Chapter 30
The Infiltration Point
Luke
I check the tracker app on Harper’s ring. She’s still at Nico’s. The football game drones on in the background.
Eli stretches beside me. “I’d apologize about the bite marks, but I’m just going to do it again, so...”
“As long as she’s into it.” Even I bit her last night, and the hickeys on her shoulders and neck are mostly from me. All that bare hot flesh pressed against me was too tempting to resist.
Grinning, he pulls up his shirt, showing me the red streaks on his back from her nails. Hell, looks like she fits everyone the way they like. Or is willing to try anything we want.
Fucking perfection. Waking up with my cock hard inside her. She squirmed beneath me and opened those warm brown eyes to meet mine as I fucked her slowly, quietly, to keep the others from joining in.
I just wanted that moment alone with her. Her fingers tangled in my hair. Her hips rocking against mine. I adjust my cock as it hardens at the memory. This girl.
My phone buzzes. I glance at the message that pops up.
Father:
On second thought, keep the girl. We’ll talk at dinner tonight.
“Fuck.” That can’t be good. My head still throbs from hitting the door frame. I can almost feel his foot brutalizing my side.
“Need more pain meds?” Eli pauses the game and leans forward like he’s getting up.
“No, it’s not that bad. My father.” I set my phone on the coffee table and lift my gaze to meet Eli’s. “He has a plan.”
Eli’s lips tighten. “Fuck.”
Over the years, my father’s plans have always meant I get fucked over. The real concern this time is that his plan will fuck Harper over.
One more year and I’d be out from under his thumb.
“It makes sense. He wants to control me. Harper gives him that control.” I push my fingers through my hair and release my breath. “I could just tell him I already let her go.”
Eli sighs. “He’ll make you win her back if that’s what he wants.”
Eli’s right. When my father latches onto something, it’s hard to get him to let go.
“Why Harper?” I close my eyes and rest my head on the couch. “Her mother is a nurse. Her father is out of the picture. She gets decent grades, but she’s not competition. Nothing about her is a threat or an advantage to him.”
“You.”
I roll my head and meet Eli’s eyes. He shakes his head.
“You must have shown too much interest in her. But if he allows you to have her, he can pull that thread anytime he wants something.” Eli rubs his hands together.
His devious mind works a lot like my father’s.
I can’t help but think Eli would be the son my father wishes I was.
“It’s brilliant and dangerous as fuck. He knows he can’t keep hurting you, but he can hurt her to get to you, just like the jackasses at school are trying to do. ”
“She’s my weakness.” Last night, I pulled her into my arms on the couch. I could have let her return to the bed with the others, but I wanted her there with me. I can’t even sleep one night without her in my arms. My attachment is becoming dangerous for both of us.
“She’s also your strength.” Eli grabs my arm. “She gives all of us something to fight for. We’ll figure out the school situation, and we’ll handle your father. Together. Like we do everything else. You don’t have to protect her on your own.”
I can see it in his eyes. The truth of what he’s saying. We’re in this together. All of us. She’s ours, and we won’t let anyone hurt her to get to any of us.
Not even my father.
“He wants me at dinner tonight.” I glance at my phone, remembering his parting words to Harper about wearing a pretty dress. My heart feels like a fist wraps around it. “He’ll make me promises. He’ll try to sweeten the pot. But if he wants anything from Harper—”
“What aren’t you telling me?” Eli’s eyes narrow.
My hands close into fists. “He told Harper to wear a pretty dress for our dinner.”
Eli’s eyes widen. “Do you know what he wants from her?”
“No, but hopefully tonight I’ll find out.”
Harper
I’m done playing. If Nico wants to use me, he can. I know I’ll get off. But fuck him for not listening. For not hearing what I’m trying to tell him. That we can make this work. We just have to give up the past. Give up on the loyalty I thought I had with him.
We don’t have what we used to, but we can build something new. Like I’m doing with all of them.
Nico strokes his cock as he takes in every inch of me. I don’t mind because it gives me time to check him out. Every inch of him is hard muscle, honed to be quick and take a hit.
We’re not who we were to each other back then. What we have now is nothing like what we had.
He owns me with the others. Yes, we have a neat little girlfriend/boyfriends thing now, but the rules haven’t changed. Yet.
When Nico left me, he didn’t stay in touch. We didn’t grow together.
He said he came back for me. But when it came down to it, he chose them over me.
That makes me his pet. He’s not special. He’s just like the other horsemen.
“Do you want to punish me, Nico?” I tip my head to the side. My nipples are hard and tight and aching to be touched. I almost came on his fingers before he pulled them out, leaving me a throbbing, aching mess of need. They really have created a monster.
“Is that what gets you there now, sunshine?” He steps forward, standing between my knees. His fingers trail over my shoulder and a shiver works through me. “Bites and pinches and spankings?”
I shrug. “When the right guy does them?”
A flash of heat goes through his eyes. There’s no room for jealousy in our arrangement. I belong to all five guys equally. He’s jealous of Luke Foster, which is laughable. Yes, Luke spends most of his nights with me, but that’s something he could do too.
I don’t control who sleeps with me. They do.
“If you’re asking if I need pain to get off, Nico, the answer is no. But I don’t mind if you do.” Some of my anger is being strangled by the lust pulsing through my veins.
He cocks his head as his fingers slide up my neck, sending more sparks floating through my blood. “Scoot onto the bed, sunshine.”
I wet my lips as he follows me onto the bed, straddling my hips with his. I’m completely at his mercy, just like with Eli. I’m his to command. It heightens the need coursing through my blood. But there’s this anger flowing between us. This unresolved past we shared. The broken trust.
No, he’s not really like the others. I thought he could be more. I thought he could be mine. I gave him my trust to be my friend, to be something more. So no, he’s not like the others. He had the power to hurt me, and I don’t know how to protect myself from that.
“What gets you off, Nico?” I run my hands up his thighs. His skin is warm and tight beneath my touch. The muscles twitch beneath my fingertips as I draw closer to his cock.
He takes hold of my wrists and lifts my hands over my head to the rails of his headboard. “Hold on here and don’t let go unless I tell you to, sunshine.”
I wrap my hands around the wooden rails and wait. His dark eyes lock on mine as he rests his hands next to my chest on the bed, so that he’s hovering above me.
“How many times have you been fucked, sunshine?” He lowers his head and rubs his smooth cheek against mine. His hard cock brushes my stomach. His soft hair tickles my forehead. It’s slow, intentional, devastating.
Desire shimmers through me.
“I don’t know how many times.” I’ve lost track somewhere along the way. Whatever the number is, it’s a lot. Even today, I’ve already been fucked twice. “It’s hard to keep five guys satisfied.”
“Hmm.” He turns and brushes his lips against my cheek. My fingers clench on the headboard. He continues with his light kisses across my jawline. A breath bursts from my lungs.
I arch up, longing to feel his warm skin brushing over mine. “Are you going to fuck me, Nico? We don’t have much time.”
“Shh, sunshine.” He lifts his head, and his dark eyes hold me captive as his hand runs along my hairline, softly stroking. “We have all the time in the world for what I want to do.”
“What do you want to do?” I press my thighs together against the growing ache.
His cheek slides against mine, and then his lips brush my ear. “I’m not going to fuck you, sunshine.”
I groan in frustration. My pulse is erratic.
His hand slides up my side to lightly cup my breast. “I’m going to make love to you.”
My heart pounds a little harder as our eyes meet. He lowers his mouth to mine and kisses me gently, coaxing my lips open as his weight comes down on me. I sigh, and he explores my mouth, tenderly.
My insides burn to feel him, all of him.
He slides to my side and leans on his elbow as he looks down on my naked body. “It’s easy to fuck you, Harper.”
The backs of his fingers skate down my stomach, sending shivers racing through me. My pussy is already so wet.
“So, fuck me, Nico.” I arch an eyebrow. I don’t know if I like this game he’s playing. His touch is subtle and gentle and strangely stimulating. Jack can be soft, but even he fucks me. I’m not sure what game Nico is playing.
“No, sunshine.” His fingers trail over my thigh and slide between my legs to where my leg meets my body.
I suck in a breath, and my hips move, trying to bring him closer to where I want him the most. He chuckles.
“You want to know exactly what I want to do to you?” He lowers his mouth over mine and kisses me, sucking gently at my lip, taking his time to just taste me. His hand moves up my body to my breast, and he slides his thumb over my nipple. He lifts his head, and I open my eyes.
“You still have a first to give. Just not one those guys care to take.” He teases my nipple, sending bolts of desire down to my pussy, making me squirm. “But I want it, sunshine.”
I open my eyes to him watching me. He’s making me feel vulnerable in a way I haven’t before. Even tied to a bench and being fucked, I had some level of control. It was still my decision to let them do that to me.
This feels different, like he’s asking for a part of me I’ve been holding back. He doesn’t just want my body. He wants a piece of my soul. And yes, I’ve given the guys little pieces of it before, but he’s asking for it. Not taking.
“Nico?”
He smiles. “I know you, Harper. I may have been gone for years, but you and I were not just little kids. We belonged to each other in a way you’ll never belong to them.”
He lowers his mouth over my breast and draws on my nipple. A low moan rises from my throat as he sucks and licks and caresses my breast. It’s not frantic or lust-filled. It’s tantalizing and enthralling.
It feels like he spends forever there until he kisses his way to the other breast. My hands clench at the bed rails, and my thighs fall open. Needy noises rise in my throat and I release them, trying to ease the ache, the need.
“Nico, please.” I squirm beneath his touch.
“Admit that I know you. That there’s something here that you don’t have with them.” He hovers over me, his dark eyes demanding.
My mouth opens and closes. Maybe. But I’m not giving them up for him, so what is he asking?
He smirks. “I’m not asking you to give them up or say you love me.”
He brushes his nose against mine, and tingles float along every nerve in my body.
“What do you want?” I blink up at him, so willing to release this tension winding its way through me. I’m almost to the point of begging, of giving him anything he wants.
“I’m not just a number. I’m not just a guy you tacked on because you used to be friends with me. You want me. Me now. Me then. All of me. Not just as a cock that can get you off but as something deeper. You need me to be part of this. You need me to open their eyes that this can be more.”
He searches my eyes with such sincerity that I break. My hands come down and thread into his hair as I turn into him, pressing my naked body against his.
“Nico, I want you. You.” I crash our lips together, and he rolls me onto my back.
He lifts my leg and his cock brushes my entrance before he eases inside me. I breathe out into his mouth, and he smiles against my lips. “You’re mine, Harper.”
I nod my head without relinquishing his lips as he rocks in and out of me, stoking the fire inside brighter and brighter. He’s so deep inside me. We’re tangled together in a mess of limbs. Our hips moving together to find release.
“Nico!” I break away from his mouth as my orgasm takes me over, spreading out to my limbs and pulsating on his cock.
“I’ve got you, sunshine.” He kisses my throat as he works me through my release, keeping me up in the sky with no way down. He draws out and slides all the way back inside, bringing me back to myself.
“One more, Harper. Together.” His forehead presses against mine. “Look at me.”
I open my eyes and meet his as his finger slides over my clit, shooting me back into the stars, but this time he’s with me, groaning his release as he fills me with his hot cum.
We fall back to earth and he collapses over me. His weight presses me down into the bed, divine and decadent.
We’re tangled together, both breathing heavily as we come back to this room, this bed, this reality.
When he lifts on his elbows, I miss his weight. He brushes my hair from my face and searches my eyes.
“I’m still going to fuck you, sunshine. But when it’s just you and me, sometimes I want to make love.” He thrusts his still hard cock deep inside me, sending an aftershock rippling through me, before he pulls out and falls to the bed beside me.
I touch my hand to my still racing heart. He links my other hand with his as we stare up at the ceiling of his room. I don’t know what to say. That was definitely different, and I liked it.
Everything is getting messier. Luke, Caden, Nico. Fuck, even Eli and Jack. None of this is easy. I’m going to end up with a broken heart in the end, which would be fine if it was just one break.
How do I handle five breaks at once?
Nico pulls me into his arms. “Stop overthinking, sunshine. Just enjoy the here and now. I’m with Caden, though. I’m not letting you go without a fight.”
My head rests against his beating heart, and I sigh. I don’t know if I’ll have the strength to walk away when this is over.