning, but he swore he knew them. Turns out he didn’t and his arrogance cost him.”
“We told him as much, but he didn’t want to listen.”
We both look up to see Jasper and Shayne with towels wrapped around their middles. I figured they used the other shower so I could have a moment with our beautiful jungle flower.
“You were there when it happened?”
Luna moves her gaze between all of us.
Jasper holds his arm out to her and tucks our girl under his chin. I physically watch as she relaxes against his chest. Shayne presses a kiss to her forehead when her eyes connect with my brother’s, I see something there I don’t want to believe is true. But it gives me a wave of hope that tonight is the start of something that might keep us in Seattle after all. Frankly, I don't care where in the world we go as long as she is there with us.
A pretty, innocent blush spreads over her cheeks. For all her bold wildness, she’s tender and delicate under that false shield she hides behind.
“No, Luna. We were not or we would have died to protect him,” Jasper answers. “It was an impossible situation between men who had no respect for life. There were too many, and it was a deal that never stood a chance. They didn’t intend on paying for the jewels your father was fencing. They had every intention of stealing them by any means.”
She steps out of Jasper's arms, but keeps her hands on his chest. I watch her keep a connection to my brother. She doesn’t realize it, but she likes us to touch her as much as possible. In fact, I don’t think one of us hasn’t had a hand on her since we entered the room.
“What happened to them?” her voice cracks. “The men who killed my father? The cops did nothing and my sister and I had no hope of finding out anything. We just kept on trying to survive.”
Shayne is the one to answer her.
“Remember how I said we were many things before we came to Seattle?”
She considers our words before nodding. “I understand.” She grows quiet for a minute and then says the one thing that has my heart on the fucking floor. “I miss my dad. Stella and I haven’t gone a day without missing him so much it hurts. It’s…it’s been hard. Let me just say that. And then losing mom. She got so sick so fast. And now my sister is sick.” She drops her head back and closes her eyes.
Tears wet her lashes. I want to reach out to her, but I get the sense she’ll break down if I pull her to me.
She takes a couple of breaths before saying, “As harsh as it may sound, I’m glad you were not there. Now that I’ve had each of you. Touched you, kissed you and made love to you, I think I want to take this beyond one night. I know I do. I just don’t know how to let people in when it hurts to lose them.”
I’m in love.
I shut the water off and step to her, taking her chin between my fingers. “For that to happen, we are going to need those diamonds back, Luna.”
The red on her cheeks deepens. “I figured as much.”
“And then we want to hear about your sister.”
That’s Jasper.
“The buyers are here and these are not patient men.” I hear the worry in Shayne’s voice. He’s trying to hide it from Luna, but I know my brother.
Shayne takes Luna’s hand and helps her from the shower. I grab a towel for me and pass one to her. Jasper takes it and helps her dry off.
“I took the diamonds because I had to. The Belladonnas will give me fifty grand and a place in their guild of thieves. I need the money I get from them to pay for my sister's chemo.”
We all stare at her in silence. She looks like a weight has lifted from her shoulders; one that she’s been carrying alone for a long time.
Jasper stands. “You’ll have the money come morning. The Belladonnas are trouble everywhere they go. I take it a woman named Ivy was on the other end of the COMM you had in your ear?”
Jasper raises Luna’s foot, drying it. He moves to the other, and she obeys his quiet command to lift. “We’re not here to tell you what to do or not do, but getting involved with them is a bad idea.”
“I know. But when you face big bills and few choices, you do what you have to do for family.”
Shayne brushes her hair out with a large comb he finds in a drawer. Everything is brand new and fresh for the member’s use. I grab another comb and set to work on the other side. The faster we finish, the faster we get the diamonds.
“After we get this done, we’ll talk about bills, your sister and why you didn’t come to us when shit started going sideways for you. You didn’t have to steal from us.”
“I didn’t know who my mark was until I was three feet in front of you. But okay. Let’s find something for me to wear and I’ll take you to them.”
I love watching steel resolve solidify in her gray gaze. She’s going to need it for what comes next.