Monster
T hey didn’t bother sticking around the club for very long.
He knew that the guys would be there partying most of the night since Halloween fell on a Friday night.
All he and Drifter wanted to do was take Blitz back to Drifter’s house and beg her to stay with them—not just for the rest of the night, but also for the rest of their lives.
He wasn’t sure how that was going to go, but it was a part of their plan.
They didn’t just want Blitz for one night—they wanted her forever.
They both meant it when they told her that she was theirs and nothing was going to change that for either of them.
He couldn’t help but feel like the luckiest bastard on earth as he watched Blitz sleeping between him and Drifter most of the night.
Josie had spent the night at a friend’s house, and that gave them some extra time to decide what their next step was going to be.
God, he hoped like hell that step would be the three of them moving into Drifter’s house together.
He had already given up his little place and moved into Drifter’s, but he hadn’t told anyone that yet.
He and Drifter wanted to keep things quiet until they had a chance to convince Blitz that their crazy scheme could actually work.
She shifted under the blanket, stirring awake, and her eyes went straight to his—hair a mess, lips swollen, little bruises dotting her skin where his mouth and Drifter claimed her. She looked wrecked, used up, and thoroughly loved. His chest tightened at the sight. Not with guilt. With pride.
“Morning,” he muttered, voice scratchy from no sleep.
Her eyes flicked to him, hazy but sharp enough to land right where he wanted them—on him.
“Morning.” She tugged the blanket higher, like it’d hide how sore she was, but he caught the wince when she moved.
His lips pulled into a small, crooked smirk.
Yeah, he saw it, and although it should have made him feel a little bit guilty, it didn’t.
“Didn’t break you, did we, baby?” His tone was rough, but his hand softened when it brushed her hip. He couldn’t help it. He might fuck her hard, but he wasn’t about to let her think he’d walk away after.
Before she could answer, Drifter swaggered into the bedroom with two mugs of coffee in hand, hair sticking up every which way, wearing the same crooked smile that he had the night before when Blitz agreed to spend the night between the two of them.
Cocky bastard. Monster watched him hand her a mug, sliding into the bed, on the other side of her, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
He handed Monster a mug of coffee, and he nodded his thanks.
They sat there for a few minutes in silence, letting Blitz take in everything that was going on around her.
“Coffee,” Drifter said, when Blitz looked at the mug as though she didn’t understand what it was.
Monster caught the flicker of surprise in her eyes, and he could tell that she didn’t expect that from him.
She didn’t expect it from either of them, but she was going to have to get used to the two of them taking care of her from here on out.
“Didn’t take you for the type to bring me breakfast,” she said, and Monster watched Drifter’s smirk, and saw the softer look underneath it.
That was Drifter all over—arrogance on the outside, something else buried deeper.
As his best friend, Monster saw that side of Drifter.
Most of the guys in the club just saw the harder side of him, though.
“I like taking care of you, honey,” Drifter admitted.
“I meant it last night when I said that you’re ours.
Monster and I have talked about all this, and we take care of what is ours, honey.
” She looked between the two of them, sipping her coffee.
Monster could tell that she wasn’t sure if she should believe them or not.
Monster took a slow sip of his coffee, letting the warm liquid hit his soul before he spoke. “You don’t get it yet,” he said, voice low, steady. Her gaze snapped to him, wide and searching. “Last night wasn’t a one-off. You’re in this now. With us.”
“Both of you?” she asked, quiet, like she didn’t quite believe it.
Monster leaned in, letting his lips brush her temple.
He liked the way she shivered from that tiny touch, how her breath hitched like she was already remembering his hands on her.
“Both of us,” he promised, gravel in his voice, certainty in his bones.
“You’re not walking out of this bedroom the same woman who walked in. You’re ours.”
Drifter slung his arm around her shoulders, pulling her in close like she already belonged there.
Monster watched her sink into him, as the fight seemed to drain out of her with every sip of the coffee she held like a lifeline.
She hadn’t told them no. Hell, she couldn’t because neither of them would have accepted that answer from her.
They’d taken her, ruined her, marked her—and now she was theirs.
Monster settled in next to her, waiting her out a while longer.
There was no way that he’d let this be the end of things between the three of them.
No, this was the beginning, and the sooner she realized that the sooner they could move forward with the next part of their plan—the three of them became the family that none of them ever really had.
Hearing Blitz say that she wanted them both last night did strange things to his heart and claiming her with Drifter just sealed the deal for him.
For the longest time, he didn’t think that he’d be able to share her with Drifter but losing her wasn’t an option.
The more he thought about the three of them making a life together, the more he liked the idea.
He could tell that his friend felt the same way.
The three of them moved to the kitchen, so that Monster could get started on making breakfast for the three of them.
He had a feeling they would be hungry after all the talking that they were about to do.
Monster covered Blitz with a blanket he found thrown across the back of the couch in the family room, and he knew that Drifter was going to push things with her.
How could he not? Monster wouldn’t blame him either because he wanted everything with Blitz that Drifter wanted.
“Move into my house, permanently,” Drifter said. Monster was hoping that they’d be able to ease into the request and have it sound less like a direct order, but his friend wasn’t the patient type.
“What he meant to ask was—will you move into his house with the two of us, and Josie?” he asked, knowing that tossing the kid into the mix might soften her to their request.
“That’s not playing fair,” she mumbled. “You’re using my love for Josie to get me to say yes,” Blitz teased.
“Actually, I was hoping that you had those same feelings for us,” Drifter said.
“That I have for your sister—eww,” she moaned.
“No, I was hoping that you loved us too,” he admitted.
“I can’t speak for Monster, but I’ve fallen for you, Blitz.
I want you to stay—not because you’re running scared, or you love my sister, I want you to stay because you have feelings for the two of us.
” Drifter and Monster stood towering over her, arms crossed over their chests, waiting her out.
And Blitz was making them wait as she seemed to weigh her pros and cons.
“Blitz,” Monster growled. “I love you, and I don’t want to wait all night to hear you tell us that you love us too. No more games,” he ordered, pulling her up from the kitchen chair, letting the blanket fall to the floor.
“So, it’s an ultimatum then?” she asked. “Not too long ago, I told you that I wanted both of you or neither of you, and you chose neither,” she reminded.
“Is this your way of getting back at us, honey?” Drifter asked. “Because as I recall, you did pretty well that night—first with Monster, and then with me. You got your way, just not both of us at the same time.”
“Yeah, that was pretty sneaky,” she admitted. “But I had to show you both just how good we could be together. I wasn’t crazy in wanting you both, was I?” she asked.
“No, you weren’t,” Monster agreed. “And when Drifter and I realized that we had to share you so that we could both have you, then we were all in. The thought of losing you wasn’t an option, honey,” he said, wrapping her in his arms.
Drifter framed her back with his front and wrapped his arms around her, too. “He’s right,” Drifter admitted, “and I don’t usually say that, so don’t get used to it. We both want to be with you, so why not give in to our demands?”
“Requests,” Monster corrected.
“Okay, sure, requests,” Drifter said. “Why not just move in with us, honey?”
“You’ll be there too?” she asked Monster.
“I’ve already moved in. We’ll be sharing the master,” Monster said.
“If you think that the Halloween party was good, wait until you come to the Christmas one,” Monster added, bobbing his eyebrows at her, causing her to giggle.
He was sure that he could get used to hearing that sound around more often.
He just hoped like hell that Blitz agreed to what they were proposing.
“You can’t just ask me to move into your house with you both. What about Josie?” she asked.
“Josie is on board,” Drifter assured. “She thinks that it will be nice to be part of a family again, and I have to agree with her. The three of us might not have grown up with families, but I’m betting that we can make a pretty great one if we try,” he admitted.
Monster had to agree with him. Never having had a family growing up, he had always wondered if he’d be able to fit into one as an adult.
He thought that he had until he lost his wife and unborn child.
When they were gone, so were his dreams of having a family and watching it grow.
Now, with Blitz and Drifter, he could see a future full of happiness.
“He’s right, you know,” Monster almost whispered.
“I never thought that I’d find someone to spend my life with after losing my wife, but then, you walked into our lives, and well, I think that we should give it a try, don’t you?
If the universe is throwing us together like this, shouldn’t we at least help it out and agree to try to be a family? ”
“I do love Josie,” she whispered. “I think of her as my own kid, even though that seems to scare her a bit. She said that she likes having another girl around to help her with things that a mother is supposed to do. I guess that’s enough for me,” she said.
“And us?” Drifter asked. “How do you feel about Monster and me?” Monster could tell that his friend was holding his breath, waiting for Blitz to give him an answer.
“I won’t sit here and tell either of you that I don’t have feelings for you,” she started. “Actually, I’m falling in love with you both.”
“Thank fuck,” Drifter said, pulling her into his side.
“Because I’m in love with you, honey.” Drifter kissed her, and she willingly wrapped her arms around his neck.
Monster waited for the pang of jealousy, but it never came.
Instead, he crowded in behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her back against his body.
Blitz let him, and when she turned to wrap her arms around his neck, pulling him down for a kiss, he knew that he’d have to give her the truth.
“I’m in love with you, too, baby,” he whispered against her lips.
She smiled up at him and nodded, “So, what now?” she asked.
Drifter wrapped his arms around her, and they effectively sandwiched her between their two big bodies—right where she belonged.
“Now, you say that you’ll move in with us and that we can officially call ourselves a family.
Let’s make what we’ve never had growing up,” he begged.
Monster felt the same way. He’d beg Blitz for what they wanted if he needed to.
“I’d like that,” she agreed, ending the agony of having to wait her out for an answer. “I’d like for the three of us—well, four of us with Josie, to be a family.”
And just like that, for the first time in a damn long time, Monster didn’t hate the month of October as much as he had.
Blitz and Drifter had made this a Halloween to remember, and Monster wasn’t ever going to look at life the same way again.
He had a second chance at having a family, and he was excited to fill their little “Madhouse” with a bunch of kids and happiness he was sure he didn’t deserve.
But he’d never take for granted his new little family. They were his world now.