Chapter 8 #2
“I don’t know … something to tell me I’m making a mistake.” He shrugged nonchalantly.
“It’s your mistake to make.” I wasn’t going down this road again. I wasn’t going to make him think I wanted him.
“Aha! So, you do think I’m making a mistake?”
“I don’t care what you do,” I lied and turned away. “I’m going to go back to my room now.”
“But Alice is in there with Scott and Aiden.”
“So?” I looked at him with a question.
“You don’t want to cockblock.”
“Excuse me?”
“Alice has a crush, doesn’t she?”
“How did you know that?”
“It was obvious from the way she was beaming from ear to ear.” He shrugged. “I didn’t presume to think it was because of me.”
“Not that it would be a problem for you, right? You’d love three of the women in this house wanting you.”
“So, are you saying two women in this house currently want me?” He smiled and raised an eyebrow at me.
“No,” I said hurriedly. “Now tell me, who do you think likes Alice back in return?”
“Who?” He laughed. “I think Alice has herself a little problem.”
“Oh?” I frowned and rubbed my forehead. “So, you don’t think Scott or Aiden likes her then?”
“Oh, quite the opposite.” Xander rubbed his palms over his stomach as he stood there. “I think they both like her.”
“What?” I frowned and looked into his eyes to see if he was being serious.
“I think both of your brothers have an interest in Alice.” He nodded seriously. “Hopefully, they both don’t make a play for her. She has an interest in one of them, doesn’t she?”
“Yes.” I nodded and bit my lower lip.
How did he know that my brothers liked Alice, and what did that mean? How would Scott feel if Alice and Aiden started dating—because Alice liked Aiden, and that was obviously who she would choose, wasn’t it?
“Are you going to tell me which one?”
“No.” I shook my head and turned back to the door. “That’s none of your business.”
“Are you always going to be like this, Liv?” He grabbed my shoulder. “Can’t we just be friends?”
“No, we can’t,” I said as I opened the door and walked out of the room.
Who the hell did Xander James think he was? Did he really think I could just forget everything and just be friends with him? Did he really think that was possible?
“Morning, Liv.”
A soft, husky voice made me jump, and I blinked as I stared ahead of me.
“Sorry.” He smiled at me widely. “I didn’t mean to scare you.”
“It’s okay.” I smiled back at him. “Good morning to you too, Henry.”
I looked into his eyes, and I noticed that they were actually a lighter green than Xander’s.
“Everything okay?”
His perfect white teeth shone at me as he spoke, and I really began to notice the subtle differences between his appearance and Xander’s.
Henry had slightly thinner pink lips and a rather deep-set dimple in his right cheek.
His hair, though also dark, held light streaks of brown as well, and it was slightly more unkempt than Xander’s was.
“I’m fine. It’s just been an exhausting morning already, and we haven’t even had breakfast.” I laughed and rolled my eyes.
“I am hungry.” He nodded. “I’m just coming back from my morning run, and I am ready for pancakes and bacon.”
“That sounds good to me.” I nodded eagerly. “Banana chocolate chip pancakes with lots of syrup and bacon.”
“I’m a blueberry pancake guy myself.” He smiled and ran his hand through his dark hair. “Though I wouldn’t mind some chocolate chips. Maybe we can share?”
“Sounds good to me,” I said and adjusted my top as I stared at him. “As long as you don’t want some of my bacon as well.”
“Don’t worry; I never attempt to take bacon off of anyone’s plate.” He laughed, and I stared at his lips for a few seconds as I laughed along with him.
“Good, or I’d have to kill you.” I giggled and poked him in the shoulder with two fingers sticking out like a gun.
“Uh-oh, the warning has officially been issued.”
“Yep,” I said and winked at him.
“What’s going on here?”
Xander’s deep voice was directly behind me, and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t heard him come out of the bedroom and down the corridor.
“Liv is going to share her pancakes with me, but she’s warning me to stay away from her bacon,” Henry answered his brother with a laugh. “I say that’s a fair price to pay to share breakfast with a beautiful woman.”
“Hmm,” Xander said in reply as my stomach flipped.
Henry had called me beautiful. I had to admit, his words made me happy. Maybe I would try and get to know him a bit better this morning.
“Maybe you shouldn’t be sharing everything with everyone, Liv,” Xander said to me obnoxiously as he looked down at me with a sneer.
“Excuse me?” I glared up at him, my mind off Henry as I gazed into Xander’s dark green eyes.
“Maybe you shouldn’t be so easy and willing to give it up,” he said softly.
I gasped. He paused as he looked me up and down, and then he grinned.
“Your pancakes, I mean. I wouldn’t be so easy to give them up. Henry’s a pig. He’ll gobble them all down before you can blink. And then you’ll regret having given them up.”
“I don’t think I’ll regret sharing my pancakes, though there are other things I regret.” I tried to remain civilized, though it was difficult. I didn’t want to embarrass myself in front of Henry or make him suspicious, but I so badly wanted to smack Xander. Hard.
“Oh?” He cocked his head. “Like what?”
“Xander, don’t badger the girl.” Henry gave his brother a reproachful look. “She just woke up.”
“I’m not badgering her.” Xander gave his brother a sharp look.
“I’m just saying, you just met her, and she doesn’t know your sense of humor, so go lightly on her.” Henry grinned at me. “We’re not family yet.”
“Thanks, Henry. I appreciate it.” I smiled at him warmly.
“Shouldn’t you be getting in the shower or something?” Xander’s eyes narrowed at me. “We wouldn’t want you to hold up our getting pancakes.”
“I’d worry about your fiancée, as opposed to me.” I looked at him distastefully. “I’m pretty sure she’s still in bed.”
“Well, I do wear women out,” Xander said smartly.
I gasped, all color leaving my face as jealousy stirred in my stomach.
“Xander,” Henry chastised his brother. “Ignore him, Liv. Xander and I shared a room last night; he wouldn’t dare disrespect your parents in their own home.”
“I wouldn’t be shocked if he did.” I gave Xander a disparaging look and then looked back at Henry. “It’s good to know one of the James brothers is a gentleman. Thank you.”
“Anytime.” Henry bowed his head down and grinned. “Now hurry and shower so we can go and get those pancakes.”
“Will do.” I giggled and then hurried off to my bedroom.
I could feel both brothers staring after me as I entered my room.
“There you are,” Alice said melodramatically as I walked into the bedroom. “Where have you been?”
“You do not want to know.” I closed the door behind me and fell to the bed. “You will not believe what just happened.”
“What?” She stood next to her overnight bag and gazed at me with questioning eyes.
“Well—” I started.
“Oh my God, Aiden looked so hot this morning, didn’t he?” she cut me off before I could tell her what had happened. “I need to change. I can’t let him see me in the same clothes I was wearing this morning.”
“He won’t notice or care,” I said quickly. “But get this: Xander pushed me into Henry’s bedroom and threw me on the bed and—”
“Should I wear a skirt or a dress?” she cut me off again, holding up a short black skirt and a slinky red dress. “Or are they both too trampy?”
“Yes, they are both trampy.” I nodded and continued, “He threw me on the bed and pulled his boxer shorts off, and then he pulled my panties down and—”
“Okay, what about this blouse?” She held it up to her face. “And a nice pair of white pants? Or should I wear my black skinny jeans?”
“Then he shoved his cock up my ass,” I said loudly as I jumped off the bed. “He ripped my clothes off, threw me on the bed, turned me over, and fucked me up the ass.”
“So, you had anal?” Her jaw dropped.
I had her attention now.
“Did it hurt?”
“Alice, get it together.” I walked over to her and grabbed her shoulders. “Your response to me telling you that my sister’s fiancé threw me onto his bed, naked, and penetrated me is to ask if it hurt?”
“Well, I’ve always wondered.” She shrugged. “I figured I might as well find out, so I know whether or not to have anal with Aiden.”
“Oh my God, Alice,” I groaned at her, and she gave me a small smile.
“Sorry, I’m going crazy, aren’t I?” She let out a long sigh and gave me an apologetic face. “I’m just so excited. I’m finally an adult, and he can take me seriously now. He can see me as a woman.”
“Yeah, I guess.” I made a face. “I was trying to tell you about Xander.”
“I know. Sorry.” She dropped the blouse. “Tell me about Xander and the anal sex, and then I’ll tell you about Aiden and ask you for advice.” She walked over to the bed and sat down. “Now spit it out.”
“We didn’t have anal sex.” I walked back over to the bed and lay back on the mattress. “He did take my panties off though, and he was naked, and I felt him right there.” I gulped. “Ugh, he was so close to being inside of me, but then I felt guilty and jumped up and pulled my panties on.”
“That’s funny.” Alice giggled as she looked down at me.
“What’s so funny about that?”
“You probably left him with blue balls.” She giggled some more. “I bet he’s got to go take a shower so he can whack himself off.”
“Oh, Alice.” I started giggling as well. “You think so?”
“Of course.” She nodded. “He was naked, right? And his cock was right there?”
“Yep, his fingers as well.” I sighed as I remembered the touch of his fingers as they’d rubbed me. “I wanted him inside of me so badly, but it just felt like it was wrong.”
“So, imagine how bad it must have been for him. His dick was a mere centimeter, or even just a millimeter, from entering you and reaching the Holy Land, and instead of being taken to paradise, he found himself in blue-balls hell.”