Chapter 18 The Coercion
The Coercion
Harper
I can’t tell if he’s joking or just egging on the other guys, but something inside me softens. I think I might like Caden. Like, like-like. It’s weird as he leads me to his car and helps me in.
I didn’t think I could actually like a horseman. Of course, Nico was and is one of my best friends, but he doesn’t count. Out of everyone, I didn’t figure I’d fall for Caden.
“You look perplexed,” Caden says as we pull out of the parking lot.
“You just said you were going to keep her, like Harper is some sort of possession of yours,” Nico says from the back seat.
“Yeah, so?”
“You can’t just keep a person unless you plan on being more than whatever the fuck we’re doing with Harper.”
I turn back to look at Nico with an arched look.
He holds up his hands. “I’m not saying we don’t have a weird sort of relationship going on, but according to you lot, there is an end date. School ends, this ends.”
I rub at the ache in my chest at the thought. Of course, I’ve always figured it won’t make it that long anyway, but it feels wrong to talk about this ending when it hasn’t even really begun. But isn’t that what I’ve been doing since the start, worrying about the end?
Isn’t that what’s really holding me back?
“Of course, Harper could tell me to go fuck myself.” Caden talks to Nico like I’m not even here. “But I’ve got months to sway her to my side and convince her. She’ll let me keep her.”
“What if I want to keep her too?” Nico leans forward in the seat.
“Well, we can both keep her.”
“Wait, what?” My head is spinning.
Caden grins. “Maybe by the end of this, we’ll all want to keep her. Do you want your own crew of men, little nympho? You can pick who pleasures you every night. Have fifteen kids. Three each, of course.”
“Whoa, I haven’t even let you inside me and you’re already signing me up for fifteen kids? Are you insane?” Fifteen kids? What the hell is Caden even talking about? When did he have time to figure all this out?
“Not fifteen? That too many?” Caden chews on his lip. “Well, I’m sure we’ll be willing to compromise to two apiece then. That’s only ten. Totally doable.”
“When they aren’t coming out of your vagina?” I almost yell. Why are we even talking about this? He can’t possibly be serious.
He pulls into the garage at his house. “If I had a vagina, I would carry them for you, but I don’t. Though we’ll probably need to start working on your Kegel exercises now. Gotta keep that pussy nice and tight.”
I close my eyes and count to ten. This conversation did not go the way I thought it would. Of course, I didn’t even start the conversation.
“I think she’s going to explode, and not in the fun way.” Nico chuckles from the back seat. He’s not far off. I don’t even know what to say.
Caden turns off the car.
“If you can take my cock, a baby won’t be that much harder.” He smirks.
“Are you fucking kidding me right now?” I throw my hands up in the air and push out of the car.
My chest is tight and my breathing comes in bursts.
“Ten kids. Like that will fucking happen. What would my mother think of me with five guys? And who knows how we’ll keep track of who is whose kid and what if you guys leave me?
With ten kids? I am not a breeding cow.”
Caden puts his hand on my shoulder and turns me toward the door. “All I’m saying is that at the end of the year, if everyone decides to keep you, I’m okay with it. I don’t mind sharing you as long as I get a little alone time with you.”
I have nothing to say to the crazy man. I walk out of the garage toward the back of the house, to the door Eli took me in the other day.
“Hey, are you okay?” Nico catches up with me.
“I don’t even know. I mean, what the hell?
” I jerk to a stop and point back at Caden.
“Like this arrangement with the six of us would survive the real world? We haven’t even had sex yet.
I don’t even know if I like some of these guys.
I was worried about having a connection for sex, but I wasn’t talking love and all the fuckery that comes with that word. ”
My voice keeps getting progressively higher. “And keeping me? What? Are we going to go to the same college? If we’re planning on ten kids, do I need to get knocked up now or am I going to be in my forties and still pushing out kids? Ten?”
I think my brain glitches on that, because I can’t even draw in a breath now. What the hell is Caden thinking? It would be different if he had five women and wanted ten kids. “I don’t even know if I want kids.”
Nico pulls me into his chest and runs his hand over my back.
“Like you said, we don’t have to worry about any of that.
We just need to worry about graduating high school.
Before that, we have to worry about winning the championship.
Before that, we need to worry about what’s going to happen next week during senior week.
And before that, we need to worry about tonight, and how you’ll keep your five men pleased so you don’t have to call in reinforcements. ”
When I lift my head to glare at him, he smirks.
“And if you end up with ten kids, I’m not going anywhere but by your side.” Nico grins. “Just so you know, I’m willing to wait for you as long as you need, sunshine. I’m here for you. Not just sex. If it takes all year or even to the next, I’ll still be here.”
My eyes meet Nico’s deep brown ones, and I feel that connection we had as kids. When we daydreamed about growing up and what it would be like. He’s right, all this can wait. Caden isn’t serious. I just let myself get caught up in it.
“Next year?!” Caden tugs me from Nico’s arms. He shoves Nico back and draws me into him. His arms drape loosely around my waist. “I’m willing to wait too, little nympho. Not a fucking year though. Tomorrow? Is tomorrow good for you?”
I laugh and punch Caden in the gut lightly. He covers his stomach like I hurt him, but smiles and gives me a wink. His green eyes sparkle in the dim light.
“Not today or tomorrow. Maybe never. You guys took me from untouched to a technical virgin in like a week.”
“Yeah, but you liked it.” Caden grabs my hips and pulls me in against him.
“Like it or not, I need time to adjust to the new status quo.” I tug on his dark hair, and he gives me a sly grin.
The rumble of a car makes us turn to see Eli’s car coming up the drive. Caden bends his head toward me as he looks at the guys parking.
“I wouldn’t mention the kids just yet. Don’t want to scare off your crew.”
“I’m not going to have a crew or ten kids, Caden.” I thwack his chest with the back of my hand.
“You’re going to love sex so much, little nympho, that I’ll have you knocked up every chance I get.” Caden captures my mouth as I try to tell him off.
Instead, I fall into his kiss like I always do and feel that little lift in my stomach at his words. Sure, they’re insane words, but the fact he wants to keep me, at least right now, feels awesome. Maybe there is something here we can grow.
“Stop hogging our girl,” Eli punches Caden in the arm.
“Little nympho punches harder than you,” Caden says.
Eli tugs me into him and kisses me. I realize I haven’t played at all with Eli tonight. His kiss is dark and thorough. Everyone tells me he likes it rough, but besides biting my lip, Eli has played fairly nice with me.
Of course, he also ate my ass yesterday. My cheeks burn at the memory. So there is that.
“Let’s get inside before you start the orgy.” Jack’s words make me pull my mouth away from Eli.
Eli’s dark eyes are almost black with the low light. “Come on, kitten. It’s time I played with you.”
A thrill chases down my spine, along with that little touch of fear Eli always inspires in me.
Eli
I run my fingers down Harper’s nape as we walk into the lower level. Shivers ripple through her. The cleaners have done their job with the basement since the party last night. It’s after one o’clock, but fortunately Harper drank some coffee.
She appears sober and awake. Good.
The guys sit on the couch and relax, knowing I want to put on a show. I want to see what our pet can take. Find her limits and push her past them.
I pull out a chair from the gaming table in the corner and set it in front of them.
“Sit here, kitten.”
She sits and watches me carefully as I sit on the coffee table in front of her.
“I want to try something with you.”
Her breath comes out in a sharp exhale. “Okay?”
She doesn’t seem sure now, but she’ll get there.
“I want to restrain and blindfold you.” I lean forward and rub my hand up her thigh. “Then I’ll control who touches you and when you come. If you come before I say to, you’ll get spanked.”
Her eyes widen and her pupils dilate. Her chest lifts and falls a little quicker. “No fucking though?”
“No dicks in your pussy or ass. Anywhere else is permissible, yes?”
She moves to bite her lip but then straightens and looks at me. “Yes.”
I walk into a storage closet and get what I need. Silky ties for her hands and legs and a blindfold for her eyes. I return to sit in front of her.
Her gaze travels over the things I place next to me. She’s probably curious why they’re accessible, but I’ve played at Caden’s before and having the necessities on hand makes playing easier.
“Stand up.”
She stands for me.
One of the guys turns some music on low. A slow, throbbing beat fills the space.
“Turn around.”
She turns and doesn’t lose her balance. Not drunk still. Good.
I walk over to her and pull her zipper down on her dress slowly. She shivers.
“Cold?”
“No.”
A smile tugs at my lips. “Good.”
I slip her dress off her, until she’s left in her panties and boots. I’m in the mood to let them decide. I move out of the way so the guys on the couch can see our girl.
“Boots or no boots?”
“No boots,” Caden says, and the others nod their heads in agreement. “By the way, those panties are mine.”
“I didn’t know they were your size.” I arch an eyebrow at him.
“They fit my dick just fine.” Caden smirks.
“Sit, kitten.”