Chapter 18
Parker
Thanksgiving break is only four days, and since it takes a full day to travel from here to Hawaii, I’m staying put. Which works out because my next trial arrived, and it’s the most ominous one yet.
“You’re going to be put in one of the dorms with one other person for three days.
No phones, no internet, no human contact except for you and the other initiate,” Parker explains from his spot on my living room couch.
Asher brought Silas home to meet his mom and sister, because they’ve been dating right under my nose.
I’ve been a little busy with my own shit, and hiding my own secret, but I called him out on it after watching him stare off at Silas the way I look at Mia .
. . and Leo. It’s still weird, seeing Leo in my space. But I can’t deny how much I like it.
“What’s the point of this one?” Leo taps the crimson card in my hand in response, and I look back down at it. “Collaboration is forbidden,” I read out loud.
“You won’t be able to work together, talk to one another, or do anything to pass the time to stay sane together.”
“So, they want us to go nuts?”
“No, they want to push you to your limits. Remember, each trial is about testing our commitment. How far can they push us? Will we listen or break? Why do we listen? What’s the reason for breaking?”
“I get what you’re saying, Leo, trust me, I do, but like I said when we got stuck together, for the painting, I think you’re looking at it wrong. I think most people are. What if they want to see our human side? What if the point is living and not bending to the will of others?”
“Because that’s not how life works. No one cares about our happiness. Do what you need to do to survive, because that’s all any of us can do in the end.”
I open my mouth to challenge him when his phone rings.
Leo sags against the couch before standing up, walking to my kitchenette, not quite out of earshot.
I shouldn’t listen, but I do anyway. It’s not like you can turn your fucking ears off.
If he wanted complete privacy, he should have gone outside.
“Hi, Dad.” Pause. “No, I won’t be returning home for Thanksgiving.” Pause. “I understand that Noelle will be there, but I received my next trial.” Pause. “Yes. I understand.” Pause. “Yes, Dad. I’ll do my best.”
Leo returns, dropping down on the couch with zero restraint, and I bounce a little on the other side from the impact.
“Didn’t go so well?”
“Does it ever go well? Just a reminder to not fuck anything up, to make him proud and not embarrass the Ashcroft name.”
I don’t know what to say to him to make him feel better.
It has to suck to live with that much pressure from your family.
I’ve never had that, and I have a really privileged outlook in my belief that everyone should live for themselves and not what our parents expect of us.
But my parents would support me no matter what I want to do.
Guilt gnaws at me, though, for being here at Corvus, trying to learn more about where I came from.
“I’m sorry,” I offer in lieu of advice that’s going to fall on deaf ears anyway.
“Yeah. Me too.”
Mia rounds the corner then, her hair wet from her shower, looking like a goddamn feast.
“Disappointed one of you didn’t join me, or both of you,” she says as she sits between us, her black-cherry scent engulfing my senses. I lean into her space, gripping her pussy through her jeans.
“Aww, is our girl feeling needy? Did we not satisfy your insatiable thirst for orgasms and pleasure last night?”
She mewls, hips gyrating against my palm.
Leo watches, his cock hardening in his grey sweatpants, a thick outline that’s hard to miss.
“I always want it. But my Uber is going to be here in ten minutes, and I don’t want to get messy again.
” Mia is going home for Thanksgiving, and I’m never thrilled about being away from her, especially now that we’re together and I don’t have to anticipate losing her to Leo again.
If I could tie her up and keep her in this room for eternity, I think I’d be tempted to do it.
“You okay?” she asks, picking up on Leo’s morose mood. “You heard from your dad, I take it?”
“How’d you guess?”
“He’s the only person who can make the man I know slink back into hiding.”
There’s a long pause, and I silently observe Leo’s dark black hair and the way pieces fall over his forehead, the way his eyebrows pinch together as he contemplates whatever is going on in that head of his.
He’s so handsome, I’ve always thought so, but the more I’ve gotten to know little pieces of him, the more I want him.
Just when I think the silence will stick, he starts talking, and I find myself hanging on every word.
“I can’t stand it. The fucking pressure just needs to combust. I didn’t ask to be an Ashcroft, and yet just because I was born, there are familial expectations of me? I’m still my own person. There should be zero expectations except for being a good human.”
“You’re right. I’ll never understand how some people justify their thinking and their choices. You don’t owe them anything, Leo, you know that, right?”
“What am I supposed to do? Walk away from my family?”
“You could,” I interject, both of their eyes turning onto me.
“I’m just saying, there are worse things in the world than walking away from people who don’t truly give a shit about you.
Because that’s what they’re doing, right?
Forcing you to play a role that isn’t you.
What’s worse? Hiding who you are to make your parents and some bullshit lineage happy or walking away from their predatory bullshit and owning the life you want? ”
“It’s not that easy . . .” he argues, but I’m not having it.
“I’d never tell anyone what to do, but you’ll never be happy until you’ve taken the reins of your own life back. Break the cycle.”
“Parker’s not wrong, but I’ll always support you, no matter what you decide. I love you.”
Leo pulls Mia into his lap, burying his face in the crook of her neck. I have the strongest urge to join them but decide against it. Mia’s phone pings a moment later, and she stands to leave, Leo and I both following her to the door.
My hand curls around her hair, gripping it into a tight fist as I arch her head backward to look at me.
“Be my good girl while we’re apart, little rebel, and I’ll reward you when you’re back.
” Fuck, I love the way she melts into me when I’m like this with her.
I capture her mouth with mine, sucking her tongue into my mouth, loving the taste of her.
Her body presses warmly against mine, my cock thickening behind my sweats.
Leo steps behind her, his hands reaching between us to knead at her full breasts.
Things escalate quickly, and I shove Mia’s duffel bag off her shoulder, the contents hitting the ground with a thud.
We break our kiss, her head falling off to the side where Leo’s lips are waiting for hers.
I slowly back all of us up until Leo’s back hits the wall.
My fingers reach for her leggings, pushing them down her legs and stripping them from her body.
I look up her length, watching as Leo’s hands delve under her T-shirt and upward to play with her perfect tits. Their tongues tease and tangle, Mia’s moans wanton and unabashed.
“Get your cock out. Now,” I demand. He does as I say, releasing Mia to shove his sweatpants down to his knees. I grip Mia’s chin, forcing her to look at me. “He’s going to fuck you now. Do you want a condom? I’ve only been with you, and my results are free of anything.”
“Same here, baby. But I’ll do whatever you want, you’re my priority,” Leo adds.
Mia frantically shakes her head. “No condom, please. I’m on birth control, and I only had you both wearing them because I was going back and forth.”
I drop a kiss to her lips before looking at Leo. “Congrats, you get to feel her slick pussy bare first. You had better enjoy it.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Eat my favorite meal. Her cunt.”
I lift Mia easily into Leo’s waiting arms, her back to his chest, hooking her legs over his forearms, before dropping to my knees. With my hands gripping her ass, I help guide her down onto his waiting, hard dick, the thick vein on the underside of his length pulsing with need.
I watch as we slowly drop her down onto him, her tight pussy swallowing up his length.
I can’t look away as we lift her together, his cock glistening with a sheen of her arousal.
I have to bite my lip, the urge to lick her sweet cum from his dick stronger than ever.
My chest rises and falls harder, my mouth salivating as we work him inside her tight heat.
“Your men need to send you off the right way, little rebel, so hang on while we make you feel good.” I don’t waste another moment, spreading her slick lips with my thumbs and licking up her length, just as Leo settles her down on him completely.
He holds her in his arms as his hips buck, thrusting wildly into her. I lap at her pussy, focusing on her swollen, throbbing clit, and sucking the little nub between my lips.
“Fuck, she feels so goddamn good. Mia, baby, my god.”
“Don’t stop! Don’t stop! Don’t stop!”
I smile against her flesh, loving that they’re both so enthralled in the pleasure.
I use that to my advantage, giving in to the desire to push Leo’s limits, licking farther down, flicking at the underside of his cock with the tip of my tongue.
His hips stutter, a deep groan rolling from his chest. So, I do it again, lapping at both of them as I lick a stripe up her perfect, leaking center.
Mia’s phone dings again, and I know we’ve got to hurry this along. I take one last lick around the base of Leo’s cock, and then I’m sucking Mia’s clit into my mouth.
“Come for us, baby, come right fucking now,” Leo grits out between clenched teeth. His legs start to tremble just as Mia starts to scream. Then they’re both coming. I stay put, sucking in little pulses, while Leo grinds against her. I know he’s filling her up nice and good.
“Fuck, that was incredible, holy shit,” Leo pants. I sit back on my knees and watch with rapt attention as he slowly pulls his cock free from her body. He’s coated in her cum, a sheen glimmering in the light.
“So, so good. You two are going to be the death of me. But now I’ll be dripping cum while I’m traveling home,” Mia pouts. Just as Leo starts to set her down, I push up on her thighs, keeping her in his arms.
“What are you doing?” she squeals.
“Spread her open nice and wide,” I tell Leo, then look up at her shocked expression. “Fixing your problem, now relax.”
I take one long lick up her center, cleaning her up before dragging my tongue around the rim of her hole.
She shakes in Leo’s arms, and I don’t waste another moment, delving in deep, pushing my tongue into her center.
A mix of sweet, salty cum mingles together on my taste buds, and I groan into her, pressing my face into her center.
I suction my lips around her and pull, deep and hard, sucking the cum from her pussy.
My mouth is flooded with a heady mix of the two of them, and I couldn’t be happier.
I’m possessed as I suck and lick, coaxing every last bit of it from her body.
When I’m satisfied, I sit back, helping Leo guide her down to the ground before standing.
Mia is in a haze as Leo and I’s stares connect.
His mouth is slightly ajar, and there’s no misreading the shocked expression I’m looking at.
A smirk plays on my lips, and I give him a wink, pulling him out of his trance.
We work together to dress Mia, Leo purposefully avoiding my eyes. Her head clears as he grabs her bag, letting me know he’d take her down to the waiting, and probably annoyed-as-fuck, driver.
The door has barely shut all the way before I tug my sweats down to my thighs, spit in my palm, and start to stroke myself with an image of Mia sitting on my face while Leo rides my cock with his tight ass. It only takes me a moment before I’m blowing into my palm.