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He’d never do anything to hurt me.
Chapter Thirty-Three
Reed
EVEN THROUGH MY POST-orgasmic haze, I can’t help but worry about how this will look when we get back to normal society.
It won’t go down well.
But what if that never happens? What if this is it for us now? I try to look into the future, at the four of us living together in this cabin. Will Laney decide one day that she prefers one of us to the others? How will that work? The jealousy will surely tear us all apart. I hate to think of either of my sons going through that kind of heartbreak, but I don’t want to give her up either.
Maybe I’m lying to myself, but I don’t see her age. I don’t look at her and see anyone other than Laney. I hope she feels the same way about me.
No matter how I think or feel, the truth of it is that the outside world won’t see it that way. They’ll see a young woman, grieving for her recently dead mother, who’s been trapped with three grown men who’ve taken advantage of her.
I fight off the knotting in my gut that says this is exactly what we’ve done. Especially me. I’m her guardian—or at least I was for that first week before she turned eighteen—and I’m supposed to protect her.
How will things work when we get home? Laney is young, and she needs to be able to live her life. She needs to do all the things she’s missed out on, not only since she’s been stuck here, with us, but all the years she’s been looking after her mother, too.
That is if we ever do get out of here.
Something else occurs to me. Laney said she had the contraceptive implant, but at some point that will stop working. We can’t have a baby out here. It won’t be fair to any of us, but especially not Laney or the baby. Women die in childbirth. We can’t risk it.
I know I’m getting ahead of myself, but if there’s one thing we have out here, it’s plenty of time to think.
Laney gets herself cleaned up, and I head outside to check our traps. The boys are awake, but they’re acting as though they have no idea what has just taken place between me and Laney. I’m sure they know, though. Darius, in particular, must have been able to smell sex on the air.
The weather has taken a turn for the worse.
Black clouds gather on the horizon. We’ve been lucky so far, but it looks like a storm is going to hit.
When that happens, we’ll all be stuck in this cabin together. Me, Laney, and the boys. It’s not as though we can put on a television to distract ourselves or surf the internet.
Laney will be our distraction.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Laney
I ACHE PLEASURABLYbetween my thighs, and I can’t wipe the smile off my face.
When I emerge from the bathroom, I find Cade sitting on the couch, his elbows on his knees, watching me.
“What?” I say, though my cheeks are heated.
“You know what.” He arches a thick, dark eyebrow. “Had a busy morning?”
“Stop it, Cade.”
“Why? I’m having too much fun. Did you think I wasn’t awake and listening and watching the whole thing? I loved hearing all those sexy little moans you made while his hand was clamped over your mouth. I want to hear you make those noises again for me, little Cuckoo, except this time I want to hear them with my cock rammed inside you.”
He clearly thinks that now I’ve got Reed out of the way, it’s his turn.
“Not now, Cade, okay? It’s too soon. I’m...sore.”
He folds his arms across his chest and one corner of his lips lift. “Dirty little girl who fucks her stepdaddy now gets to fuck her two stepbrothers.”
I shouldn’t like how he speaks to me. This is what he wanted, and now he’s trying to shame me for it, but my body responds. My core clenches and my nipples tighten beneath my t-shirt. I know I can’t take any more, though. My body needs time to recover.
