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“Is something wrong, Dess?” Julius asked, studying my face.
“No,” I said, with a rush of exhilaration. “It’s very, very right.” The words spilled out of me faster than I could control them. “I love you. All of you. I’ve never felt the way I feel when I’m with you. I’d give up anything to keep you safe and happy, and I’m so proud to be a part of this crew. You’re all so strong and brilliant on your own, but when you come together, you’re unstoppable. It’s the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen.”
For a second, there was silence around me, but I felt no doubt about the reception to my admission. Blaze was beaming at me, Garrison flushed with what looked like pleased embarrassment. A hint of a smile touched Talon’s lips. Only Julius had sobered, but the gravity in his voice when he finally spoke only made his own confession sweeter.
“I love you too. God knows how much I’d be kicking myself if I’d died before I got to say it. I should have said it sooner.” He chuckled, some of his seriousness falling away. “Somehow I’m guessing I’m last to the party on that one. But I suspect we all started falling for you back in the very first moment you just about kicked our asses trying to escape us. There’s certainly no other woman in the world like you.”
To hear the man who ruled us all owning up to that passionate sentiment sent a thrill through me that propelled me to his side. I knelt down in the space between his mat and Talon’s and touched the side of his face.
“I admire your strength and the way you get yourself and the rest of us through everything the world throws at us. You give me the room to let go of my own need to be strong and in control so I can be part of a team instead of a lone wolf. I can always trust that you have a plan that’ll get us through whatever we’re facing. I feelsafewhen I’m with you.”
I leaned in and pressed my lips to his with a firm intensity. Julius kissed me back, resting his hand on my waist as if to draw me closer, but he released me when I eased back.
I turned to Talon, letting the subtle adoration in his icy blue eyes wash over me before teasing my fingers over his cheek in turn. “I’ve found you sexy from the first time I saw you pummeling a punching bag with all that honed strength and power. I’ve always been able to be my whole self around you without facing judgment. I love learning how tofeelwith someone who won’t judge me for trying, and I love seeing you doing the same.”
When I closed the distance to kiss him, the melding of our mouths was gentler than anyone other than me could have imagined this man was capable of, full of the emotion that flowed between us without restraint.
I straightened up and walked to Blaze next. His eyes sparkled as he gazed back at me. He opened his mouth as if to make his own proclamation, but I touched my finger to his lips to stop him. It was my turn.
“You never pushed me away, even though I lashed out at you when we were first getting to know each other. That optimism and the way you enjoy life, no matter what’s happening around you, is the reason I love you most. You’ve never tried to hide who you are or what matters to you, and you’ve helped me find things I’d lost that were hidden away inside me.”
Blaze wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me to him before pressing his forehead against mine. We held that position for a few beats of our hearts before I tipped my face to meet his lips. The moment was so sweet I had trouble pulling myself away.
But I had one more man to address. I turned from Blaze toward Garrison and curled my fingers into the front of his shirt.
“Now why on earth would I love you?” I teased, getting the smirk I was aiming for in return. When I pulled him to me so I could murmur the words right into his ear, his smile only widened.
“I love the way you can make me laugh even when I want to punch you,” I said. “And every glimpse I’ve gotten of the man behind the masks you wear has only made me love you more. I see so much of myself in you—in your anger and pain over losing out on a normal, happy life, in your determination to protect everyone in every way you can, even from yourself.”
Garrison drew my mouth to his and planted a kiss on me so electrifying that an eager quiver ran straight through me and heat pooled between my thighs. “I’d like to see myself inyou,” he said slyly as he drew back just a few inches, and my desire seared even hotter.
“Sounds good to me,” I said, grinning back at him. “But I want the real Garrison. Show me all the affection and passion I know you’ve got in you. Your true emotions aren’t going to hurt anyone. They’ll only make me happier.”
His breath stuttered, and I felt the tension return to his body where it was aligned with mine. But only for a moment. Then he slammed his lips down on mine with a hunger I recognized and reveled in.
He devoured me, pulling up my shirt at the same time, only breaking the kiss for long enough to yank the fabric over my head. “I fucking love you,” he growled against my mouth, biting my bottom lip hard enough to provoke a gasp. “I’d fucking die for you, Dess. I’d do anything to hear that pretty little moan come from your lips.”
“Yes,” I said, kissing him back just as hard.
His hands dropped to my pants. When he flicked open my fly, I couldn’t help arching an eyebrow at him. “You don’t want to take your time?” I teased.
He only gave me a smug smile and yanked the jeans down my hips, allowing his fingers to trail down the outside of my legs. Blaze took a step closer to us and then paused, and I glanced over my shoulder at him.
“Don’t be shy,” I said, and then glanced at both Julius and Talon. “None of you need to be shy. We’re all in this together.”
“I guess I can handle sharing with this one,” Garrison groused playfully as the hacker set his hands on my bare waist. When Garrison reclaimed my mouth, Blaze stroked his fingers up over my sides. He unclasped my bra and cupped my breasts from behind, stroking my nipples until they pebbled against his touch. An encouraging whimper spilled out of me.
The gazes of the other two men blazed over my skin, but Julius had no inclination toward shyness, even if he couldn’t get all that physically involved in his current state. “You know she likes it rough,” he ordered. “I’d pinch those nipples until she can’t stand still.”
Blaze grinned against my shoulder. “Happy to oblige,” he said, and squeezed the tips of my breasts with increasing pressure. Imagining Julius standing with us, joining the encounter, had me squirming between Blaze and Garrison in no time flat.
Blaze applied his teeth as well, nipping the crook of my neck. As I gasped, Garrison trailed his hand down to my panties. His fingers dipped beneath the waistband and slicked over my core.
“Fuck, you’re already so wet,” he muttered, his breath washing hot over my skin. I shivered with pleasure and rocked into his touch, and he curled two fingers right inside me. Heady tingles flooded my body, and a needy growl escaped my throat.
Blaze looped one arm around my torso, still working over my breast with the other hand and nibbling along my neck with lips, tongue, and teeth. Garrison’s fingers plunged in and out of me in an escalating rhythm, his thumb flicking over my clit. I could already feel myself soaring toward release.
“Pull her hair, hard,” Julius ordered, his voice thickening with his own desire. Without missing a beat, Garrison brushed his other hand over the side of my head and grasped my hair with a sharp tug that had me moaning. He and Blaze were everywhere, and I could no longer differentiate the sensations—not as they both worked together to send pleasure rushing through me in waves.
