22. Caspian
CASPIAN
We left Sean Porter practically shitting his pants with fear. Good. It’s what fuckers like him deserved.
All in all, it was a successful night. Giulio said the replenishment of weapons was making our men more confident. Ryuji said Makarov texted him about a few more skirmishes, which they had won. For the first time in days, it felt like maybe we had what it took to take on the Camorra and win.
Maybe all of Obi’s plans were going to work out.
“What’s going on with you and Max?” Leona asked as she climbed into bed next to me.
We’d just finished debriefing after we returned home, and the house was quiet while everyone headed to sleep.
I’d been missing sharing a bed with Leona since the penthouse, so I asked if I could sleep in her room tonight again.
She’d agreed with a smile that lit my chest up from the inside out.
“What do you mean?” I lifted my arm so she could tuck her head against my chest. I pressed a quick kiss to her hairline. “Why? Did something happen while we were gone?”
“No, no. Ciel and I worked the whole time, and he kept to his room.” She looked up at me. “You seem like…things are different between you. I expected you to be a lot angrier with him, but you’ve almost been protecting him. Keeping an eye out for him.”
I wasn’t sure that I’d been protecting him, but I had tried to make sure Ryuji didn’t stab him in the back when none of us were looking. If I dropped off a plate of food to his room now and then, that was just me trying to make sure he didn’t starve himself.
My palm rubbed her arm as I pulled her tighter to my chest. “He’s just told me some things.”
Her head tilted up to look at me, her eyebrow furrowing. “What kind of things?”
“Things he should tell you, not me.”
The tattoo, the reason he got it, the notebooks from his father, the reasons he had tried to keep us safe.
He still hadn’t told her any of it. I wanted to—it sure as fuck might be easier between everyone if they knew—but it wasn’t my place.
Not only because they were his secrets, but because he would never get over his issues unless he told her the truth himself.
But the last few days of him being around, working together, seeing him in action with us at the warehouse…all of it had just brought back even more memories. I had realized that I wanted him to find a path to his own happiness. If that ended up being with us, then so be it.
“What things, Cas?”
“Leona,” I said, hooking my thumb under her chin. “I promise I’m not hiding anything from you that you need to know. He just explained a couple of things to me. He needs the chance to explain it all to you face-to-face. That’s it.”
“Traitor.” She pouted. “I can’t believe you’re covering for him.”
I laughed and rolled on top of her, pinning her arms above her head.
“You know I love you more than anything in the world. You are my queen, above all.” I ducked my head and kissed a line up her neck.
“If he refuses to talk to you, I won’t keep his secrets.
But in the meantime, I’m letting you come to your own conclusion. ”
Her hips rolled against mine as her legs parted to make room for me. “So, your conclusion is what? Forgive him?”
“He hasn’t asked for my forgiveness,” I replied.
“Until that happens, he’s not forgiven. All I said was that I understood him more.
I’m just trying to stay open. His shit isn’t mine, so I’m not carrying it for him.
I’m just happy so long as you’re safe and alive, and you love me as much as I love you. ”
“Since when did you get so reasonable?” She let out a breath and searched my face. “I love you, and that won’t ever change. Sempre e per sempre. But what am I supposed to do? He won’t talk to me, but he watched Ryuji fuck me earlier.”
I snorted. “Everyone heard you two. How many orgasms did he actually get? Three?”
She playfully smacked my chest. “I lost count.”
I took her lips in a heated kiss, parting the seam of her mouth with my tongue. My cock rubbed against her core. “I bet I could get more.”
“It’s not a competition.”
“Isn’t it?” My knee nudged her legs wider, and my chest rumbled when I felt the heat radiating from her. “But with Max, you’re not supposed to do anything. He’ll either take his head out of his ass or Ryuji will kill him. Maybe Obi. It depends on who he pisses off first.”
She gave me a quick nod of frustrated agreement, but then she wrapped her legs around my waist. I met her lips again. Her nails dragged through my hair, sending chills catapulting down my back.
“Speaking of Ryu,” she said, a twinkle in her eye. “What’s up with you and him?”
“What do you mean?”
She grinned, eyes sparkling with mischief. “You know what I mean.”
Ryu and I had been spending a lot of time together, and we’d become closer over the last few months, but all his taunts and teasing were just that. It was his personality to dick around.
I huffed. “Nothing. He’s just teasing me to get a rise out of me.”
“What if he wasn’t?”
I braced myself on my forearms. “What do you mean?”
“If he wasn’t just being a dick, and he was serious about you…would you give things a go?”
Ryuji and I had previously felt like oil and water, but the last few months had changed things.
We’d gotten close—closer than I realized until that night in the gym at the penthouse.
I found myself watching him almost as much as I watched Leona.
More often than not, I caught him staring back at me.
Every day, the idea of us together felt less and less foreign, and I couldn’t deny that I’d thought about what it would be like.
And maybe there was a part of me that was interested in more than just friendship.
But none of it mattered if Ryuji was just being a dick. He was the self-proclaimed King Asshole. “I don’t know. Maybe.”
“Well, for the record, I think he’s being serious. He’s interested in you.”
“Thank you for your insight,” I laughed. “I guess we’ll find out.”
“If you’re not interested in him, that’s okay, too,” she murmured against my lips.
“I know. I think I am,” I admitted softly.
“But there’s just so much going on right now.
As soon as I think about it, we get distracted by some new catastrophe that we have to deal with.
” I dragged my lips across hers, lingering on their softness.
“That’s why I’d much rather focus on the here and now. ”
Her nails scratched across the nape of my neck. “I get that.”
All I cared about right now was making her relax and feel good.
I played with her lips, my palms roaming over her torso and chest, flicking her nipples over the shirt she borrowed from me to sleep in.
It didn’t take long before I was so achingly hard, I thought I’d bust through my sweatpants.
When I started trailing my kisses lower, she put a hand on my chest and pushed me back.
“What’s wrong?” I asked, breathless, as her push rolled me onto my back.
The corner of her mouth pulled up as she drew her finger down my chest, to the tent of my cock in my sweatpants. She palmed it, and a groan ripped from my throat.
“Nothing’s wrong.” Her hands pulled down my pants, and my cock sprang free. Her head dipped until her tongue dragged up my shaft. I almost choked on the pleasure rippling through my body.
“What are you doing?” I gasped.
“I’m going down on my fiancé.”
“I was going to go down on you.” My voice became strangled when her mouth closed over my length. She sucked, her eyes crinkling with warmth, while she watched me struggle to breathe.
“Me first.”
“You’re going to kill me,” I rasped.
“You’ll like it,” she murmured. Her tongue swirled around my cock, dragging over the ridge of my tip.
My fingers curled into the sheets, jerking slightly.
I wanted to push her head down on my cock so badly until she gagged on it, and then I wanted to shoot my cum down her throat, but I didn’t want to hurt her.
“Cas,” she purred. She kissed my tip and then swallowed my full length, letting it hit the back of her throat. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. “Mess me up. I know you want to.”
“Jesus fucking—hell.” The tether in me snapped. My hand went to the back of her head, fisting in her curls. I bobbed her up and down while I thrust up into her mouth. She moaned, and the vibrations threatened to make me blow my load right there.
“Give me that little mouth,” I said with a grunt. “Let me fuck your throat until you can’t breathe.”
She let me take control, let me use her. I glanced at the ring on her finger, my ring. Her fiancé. Everything else around us didn’t matter. Just the two of us, relishing each other. She wore my complete and total obedience on her finger, my promise for the rest of our lives.
“Hey, can I—” Ryu said as he pushed the bedroom door open. He froze, eyes locking on me leaning against the headboard while Leona was on her knees sucking my cock. “Yes. Can I join? Holy shit.”
I let out a strangled laugh while Leona waved him over. His hands braced on her waist, lifting her ass into the air. Her mouth popped off my cock with an obscene noise.
“Hey!”
He tore off her clothes in a flurry, and when she leaned over again, he cracked a palm against her ass. “Did you get wet while sucking your man’s cock? You like his cock in your throat?”
Her eyes locked back on mine while her tongue swirled me again.
“See for yourself.”
“You’re soaked,” Ryu whispered while he fingered her. My head tilted back against the headboard while I let out another strangled moan. Our girl was going to kill us both. “Cas, you look so good using her mouth like that. Relax your throat, hanii. Let him go even harder.”
He kneeled behind her and buried his face between her ass cheeks. She whimpered, her tongue stuttering on my shaft. Her eyes rolled back in her head.
“Are you tonguing her asshole, Ryu?” I breathed.
“Hell yeah.” His head popped up and his tongue licked a circle around his lips. He winked at me. “Should I fuck her ass or her pussy? What do you think, Cas?”
Her eyes flicked open, locking onto mine in a blaze. My mouth curled up at the corner. “Pussy first. Let’s take turns with her ass later.”
He notched the head of his cock at her pussy and drove inside her, pushing her even deeper onto my cock. Leona’s eyes squeezed shut while we used her together, him in her pussy and me in her mouth. His eyes burned into mine while his palm spread over her back and he fucked her from behind.
“Leona, God,” I moaned, unable to look away from Ryu’s burning gaze. “You feel so amazing. Like heaven.”
“You gonna come, Cas?” Ryu grunted. The muscles on his chest and core flexed with each of his thrusts. “Come down her throat. I want to see it on her tongue.”
My eyes screwed shut while I spilled every single drop I had, the orgasm searing me from the inside out. She popped off my cock and turned her head, sticking her tongue out so he could see my cum.
“Holy fuck.” His hand curled around her body so he could rub her clit. He pumped into her pussy even harder. “Swallow it. All of it.”
She did as she was told.
“You’re such a fucking good girl.” He leaned over to bite her nape. “Doing exactly what you’re told. Such a mess for us. Our queen.”
His next thrust pushed her over the edge.
Her eyes closed and her mouth parted while her orgasm crashed through her.
She buried her face in the bed at the same time Ryuji leaned over her back and came with a shout.
I burned watching them both, my cock twitching even though she’d just sucked the life out of me.
“You’re so beautiful.” My fingers spread through her hair. “I can’t believe you. How amazing you are.”
She gave me a soft smile, and her hand covered mine.
“I told you, Cas,” Ryu said, a smile in his voice. “I feel even better.”
“What are you talking about?” Her chest rose and fell as she tried to catch her breath.
“I told Cas that we should fuck you together again, and then we should fuck each other.”
I jolted while Leona’s eyes went wide.
“I knew it.”
“Now, wait just a second,” I said as I tucked myself back into my sweatpants. Leona laughed, likely at the surprise in my eyes. “That’s not what we said.”
Ryu grabbed a washcloth from the bathroom and began cleaning her up. “He’s avoiding the truth,” he accused. “He wants me.”
“He wants me,” I said.
“Sure,” she said with a grin. “That’s what I told you before.”
“Don’t encourage him.”
She shrugged. “I’m not doing anything. You guys can do whatever you want together.”
“See, bodyguard?” Ryu teased. “We have permission.”
Ryu looped an arm around her waist and pulled her up the length of the bed so we could cuddle her together. The warmth of our bodies quickly heated the sheets.
When his arm reached for me over her waist, I took it.
I let myself consider it again, just for a second. Him and me. And her. Us. I couldn’t lie and say that looking him in the eye while she sucked me off wasn’t incredibly hot. Or watching his body while he brought her to pleasure. Or the electricity of our hands linked together.
If it was his mouth around my cock…I let out a breath, already getting turned on again.
But was there more than that between us? I didn’t know yet. It didn’t sound too bad. If he were being serious.
But that was a big if.