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I’ve always enjoyedmy training sessions with Zep, because I’m able to take my frustrations out on one or all three of my guys and forget all the shit going on in my life. I wonder if Greyson will start joining in on these training sessions too.
When I get home, I change into my black leggings and a strappy teal sports bra before heading down to our amazing home gym. It still blows my mind that I have all this now when I had absolutely nothing growing up. Just looking around at my home reminds me to be thankful.
“Sometimes you just have to enjoy what you have around you even if you see it every day, because that’s all you may ever get.”Lainey’s voice echoes through my head. She was always the voice of reason between the two of us.
Zep is warming up on the treadmill when I arrive. I hear him yell, “Tape up and warm up, gorgeous.”
I set my water and towel on the bench before I tape up my knuckles in preparation for this brutal training. Zep’s training sessions are a mixture of him teaching me self defence techniques with and without weapons and me punching the shit out of him.
I head over to the punching bag to start my rhythmic warm up. I can feel Zep’s stare on me as my knuckles hit the bag. I purposely wear only a sports bra and legging to try to provoke him, but that man is serious about training and barely ever budges. I know he’s watching me and I know he’s enjoying the view by the tenting of his shorts, but he doesn’t take the bait I set for him.
“To the mat,” Zep calls as I finish my warm up.
“Thiago and Rian aren’t joining today?” I ask breathlessly.
“Nah, those pussies said I went too hard on them yesterday so they need a day off,” Zep murmurs as he points to the mat. “Mat, now.”
I head over to the mat, waiting for his next instructions.
“I’m going to come at you from the front and you’re going to try to get me to the mat, got it?”
“Got it.” I nod.
Zep steps forward, reaching to wrap his hand around my throat. My hand snakes up and grabs one of his large fingers closing around my windpipe. When his grip loosens, I force my shoulder to remove the rest of his hand. Once I’m free, I swing my leg out to hook behind his knee and pull forward, bringing his large body to the ground. We do that a few more times then Zep adds in knives and angles from the side.
When I take him down for the last time, I’m exhausted. I settle my body over his strong waist, straddling him with his hands pinned down to the mat.
Zep looks up from the mat and gives me an approving smile. “Good. Now we’re going to do it again and I’m going to choke you from behind.” He gives me a pat on the thigh, signaling for me to get off of him.
I lean over him, wrapping my small hand around his throat. “Or I could choke you like this while I ride that thick, pierced cock,” I say with a devilish grin. God, that sounds like the perfect distraction from my life right now.
Lust etches its way into every crevice of Zep’s body, his eyes darkening at the thought of taking me right here. “As much as I would love that, we need to train.”
“Zep, we train all the time and I just took you down like fifteen times. I want you to take me away from this hell to a magical land where your dick makes all the pain go away,” I try to persuade him as I rock my hips, rubbing my core over his erection. The friction between our bodies is turning me on so much.
His eyes fall shut for a few seconds, like he’s trying to choose between training and sex. “Nope, you aren’t going to change my mind. I need you ready in any situation.”
“Since I’ve already got you to the mat, how about I practice my punches?” I growl at his rejection.
“Go ahead, show me what you’ve got.”
My punches start out slow and controlled, but my mind soon goes wild at the thoughts of everything happening. The threats. Greyson. Lainey. Tara. Now Zep’s rejection of me, even though I know he has a point. My fists slam aimlessly into his chest over and over again.
I try to be so strong. I try to not let anything get to me, penetrate the armor that I’ve built around myself. When something gets to me, I hold it in until I explode, and that’s what I’m doing to Zep right now. I’m letting him have all of me, all of my emotions at once. It’s like a bomb going off; I just hope he can handle my explosion.
I don’t stop hitting him. My punches get faster and harder. The indecipherable words coming out of my mouth turn to a straight scream. Before I know it, warm tears are streaming down my face and falling onto Zep’s perfect stomach.
“Gorgeous, stop.” Zep tries to calm me, but I can’t stop. Hearing his voice somehow makes it worse as my punches get harder. When I don’t stop, he grabs my wrists with his hands, keeping me from hitting him.
I can’t look him in the eyes, I just fall onto his chest and rest my head into the crook of his neck as a sob washes over me. His hands release my wrists and wrap around me, enveloping me in his love.
“Let it all out, baby.”
“Zep, I can’t do this anymore,” I cry into his neck. This is it. I’ve finally hit rock bottom and I don’t know if I’m going to survive it. I thought talking with Tara earlier would help me release some of these emotions I’m feeling about my sister and the threats, but it only made things worse. Now I can’t control the overwhelming feeling of despair coursing through me.
“Gorgeous, I need you to look at me,” Zep says, as he rolls to where I’m laying beside him. When my blurry, tear-filled eyes meet his gaze, I see devastation beneath those gorgeous blue eyes but I also see determination. A kind of determination I’m going to need from all of my guys to regain my strength. I always thought that I could do this on my own, but it turns out I can’t. I need them.
“Lya, you are the strongest person I know. You have been dealt a shitty hand in life, sure, but you are the glue that holds all of us together. Rian, Thiago, and I should be broken and shattered, but we aren’t because of you. You’ve not only survived, but you’ve helped three damaged men survive, too. It’s time for us to keep you together. We will do everything in our power to find who is doing this shit to you and we will find Lainey.”
