Chapter 51
Harper
A month later, we’re at the bar, outside in the patch of grass around back.
The guys have been working on something in secret, but they think they’ve been crafty about it.
But I’ve noticed the way they’ve been whispering and how Cash keeps grinning like he’s got a surprise.
He’s the worst one when it comes to keeping things quiet because he can’t keep it off of his face.
“Come with us,” he says now, taking me and Cora by the hand.
Everett and Lincoln step back, and I suck in a surprised gasp when I realize that they were standing in front of a beautiful flowering tree. They must have planted it, and it’s already tall and beautiful enough that it makes the spot look brighter.
“It’s gorgeous,” I say.
“And it’s not the only thing.” Cash gestures to the small stone marker underneath the tree, and I walk closer, bending down to read it.
“What is…” I trail off when I read the words.
My sister’s name. My sister’s name and the dates of her birth and death, with an inscription underneath.
“Love lives on in the people we protect,” I murmur.
I reach down and trace the words, my eyes filling with tears.
My throat goes tight to see my sister honored this way, by three men who never met her, but understand how much she meant all the same.
“This is perfect,” I whisper, standing up. “Thank you.” Cora runs up and touches the tree, and I pull her close. “That’s your mother’s name,” I tell her. “This tree is planted for her.”
“For Mommy?” she asks, looking up at me with those big brown eyes. “So she can see the pretty flowers?” Her voice is still quiet, but it’s getting stronger every day.
I nod, swallowing against the lump in my throat. “Yes, exactly. So your mommy can see how beautiful everything is and watch over you.”
Cora smiles and then runs to each of the men and throws her arms around them to say thank you.
Cash scoops her up and spins her around, following along with her as Lincoln shows her the flowers and tells her their names. Everett explains how trees grow and get stronger every year and how this tree will be here for a long, long time.
My voice is shaky with emotion as I walk over to join them. “Thank you so much. This is… this means everything to us. It would make Jade so happy to know that you’re taking care of us this way.”
I can see and feel how much that affects them, but they get all gruff, trying not to show it too much. That breaks up some of the emotion, and I laugh, taking Cora from Cash so we can head home.
Dinner is the easy, comfortable affair that it’s grown to be lately. Cash makes Cora laugh with his terrible jokes, Lincoln helps her practice writing her letters, and Everett listens with his usual seriousness as she tells him about her day with Lainey.
I watch it all, still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that this is my life now.
The men take turns reading Cora bedtime stories later, doing their usual routine where Lincoln reads and Cash does the voices, while Everett sits in the chair, supervising and making sure the other two don’t rile her up instead of getting her to sleep.
Once Cora is out, I find myself being pulled into the master bedroom by three very determined Alphas.
Before I can ask what’s got them so riled up, I’m being kissed thoroughly.
Lincoln starts it, pulling me into his arms and kissing me until I part my lips for him.
He slips his tongue into my mouth, twining it with mine until I’m panting and clinging to him a bit.
Then he passes me to Cash, who kisses me with just as much passion and intent.
When Everett gets his turn, his kiss is all demand. I can feel the power in it, the control, and I surrender to the feeling, letting him claim me with his mouth the way he seems to want to.
“What’s all this?” I pant when my mouth is unoccupied for a while.
“We’ve been craving you all day,” Cash explains. “Watching you, wanting you.”
“And now that we get to have you, we’re not wasting any more time,” Lincoln adds.
“Oh, I see.” I smile at that. It never gets old, hearing how much they want me and seeing all the evidence of it.
“Do you?” Everett asks. He moves in closer again, putting his hands on my waist. “Because I’m not sure.”
“No I—” I don’t get any more words out before he’s picking me up and all but tossing me onto the bed. I make a noise of surprise, laughing as I bounce against the mattress.
Honestly, that show of strength is enough to have my heart racing and my body going tight with want. Watching the three of them stalk to the bed, closing the door and shedding their clothes as they come, does the rest of the job.
By the time they’re on me, getting me out of my clothes as well, I’m panting and growing desperate for them, my body buzzing with arousal.
They touch me, trailing kisses over my neck and down my chest. Cash nuzzles at my belly, setting his teeth against the soft flesh there before moving down to mouth at my inner thighs.
His eyes burn with hunger, and I arch up while Everett and Lincoln play with my tits, suddenly hungry myself to have Cash’s mouth on me. But I smirk, an idea forming in the back of my mind.
“Wait,” I tell him. “I don’t want you like this.”
He raises an eyebrow. “Should I be offended?”
I roll my eyes at him. “No, you should get on your back for me.”
Heat flares as he catches my meaning and scrambles to obey. There’s a rush of power from that, the idea of this powerful Alpha doing what I want him to do.
He settles back, watching me as I climb up over him. His hands come up to support my hips, and I lower myself down so my wet pussy is right over his face.
“Fuck yes,” he groans. “You have the best ideas.”
I laugh at that, and start riding his face with slow rolls of my hips. He presses his tongue inside me, letting me feel the length of it and use it for my pleasure. That’s such a fucking turn on, really, and I tip my head back, moaning his name and threading my fingers into his hair.
Lincoln moves in behind me, his fingers slick with lube, and he probes the tight ring of muscle in my ass. I gasp when one finger slips in, thrusting deep and spreading that slick slide around.
“So fucking tight,” Lincoln mutters. “Open up for me, beautiful.”
I breathe through the burn of the stretch, trying to do as he says and let him in. With Cash’s tongue working inside me, it doesn’t take long before Lincoln can add a second finger, fucking me as deeply as he can with them.
I’ve never been confident enough to do anything like this, taking control and saying what I want with such boldness when I’m not in heat, but it feels right to do it here, and the men encourage me to feel like I can do it more.
Everett watches, his cock in his hand as he strokes himself slowly. “You look like a queen like that,” he says. “Riding Cash’s tongue. Making use of his mouth for something other than talking.”
Cash lifts one hand from my hips to flip Everett off, drawing a breathless laugh from me.
“Take what you want,” Everett continues, unbothered. “We want to give it to you.”
“I want you too,” I tell him, turning pleading eyes his way. “I want you so bad.” My mouth waters watching him stroke himself, and I hope he can see every bit of that in my eyes.
He must be able to because he chuckles that low, dark sound I like, and comes over, cock still in hand.
“Is this what you want? You want me to fuck that pretty mouth of yours while Cash and Lincoln make you come?”
I nod eagerly, making grabbing motions to get him to come closer.
He does, stepping right up to the bed and getting a handful of my hair so he can drag me down to his cock. I can smell his arousal, and it goes right through me, making me grind down harder on Cash’s tongue and buck back on Lincoln’s fingers.
Everett presses into my mouth, splitting my jaw wide open with the thickness of his cock. I bob on it, taking him as deep as I can and working him with my hand for the rest. He lets me do what I want for a while, watching as I suck him down and moan around him.
But then a switch flips, and he’s fucking into my mouth, the head of his cock hitting the back of my throat. I gag a bit, but rally quickly, opening my mouth wider to let him have his fill.
Cash and Lincoln double their efforts, and I end up writhing between them, choking on Everett’s cock as my body tightens, giving over to the pleasure that’s become insistent now. It’s all so good, having them like this, and when I come, it’s with a muffled cry that still sounds loud in the bedroom.
I pull off of Everett’s cock to gasp for breath, my eyes clouded with the haze of want. “I need more,” I tell them. “Please, I want all of you. I need more. I want to feel you all at the same time.”
“Fuck,” Lincoln curses. “You know we can’t say no to that.”
His cock is so hard it’s practically dripping, and Cash isn’t much different. They lift me off of Cash and he and Lincoln switch places so I can sit astride Lincoln’s dick. He pushes into me hard and fast, making my breath catch as he bottoms out.
Cash steps up to one side of me, his cock bobbing and leaking from the tip. I wrap my hand around it, listening to the sounds he makes as I stroke him with the same tempo that Lincoln is fucking me.
Everett slides back into my mouth, and it’s like completing the cycle. Having all of them like this is bliss, and I ride it out, leaning into every thrust, pulling noises from them and making my own around the cock in my mouth.
It’s perfect, and when I start to feel my pussy throbbing with my oncoming orgasm, I let it wash over me, shaking from the sheer amount of pleasure. All three of them come one right after the other, filling me and splashing me with their cum, making me feel even more theirs than I already do.
We collapse together on the bed once everyone’s knots have gone down and we’re all worn out. I try to catch my breath, sated and content, curled up between the three of them.
My eyes flutter closed, but then snap back open a second later when I feel a sudden wave of nausea. I sit up with a frown, and then have just enough time to slap a hand over my mouth and bolt for the bathroom.
“Harper?” I hear Everett say, and then the sound of the three of them getting up from the bed to come check on me.
I drop to my knees in front of the toilet and throw up violently, gagging and shuddering but not with pleasure this time.
“Shit,” Cash says. He comes over and gathers my hair up, holding it back from my face. Everett rubs my back in soothing circles, and Lincoln disappears back into the bedroom and comes back with a glass of water so I can wash my mouth out.
I throw up again, emptying out the contents of my stomach and then sit back, panting. My face feels sweaty, but the cool tile of the bathroom floor feels good as I sit back and lean against the wall.
“Are you okay?” Cash asks, frowning at me.
“I think so? I don’t know what happened, I was fine and then all of a sudden I was about to puke.”
“Something you ate maybe?” Lincoln suggests.
Everett snorts. “Don’t let Dolly hear you say that.”
I shake my head. “No, if it was that, it wouldn’t have taken so long for me to feel sick. And you guys and Cora would have felt it too, right?”
They nod, agreeing with me on that. “Hopefully you didn’t pick up a stomach bug or something.”
Lincoln feels my face with the back of his hand, frowning thoughtfully. “You feel a little warm, but that’s probably from the sex and the puking.”
Other than the nausea, I don’t feel off really, and I tell them so. And then I start thinking about how I’ve felt lately and something hits me.
There are a lot of reasons for sudden nausea, but only one seems to fit. The timing is right, and my breasts have been extra full and sensitive lately. I thought it was because of my period, but I realize I can’t remember the last time I got it.
“Your scent has been different lately,” Everett murmurs, and then he stops and snaps his head up to look at me.
Cash’s eyes widen at the same time, and he and Lincoln exchange a look. “You don’t think…” Cash trails off.
“It would explain the nausea and the change in her scent,” Lincoln says slowly.
“And I don’t remember the last time I got my period. It definitely wasn’t this month or last month. I think… I’m pretty sure I’m pregnant.”
I’ll have to take a test to be sure, but all the signs fit.
I look at the men, waiting to see their reactions, and something like relief sweeps through me when they’re all smiles. Cash leans in to kiss me hard, and the other two follow suit, clearly not caring that I just threw up.
They look surprised, but so happy about this.
“Holy shit, we’re going to be parents,” Lincoln says. “You’re going to have a baby.”
“Technically, we already have a kid,” Everett points out, and Cash just punches him lightly in the arm.
“Cora’s going to be an amazing big sister,” he says, and that makes me smile. Hopefully she loves babies as much as she loves animals.
They promise that they’re going to take such good care of me during this, and I believe them completely. They’ll probably be a little overbearing about it, but that’s just how they show their love and care.
I still feel queasy, but I laugh, touched by how immediately protective and thrilled they are about this.
If it was anyone else, this news would bring nothing but dread. But here with them, I’ve found my safe place. This town, these men, I know they’ll protect me and be with me. And now I get to bring a new little life into the world to be loved by them just like Cora and I are.
The future I never dared to hope for is here.